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Has anyone done a post-mortem on what went wrong with Ghostbusters 2016? I don't mean garbage written by chuds mad that they let girls in the treehouse, but how it ended up being a mediocre movie that kind of just tanked at the box office in spite of seemingly being set up for success in a lot of ways.
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Iron Crowned posted:One of these days I'll get around to watching GB2016 It's basically watching an A grade comedy cast wrestle with a C grade script. It's not terrible, but there are long stretches where it seems like the writers forgot to even try to be funny, and the actors are just trying to power through dialogue that's just sort of there. Nothing is scary even on the level of the librarian ghost scene, nothing is really threatening and nothing seems to matter very much. By the end of the movie the heroes have saved the day, but the characters themselves don't seem that happy about it. I wanted to like it but really struggled to maintain interest. At least that's my hot take.
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Aug 1, 2018 17:10
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Squashing Machine posted:It's a shotgun approach to joke-writing that speaks less to crafting specific jokes that you know will land and more to just throwing poo poo out there and hoping something works. My only argument with this is that it doesn't work on the level of a joke-a-second movie like Airplane! or Kentucky Fried Movie, either.
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Aug 1, 2018 19:25
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Squashing Machine posted:In GB2016, the universe unjustly punishes the Ghostbusters until they win. In GB1, the universe unjustly punishes everyone else, and that's why it's funny. This is a good observation, but I think the GB2016 approach could have been decent if the ending felt like a big win. Beating up your heroes until they triumph over adversity is a classic crowd-pleaser, but the audience really needs to feel like finally winning was a big deal emotionally for the characters. In GB1 it basically ends with big cheering crowds and  I LOVE THIS TOWN while GB2016 ends with them just sitting around a table in a bar with  faces on going, "That was pretty good, right?"
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Aug 7, 2018 16:25
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GB2016's moment of... triumph?
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Aug 7, 2018 16:36
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Fart City posted:The tone of GB2016 honestly makes more sense if you view it as a live action reboot of The Real Ghostbusters, rather than the 1984 film. If carries about the same stakes and consequences as a Saturday morning cartoon, while eschewing nearly any real horror elements. No GB2016 joke is as good as this IMO: Peter: Anything that looks like Godzilla wearing an octopus hat shouldn't be hard to find. Squashing Machine posted:It sounds like they're reading the scene directions instead of their lines. They're just narrating everything that's already happening visually. Sarcastically, I'm in charge.
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Aug 7, 2018 21:26
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I could never get the PC version of that game to run worth a poo poo, even though my computer blew the recommended specs out of the water. 
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May 30, 2019 15:25
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Drink-Mix Man posted:Do kids still ride bikes? I don't see it much anymore. Trying to imagine a Dutch version of "Kids on bikes find an X" movie. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. 
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Dec 9, 2019 21:52
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Marshmallow can't melt steel beams with cores of pure selenium 
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Jul 25, 2020 17:27
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