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Dan Aykroyd blasts Paul Feig, says he's not welcome at Sony after Ghostbusters
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Dan just tweeted an additional comment. Seems to suggest that feedback from the original creators was probably ignored often
http://www.whosay.com/status/danaykroyd/1252309
http://www.whosay.com/status/danaykroyd/1252309
part 2 was dreadful but the statue of liberty scene with higher and higher was great
there were no redeeming qualities for the 2016 version
shawnbuddy
Member
Mmh... a Ghostbusters movie set in the historic East End headlined by Mickey Flanagan, Jimmy Carr, Rachel Riley, and Sarah Solemani. Proper. (Just proper...
Bonus card, replace Carr with Nick Helms:
https://g.co/kgs/9v45hg
Americans like our English people, in certain categories. Villains. Sidekicks. Comic relief. Pompous idiots. Pretend Americans. Disposable victims to sacrifice to show the terrorists are serious before any "real" people in American planes get killed like in Diehard 2. Amoral spies.
But we just won't accept them taking the jerbs of our patriotic American Ghostbusters. Sorry.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
One of the worst movies I've seen in years. A complete and total shit show with no redeeming qualities besides some nice SFX. Glad it bombed so we won't have to suffer more awful nu-GB movies with that dreadfully unfunny cast.
Aykroyd was too nice in his choice of words about what a complete pile of rancid horseshit that failure of a movie is.
Fuck GB 2k16 and everyone involved in it.
Aykroyd was too nice in his choice of words about what a complete pile of rancid horseshit that failure of a movie is.
Fuck GB 2k16 and everyone involved in it.
BenjiGAF
Member
You're having a joke on us, right?
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
No. It's true. The movie is so bad it makes unborn babies dread being born into a world where GB 2k16 exists.
IrishNinja
Member
It was apparent the MRA stuff etc. got to them in development because the central bad guy was basically a MRA guy and then the whole shooting the ghost in the crotch etc.
Movie probably would have flowed a lot better if they hadn't written it to be practically a response to the haters
Movie probably would have flowed a lot better if they hadn't written it to be practically a response to the haters
Nope, they even knock out ghosts and leave them sprawled on the ground somehow
It was kinda shitty, I mean had some good things about it, but it's nothing higher than mediocre.
bitbydeath
Member
Sorry Dan, but I believe they contributed a good portion to why people disregarded the movie in the first place.
It was pretty shitty.
Melissa McCarthy was terrible, the villain was terrible, lots of jokes weren't that funny besides some, the script needed work, etc.
I would even put GB2 above it.
ronaldthump
Member
not just knock them out. They outright kill them in the big fight scene with their new weapons. Why even need proton packs where you can obliterate ghosts with your fists.
Nope.
Gabriel_Logan
Member
Whoa lets slow down there.
IrishNinja
Member
disagree with most of that, but the villain was indeed terrible - Vigo was way better than that guy
Discotheque
Banned
yeah ghostbusters 2 freaking sucked but it was a more enjoyable movie than this one certainly. that court scene with rick moranis alone....
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
GB2 was lame for being one of the safest fucking sequels ever. But, there was absolutely nothing bad about it. Inferior? Sure. Bad? No.
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GB1>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GB2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GB2K16
Movie didn't even feel like a GB movie - it was shot in Boston for Petes sake!
Movie didn't even feel like a GB movie - it was shot in Boston for Petes sake!
It made me less frustrated at least and doesn't have Melissa McCarthy.
I actually did like Vigo.
The court scene is honestly better than anything in GB 2016, and more memorable too.
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Bobby Brown asking for a proton pack for his kid brother was more memorable than anything in the piece of shit reboot.
And Vigo was awesome. There aren't people who don't like him, are there? The villain was the one area the sequel improved on the original. He was legit scary as a kid, and having him be an actual physical pressense throughout the movie was great.
The concept always seemed like four female Ghostbusters for the sake of pushing an agenda and that's what it turned out to be. The movie was doomed to fail from the start.
LinkAndEpona
Banned
Agreed.
Then when the first trailor was revealed and we heard the dialog... yuck!
Horrible and such a damn shame the way the movie turned out that way.
WaterAstro
Member
Dan Aykroyd works at Sony Pictures?
sans_pants
avec_pénis
What in the hell are you talking about?
Count Dookkake
Member
With Wonder Woman being a critical and commercial success, you guys can now stop pretending that Ghostbusters '16 was good.
excelsiorlef
Member
They had some of the particle effects break the black bars so that it really felt like it came out of the screen. It was pretty nifty.
elrechazado
Banned
People only hated it to keep female centric movies from succeeding. Oh wait
PersonAndStuff
Member
From what I remember the big reshoots were for that random scene where they shot ghosts and the big thing they cut was the ghost dance sequence. The ghost shooting was terrible and the ghost dance was great.
That is not to say Sony is necessarily in the wrong and Feig is a genius. Part of the dance is incorporating stuff the studio wants and making it fit into what you want.
Who the fuck proposed the Ozzy cameo?
That is not to say Sony is necessarily in the wrong and Feig is a genius. Part of the dance is incorporating stuff the studio wants and making it fit into what you want.
Who the fuck proposed the Ozzy cameo?
michaelius
Banned
Yeah it was hilarious that all criticism got branded as misogyny and Sony marketing tried to play haters card to show whole movie as "victim" of online bullying.
BurritoBushido
Member
Man, I really liked that movie too.
Caddywompus
Member
That's probably GB'16 worse offense that it's completely forgettable.
It tries to be so similar to the original nothing really stands out. At least for me nothing positive and it's a movie that doesn't make me want to watch it again, if ever.
WordAssassin
Member
Has that EVER happened? Legit question. I can't think of any time a movie property has been rebooted only to go back to the original continuity later on.
Uh, or, he is in real life completely obsessed with the paranormal and it kind of a whack job about it and it's actually a major passion of his and that's why he championed the 3rd movie so much. Cause he legitimately wanted to do it. Some people do things for more than just the money.
Yes, they do. They cut the sequence, but it's in the extended version that came out on Blu-Ray. The extended version is a LOT better than the theatrical version. I'm sure people will shit on it no matter what but even if you think it's shit, the extended version is better shit. There are entire plot lines and characters they cut from the theatrical version. One of which is that they try to cross the streams at the end of the movie to close the portal into the ghost realm, but it doesn't work, so they have to come up with a different idea. In the theatrical cut it just goes straight to them doing the new idea with no set up or explanation at all.
For the 3D screenings they changed the aspect ratio of the movie so that even in theaters there were thick black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. This allowed them to "break" the bars with certain effects that made it look like things were literally coming out of the screen into the theater. For example, when they use the proton packs in GB16, all kinds of excess protons sputter and pour out of the ends of the proton wands. In 3D, they proton beams break the top of the screen and look like they're firing out into the ceiling, and the excess protons look like they're literally spilling out onto the seats in the front rows.
Say what you will about the quality of the movie but the 3D effects were really fuckin cool.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Yeah, we should totally take into consideration the sexist views of some fans when making the next film.
He tried to get it made without a script, without Bill Murray, without Harold Ramis and when he couldn't do any of that, was a champion of the reboot.
This is pretty transparent here. His career is basically over and he owns a big chunk of Ghostbusters. He doesn't criticize Feig for making a bad Ghostbusters movie, he criticizes Feig for ruining the chance at more sequels for him to profit from.
They were planning out the Ghostbusters cinematic universe (cartoons, movies, etc.) before this reboot torpedoed the entire venture. This movie was such a disaster that it effectively devalued the entire property. Dan was finally seeing his dream coming back to life in a big way, only to have it all collapse again. Sure, you can claim Dan is mostly upset by the financial aspects, but it should be really obvious that Ghostbusters meant more to him than merely that.
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You can't be kinda shitty and mediocre. And you can't be trash unless you're actually the worst films ever made.
The memorability of GB2 is quite impressive.
I'm bemused at people saying it's a bad movie. Nowhere near the classic of GB1, but I've not seen GB2 in probably three or four years yet can still recite dialogue, scenes wholesale and recall most of the details.
GB'16 I saw at Christmas and honestly, outside of the Times Square bit, I couldn't tell you all that much.
I'm bemused at people saying it's a bad movie. Nowhere near the classic of GB1, but I've not seen GB2 in probably three or four years yet can still recite dialogue, scenes wholesale and recall most of the details.
GB'16 I saw at Christmas and honestly, outside of the Times Square bit, I couldn't tell you all that much.
I prefer GB 2. Not saying it's better per se, but Vigo is a top tier villain.
WordAssassin
Member
He had scripts!? I've read one of them. And he only tried to get it made without Murray because he wanted to do another one and Murray didn't and they literally could not make another one without his approval. He only tried to do it without him after Murray kept moving the goalposts for what would get him back.
Dan Aykroyd is legitimately wild about the paranormal world. He is a believer 110%. Sure he probably wanted money, who wouldn't, but he genuinely loved Ghostbusters because it's about one of his very most favorite things. Beyond the money he absolutely genuinely wanted to just make more of them because he loved them and their subject matter.
Someone should tell Dan Aykroyd that if Sony had wanted him to write and direct a Ghostbusters movie they would have hired him.
This is starting to sound like Aykroyd kept butting in with ideas wanting to be involved and I bet he wasn't the only one.
Paul Feig can make good movies, I love both Bridesmaids and Spy and while I don't hate Ghostbusters it could have been better. Maybe the real problem was that unlike with his other movies this time he had a bunch of people breathing down his neck, desperately wanting this to be the start of a new franchise and the female cast bitchfest on top.
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