Ghostbusters (2016)
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International trailer with some changes. Four 'friends' instead of 'scientists' and a lot more Thor. I wonder if it response to the backlash or just coincidence, trying to appeal to the Marvel audience.
Great comment from the epic fail vid: "Only chick-rebooted film I would watch would be the brokeback mountain."?
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Barellron
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I'm so proud. I showed the trailer to my kids to get their reaction, and my 15 year old daughter said "Ghostbusters is one of those movies that doesn't need to be remade. Plus, those ghosts look stupid."
Arbitrary
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Crowd at concert catches person X, let's person Y fall, comedy!
It's just the laziest fucking writing.
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You know how there are "switch" comedies where two characters that are very different switch places? Rich and poor, young and old, single and married? It sounds like this Ghostbuster is a meta gender-switch comedy. In that context, Ghostbuster is almost a pretext to do something else and that's the main problem: people are more interested in a new Ghostbuster movie than in a meta gender-switch comedy.
I guess you can argue that the original Ghostbuster played on the "unlikely heroes" theme and using nerds in 2016 would not have achieved the same effect, unless you make them female nerds... but again, maybe people would have preferred a 2016 Ghostbuster that used the same type of characters than in the original film but made "ordinary heroes" out of them. It would have been an interesting angle, a nice opportunity for a kind of "recent history of the nerds", with the old crew's experience underlining the differences between the then and the now.
I guess you can argue that the original Ghostbuster played on the "unlikely heroes" theme and using nerds in 2016 would not have achieved the same effect, unless you make them female nerds... but again, maybe people would have preferred a 2016 Ghostbuster that used the same type of characters than in the original film but made "ordinary heroes" out of them. It would have been an interesting angle, a nice opportunity for a kind of "recent history of the nerds", with the old crew's experience underlining the differences between the then and the now.
Chris
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I laughed out loud at that one, Australians are stereotypically very misogynistic and not in the fake SJW way.
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I would have preferred a new generation who took over the business from or resurrected the business from their parents. Even if they were all girls. I don't give a shit about the girls. It' rebooting a decent movie that I don't like.
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The tits logo joke and Hemsworth's delivery actually made me chuckle. You guys and your garbage criticisms are gonna push me into supporting this movie.
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How can you even support this? Don't you know after this premieres they're erasing all the original Ghostbusters movies from existence and all our childhoods will be undone?!?! YOU ARE A MONSTER!
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