Ghostbusters 2016

What went wrong?

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>There are people on this site right now who still consider Rotten Tomatoes a reliable source when it concludes that majority of critics gave the film a positive review

Top critics and All critics aside: still majority of "CRITICS" gave this film a fresh review

literally nothing went wrong you goddamn shitlord

Am I in a dream?

A movie like Suicide Squad gets globally panned when a film like Ghostbusters 2016 gets globally praised...

>here is my script of unfunny jokes, you guys adlib a couple of your own zingers in there too. Oh and dance. Dance a fucking lot, make this a production of CATS, chris you said you had a joke about cats right? Fucking Pottery

They shouldnt have casted the sheboon. The Ghostbusters are supposed to hunt monsters, not be monsters

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telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/07/10/ghostbusters-review-paul-feigs-fun-female-led-reboot-captures-sp/

I couldn't get the full title of his Ghostbusters reboot because you have to FUCKING PAY in order to read what he said about the movie... no joke

No memorable ghosts
Paul Fieg projecting his hatred of men
Juvenile humor and racial stereotyping
No good dialogue between busters

The list is too long. You're better off asking people what went right.

No you don't. Just try not being retarded.

1/3

>If ever a film was stuck with a fight it didn’t pick, Ghostbusters is it. When this female-led reboot of the classic 1980s action comedy was announced two years ago, the news was met with a keening wail of resentment online that hasn’t really abated since: as such, what could have easily been waved away as just another act of mid-summer blockbuster autosarcophagy was received in some quarters as a genuinely outrageous artistic statement.

>“Now they’re making Ghostbusters with only women!” no less an aesthete and cinephile than US Presidential candidate Donald Trump opined in an online video blog last year. “What’s going on?”

>Disappointing as it might be for the film’s detractors to hear, what’s going on here is more or less exactly what went on when Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis brainstormed the original during a three-week writing binge.

>The 2016 vintage of Ghostbusters speaks to its time with the same withering comic accuracy and hot-air-balloon-sized sense of fun as the 1984 original.

>Back then, one of the ripest comic seams in Hollywood was oblivious male mediocrity – and despite its obviously larger budget, Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters happily dawdled in the footsteps of Animal House, Meatballs and Caddyshack, with the ‘Busters interspersing saving the world with smoking cigarettes, bickering with local government officials, and chatting up clients.

>Paul Feig’s version, meanwhile, comes on the heels of a run of successful comedies – three of which, Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy, were directed by Feig himself – about effectively the opposite subject: hyper-capable but self-doubting women.

2/3

>So it is that particle physicist Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) finds herself denied a tenured position at Columbia University after her previous professional connection with paranormal researcher Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) comes to light. Erin reluctantly joins Abby’s latest project: an attempt to scientifically prove ghosts are real, using an array of unstable-looking equipment that lights up in lollipop colours as soon as the switch is thrown or button pushed.

>This kit is assembled by Abby’s colleague Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), an oddball nuclear engineer whose unnervingly off-kilter line delivery and expertise with close-quarters nuclear weaponry immediately qualify her as one of the most memorable movie characters of the year.

>We’re not quite talking Mad Max: Fury Road’s Imperator Furiosa levels of immortality, although a sequence in which Jillian slices and dices multiple spectres with a kind of two-handed proton lasso of her own creation is very comfortably the action scene of the summer.

3/3

>Later, the trio are joined by Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), a New York transport employee whose subcutaneous knowledge of the city proves invaluable, and Kevin (Chris Hemsworth), a heedless himbo who becomes the team’s receptionist and the butt of around 25 percent of their jokes. (Numerous scenes in which Wiig tries to flirt with him had me ecstatically chewing my fist.)

>The ghosts themselves – gorgeous, CGI-embellished, neon-glowing wraiths with real presence and unexpected shriek-then-laugh shock value – start flowing into the city thanks to the apocalyptic inclinations of Rowan (Neil Casey), a cellar-dwelling, toxic male nerd who wants to “bend the universe to his will”.

>While Katie Dippold’s script stays broadly focused on the blockbusting purpose at hand, it slyly circles a lot of this stuff: it’s also wincingly astute on the degree of abuse women have to contend with online, and whenever the Ghostbusters are in the news, they become the targets of lavishly sprayed internet bile.

>One of their sneeriest critics turns out to be, let’s say, a familiar face: its appearance is a fun jolt, but as one of arguably eight cameos by members of the original cast, it contributes to the sense Ghostbusters ’16, for all its subtle innovations and advances, feels a little too in thrall to the past. Its jokes, effects and sparkler-bright cast chemistry need nothing to fall back on.

How did you read his article without having to pay?

l33t hax

>globally praised
lol

Paul Feig

It was a film made for nobody

Nothing. I liked it.

People who had already defended the movie before it came out doubled down with praise but most positive reviews were "6/10, didn't vomit while watching so okay I guess."

A fundamental and utter failure to understand what made the original a success and a cultural touchstone.