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You mean like taking a poo poo and looking at it?
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rear end Catchcum posted:You mean like taking a poo poo and looking at it? Is this how you try and view the future? Or do you just crave to see your own reflection before you flush?
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Oct 9, 2016 01:02
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This film has been pretty huge in Hong Kong. Packed in the cinemas when it was out, toys everywhere, I see people with the GB logo every day, and the theme park has a huge Ghostbusters event for Halloween.
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Alan_Shore posted:This film has been pretty huge in Hong Kong. Packed in the cinemas when it was out, toys everywhere, I see people with the GB logo every day, and the theme park has a huge Ghostbusters event for Halloween. What a stirring endorsement! Let's see what other films were huge in that region... The Warcraft movie. Terminator: Genisys. etc. etc. etc.
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Oct 9, 2016 10:05
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Well the point was that Ghostbusters as a brand isn't only popular in America, and seems to be quite popular in other parts of the world! I made no statement of the quality of the movie!
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Oct 9, 2016 13:48
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http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/hongkong/yearly/ Ghostbusters 2016 is only the 26th highest grossing movie in HK this year... I can't say anything about the wider appreciation for the Ghostbusters in HK, but it's also possible that since Sony thought Ghostbusters would be their tentpole movie of 2016 and kick-start a new cinematic universe, the theme park deal was penned before the film was released.
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Oct 9, 2016 15:54
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Long story short is that Sony is desperate for a film franchise with international appeal because the Bond rights are still up in the air and the MIB / Jump Street crossover idea collapsed, and after that it really has nothing to speak of outside of one-shot movies like Bad Boys.
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Oct 9, 2016 22:36
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Sony would really be better off retreating to the safety of video games and just chill on film for a bit.
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Oct 9, 2016 22:44
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I thought they couldn't show gb there because of ghosts not being culturally accepted? Was that just some bullshit floating around?
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rear end Catchcum posted:I thought they couldn't show gb there because of ghosts not being culturally accepted? Was that just some bullshit floating around? While it's true that ghosts and china are a thing, maybe them "killing" the ghosts in the movie makes it okay there?
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Oct 10, 2016 00:57
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Timby posted:Long story short is that Sony is desperate for a film franchise with international appeal because the Bond rights are still up in the air and the MIB / Jump Street crossover idea collapsed, and after that it really has nothing to speak of outside of one-shot movies like Bad Boys. Aw no, it did? I was really looking forward to that! Do we know what happened? Also Hong Kong is NOT China (not yet anyway). We get all the movies. I was surprised to see that Ghostbusters was so low on that list.
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Timby posted:Long story short is that Sony is desperate for a film franchise with international appeal because the Bond rights are still up in the air and the MIB / Jump Street crossover idea collapsed, and after that it really has nothing to speak of outside of one-shot movies like Bad Boys. They're also desperate for films that have domestic appeal. Ghostbusters is going to be Sony/Columbia's biggest film at the domestic box office for 2016, followed by Angry Birds and Sausage Party. Magnificent Seven might make as much as Sausage Party if they're lucky. In 2015 their biggest movies were Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2, Goosebumps, Pixels and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. That's a pretty terrible track record.
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rear end Catchcum posted:I thought they couldn't show gb there because of ghosts not being culturally accepted? Was that just some bullshit floating around? That's a bit of an urban myth, apparently a lot of Western companies censor themselves when it comes to ghosts and skeletons in hopes of being able to get their product released in China. Here's an article about it. It's strictly about video games, but I think the gist of it could apply to movies and television.
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Ghostbusters did not have a China release, just Hong Kong. Like yeah it's part of China but HK is its own territory.
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Sorry, I didn't know that/remember. Wasn't trying to be disrespectful or anything.
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Oct 10, 2016 16:06
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I've been thinking of a stupid theory of Ghostbusters 2016 that approaches the film in a different way. The characters all unintentionally representing something about the film, itself. The Mayor is Feig: He's in charge of the whole thing, doesn't want this to be a disaster, he's being tough and dressing snappy, but ultimately just leaves everything up to our leads to do whatever they want. The Mayor's Aide is Sony Marketing: On one hand, they want to put the drat cat back into the bag and get people to stop making this whole thing seem like an embarrassment. Now, let's make an embarrassment of the GBs in the media... Federal Agents are GhostCorps/Sony execs: We've got a shared universe going on, you just don't know it yet. JediTalentAgent fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Oct 10, 2016 |
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Oct 10, 2016 17:37
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Some random cool stuff. https://twitter.com/lindsaywsherman/status/785598573102587904 https://twitter.com/ladynoctis/status/784795425106780165 https://twitter.com/pseudomachine/status/784519504013426689 https://twitter.com/ramendoodles/status/779487134898085888 https://twitter.com/bleacherreport/status/784584298414370816 https://twitter.com/stonecoldpiper/status/783771865206710273 https://twitter.com/david_annel/status/783029918712074241 https://twitter.com/thelovelylyss/status/782067734175682560
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Oct 11, 2016 00:40
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I watched this last night. It's interesting that Holtzmann seems to be the most popular character, I thought she was by far the weakest of the four. All the rest had great funny moments but her only part that made me laugh was eating the pringles.
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Oct 11, 2016 20:21
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I liked the part where they see their first ghost and manic pixie egon is eating the pringos. Also I like how Wiig spends the entire movie seeing things and saying what they are like your dad reading billboards aloud on a long drive to the beach
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Oct 11, 2016 22:59
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Like, seriously, did they nix their budget for a descriptive version of the film for the blind so they just had Wiig verbally repeat every visual gag
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Oct 11, 2016 23:03
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It's just. bad. Writing. Plus the more dialogue the faster the pages fill up. The movie has little actual content and that's why no one can quote a joke. There are very, very few.
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Oct 12, 2016 07:48
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there's something really weird about commercialism as a form of activism.
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Oct 12, 2016 18:20
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Jose Oquendo posted:there's something really weird about commercialism as a form of activism. It is indeed. And it's for certain intended by studios/whatever with a mediocre product. It's sad how easily idiots buy into it / warp their perceptions around it.
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Oct 12, 2016 18:23
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Jose Oquendo posted:there's something really weird about commercialism as a form of activism. Windows 10 Professional Edition is the official OS of ending Female Genital Mutilation. The struggle against this backwards, barbaric act is brought to you by Windows 10 Professional Edition, now with integrated Cortana support and the improved Microsoft Edge web browser
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Oct 12, 2016 18:52
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Jose Oquendo posted:there's something really weird about commercialism as a form of activism. It's not activism, you goof. It's bog-standard nerd stuff, except women are doing it. Like look at this dude in a Dr. Who/Transformers mashup shirt: what a fake activist, part of the British Agenda, right?
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It's not activism, you goof. It's bog-standard nerd stuff, except women are doing it. Same. Jeez louise, if you're going to bitch about conspicuous consumption at least be consistent about it.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Same. Except we're not talking about conspicuous consumption, which is an entirely different concept? We're talking about corporations co-opting social movements to sell their worthless garbage, i.e. Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
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What the gently caress are you even trying to say? Those last few posts are just word salad.
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Parkingtigers posted:What the gently caress are you even trying to say? Those last few posts are just word salad. Do you have the reading comprehension of a 6th grader or something.
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Parkingtigers posted:What the gently caress are you even trying to say? Those last few posts are just word salad. You're right, it's really confusing when someone explains a concept to you and you have to try to understand it, as the target audience of the 2016 Ghostbusters film Edit: Let's make it simple. Ghostbusters 2016 is a film with no jokes and that actively thinks you are stupid. The only reason it didn't lose any more money than it did was because of an engineered controversy designed to make seeing the movie some kind of important act of resistance. There's a very good reason why no one seems to be able to recall a single quotable line or joke from this film other than "the power of Patty compels you." Squashing Machine fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Oct 12, 2016 |
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loving finally really thought everyone in this thread loved it and i was crazy.
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Squashing Machine posted:The only reason it didn't lose any more money than it did was because of an engineered controversy designed to make seeing the movie some kind of important act of resistance. 
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rear end Catchcum posted:loving finally really thought everyone in this thread loved it and i was crazy. You are crazy. You can't seem to understand the fact that people like the movie. I mean I am sorry forums posters that people didn't go into the movie to remember quotable lines so that they can regurgitate it on the forums to prove a point but it's a loving stupid metric anyways.
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blackguy32 posted:You are crazy. You can't seem to understand the fact that people like the movie. I mean I am sorry forums posters that people didn't go into the movie to remember quotable lines so that they can regurgitate it on the forums to prove a point but it's a loving stupid metric anyways. I don't know man, now that I know that Sony personally hired Milo to get a bunch of alt-right dudes to spell "Harambe" with their semen on pictures of Leslie Jones and send it to her on twitter, I think it's entirely justified to be concerned.
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You're right, saying a marketing team trumped up the gender politics of this soulless cash grab to make certain people defend it to the death is just as crazy as believing in chemtrails or gangstalking.
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Oct 12, 2016 22:37
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Squashing Machine posted:You're right, saying a marketing team trumped up the gender politics of this soulless cash grab to make certain people defend it to the death is just as crazy as believing in chemtrails or gangstalking. And you fell for it. If the gender politics of the film were so trumped up, it wouldn't be getting this kind of backlash. But instead, people played right into it instead of just ignoring as they should have if the marketing was full of poo poo.
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Squashing Machine posted:You're right, saying a marketing team trumped up the gender politics of this soulless cash grab to make certain people defend it to the death is just as crazy as believing in chemtrails or gangstalking. I think we should investigate these claims. I'll handle the doxxing and you handle the SWATting and we'll get all this sorted out.
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rear end Catchcum posted:loving finally really thought everyone in this thread loved it and i was crazy. You're not alone. This movie is loving awful, and if you liked it you'd probably have been equally entertained by a series of colorful shapes emitting random electronic noises for 126 minutes
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Mierenneuker posted:It's only fair that the Ghostbusters thread is haunted by ghosts from when old GBS died. 
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