Shawpaw
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I'm just glad he criticized Feig. Movie was terrible and that's why it bombed. But this article put a smile on my face
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
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GasparZizou
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Dan is a disinfo agent, if he was the real deal he would be dead now.
Just like Ventura.
Just like Ventura.
Having not seen the film and only seen this, it's actually worse than I imagined.
EVILFACE
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Wow, that video destroys it. Fatality indeed.
Hope the chick Oceans 11 learns from it. The remake is one of my favorite flicks....
Hope the chick Oceans 11 learns from it. The remake is one of my favorite flicks....
I'm willing to give a film a chance based on its merits, without pre-judging based on superficial factors, like making all the cast women or integrating a gay character or whatever. But of course, if the script is bad, if the humor isn't well done, if the pacing is off, and if the director doesn't seem engaged or to have any vision at all, then it's gonna suck.
But enough about Batman V. Superman, this Ghostbusters movie also looks terrible.
But enough about Batman V. Superman, this Ghostbusters movie also looks terrible.
This was glorious.
I love two things the most
One: they didnt mention the feminist problems or any of that drama, they even praised the actresses on their own.
Two: they let bil murray have it, place the blame where it belongs.
What a great video.
I also agreed that Spy wasn't as bad as you might think. McCarthy was also good in St. Vincent, and Wiig was terrific in the Skeleton Twins, so I don't attribute the fault to the actors, either.
But I don't agree with their point about Murray. Very unlikely that any Ghostbusters film that could have been made in the last 15 years or whatever was going to be very good. I think that's a geek fantasy. The fact that Murray held it up for as long as he was able to was probably to our collective benefit. Ghostbusters 2 came out just a few years after the first, and had the same team involved, yet it was already a very pale shadow of the original. If you got all those guys back together 20-25 years later, would folks really expect it to be special? Sure, in my mind I can imagine a great film with the old guys dusting off their proton packs, but realistically, that wasn't going to happen. The comics are probably the best things folks can expect, and none of those that I've read are all that great. It does feel like Murray got forced into doing a cameo and promotion for some reason here, or I'm sure he wouldn't have been involved in this version, either.
I also cannot stand by their comment about Freaks and Geeks. That show was frickin awesome.
But I don't agree with their point about Murray. Very unlikely that any Ghostbusters film that could have been made in the last 15 years or whatever was going to be very good. I think that's a geek fantasy. The fact that Murray held it up for as long as he was able to was probably to our collective benefit. Ghostbusters 2 came out just a few years after the first, and had the same team involved, yet it was already a very pale shadow of the original. If you got all those guys back together 20-25 years later, would folks really expect it to be special? Sure, in my mind I can imagine a great film with the old guys dusting off their proton packs, but realistically, that wasn't going to happen. The comics are probably the best things folks can expect, and none of those that I've read are all that great. It does feel like Murray got forced into doing a cameo and promotion for some reason here, or I'm sure he wouldn't have been involved in this version, either.
I also cannot stand by their comment about Freaks and Geeks. That show was frickin awesome.
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Well Murry did appear in this, so a part 3 could not have been any worse. At least not Smokey and the Bandit III bad. 
There's this idea that if you had all the old guys back, not just in dumb cameos, but reprising their roles, and playing old guys who were going to hand the reigns off to a new generation of Ghostbusters, then it would have been great. But all the other stuff Mike talks about in that video would have to work out. The original film really was a perfect storm. Even if you get really clever, funny writers, a reasonably competent director, good actors, and minimize the obscene product placement, what's a best case scenario? Maybe something that would be as good as the Lego movie or a Pixar sequel? Sure, it may well have been better than what we ultimately got here (though I can't judge for myself not having seen it), but that doesn't mean it was worth doing.
This video is so on point. I gave the movie a chance and saw it in the cinema when it came out and it was bad... very very very bad, worst I saw that year. But because of the 'girlbusters' storm it was impossible to have a conversation about the movie and voice negative opinions about it without being shut down and blasted a woman hater. Red Letter Media have done a great job of dodging that bullet entirely.
Angry Videogame Nerd also made a compelling, honest argument. But as with anything remotely political nowadays, people take things out of context and draw inferences without treating the source of information with any respect.
Do you remember Scarface?
That Murray interview makes me want to projectile vomit. I've really come to resent him and his bull **** artsy fartsy career he picked over comedies.
People should have just boycotted Sony and this film altogether after the feminist attacks against AVGN. I haven't seen humanity stoop to such a low in years.
the problem were the thousands of angry keyboard warriors that came to defend this crap. Even mainstream big magazine writers and everything
Thats why videos like this one are so important that were made. this literally shows the problems of the movie and doesnt even touch on the feminist stuff. This cannot be argued against by calling it sexist
AVGN didn't have an issue with the women per se, either. He just didn't see any point after the death of Ramis, and thought it looked like a cheap cash grab. Which, of course, it is.
Who you gonna call?
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The video game is the official Ghostbusters 3
rushmore223
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Why be so resentful of Murray? Who's career is it? He's making what he wants to make, what if someone kept complaining that you don't work at McDonalds anymore and they resent you for your current career choice?
I'm in the camp that is thankful there was no GB3, as I loathed GB2. Anything they made was unlikely to be anywhere near as good as the original.
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