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

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Guys... it's back.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Guys... it's back.

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Probably the one positive over this whole reboot drama.

 

[Batman VS Tony Danza]

Probably the one positive over this whole reboot drama.

It'll be a good way to quench our thirsts when we go through all the salt the internet will be unloading when the movie bombs (if that run down of the plot is true).

 

[Quijibo69]

It'll be a good way to quench our thirsts when we go through all the salt the internet will be unloading when the movie bombs (if that run down of the plot is true).

Sony owns some of Coke. So at least they might be getting more money selling that than the movie.

 

[Adamska]

Sony owns some of Coke. So at least they might be getting more money selling that than the movie.

I'd laugh if Ghostbusters only made its money back from the beverages. It's probably gonna anyway since retarded people will still hatewatch it and international audiences will balance out a weak US one, but It'd be funny regardless.

 

[JU 199]

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/ghostbusters-reboot-judd-apatow-donald-trump-1201787579/

The “Ghostbusters” reboot has come under fire since the femme-powered project was first annouced in 2014 and has drawn even more criticism since the trailer — the most “disliked” in YouTube history — debuted in March. Producer Judd Apatow thinks those critics happen to be Donald Trump supporters.

“I would assume there’s a very large crossover of people who are doubtful ‘Ghostbusters’ will be great and people excited about the Donald Trump candidacy,” Apatow told Uproxx. “I would assume they are the exact same people. That movie is made by the great Paul Feig and stars the funniest people on Earth, so I couldn’t be more excited.”

The controversy reached new heights when it was revealed that Leslie Jones, the only African-American Ghostbuster, was also the sole lead in the film not playing a scientist. But despite that issue being addressed and turned on its head when it was reported that the part was originally written for Melissa McCarthy, fans still found the general casting problematic.

Some asserted on YouTube that “feminists killed one of the very few classics.” However, Apatow said people “have paid too much attention to just some angry trolls” and the film will be judged on its own merits.

“I don’t think anything really matters the way you think it does,” he said. “The movie comes out, and it will be great, and people will just be happy to have it. It’s not like anybody really cares about a couple of idiots who hold onto the idea that things never evolve. I always think, you know, we have our past and if you can come up with a new, cool way to do something, then that’s exciting and hopefully it will make a lot of people happy.”

The reboot, which also stars Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon, hits theaters on July 15.

Yes. this is real

 

[I-chi]

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Yes. this is real

 

[Catgirls are Love]

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Yes. this is real

That's a stupid level of clickbait and the movie isn't even out yet. Someone should be making a movie about all of the drama associated with the making, advertising, and eventual release of this potential trainwreck.

Or should I just sink to a similar level and say that everyone who thinks the movie will be great supports rape and cannibalism? I provided just as much proof of my statement as they did theirs.

 

[TheImportantFart]

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Yes. this is real

That's just utter, utter desperation. Seriously Judd, this the best you can do? These are the kind of insults I expect to see hurled around in a playground, not from a Hollywood writer-director.

Also, can't wait to see him try to justify that comment about "idiots" if/when professional film critics start panning it.

 

[JU 199]

Or should I just sink to a similar level and say that everyone who thinks the movie will be great supports rape and cannibalism? I provided just as much proof of my statement as they did theirs.

Hey, some people think that kind of logic is sound. Like the good folks at cinemablend!
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ghos...Demographic-According-Judd-Apatow-134787.html

Having said that, it’s abundantly clear that he believes that the people who doubt the quality of the upcoming Ghostbusters remake likely have a very conservative view of the world. We highly doubt that they're allDonald Trumpsupporters, but Apatow clearly sees some sort of correlation there.

Regardless of your political affiliation, there's a certain degree of validity to his assessment of the situation. Much of the vitriol aimed at the upcoming comedy seems to take issue with the gender swapping of the lead characters and its lack of reverence for the original ensemble. There seems to be a distinct sense of anger because the film appears to have made the four titular heroes women simply for the sake of doing so. In the eyes of the haters, it's the sort of decision that comes across as needlessly progressive or politically correct, and that's the sort of social issue that conservative candidates like Trump have taken aim at in recent months.

All that being said, we have to say that we think the level of hatred that theGhostbusters reboot has received is entirely unwarranted. As Judd Apatow explains, there’s such a high degree of modern comedic talent working on the film, both behind the camera as well as in front of it, that it likely won’t disappoint when it finally hits theaters.

What are your thoughts on the upcoming Ghostbusters remake? Are you excited about it, or do you think that this is a property that should be left alone? We will find out if Paul Feig and the new generation of Ghostbusters can pull this off when the film finally hits theaters on July 15.

 

[TheImportantFart]

There seems to be a distinct sense of anger because the film appears to have made the four titular heroes women simply for the sake of doing so.

You're saying it hasn't?

 

[cypocryphy]

Gozer was an SJW in the original anyway....

Ray: It-it's a girl!

Winston: I thought Gozer was a man?

Egon: It's whatever it wants to be.

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Gozer was an SJW in the original anyway....

I'm shit at gender and identity politics but isn't Gozer technically a genderfluid otherkin, making it less an SJW and more Tumblr's wet dream?

 

[The Nothingness]

Also, can't wait to see him try to justify that comment about "idiots" if/when professional film critics start panning it.

Assuming these professional film critics aren't bribed or threatened into giving the movie anything less than five stars.

 

[Spellskite]

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Yes. this is real

http://uproxx.com/movies/judd-apatow-popstar-ghostbusters/2/

" That movie is made by the great Paul Feig and stars the funniest people on Earth, so I couldn’t be more excited. I think people have paid too much attention to just some angry trolls. And it will be judged on its own greatness. I don’t think anything really matters the way you think it does. The movie comes out, and it will be great, and people will just be happy to have it. It’s not like anybody really cares about a couple of idiots who hold onto the idea that things never evolve. I always think, you know, we have our past and if you can come up with a new, cool way to do something, then that’s exciting and hopefully it will make a lot of people happy."

I can't wait for this movie to bomb and be completely forgotten about.

 

[AnOminous]

Or should I just sink to a similar level and say that everyone who thinks the movie will be great supports rape and cannibalism? I provided just as much proof of my statement as they did theirs.

The only good thing about this movie is that for the two hours it is running, the child molesters and cannibals who comprise its sole audience will not be raping children and murdering and eating people.

 

[Adamska]

Judd, your movies aren't exactly for the smart either. In fact usually more for the opposite so don't try and make fun of others for being stupid.

And I just love that the movie will be a big piece of shit, in spite of the casting and not because of it. All this defense over something that is lazy Hollywood incarnate.

 

[Ravelord]

If the plot leaks are correct I think even the feminists might say that the ending was misogynistic or some shit like that. Because at the end of the day, those GB are considered a scam/fraud by the goverment, at least. Unlike the original.


Edit: Btw, now on Humble Bundle Books there's a bundle of GB comic books. I wonder if they're using that to try and hype the upcoming film.

 

[UglyOldJafar]

Gozer was an SJW in the original anyway....

Ray: It-it's a girl!

Winston: I thought Gozer was a man?

Egon: It's whatever it wants to be.

Yeah, but at the same time, Gozer actually did shit.

 

[JU 199]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...36ac62-2822-11e6-ae4a-3cdd5fe74204_story.html

For 20 years, I’ve been observing and writing about the power of films, which I’ve argued may not have direct cause-and-effect relationships to behavior but exert enormous influence on our values and imaginative identities. I’ve received a fair share of ridicule and anger for that idea — more public on some occasions than others, from, I suspect, the very same men and boys who react to a female-led “Ghostbusters” or 007 film as if their manhood, indeed their very existence, were under prolonged proton-pack attack.

Interestingly enough, just as the “Ghostbusters” debates were raging on social media, all-female and all-male productions of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” opened in New York and Washington, respectively, with nary a peep heard from the he-nut gallery. Unlike plays, which easily lend themselves to myriad interpretations and new stagings, movies become immovably fixed in our psyches. We internalize them — even the silly ones — more intensely, fusing them with our own identities, desires and aspirations. Movies are personal. And the personal is political.

Rothman’s joke sounded even more like wishful thinking a few days later when author Andi Zeisler wrote in the Los Angeles Times that feminists now had an “obligation” to see “Ghostbusters” when it opens July 15. “When a big-budget movie starring men does poorly, it’s just another dud that’s shrugged off,” she wrote. “When one made by or starring women doesn’t live up to the hype, it becomes a referendum on women as artists and filmgoers.”

Zeisler’s context isn’t the presidential race, but rather the persistent lack of representation of women behind and in front of the camera, and the dismissal of them as an audience and market. Still, it seems like just yesterday that anti-Clinton voters were being given the same marching orders to support “13 Hours,” Michael Bay’s amped-up action adventure about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.