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Ghostbusters (2016) 5/10
Okay this was playing at the $2 theater down the street and so I decided "oh what the hell" and went and saw this silly movie. Quick verdict: I laughed at a few parts, enjoyed the visuals in a few parts, and was shocked at how bad it was in a few parts. But at the end of the day it was an utterly harmless movie that in no way tarnishes the original. GBII hurt the first one much worse than this IMO.
I do think that McCarthy, Jones, and especially Wiig are funny so that helped. I probably laughed at Wiig and Jones the most. I didn't feel like I was supporting some feminist movement, and I didn't think that the movie was particularly scathing to men either, yes the guys were dopes in this film but for the most part so were the main ladies. I'd say it was a wash in that regard.
I liked the "scary" intro that transitioned into the actual Ray Parker Jr theme song, I was amused with Wiig trying to make tenure at the university at the beginning and thought the initial banter between the ladies was fun and amusing. There were only two initial ghost sightings (the floating lady from the trailers and the guy who scares Jones in the subway) and then there's a LOONNGGG wait until the girls are finally suited up and facing the dragon ghost at the concert. And that interim portion of the film was quite bad and very difficult to sit through.
The arrival of Chris Hemsworth and his immediate antics were just awful. I almost don't want to type them on account of just how shockingly stupid it was that Feig thought they'd be funny enough to put in a movie. He's so "dumb" that at one point there's a loud noise and he covers his eyes instead of his ears. I can't even describe watching that play out on the big screen and realizing that the film was expecting me to laugh at that. And in all honesty it actually, just for a moment, really did make me wonder if they deliberately made him comedically awful just to lift up the ladies in comparison. Who knows.
After Hemsworth does his thing for a while then there's a bit of a training/equipment building montage. Eh, just get to the ghosts. McCarthy flying around while were proton gun won't shut off just wasn't that amusing.
But finally they're all suited up and driving around in the fully painted hearse and I have to admit that just seeing that car and the proton packs and even hearing bits and pieces of the classic theme song did make me smile a few times. The concert ghost looked cool and I did actually laugh out loud at some funny moments not shown in the trailers.
Andy Garcia as the mayor was great, loved how he was compared to the mayor of another famous movie.
The end battle was basically "Age of Ultron - Ghostbusters Edition" with hundreds of ghosts pouring out of ley line cracks in the ground and causing havoc in the city with the ladies not trapping them but outright incinerating them with their weapons. I liked that! It was equally cool to watch and a bit disappointing that such visuals weren't showcased in a "better" Ghostbusters film.
I am going to spoil something about the bad guy that kind of bugged me. So if you care skip the rest of this paragraph. One thing I liked about the first GB is that the guys really did kind of verbalize the "science" of everything that was happening around them. It made it feel like *someone* had done their homework, or at the very least took pains to make an internally consistent, logical yet fantastical world. But in GB2016 the bad guy has this plan to disrupt the ley lines with some custom machinery (cool), ripping open a portal to the netherworld (cool but my gosh we've had like 50 of these climaxes now) and unleash hell on the world. The problem for me was at the end he electrocutes himself so he can die and rise as ghosts' leader. He basically just randomly offs himself and comes back as his own personal super Gozer. Huh? How? Stay Puft in the original actually WAS a Sumerian god. So how did this new dude achieve such an upgrade? Not remotely explained. He just figures out how to make equipment to open ley lines and...inexplicably become a god himself in the process. Whatever.
The cameos were pointless and absolutely did not serve the story. So forced in. At one point Kristen Wiig is trying to get downtown and Dan Aykroyd, playing a cab driver, inexplicably refuses to give her a lift. Says her destination is "a block further than I want to go." If Aykroyd himself wasn't in the move I know there's no way in hell they would include such a pointless throw away scene. It wasn't funny, it wasn't cool, he was just there to distract you for a minute and then he left. Badly done.
So yeah, 5 out of 10 I guess. If it's ever on TV and I switch to it I could see myself watching the concert or the ending again, those were fun, but if it's close to the beginning and I'd have to sit through more Hemsworth and/or training antics then I'd probably move on.
Okay this was playing at the $2 theater down the street and so I decided "oh what the hell" and went and saw this silly movie. Quick verdict: I laughed at a few parts, enjoyed the visuals in a few parts, and was shocked at how bad it was in a few parts. But at the end of the day it was an utterly harmless movie that in no way tarnishes the original. GBII hurt the first one much worse than this IMO.
I do think that McCarthy, Jones, and especially Wiig are funny so that helped. I probably laughed at Wiig and Jones the most. I didn't feel like I was supporting some feminist movement, and I didn't think that the movie was particularly scathing to men either, yes the guys were dopes in this film but for the most part so were the main ladies. I'd say it was a wash in that regard.
I liked the "scary" intro that transitioned into the actual Ray Parker Jr theme song, I was amused with Wiig trying to make tenure at the university at the beginning and thought the initial banter between the ladies was fun and amusing. There were only two initial ghost sightings (the floating lady from the trailers and the guy who scares Jones in the subway) and then there's a LOONNGGG wait until the girls are finally suited up and facing the dragon ghost at the concert. And that interim portion of the film was quite bad and very difficult to sit through.
The arrival of Chris Hemsworth and his immediate antics were just awful. I almost don't want to type them on account of just how shockingly stupid it was that Feig thought they'd be funny enough to put in a movie. He's so "dumb" that at one point there's a loud noise and he covers his eyes instead of his ears. I can't even describe watching that play out on the big screen and realizing that the film was expecting me to laugh at that. And in all honesty it actually, just for a moment, really did make me wonder if they deliberately made him comedically awful just to lift up the ladies in comparison. Who knows.
After Hemsworth does his thing for a while then there's a bit of a training/equipment building montage. Eh, just get to the ghosts. McCarthy flying around while were proton gun won't shut off just wasn't that amusing.
But finally they're all suited up and driving around in the fully painted hearse and I have to admit that just seeing that car and the proton packs and even hearing bits and pieces of the classic theme song did make me smile a few times. The concert ghost looked cool and I did actually laugh out loud at some funny moments not shown in the trailers.
Andy Garcia as the mayor was great, loved how he was compared to the mayor of another famous movie.
The end battle was basically "Age of Ultron - Ghostbusters Edition" with hundreds of ghosts pouring out of ley line cracks in the ground and causing havoc in the city with the ladies not trapping them but outright incinerating them with their weapons. I liked that! It was equally cool to watch and a bit disappointing that such visuals weren't showcased in a "better" Ghostbusters film.
I am going to spoil something about the bad guy that kind of bugged me. So if you care skip the rest of this paragraph. One thing I liked about the first GB is that the guys really did kind of verbalize the "science" of everything that was happening around them. It made it feel like *someone* had done their homework, or at the very least took pains to make an internally consistent, logical yet fantastical world. But in GB2016 the bad guy has this plan to disrupt the ley lines with some custom machinery (cool), ripping open a portal to the netherworld (cool but my gosh we've had like 50 of these climaxes now) and unleash hell on the world. The problem for me was at the end he electrocutes himself so he can die and rise as ghosts' leader. He basically just randomly offs himself and comes back as his own personal super Gozer. Huh? How? Stay Puft in the original actually WAS a Sumerian god. So how did this new dude achieve such an upgrade? Not remotely explained. He just figures out how to make equipment to open ley lines and...inexplicably become a god himself in the process. Whatever.
The cameos were pointless and absolutely did not serve the story. So forced in. At one point Kristen Wiig is trying to get downtown and Dan Aykroyd, playing a cab driver, inexplicably refuses to give her a lift. Says her destination is "a block further than I want to go." If Aykroyd himself wasn't in the move I know there's no way in hell they would include such a pointless throw away scene. It wasn't funny, it wasn't cool, he was just there to distract you for a minute and then he left. Badly done.
So yeah, 5 out of 10 I guess. If it's ever on TV and I switch to it I could see myself watching the concert or the ending again, those were fun, but if it's close to the beginning and I'd have to sit through more Hemsworth and/or training antics then I'd probably move on.
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Ghostbusters (2016) 5/10
Okay this was playing at the $2 theater down the street and so I decided "oh what the hell" and went and saw this silly movie. Quick verdict: I laughed at a few parts, enjoyed the visuals in a few parts, and was shocked at how bad it was in a few parts. But at the end of the day it was an utterly harmless movie that in no way tarnishes the original. GBII hurt the first one much worse than this IMO.
I do think that McCarthy, Jones, and especially Wiig are funny so that helped. I probably laughed at Wiig and Jones the most. I didn't feel like I was supporting some feminist movement, and I didn't think that the movie was particularly scathing to men either, yes the guys were dopes in this film but for the most part so were the main ladies. I'd say it was a wash in that regard.
I liked the "scary" intro that transitioned into the actual Ray Parker Jr theme song, I was amused with Wiig trying to make tenure at the university at the beginning and thought the initial banter between the ladies was fun and amusing. There were only two initial ghost sightings (the floating lady from the trailers and the guy who scares Jones in the subway) and then there's a LOONNGGG wait until the girls are finally suited up and facing the dragon ghost at the concert. And that interim portion of the film was quite bad and very difficult to sit through.
The arrival of Chris Hemsworth and his immediate antics were just awful. I almost don't want to type them on account of just how shockingly stupid it was that Feig thought they'd be funny enough to put in a movie. He's so "dumb" that at one point there's a loud noise and he covers his eyes instead of his ears. I can't even describe watching that play out on the big screen and realizing that the film was expecting me to laugh at that. And in all honesty it actually, just for a moment, really did make me wonder if they deliberately made him comedically awful just to lift up the ladies in comparison. Who knows.
After Hemsworth does his thing for a while then there's a bit of a training/equipment building montage. Eh, just get to the ghosts. McCarthy flying around while were proton gun won't shut off just wasn't that amusing.
But finally they're all suited up and driving around in the fully painted hearse and I have to admit that just seeing that car and the proton packs and even hearing bits and pieces of the classic theme song did make me smile a few times. The concert ghost looked cool and I did actually laugh out loud at some funny moments not shown in the trailers.
Andy Garcia as the mayor was great, loved how he was compared to the mayor of another famous movie.
The end battle was basically "Age of Ultron - Ghostbusters Edition" with hundreds of ghosts pouring out of ley line cracks in the ground and causing havoc in the city with the ladies not trapping them but outright incinerating them with their weapons. I liked that! It was equally cool to watch and a bit disappointing that such visuals weren't showcased in a "better" Ghostbusters film.
I am going to spoil something about the bad guy that kind of bugged me. So if you care skip the rest of this paragraph. One thing I liked about the first GB is that the guys really did kind of verbalize the "science" of everything that was happening around them. It made it feel like *someone* had done their homework, or at the very least took pains to make an internally consistent, logical yet fantastical world. But in GB2016 the bad guy has this plan to disrupt the ley lines with some custom machinery (cool), ripping open a portal to the netherworld (cool but my gosh we've had like 50 of these climaxes now) and unleash hell on the world. The problem for me was at the end he electrocutes himself so he can die and rise as ghosts' leader. He basically just randomly offs himself and comes back as his own personal super Gozer. Huh? How? Stay Puft in the original actually WAS a Sumerian god. So how did this new dude achieve such an upgrade? Not remotely explained. He just figures out how to make equipment to open ley lines and...inexplicably become a god himself in the process. Whatever.
The cameos were pointless and absolutely did not serve the story. So forced in. At one point Kristen Wiig is trying to get downtown and Dan Aykroyd, playing a cab driver, inexplicably refuses to give her a lift. Says her destination is "a block further than I want to go." If Aykroyd himself wasn't in the move I know there's no way in hell they would include such a pointless throw away scene. It wasn't funny, it wasn't cool, he was just there to distract you for a minute and then he left. Badly done.
So yeah, 5 out of 10 I guess. If it's ever on TV and I switch to it I could see myself watching the concert or the ending again, those were fun, but if it's close to the beginning and I'd have to sit through more Hemsworth and/or training antics then I'd probably move on.
I agree with your review overall but I think you're being too kind in regards to the end battle. That was as dumb as Hemsworth's character in the movie.
Yeah, I wonder if it'll lose its luster on a second watch. Not that I'll be in any hurry to revisit it.
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The cameos were so worthless. I feel bad for anyone who gave the movie a shot thinking that the original cast being involved would somehow make it better. I couldn't believe how bad Murray's cameo was, or Weaver's.
Agreed. The original cast should have been the "Stan Lees" of the new reboot but every single cameo sucked.
Another thing that was noticeably bad in parts was how Feig just seemed to give up on jokes and cut away when they were still kind of halfway trying to show something funny in much the same way bad SNL skits sometimes end.
It was like they had started on what might have been a funny gag, played it out a little bit, and then went "eh, you get the idea, imagine a funny payoff--NEXT SCENE!"
The worst was the literal last scene of the movie where Ernie Hudson arrives, scolds Leslie Jones for losing the hearse, says "what am I supposed to do with the bodies" and then as he's talking the camera starts to pan up the building and while he's leaving the frame he continues his sentence saying "they won't fit in one car and I can't just stack them up like flapjacks" and then immediately the music blares, the theme song plays and the credits roll. What--? That was your weird, trail-off joke you're going to end on? Movie's over? Okay...
The comedy was just so inconsistent and blotchy at times. They linger on Hemsworth covering his damn eyes as if to pause for laughter (are you kidding me) but then other times they'd have a halfway funny moment and just abruptly end it either in the middle of a punchline or sometimes before they even got to a punchline. Very strange.
Another thing that was noticeably bad in parts was how Feig just seemed to give up on jokes and cut away when they were still kind of halfway trying to show something funny in much the same way bad SNL skits sometimes end.
It was like they had started on what might have been a funny gag, played it out a little bit, and then went "eh, you get the idea, imagine a funny payoff--NEXT SCENE!"
The worst was the literal last scene of the movie where Ernie Hudson arrives, scolds Leslie Jones for losing the hearse, says "what am I supposed to do with the bodies" and then as he's talking the camera starts to pan up the building and while he's leaving the frame he continues his sentence saying "they won't fit in one car and I can't just stack them up like flapjacks" and then immediately the music blares, the theme song plays and the credits roll. What--? That was your weird, trail-off joke you're going to end on? Movie's over? Okay...
The comedy was just so inconsistent and blotchy at times. They linger on Hemsworth covering his damn eyes as if to pause for laughter (are you kidding me) but then other times they'd have a halfway funny moment and just abruptly end it either in the middle of a punchline or sometimes before they even got to a punchline. Very strange.
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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - 8.8/10
The Misfits (1961) - 8.8/10
The Wild one (1953) - 7.4/10
The Misfits (1961) - 8.8/10
The Wild one (1953) - 7.4/10
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How much did they pay you for such a glowing review?
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Believe it or not, I actually didn't like Chronicle. I respect how well made it is though especially on its very modest budget but the story and characters was way too bland.
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Casino Royale - 9/10
I must have seen this movie 3 times, but for some reason watching it last night blew me away. This is by far the best Bond film in my opinion, Craig was perfect, he was cool, suave, and I love how they played on his ego, showing a more vulnerable side to Bond. The villian was great, and that torture scene has to be one of the most brutal scenes I've ever seen in my life. Honestly, this is easily in my top 5 favorite action films of all time.
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I must have seen this movie 3 times, but for some reason watching it last night blew me away. This is by far the best Bond film in my opinion, Craig was perfect, he was cool, suave, and I love how they played on his ego, showing a more vulnerable side to Bond. The villian was great, and that torture scene has to be one of the most brutal scenes I've ever seen in my life. Honestly, this is easily in my top 5 favorite action films of all time.
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The new GB is what it is but it in no way craps on the original any more than the new Total Recall, RoboCop, Karate Kid, etc., crap on those movies. Nothing got "buried," they're completely separate narratives that overlap in name only.
That's why I think that whether you enjoyed or hated the flick it's still ultimately harmless.
I don't know about glowing, out of every film I've seen in the theater this year it'd be in the bottom three, slightly worse than ID: Resurgence and slightly better than Deadpool. The subject matter alone might actually put it above ID though now that I think about it.
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it's probably my favorite Craig Bond as well, most people go straight for Skyfall, but CR just has an amazing pace that keeps you locked in. which is funny when 2/3rds of it is a poker game.
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The NEON DEMON. ELLE FANNING ,KEANU REEVES. I usually Like both actors but this movie make's no sense at all and is just one big WTF movie about crazy messed up girl model's.
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That's the exact opposite of what it should be.
TFA: 6/10
TWS: 8.5/10
CW: 9/10
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