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True. Just bringing it up since he would've been targeted even if he was neutral toward it.
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Ebert was all over the place as a reviewer: http://rogersworst.blogspot.com/
I think he was championed by the general public because he wasn't as pretentious as every other film critic and seemed more down to earth to them. Even though he comes off as pompous many times in reviews, especially when tackling genre films, particularly horror films.
His review of The Howling -which is considered to be a classic werewolf film- is totally fucking bizarre: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-howling-1981
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He was a white, cis male. They'd be as equally nasty of course.
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I'm not a film critic buff, but most of that blog just seems to be complaining about Ebert having different opinions from the general consensus, which is sort of lame. As revered as he is, he's only human; it doesn't make sense to expect him to say the "right" thing 100% of the time. (There's a reason he always worked with another critic on TV, after all.)
Would've liked to see his input on this situation, since it'd almost be guaranteed to throw a monkey wrench into at least one of the sides. Sadly his site's gone to the dogs now that it's fully dependent on guest writers.
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Isn't GB 2016 out in American theaters today?
It still amazes me that a reboot/spinoff generated so much salt.
People really need to chill out; it's only a movie. Does it really matter that much? It's not like the originals are getting shoddy revamps or anything.
It still amazes me that a reboot/spinoff generated so much salt.
People really need to chill out; it's only a movie. Does it really matter that much? It's not like the originals are getting shoddy revamps or anything.
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I think it's because 1. There was no need for a reboot in the first place and it's all just a shitty excuse for some Hollywood suits to make money off of more talented people's work. And 2. no one likes SJWs, and this movie is infested with a LOT of SJW elements(all men are morons with dicks, women are superior and they should be the ones in charge, etc.). And of course, the way to kill even the biggest baddest Oppressive Male Boss Ghost was to attack them in every CISgender white male shitlords's weak spot: their openly manspreaded nuts.
(Not subtle. Not subtle at all)
In short, if you're the kind of person who's easily amused at farts, this movie would be OK for you. If you have a more functional brain however, this thing is a stinking pile of shit that is going to be in the $1 movie bin at Walmart by this time next year. The suits know that they excreted a piece of shit, but they've tried to shield themselves by exploiting the SJW craze and claiming that anyone who hates this film is a racist bigoted misogynistic white male.
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This particular argument could be made about 90% of what Hollywood makes these days though.
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True, but there are several factors that made this particular film stand out.
1) It's a reasonably well loved and popular series.
2) The Autistic Internet War, also known as the GG/anti GG continues to spiral.
3) Suits realised that they could make money by appealing to the dangerhair crowd, even though this film really doesn't appeal to them at all.
All of these combined to create the storm around this film which it really didn't deserve, because it is merely painfully mediocre as opposed to offensively bad.
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I honestly don't think the reaction is that unique. Again, the Star Wars prequels and Indiana Jones modern sequel generated much more salt. There was the usual counter-backlash from people who didn't think random summer blockbuster movies are that big of a deal and took them as just a couple hours worth of distraction as opposed to "raping my childhood" overreactions from manchildren, true, but it's nothing compared to what happened with this Ghostbusters reboot. What is unique in this instance is the way Sony and the media injected identity politics into it as a novel form of marketing. Maybe if JarJar was a proud strong female Gungan of colour the same thing would've happened for Phantom Menace.
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So this apparently wasn't a very good opening weekend for the movie; a lot of people who went were reporting empty or near-empty cinemas:
A friend of mine who went to see it had the same response; he liked it but he was the only person in the theatre.
A friend of mine who went to see it had the same response; he liked it but he was the only person in the theatre.
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That's all a bit anecdotal. I'm waiting for box office numbers at the end of the weekend to see if it really bombed or not.
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Same. I also plan to ask my other friends who are going to see it today, see what their feedback is (and how full the theater was).
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But he was married to a strong BBBW for twenty years which gave him major street cred with the SJW.
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I was always wondering what the offspring of Boogie and Chris-Chan would look like.
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So this apparently wasn't a very good opening weekend for the movie; a lot of people who went were reporting empty or near-empty cinemas:
A friend of mine who went to see it had the same response; he liked it but he was the only person in the theatre.
All those empty movie theaters, and the only people going are unaccompanied and vulnerable young womyn doing their feminist duty. I think it's time to put on my trenchcoat and fedora and buy a ticket to GB.
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I think a big reason is because Sony intentionally focused on it, they deleted negative comments from women from the trailer on YouTube as well as male negative comments not related to gender (Such as complaints about the special effects) but left the sexist comments and then continued that narrative into the promotional campaign including interviews, I think it's Sony intentionally trying to use gender identity politics to sell the movie and some people have fell for it and are helping Sony promote the movie.
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I love how people here discuss the importance of Sony's action and the whole MRA vs SJW clusterfuck shitstorm like it's something that relevant. 
Outside 'Murica and a few more places, the debate/fight is almost non-existent. I live in one of those places where MRA/SJW are seeing as plain idiots and/or kids with attention seeking problems. Nothing else. And seeing the numbers (they're projecting a 46 million opening this weekend) let's not forget the importance of international market.
It'd probably won't flop, neither peform exceptionally well. Shitstorm has been fun.
Outside 'Murica and a few more places, the debate/fight is almost non-existent. I live in one of those places where MRA/SJW are seeing as plain idiots and/or kids with attention seeking problems. Nothing else. And seeing the numbers (they're projecting a 46 million opening this weekend) let's not forget the importance of international market.It'd probably won't flop, neither peform exceptionally well. Shitstorm has been fun.
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