Hold the phone, you started two, not one, but two huge threads on this damn film that have been a shit show of warnings, HD complaints, and other nonsense, and you couldn't even be bothered to review the film in the threads you created, you just linked to a lousy less then 100 word post on your blog? For that alone, you should be banned.
Yeah, I know, I seized control of people's brainwaves, and made them both read the thread, and spaz out in it. I could have used the technology to make Bernie President, or the Pope hand over the names of all the pedos to the FBI, but I like Ghostbusters that much.
Good to know. Since you're now fully in troll mode, I guess it should be completely alright with you to just shit all over your threads from now on. Cool.
This narrative where people are victims of absolutely nothing is some "The Night That Panicked America", stuff. Fascinating.
I find it interesting how some who used to complain about so bitterly about trolling, it was like their vajayjay swallowed up a lemon tree, are now quite happily doing it.
Not trolling you, just trolling in general. Think back, boyo. Way, way back. I'm enjoying this change.
Once again, I'm gonna remind everyone this is Media Central. And also, post this from an actual chick. As much as I find the rabid foaming in general of this film to be overblown, she's got some good points here (and thank you girl for defending James Rolf, he absolutely did not deserve the hate he got for basically saying "it doesn't appeal to me, so I'm not wasting money and time to watch it"):
Nope. Movie isn't pulling it's weight. What you're reading from Pascal is typical CYA shit. And you've got Star Trek and Ice Age this Friday. Then you follow that up with Jason Bourne the week after. Yeah Ghostbusters is a goner. No way it makes enough to convince Sony to go make a sequel much less endless sequels. Pascal will be lucky to keep her job. She's done a terrible job at Sony. She should have been fired years ago. Eventually Sony is going to have to clean house and just purge everyone in the film part of the company. They took a potential blockbuster and turned it into a feminist crusade slandering anyone who didn't like the trailers as misogynists. You can't attack half your audience and expect to make money. Especially when you're cut off form the cash cow called China. Every review I've seen so far can be summarized as one word: meh Meh is not enough to get a sequel.
Thought about posting that myself. Unsurprisingly, she's taken some heat herself for her views on this movie.
Now , see, even though there was some sneer in there, you pulled that off without being a dick. That's what I like to see.
The backlash against Rolfe was lame. I thought he was being hypocritical because he's reviewed worse movies, and worse Ghostbuster tie ins, so why bail out now? But misogynist? Gimme a fucking break. Another good video here from Liana K, where her theory is, Sony waded into the culture war, because they felt invincible to bad press after how they spun "The Interview".
Her views are exactly what I feel for Tyler Perry films. It was neat to have a black writer-director who was attempting to write roles for black men that weren't gang bangers and deadbeats (the women are a whole other beast, but I digress). But goddamn, there's some schlock to sit through to see it, and it's the same repetitive story of an abused woman who ends up with Prince Charming while Made a is stuck in there just to get butts in the seats. I'm not kidding about that. I read an interview where he fucking says the studios didn't think the stories held up without Madea, but the thing is in most films, she's incidental to the story, not the driving force. Imagine if the Earnest films had fifteen minutes of funny trailer scenes and veered off into following his sister-cousin who's recovering from meth and getting away from an abusive boyfriend twenty minutes in. That in a nutshell describes every Madea a movie. But getting back to Ghostbusters, I can understand why this reviewer wants people to be honest. I want good genre roles for women and minorities, and I think we're on track to that, but there may be other ways of doing that than in another reboot/remake. TFA is a good example of having a female Force user and the black stormtrooper who helps her (who audiences flipped shit about as well, I might add).
I think you got him confused for Nostalgia Critic. Rolf has only ever reviewed TMNT III and a lame Scary Movie-esque Rocky parody and everything else was video games. I took his video as a heads up to his fans not to expect a review and why. I don't think it's hypocritical to not watch something you don't enjoy and bitch about it sucking, like an Enterprise basher. His was by far one of the more sane reactions--the original is always there and unless the movie was made by George Lucas you're in no danger of it being retouched or "improved" upon. And if nothing else, it'll get parents out showing their kids the original, like I'm sure the new Trek movies, Enterprise and maybe even Voyager brought in new fans that saw the Good Treks that never would've watched otherwise.
Nope, he does movies. Every Halloween, a horror marathon, and once in awhile, if it's a new entry in a nostalgia series, like Godzilla, or Ninja Turtles, or Terminator, he'll do an as-himself review of it. That's why he felt he had to address Ghostbusters, because he did every single game of it, and a video touring the film's locations. Oh, he was sane about it, but I thought he contradicted himself logically at the end of it. He says he's not gonna review it, but then at the end he says it looks like it'll be shit...well, that's a review. Whatever, I wasn't offended by it or nothin, I just found it contradictory. Agreed.
1. If you promote yourself as a film critic, you're somewhat obliged to see significant films and comment honestly on them. If you publicly announce that you're not seeing a film, that is itself a review. It's a review that says the movie can be judged negatively without actually being watched, that the critic's own prejudices are sufficient to persuade others not to see it. But a big part of a critic's job is to overcome prejudices for or against a film, to say "Here's why you should (or shouldn't) see a film." A critic who hasn't seen the film can't do that in good faith. Even a critic that said "Yeah, saw it, as expected it's shit" has at least given the film an honest shot. 2. It's just a movie. If it appeals to you, see it. If it doesn't, don't. If you're devoted to the original, it does you no harm if people see and enjoy the new one. If you like the new one, it does you no harm if others choose not to see it. 3. Nearing the end of its first week with worldwide grosses of $75 million on a budget of $144 million (+ untold marketing costs), I'm guessing there won't be sequels, despite what has been said. For me, that's too bad, because I enjoyed the film enough to want to see the sequel hinted at in the post credits tease.
Saw the movie Friday... Thought some of the humour was a bit too juvenile and Kevin was too dumb too live... The ending was a bit too easy and the bad guy's motivation reminded me a bit of Dr. Janosz Poha's motivation... But other than that i liked the movie...
Turns out the title has indeed shifted to "Ghostbusters: Answer The Call". A Sony source told one of my podcasts that it'll be on the blu-rays. So, they're pulling an "Edge Of Tomorrow", "Live, Die, Repeat". Fine by me, if the franchise takes off, a subtitle will help set it apart.
I really don't care what the gender of the lead is so long as it is written and played well. But I think another good example of a strong female lead was Uma Thurman in Kill Bill. That was a very successful movie and it came out years ago so the audience is there so long as the movies are good.
It's a dog at the box office. It's looking like it will have to be a monster overseas to break even and apparently it isn't showing in the largest overseas market, China.
Which is why the whole "it's about sexism" line was always a load of bollocks. Sure, there were a few sexists out there, but they were a minority of the critics. That it was a reboot, the manner of that reboot and the talent involved were always the major complaints.
