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The screening I went to on Thursday for Ghostbusters wasn't barren, but it certainly wasn't crowded. I was the only person in the lower tier seats and less than half of the upper tier was full. Sure, it was a 7:30 show on a Thursday, but still a pretty poor turnout. The movie was ok but I would have like a little more delving into or at least hints of the paranormal setting. The villain muttered some doomsday poo poo a couple times and had some spooky drawings and that was about all of the meta-setting we got. The original had a named god with named assistants and possessed humans with ritual roles to play (gatekeeper/key master)and brief glances into another dimension with some actual ruins or something that did a good job of hinting at a rich world behind the scenes. The "other side" in the new movie was just green swirly smoke. It would have also been nice if the government spooks actually had some involvement and felt somewhat competent, like already having protocols and containment procedures that work on a small scale (rituals, prayers, symbols, candles, incense) but they suck compared to the new poo poo the girls were packing. That would really drive home the vagina power message. I was ok with the idea of a dumb, pretty male receptionist, but the execution was pretty terrible. I really liked Kate McKinnon in the movie, but I just took a look at her, uh, oeuvre and wasn't terribly interested in anything there. Maybe she can leverage this lukewarm filler of a movie into some other roles.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 02:36 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:44 |
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https://twitter.com/ryandowney/status/751876861215383552 Good stuff.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 02:42 |
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Jesus, I'm glad I don't buy toys on the reg like some of my nerd brethren. $16.99 on clearance? Do the figures suck your dick?
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 02:46 |
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It depends on the movie. all the stars wars figures were picked clean for weeks before the movie. plus you can get better Ghostbusters figures online.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 02:46 |
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Pvt.Scott posted:Jesus, I'm glad I don't buy toys on the reg like some of my nerd brethren. $16.99 on clearance? Do the figures suck your dick? Originally $20. lol
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 02:49 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:It depends on the movie. all the stars wars figures were picked clean for weeks before the movie. plus you can get better Ghostbusters figures online. nobody would be crazy enough to believe that their movie could match the hype of star wars..right?
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 02:54 |
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Yup. when I was a kid I wanted all the toys
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 02:56 |
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BillmasterCozb posted:nobody would be crazy enough to believe that their movie could match the hype of star wars..right? maybe. who knows. the problem is the toys are boring, the original ghostbuster figures(cartoons too) made a poo poo ton of different weird ones and tons of ghosts. the new ones only have like 3 loving ghots. the rest are boring main cast figures. as someone said in the twitter comments "kids don't want to buy frumpy looking middle aged women figures wearing road construction outfits"
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 03:09 |
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source your /tv/ quotes please
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 03:22 |
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The toys for the cartoon were almost reused ninja turtles toys
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 05:39 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:maybe. who knows. the problem is the toys are boring, the original ghostbuster figures(cartoons too) made a poo poo ton of different weird ones and tons of ghosts. the new ones only have like 3 loving ghots. the rest are boring main cast figures. as someone said in the twitter comments "kids don't want to buy frumpy looking middle aged women figures wearing road construction outfits" I said if they'd been in the GIJoe scale for under $10 you might get some more impulse buys on them. You could sell a cheap Ecto-1 car that fit them for under $20. etc. My store has the GB2016 figures in teh same aisle as wrestling, GI Joe, DC/Marvel, etc. action figures. Meanwhile, just a few aisle over in the 'dolls' aisle they have (for about $10-20) these female action figures that are aimed at the young girl market: http://www.target.com/c/toys/dc-super-hero-girls/-/N-5xtb0Z4ut77
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 06:23 |
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Don't care...
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 06:49 |
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 07:24 |
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Retarded_Clown_ posted:So, I saw a thing.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 08:59 |
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What the gently caress did I just read?
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 09:26 |
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max4me posted:What the gently caress did I just read? Either a masterstroke of satire, or the most scathing indictment of Reagan's policy of deinstitutionalization ever seen by human eyes.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 09:40 |
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Seen a few people on social media coming out with the argument, "Well if you hate a film going in of course you'll hate it!" And they have no self realisation that maybe it works the other way too. If you've been championing and raving about a film you're just as biased when you watch it. Hahaha.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 09:45 |
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Whatever happened to that fat activist guy who tweeted his Ghostbusters toys beating Jon Snow up?
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 12:28 |
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Hahaha that is amazing satire. Keen like mustard. That is a good one.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 15:11 |
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GOON READING "A MODEST PROPOSAL": Heh, source your quotes much?
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 15:41 |
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Thanks to the internet you can probably read the writings of someone who sincerely thinks eating irish babies is a good idea.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 15:55 |
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"ghostbros"
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 16:00 |
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ok seriously. they have the worst PR ever.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 16:46 |
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/ Ghostbusters is the only movie with a decrease from Friday to Saturday. The other movies are seeing increases of 30-45%. The one with the smallest increase is 24.6%.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 16:53 |
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Decent Friday though. e: Lost to Secret Life of Pets on its second day. That's gotta sting.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 17:07 |
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Whatever happened to that fat activist guy who tweeted his Ghostbusters toys beating Jon Snow up? Retarded_Clown_ posted:Stop reading this post
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 17:11 |
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Germstore posted:Decent Friday though. Ghostbusters is the #1 Friday movie in America!
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 17:15 |
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Pvt.Scott posted:The screening I went to on Thursday for Ghostbusters wasn't barren, but it certainly wasn't crowded. I was the only person in the lower tier seats and less than half of the upper tier was full. Sure, it was a 7:30 show on a Thursday, but still a pretty poor turnout. Just a note, ever since theaters stopped doing midnight shows and started doing 7:00 releases, attendance has been way down for Thursdsy night previews except for really big tent pole action movies like Avengers or Star Wars. Comedies in general do relatively poorly in that slot. Ghostbusters Thurs. gross of about 3.4 mil is actually pretty good seen in that light. Since then it has dropped somewhat, so it is definitely not a runaway hit. But at this point it is not likely to flop.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 17:22 |
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There's forums out there full of people posting similar things, but for real
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 18:54 |
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:GOON READING "A MODEST PROPOSAL": Heh, source your quotes much? CineD goons have written similar things unironically caleramaen posted:Since then it has dropped somewhat, so it is definitely not a runaway hit. But at this point it is not likely to flop. It's likely to flop or break even not just not bomb. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it dropped to fourth after Lights Out and ST Beyond come out NutritiousSnack fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jul 17, 2016 |
# ? Jul 17, 2016 19:05 |
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caleramaen posted:Just a note, ever since theaters stopped doing midnight shows and started doing 7:00 releases, attendance has been way down for Thursdsy night previews except for really big tent pole action movies like Avengers or Star Wars. Comedies in general do relatively poorly in that slot. Ghostbusters Thurs. gross of about 3.4 mil is actually pretty good seen in that light. I figured it was something like that.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 19:12 |
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NutritiousSnack posted:CineD goons have written similar things unironically pretty much. it picked a bad month to come out. plus word of mouth/various reviews/the retarded PR campaigns didn't help
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 19:13 |
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XK posted:http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/ Mumpy Puffinz posted:it already made a profit. LOL
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 19:32 |
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Applewhite posted:When was the last time you saw a fantasy hero battle a rad skeleton? A while, right? That's because skeletons are bad luck in China so they're not allowed in films anymore. I genuinely don't know. When did this happen? When was the last hero-skeleton fight in a major movie? darth_pizza posted:I will gladly watch that over Star Trek : The Motion Picture, which is the only film I've ever seen that should have come with an amphetamine suppository, so you can stay awake during it. If you're not doing drugs while watching that movie, you're missing the point. I think the most damning reason I won't see it is an interview on NPR this week with the creators talking about how they were writing "from life" while the controversy was going on. Like they went into the preproduction process having already generated buzz both positive and negative, and hadn't even started on the story or anything else. Instead they wrote a scant plot based on an already existing plot and instead of focusing on writing actual jokes, they would write to respond to criticism from people on the Internet. That's it. That's their writing process. "Writing from life". And they're happy about it. Guess what failures: if your life is responding to internet trolls, your life is boring. Norm MacDonald once said that there are two kinds of comedians out there: those who write "jokes" to show that they're smarter than everyone else, and those who are actually funny. That and if I did see this, it would be the third or forth movie remake/sequel this year where half the script/screen time is just that Conan O'Brien sketch "Memba this?" (Seriously, gently caress Independence Day!)
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 20:02 |
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Kermode of course had to play to his liberal audience but still says he thinks its okay and that frankly to him means it has not met his expectations. He also thankfully didn't try to play up the movie by making GBS threads on the original.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 20:02 |
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My Q-Face posted:I genuinely don't know. When did this happen? When was the last hero-skeleton fight in a major movie? Pirates of the Caribbean.
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 20:16 |
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That's counting the 10 million tax break too, without considering marketing or distribution costs (which is in the tens of millions area)
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 20:22 |
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i dont understand why cineD wants this movie to be a success so bad, what's wrong with it just being a lovely movie that failed, happens all the time
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 20:25 |
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Paladinus posted:Pirates of the Caribbean. That was a pretty big success. How did it do in China?
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# ? Jul 17, 2016 20:26 |
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Do it ironically posted:i dont understand why cineD wants this movie to be a success so bad, what's wrong with it just being a lovely movie that failed, happens all the time because they had hope for it and they want everyone else to share that hope
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