GHOSTBUSTERS 3
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Saw this last night with the wife and we both absolutely loved it! There were plenty of laughs (Thor's character was completely over the top but prob the funniest of all of them!) the story kept us interested and visually it looked amazing in 3D (which I normally avoid). Just the right level of nostalgia too with some great cameos.
I guarantee there will be a sequel!
I guarantee there will be a sequel!
No F*****g chance Im payin money to see this judging by the trailers and reviews so far.
The original movie was and still is a great memory from my childhood and Im not having it tarnished by this shower.
I watched ID resurgence last night -Jesus wept, how could they make such a bad film
The original movie was and still is a great memory from my childhood and Im not having it tarnished by this shower.
I watched ID resurgence last night -Jesus wept, how could they make such a bad film
I saw it on Tuesday. It's a laughter free bore fest. Completely lacking the chemistry, wit, and charm of the original.
Pointless cameos from the original cast, nods and winks to the original story. The whole thing is just a money making scheme with absolutlely no merit whatsoever.
I came close to walking out, which is something I have never done.
The shame is despite the bad press I really wanted the film to be good. It isn't.
Avoid at all costs.
Pointless cameos from the original cast, nods and winks to the original story. The whole thing is just a money making scheme with absolutlely no merit whatsoever.
I came close to walking out, which is something I have never done.
The shame is despite the bad press I really wanted the film to be good. It isn't.
Avoid at all costs.
As I still rate the original as one of the funniest films of my youth (together with Animal House, The Blues Brothers and Ferris Bueller, obviously) I was excited when this first emerged.
However it seems to have received a Right Royal Panning all round, so it´ll be a "wait for the Blu Ray" film for me I think.
However it seems to have received a Right Royal Panning all round, so it´ll be a "wait for the Blu Ray" film for me I think.
Rubymurray said:
Saw this last night with the wife and we both absolutely loved it! There were plenty of laughs (Thor's character was completely over the top but prob the funniest of all of them!) the story kept us interested and visually it looked amazing in 3D (which I normally avoid). Just the right level of nostalgia too with some great cameos.
I guarantee there will be a sequel!
I guarantee there will be a sequel!
robemcdonald said:
I saw it on Tuesday. It's a laughter free bore fest. Completely lacking the chemistry, wit, and charm of the original.
Pointless cameos from the original cast, nods and winks to the original story. The whole thing is just a money making scheme with absolutlely no merit whatsoever.
I came close to walking out, which is something I have never done.
The shame is despite the bad press I really wanted the film to be good. It isn't.
Avoid at all costs.
It's certainly polarizing opinions isn't it? I may have a look when it eventually turns up on demand but I can't imagine ever handing over money to watch a Melissa McCarthy movie at the cinema. Find her hateful, and nothing I've seen in the trailers has changed that opinion. Pointless cameos from the original cast, nods and winks to the original story. The whole thing is just a money making scheme with absolutlely no merit whatsoever.
I came close to walking out, which is something I have never done.
The shame is despite the bad press I really wanted the film to be good. It isn't.
Avoid at all costs.
It's always interesting on the review sites when the professional and punter views vary by so much. The pro's seem to rate it as 'ok' but it's getting panned by the punters. How much is nerd rage and how much is paid reviews is of course open to debate.
If/when this bombs Hollywood will learn the wrong lesson, it won't be that the public don't like lazy, unfunny reboots it will be because they are sexist.
If/when this bombs Hollywood will learn the wrong lesson, it won't be that the public don't like lazy, unfunny reboots it will be because they are sexist.
Bullett said:
It's always interesting on the review sites when the professional and punter views vary by so much. The pro's seem to rate it as 'ok' but it's getting panned by the punters. How much is nerd rage and how much is paid reviews is of course open to debate.
If/when this bombs Hollywood will learn the wrong lesson, it won't be that the public don't like lazy, unfunny reboots it will be because they are sexist.
I don't think it will bomb. It's by far the biggest budget Fieg has ever had but with the apparently decent critic reviews, marketing power and recognized franchise I can see it making enough money to green light a sequel TBH.If/when this bombs Hollywood will learn the wrong lesson, it won't be that the public don't like lazy, unfunny reboots it will be because they are sexist.
Bullett said:
It's always interesting on the review sites when the professional and punter views vary by so much. The pro's seem to rate it as 'ok' but it's getting panned by the punters. How much is nerd rage and how much is paid reviews is of course open to debate.
I think we can safely file this one under nerd rage. I can't find the article now but I recently read a very interesting breakdown of the IMDB user reviews for this film. Aside from the fact that there were over 12000 reviews before anyone had even seen it, the low review scores from men outweighed females by something like 5:1.It's an average to reasonably good film, by any sensible measure. 'The Internet' hated it as soon as it was announced, nothing was ever going to change that. Just look at when annually release games get hammered for being a 'lazy update'. Is it really a 5/10 game compared to its predecessor that got 9/10? Of course not, it's probably a better game in reality. The score is no use whatsoever to somebody coming into the franchise for the first time.
The whole 'paying off' thing in Hollywood is generally a myth, I honestly believe that. The Fatman on Batman podcast has had some really interesting insights into that over the past few years (both Kevin Smith and Marc Benardin have been accused of accepting cash for positive reviews). It makes for good internet banter, but little more.
Bullett said:
If/when this bombs Hollywood will learn the wrong lesson, it won't be that the public don't like lazy, unfunny reboots it will be because they are sexist.
- All the outcry on the net gave them a free ticket. If its good then they are ok, if it bombs its because of sexism. Best thing that could have happened to them (apart from making a great movie, which by most accounts they haven't).ukaskew said:
Aside from the fact that there were over 12000 reviews before anyone had even seen it, the low review scores from men outweighed females by something like 5:1.
Oh yeah, well reviewing a film before it's out is crazy, suprised imdb let them do that. You couldn't post a punter review on metacritic until it was released.I wonder what the normal ratio of male:female is for movie reviews I wouldn't be surprised if was heavily biased towards men normally. I'd also be interested to see what the ratio of good reviews was, I suspect closer to 1:1 or even female biased. They'd not seen it either but it's all female so must be good and those nasty misogynists are voting it down.
I usually really like Mark Kermode, but this review stinks of being safe and tiptoeing around the real issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0CTCScVkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0CTCScVkA
Mr Snrub said:
I usually really like Mark Kermode, but this review stinks of being safe and tiptoeing around the real issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0CTCScVkA
Omg that cLip testing new tech holy shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0CTCScVkA
t that's bad. Kermode you f
king sell out. I can confirm this film is pish. Don't get me wrong it never tanked as bad as I thought it would.
I liked the references to the first one. I liked in a way that it was a remake or reboot or whatever you call it. To me that felt better than carrying on the torch.
Whilst the plot was meh, there is little you can do tbh with it that hasn't been done. It certainly was ok though. And the special effects for some of the ghosts were great. Others not so much.
However, it was dramatically let down by some of the worst gags I have ever had the misfortune to witness. A fart joke. Sorry a fanny fart joke!!! Really. Come on. Usual racial stereotypes throughout the film.
Awful, awful slapstick gags. Random wacky muttering that seems to be the trend now. Just go off on a tangent without any wit, say random stuff and it's funny, apparently. All the gags were in the promos.
The sexism is what fked me off the most. A dashing receptionist that's male is portrayed as a fking retard. Someone couldn't be that stupid without being retarded, but the "jokes" wouldn't work I guess. So what we have now is role reversal from decades ago that wasn't funny. I thought girl power st was meant to be better than all that.
I actually didn't mind the four of them when they were being serious. You know what at times I thought, wow this is a new ghostbusters, it had that feel with these women at the serious moments but then bang a painfully unfunny gag that ruined it. For me ghostbusters was never really that funny in the first place. Yes there was a lot of gags and humour but it was quite dark and sucked you into thinking, this is an action movie. This could be real life. This one gives the impression of a cartoon. It tries to focus too much on making it a comedy when It good have been a good film if it was more serious.
The acting wasn't great as well. Bill Murray, etc were all fking woeful. The only decent bit of the whole movie was with Ernie. For a split second I actually thought this is ghostbusters
I honestly can't see me watching this ever again. Ghostbusters 2 wasn't brilliant but at least the cast had chemistry. There was none of that in this. It would completely tank if it wasn't living off the first two.
If your not that into ghostbusters wait for it to come out on video. If like me it's your favourite film go see for yourself but do not expect to enjoy it.
I looked around at the audience in the cinema. Phones constantly coming out. People talking to one another. Getting up for the toilet. Only a few people actually laughed at it and they were mostly mum's who you just know find mirandi hart funny.
2/10
I liked the references to the first one. I liked in a way that it was a remake or reboot or whatever you call it. To me that felt better than carrying on the torch.
Whilst the plot was meh, there is little you can do tbh with it that hasn't been done. It certainly was ok though. And the special effects for some of the ghosts were great. Others not so much.
However, it was dramatically let down by some of the worst gags I have ever had the misfortune to witness. A fart joke. Sorry a fanny fart joke!!! Really. Come on. Usual racial stereotypes throughout the film.
Awful, awful slapstick gags. Random wacky muttering that seems to be the trend now. Just go off on a tangent without any wit, say random stuff and it's funny, apparently. All the gags were in the promos.
The sexism is what f
ked me off the most. A dashing receptionist that's male is portrayed as a fking retard. Someone couldn't be that stupid without being retarded, but the "jokes" wouldn't work I guess. So what we have now is role reversal from decades ago that wasn't funny. I thought girl power st was meant to be better than all that. I actually didn't mind the four of them when they were being serious. You know what at times I thought, wow this is a new ghostbusters, it had that feel with these women at the serious moments but then bang a painfully unfunny gag that ruined it. For me ghostbusters was never really that funny in the first place. Yes there was a lot of gags and humour but it was quite dark and sucked you into thinking, this is an action movie. This could be real life. This one gives the impression of a cartoon. It tries to focus too much on making it a comedy when It good have been a good film if it was more serious.
The acting wasn't great as well. Bill Murray, etc were all f
king woeful. The only decent bit of the whole movie was with Ernie. For a split second I actually thought this is ghostbusters I honestly can't see me watching this ever again. Ghostbusters 2 wasn't brilliant but at least the cast had chemistry. There was none of that in this. It would completely tank if it wasn't living off the first two.
If your not that into ghostbusters wait for it to come out on video. If like me it's your favourite film go see for yourself but do not expect to enjoy it.
I looked around at the audience in the cinema. Phones constantly coming out. People talking to one another. Getting up for the toilet. Only a few people actually laughed at it and they were mostly mum's who you just know find mirandi hart funny.
2/10
Mr Snrub said:
I usually really like Mark Kermode, but this review stinks of being safe and tiptoeing around the real issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0CTCScVkA
I generally trust Kermode, and his review of this film chimes with my thoughts about the *original* movie, i.e. patchy, not that funny in parts, but entertaining enough. It sounds like they nailed it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru0CTCScVkA
As Kermode says, works on just so many levels.
In my top ten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2gf-bzKi8
I'll be watching G3 this week.
Maybe it's because people can't make trailers anymore, or maybe because it's just a piss-weak rehash missing the creative genius of the original, but the trailer doesn't fill e with confidence.
In my top ten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2gf-bzKi8
I'll be watching G3 this week.
Maybe it's because people can't make trailers anymore, or maybe because it's just a piss-weak rehash missing the creative genius of the original, but the trailer doesn't fill e with confidence.
Edited by Halb on Saturday 16th July 11:51
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