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Ghostbusters (2016) Trailer #1 (Feig, Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon, Jones)
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excelsiorlef
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Yeah the stereotype is disapointing but I give Jones credit for committing to the character because she's my second fav character in the trailer. I get the feeling she won't be fully Winstoned though.
She might come in later in the film but when she does she'll do stuff.
To me to get Winstoned is a 2 step process.
1)Come in late in the film
2)Have next to nothing to do when you do arrive.
To me the second step is the biggest problem.
It looks like Jones will be pretty active once she comes in. Also looks like she has a solo moment introduction avec ghosts instead of a job interview lol and will be more than "The Driver"
Gozer the Gozerian
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I just hope it's a fun movie, I really don't care if it is anything like the originals and in fact I'd prefer it to be its own thing. I can always go back to the old ones.
kame-sennin
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I'm also annoyed that, once again, the only ghostbuster who is not a scientist is the black team member. That bummed me out as a kid and it's still very lame here.
Aside from that, I thought it was really funny.
Well, humor is a weird animal. It's one thing to just rehash jokes of the original movie (which they seem to be avoiding, which is good) but it's another thing altogether to take a completely different humorous tone. The original GB was slightly dark, a little bawdy, had a lot of snark, and a little rough around the edges. It wasn't above having a joke about a ghost giving blowjobs or the stupidity of a giant marshmallow man or a joke about a giant twinkie. It let the actors breathe a little with the humor, it didn't need a laugh every five seconds, but the ones it got were better off for it. It was very 80s in that way. The cast made it. Murray, obviously had the snark down pat, while Egon and Ray had that perfect absent-minded scientist thing going on, and Winston was the straight everyman. It worked.
The reboot, to me, looks like it's just using that same 2000s half-assed tropey humor of being unexpected for the sake of laughs. Of course, it's just a trailer, so it could be highlighting parts marketing deems funny while leaving out the good stuff. To be honest with you, if I saw a trailer for the original Ghostbusters I doubt I would laugh once, because of the simple fact that the jokes aren't really that stand-alone: they're best in the moment. So, maybe the reboot just has these half-assed jokes for the sake of trailer material and the rest of it is effervescent character interplay like the first one was. We'll see.
thecouncil
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heh.
User 73706
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I was into the humor in Bridesmaids so this looks right up my alley. Not a fan of the one black woman in the ensemble being relegated to the street-smart member of the team, though. The salt in this thread alone is already willing me to go see it.
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You're making dumb jokes like this and you think it's the internet that has the problem with pushing its SJW agenda on things?
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You're making dumb jokes like this and you think it's the internet that has the problem with pushing its SJW agenda on things?
funkystudent
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Looks terrible.
As expected.
As expected.
excelsiorlef
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There was absolutely not sign of a fat joke in this movie and Mccarthy's humour is so much more than fat jokes and yet you just jump to a conclusion and use that to hate lol.
la flama blanca
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Nah it's ok to attribute every single action Of hers in this trailer to being black. Was it bad? Sure. But it's worth taking into consideration all the other factors.
excelsiorlef
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It's a unique visual style. I love it so much.
Happy to be proven wrong...in everything I've seen her in that has been a theme. I don't dislike her at all actually, and I like Kate Mckinnon a lot.
Compared to most comedies nowadays? It absolutely is. It's pretty damn dry and doesn't have a whole lot of people screaming, vomiting, or slapping eachother.
The biggest "character" in Ghostbusters was Louis Tully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHprLW48no
Pixels Like/dislike ratio 87k/12k on 19 million views. You can't deny there's a strange pattern here when it's at 12k/16k on 200k views... The trailer wasn't that bad, hell freaking Gods of Egypt didn't have this kind of ratio.
ComputerBlue
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Reminded me of Pixels for some reason.
User 73706
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"people are too sensitive these days and really she didn't suck in the trailer because she's black, she did because she's a terrible person and totally made the decision to be relegated to the street-smart character who isn't a scientist, which was definitely a choice of her own and not one by production. oh and here's some more black stereotypes while I'm at it"
excelsiorlef
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Watch Spy. Or the Heat.
Even in Bridesmaids she's the most real character in the film.
Is there an occasional one? Sure but it's not her bread and butter, not with Feig at least.
plagiarize
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Comedy trailers are uniformly hard to get right. Spy wasn't done justice at all by its trailers. Regularly, the people cutting together comedy trailers go into business for themselves and take lines from completely separate scenes to make their own jokes... and they often do this to comedies that are really funny in and of themselves.
Your modern comedy trailer is going to attempt to do two things. Get across the general concept, and cram as many jokes as it can into two minutes.
Personally I liked this trailer... but trying to judge the tone of a comedy, and the amount and quality of jokes in it from a trailer, is a fools errand really.
legendaryskitch
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The trailer didn't seem that bad. As a fan of the original movies, I obviously find it inferior and dumber though. I went into the trailer expecting crap and instead just got mediocrity. I guess that's an improvement. I did like the special effects on the ghosts though, that was definitely a hell of a lot better than 30 years ago. They made the proton packs too flashy though...hell everything is.
A lot of dated jokes in there, and I was worried about Jones's presence and it's exactly what I feared it would be - she's one-note and that note is being cast as a stereotype. Maybe there's some better scenes for her in the movie to not be that, but the "loud and sassy" take is borderline Madea territory.
I liked everything else, especially the look and effects.
I liked everything else, especially the look and effects.
Winston wasn't just the token black guy, he was the everyman, the guy we were supposed to identify with, he wasn't an expert on ghosts, he was just some dude who went "holy shit, what the fuck!"
They're trying to capture that, but i agree that having the everyman be black again is really awkward.
MiamiWesker
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So why does the trailer open with 30 years ago the ghostbusters saved New York?
I believe this may be the original Ghostbusters trailer for comparison.
It is actually relatively serious as well apart from a few lines.
It is actually relatively serious as well apart from a few lines.
It also pretty much gives away the ending.
Dreams-Visions
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Looks...eh. Okay. Gonna pass.
It's referring to the fact that 30 years ago there was a movie. They aren't connected.
MiamiWesker
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The mayor absolutely knows they are the only ones who can fight the ghosts. They thought they were making up shit cause they had been out of a job for so long. And all of NY knew who they were when they came in with the Statue of Liberty.
Yeah, he got the short end of the stick. But to be fair even if his time was short, god damn if he didn't make the most of it. Every scene and line of his is gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59RtWbj-67M
TheAquaticApe
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Well...it doesn't look great.
NOLA_Gaffer
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My girlfriend was positive about the trailer when I sent her the link this morning. I'm still rather "Eh" on the whole thing.
She said it should at least be better than the old ones.
She said it should at least be better than the old ones.
excelsiorlef
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To acknowledge the other movies' existence.
It's just an out of the world of the film thing
Diprosalic
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*as dislikes is what i meant.
that proves my point tho. 25k dislikes on 14 million views.
GB will hit that in under 500k views.
Miles Quaritch
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Well I mean it's new Ghostbusters, so I'm excited, but that trailer didn't do much for me.
excelsiorlef
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He was great absolutely. It's why people actually think he's in the movie more than he actually is
Eeeh. Lukewarm. Sets and props look good though. And I'm glad it;s nit serious in tone like that teaser made it out to be.
That's cold.
Bobby Roberts
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Like the only thing I noticed about that trailer is that Winston is barely shown and doesn't even get credit at the end.
Darth Pinche
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I was not sure about this whole thing but that just totally turned me off. Zero interest in this now.
what? I must've missed something, cause it seems the general consensus here is the opposite.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Predictably seeing all the "if you don't like it, you're SEXIST" crap roll out on social media from the hivemind. Tying you your politics and world view anchors to crap Hollywood reboots is never a good idea.
Sony's worried they've got a stinker due to some early screen-tests and so is trying to twist the release narrative and be pretty dishonest about it as they know "reboot" is a dirty word right now. It is however a complete and utter hard reboot.
Sony's worried they've got a stinker due to some early screen-tests and so is trying to twist the release narrative and be pretty dishonest about it as they know "reboot" is a dirty word right now. It is however a complete and utter hard reboot.
Bobby Roberts
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Like the only thing I noticed about that trailer is that Winston is barely shown and doesn't even get credit at the end.
I remember the poster and the VHS boxes not even having him. Just the three white guys, holding proton packs, staring up.
Knock this bullshit off.
AHA-Lambda
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I actually had hopes for this even if the female cast decision is an odd one
But man that looked bad
But man that looked bad
MrCunningham
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It's not all that different from the talent of the '80s that grew up in the '40s to '60s and based all of their work around live action serials, Warner Bros/ Three Stooges slap stick comedies and drive-in B-movie sci-fi's that they loved from their youths.
Indeed. You don't get to have the second highest grossing movie of that year by being understated. Though, there was still some understated humor in Ghostbusters that did go over a lot of peoples heads.
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