I wouldn't be surprised if that dialogue is in the movie.
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Ghostbusters (2016) Trailer #1 (Feig, Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon, Jones)
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I wouldn't be surprised if that dialogue is in the movie.
plagiarize
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Feig went on record in the build up to Spy about trying to find McCarthy parts beyond the sort she has been type cast as. I saw it a lot at the time (although the trailers sure tried their hardest to make it look like she was playing her normal type of roll). So I'd be surprised if he did want McCarthy for that part. I think he's trying to help her show her range now, and that's a big part of why she still likes working with him.
My take on it, anyways.
Bobby Roberts
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This is part of the disconnect when talking about the impact the original Ghostbusters had back in 1984: A lot of the people discussing that impact are talking about it using a collection of assumptions as to what it was like because they were born after 1984. It's sorta like when anyone born after 1977 tries to talk about the cultural impact of Star Wars. They're just kinda guessing at what it was actually like, and transposing their reactions from when they saw it as a little kid on VHS without any greater cultural context (and being a little kid trying to process shit like that is kinda ridiculous anyway) with whatever they've read on the matter afterwards.
Star Wars fans kinda have a leg up in that the film was so big, and the phenomenon was so long lasting, that there's a lot of material to look at that allows for a more accurate picture of what the film did and didn't do on a larger scale.
With Ghostbusters, it's often a bunch of self-proclaimed '90s kids talking out their ass about what it was like in the mid '80s.
Ghostbusters wasn't particularly scary, although it wasn't trying to round the edges off its sci-fi weirdness, either. It was ridiculously funny, but it also wasn't trying to be particularly welcoming with its comedy.
People tend to think of it as a family-friendly film series, and it wasn't. The second movie tried to be that more than the first did, and it hurt that movie. Ghostbusters wasn't a straight up horror film, and it wasn't a kids film. It was a smartass comedy aimed at adults, blending sci-fi and horror elements to help serve both the story and the jokes.
I think that's a solid take, honestly. Makes sense. The most likely of my suggestions in the previous post was that Drew simply guessed wrong based on her previous roles.
Star Wars fans kinda have a leg up in that the film was so big, and the phenomenon was so long lasting, that there's a lot of material to look at that allows for a more accurate picture of what the film did and didn't do on a larger scale.
With Ghostbusters, it's often a bunch of self-proclaimed '90s kids talking out their ass about what it was like in the mid '80s.
Ghostbusters wasn't particularly scary, although it wasn't trying to round the edges off its sci-fi weirdness, either. It was ridiculously funny, but it also wasn't trying to be particularly welcoming with its comedy.
People tend to think of it as a family-friendly film series, and it wasn't. The second movie tried to be that more than the first did, and it hurt that movie. Ghostbusters wasn't a straight up horror film, and it wasn't a kids film. It was a smartass comedy aimed at adults, blending sci-fi and horror elements to help serve both the story and the jokes.
I think that's a solid take, honestly. Makes sense. The most likely of my suggestions in the previous post was that Drew simply guessed wrong based on her previous roles.
thecouncil
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Something tells me you had negative thoughts going in. LOL.
slightconfuse
Banned
Yea this will be good
bananafactory
Banned
Maybe a combination of that and the fact it's a reboot. It's certainly not based on the quality of the trailer.
Here's an interview with Paul Feig on the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBXxmk6Vw-s
34 up, 32 down
Here's the *teaser* for the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zen753JD5kI
14k up, 20k down
It's the same with every article, video, promotion piece for this movie. A very vocal group has been against it from the start and nothing was ever going to change that.
plagiarize
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Do you understand maths? He's not saying the majority of the downvotes are people doing so because it has four leads. He's saying some of them are.
Sexism doesn't exist. Just like racism. It's all just in your head. In all fairness, there are many more factors, at least in this case.
Pretty much. It's just sad.
I didn't say it had no humor I just said the movie didn't play like a 100% comedy and neither does this trailer. Expecting a joke every 5 seconds to me doesn't mesh with what I remember from the original movie.
Diprosalic
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i struggle to find any movies with those many dislikes.
not even Jurassic World trailer 1 that everyone hated and ruined their childhood hit 13k dislikes.. on 300k likes.
or this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbduDRH2m2M
not even that great sequel of a beloved franchise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62E4FJTwSuc
or that turtle movie everybody loved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Hf8rFPjyg
excelsiorlef
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It's a two hit combo. Misogynists and GB puritanical cultists.
civilstrife
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This is a great post. Add to that a great "dirty New York" vibe and recreating that today would be damn near impossible.
XGRaViSmOrSX
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The humor just doesn't hit the marks for me. Feels very cringey and forced. I wanted to be psyched for this and was until I saw this trailer. I'll wait for reviews now but I think this will be a wait for Netflix bin now unfortunately.
captainnapalm
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If there's one thing they were good at it in the 80s, it was making stuff that appealed to kids and adults. Ghostbusters was a smart comedy aimed at adults, but kids could obviously totally get into it.
These days, they struggle a lot more with doing that. Like this seems clearly aimed at kids. The comedy isn't appealing to me in the slightest.
Bearjewpiter
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To quote a reddit user in the comments for this trailer
What with the immediate barfing ectoplasm joke and the surprisingly stereotyped black lady. (Wouldn't want to casually say girl because pokeystaples and thecouncil will hunt me down)
It does not look as if it will capture the spirit of the old movie and if I have to sit through hours of
What with the immediate barfing ectoplasm joke and the surprisingly stereotyped black lady. (Wouldn't want to casually say girl because pokeystaples and thecouncil will hunt me down)
Pretty sure she's a grown woman?
It does not look as if it will capture the spirit of the old movie and if I have to sit through hours of
with 0 character growth, then I'm not going
plagiarize
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Everything you say here is on point, but I do want to add something to further defend Ghostbusters 2. Most people I know who saw it as kids thought it was the scarier of the two. By trying to make the spooks something more kid friendly, they actually just managed to leverage things that kids are more likely to be afraid of. Like spectral nannies and big blobs of glop.
I know there was absolutely a concerted effort to make it 'more kid friendly' from the studio and I'm not saying it isn't more kid friendly. But kids seem to respond to the scary stuff in 2 even more than they did the scary stuff in 1.
Probably by accident sure... but it's still something I think ultimately worked out in 2's favor.
And again, the adult humor is still there. Probably a little better buried... but that just makes it funnier to me now. As I said, Egon absolutely kills it in 2.
Two is also slightly more pessimistic. They went out of business. The people of New York are talked about much more negatively (even though they come together at the end).
Where I think we can all agree Ghostbusters has a big head up on GB2 (other than in the originality stakes) is in the music stakes. 2 does well... but nothing was going to touch the original. The score, the theme, Cleaning Up the Town... no touching it.
excelsiorlef
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It's because you realize there's like maybe 4 or 5 jokes max in the trailer.
Most of the trailer is say hello characters, here's the cool world with a mix of a few jokes.
McKinnon's hat and wig joke gets better everytime.
And so does the slap at the end. Mostly because the possession is so creepy looking.
It would be way easier to spot those dislikes if the trailer was good unfortunately.
la flama blanca
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Lol at the man children with their dislike crusade on the video
Star Trek Beyond got shat on for being both a bad trailer/concept, but this Ghostbusters will take the cake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRVD32rnzOw
I'm sure there's a Venn diagram where those entangles with gg's.
EXACTLY. Also the 20th or 31st.
Bobby Roberts
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What they were great at in the 80s was making shit for adults and then trusting that adults wouldn't give a fuck and would just let their kids watch whatever at home.
Then it went one step further near the end of the decade and they started directly adapting adult properties into Saturday Morning Cartoons. Because there was too much money to be made in directly advertising to children (which wasn't a thing that was allowed on that scale until the 80s, thanks Reagan).
That the children of that era grew up, got handed the keys to Hollywood, and haven't stopped making hard PG-13 & R-rated versions of the stuff they watched on SLP VHS tape in those days isn't at all surprising in that context.
Are you new to the internet?
Diprosalic
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as i pointed out above, generally disliked trailers of old classics like Jurassic World, Terminator, ID42, Turtles.. didn't even hit a fraction of the dislikes at millions of views.
even that has twice as many likes.
good point but GB will crush those dislike numbers seeing this has 24k dislikes on 14 million views.
bryanee
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This. GB2 really freaked me out as a kid like the first never came close to doing. The subway stuff and that fucking scene developing the photos with Vigo's fucked up face on them really creeped me out as kid.
That photo scene still gets me all goosebumpy today.
la flama blanca
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When you take into account that people generally don't click on either, yes. The internet is full of petty nerds.
excelsiorlef
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Trailer was fine. Not great but fine.
I don't think anybody is saying that racism/sexism doesn't exist, but it does get annoying that you can't just not like something anymore without somebody on the internet saying you have some ulterior motive unless it's obviously completely utter trash or primarily features white men.
I once was called racist for not liking Crossover! (.... Not really).
A bit OT, as I think the trailer looks "ok" but not great.
clay_ghost
Member
Like the visuals. Not sure about the story.
It was by the people behind it hence the all-female main cast.
Diprosalic
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you can dislike it just fine and that's cool. it might even be a bad movie but the disproportionate amount of hate this gets is clearly not just because of the trailers quality.
Toxic Crusaders springs to mind. Boy was I surprised when I finally found out what the source material was like.
thecouncil
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Ha. Wtf? You shouldn't ever want to refer to a anyone over the age of about 20 as "girl", casually or not. Next time you talk about the original Ghostbusters and call Bill Murray a "boy", let me know.
Ol No Bones
Banned
Looks terrible. I haven't really liked comedies in recent years so this probably isn't for me though.
Vyse The Legend
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So, I was super hyped for this when it was first announced, especially after the first cast shot came out, but this trailer... I didn't smile/smirk/laugh at all. Very worrisome.
excelsiorlef
Member
Yeah I've watched it 3 times. I just am grooving to the visuals so much and they showed only two small McKinnon bits and you can already tell she's going to be amazing.
What was cool is that it laid out that these are not the Original 4 gender swapped.
It's interesting there's two straight women and two stylized comedians in the team.
Wiig and Mccarthy are playing it serious and McKinnon and Jones are going to own.
I think I might go media dark on this movie now. Like I did with Star Wars TFA
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