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re: Ghostbusters - Rotten Tomatometer 73%
Posted on 7/17/16 at 4:35 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 7/17/16 at 4:35 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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And to quote Bill Murray, the monster at the end "had no dick".
They shot him in the dick, or at least where it should have been.
And this brings me to another major flaw in the movie: the villain. Honestly, he may be the single worst villain ever in a comedy. All he is is a tool who people pick on, and therefore wants to destroy the world. Seriously, he spells out his entire motive to the audience in the mirror. It's pure shite writing. On top of that, he's a janitor, so how did have the ability to build all that stuff in the basement of a hotel on Times Square? Seems that would come off as suspicious that he arrives at work with tons of scientific supplies and isn't cleaning the damn rooms.
We all know what this is about: it is making fun of the Ghostbusters fanbase by calling them all a bunch of pathetic manchildren who need to go frick themselves. It's apparently good to have contempt for your audience before it even gets out of the gate. If you're going to go this route, at least make him some megafan of the Ghostbusters who had rejected him in the past ie Syndrome from the Incredibles. But oh wait, instead of actually paying homage to the original, you just completely reboot it and say you're the real Ghostbusters, not the hacks from that 80s flick.
Can anyone list a worse villain in a main stream comedy?
This post was edited on 7/18/16 at 10:31 am
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Posted on 7/17/16 at 5:00 pm to OMLandshark
Here are a few of the reviews marked fresh. Do any of these "fresh" reviews make you want to see the movie?
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How will the reboot be remembered a couple of decades down the line? Not as beloved, or beloathed; more likely as beliked, if it's remembered at all.
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A middle finger to the screaming brobabiez. If girls can't be Ghostbusters, then here, guys can't do anything.
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Somehow, this Ghostbusters remake is going to push us all to reckon with what a more equal world might look like, whether we like it or not.
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Jones, McCarthy, McKinnon, and Wiig are so good together - and in ways that are distinctively theirs and not recycled from the past - that their message of not giving a damn resonates better than the movie's underwhelming climax.
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Feig's Ghostbusters is its own definitive creature, an affable, inventive riff on Ivan Reitman's proton-packing caper that exists not to score points, but only to make us laugh. For a summer comedy, there's no nobler purpose.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 11:18 pm to Breesus
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Paul Feig’s high-profile Ghostbusters reboot, which made its debut with $46 million, according to studio estimates from comScore.
It lost to The Secret Life of Pets an animated movie in its 2nd week of release.
This one is headed for the bin as Star Trek will crush it next week.
Posted on 7/17/16 at 11:32 pm to asurob1
Yeah, it's a flop
Posted on 7/18/16 at 1:15 am to DelU249
My understanding is that Rotten Tomatoes also gave Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls 77%.
Let's all think about that for a bit.
Let's all think about that for a bit.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 10:04 am to asurob1
Posted on 7/18/16 at 10:19 am to asurob1
Rotten tomatoes sucks
If everyone gives it just above a meh, it's in the 90s, the opposite is true. It's a useless rating.
I always go on my own determination and word of mouth
Plus studios pay critics for good reviews, I'm convinced...which also leads me to "how was that $100 million in promotional money spent?"
If everyone gives it just above a meh, it's in the 90s, the opposite is true. It's a useless rating.
I always go on my own determination and word of mouth
Plus studios pay critics for good reviews, I'm convinced...which also leads me to "how was that $100 million in promotional money spent?"
This post was edited on 7/18/16 at 10:21 am
Posted on 7/18/16 at 12:38 pm to DelU249
I completely forgot this movie came out, thanks Niantic. Not only do we have Pokemon GO, but you made me forget about this abortion.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 7:35 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 7/18/16 at 7:42 pm to OMLandshark
my 64 year old mom and dad went to see it today. i called them and asked what they did today and he said they went to see Ghostbusters. after i nearly shite myself and asked why, he said he saw it had good reviews on RT and it was half price day(senior citizen) at the theater.
i asked how it was, and all he said was, "that was the biggest piece of shite ive ever seen!" i nearly lost it. i know they arent the target market, but even my mom(she likes all the dumb shite) said it sucked.
he said the big black chick from SNL was cringeworthy
i asked how it was, and all he said was, "that was the biggest piece of shite ive ever seen!" i nearly lost it. i know they arent the target market, but even my mom(she likes all the dumb shite) said it sucked.
he said the big black chick from SNL was cringeworthy
Posted on 7/18/16 at 7:52 pm to DelU249
you really are going to try and push this conspiracy theory that critics were paid off due to the evidence of you not seeing enough ads even though you admit to not watching things like the NBA where it was heavily advertised during the playoffs and finals?
ads during the finals that costar Kobe dont come cheap baw.
ads during the finals that costar Kobe dont come cheap baw.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 7:56 pm to RLDSC FAN
So it grossed $46 mil opening weekend, but they spend at least $30 mil shoving down our throats id promotion.
The movie cost $144 million to make and they spent $30 million on promotion.
So if this fricking thing doesn't make $200 million it's a total bust.
“This is the biggest opening for a live-action comedy in over a year and we reached a wide audience that’s both new and nostalgic,” said Sony marketing and distribution chief Josh Greenstein, who is over the moon this morning. “Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones made it fresh.
We’ve successfully restarted this important brand.
frick this guy.
It looks like crap but I will never know because I refuse to give money to it.
It would be like a stupid Top Gun remake with Tina Fey, Wigg, fat chick, and Katie Holmes.
The movie cost $144 million to make and they spent $30 million on promotion.
So if this fricking thing doesn't make $200 million it's a total bust.
“This is the biggest opening for a live-action comedy in over a year and we reached a wide audience that’s both new and nostalgic,” said Sony marketing and distribution chief Josh Greenstein, who is over the moon this morning. “Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones made it fresh.
We’ve successfully restarted this important brand.
frick this guy.
It looks like crap but I will never know because I refuse to give money to it.
It would be like a stupid Top Gun remake with Tina Fey, Wigg, fat chick, and Katie Holmes.
This post was edited on 7/18/16 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 7/18/16 at 8:00 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
And for once it seems like communism is about to pay off: China won't allow it to be released. 
Posted on 7/18/16 at 8:07 pm to Dr RC
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you really are going to try and push this conspiracy theory that critics were paid off due to the evidence of you not seeing enough ads even though you admit to not watching things like the NBA where it was heavily advertised during the playoffs and finals?
Sony had to make an out of court settlement for putting out false reviews/comments online under pseudonyms back in 2005.
Who's to say they wouldn't do that now? They learned what NOT to do to be successful the first time around.
Read this wikipage.
LINK
This post was edited on 7/18/16 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 7/18/16 at 8:09 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Sony marketing and distribution chief Josh Greenstein, who is over the moon this morning. “Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones made it fresh.
Speaking of this guy, and this was brought up in Half in the Bag, shouldn't Sony just shut down as a studio? They've been just awful in the past decade. Seriously, look at this shitty catalog from the past few years: LINK
They haven't made a truly great movie since American Hustle back in 2013 (although 22 Jump Street might count). Really it is a studio that shits the bed on every opportunity its ever had and the only thing keeping the studio afloat are Rogan and Sandler.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 8:18 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Sony had to make an out of court settlement for putting out false reviews/comments online under pseudonyms back in 2005.
Who's to say they wouldn't do that now? They learned what NOT to do to be successful the first time around.
It's not just them. Everyone is for sale in the media because everyone likes money and it's not like insider trading...
It's just someone's opinion...which you can buy.
I think Sony failed because the Top Critics hate it...
And as someone said, 90% fresh reviews are barely fresh so it's really a shitty measurement.
Maybe it took this movie for the general public to realize how lame RT was.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 8:20 pm to OMLandshark
Yeah you or they make a good point if that's what they were arguing.
God, that's bad by Sony.
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Pixels
Aloha
(Sony is so bad apparently, they frick up a Cameron Crowe movie)
God, that's bad by Sony.
Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
Pixels
Aloha
(Sony is so bad apparently, they frick up a Cameron Crowe movie)
This post was edited on 7/18/16 at 8:21 pm
Posted on 7/18/16 at 8:22 pm to OMLandshark
Sony still has Spiderman but they even fricked that up and had to get Marvel to bail them out. They are desperate for a successful franchise right now.
Posted on 7/18/16 at 8:30 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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This is the biggest opening for a live-action comedy in over a year
Such great praise
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