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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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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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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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Secret Life of Pets involves the torture of a prisoner, one of the heroes (a hawk) having to visibly resist eating the rest of the cast the entire time he's on screen, a domestic terrorist cell of abandoned pets dedicated to murdering humans, the leader of which hijacks a bus and purposefully rams occupied vehicles on a bridge with it while the protagonist works the gas pedal, the repeated brutal beating of several humans and a one-sided obsessive relationship being treated as romantic. All, of course, played for laughs. Like, dark stuff in kids movies is great, don't get me wrong, but they didn't do any of it well. It just felt kinda schizophrenic. I guess I'll check out some reviews and see if I'm just crazy. At least the animation was colorful and fun and nice to look at. Ghostbusters was just too safe. There wasn't even a scene of anyone getting ghost cunnilingus for christ's sake.
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Jul 18, 2016 00:21
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Dapper_Swindler posted:yeah. i saw that in the trailer. I wondered why the bunny sounded like some 1960s/70s black power/liberation/days of rage leader. do the police shoot him in the head at the end or something? No. Kevin Hart's bunny gets captured by a little girl while fleeing the aftermath of probably injuring and killing dozens of humans on a bridge and instantly becomes a traitor to the cause because all pets secretly want to be owned.
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Jul 18, 2016 00:39
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I'd say a remake of Armageddon where the rock wins, but These Our Final Hours already exists and is p chill.
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Jul 18, 2016 02:24
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Cowman posted:I was taking a look at upcoming films on Rotten Tomatoes and here's one I'm actually interested in (and is relevant to the thread) I'm a giant goon and I think fat jokes are great. My undulating rotundness is inherently absurd. So, I guess some people can take a joke.
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Jul 18, 2016 03:45
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eric posted:LOL who the gently caress rates anything on a 1-8 scale? Base eight, so what?
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Jul 18, 2016 17:02
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1500quidporsche posted:Whoever does the marketing at Sony is a loving genius for spinning this whole thing as controversial. If everybody just shrugged their shoulders at the female cast this would be forgotten as quickly as the Total Recall or RoboCop remakes. I saw the Total Recall remake and I literally only remembered it existed because someone mentioned it earlier in this thread. A good movie, I assume.
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Jul 18, 2016 17:11
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HEY, SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES, WATCH OUR GHOST FART MOVIE, THE JOKES ARE MADE BY WOMEN!
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Jul 18, 2016 19:40
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:Well it was the first fart joke I've laughed at in years so there's that. I was mocking Paul Feig's retarded pot-stirring there. I'm actually glad there are more female leading-roles these days that involve the characters doing the heavy plot lifting rather than as a companion of the protagonists at best. If nothing else, Ghostbusters introduced me to Kate McKinnon who I now even know exists. I've checked out some her previous work the last couple days, despite not having been interested in SNL for years, for example. I like her poo poo and I would like to see more of her. She was really the most enjoyable part of the movie for me. As for the social progressives thing, I was just aping the language in the posts before mine. I want the next GB movie to explore the New Jersey Parallelogram. I think that was in one of the cartoons.
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Jul 18, 2016 22:43
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Ghostbusters getting banned in China had me wondering: Hey guys, why would people want to sell to a market of billions of customers? Am confused, send help.
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Jul 19, 2016 04:34
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Why even make films for the US any longer though? They're just wasting a big chunk of what they might make in the US on advertising and distribution and poo poo. Hollywood should just treat the US like the third income stream after China and India we are and only release the movies they make to the states after the big customers have had their taste. I'd be down for seeing some actual US indie poo poo in theaters near me. The quirky, intimate, indie theater downtown doesn't count because they only have like 50 seats for a showing. The current crop of movies these last few years, this year especially, is making me really question my lifelong passion for cinema. Sure, neat little films still get made, but when do I just do myself a favor and cut off the giant tumor that is modern mainstream movies by just not watching anything? It's not worth clawing through poo poo to find gems any longer because they've weaponized the poo poo.
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Jul 19, 2016 05:06
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I'm fine with lovely popcorn movies and lowest common denominator dreck existing, that's how art is. Most of it is poo poo. It just seems like the poo poo has really been honed to a septic razor edge and it's disheartening to see such vast resources used for it. Budgets could be cut drastically and nobody would give a gently caress. I'd rather watch loving Birdemic rather than Transformers because at least the first one didn't cost the monthly GDP of a tiny country.
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Jul 19, 2016 18:04
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TIL Winston passes the "paper bag test".
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Jul 19, 2016 18:21
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Germstore posted:Plus it's a bunch of people yelling into a sea of sand brain weirdos. Could you imagine if companies and public figures were expected to have an SA account? It would probably be awkward and cringey like the sponsored stuff on imgur.
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Jul 20, 2016 16:10
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Groovelord Neato posted:i like how it turned out leslie jones was the least bad part of the movie despite her looking like the worst part in the trailers. I could have done without the yelling. She was the most normal and natural character though.
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Jul 20, 2016 22:57
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ElGroucho posted:Of all the great black female comedians that could have hit it big, why Leslie Jones? Why not Luenell? She could play herself in every SNL skit and still loving slay me. I had never heard of, nor as far as I can recall, even seen Leslie Jones before Ghastblasters 2267.
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Jul 21, 2016 16:39
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Groovelord Neato posted:how did she wait 30 years when this all time great action movie moment existed the year she was born?? Pfft, whatever. Ripley had to use disparaging misogynist insults to try and look cool and she had to use a robot (no doubt designed by a man) to win her fight. Patriarchal trash.
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Jul 22, 2016 14:55
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Casablanca is just people talking, so lame. Did you know To Catch a Thief doesn't have a single 360 camera slo-mo crane kick?
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Jul 22, 2016 16:44
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:it cost about $20 to see a new film $5 matinees and $7.50 after 6 PM for me in the glorious US of A, in a large city, even. Motherfuckers be price warring up ins. That's not even the cheapest theater, it's just two blocks from my house so it's the one I go t o all the time. Move somewhere with actual desperate poverty. It's much cheaper.
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Jul 25, 2016 03:35
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:doesnt it cost more where poverty is awful Maybe the theater owners in the Ozarks just aren't smart enough to exploit the poor?
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Jul 25, 2016 05:45
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Reboot Willow. Have generic techno-metal blasting and those speed-up-slow-down bits during the entirety of every fight. Throw in as much swearing as PG-13 will let you get away with. (I think that's one gently caress, a couple shits, a few damns and probably handful of dicks.) Make all of the supernatural elements clearly the result of sleight-of-hand and stage magic and doggedly point out that the queen is an illegitimate ruler so we can hopefully squeeze this one into China with minimal effort. Oh yeah, instead of played out hobbits or whatever, the heroes are just a couple bland white actors with fake accents. Sorcia needs gigantic tits and no speaking parts.
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Jul 25, 2016 17:16
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Ork of Fiction posted:They showed the dance number during the credits. I usually stay for credits to hear the music and pick out interesting names and weird jobs titles or special thanks, etc. I was done with Ghostbusters the moment the credits started rolling and left. Glad to hear that what sounds like a genuinely entertaining moment in a mediocre fail pile was relegated to credit duty.
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Jul 26, 2016 02:56
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It would have been better for Hearst to just let the movie play and ignore it. That wasn't his MO, apparently.
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Jul 27, 2016 17:57
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I'm pretty sure Hamilton sucks and I didn't even know it existed until today. That's my professional review.
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Jul 31, 2016 00:59
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Groovelord Neato posted:how is this possible. I don't read lovely click bait tastemaker sites? My friends have some modicum of taste and good sense? I'm not sure, really.
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Jul 31, 2016 03:16
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Groovelord Neato posted:it's pretty much everywhere not just click bait tastemaker sites. you're on the internet, you should've picked it up via pop culture osmosis. Blind luck or willful ignorance is all I've got left for you.
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Jul 31, 2016 20:39
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thathonkey posted:can you hire critics to give your movie a good review like restaurants on yelp It's not like there's some sort of film reviewers' guild with tight control over ethics or something. Usually you don't have to bribe or pay a reviewer because you've already given their publisher/website piles of ad money and there's an implicit danger that if you turn in a harsh review when a studio handed you 100k for ads, they might decline to advertise with you in the future. That's how video game reviews work for AAA titles that are poo poo.
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Aug 7, 2016 05:51
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bongwizzard posted:Imho if they had hired him to make the movie version of "World War Z" it would have been a perfect film. Just get the professionally voice acted World War Z audio book. The only thing you'll miss is pictures. It's pretty alright to listen to while working on poo poo. E: Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie followed by Star Trek IV
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Aug 10, 2016 17:16
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The female cast Ocean's Whatever remake had better be dykes all the way down. Not a single man or hint of heterosexuality in the film. I don't live in the Progressive Future Wonderland just to see tepid half-measures.
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Aug 12, 2016 16:31
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DoctorStrangelove posted:My sister saw GhostBusters 2K16 movie and said it was bad. Definitely not an ally. You should get her involuntarily committed so she can get the help she needs to stop hating her own gender.
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Aug 13, 2016 22:52
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Deceptive markings and mannerisms give a predator a greater window of opportunity in which to strike, and saves it the trouble of wasting 30 minutes tying loving balloon animals and risking exposing the charade through close, prolonged interaction. Todd McFarlane clown is a less convincing disguise, but is enough camouflage to create a much wider field of opportunity than just always appearing as some nightmarish hellbeast would allow, by far. With as unsettling as some people find normal clowns, the "twisted carnival" variety might actually find good success hunting in that clown-phobic demographic as they are typically ok with weird Juggalo/Cirque de Solei style clowns, as far as I know. If Shaggy 2 Dope, some tiny gymnast in clown white and a leotard covered with purple glitter and a full-blown, honest to god children's party/circus/rodeo clown all needed my help at the same time, the traditional clown would probably be dead last priority for me. I don't know why. I don't even dislike clowns.
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Aug 18, 2016 21:57
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I haven't seen or read It, so all I know is that it has a clown that kills people or something? E: which is probably true for most of the people making big decisions on the reboot.
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Aug 19, 2016 14:12
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Yeah, it seems like using the clown completely misses the point of the whole thing if you're setting it in a different time and place. Children and adults are probably just as easy to scare, but children are much easier to handle if they fight back or try to flee, I guess. You'd think adults would taste better. They've had a lifetime of fears and anxiety and have even likely experience some form of existential dread or crisis. Some of them even have deeply ingrained phobias and anxieties that you could exploit to get them to reach a fever pitch right before you feed. Kids would be like eating tatertot casserole; quick, it will technically feed you, really bland, depressing to anyone watching you eat it.
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I think It was just a lonely, depressed bachelor who didn't want to put any effort or craft into his meals. Maybe if a Ms. It were to crash into his life he'd shape up and long con her a nice meal to bring back to his recently tidied hellbeast lair.
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Aug 19, 2016 20:42
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I want a proper American remake of Let the Right One In where the main characters are in high school and the vampire is actually a girl and has huge knockers and like 50+ people die and there's a sub-plot about a 5000 year-old global monster hunter society after the vampire which is why she needs a new guardian who is all buff and dangerous now. Also, there's a fight with the vampire, a hunter, a werewolf and a mummy at the end that paves the way for a sequel and a cinematic universe.
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Aug 22, 2016 16:37
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Sure, but a strange amount of people seem to be strangely distressed by clowns, therefore IT has always and ever will be a clown to the general populace.
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Aug 23, 2016 19:55
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ProperCoochie posted:IT also identifies himself as Legion and other biblical demons to an old man. Does IT mention the demon stuff to the old man to put him at ease, in a sense? I could see a dude all into paranormal stuff or tied up in Judeo-Christian lore becoming more fascinated than frightened at that point. It would be an advanced level lure. I guess he only does kids, though. Maybe it's just habit. Or was IT saying that he was identified as Legion in the New Testament and not that he was that specific entity?
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Dead Cosmonaut posted:late reply but can anyone imagine Mel Brooks actually making another movie? An all tranny cast in blackface acting in a modern take on Fiddler on the Roof, but the whole thing is CGI and set in space.
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