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Ghostbusters did it again? Shushing down imdb boards
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RE: Ghostbusters did it again? Shushing down imdb boards
I thought the new Ghostbusteres movie was absolutely horrible.  I didn't mind the all female cast.  And I actually love Melissa McArthy.  But she always plays the same character, put down throughout the movie (in this one it was the wantons which reinforced how pathetic her character was) only to come back and be the hero in the end.

The casting was just bad.  McArthy's character was just dumb.  McKinnon's character was fucking weird, and not in a good "Venkman" way, just in the regular "fucking weird" way.  Jone's character didn't make any sense.  "Ah!  A ghost!  I'm so scared of ghosts!  I think I'll join the Ghostbusters where I'll be around that which I fear greatly on a regular basis."  The transition from "I saw a ghost and it scared me" to "I want to be a Ghostbuster" just didn't make any damned sense.  That's mostly because there was no "transition" to speak of.  Wiig's character was all right, but I just didn't care about that character in the least.  Maybe she came off as a little whiny or bland.  I don't know.  All I know is I didn't care about the character.  And Hemsworth's character was a total disaster.  That was just plain stupid.  A guy so dumb that he gets tired of the lenses of his glasses getting smudged so he takes out the lenses, but continues to wear the frames?  Come on.  What purpose did that serve?  It wasn't funny, it was stupid.

If you enjoyed it, great.  I did not.  People tend to not want you to compare it to the original.  They want you to look at it as its own movie.  But you know what?  The movie wasn't called Ghost Hunters Knockoff Movie, it was called Ghostbusters.  That name gives it a legacy to live up to and it simply did not.  It was filled with cheap laughs barely better than potty humor, dumb jokes which weren't funny, forced plot progression and some just plain really, REALLY bad casting and character choices.  In 30 years time there will still be only one Ghostbusters anyone cares about, and it won't be this one.  The cast of the original played new, unique characters, specific to the roll.  In the new one McArthy brought her standard, "Look how pathetic I am, but I'm still pretty cool" character that she has played in everything else of hers I've seen, Wiig was unremarkable, McKinnon was a damned weirdo, Jones didn't make sense and Hemswroth should be shot for ever taking up acting.  It was like a bunch of 6 year old kids trying to make mommy and daddy laugh by ad-libbing THE movie, but none of them can remember quite how it went.  It certainly wasn't anywhere near the mature humor of the first, settling instead for cheap, unremarkable and, mostly, not funny slapstick.
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RE: Ghostbusters did it again? Shushing down imdb boards - by Asmodee - February 15, 2017 at 4:52 pm

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