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And when i was a kid i liked American Ninja movies with Michael Dudikoff. Shitty trash at its best.



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Brutalyst said:

I like that film too 😁 @Azuren

To each their own.



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I tought it was alright, certainly not worthy of the vitriol some people threw at it.
That said Wiig and McCharty's humour got lost in translation by the Italian dub, and while I enjoy it conceptually the third act feels way too disjointed from what preceded it.
I wouldn't mind a sequel, 6,5/10



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The new Ghostbusters used soap stick and caricatures for humour. The old ones used the natural ability of the actors and wit for homour.

The original characters were far better and genuine than the new ones. Everything about the new Ghostbusters felt forced and over the top.

As a movie on its own it was very average. As a Ghostbusters film it was really bad. It's like turning mainline Halo into a cutesy colourful tps. It might be good but it won't be Halo.



I honestly think that there are no comedians in cinema today like the greats of the '80s and '90s. That isn't a slight on the actors/actresses in this movie (though I despise McCarthy), I think it's just the landscape we are in right now doesn't have many of those dominant comedic personalities. As such, I don't think a movie like Ghostbusters can exist without losing out on the spirit of the original.



Brutalyst said:

I thought the 2016 Ghostbusters was good, in fact I thought it was better than the originals.

 

I'm probably gonna get a lot of hate for that, but hey, in the end it comes down to opinion. I was never a huge fan of the originals, I'm not saying theyre bad, they were good films in there own right, just not as sacred as most seem to see them (to me anyway).

 

As a comedy film, which they all are, the 2016 version got more laughs out of me than the original 2 combined. 

 

It'd a shame so many hated on the new one before giving it a chance because of [insert reason here] so there'll never be a sequel :(

You're welcome to like it more, but I certainly won't agree with you haha

The original was really lightning in a bottle akin to Back to the Future; it's difficult to replicate, even by the same people who made it (I enjoyed Ghostbusters 2 but it's certainly inferior, for instance).

I had some hope for the reboot simply because I thought the casting was brilliant, grabbing the funniest women I could think of from SNL and such... but they just went far too lowbrow with the humor. The slightly serious, grounded tone that contrasted so wonderfully with the dry and clever humor of the original was tossed out in favor of a more cartoonish approach, and I didn't care for that. If you're going to have the gumption to actually take the exact title of a beloved classic then I expect the film to try to at least mimick the style and humor of it, and while I thought they did that to some degree with the visuals (they really look like high definition versions of those goofy 80's ghosts), the rest of the movie felt nothing like the original.



One of the worst movies I've ever seen. And I say that as a big McCarthy, Wig, and McKinnon fan. Just a terribly unfunny script with poor characters and cringe worthy cameos. Somehow there is a GB film worse than GB2.



It's not surprising that most of the people who enjoyed the 2016 Ghostbusters she-boot weren't big fans of the original, which is why the most passionate criticisms of the film were from long time fans who grew up with the original.

Other than a few online clips I have not seen the film in its entirety (the most I've seen of it is the recent "Everything Wrong With.." upload on Youtube).

But from what I've seen and based on the majority of reviews that didn't have an agenda , the movie is your typical Adam Sandler-type lowbrow summer comedy, only with women in the lead roles and the Ghostbusters IP slapped on to sell extra tickets to certain segments of the population. Take away the women and the GB license, and you basically have Pixels 2, which certainly wasn't the worst movie ever but was critically panned for its bland script and characters and blatant product placement (another hallmark of Sony's films).



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