re: Ghostbusters - Rotten Tomatometer 73%

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They remade Red Dawn? That sounds fricking horrible.

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It was beyond shitty.

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Red Dawn


They remade Red Dawn? That sounds fricking horrible.

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It was. It was supposed to be the Chinese invading America, but the Chinese government threatened not to allow it to be released in China if they did so, so they changed it to the North Koreans, which made no sense. Then, prior to it being released in China, they did a bunch of editing in post to change it even more to make it less pro-American. I shite you not

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It was. It was supposed to be the Chinese invading America, but the Chinese government threatened not to allow it to be released in China if they did so, so they changed it to the North Koreans, which made no sense. Then, prior to it being released in China, they did a bunch of editing in post to change it even more to make it less pro-American. I shite you not

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They should have changed it to the Japanese. The Chinese and Koreans would have loved that.

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teenagers with just the right amount of dirt and scars to make them sexier.

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Sig quote ?

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I really hope it's a hit to offend the neckbeards who wear trilbys and the guys who live in basements

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Aren't those are the white knight male feminists trying to get laid by claiming to love it?

Have you seen a modern day university protest?

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It's sitting pretty with 78% for all critics but only 43% with the top critics. I don't think I've ever seen such a disparity.

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Apparently they're top critics for a reason. Richard Roeper isn't a sell out whore either, and he outright despised the movie. Plus the well known YouTube reviewers haven't been allowed to see it either yet. Really I trust Chris Stuckmann and RLM more than the press at large. Just the fact that no one (save Roeper) that they can control through the press hasn't seen it speaks volumes.

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Of course it would be possible to ignore. Or, at the very least, not talk about nearly as much. I compiled how many Ghostbusters remake threads there were on this board in a previous thread, and there were 15... by September of last year. They hadn't even started filming yet. I mean, for a movie this board uniformly hates, y'all seem to pay a ton of attention to it (I understand more threads now that the film is about to come out).

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Fair point. But....

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But they are remaking Ben Hur and no one has said squat

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I would say Ben Hur and Ghostbusters are vastly different properties. Not only that, a movie with characters like GB, ones that create a sense of "that guy down the street," are a lot different than a historical epic.

Laughing is a different feeling from historical exploration, of which, Ben Hur has more relation to. Ben Hur is also timeless, somewhat. They aren't "Remaking Ben Hur with an all female cast in the 2010s." They are just remaking Ben Hur. It's like another version of Moses. Or Pride and Prejudice. It's a Practice to remake those films every 10 years or so.

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Point Break

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Well I'd say people did what you'd think they do here, people complained about it and promptly forgot about it.

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Red Dawn were both little noticed

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I thought this one got a lot of attention initially then was forgotten only when they delayed it by a year.

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Same with Robocop.

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I was excited for this one actually

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No one is talking about how Pete's Dragon is gonna ruin their childhood (frankly, I'm pretty excited for that one).

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Like Jungle Book it looks good, and less of an obvious political statement.

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The people who hate Ghostbusters have been like an army of publicists for this film, even giving people a rallying point on why they feel like they are doing something positive by plunking down 10 bucks to see a reboot. Your hatred did this. You've inflated this film and inspired hundreds, if not thousands, of think pieces. And that's before the movie even came out. If this film is a financial success, I think it'll be BECAUSE of the backlash.

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This is probably true.

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Sometimes, its best just to walk away. I'm not out campaigning about remaking Big Trouble in Little China, one of my all-time favorite films. Or even The Thing prequel, which might actually BE my favorite film, except for Memento, which also has a misguided remake in production. I'm just trying to pretend these things aren't happening (except for Big Trouble, the Rock is the one guy I could see playing Jack Burton).

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I just think Ghostbusters has a different trend and it's The Rock vs. Melissa McCarthy. Who would most guys, this message board, be more ok with remaking a film?

I also think it has to do with expectations of sequels and the route they took. Like you said, The Rock has a chance of pulling Burton off. Pete's Dragon look's like a reinterpretation of an old tale. The Thing is a remake in and of itself, so a prequel isn't so bad.

Ghostbusters had a chance to be something unique, but it loses A LOT of charisma with the current cast outside of McKinney. And I still think there was a major chance to be both diverse and modern without doing what they did. It's just a missed opportunity for a movie that people generally love that's flirted with sequels and other versions for 20 years. I think that's where the frustration comes from. Did anyone expect a Red Dawn remake or Big Trouble remake until it was announced? There was built up expectation with Ghostbusters.

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But they are remaking Ben Hur and no one has said squat

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Did they cast Whoopi Goldberg as Judah? Because then you'd probably hear something. And look, I get what you're saying, but people have a right to not like something for whatever reason they want. Whenever it became known publicly how hated this movie is whenever the trailer came out. I don't have to be a 45 yr old feminist hating loser in my parents basement to realize that from the trailer this was going to be a horrible movie. If they wouldn't have gone all out slapstick with horrible cgi and tried to make a dark-comedy that doesn't take itself seriously like the first one then I doubt it would have gotten as many downvotes and the reverberating screams of sexism after. You said you LOVE big trouble in little China? Just imagine them casting Amy Schumer in Jack Burton's role and she goes around the whole movie telling sex jokes and farting the whole movie with a heavy dose of crappy cgi. You probably wouldn't see that steaming pile of sh*t either. That's how original fans feel about this one.

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Stuckman and Jahns, my two favorite YouTube critics, didn't like it. Stuckman gave it a C and Jahns said you'd only enjoy it if you were drunk.

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I'm not the biggest fan of Jahns. He just screams at the screen and only says what his fans want him to say. Can't think of any controversial film opinion he has.