Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024, D: Kenan)
12-06-22, 02:56 PM
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12-06-22, 03:37 PM
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Critics are people, too. They're prone to biases just like the rest of us. With all of the controversy surrounding the 2016 film, it's hard to imagine people weren't factoring that into their opinion of the film, whether for or against it.
12-06-22, 05:14 PM
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12-06-22, 06:48 PM
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12-06-22, 06:55 PM
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Of course this isn’t to discredit your original point. Toxic internet fanboys are the worst.
12-07-22, 09:47 AM
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Yeah, and the extra five years that it has been out has nothing to do with the extra reviews. Sure. Must be "scared little boys" that posted all those reviews, because there couldn't be any other reason that a film goer would dislike the movie other than toxic masculinity.
12-07-22, 10:03 AM
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Ghostbusters 2016 wasn’t THAT bad of a movie to warrant all the vitriol it received. It’s also not a very good movie.
My biggest problem with it, aside from not being very funny or utilizing the original cast well at all, was that it didn’t play by its own rules. They talk about the ghost traps and how to use them. They’re basically sticking with the original idea of trapping ghosts. Then at the end, Kate McKinnon pulls out her proton pistols and just starts zapping ghosts out of the air.
The ghost effects also looked out of place. Like they belonged more on a live-action Scooby Doo movie than a Ghostbusters movie.
And yeah, Kate McKinnon was definitely the best part of the movie, making a bold choice of channeling the cartoon Egon, that paid off well.
My biggest problem with it, aside from not being very funny or utilizing the original cast well at all, was that it didn’t play by its own rules. They talk about the ghost traps and how to use them. They’re basically sticking with the original idea of trapping ghosts. Then at the end, Kate McKinnon pulls out her proton pistols and just starts zapping ghosts out of the air.
The ghost effects also looked out of place. Like they belonged more on a live-action Scooby Doo movie than a Ghostbusters movie.
And yeah, Kate McKinnon was definitely the best part of the movie, making a bold choice of channeling the cartoon Egon, that paid off well.
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12-07-22, 10:17 AM
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Yeah, and the extra five years that it has been out has nothing to do with the extra reviews. Sure. Must be "scared little boys" that posted all those reviews, because there couldn't be any other reason that a film goer would dislike the movie other than toxic masculinity.
And I stand by my statements - and more critics agreed with me that Answer the Call was better than Afterlife
12-07-22, 11:07 AM
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I'm actually surprised how anyone could think Ghostbusters (2016) is better than Afterlife. To me 2016 is barely a movie. At least 3 of the Ghostbusters are the same character, the whole improve shows, so the script isn't very good and the dialogue and comedy just loud. I do think Kate McKinnon did a good job and Chris Hemsworth was OK, but that's about it. I don't think the actresses were the problem. Paul Feig is the movie's problem. His style of comedy can be reduced to Melissa McCarthy shitting in a bathroom sink and that's not remotely funny otherwise Nomadland would have been a comedy.
12-07-22, 11:22 AM
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I'm actually surprised how anyone could think Ghostbusters (2016) is better than Afterlife. To me 2016 is barely a movie. At least 3 of the Ghostbusters are the same character, the whole improve shows, so the script isn't very good and the dialogue and comedy just loud. I do think Kate McKinnon did a good job and Chris Hemsworth was OK, but that's about it. I don't think the actresses were the problem. Paul Feig is the movie's problem. His style of comedy can be reduced to Melissa McCarthy shitting in a bathroom sink and that's not remotely funny otherwise Nomadland would have been a comedy.
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12-08-22, 01:37 AM
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I wouldn't count most of TV shows. Those are in the hands of the showrunners and Bridesmaids was unfunny garbage too, like I said Melissa McCarthy shitting in a sink. I give you Freaks and Geeks, which wasn't even in the last 20 years.
12-08-22, 09:22 AM
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You're in the minority on your Bridesmaids opinion. And he was one of the original directors of The Office and helped set the tone for the show. I think you are discounting his accomplishments in comedy too easily.
12-08-22, 09:52 AM
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12-08-22, 10:32 AM
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Well, seems like many others agreed that it was a shitty movie, otherwise we'd be getting a sequel to that rather than the Rudd film.
12-08-22, 11:34 AM
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Perhaps Paul Feig just isn't for me. I do think he uses vulgarity and prophantity for easy jokes, way to often. Noise trumps nuance, in his movies. There is definitely an audience for that kind of humor, I'm not it. That being said, I still think he shouldn't have relied on the improv, especially not if three actress are kind of the same character.
12-08-22, 11:52 AM
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Sure. Must be "scared little boys" that posted all those reviews, because there couldn't be any other reason that a film goer would dislike the movie other than toxic masculinity.
These is within the first page of comments on the 2016 movie's YouTube trailer:
- C'mon guys we're almost to 500,000 dislikes we can do this
- I am sorry but using women disrespects the original. Nothing against women.
- I can't believe Sony left this up. Even detectives eventually clean up the scene of death after a murder.
- For those of you who can't see it in the future when YouTube hides it, the like/dislike ratio is currently 321k/1.1M, and I proudly added my own dislike.
Well, seems like many others agreed that it was a shitty movie, otherwise we'd be getting a sequel to that rather than the Rudd film.
I certainly can have an opinion that goes out of the mainstream. Nothing wrong with that for anyone. But I also expected that blowback because both critics and audiences loved Andor. The response to Answer the Call and Afterlife wasn't nearly as clear-cut or positive, and when I say that I think Answer the Call is a better movie of the two, I also have the critics agreeing with me.
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12-08-22, 12:37 PM
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I certainly can have an opinion that goes out of the mainstream. Nothing wrong with that for anyone. But I also expected that blowback because both critics and audiences loved Andor. The response to Answer the Call and Afterlife wasn't nearly as clear-cut or positive, and when I say that I think Answer the Call is a better movie of the two, I also have the critics agreeing with me.
While I think the audience score is tainted, I'm not sure the critics score isn't either. I think it's possible there is an over correction in reaction to the toxicity.
Afterlife I liked, but again I'm with you regarding the comedy. The movie wasn't a comedy it was a light hearted coming-of-age movie set in the world of the Ghostbusters. It was a different genre, but to me still a fine movie, although I did expect more from it, too.
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12-09-22, 10:47 AM
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12-09-22, 11:07 AM
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As we've said numerous times already: Kate McKinnon was funny, the rest not so much. She could probably be funny reading the phone book.
12-09-22, 11:07 AM
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Is the implication there that women haven't been traditionally called "not funny" when compared to men?
12-09-22, 12:16 PM
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The lead in Afterlife is female. The idea that Ghostbuster 2016's unpopularity had to do with female leads has always been, well...laughable. The movie is horribly written, and that's on MALE writer/director Feig.
12-09-22, 12:43 PM
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But you didn't respond to it. You seemed to think that the only reason someone would have to dislike the 2016 movie is because of toxic masculinity. I've never discounted that there was some toxic masculinity that lead to some of the negative reviews. You seem to be taking it as fact that ALL of the negative reviews were due to toxic masculinity.
12-09-22, 01:11 PM
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The 2016 movie cost double of what Afterlife cost, made not that much more and wasn't released during a pandemic and didn't carry the weight of a botched reboot 5 years prior to its release.
Even if you discard the audience score, the audience wasn't that interested in the movie. It made less than Assassin's Creed or Turtles 2 and much less than The Legend of Tarzan or Independence Day: Resurgence. Afterlife was in Top 25 of last year's box office 2016 barely made the top 40. That's not due to toxic masculinity.
Even if you discard the audience score, the audience wasn't that interested in the movie. It made less than Assassin's Creed or Turtles 2 and much less than The Legend of Tarzan or Independence Day: Resurgence. Afterlife was in Top 25 of last year's box office 2016 barely made the top 40. That's not due to toxic masculinity.
12-09-22, 03:10 PM
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The 2016 movie cost double of what Afterlife cost, made not that much more and wasn't released during a pandemic and didn't carry the weight of a botched reboot 5 years prior to its release.
Even if you discard the audience score, the audience wasn't that interested in the movie. It made less than Assassin's Creed or Turtles 2 and much less than The Legend of Tarzan or Independence Day: Resurgence. Afterlife was in Top 25 of last year's box office 2016 barely made the top 40. That's not due to toxic masculinity.
Even if you discard the audience score, the audience wasn't that interested in the movie. It made less than Assassin's Creed or Turtles 2 and much less than The Legend of Tarzan or Independence Day: Resurgence. Afterlife was in Top 25 of last year's box office 2016 barely made the top 40. That's not due to toxic masculinity.
I would say a not insignificant amount of people did not bother seeing Afterlife because of ATC.
12-09-22, 04:36 PM
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But you didn't respond to it. You seemed to think that the only reason someone would have to dislike the 2016 movie is because of toxic masculinity. I've never discounted that there was some toxic masculinity that lead to some of the negative reviews. You seem to be taking it as fact that ALL of the negative reviews were due to toxic masculinity.
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As you probably recall, the trailer for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters became the most disliked movie trailer in YouTube history thanks to a certain contingency of very vocal fans of Ivan Reitman’s original film. It would appear that those fans are at it again, this time taking to IMDb, where they’re spamming the ratings for Feig’s reboot to ensure it has a low user score. Unsurprisingly, the majority of voters are men between the ages of 18 and 44. And while the exact point of this little exercise in anti-Ghostbusters activism is unclear, what is apparent is that these guys aren’t letting this whole thing go anytime soon.Update: Our own Matt Singer checked the IMDb page and found that there have been 700 more ratings of 1 / 10 since we posted this article. The page updates once a day, so it might not actually be too bad, but this is still pretty troubling
If you head over to the IMDb page for Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot, you’ll notice that the film has a user rating of 3.6 out of 10, which isn’t the lowest rating on the site — that honor belongs to a Turkish film from 2015 called Code Name: K.O.Z. (rating: 1.5), followed closely by Kirk Cameron’s faith-based family comedy Saving Christmas (rating: 1.6). But what makes the Ghostbusters rating particularly notable is that the film doesn’t even hit theaters until this weekend, and most of the early promo screenings for the general public aren’t taking place until sometime this week.
…Which means most of these people are rating the new Ghostbusters without seeing it first. I suppose that shouldn’t be terribly surprising, since many of the people giving Feig’s reboot a low rating are presumably the same people who drove up the dislikes on YouTube and who have been very vocal in their disdain for an all-female take on their beloved Ghostbusters.
If you head over to the IMDb page for Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot, you’ll notice that the film has a user rating of 3.6 out of 10, which isn’t the lowest rating on the site — that honor belongs to a Turkish film from 2015 called Code Name: K.O.Z. (rating: 1.5), followed closely by Kirk Cameron’s faith-based family comedy Saving Christmas (rating: 1.6). But what makes the Ghostbusters rating particularly notable is that the film doesn’t even hit theaters until this weekend, and most of the early promo screenings for the general public aren’t taking place until sometime this week.
…Which means most of these people are rating the new Ghostbusters without seeing it first. I suppose that shouldn’t be terribly surprising, since many of the people giving Feig’s reboot a low rating are presumably the same people who drove up the dislikes on YouTube and who have been very vocal in their disdain for an all-female take on their beloved Ghostbusters.