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Soundwave on 16 July 2016
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S.Peelman said:
Soundwave said:

It doesn't deserve to be anywhere near that low, that again are just haters hating on the film.

It's better than Indepedence Day, Ninja Turtles II, Warcraft, or Tarzan by a good margin and it's worth seeing in theaters because the 3D is really impressive, probably the most impressive use of 3D I've ever seen. 

If you go into the theater with a stick up your ass about it, no you probably will pick it apart to death quickly, but if you just go in to watch a fun movie, that's more or less what you get. 

It's not "Girl Power: The Movie" either, the film really doesn't make much of a fuss of the Ghostbusters being women either, they are just a group of people who happen to be fascinated by the supernatural and that aspect of the film is not a problem at all. 

The script is a little weak, that's the movie's biggest problem, not the cast, all 4 of the leads and Hemsworth as well all do a solid to very good job. 

I don't know if this film acknowledges the first two movies or not, like if it mentions or implies that there were four guys before and stuff happened, because if it doesn't and this just retcons everything, that would break it for me. I hate things like that, the female cast isn't really an issue to me on the surface, if they make a good plot around it.

The big thing though is, judging from the trailers it just, doesn't really seem funny to me.

Maybe I'll see it in some way sometime regardless, if only to satisfy curiosity.

It is set in its own universe, in fact this movie is basically "Ghostbusters Begins" (as in Batman Begins) so it is a reboot, having said that, there are many loving winks and cameos and direct nods to the original Ghostbusters, so much so that I think they over did it a bit actually. You can tell the screenwriter(s) are Ghostbusters fans. 

The film is stronger when it's not referencing back to the original 1984 Ghostbusters however, IMO anyway. Some of the cameos are fun, but ultimately they're all a bit unncessary. The new cast is strong enough to carry the story on their own, but the script kinda lets them down a bit. 

The actual movie is funnier than the trailers, the humor is not as high brow as the original Ghostbusters, but I was chuckling through out. MacKinnon and Wiig are legitimately talented and funny comedians, Chris Hemsworth is probably the surprise ... Thor is funny as fuck in this.