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NOLA_Gaffer said:
So tomorrow is the last day for IMAX 3D showings and I'm gonna be debating in my head for the next 16 hours whether or not I should try to catch the 7PM showing. My sister and brother-in-law haven't seen it yet and I'd love for them to see it in 3D (preferably IMAX) but he's working tomorrow night and I'd hate to just take one of them so...BLAH.

Here's hoping the standard 3D showing is just as impressive.
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WELP

I was gonna wait until I could see it in 3D with a group but if tomorrow's the last day that certainly changes everything. Guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow at 11am!

excelsiorlef said:
She;s just some LA comedian, she also wondered if the fire was a Banksy piece
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I'm just really tired of it is all. It's absolutely everywhere. Why am I seeing bullshit about Ghostbusters sexism when I'm looking for information about a local fire? Fuckin seriously?
 
This film turned out to be pretty good! I got a lot of laughs out of it.

Only things I wasn't keen on were the weak villain and the ending felt a bit rushed.
 
Re: IMAX, now that regular 3D movies have reclining seats, I'm not sure I want to pony up for IMAX anymore. Those reclining seats are pretty bad ass.

Also, IMAX is so damn loud. I hate when. Movie theaters set the volume up to 11.
 
WordAssassin said:
WELP

I was gonna wait until I could see it in 3D with a group but if tomorrow's the last day that certainly changes everything. Guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow at 11am!?
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To clarify, it's only for IMAX showings. The last IMAX here is 4pm on Thursday because Star Trek Beyond is taking it's place at 7pm. "Standard" 3D showings should continue on for another week at least, though as film wanes in popularity you'll likely see 3D showings dropped completely.

KingV said:
Re: IMAX, now that regular 3D movies have reclining seats, I'm not sure I want to pony up for IMAX anymore. Those reclining seats are pretty bad ass.

Also, IMAX is so damn loud. I hate when. Movie theaters set the volume up to 11.
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For what it's worth, the trailers were loud, but the movie itself was fine in my theater.
 
KingV said:
Re: IMAX, now that regular 3D movies have reclining seats, I'm not sure I want to pony up for IMAX anymore. Those reclining seats are pretty bad ass.

Also, IMAX is so damn loud. I hate when. Movie theaters set the volume up to 11.
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My IMAX has reclining seats but I have moved on to Cineplex VIP, which is a 19+ option for people willing to spend more money. Having a table with beer while I watch a flick is the best. It's the closest Canada is gonna get to having an Alamo Drafthouse for some time.
 
bananafactory said:
I've seen it in IMAX 3D and standard 3D - IMAX is miles better


PLEASE see it in that if you are still planning on watching the film in theatres
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For the record I saw it in IMAX 3D on opening night...I just wanted to see it at least one more time during its theatrical run.

Even moreso considering I'll never be able to replicate the 3D experience at home what with 3DTV being dead and whatnot.
 
Surprisingly I really enjoyed the movie, I expected it to be horrendous.
The fart joke had me really worried right from the start but it got better.
Now the movie wasn't great but it was decent and reawoken my love for GB which is good enough start.
I legitimately liked Holtzmann on the level of the original characters above Winston

Now I was banned 2 weeks for saying that it being a reboot instead of some form of a sequel was incredibly stupid, especially given their reasoning
"We want the realization of ghosts to be new to this world" Even more after seeing the movie and they even kinda set up an out with the line about people forgetting before.
Heck Sony wants that MiB crossover so bad have the Men In Black covering and making people forget Gozer, the walking Statue of Liberty, original Ghostbusters, etc.


Lastly the cameos,
I heard a lot of people down on these but really Murray's is the only I wasn't a fan of,
Aykroyd's which sounded goofy and forced ended up becoming one of my favorite parts of the movie with that simple addition of
"eh its just a couple of class 5 floating vapors"
before the phrase absolutely redeemed that joke.

Im definitely interested in a sequel.

Though some of the stuff in the climax gave me an idea for GB2 and spinoffs,
Basically the girls wake up soon after 1 only to see a live action version of
640

due to the portal at the end of 1, the next villain would be a bit bigger of a threat and would have power through the combinations of the dimensions
Big bad defeated, Real Ghostbusters go back to being animated for a new cartoon or animated movie. And the New Ghostbusters business become a major franchise by 3.

Honestly I do think Ghostbusters and MiB would make a better crossover than 21 Jump street though.
 
Going to see it tonight with the gf and friends, was hoping to see it at weekend but seeing as Imax is being pulled for Star Trek, we are tonight to catch the last night of Imax.
 
Disliked it. The trailer pretty much spelled out how horrible it is. Avoid it if possible if you hated the trailer.
 
Either way, I think time travel can be ruled out. That's too out there, even in a world where a single shit can destroy not only a toilet, but the entire fucking building.

Weed man will obviously be key to all of this. He will save the day. And the remnants of despair/Byakuya may well be involved.

Anyhow, gozu is a fucking bro and sakakura is a fucking cunt.
 
Rich! said:
Either way, I think time travel can be ruled out. That's too out there, even in a world where a single shit can destroy not only a toilet, but the entire fucking building.

Weed man will obviously be key to all of this. He will save the day. And the remnants of despair/Byakuya may well be involved.

Anyhow, gozu is a fucking bro and sakakura is a fucking cunt.
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I'm going to assume you didn't mean to get Danganronpa stuff in here.
 
Just saw the film there, it was fine, not worth all the fuss it received.

That last line about it not being terrible felt very on the nose, like they wrote the tagline of the review for you.
 
Rich! said:
Either way, I think time travel can be ruled out. That's too out there, even in a world where a single shit can destroy not only a toilet, but the entire fucking building.

Weed man will obviously be key to all of this. He will save the day. And the remnants of despair/Byakuya may well be involved.

Anyhow, gozu is a fucking bro and sakakura is a fucking cunt.
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Did uh...did we see the same movie?
 
Rich! said:
Either way, I think time travel can be ruled out. That's too out there, even in a world where a single shit can destroy not only a toilet, but the entire fucking building.

Weed man will obviously be key to all of this. He will save the day. And the remnants of despair/Byakuya may well be involved.

Anyhow, gozu is a fucking bro and sakakura is a fucking cunt.
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Danganronpa thread is the other way m8


Will watch this on Saturday, hope it is good.
 
Cynar said:
Disliked it. The trailer pretty much spelled out how horrible it is. Avoid it if possible if you hated the trailer.
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Trailers made me expect something horrendous, it was enjoyable at least.

But hey I also enjoy movies like Mummy 1-3 and Van Helsing for what they are as well.
 
cross post from the spoiler thread. Went to see it last night.
My two daughters loved it start to finish. Place it equal to the original which they have seen plenty , especially my youngest.
My wife liked it better then the thought she would .
I enjoyed it but had some trouble with some of the flow and the jokes. I just cannot put my finger on exactly what... is it the writing , delivery, some scenes to drawn out?

One thing is that every character you see is some insane cartoony character as if it was scooby doo. like the mayor and his assistance and the FBI guys, the rock venue guy, etc etc.. I would have preferred some people to be not so over the top caricatures.

that said.. I LOVED just about any scene with Holtzman. What a weird , dead pan insane performance. Edit: And I enjoyed Patty's character as well and based on the trailers did not think I would but she was awesome.
 
Just saw it, and I can strongly and decisively say it sure was
ok
.

The film's structure was very generic, fairly typical 2016 modern blockbuster plot. The cast was ok, I quite liked Wiig and McKinnon while McCarthy was hit-or-miss. Leslie Jones was almost certainly the weakest part of the movie in my opinion.

Joke-wise there were a few things that were genuinely funny, one or two kinda cringy attempts at humour, and the rest varied between kinda amusing or falling flat. I think the writing could have definitely been a lot better but again, it was ok.

It's a pretty typical American comedy that might be slightly above average at best, and it really didn't deserve the sheer amount of attention and polarization it caught.
 
Just back from the cinema having gone with 7 girls, most liked it! I liked it, but not many laughs from me I have to be honest. If I had to rank

Spy >>> Bridesmaids >>>>>> The Heat >>> Ghostbusters
 
So just got back and you know what, it's actually a pretty fun movie, definitely doesn't deserve the hate and the
bitch's ain't busting no ghosts"
joke was a great jab at the haters.

It's not the original and never will be (and surprisingly doesn't try to be) but I put the original out of my head anyway and had a blast with it, everyone in the cinema seemed to enjoy it too, laughing all the way through, some good jokes in it for the most part.

Saw it in 3D Imax and the 3D was really good, with ghosts, slime and proton beams coming out the screen, great stuff. The ghosts looked pretty good too, not as good as the original but they still worked and it had a few creepy ghosts, Slimer was great too.

The new weapons were really cool too, hope to see a bit more of them in the extended cut or sequel. The cast all worked together great and the cameos were decent enough but didn't distract from this being a new take on Ghostbusters.

I get that some people didn't want this and thats fine to not like it but the bad trailers didn't help and some people have way overreacted, it definitely doesn't deserve the hate it got from some people.

It's not perfect, the villain guy needed more of a setup and fell a bit flat but overall I'd give a it a solid 7/10, it was good fun, nothing more, nothing less.
 
WordAssassin said:
It would have been a funny gag if
later in the movie they showed like TVs in a store window or something and they were doing another interview with him and he was in like full-body bandages, but then that would have required some actual effort on Murray's part so I'm not surprised something like that isn't in the movie.
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and still saying ghosts don't exist hahhahahaha
 
NOLA_Gaffer said:
Enjoyed this one:

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/07/19/the-ghostbros-ruined-my-childhood
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This is a great piece indeed. I'm really sad it's come to this. Ghostbusters was a huge part of my life growing up and seeing strong, kick ass women in the new movie today makes me so happy. I love the new main four+Kevin as much as I love the original crew...this series deserves to be enjoyed by everybody and not just some small minded misogynistic tools who don't want to share with others.

To put it bluntly, screw them.
 
Just saw it. I have no real heavy love for the series, but I thought it was basically fine. Not great, but definitely not deserving of the level of vitriol it gets. The cameos were fun, especially
the Ramis bust was very cute.
The villain was pretty underwhelming
in all forms.
The ghost designs were pretty good, if a little cartoony. As for the mains, all four did really well, with props especially to McKinnon. And it was great that Leslie had a much bigger part than Ernie Hudson in the originals. That dude was criminally underused.

I did miss the smart-assed, charming, sort-of-a-dick aspect that Murray brought to the original, but having the nerd BFFs angle with Wiig and McCarthy worked well in the end. Biggest complaint about the movie really would be that they lingered in the technobabble talk a little too long whenever it came up, really killed the momentum every time. Gotta get in and out quick with that junk.



All in all, pretty good movie, a million times better than the last thing I saw (that garbage fire Indepence Day: Resurgence) 3.5/5
 
In general I don't like the Funko Pop figures but with the "standard" action figures for the film looking terrible I'm rather tempted to pick up the four girls and maybe Kevin.

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...and maybe the Ecto-1.

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I get the sense that people are going easy on this as a reaction to the all-girl cast hate, and that in all other circumstances it would be seen as a big disappointment.
 
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Every movie is going to copy this right? Such an effective little trick.
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I see "IMAX" there at the bottom, does this only happen in the IMAX showings or in the "standard" 3D showings as well?

That being said the one I really loved was the lightning effects during the subway ghost sequence.
 
Yeah the 3D was amazing, I can honestly say I've never seen that technique in a movie before but boy oh boy was it effective. This was my third time watching it but with 3D, the "ghost barf" scene actually made me jump! And seeing the excess proton discharge falling out the bottom of the screen down onto the floor of the theater was SO cool.

By the way can I just say that I LOVE the look of the proton streams and I think the discharge from the wands is just about the coolest fucking thing? It looks like lava is sputtering out of the nozzle, so bad ass.
 
Just saw the movie, and I absolutely loved it! I actually really enjoyed the villain, especially when he
transformed into the Ghostbusters logo. I can't get enough of how he wore the red part of the symbol as his bow tie, which was a really clever touch.
The rest of the ghosts looked great and we're well-designed.
 
Pretty polierising movie, apart from all the crap surrounding it. There seems to be equal numbers of hate/meh/like/love.

I might catch it on netflix down the road with the kid. I don't go to the cinema often so I've got Star Trek in mind this month.
 
Went to see it yesterday, overall it was a good but not great film. I really liked the Ghostbusting parts but the comedy bits just fell flat, when they do a sequel they need much better jokes if they still want to lean so heavily on them. I also thought Hemsworth's character was just boring whenever he was on screen, if they bring him back the character needs a lot of work, he just wasn't funny.
I'm wondering if they cut the musical number, which was pretty blatant as they build up to it and then afterwards the characters were acting like it had happened, and some of the jokes after the backlash at the first trailer (which was much more comedy than ghostbusters).
The fight at the end was incredible, so well worth going to see it, and I'm excited to see what they do with a sequel.
 
I hope that 3D technique catches on, because it makes spending that extra $$$ on IMAX worth it. I'm not a big IMAX fan in general, but goddamn the experience was markedly better than regular 3D, even more so than the previous IMAX movies I'd seen.

...Really, really hoping we'll get a sequel full of the fun stuff and free of all emotional baggage, 'kay thanks.
 
Comic Book Girl 19: Why Being Honest about Ghostbusters is Important

Well, just watched through this -- I like the work this lady does.

I didn't agree with her, which I found pretty surprising after realizing where she was coming from. I felt that she carried her examination with a pretty heavy dose of cynicism (and I do consider myself something of a cynic) and, quite uncharacteristically of her, completely dismissive of any reason that this film might be seen favorably. She felt largely the same way about The Force Awakens, but didn't seem to outright dismiss contrary opinions there.

I mean, I did personally enjoy the movie. I don't feel like I loved it, and I do agree with her statement that I'll most likely forget most of it in a couple of weeks, but I had a decent time seeing it last night. I did not leave my screening believing I had lost out on my money or my time. I went in with reservation and it pretty easily satisfied my "please be good" disposition.

Ghostbusters pre-dated me, I was born a few years after the film's original release. My parents were fans, though, so they showed me the movie and I loved it. It, for seemingly all my life, has been reliable source of entertainment. I have a lifelong rapport that has never been broken with the original Ghostbusters film. This new film very, very obviously loses out on that long trust, but I still liked it.

I genuinely felt that the movie was funny. I don't possess a personality type that really participates in laugh-out-loud behavior when I think something is "funny," and that held true when I watched the new Ghostbusters, but I found it to be charmingly quirky and tactfully respectful of its predecessors. Sure, it had derivative elements from the plot structure of the original, but it felt far less derivative than The Force Awakens AND I loved The Force Awakens (I in fact liked Force Awakens more than I liked this movie).

I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around what makes Ghostbusters in particular that one film that has a trailer that becomes the most disliked film trailer of all time on YouTube, and the one film that makes venerated YouTube personalities like Comic Book Girl 19 and James Rolfe get extremely up in arms about the quality and integrity of it even existing, etc... I mean, I totally loved Force Awakens but I totally understood where CBG19 stood on that film, but she never presented that opinion in a way that made it feel dismissive of people that liked it. I'm not being dishonest as CBG19 seems to assert and I certainly don't feel like I'm stupid or have been manipulated by a cheap cash-in business scheme when I say that I liked the movie.
 
I saw it yesterday. I smiled throughout most of it, but it didn't really get me laughing too much. I think the movie was just a little too family friendly for me. I much prefer the crudeness in Spy and Bridesmaids.

I also feel like the lack of an analog to Sigourney Weaver's character made this version's plot a little too simple. There wasn't any real B plot going on, which made the movie feel long.
 
J_ToSaveTheDay said:
Comic Book Girl 19: Why Being Honest about Ghostbusters is Important

Well, just watched through this -- I like the work this lady does.

I didn't agree with her, which I found pretty surprising after realizing where she was coming from. I felt that she carried her examination with a pretty heavy dose of cynicism (and I do consider myself something of a cynic) and, quite uncharacteristically of her, completely dismissive of any reason that this film might be seen favorably. She felt largely the same way about The Force Awakens, but didn't seem to outright dismiss contrary opinions there.

I mean, I did personally enjoy the movie. I don't feel like I loved it, and I do agree with her statement that I'll most likely forget most of it in a couple of weeks, but I had a decent time seeing it last night. I did not leave my screening believing I had lost out on my money or my time. I went in with reservation and it pretty easily satisfied my "please be good" disposition.

Ghostbusters pre-dated me, I was born a few years after the film's original release. My parents were fans, though, so they showed me the movie and I loved it. It, for seemingly all my life, has been reliable source of entertainment. I have a lifelong rapport that has never been broken with the original Ghostbusters film. This new film very, very obviously loses out on that long trust, but I still liked it.

I genuinely felt that the movie was funny. I don't possess a personality type that really participates in laugh-out-loud behavior when I think something is "funny," and that held true when I watched the new Ghostbusters, but I found it to be charmingly quirky and tactfully respectful of its predecessors. Sure, it had derivative elements from the plot structure of the original, but it felt far less derivative than The Force Awakens AND I loved The Force Awakens (I in fact liked Force Awakens more than I liked this movie).

I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around what makes Ghostbusters in particular that one film that has a trailer that becomes the most disliked film trailer of all time on YouTube, and the one film that makes venerated YouTube personalities like Comic Book Girl 19 and James Rolfe get extremely up in arms about the quality and integrity of it even existing, etc... I mean, I totally loved Force Awakens but I totally understood where CBG19 stood on that film, but she never presented that opinion in a way that made it feel dismissive of people that liked it. I'm not being dishonest as CBG19 seems to assert and I certainly don't feel like I'm stupid or have been manipulated by a cheap cash-in business scheme when I say that I liked the movie.
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I agree with Comic Book Girl 100% here, like I do almost all of the time. Btw, her Batman v Superman review was one of her very best IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_rOVPF2s&feature=youtu.be
 
J_ToSaveTheDay said:

I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around what makes Ghostbusters in particular that one film that has a trailer that becomes the most disliked film trailer of all time on YouTube, and the one film that makes venerated YouTube personalities like Comic Book Girl 19 and James Rolfe get extremely up in arms about the quality and integrity of it even existing, etc... I mean, I totally loved Force Awakens but I totally understood where CBG19 stood on that film, but she never presented that opinion in a way that made it feel dismissive of people that liked it. I'm not being dishonest as CBG19 seems to assert and I certainly don't feel like I'm stupid or have been manipulated by a cheap cash-in business scheme when I say that I liked the movie.
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CBG19 and Rolfe don't seem like people that watch or care about the kind of movies that win oscars. For them, Ghostbusters is Citizen Kane or the Godfather. Because they've been waiting 20 years for a new Ghostbusters, when it comes out and it feels to them that they didn't even try or care, they're going to be upset. Rolfe made a old video touring Ghostbusters locations and was making videos about his ideas for a Ghostbusters 3 in 2007. He made a top 5 in the past where Ghostbusters was in his top 5 movies. It's a big nerd deal.

People have also been waiting a long time for a Jurassic Park and a Star Wars. Just going by the trailer because I haven't seen it yet, but it looks like Jurassic World and TFA were more respectful of the original. I'm thinking about jokes like the "The Power of Patty compels you" and "Ow that's gonna leave a mark." That's not the humor of the original. It looks like the humor is way more silly. On RedLetterMedia, they talk about a joke where there's dog named "Mike Hat" which people mistake as "My cat." It that as awful as it sounds? That sounds really bad and worse than anything in the trailer.
 
SillyEskimo said:
I agree with Comic Book Girl 100% here, like I do almost all of the time. Btw, her Batman v Superman review was one of her very best IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_rOVPF2s&feature=youtu.be
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So you agree that everyone who likes it is a scared liar and that it was the most down voted trailer in history not because of the toxic cloud of bullshit and misogyny (that she basically pretends barely existed) that has been hanging over this thing for 2 years but because people are finally tired of reboots (nevermind that no other reboot trailer ever has been this attacked)?

Oh and that Feig and Sony have attacked their fanbase or something like that nonsense?
 
I don't think we need to keep jumping into all this false dichotomy.

Not everyone who disliked the movie is sexist or a bigot. There are certainly those assholes who exist, but let's ease of the gas a little on boxing everyone into two categories here or aligning with various conspiracy theories.
 
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