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Ghostbusters (2016) | Movie News/ Discussion *Now Spoilers*
bralinator
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I've gotta admit, this looks like fan-fic or cosplay to me. Not instilling much confidence, but who knows? It might rock.
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It captures the spirit of the original without slavishly aping the uniforms.
"Ecto-1 is a hearse now?!? Everyone knows it's supposed to be a ambulance!"
"Ugh, orange safety stripes on the suits? How PC is that?"
Even without that, I am really looking forward to this remake, as I loved The Heat and if you are going to do a remake, this seems a smart way of remaking something. And compared to the other Ghostbusters idea at Sony, this is far closer to the original, in that it stars people with improv backgrounds who look like normal humans.
I'll give this a shot when this comes out..... on DVD.
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"Dogs and cats to be featured actually living together, 'It's time,' says director"
You want to make it interesting? Go with an all-minority cast and balance the genders. Then, get Murray on board with Aykroyd and Hudson to do the hiring of this team during the first act, acting as their mentors. BOOM! Comedy gold! Nah, they're going with a full hard-reboot, oh yes and the director says it will be 'really scary' too, but don't worry GB fans, we'll include lots of Easter eggs and callbacks to the original! That means if it fails to make as much money as the original did, America is a sexist nation that must be shamed... with a sequel! No one mentions that crowning the heirs to Venkman and Spengler’s proton packs is no light matter, so just going with 3 white actresses and one black one seems a bit lazy to me.
It's not just the casting. Are there no more new ideas? Personally, I find this about as intriguing as the recent Footloose remake. Some people want Hollywood to come up with new ideas instead of constantly retooling movies that were done right the first time (see: Robocop). Granted, not all reboots are a waste of time. Mad Max: Fury Road was exceptional! It also boasted a strong cast of women and was an outstanding action flick that I will watch again. I even hope to see a sequel within a year or two.
Here, instead of a gender-balanced squad the GB franchise has completely gender-swapped it to give us an all-female team. So do women and men need their own separate entertainment? Like we now need pink versions of stuff? Isn't that a bit outmoded and sexist itself? Who's up for an all-dude version of Charlie's Angels or an all-female casted Reservoir Dogs .. really? But, of course you are. Okay, okay, even I would check-out The Expendabelles on Netflix... But, if you can't see how a GB hard-reboot of "bridesmaids chasing ghosts" is merely a pandering cash-grab in the first place, then you're probably asking "why is an all-female cast a "gimmick", but the all-male original cast isn't, huh?"
Because 'Ghostbusters' didn't promote itself based on the fact that it was "male only", hence the gimmick. It was just a great comedy with a clever premise and a solid cast.
Bill Murray looks like a prophetic genius for not wanting to touch any GB reboot/remake because this screams "massive-fail."
A female spin on a predominately male-centric genre.
Full of laughs? Same director and star!
So, you'll forgive me if that matters more to me than what other dudes my age think of this.
We already got ours.
If Bill Murray wants nothing to do with it, he must not have a very good agent apparently.
Can I just say, I feel like I'm falling into the defender role here. I'm really not. I do think it's an unnecessary reboot. But we've already had a mediocre and unnecessary Ghostbusters movie. I have a lot of nostalgia for Ghostbusters II, but it's inferior in every way to the original. As are all the ancillary expanded Ghostbusters projects. There really hasn't been anything that shows this movie will be worse than that. Which, if it's not, would make it the 2nd best Ghostbusters movie. Are there people really hoping it will match the original? Is there a version of a third Ghostbusters movie that actually seems like a good idea?
Hell, I only just watched the original last month!
I have no reason to care about this movie. Its not even going to be an in movie "franchise" of the original Ghostbusters. It won't be called Ghostbusters 3 and it shouldn't be. This is a re-boot, not a re-tool or a recast. No thank you.
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