Actually yeah that was good. But I think I would have worked a little better without the "Is the hat too much?" line, to be honest.
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Ghostbusters (2016) Trailer #1 (Feig, Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon, Jones)
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Actually yeah that was good. But I think I would have worked a little better without the "Is the hat too much?" line, to be honest.
You mean the Uncle Sam ghost? Or at least it looked like Uncle Same, idk anymore after re-watching
excelsiorlef
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Each to their own I love the whole thing.
Scientist Supreme!
Banned
Idk what they're going to do with Leslie's character but it's definitely not a good look right now.
Yea not exactly the best timing after the Oscars
So it is the "she owns her sexuality" and "she breaths trough her skin" of black characters ?
They went so far to justify literaly knowing the streets =P
excelsiorlef
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Lol now we're splitting hairs.
There were like 3 or 4 jokes total in the trailer. Hardly like they threw everything out therem
The America we know is dead. This film is meta as fuck.
That's a weak defense. What they're saying is, the movie never needed to be a ghost busters franchise movie. By pure virtue of being one it's inviting higher expectations that it would have normally be required and is setting itself up to be scrutinized to the most minute detail.
Yeah Painting is 2. The Marshmallow man is 1
First thing I thought regarding the effects when I saw them. They're far too clean, nowhere near as effective. Even the more dated looking effects like the Terror Dogs look far creepier.
I have nothing against the cast, but the writing and general feel of the film are far below the quality of the first (and even the second) film. Modern comedy follows the same formula, that scene where Jones is performing the slapping exorcism screaming, licking the gun, it has a dumbed-down mass appeal design to it that wasn't present in the first films.
Don't take this as me not rolling with the times, there are plenty of modern commercial films I love, but the first films were funny, genuinely creepy in places, well written for commercial movies, great effects for the time, etc... I don't see any of those qualities so far in the new film.
I'll give it a shot, but I'm not confident.
longdi
Banned
Looks terrible...terribly cut trailer or just terrible either one
Jokes fell flat with me. The one with the yellow glass, she never talks, and have that deranged smile through the trailer, wtf?
I dont mind the gender swap, but these girls dont hold much on-screen presence in the trailer. I even think they are just playing out stereotypical female roles.
The story disclosure bit sounds terrible, someone amplifying ghosts? Why do they gather at the fire-station? What makes them think they can save the world?
Jokes fell flat with me. The one with the yellow glass, she never talks, and have that deranged smile through the trailer, wtf?
I dont mind the gender swap, but these girls dont hold much on-screen presence in the trailer. I even think they are just playing out stereotypical female roles.
The story disclosure bit sounds terrible, someone amplifying ghosts? Why do they gather at the fire-station? What makes them think they can save the world?
AcademicSaucer
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Best thing I can say after watching the trailer is that it looks like its going to be better than Pixels.
Yeah I meant to write more but I'm on mobile atm...
Basically saying it's not really funny and just a subtle gag meant to carry on a comedy, can't really see how somebody can point it out and think it's hilarious or shows the movie looks good.
"Hahaha, it's a giraffe" in a nutshell
Jack The Nipper
Banned
it's a bit bad to ruin ghostbusters from the way this looks but its a hollywood trend for a while now to ruin classics.
Wonder what movie will be next
Wonder what movie will be next
Fancy Clown
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Yeah it was. Her character/performance in general appears to be the one bright spot in this.
I seriously hope you said this line about light sabers or star trek phasers.
excelsiorlef
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I loved it. It showed character. Again this was not a joke heavy trailer
dave is ok
aztek is ok
stufte
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The Last Starfighter starring Zac Efron.
There were plenty of jokes/gags. It's just that none of them were funny.
I have no fond love for the Ghostbusters... but I'll see this. The ghost affects look really cool... the comedy will fall flat for me though, didn't enjoy any of the funny bits in that trailer.
Visually it looks gorgeous while remaining faithful to the originals so hopefully this is a poorly cut trailer.
Visually it looks gorgeous while remaining faithful to the originals so hopefully this is a poorly cut trailer.
excelsiorlef
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Stereotypes aside I loved the energy Jones brought as well
TheLegendOfMart
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Look how far computers have come in 30 years. From room filling to the palm of your hand which are thousands of times more powerful.
They still use their proton packs so it looks like the smaller weapons may just be ones that weaken the ghosts before they use the proton packs to 'lasso' them to trap them.
The whole trick to trapping ghosts, which was expanded upon a lot in the game which was supposed to be GB3 story, is that you have to weaken them before you can trap them. In the first film they tire out slimer before finally being able to grab him.
crazyrabbits
Banned
Winston wasn't a scientist.
Besides that, I just kind of shrugged. Something about that seemed really off.
Besides that, I just kind of shrugged. Something about that seemed really off.
sans_pants
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Secret Fawful
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Every single laugh the trailer gave me came from Kate McKinnon, but Spy was hilarious at least on a first watch, so I'm not losing hope just yet.
Well that's actually a big problem I see nowadays with any lackluster trailer discussion. People making the defense of "well they can't put anything good in the trailer or it would spoil the movie". Well if there's nothing good at all in the trailer why bother making it? If you want us to react well to a trailer we need SOMETHING that says "Hey this is the general quality of the movie, expect more of this!". If the trailer is bad then it reflects poorly on the movie and will expect the same thing they just saw only for nearly 2 hours.
I guarantee you an hour and 150 minute comedy movie will not be completely showcase all its jokes in a 2 minute trailer.
darkwing-buck
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Looks ok, I like Wiig and Mccarthy and those special effects look pretty damn good.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Doesn't look too good. But I think the original Ghostbusters just had something that can't be recaptured. Even if the originals had returned for a new movie, I don't think it would have worked.
BronsonLee
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I'm still laughing at the mere concept of Dr. Pat being a fucking Ghostbuster
Don't even joke about that. You might speak that garbage into existence.
Sain Drevia
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This looks... terrible. I'm a hard pass on this one. Maybe I'll check it out if it comes to streaming services one day.
If they remade Charlie's Angel to be 4 dudes. Yeah that would be retarded, but they could do it, but I would care more about if it was fun or not.
Doctor_Thomas
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Looks horrendous.
The original was a fairly witty action comedy, this looks.... like a slapstick comedy that is heavy on the stereotypes.
Trailers are not wholly representative, but I got nothing from it.
The original was a fairly witty action comedy, this looks.... like a slapstick comedy that is heavy on the stereotypes.
Trailers are not wholly representative, but I got nothing from it.
brandonh83
Banned
The original is one of my favorite movies, but I'm not one of those who absolutely needed this to be a sequel or have the old cast or whatever. I was fine having a reboot, a fresh thing, and certainly nothing against it being an all female cast. So IMO, for me anyway they didn't need to "recapture" the original. I was, though, hopeful for a good movie, and here's a trailer with a bunch of Wayans-esque humor that would fit in something like A Haunted House or one of those slapstick horror parodies.
It's not because it's not "the original" or whatever, it just looks bad in general. I'm fine with new takes on things, I just ask that they be good.
Found an unlisted video on Sony's YouTube page where Feig is talking about the in movie technology
https://youtu.be/VayXii8HtyE
https://youtu.be/VayXii8HtyE
GabeTheGrouch76
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Not really? What exactly is so different from a remake and a reboot? Both involve revisiting a previous concept / work and are usually separate adaptations from earlier works.
If anything, it's absolutely possible to have both. Film that acts as a retelling of an earlier work, but also acts as a partial/clean continuity sweep of the earlier works that came before it. An example of this is The Mummy film from 1999. Remake of the 1930 original, also establishes a new continuity with new characters.
Again, I have to stress that I'm not saying the new GB is factually going to be this.
No matter what you think about this reboot, the original is still intact.
Nothing further from me.
Candeldandel
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Yeah, but I think it did a fine job, even though it wasn't joke heavy. It showed us the setting, introduced most of the characters and let us know a little bit what the plot is about. And this is only the first trailer, so we're definitely gonna see a bit more later on. /shrug It's not the best trailer but it's far from the trash people love talking about it.
To be fair, the personalities in the first weren't that original.
Mr. Aloof and Sarcastic
Deadpan Brainiac
Snake Oil Salesman
Black Guy
Did it matter? No.
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