Ghostbusters reviews are...positive!

[Vault101]

oh the humanity! [eyeroll] so many childhoods ruined...

not surprising actually, if movie tickets weren't so expensive I'd actually go see it since it looks totally like my thing

So I was just at IMDB and the reviews are abysmal. Like 3.6 bad.

I have a feeling there's a bit of internet mob behavior at play there

If the movie is truly good, Sony should have a rather stern word with the people behind the marketing and trailers since they took a good movie and sold it to their audience in a terrible manner.

i thought it was a well known fact that trailers can often do the opposite of what they're supposed to do...and often the filmmakers have no direct control over the marketing

 

[Vault101]

I still don't want to see it, and honestly I feel like maybe the critics reviewing it are the same people who were trying to crush the complaints of people saying we don't want ghostbusters turned into the PC poster child.

same people? what is this, a conspiracy now?


those "same people" are "most people"

the problem with half these internet warriors is they think other "normal" people are also emotionally invested in this grand "culture war" wherein they are under attack from the "Other" (women! minorities! gays!) professional critics don't give a fuck....sure they have their own leanings and opinions on the thing sure but they aren't "invested" from the get go, because most aren't frothing at the mouth over the casting choice, in fact a lot of them recognize these woman are talented. they review the movie and they move on

The only thing that has provoked the huge negative backlash for the movie is because the all male Ghostbusters cast was replace with an all female Ghostbusters cast in a movie that can never possibly live up to the cult classic original. It's pretty shameful how much nerds can't cope with change. The new movie doesn't impact the originals in absolutely any way.

The sad thing is that I sincerely predict that the Metacritic User reviews will just be 90% negative, simply because nerds can be that petty.

I'll say It`s not just change but what they find threatening...for as long as I've been active on the internet women have been the most threatening thing

 

[Vault101]

I guess if people try really hard they can pretend to like this movie and its theme song. More power to them.
.

"implying that people who like the movie are lying"

...well if that's not salty I don't know what is

it's a movie, its not the best movie in the world, some people are going to like it some aren't it's not the end of the end of the world...it never was

 

[Fox12]

I'm not so sure you're wrong. Quite a few of the critics I read seemed to have a bone to pick with YouTube "trolls." Very few actually seemed to find the film funny, which... Makes me wonder what they were looking for. It just sounds mediocre.

Personally, making a middle of the road adeptation of a classic film is about the worst thing you can do.

Well. I guess this is a slight change from saying "all of the reviewers were paid off". In my opinion, it's still an absurd claim to say that most reviews are negative due to malice against Youtube commenters.

Let's face it, no one's stating it's the best movie in the world, and the trailer wasn't the best. But the movie isn't an absolute bomb, and the trailer wasn't "a million Youtube dislikes and a fucking nerdstorm" level bad.

The only thing that has provoked the huge negative backlash for the movie is because the all male Ghostbusters cast was replace with an all female Ghostbusters cast in a movie that can never possibly live up to the cult classic original. It's pretty shameful how much nerds can't cope with change. The new movie doesn't impact the originals in absolutely any way.

The sad thing is that I sincerely predict that the Metacritic User reviews will just be 90% negative, simply because nerds can be that petty.

All I can go off of is what the reviewers said themselves, and quite a few mentioned the negative youtube backlash. Now, I don't think the reviewers were paid off, and I don't think there's a conspiracy, but I do think a few people tried to compensate for the negative hype with slightly more positive reviews. A few of the reviewers got on a soap box over the ordeal.

I have no doubt that some of the critics were bitter about the all female cast. I'm sure some people are really sad enough to avoid the film for only that reason. That's not why I have an issue with the film. I have an issue with the film because, frankly, it didn't look funny. That would be easily forgiveable, but it's also a remake of a classic film. This is my second issue. I'm sick of remakes. The reviews say that the film is mediocre, and that their fine with that. I'm not. I'm sick of lazy, creatively bankrupt films that bank off of nostalgia. My third issue is the way the corporate businessmen have handled the reaction to the film. They've been extremely arrogant, believing that IP awareness will guarantee them success, despite their lazy attitude. I hope they're wrong, but Star Wars and Jurassic Park suggest that they're right. And I think that's sad. Honestly, I think ghost busters is a shining example of everything that's wrong with Hollywood. Feel free to disagree, but please don't chalk it up to sexism : P

 

[Saltyk]

Yeah, I'm going to watch Ghostbusters.

Who doesn't love this movie?​

Oh, you mean the new one? Nope. I'm with AVGN. The trailer showed me nothing I wanted to see. It wasn't funny. And it didn't look good. I'd much rather save my money for a movie I want to see. I already watched one movie I knew I was going to hate this year, why would I want to try for a second?

If anyone else wants to see it, that's fine. I have no problem with that. And I hope they enjoy it. I'm just not bothering with it. There's no need to make this some sort of political statement.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I think the people worshipping Ghostbusters like it's some sort of sacred cow are.... I mean i watched the original. It's okay, that's about the best I can say about it. I watched it once, have no urge to see it again.

I will say it's vastly superior to the modern trend of comedies which tend to consist of "fat girl fall down go boom boom".

Though I'm surprised you're looking forward to DC's 18th attempt to start a cinematic universe.

I liked Man Of Steel. BvS was meh, but it set up the universe.

Suicide Squad seems like it'll be a nice little self-contained story with only a bit of world building. Sort of like how Dead Pool was just a simple revenge story. So I have high high hopes it won't suck too hard.

Plus it's Live Action Harley Quinn.

 

[Mister K]

a) Doesn't change the fact that this is a remake, idea of which I am opposed to.

b) Ratings and scores can be manipulated, so I don't actually think that this indicates something.

So no, I am not going to watch it.

 

[Zhukov]

So general consensus so far seems to amount to, "Ehh, it's okay I guess".

Which is disappointing.

If it was utter garbage or undeniably brilliant then it'd finally put this stupid fucking argument to rest. The winning side would crow about it for a few weeks then we'd all move on, maybe bring it up every now and again to score internet points.

But if it lands right in the middle then we just get both sides declaring victory then arguing for fucking ages about who really won.

Or, in other words... pic.twitter.com/Nkrk0txytK [https://t.co/Nkrk0txytK]

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Movie critics are not an accurate gauge of popular public opinion. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/reviews?ref_=tt_urv]

 

[Chanticoblues]

Movie critics are not an accurate gauge of popular public opinion. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/reviews?ref_=tt_urv]

Should they be?

 

[Parasondox]

Round 2 in the Ghostbusters debate... another one.

Nostalgia can be poisonous and toxic at times.

 

[Hawki]

Movie critics are not an accurate gauge of popular public opinion. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/reviews?ref_=tt_urv]

Good. I'm far more interested in a work's quality rather than what review bombers think.

Movie critics are not an accurate gauge of popular public opinion. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/reviews?ref_=tt_urv]

Should they be?

No, the job of a critic is to tell us whether the work is actually good or not. And in this case, public outrage had poisoned the well from the outset, so in this case, user reviews on review aggregators is going to mean even less than it usually does.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Movie critics are not an accurate gauge of popular public opinion. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/reviews?ref_=tt_urv]

Should they be?

No. I expect them to be accurate. They're [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/titan_ae] not. [https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/casper] Or at least, to be fair, not all the time.

 

[Dragonlayer]

The delicious - and stupid - thing about all this is that the film's existence has become so heavily politicized in the great and eternal struggle between online twats that no review will ever be free of suspicion. Do people "actually" like it as a film or are they scoring a blow against perceived misogyny? Do people "actually" dislike it as a film or are they striking back against perceived PC madness?