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Forums - Movies & TV - Ghostbusters review: call off the trolls – Paul Feig's female reboot is a blast 4 / 5 stars

Mike_L on 13 July 2016
Soundwave said:
Mike_L said:

Bolded: And trousers off showing nothing but dick shape in speedos.

The point is both ads are guilty of sexual objectification while one was heavily critiziced and the other was completely fine apparently.

Besides, you could argue that the JBS ad discriminates certain males by stating that the underwear is for real men only.

Yeah still don't think it's equivalent. If the commercial with the guys had them rubbing their nipples and crotch (lol) and down on all fours with their ass up ... yeah then it would be the same. 

I don't think a commercial with a girl in a bikini walking around in slow motion would raise many eye brows, but that commercial with the women is basically a softcore porn shoot with all types of laughably stupid imagery (the girls throwing two testicles, er ... "balls" into the air, catfighting over men's underwear, sniffing and caressing men's underwear all over their bodies, etc.). 

I like a "girls in bikinis doing a car wash" beer commercial as much as the next guy, lol, but that commercial is pretty extreme. 

Ok.

I'm outtie.



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RJ_Sizzle on 13 July 2016
TheFallen said:
Boutros said:
75% on Rotten Tomatoes is wow. I always thought it looked much better than what people were saying but I didn't expect such a great reception by critics.

Movie critics are worse than game critics. Gravity (A good movie) is vastly overrated in the high 90s. Compare the way superior Interstellar and the Martian which I think are both in low 80s. Yet they are both excellent movies and go above and beyond the quality of Gravity.               

 

Also to add, the user scores for Interstellar and the Martian are better than Gravity's. At least on metacritic anyway.

Wait a minute. What about those of us who like all three?



bigtakilla on 13 July 2016
Boutros said:
bigtakilla said:

Lol, if you say so. You'll notice other critics don't have this little loophole, sorry stipulation. If it's good enough for you though, good.

lol ok.

Then know that if the only stipulation to be a critic is to write for a website that generates views without the person having to have any sort of education or background in the medium they are critiquing, you are pretty much agreeing that literally anyone can be a critic on rottentomatoes. So I guess there's really no disagreement here.



NightDragon83 on 13 July 2016

It's currently 75% on RT, but it's an even 50% split between Top 20 critics, which tells you that most of the "positive" reviews are from no-name bloggers and writers who are clearly rooting for the movie to succeed based on their personal agendas and views, and are trying as best as they can to spin it in a positive light.

This movie will be forgotten about within a week and will be direct to Redbox / the $5 bin at Walmart in a few months.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

Soundwave on 13 July 2016
Mike_L said:
Soundwave said:

Yeah still don't think it's equivalent. If the commercial with the guys had them rubbing their nipples and crotch (lol) and down on all fours with their ass up ... yeah then it would be the same. 

I don't think a commercial with a girl in a bikini walking around in slow motion would raise many eye brows, but that commercial with the women is basically a softcore porn shoot with all types of laughably stupid imagery (the girls throwing two testicles, er ... "balls" into the air, catfighting over men's underwear, sniffing and caressing men's underwear all over their bodies, etc.). 

I like a "girls in bikinis doing a car wash" beer commercial as much as the next guy, lol, but that commercial is pretty extreme. 

Ok.

I'm outtie.

Which pretty much proves the point. If that commercial with the women was directly equivalent shot for shot just with men in it, it would make you deeply uncomfortable. 

Because it's borderline porn. 

I don't really think it's wrong that people complained about that particular ad, it goes a fair bit beyond just the usual "sexy woman in lingerie or buff firefighter" trope in most "sexy" TV ads. 



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Lawlight on 13 July 2016
Mike_L said:
Lawlight said:

I don't think the reviewers are genuine. How would you know if they are.

No. You're right. We don't know. It just seems like a really big conspiracy if all those fresh reviews aren't genuine (77% on RT).

And how would we know if they aren't? How would we know that all of those 77% reviewers are lying about enjoying the movie?

Using hyperbole when you don't have a point. Typical. The reality is that a great number of reviewers are using this movie to push an agenda - just read some of those RT blurbs.



Soundwave on 13 July 2016

Certified fresh now on RT.



Boutros on 13 July 2016
Soundwave said:
Certified fresh now on RT.



thismeintiel on 13 July 2016
Boutros said:
Soundwave said:
Certified fresh now on RT.

You know someone has conceded a point when all they can do is demean those on the opposing side on a personal level.



 

Boutros on 13 July 2016
thismeintiel said:

You know someone has conceded a point when all they can do is demean those on the opposing side on a personal level.

Is it the man boobs that are too much?