Yeah, it's kind of a low bar, but I thought Salvation was the best Crow sequel. Slightly better than CoA, which was too similar to the original, and Wicked Prayer was a clusterfuck.

Not a great movie by any stretch, but a decent enough DTV sequel.

So better than Wicked Prayer? Damning with faint praise?

A lot of "factual" statements from someone who hasn't even seen it yet.

OK, let's not split hairs or argue over semantics.

G16 apparently does not come close to living up to the Ghostbusters legacy. Add apparently or reported information or what ever you want to my previous comments in place of fact, but the point still stands.

It was actually shot to be a theatrical release, but poor reaction to CoA combined with poor test screenings (which probably included the one at SDCC) got that cancelled.

I don't think anyone rational thought it would "live up to the Ghostbusters legacy". I'm pretty sure I said from day one that it might be good, it might not.

But the reaction was too extreme for what is apparently an "okay" movie. A trailer for an "okay" movie shouldn't be the most disliked trailer on the Internet.

The movie is currently 74% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's better than Spielberg's latest. That's pretty good any way you cut it.

So exactly like every other thing ever made with the Ghostbusters name since 1984.

An, "Okay," movie that has some annoyingly loud characters to go along with some bad racial stereotypes that bring to mind black characters from the 30's and early 40's. Yes, from a technical standpoint it is possible that it's, "Okay," but when you think about that stuff it isn't quite so acceptable.


It should be when it's the worst trailer people have seen in a long time - and this one was. It was terrible! Come on, you know the first trailer was awful.

Yes and no. None of the reviews are really good. They're all middling at best. When the review has a 3/5 score and says, "It isn't bad," that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

The final RT score will probably be in the 60's (all movies tend to drop), which is definitely better than most expected. The opening wknd might tick up a bit into the 45m range.

Well, as long as it's above a 50% and a 5.2/10 then I guess it isn't "Damaging to its legacy"

I'm glad it's not (apparently) a disaster, and should do OK at the Box Office. I'm also glad it isn't a sequel. Still no real interest, but it went from a 'never see' to probably a rental for me.

You keep repeating about "loud" "annoying" that I think we get it. Why the need to keep saying it? I've worked with black women like her. They exist. There's also white men that are loud and annoying.

I don't get why you're putting yourself through all this aggravation of this thread. You seem obsessed.

From reddit, naturally.




He needs it to fail to justify his ridiculous "women can't carry backpacks" theory, among everything else.

So back to that tired line? Really? (And, for the record, I never said that. I only pointed out that the battery alone for those things would be damned heavy, and that even most guys - myself included - would get tired after 5 or 10 minutes carrying something like that around.)

Whatever, man. The movie still looks like it's lame. Racist stereotypes, half-assed attempts at recreating parts from the original, annoying comediennes who aren't really funny - talk about a huge letdown when Akroyd and Ramis tried for over a decade to get a proper sequel made and were shut down at every turn. But I guess since it's a Girl Power move criticizing it immediately gets you thrown under the bus... (Gotta love the social justice/politically correct folks - any criticism of any project led by women immediately gets you branded as a misogynist, even if the criticism is well founded.)

The original was clever. I have yet to read or hear one thing clever about this movie. Are there some funny parts in the movie? I'm sure there are, but the type of humor that we've seen from this just isn't the kind of thing I'm into. At all.

Enjoy the movie. I'm skipping it - just like I skipped Batman VS Superman (another movie I ripped into, even more than this one, but received only about 1/10 the personal criticism for doing so - funny, that.)


And I don't find them any funnier on the big screen than I do in real life. Why would anyone want to watch a movie about the type of people they can't stand?

Because the long time Ghostbusters fans got screwed by Amy Pascal and her predecessor. They stonewalled Ramis and Akroyd for no good reason while greenlighting some of the worst movies of the last 15 years. That's frustrating when you were really hoping for a G3 and knew that Ramis and Akroyd were trying hard to make it happen. When the first two movies of a franchise are big box office hits that turn sizeable profits it isn't unreasonable to expect the studio to greenlight a third. The fact that a gender reversal G3 was greenlit without a script even being written is a further slap in the face to both Ramis/Akroyd and to the fans.

Even as someone here that's argued against going this gimmick route and thought the trailers and marketing were pretty poor can see that the movie clearly isn't as bad as the "haters" thought it would be. I don't really understand still trying so hard to shape an argument against the movie despite fairly positive reviews, or it being THAT difficult to say "hey, guess I was wrong about the movie being crappy but I still don't think it's for me."

At least Batman v Superman had the critic consensus to validate how poor that movie was. Of course, I still think the proton pack weight argument is one of the funniest and most ridiculous points of contention i've seen on here in years.

Kind of like a positive reaction after the first time you get laid. However, once you think about it and have some other experiences to compare it to, your opinion likely changes. Hell, I'm going to be honest and say that my opinion of Phantom was good after the first viewing. A lot of it had to do with being hungry for new Star Wars for so long. The reviews for this will be all over the place at first. It will take some time to see if it is shit and really does stink.

I still don't see, read, or hear anything remotely good. The stuff that I read the critics saying, "This was fairly funny," sounds lame to me. Sorry, maybe I'm just too old and cranky to get or appreciate the new humor. There are damned few comedies that I like anymore.

Have you tried carrying around 50 pounds for more than a couple minutes? I have, and I know for a fact that a 50 pound pack of battery and electronic equipment would be too much for me to handle for any extended period of time. I can buy someone bigger and stronger (and younger) than me doing it, but not someone smaller and weaker. Something like that takes me out of a movie and ruins it for me. That's all I'm saying. If a movie makes me say, "Oh, COME ON," then it's over - I'm not going to like it. Even with something as fantastically unrealistic as Ghostbusters (they have to play it straight in order to sell the concept).

You know what? They probably could sell me on the proton pack thing by claiming that one of them came up with some new, amazing battery technology that is 1/10 the size and weight with 500% more power - but I'd still have major issues with the style of humor in this movie, and the fact that I HATE McCarthy and Jones.

Sorry. I do, I hate McCarthy and Jones, and I guess I don't want to buy into ANY movie with them in it.

Now get off my fucking lawn!!!

I disagree, the internet is a place of extreme negativity and hyperbole. Look at any movie that doesn't live up to fanboy expectations and you'll see that they go to over-the-top lengths to rip it apart. This thread doesn't have much more ridiculous exaggeration than the Fant4stic thread. BvS, was equally torn to shreds.

The sexism angle adds an interesting dynamic to the discussion, but the reaction to this movie is pretty typical of internet fandom. Changing the Ghostbusters' gender is akin to making Johnny Storm black, or Lex Luthor Jesse Eisenberg. If movie adaptations/sequels/reboots fail to live up to fans' preconceived expectations, they hate it with unbridled passion.

If you haven't read anything remotely good about the movie then either you're not reading enough reviews, or you're deliberately picking and choosing which ones you want to read to support the arguments you've had from the get go as there are plenty of reviews that do have much higher praise for the movie.

Look, my point is that i'm not that far from you as far as not caring for the people involved in this movie, or thinking that the movie doesn't look good. I posted earlier about a lot of the reviews being 3/5 or C+ type scores too with enough of those to dissuade me from watching this in theaters. But as I said in the post you quoted, the fact is the movie isn't a train wreck or shit show. It seems fairly competent and certainly an above average movie given the overall critical response so far. Hence my previous post about just chalking it up to not being my type of thing. I just don't really understand continuing to rant and rave about it or cherry picking the negative reviews to support whatever confirmation bias about the issues you have with the movie.

I carried a sousaphone/tuba around for a few years in high school when I weighed about 115 pounds, being a pretty slim guy at the time, including walking a few miles with one in a carrying case. Regardless, seems pretty easy for suspension of disbelief to kick in with lighter batteries in a world where busting ghosts is a real thing, but in the end I think that's on you and not the movies. So yeah, still one of the sillier arguments i've seen and people are going to remember it.

There's nothing wrong with that. I generally don't like McCarthy either, and don't like what i've seen of Leslie Jones either.

#AllGhostbustersMoviesMatter.

That dude is an even bigger trol then me. All the comments in there are calling him out for being wrong.

I actually don't know why I keep coming back to these threads



I know it'll go down during the week, but this now has a 79% with 52 reviews, seems to teeter between a 6.6 and 6.7 out of 10. If it stays in that range, it'll have nothing on the original but will be an improvement on the sequel.

I agree, which is why it's strange that neither movie got slammed as hard with dislikes as this one did.

Yup, and it had an awesome soundtrack.

Maybe the same reason that I do... because it's fun to witness so much butt-hurt... especially now that the reviews are good.

This is obviously better than the original sequel - which isn't hard to do because the sequel was a piece of shit. And I'm sure in a universe where the original GB didn't exist - this would've gotten just as high a score. It only loses points simply because it's not an original premise.

Hopefully this will have a sequel - since so many are enjoying it.