Soundwave on 21 July 2016
| johnsobas said: Honestly I liked the new ghostbusters but they brought all of this hate on themselves. The reason i liked it has nothing to do with it being ghostbusters, it shouldn't even have been a ghostbusters movie. They just needed to make a comedy with those 4 women and not involve a franchise that fans have been waiting decades for. On top of that the two fanbases for these type of comedies and fans of the original ghostbusters have almost no overlap at all, the demographics do not match up. The person that thought this was a good idea was not right in the head. |
The cast was pretty good, talented enough anyway.
This script was just not good enough. Some decent stuff in there, but it needed another rewrite with a reworked third act and a more fleshed out villian (the idea of him isn't even that bad). There are some good ideas in the script they're just not fleshed out enough.
It's not like this would suddenly be a great movie if it was Channing Tatum, Seth Rogan, Kevin Hart, and whoever with the same script. It would be the same, maybe worse.
Other problem is with modern audiences, more raunchy humor is what works these days, I guess they could have tried to go more Bridesmaids with this and made it R-rated, but I don't think Sony would allow that, they wanted it to work for kids.
