Ghostbusters (2016)

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Bridesmaids was a hilarious movie, people who didn't enjoy that film have a garbage sense of humor. If they are going to remake Ghostbusters I have no problem with them casting 4 women as the main characters to shake things up a bit. I have kept as open a mind about this film as anyone could. That trailer didn't make me crack a smile once.
Pretty much how I feel. Bridesmaids was plenty funny. I'm still curious about this one but the trailer wasn't funny at all. A lot of trailers for comedies ruin the movie by spoiling the best jokes, but when they can't even find any decent ones for the trailer it's not very encouraging.
 

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And he filled an important role due to how it allowed the others to play off of him. He was the straight-man that was able to point out all the insane shit that was going on around him. I'm guessing Leslie Jones' character is still intended to fit that role since she's the non-scientist, but instead of being the down-to-earth straight-man Winston was, she's going to be an over-the-top caricature.
yeah, he never came across as a token role to me either when i was a kid, later as an adult i realized that he likely was, but he never felt like he was a tacked on jar jar binks type of role to spice things up. thats smart writing. this trailer looks quite dumb.
 

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so some spoilers about the movie, dont open if you wanna go in a virgin

some of the original cast like Murray, Akroyd, and Hudson make cameos but as DIFFERENT characters. Most likely Hudson will play Jones uncle who loans her the hearse. So its 100% a hard reboot that erases the original movies from the timeline.

There is some time travel probably, someone noticed this in the trailer

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Chukzombi

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so some spoilers about the movie, dont open if you wanna go in a virgin

some of the original cast like Murray, Akroyd, and Hudson make cameos but as DIFFERENT characters. Most likely Hudson will play Jones uncle who loans her the hearse. So its 100% a hard reboot that erases the original movies from the timeline.

There is some time travel probably, someone noticed this in the trailer

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Taxi Driver was 1976, Island of the Snake People was 1971
thats not time travel its the same shit from ghostbusters 2. titanic comes into port and ghosts roll out.
 

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Reboot according to the director:

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/33...-explains-why/

This morning ectoplasm was thrown everywhere when Sony released the first full trailer for Paul Feig?s Ghostbusters.

All of the information leading up to the moment was through scoops, speculation and insiders with special access.

It?s been so secretive that it was never clear if this was going to be a reboot or one of those modern day remakes disguised as a sequel (by keeping it canon).

The trailer definitely made it clear that this new Ghostbusters is legitimately a reboot, a fresh start if you will, completely ignoring the previous two films and several cartoon series. In the trailer you can see them building the equipment, and also see nods to the original like with the library ghost.

[Related Post] Here?s the Ghostbusters Trailer In Images!

Feig confirms this in a new interview (via Cinemablend), where he explains exactly why he chose to go this path instead of keeping it in the same universe as the 1984 original.
?This is such an amazing franchise, with two amazing movies, but it could just keep going! There?s so many things you can do with it. It just seemed terrible to leave it in a box. And yet, at the same time, there?s something exciting about the idea of bringing it to a new generation, but this time? see an origin story of them. I know some people are like, ?Why is it not a sequel instead of a reboot?? I didn?t like the idea, personally, of them being handed technology ? ?Here?s how to do this.? I want to see it develop!?

It?s clear by the below trailer that we?re going to see things ?develop? and it makes quite a bit of sense to truly start building from the ground up, considering these characters are going to have to live on in a brand new Ghostbusters-verse that?s being planned. It would be cool to see the original Ghostbusters connected in some way, but I?d rather have a fresh start than complete fan-service, which we?re going to get in heavy doses anyways.
 

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Just saw a TV add for this with release date of just Summer.

They're sure rolling out the hype machine early for this.

Commercial was the slapping scene from the trailer if that is the best they can offer I think there doomed.
 

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I don't get it. The trailer opens with "30 Years Ago Four Scientists Saved New York, This Summer a New Team Will Answer the Call" and it's a reboot? That's confusing.
 

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The Feig stuff is not new, but maybe new to this board.

He's said for months he really only does origin stories, and that it was a hard reboot. This was further confirmed by the interview with Moranis, where he says he didn't see the point in coming back to the series 20 years later as a diff dude. I spent all day losing my mind from people saying, OH THANK GOD, IT'S A SEQUEL and just having to dash their hopes.

I saw some thing on the official site where they were making the packs, and someone toted it as as "a better trailer" and in reality, all it really showed was how god damn awesome the original ideas were. The stuff in this movie is just slightly different, but other things, esp the items, are kept relatively whole, but you get a better tech eval of it.

Today I also found out there is something called "cissexism" and apparently I am a "cissexist" and I am sort of unsure what it is but I'll get back to you when I figure it out.

And that is relevant because me saying this movie was gonna be fucking god awful somehow indicated my cissexism. That world is fucking weird to type, why two S's.
 

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Movie looks hackey and hamfisted. I like Mccarthy and Wiig and Charles Dance is in it (I guess as a ghost villian?) So I'll probably wait till its on netflix to watch.
 

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Today I also found out there is something called "cissexism" and apparently I am a "cissexist" and I am sort of unsure what it is but I'll get back to you when I figure it out.

And that is relevant because me saying this movie was gonna be fucking god awful somehow indicated my cissexism. That world is fucking weird to type, why two S's.
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Anyone who thinks this will be anything other than a steaming pile of shit needs to have their head examined.

In an effort to save this thread.

Damn it! Now I want to watch the original again! They make neither films, nor trailers, like they used to! :/
 

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I've silently been thinking that as bad as all of this has sounded from the beginning, watch: all of the really vocal complainers are gonna see this thing and come out surprised that it was actually pretty good. Well, now I guess that's not happening. Carry on.

Also, because of the massive amount of dislikes it received on YouTube - which is rare there even for a huge turd - I felt compelled to dip down into the comments section just for a moment. Jesus, why? Humanity is a fucking cancer.
 

Borzak

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I don't see the appeal. Those old enough to remember the first one won't like this one. Those who never saw the original will probably blow it off as a stupid movie top down.

Who is their target audience? Just people who will see every movie?
 

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If that's all the jokes they could come up with for a trailer.... the movie is gonna suck pretty bad.

Also this movie isn't for people who saw the originals, I'm sure kids will want to go see it.