thismeintiel said:
Nice way to try to simplify it, but you're way off point. To some Ghostbusters is damn near a masterpiece. The second one was more a safe retread of the 1st (probably why some were disapointed by it on release), but still enjoyable. The cartoon series was fun, at least in the beginning, before it switched hands. It hasn't remained in the general public's mind for over 30 years just because it had one good film. It was a cultural phenomenon. Of course, some are trying to belittle the series now just in an attempt to uplift this new garbage film. I also wouldn't doubt some of the backlash is pint up backlash against remakes, in general, that has just reached a boiling point. And those movies you have listed haven't exactly lit up the box office, have they? Of course, none of those had trailers that looked completely god awful. Or had a director and supporters act like any detractors were sexist trolls who just hate it because of...women...without having any real good counter argument. Which brings me to... The most important point. That the trailers for the film look like complete garbage. It looks more like a sequel to the live action Scooby Doo movies than a Ghostbusters reboot. The jokes are ones that were maybe kinda funny in a 90's kid movie, but have gotten stale after decades of use. They even use the hunky idiot trope. It also doesn't help that trailers have become an art form since they first started being made, or even how they were in the 80's. Now, studios pay big money for editors to put in the best parts of their film and do their darndest to make the movie look the most appealing. Even movies that are complete shit have great looking trailers. For a movie to have a shitty trailer nowadays is very telling. |
I watched the first movie pretty much every day after coming home from school when I was a kid ... but seriously the second one was a dud, there's a fair chance this new movie is about as good as that.
Kate MacKinnon and Kristen Wiig are legitimately talented, far moreso than a lot of the male actors that were rumored for a new Ghostbusters (Adam Sandler? Channing Tatum? Seth Rogan? Kevin James?), if the movie isn't good it's a direct fault of the screenwriter that didn't give the talent in the film anything to work with.
Hate to break this to you as well but the ghosts in the original Ghostbusters kinda look stupid too, that was never really a strong point of the originals. I mean this looks like it's out of Scooby Doo too (and I also enjoyed Scooby Doo when I was a kid):
Personally I think Harold Ramis was the true heart of Ghostbusters and the chances of another Ghostbusters film with the same feel/style died with him. And you can blame Bill Murray if you want to be mad at anyone about that. Though given how much worse GB2 was from GB1, GB3 likely would've been an even further drop-off with an aging cast.