The New Gang is Here in First Image From Paul Feig's Ghostbusters

[Lightknight]

People hate reboots because they are unsipired cashgrabs and utterly forgettable, taking huge dumps on the source material and original vision and are most often CGI laden borefests with lame jokes and even lamer performance.

So far i cant think of a single case where a reboot of a movie was just as good as the original. Perhaps the new TMNT sequel that will bring beebop and rocksteady will manage to pull it off... but then again its a michael bay movie...

Star Trek was a successful reboot that modernized the franchise in a way no one else had been able to do. I also hear he succeeded with Star Wars, basically making him the reboot Messiah for mishandled franchises.

There's actually a large list of beloved films that are largely deemed better than the original or just as good. Here's a list of five reboots to consider where reboots are a restarting of movies intended as a series rather than merely remakes of a one-off film (like Scarface, for example).

1. Dredd
2. Batman Begins
3. Star Trek (2009)
4. Oceans 11 (though I also liked the original)
5. Captain America

Honorable mentions:
Planet of the apes
Casino Royale

 

[Karadalis]

People hate reboots because they are unsipired cashgrabs and utterly forgettable, taking huge dumps on the source material and original vision and are most often CGI laden borefests with lame jokes and even lamer performance.

So far i cant think of a single case where a reboot of a movie was just as good as the original. Perhaps the new TMNT sequel that will bring beebop and rocksteady will manage to pull it off... but then again its a michael bay movie...

Star Trek was a successful reboot that modernized the franchise in a way no one else had been able to do. I also hear he succeeded with Star Wars, basically making him the reboot Messiah for mishandled franchises.

There's actually a large list of beloved films that are largely deemed better than the original or just as good. Here's a list of five reboots to consider where reboots are a restarting of movies intended as a series rather than merely remakes of a one-off film (like Scarface, for example).

1. Dredd
2. Batman Begins
3. Star Trek (2009)
4. Oceans 11 (though I also liked the original)
5. Captain America

Honorable mentions:
Planet of the apes
Casino Royale

None of the movies kept for planet of the apes are true reboots thought since they dont base their premises on the movies before them (startrek too maybe but more on that later).

The batman begins movie has nothing to do with the first movie, it doesnt invalidates the first movie, nor does it simply genderswap everyone and tells the same story as the first movie... joker didnt kill bruces parents in the new movie nor was he actually IN the new movie. The movie was simply based on current day comic version of batman and not on its predecessors

Same witht he startrek movies, its an alternate version that does not invalidate the first movies. The canon of the first movies is still intact, they still happen as proofen by old spocks presence in the new movies.

Dont know if oceans 11 was a reboot or not, didnt saw it.

Captain america again is its very own thing and has nothing to do with the hilariously bad movies from yore. A more apt reboot would be the amazing spiderman vs the spiderman movies... and even then these are based not on each other but on completly different comic book interpretations of the character spiderman. Each stands on its own legs (or fails miserably depending on whom you ask)

Ghostbusters however takes the premise of the first movie, genderswaps all the main protagonists for no reason, and then TELLS THE EXACT SAME STORY of a bunch of weirdos with energy weapons hunting ghosts in new york city and preventing the apocalypse.

We allready know that story, and it was told better in the originals! There is no way to make ligthning strike twice on the same spot. There is no way to capture the zeitgeist and the brillian chemistry of the originals.

All this is gonna be is a forgettable action flick with cringy stereotypical jokes. The fat girl will have to overcome her selfdoubts because shes fat/unatractive. The one with the weird hairdo will be a snarky wise cracking *****. The attractive one will be shy, and the black woman will be black sassy woman.

Also it sends the flawed message of female characters only being able to succeed if they are based on a male character instead of being their own characters. No feminist worth a damn should actually applaud stupid shit like that.

It would have been better if it was simply a continuation of the original storyline with an all female cast instead of a reboot that trys to tell the same story only this time with a cast of trope females.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Sweet mother of salty comment section! It's going to bring on respiratory failure if it keeps up!

I love Ghostbusters SOOOOOO much, I'm totally withholding judgement at very least till we get a trailer. I want more information.

I haven't seen anything wrong yet, so I don't really understand the belly aching.

Ditto here. The synopsis is so barebones and broad that you can't possibly make any judgements yet. A pair of the 'busters get kicked out of academia for their theories (which is far from the worst thing that a remake could riff off of), and then there's ghosts. There's nothing to complain about yet.

The photo's decent. It's got some of the same kitschy, 80's feel of the original. Cast sames varied. Hope the Token Black Person gets more to do in this movie than in the original.

I'm with the both of you, at least wait till we see a bad trailer before it's labeled as horrible or terrible.

Thought a three birds with one quote should gather the positives here, although only positive in contrast to the instant dismissals from a vague synopsis and one picture. Do people do this with every movie? Make snap judgements from seemingly the sparsest of details? It all feels very tainted by bias and nostalgia. I see nothing to complain about here. Other than the distinct lack of ghosts. Also it says in the report that this is a "reboot," so no socially engineered amnesia to deal with.

 

[Baresark]

Sweet mother of salty comment section! It's going to bring on respiratory failure if it keeps up!

I love Ghostbusters SOOOOOO much, I'm totally withholding judgement at very least till we get a trailer. I want more information.

I haven't seen anything wrong yet, so I don't really understand the belly aching.

Ditto here. The synopsis is so barebones and broad that you can't possibly make any judgements yet. A pair of the 'busters get kicked out of academia for their theories (which is far from the worst thing that a remake could riff off of), and then there's ghosts. There's nothing to complain about yet.

The photo's decent. It's got some of the same kitschy, 80's feel of the original. Cast sames varied. Hope the Token Black Person gets more to do in this movie than in the original.

I'm with the both of you, at least wait till we see a bad trailer before it's labeled as horrible or terrible.

Thought a three birds with one quote should gather the positives here, although only positive in contrast to the instant dismissals from a vague synopsis and one picture. Do people do this with every movie? Make snap judgements from seemingly the sparsest of details? It all feels very tainted by bias and nostalgia. I see nothing to complain about here. Other than the distinct lack of ghosts. Also it says in the report that this is a "reboot," so no socially engineered amnesia to deal with.

Unfortunately, that is pretty par for the course. A lot of people see a picture or watch a 30 second trailer then talk like they know everything about the movie. The comments are sometimes accurate but that is only a matter of shear chance alone. Take the last TMNT movie. It was not good, but people were already declaring it not good for reasons that were completely irrelevant. The first thing we saw was that funny (I thought so) scene in the elevator with "MC Mikey". It was funny, it felt appropriate for the movie. But that didn't prevent people from slamming the pacing of the movie. What can be learned from a minute of an hour thirty plus movie about the pacing in that time? Not much. Same thing here. We see a photo of the main cast. What can be learned from this? Absolutely nothing really. If anything, it's just there as proof the movie exists.

 

[Lightknight]

People hate reboots because they are unsipired cashgrabs and utterly forgettable, taking huge dumps on the source material and original vision and are most often CGI laden borefests with lame jokes and even lamer performance.

So far i cant think of a single case where a reboot of a movie was just as good as the original. Perhaps the new TMNT sequel that will bring beebop and rocksteady will manage to pull it off... but then again its a michael bay movie...

Star Trek was a successful reboot that modernized the franchise in a way no one else had been able to do. I also hear he succeeded with Star Wars, basically making him the reboot Messiah for mishandled franchises.

There's actually a large list of beloved films that are largely deemed better than the original or just as good. Here's a list of five reboots to consider where reboots are a restarting of movies intended as a series rather than merely remakes of a one-off film (like Scarface, for example).

1. Dredd
2. Batman Begins
3. Star Trek (2009)
4. Oceans 11 (though I also liked the original)
5. Captain America

Honorable mentions:
Planet of the apes
Casino Royale

None of the movies kept for planet of the apes are true reboots thought since they dont base their premises on the movies before them (startrek too maybe but more on that later).

The batman begins movie has nothing to do with the first movie, it doesnt invalidates the first movie, nor does it simply genderswap everyone and tells the same story as the first movie... joker didnt kill bruces parents in the new movie nor was he actually IN the new movie. The movie was simply based on current day comic version of batman and not on its predecessors

Same witht he startrek movies, its an alternate version that does not invalidate the first movies. The canon of the first movies is still intact, they still happen as proofen by old spocks presence in the new movies.

Dont know if oceans 11 was a reboot or not, didnt saw it.

Captain america again is its very own thing and has nothing to do with the hilariously bad movies from yore. A more apt reboot would be the amazing spiderman vs the spiderman movies... and even then these are based not on each other but on completly different comic book interpretations of the character spiderman. Each stands on its own legs (or fails miserably depending on whom you ask)

Ghostbusters however takes the premise of the first movie, genderswaps all the main protagonists for no reason, and then TELLS THE EXACT SAME STORY of a bunch of weirdos with energy weapons hunting ghosts in new york city and preventing the apocalypse.

We allready know that story, and it was told better in the originals! There is no way to make ligthning strike twice on the same spot. There is no way to capture the zeitgeist and the brillian chemistry of the originals.

All this is gonna be is a forgettable action flick with cringy stereotypical jokes. The fat girl will have to overcome her selfdoubts because shes fat/unatractive. The one with the weird hairdo will be a snarky wise cracking *****. The attractive one will be shy, and the black woman will be black sassy woman.

Also it sends the flawed message of female characters only being able to succeed if they are based on a male character instead of being their own characters. No feminist worth a damn should actually applaud stupid shit like that.

It would have been better if it was simply a continuation of the original storyline with an all female cast instead of a reboot that trys to tell the same story only this time with a cast of trope females.

A reboot is simply to restart or revive. Your additional qualifications are of your own making. It sounds like you're confusing the term "remake" with "reboot". In that case Oceans 11 would be a full remake. So would things like Scarface and a ton of ULTRA popular movies that just remade films from the 50s.