The Ghostbusters Thread (Old, New, Animated, Whatever)

_blank_ said:
What I really love about this clip is the unabashed product placement within this movie.
FIRST SECOND IN - Big ol' Sony logo right above a glowing Coka-Cola sign. Why Coca-Cola? Because they own Minute Maid, who makes their Ecto Cooler drink!

Next shot of the 4 Ghostbusters, another Coca-cola logo. Just in case you didn't catch it the last time. That makes 2 different product placements for Coke in under 5 fucking seconds.

This is supposed to be a teaser for a movie and it is in fact advertising other companies!

Seriously how weak-willed do these movies execs thinks we.... fuck, I'm drinking a BIG, BLACK DICK.

God... dammit.
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The Great American Comedy Swindle grinds on.
 
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_blank_ said:
What I really love about this clip is the unabashed product placement within this movie.
FIRST SECOND IN - Big ol' Sony logo right above a glowing Coka-Cola sign. Why Coca-Cola? Because they own Minute Maid, who makes their Ecto Cooler drink!

Next shot of the 4 Ghostbusters, another Coca-cola logo. Just in case you didn't catch it the last time. That makes 2 different product placements for Coke in under 5 fucking seconds.

This is supposed to be a teaser for a movie and it is in fact advertising other companies!

Seriously how weak-willed do these movies execs thinks we.... fuck, I'm drinking a BIG, BLACK DICK.

God... dammit.
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As @Henry Bemis said: Sony and Coke have done this before by the by... in Adam Sandler films. I'm honestly shocked we didn't see the Price is Right. I do however guarantee that you'll see Sony devices as the main component though.

It's for exactly the same reasons why this happens in an Adam Sandler film by the by; to pocket more money after releasing a sub-par cheaply made movie. Since companies are paying for product placements in the movie, this helps float the budget, or as apparent by this film, pocket the fucking money to either keep it or to then use it to overmarket product ties or the shitty commercials. This blatant fraudery actually annoys me, so I do honestly hope it at least bombs enough in the US that it prevents the international market from buoying up the failure.
 
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I have so much nostalgia for the first movie.

I took my mother to the movies last year to see the original movie released again. We had so much fun muttering the lines to each other.

When I was sick with chicken pox (5 or 6) my mother stayed up all night once and we watched Ghostbusters over and over again from a VHS my dad had recorded off of HBO.

I love the movie, and will pretend the new one doesn't exist. The same way I've pretended nothing was made after Terminator 2.
 
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trombonista said:
Ivan Reitman has a more sensible take on the backlash.
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people don't like reboots of things they like?
because they have fond memories of the original?
YOU MEAN LIKE EVERY OTHER FUCKING REBOOT?!
if the new GB movies was made 10 years ago none of this "u hat cuz u mahsoggyknees" would have happened
people would have went "ugh, remake.. gonna be shit"
maybe that's why sony did it now. if you can turn watching a movie into progressive minority support, then you can make a ton of movie
it's basically a liberal version of that sniper movie
 
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ZehnBoat said:
gasp
people don't like reboots of things they like?
because they have fond memories of the original?
YOU MEAN LIKE EVERY OTHER FUCKING REBOOT?!
if the new GB movies was made 10 years ago none of this "u hat cuz u mahsoggyknees" would have happened
people would have went "ugh, remake.. gonna be shit"
maybe that's why sony did it now. if you can turn watching a movie into progressive minority support, then you can make a ton of movie
it's basically a liberal version of that sniper movie
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The exasperating thing is they could've done an all female cast "sort-of" reboot that would've been fine, if not actually fun. Say... Four chicks down on their luck buy into this online/only on tv scam of ghostbusting franchise for (insert city here). Then they discover everything is real/apocalpse is coming. Insert witty one liners, collect millions from fans new and old.

Instead they went with "lol the old stuff never happened, fuck you."
 
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Jesus Christ that background. I knew the situation was bad, but I didn't see it being that fucking cynical and lazy. I think the winning elements might either be when they kicked Reitman off because Sony wanted full control, the fact they only gave a shit about the thing because the video game did well, or that they picked the director because they knew they were gonna make a Canon films style fraud. No wonder this movie will suck balls.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
Someone on YouTube saw an advanced screening.


And @_blank_ , if you thought the final villain was shit, guess how they defeat him? They shoot all four proton packs....
into his dick.
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Well how else can they reuse the first script and change just enough to escape needing to give writing credit (and more important a paycheck) to the old cast?

Of all the movies to skip, this one looks to be one of the top ones to do so.
 
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Adamska said:
Well how else can they reuse the first script and change just enough to escape needing to give writing credit (and more important a paycheck) to the old cast?

Of all the movies to skip, this one looks to be one of the top ones to do so.
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I feel like this review needs to get mirrored....
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
I feel like this review needs to get mirrored....
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After a bit of wrangling (firefox likes to derp and stop downloading for larger files for me), count me in on mirroring too, since Sony fucked up amazingly this time.

Now I can't wait to see the rationalization and realization of horror when the movie's shittiness is seen in all of its horrid glory.
 
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Adamska said:
After a bit of wrangling (firefox likes to derp and stop downloading for larger files for me), count me in on mirroring too, since Sony fucked up amazingly this time.

Now I can't wait to see the rationalization and realization of horror when the movie's shittiness is seen in all of its horrid glory.
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Use this. Or this. You're welcome.
 
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