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 Manchu wrote:
This will certainly be better.

Your optimism will be your downfall.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
This will certainly be better.

Your optimism will be your downfall.

Optimism? Look into these dead eyes that have seen the horror of Warner Bros pathetic attempt to copy Disney. There is no optimism.

i have no plans to go see this movie...
But now it seems they are trying to show everything in the trailers.

 Manchu wrote:
It doesn't look great. I will still go see it. I saw Batman v Superman. This will certainly be better.

If the various blogsites my wife frequents have their way, I may well also be seeing it at the cinema, unless I can convince her to take girl friends with her and I can stay home and watch the original with a bottle of bombay and a pizza.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
It doesn't look great. I will still go see it. I saw Batman v Superman. This will certainly be better.

If the various blogsites my wife frequents have their way, I may well also be seeing it at the cinema, unless I can convince her to take girl friends with her and I can stay home and watch the original with a bottle of bombay and a pizza.

You are in my prayers to the god emperor.

 Genoside07 wrote:
i have no plans to go see this movie...
But now it seems they are trying to show everything in the trailers.

"Quick! Throw something at them! Anything! Everything!"

-Unnamed studio executive.

 General Kroll wrote:

 Sinful Hero wrote:
Mattel toy fair showed the new Ghostbusters big bad- I'm guessing he's the one possessing everyone.
http://www.slashfilm.com/ghostbusters-villain/

Spoiler:

This screams "Using Stay Puft will be too obvious, what can we make LOOK like Stay Puft?"

It's right near the end of the trailer, giant and flaming just like Stay Puff.

It looks like the marshmallow man from the original, yes, but the toy makes it more obvious that it's also that ghost in their logo. I wonder which comes first?

So apparently Adam Sandler is playing the main villain in the movie?

 AduroT wrote:
So apparently Adam Sandler is playing the main villain in the movie?

Really?

Apparently, according to YouTube-

That guy is from a graffiti piece in the subway one of the "girlz" remembered, (ALA Staypuff) "You made your choice!"

He shows up in the end of the second trailer.

I hope Thor 3 can rub the stench of this bad boy off of Helmsworth.

The cliché is just too ... much. for this movie.

So, I'm ready for this gak show to come and go because I'm really tired of being just dismissed by my circle of friends for "Oh, you just don't like it because of girls."

I don't like it because it looks like a tired and unfunny by the numbers garbage, And because Paul Fiege is an donkey-cave but yeah no, clearly mysoginist.

Fingers crossed this film goes nuclear. I hate it now not because its (probably) a bad film but because of the jackassery its inspired in people I know.

Anyone else getting this high and mighty attitude over this film?

lonestarr777 wrote:
Anyone else getting this high and mighty attitude over this film?

I have no plans to watch the film and hope it dies.. for the simple reason, if it sales.. we will get
the same trash again... reward good behavior (deadpool) punish bad behavior (green lantern);
if this can be used to train dogs... maybe movie executives could work too..

But I just hate to see the tie in with these movies; Toys, video games, bed sheets you name it..
I want this to hit like Speed Racer.. all the merchandises didn't sale and the movie did very poorly
Not there is anything bad with Speed Racer if it done right.

lonestarr777 wrote:
So, I'm ready for this gak show to come and go because I'm really tired of being just dismissed by my circle of friends for "Oh, you just don't like it because of girls."

I don't like it because it looks like a tired and unfunny by the numbers garbage, And because Paul Fiege is an donkey-cave but yeah no, clearly mysoginist.

Fingers crossed this film goes nuclear. I hate it now not because its (probably) a bad film but because of the jackassery its inspired in people I know.

Anyone else getting this high and mighty attitude over this film?

It's not even registering on my social media, or in my group of friends. I think my friends are all of the same opinion, this film deserves no attention. It's barely even deserves our contempt.

lonestarr777 wrote:
So, I'm ready for this gak show to come and go because I'm really tired of being just dismissed by my circle of friends for "Oh, you just don't like it because of girls."

I don't like it because it looks like a tired and unfunny by the numbers garbage, And because Paul Fiege is an donkey-cave but yeah no, clearly mysoginist.

Fingers crossed this film goes nuclear. I hate it now not because its (probably) a bad film but because of the jackassery its inspired in people I know.

Anyone else getting this high and mighty attitude over this film?

I've wanted to like the film from the start but the trailers really disappointed me. I am ambivalent on the film's success because if it flops I think people will just chant misogyny and use that as justification for the films potential failure regardless of the film's actual merits.

That said, I like Ghostbusters both as a film and an idea, and will go see the movie so I can form my own opinion. I like the actresses in the film and I've enjoyed the director's previous films, so I do want it to be a good movie. I just despise the politics surrounding the film and I think their are guilty parties on both sides who have pissed gasoline on those flames. McCarthy's basement dweller comment, some of Fiege's interview/twitter comments, as well as all of the genuine trolls who were taking jabs at the film for reasons other than the questionable story-line, lack of connection to the past film and shoddy CGI, are all to blame for turning what should have been a fun summer popcorn movie into a hill for Twitter users to die on.

It's weird, every nostalgic reboot has it's gak storms but this one just doesn't seem to be able to calm down any. I have no opinion on the movie myself, but I'm just so tired of hearing about everything I can't wait for it to come and go. Don't care how successful it is or not, just want to refer to it in the past tense.

'Course, with how the toys are being *clearanced* two whole weeks before the movie even hits + how every ad I've seen is just "kinda-celeb re-enacts generic Ghostbuster scene", I don't expect the film to stay in theaters that long...

 Rootbeard wrote:
It's weird, every nostalgic reboot has it's gak storms but this one just doesn't seem to be able to calm down any. I have no opinion on the movie myself, but I'm just so tired of hearing about everything I can't wait for it to come and go. Don't care how successful it is or not, just want to refer to it in the past tense.

'Course, with how the toys are being *clearanced* two whole weeks before the movie even hits + how every ad I've seen is just "kinda-celeb re-enacts generic Ghostbuster scene", I don't expect the film to stay in theaters that long...

I hadn't heard of the whole clearance thing.

I'm going to sound really bitter here. And I don't want to. But I genuinely want this film to fail, the comments that some of the actors and the director have made about geek culture have been vile, and they are making a film that is based on one of the pillars of geek culture. I hope they reap what they have been sowing. Now I'm not saying they haven't had to put up with abuse from idiots themselves, and that they should just suck it up, but they've gone about this all wrong. it probably is going to be a really bad movie, it looks like a paint by numbers execumovie and they've screwed it up by completely missing the target.

Geek culture should very much turn their back on this movie, it's cast, and it's arrogant director.

Yeup. Saw the new ghostbusters toys in Target yesterday, with the red clearance stickers on them.

I laughed a little.

The good news is that the new Independence Day movie might have saved this movie from "worst movie of the Summer" fate.

Truthfully the new Independence Day movie actually made me not want to see this one. After having the nostalgia burned off, I guess, and rewatching these trailers with fresh eyes, this looks pretty terrible I have to admit.

I am no longer cautiously optimistic.

 Genoside07 wrote:
punish bad behavior (green lantern);

I was so disappointed in that movie.


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 d-usa wrote:
The good news is that the new Independence Day movie might have saved this movie from "worst movie of the Summer" fate.

I reject your opinion and substitute my own: "It still looks really bad."

There's a promotion right now for buying a box of diabetes, yogurt +M&Ms cant recall the exact brand, for free fandango tickets. The boxes feature Ghostbusters art heavily hintng on what movie to see with the free ticket.

I suggested getting a few boxes, cause I like to flirt with losing my foot, and giving my friends the free tickets for Ghostbusters.

I was then told they would pay to see the movie to balance out donkey-caves like me who won't see it.

Honestly I think its this attitude that has hurt the movie the most. The nasty condescenion and attacks on people for simply saying "No thanks, his looks like hot garbage." Is worse than the movie just being hot garbage.

lonestarr777 wrote:

I was then told they would pay to see the movie to balance out donkey-caves like me who won't see it.

Every bad movie has people that go and watch them.... I think they are called "victims"...

They turned down free movie tickets? And not only for a reason other than "it looks terrible", but in a misguided attempt to support the film?
'Course, if it's anything like the "free ticket" I got from the theater some months ago, you'll still have to pay a surcharge anyways, given how it's next to impossible to find a showing without 3D or RPX or some kind of premium...

lonestarr777 wrote:

I suggested getting a few boxes, cause I like to flirt with losing my foot, and giving my friends the free tickets for Ghostbusters.

I was then told they would pay to see the movie to balance out donkey-caves like me who won't see it.

Is that some epic level SJW reasoning?

"We are going to pay money instead of using free tickets in order to support this movie against all of the women's power hate being leveled at it!"

<--- I don't care if it's 4 women, or 2 chicks and 2 dudes, or 4 transvestite little people. It doesn't look funny. I'll wait for my friends' reviews or just not bother.

"You hate women!"

<---- Have we even met?

 cincydooley wrote:
Yeup. Saw the new ghostbusters toys in Target yesterday, with the red clearance stickers on them.

I laughed a little.

Just went to Target's site to check out the pricing. Yikes, $19.99 (before clearance) for an action figure seems spendy, especially since the characters all seem to have the same proton weapons. Why didn't they at least give the Jillian character the dual proton pistols? If those are "Movie Elite" figures they should be more accurate, right?

But, I did see this beauty. Oh my god I haven't wanted a Lego set so badly since I was a kid. The price tag hurts, though. $349.99.

Your target had that? Man, I wish!

I will not see this movie. The only way I ever intend to see this movie is if someone gives me lots of money to do so. Like say $500,000 tax free. Scratch that, make it $20,000,000 to cover the emotional and mental trauma I would suffer from watching it.

First off it all feels like a mocking parody of the original.

Second, none of the actors appear to be any good in these roles, pay zero homage to the originals; and are nothing but a bunch of horrible stereotypes.

Thirdly, the jokes fall flat. They aren't funny. They feel forced and lack any of the wit of the original.

Fourth, the cgi and graphics somehow ended up being worse than the effects of the original. They look and feel fake by comparison.

Fifth, The new uniforms are horrible, and the ghostbusting equipment looks silly. Scratch that on the uniform it reminds me of old prison uniforms, which is where all of these "actors" belong with how horrible they are in this movie.

Sixth, the response to the community dislike of this movie by Sony, Fieg, and the actors. Their insinuation that if you don't like or want to see this movie you are a sexist, maybe a racist, and definitely a Nazi really ticks me off. Makes we want to not see it out of spite alone.

 cincydooley wrote:
Your target had that? Man, I wish!

No, just their web store. I was actually doing the household shopping last night at Target and cruised by the Lego aisle and didn't see anything Ghostbusters related. Due to the price and (assuming) size of the Firehouse, it may be web only for Target.

So Slimer in drag is apparently a thing in this movie.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
But, I did see this beauty. Oh my god I haven't wanted a Lego set so badly since I was a kid. The price tag hurts, though. $349.99.

**snip**

That's an AMAZING set. But that price...