Mummelmann said: Metascore is around 60, doesn't appear to be fantastic either. Lower side of mediocre is fine for a summer movie though, and quite common. I believe more people will see it due to the press it got in advance and all the noise surrounding it, ironically leading the loudest critics into causing bigger profits and maybe even a sequel... Still think it looks like crap based on trailers though. Then again, I was never a huge fan of the originals either so it doesn't really matter all that much (GASP!!!).

Depends on who is saying what, and where.  This was on the first page of Yahoo:

Review: New 'Ghostbusters' an unfunny mess

"However, although the new Ghostbusters follows the template of the original by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the witless script by Feig and his co-writer on The Heat, Katie Dippold, has no juice. Short on both humor and tension, the spook encounters are rote collisions with vaporous CG specters that escalate into an uninvolving supernatural cataclysm unleashed upon New York’s Times Square. It’s all busy-ness, noise and chaos, with zero thrills and very little sustainable comic buoyancy."  The Hollywood Reporter

That's gonna hurt.  On the flip side are reviews like in the OP, where the writer is clearly doing some social warrioring, so maybe that will offset things.

Either way, there are going to tons of agenda-driven reviews from both sides, which is always annoying.

A great post.

Refreshing to see someone open minded. It's so cool nowadays to be negative without even having seen the film/played the game/owned the product/etc.

You might end up not liking the new Ghostbusters and that's ok. But at least you stayed open minded when it got positive reviews.

I enjoyed the Heat, Spy and Bridesmaides. I know it's simple comedy and the films aren't clever, but they are light hearted and fun. This Ghostbusters film seems to be similar and I don't mind that. 

The original Ghostbusters wasn't a clever film, the humour was typical Bill and Dan humour and the ghosts fx weren't all that serious even then. Some were cartoony and some were more real. There is nothing wrong with Dan and Bills humour and it fits them prefectly as it comes naturally to them. 

I don't want Ghostbusters to be serious, or gritty, or filled with actors trying to replicate what the old cast did. I want it to be fun, light hearted, entertaining and full of ghost busting. 

The problem is that I can't trust popular opinion with this movie. Popular opinion tells us that Melissa McCarthy movies are funny and they are liars.

I refuse to watch gender-swap stuff on principle. Write your own characters then maybe I'll watch your stuff.

Ha ha.

still will not watch this garbage

I'll gladly watch it on Netflix or amazon prime when it comes there.

pokoko said: Mummelmann said: Metascore is around 60, doesn't appear to be fantastic either. Lower side of mediocre is fine for a summer movie though, and quite common. I believe more people will see it due to the press it got in advance and all the noise surrounding it, ironically leading the loudest critics into causing bigger profits and maybe even a sequel... Still think it looks like crap based on trailers though. Then again, I was never a huge fan of the originals either so it doesn't really matter all that much (GASP!!!). Depends on who is saying what, and where.  This was on the first page of Yahoo: Review: New 'Ghostbusters' an unfunny mess "However, although the new Ghostbusters follows the template of the original by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the witless script by Feig and his co-writer on The Heat, Katie Dippold, has no juice. Short on both humor and tension, the spook encounters are rote collisions with vaporous CG specters that escalate into an uninvolving supernatural cataclysm unleashed upon New York’s Times Square. It’s all busy-ness, noise and chaos, with zero thrills and very little sustainable comic buoyancy."  The Hollywood Reporter That's gonna hurt.  On the flip side are reviews like in the OP, where the writer is clearly doing some social warrioring, so maybe that will offset things. Either way, there are going to tons of agenda-driven reviews from both sides, which is always annoying.

Yeah, reviewing entertainment productions should be about the format and entertainment value, first and foremost, a lot of things are used as political spear-heads today, it does get tiresome. Hey, real social commentary, and criticism, with a proper purpose and depth, I'm all for and swallow whole, but poking around at every venue to make cheap points is not my thing.

And like someone mentioned above me; instead of doing gender-swaps, write your own characters and stories, or it becomes "girls can pee standing up too!", which is actually kind of demeaning (to girls) and not really a good way to move forward in society.

And because many will be afraid of bashing this movie

for obvious reasons