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Cobretti2 on 11 July 2016

Still will be shit because the women in my eyes were cast wrong.

It is too sterotipical with the black woman humor BS.

Why is the black chick acting all ghetto shit? is't there one intelligent black woman in new york?

I think mccarthy should have been the street smarts chick and the should have got a black woman that has a brain instead. Mccarthy would have played that roll better cause of her style of humor.



 

 

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Teeqoz on 11 July 2016
Ganoncrotch said:
foodfather said:
Again in fear of being politically incorrect, this was never going to get bad reviews by most sites.

The director is a hack, all his films I have seen have been awful. Mccarthy, also simply awful.

I do think that is going to come into play here a lot, fear of backlash from certain groups is fairly awful, especially when they are the groups who claim to want free speech and freedom for all.

That said a guardian review I'd take with a pinch of salt, going to take more than one 80% review to make this movie able to live up to the original film trilogy, or like others have said, if there is so much desire to create a powerful girl based team movie... I dunno create one? Charlies angels is overdue for another reboot.

 

Edit lol'd at metacritic, all the main characters are female.... Starring : Chris "I'm Thor Bitches" Hemsworth , female cast, even in their own movie they get listed behind the dude, that's gonna sting. Thor is shiny though!

It's listed alphabetically...



bigtakilla on 11 July 2016
Teeqoz said:
Boutros said:
75% on Rotten Tomatoes is wow. I always thought it looked much better than what people were saying but I didn't expect such a great reception by critics.

Whaaaaaat? I might actually see this now.

It's down to 63%, and odds are will fall further as more critics release their score. 



Ganoncrotch on 11 July 2016
Teeqoz said:
Ganoncrotch said:

I do think that is going to come into play here a lot, fear of backlash from certain groups is fairly awful, especially when they are the groups who claim to want free speech and freedom for all.

That said a guardian review I'd take with a pinch of salt, going to take more than one 80% review to make this movie able to live up to the original film trilogy, or like others have said, if there is so much desire to create a powerful girl based team movie... I dunno create one? Charlies angels is overdue for another reboot.

 

Edit lol'd at metacritic, all the main characters are female.... Starring : Chris "I'm Thor Bitches" Hemsworth , female cast, even in their own movie they get listed behind the dude, that's gonna sting. Thor is shiny though!

It's listed alphabetically...

Lol, you're completely right, I would never have noticed that, I would never expect names to be listed alphabetically by their first name and not the surname. Guess it's time for a name change to Amelissa McCarthy!



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foodfather on 11 July 2016

Well, we all know critics are paid for and IMDB is fill of fanboys, but I'm choosing to believe the IMDB score here.

It's sitting right where it belongs at 3.8 right about now.



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The_Yoda on 11 July 2016
Cobretti2 said:
Still will be shit because the women in my eyes were cast wrong.

It is too sterotipical with the black woman humor BS.

Why is the black chick acting all ghetto shit? is't there one intelligent black woman in new york?

I think mccarthy should have been the street smarts chick and the should have got a black woman that has a brain instead. Mccarthy would have played that roll better cause of her style of humor.

I haven't seen much Saturday Night Live lately, that said I don't ever remember Jones playing anything but over the top and loud.  Not saying she couldn't pull off smart, just haven't seen much of her range ... if any.



Boutros on 11 July 2016
bigtakilla said:
Teeqoz said:

Whaaaaaat? I might actually see this now.

It's down to 63%, and odds are will fall further as more critics release their score. 

What? It never went down to 63%. It's up to 78% now.



JRPGfan on 11 July 2016

Dont trust reviewers.

Independance day kinda sucked and that got decent reviews.
Those trailers for ghostbusters... just no.
I ll watch it years from now when its on tv.



JRPGfan on 11 July 2016
foodfather said:
Well, we all know critics are paid for and IMDB is fill of fanboys, but I'm choosing to believe the IMDB score here.

It's sitting right where it belongs at 3.8 right about now.

^ this.

I trust IMDB much more than reviewers tbh.



Cobretti2 on 11 July 2016
The_Yoda said:
Cobretti2 said:
Still will be shit because the women in my eyes were cast wrong.

It is too sterotipical with the black woman humor BS.

Why is the black chick acting all ghetto shit? is't there one intelligent black woman in new york?

I think mccarthy should have been the street smarts chick and the should have got a black woman that has a brain instead. Mccarthy would have played that roll better cause of her style of humor.

I haven't seen much Saturday Night Live lately, that said I don't ever remember Jones playing anything but over the top and loud.  Not saying she couldn't pull off smart, just haven't seen much of her range ... if any.

I think they should have picked a different black woman is what I was getting at. Why do they always have to be depictedin movies as ghetto loud mouths?

McCarthy coudl have pulled of the street smartswise crack woman well too i think.