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I haven't seen Lady Ghostbusters but based off the stuff shown in the HitB and Plinkett reviews, I'm going to guess that anyone who legit thought that poo poo was funny probably also thinks that Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men are the finest television comedies ever made
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"You cant do improv in sci fi!" Good to see Mike has conveniently forgotten about Patton oswalts improv performance in Space Cop............ And how it was the only good part of that.... Film ?
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Aug 9, 2017 09:31
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counterfeitsaint posted:There was a joke? Yeah it wasn't the suffering of racial minorities. It was that the Aldridges were terrible people, starting with their old-timey racism and culminating in one of them murdering the staff and then the patriarch locking her in the basement until she died.
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Aug 9, 2017 09:32
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PostNouveau posted:Nah, I think he has a good point about not improv-ing sci-fi. You can improv around material about relationships because you can draw on your own experiences. i don't think that part was well-argued, half the review was just saying the original gb was mostly an entrepreneur thing of some schmoes who were running up debt on their get-rich-quick scheme who were all individually well-developed, real people with relationships with other characters and that the original didn't actually bring up too much science or try to explain anything sounds to me like that's the sort of thing you totally improv! it's kind of funny mike didn't know how much improv the original had so just he assumed it was all script so he could say you don't improv sc-fi
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Aug 9, 2017 09:42
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I would love to see Mike and crew make a low key, sarcastic, tightly written Sci fi comedy.... I think they would really excel at it. But I think Mike is too insecure (especially as someone who known as a movie basher) to make a sincere effort. Everything he does has that whole "eh.... Low effort" wink wink it's so lovely and THAT'S the joke! It just feels like a cop out. Imagine a space cop that's played more straight. More subtle. Less goofy accents and falling down jokes.
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Aug 9, 2017 09:46
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these guys have no talent at moviemaking. theyre a bunch of 30-40 year old losers who couldnt make it in any sort of movie related business, instead taking jobs as construction workers and wedding filmers. Fortunately they got their lucky break on youtube, bashing poo poo moopies they should not make movies it was never their destiny
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Aug 9, 2017 09:50
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I feel It's like Mike was saying that its harder to improvise a comedy sci fi moreso than him saying it wasn't possible. Much like Mike I am not gonna bother to go back and check the script.
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Aug 9, 2017 09:54
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah it wasn't the suffering of racial minorities. It was that the Aldridges were terrible people, starting with their old-timey racism and culminating in one of them murdering the staff and then the patriarch locking her in the basement until she died.
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Aug 9, 2017 10:13
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Do you guys believe in ghosts?
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Aug 9, 2017 10:29
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reignofevil posted:I feel It's like Mike was saying that its harder to improvise a comedy sci fi moreso than him saying it wasn't possible. "The movie's fatal flaw is that it's an overstuffed turkey. You can overstuff a Judd Apatow style ad-libbed comedy but a science fiction based comedy needs to be precise. Just like science itself." To be fair he says the movie being overstuffed is the issue, not ad-libbing. But I take it to mean "overstuffed with ad-libbing" otherwise it makes no sense. Either way, I don't buy that you can't make an overstuffed and/or adlibbed sci fi movie because "science has to be precise!" I think his problem is ad-libbing tends to make movies silly, and he's ok with Judd Apatow movies being silly but not Ghostbusters.
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Aug 9, 2017 10:31
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Oben posted:It's completely irrelevant to the rest of the film and just wastes time at the very start of this terrible movie, was their point. His point is it goes on too long for something non-essential, which is basically the same overarching complaint for most of the film. It's one of the funnier scenes of the film though as long as you're not taking it as a series of racist jokes. It's not completely irrelevant as it sets up the first haunting they go too. It's weird he says the Aldridge lady doesn't show up again until the end, when she shows up like two scenes later as the ghost that barfs on Kristen Wiig.
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Aug 9, 2017 10:34
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I think a big problem here is that the ad-libbing resulted in extremely unfunny queef jokes
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Aug 9, 2017 10:35
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im the only man on the planet who liked space cop
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Aug 9, 2017 10:39
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Origami Dali posted:im the only man on the planet who liked space cop Seek help
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Aug 9, 2017 10:40
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We Know Catheters posted:gently caress off. 🙊 Nah.
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Aug 9, 2017 11:03
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Zzulu posted:Do you guys believe in ghosts? No. They don't exist like Jesus. Shinjobi posted:Nah. 👍😛😘
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Aug 9, 2017 11:38
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Ghostbusters 2016 is only really worth talking about in reference to how insanely mad people got online about it for whatever reasons. For me it fell into the same pit as Rogue One, The Force Awakens, etc where it was amnesia in film form because I was for better or worse engaged for the entirety of all those movies and then the instant I left the theater and threw my popcorn bucket away I had forgotten literally 90% of what happened GB2016 was bad but it was ephemeral; it just evaporated from my brain when I stopped watching it. The new Star Wars stuff was good if I can recall how I felt about it, but I couldn't tell you the name of any character in Rogue One with a gun to my head.
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Aug 9, 2017 12:00
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Fabricated posted:The new Star Wars stuff was good if I can recall how I felt about it, but I couldn't tell you the name of any character in Rogue One with a gun to my head. What about Dort Vador.
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Aug 9, 2017 12:05
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What was Rich's line? "It's like brain death but with popcorn?"
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Aug 9, 2017 12:09
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In Re:View Jay, I think, mentioned that there was almost no impov in the original film. The script was just insanely good. You loving idiots. You can't improv anything on that level.
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Aug 9, 2017 12:39
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The review is hilarious. I laughed a lot. I did not laugh when I saw GB2016 though 
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Aug 9, 2017 12:51
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The scene with Jack and Rich out of nowhere was great and made me laugh unlike GB16 Improv can be fine but it seems like there was no other plan for GB16 other than "ehhhhh let the actors write the jokes for me in real time and find it in editing"
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Aug 9, 2017 13:44
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Schweinhund posted:And it's an improv movie. I hate improv in movies, but they are a thing. I like improv-heavy comedies. Ghostbusters is a very bad improv-heavy comedy.
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Aug 9, 2017 13:48
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Fabricated posted:The new Star Wars stuff was good if I can recall how I felt about it, but I couldn't tell you the name of any character in Rogue One with a gun to my head. I was going to argue with you on that point, but then I realized I couldn't fully remember the name of the main character. I almost mentally called her Leland Orser.
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Aug 9, 2017 14:06
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mike put the two scenes from gb that made me laugh in the review (the mayor reacting to being called the mayor from jaws and a scene with thor being dumb) and for one second i was like maybe the movie wasnt as bad as i remember. but then he put all the other scenes in the review and i remembered that i had been just looking at my phone for the last half hour of the film.
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Aug 9, 2017 14:09
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Improv works when the actors have a good understanding of their characters and have the freedom to ad lib a bit, but are still constrained by the plot..... It doesn't work when everyone seems to just be trying to out "random waaaacky" each other
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Aug 9, 2017 14:11
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:mike put the two scenes from gb that made me laugh in the review (the mayor reacting to being called the mayor from jaws and a scene with thor being dumb) and for one second i was like maybe the movie wasnt as bad as i remember. but then he put all the other scenes in the review and i remembered that i had been just looking at my phone for the last half hour of the film. Same here. Mike's review actually kinda made we want to watch this movie. A lot of the scenes looked legitimately funny. The dialogue in the subway tunnel got a chuckle out if me "you don't expect the urine smell" "yeeeaaaahh.... That's not really gonna get any better" just seemed well delivered and natural. But I guess that kind of stuff is better in small doses..... Two hours of non stop "witty" banter must be tiring
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Aug 9, 2017 14:22
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while i really love the original ghostbusters, which really does get better the closer you look at it, i don't really feel injured by the remake's existence and thus don't really feel like its necessary for plinketting, which is at its best a intensive lengthy cathartic treatment for deep scar tissue. the matrix sequels, on the other hand
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Aug 9, 2017 14:47
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I... can't think of a movie that really made me laugh that was released recently. Might be that my soul is now a pitch-black ball of hate, might be that I don't go out of my way to watch "comedies" any more, or it might be that the majority of them have kinda sucked for a long time. Probably some combination but I feel like it's mostly on me for just not seeking out that kind of movie very often
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Monkey Fracas posted:I... can't think of a movie that really made me laugh that was released recently. Might be that my soul is now a pitch-black ball of hate, might be that I don't go out of my way to watch "comedies" any more, or it might be that the majority of them have kinda sucked for a long time. Probably some combination but I feel like it's mostly on me for just not seeking out that kind of movie very often yo spiderman homecoming is a straight up comedy and excellent
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Last movie I laughed at was team america: world police, watched by myself in a nearly empty theater in abilene TX on a Tuesday afternoon. It was also the last time I felt true joy of any kind.
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Is this Joss Whedons fault? If you had a time machine who would you stop? Hitler or Whedon?
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Gildiss posted:Is this Joss Whedons fault? what id do is go back in time to kill whedon's mother instead. then id set up an app that will eventually become skynet and turn my body into nano robots for some reason but even if i am stopped judgement day (the release of gb 2016) would happen anyway
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Aug 9, 2017 14:57
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Monkey Fracas posted:The scene with Jack and Rich out of nowhere was great and made me laugh unlike GB16 I'm just watching all of the Ghostbusters 2016 clips on the movieclips youtube channel and whoever edited this movie should be shot. You can't just edit a $100 million sfx extravaganza like that. Along with the invasion of hack writers and hack directors comes the hack editors. People who are good at television should stay in television.
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Monkey Fracas posted:I... can't think of a movie that really made me laugh that was released recently. Might be that my soul is now a pitch-black ball of hate, might be that I don't go out of my way to watch "comedies" any more, or it might be that the majority of them have kinda sucked for a long time. Probably some combination but I feel like it's mostly on me for just not seeking out that kind of movie very often You know, I got to thinking about this and the last movie I can remember that made me laugh out loud (lol as they say) was What We Do in the Shadows, and that was only a few scenes. The latest comedy I would consider genuinely great is In Bruges from 9 years ago. Either my sense of humor is really picky or comedies are in a sorry state these days.
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chaosbreather posted:yo spiderman homecoming is a straight up comedy and excellent yeah was meaning to check that out; seems a little different than the million other loving superhero movies Dmitri-9 posted:I'm just watching all of the Ghostbusters 2016 clips on the movieclips youtube channel and whoever edited this movie should be shot. You can't just edit a $100 million sfx extravaganza like that. Along with the invasion of hack writers and hack directors comes the hack editors. People who are good at television should stay in television. Like this is what kills me- how much did the SFX stuff cost in this film? Would maybe sacrificing 10% of the budget of that and hiring a loving competent editor and a few script doctors or god forbid actually good writers be that big of a sacrifice in the bang-zoom-pretty-colors department? I dunno maybe that's really expensive/difficult or something
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Gildiss posted:Is this Joss Whedons fault? It's not Whedon's fault, it's every other hack who tries to do his humor but sucks at it.
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I wouldn't be near as mad at GB16 if not for the absolutely cynical weird astroturf feminism promotional campaign they ran to sell the movie to people beyond that I kept catching these little moments in the press footage where the actors/other people look like they're going to throw up for like a half second when they're forced to go "yeah, the movie's... great...I love it" lol The only one who looks halfway comfortable shilling for this trash is professional conman Paul Feig
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New Concept Hole posted:It's amazing how terrible this movie is whenever they just show the movie, that it almost makes the review unwatchable.
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They didn't even bring up that Melissa McCarthy screams all of her lines in the review.
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