My jaw almost dropped when he said the " I loved it" in his guilty tone. What a fake out lmao. Fun review, the touch on how the trailers were even worse than the movie but it doesn't mean anything when the movie is juvenile comedy trash. It got Melissa Mcarthied into please god let it end type of movie. Seems pretty clear that Feig didn't know absolute shit about how to make this movie work. It's been said he pitched it but I'd assume Sony was begging for pitches in order to get one blockbuster after all the disasters.
Haven't seen it but other than we're gonna gender bend it with famous hip comedians (I love Kirsten Wiig), that's where the Feig stayed during the whole process. They mention the out of character improvisation. Most of the jokes seemed derived on gender identity and gender in culture, in the most simplistic and ham fisted way (queefs and dick shots really?). And the ghost busters element seems tacked on just because it's trying to be a bankable ip, disregarding the ip in it's entirety with such a huge tonal shift but taking as much imagery as humanly possible out of it.
Still bummed out about the nasty people that are mysoginy fueled and do hurtful things and that people need to end up sticking up for such a horrible product, but it seems to be the story of the year regarding movie production.
I'm not. The first Ghostbusters is a movie that Mike feels a strong affection towards from his childhood, it's probably his favorite thing media-wise outside of Star Trek and the original Star Wars trilogy.
Sometimes I wish these guys had more connections in L.A. because I could see Mike being a great Ghostbuster in some alternate universe where he, Charlie Day, Hannibal Buress and Danny McBride were the new Ghostbusters picking up the mantle. That's my dream cast right there.
The guys are too witty to be in Hollywood and their trademark black humor would have no place. Movie executives fuck everything up and promote yes men like Feig in this instance. And honestly why would you want to be part of the decaying corpse of Hollywood that's proudly creatively bankrupt. Even their good friend Max Landis writes terrible screenplays and he feels above the usual Hollywood garbage.
But! I'd be totally on board with that cast shape the movie. But then I remember that not even Charlie Day is safe from terrible movies.
