CelticKnight
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I don't usually read many review threads, so I'm not sure how they work. Is this "staring at the Tomato meter thing like an expectant parent" the norm?
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Ghostbusters Review Thread [Certified Fresh - 75%]
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streetsahead123
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This review will be all over Reddit with comment sections saying "I've always trusted Roeper more than any other critic"
I like Richard Roeper as a person but his taste in movies has always been questionable to me. He savaged The Fellowship of the Ring when it came out. I remember that from when he and Ebert had their show.
lol
excelsiorlef
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Funny enough he gave BvS 3 out 4 heh.
That's a Convergence I want Ghostbusters cultists who also hate BvS (there's gotta be serious overlap there) using Roeper to justify on one hand and dismissing him on the other.
I would say it's more like watching your kid grow up.
At first there's promise... then a few bad reviews and suddenly your kid is terrible... then it grows into a 80 on RT and you're posting pictures on FB.
BronsonLee
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Wait did Armond White interview it yet
Again, the RT score and Metacritic are not comparable. If you are going to compare, use the RT rating, which is 6.5, in line with Metacritic.
We have a new Milo!
SonicMegaDrive
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Oh my god, that should be amazing. That gloriously disingenuous old bastard is probably conflicted over which tree he feels needs the most shaking.
excelsiorlef
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3.7 lol.
Yeah there's no concentrated sexist backlash against this film at all lol.
These guys are proving that IMDB gender bias research lmao.
TrumanBurbank
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The IMDb score is 3.7 Fucking crazy.
Absolutely sad disgusting behavior from these guys smashing a movie like this.
Absolutely sad disgusting behavior from these guys smashing a movie like this.
Glad to see Janosh appreciation here
GB2 is a sloppy sequel in many ways but it still makes me laugh more than most comedies out there.
Janosh and Louis are pretty much the only characters maintaining a pulse in the film. Once the Ghostbusters leave the courthouse they become pretty uninteresting.
Snkfanatic
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Ohhh awesome. Glad it's getting positive reviews. Will have to rent it when it's available.
AmaterasuOni
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And there are still people who trust IMDb scores. I find that really scary.
Turin Turambar
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I know they are not comparable, that's why in fact I was mentioning MT scores in the first place, because they are different (and offer imo a more accurate view, from a statistical point, as the RT ratings).
GabeTheGrouch76
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Stop it you've got me needlessly excited
It used to be a good resource to find good films. Various members of the filmmaking community.
I don't even think in the 90s the ratings were taken very seriously.
streetsahead123
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They're even trying to brigade the community score on the AV Club
Lol! I totally forgot about that.
...that seems like something Ghostbusters would do...
I think the franchise has always been absurd, but I had a special place in my heart for Ghostbusters 2.
I was 5 when the original came out in 1984, so I was a bit too young to really get some of the jokes, and I found it a bit scary, but I was entertained. I was 7 when The Real Ghostbusters cartoon released two years later, and that, for me, was really when my obsession with Ghostbusters took off. I absolutely loved that cartoon (up until Slimer took center stage in later seasons. sigh), so when the hype train for Ghostbusters 2 was picking up around '88 or so, I was beside myself. I bought the GB2 trading cards and gobbled up everything I could concerning the movie (not much in a pre-internet era, honestly). When the movie came out, I don't think I had ever been that excited for entertainment media ever in my life. I was 9 going on 10 when Ghostbusters 2 hit, and I loved it. More than the original, because I thought GB2 was funnier, and I liked the ghost designs more (they seemed more like The Real Ghostbusters than Ghostbusters 1).
As I got older, I just always took that love of GB2 I had as a child with me. The critic in me knows that Ghostbusters is the better, more original and better acted movie, but the 9 year old in me that loved The Real Ghostbusters and bought trading cards for GB2 will always love it.
Rewatching it as an adult has also had me appreciate a lot of the really great comedic moments in the movie. Actor deliveries, lines, etc. And also, I was a huge Bobby Brown fan, so "On Our Own," is probably one of my favorite songs of all time. XD
I just think GB2 gets a lot of hate from film nerds that put GB1 on a pedestal to the point where no sequel could possibly hope to attain that level of quality. GB2 is a good movie. A good Ghostbusters movie, but it just doesn't match the original. I feel like the best time to have made a Ghostbusters 3 would have been 1991 (like the game), because I honestly had no interested in seeing a movie set in 2016 with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis (had he not passed away), Ernie Hudson, and Dan Akyroyd in their late 60's, running around in Ghostbusters overalls and trying to be funny again. It just would have depressed me. Rebooting with new characters doesn't bother me. I think I would have been annoyed if they had rebooted Ghostbusters, and recast some actors to play Winston, Ray, Peter, and Egon. That probably would have actually made me angry, but I probably would have watched it anyway, because I'm a Ghostbusters fanatic. I like that they went with new characters.
Also, the Ghostbusters Sega Genesis game was awesome. I think I still have it in my closet with my Genesis, NES, and SNES. I should hook it up to my tv and play it one day...
Exactly. It's not as good as the first (how could it be, really?), but it's damn entertaining. I don't even have to make qualifiers of being in the right mood. It's just a fun, entertaining movie. I like a lot of bad movies, and a lot of good to amazing movies. Ghostbusters 2 is a good movie, even if every joke doesn't land. Even Ghostbusters 1 has jokes that don't land. Very few comedies have 100% perfect execution as far as getting a laugh the entire movie. Superbad and Tropic Thunder have a pretty high ratio, but even then, it's not 100%.
BronsonLee
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I have to imagine since we're leaning towards positive reviews, he just rubberbands himself all the way over into 'assault on natural society' level
My favorite is the guy telling people to click on Top Critics to reveal the drop from All Critics. Because there is a conspiracy.
Doesn't he know that #allreviewsmatter?
QuantumZebra
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Actually there is something I need to know-- how does that possession scene actually play out in the movie? Just as cringey as in the first trailer, not as bad? That and the sliming part are the only things I didn't like from the trailers.
heyyyy I liked that scene a lot in the trailer
the way he cocks his head to the all crazy like gets me every time
Meh IMDB score is notoriously unreliable for certain movies like the Dark Knight and possibly this one. Sometimes it's indicative of quality and others it's not just because someone made a campaign to either rate a movie very high or very low.
IMDB is creeping up. RT is actually 6.5/10 at the moment. I think that's where it'll end up, somewhere between 7-6.
Sounds about right from what I've read, not incredible but a decent fun film with some excellent turns from the cast. Actually quite excited to see it now, especially after The Real Ghostbusters comparison!
Dark Knight really does deserve its score. It's the best superhero film, and one of the best films made in any genre imo.
Sounds about right from what I've read, not incredible but a decent fun film with some excellent turns from the cast. Actually quite excited to see it now, especially after The Real Ghostbusters comparison!
Dark Knight really does deserve its score. It's the best superhero film, and one of the best films made in any genre imo.
Wow. I honestly don't remember KK3. I loved the first one growing up. Enjoyed the second one too, but fuck me if I don't remember the third at all. What was it about?
EDIT: Just wikipedia'd it. O_O
I don't remember that at all...
These guys would have made conspiracy theories out of anything, they desperately want the movie to fail.
Any other outcome is the jews/sjw/liberal media conspiracy
ElBoxyBrown
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I want them to remake Back to the Future when what's his face dies. I just want the salt to drown me.
cr0w
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Yeah, it's not great. The bullies really do a number on Miyagi's bonsai shop.
They don't offer a "more accurate view", they score something different than RT scores. RT is basically just how many reviewers would recommend a film, not the intensity of that recommendation (which is what MC and the RT rating is). One is not more accurate than the other, statistically or otherwise, as they are not the same thing.
Back when I used to work at Barnes and Noble, Peter MacNicol was a regular customer. One of the nicest, sweetest guys. Very soft-spoken and polite. That alone is why it's mandatory that I pretty much watch whatever he pops up in. One of my favorite character actors. I had to refrain from quoting GB2 and Adam's Family Values quotes to him.
Oh man, Transylvania 6-5000 is probably one of my favorite movies ever. Me and my older sister wore out the VHS tape re-watching that thing. I also attribute it to causing my huge fucking crush on Geena Davis back then. The fact that I was 6 when it came out had me very confused. Probably also why I was obsessed with vampires as a kid...
I ain't afraid of no skost.
I don't get why people are surprised by it. IMDB's community has always been an unseemly collection of pathetic assholes.
I don't agree it deserves that high of score, It's a good to great movie but it was a campaign of fans trying to get it a super high score which is the issue with IMDB ratings.
bananafactory
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People still believe there's no organized hate campaign, and that the trailer dislikes were genuine
The trains have seats for everyone though.
I am actually genuinely excited to (probably) be seeing this movie tomorrow. Ignoring all the overblown hate and ridiculous drama surrounding the film, my opinions have been all over the place based on the trailers. Some stuff looked good, some stuff looked eh, and some stuff looked really bad, like that CGI-fest where they're all lassoing ghosts around and stuff. The positive opinions have been pretty reassuring so it'll be interesting to finally watch it for sure.
A Link to the Past
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One thing I appreciate is watching as anti-GB16 fans discredit certain reviewers by pointing out some movie that has a large hatebase that the reviewer loves, but they're perfectly content using Roeper's views as legitimate despite his positive review of Batman Vs. Superman.
MHWilliams
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Huh. Top Critics is nudging up to 50% now. Average rating is largely the same.
People of all stripes look for that confirmation bias.
People of all stripes look for that confirmation bias.
NOLA_Gaffer
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bananafactory
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NOLA_Gaffer
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Time to get my conspiracy hat.
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