Mr. Plinkett's Ghostbusters (2016) Review
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2017
- Who ya gonna call? Why everyone's favorite curmudgeon, Harry S. Plinkett! He's back to breakdown what went so terribly wrong with Ghostbusters (2016) and why it SUCKS so HARD.
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I honestly thought the director was an actor pretending to be a pompous director.
Maybe that's the secret.
Maybe in five years, Paul Feig is gonna reveal that his whole career was just an elaborate piece of postmodern performance art.
Distracted Globe Productions Genius!
It broke new ground!
I thought it was Fred Armisen trying to do Mr. Rogers
Paul Feig has been lost in his Heavyweights character for years
George Lucas is sitting back and saying thank goodness it's not me this time.
Vince L bend over bend over let plinkett come over...
Right
The prequels are better than this awful piece of insult crap!
+BigNintendoNerd silent hill revelation is...probably better
George Lucas probably doesn't give a sh!t about YT reviews though... But yeah I get you...
"I already hear he's onto his next writing project - his suicide note" gets me every time lmao
I'm still waiting for that project to come into fruition
@@dredgewalker These Hollyweird types don't off themselves all that often. You have a while to wait, still, I'm afraid.
It's been a minute since I heard a joke that bleak that made me laugh. Plinkett reviews are friggin rad man.
I watch this like once a month, and always die at that part.
For me it's "what award did Paul Fieg win? A golden turkey? A golden shower?"
"You know, we're all losers. You don't see us trying to end the world over it!"
Is actually a pretty good line. Glad they cut it from the movie
Thought that too. It sounds like something from the original
hahah that is a good line. would have been good character awareness. way to go sony!
It's a shite line.
@@aftershock4g I mean, this is why improvisation in a movie only works if it's part of a process, and not the entire process. If she had said that line and the director had said "That line was pretty good -- let's get a few more takes of that line specifically", that might have worked.
Definitely a good line delivered badly. If she gave it a smarter tag at the end it could've worked. Something about creating a cross fold inter-dimensional rift.
"I wanted it based on real science as much as possible, we hired a nuclear physicist out of M.I.T." Easiest paycheck of that dude's life right there.
AJ I can’t imagine he put it in his resumé
I hope he is from the MIT people thinks at least. I mean, it is also name of an intelligence agency of some country.
If - and I say if - he was telling the truth, no. No it wasn't. When you have real life expertise in a field and it gets trampled on, it hurts. It's like being a trained musician and being forced to perform as a Chuck E Cheese mascot.
@@carloscaro9121 im sure the money he got made it ok.
MIT students invited the schizophrenic "Time Cube" guy to come talk about why everyone was "educated stupid" for not believing that there are four 24 hour days in one rotation of the earth.
Moment of silence for the poor editor who pieced together a complete movie from all those ad lib takes
For real, what did Feig even direct? From the sound of it, he just sat there made the actors adlib for 5 hours at a time.
Many of the most memorable movie scenes in history are ad-libed. But those where the result of a spontaneous burst of genius. But there was an idea how the scene was supposed to go. You can't just tell the actors to have spontaneous bursts of genius now.
Instead of writing a script, which would have taken less time, Paul Feig decided it would be really funny to make these poor men and women suffer for five hours straight.
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 Which kinda explains all the trouble. They had 4 comedians with no scripts saying and doing stuff without any direction for what was going on or why. The best comedian improv work comes when you give them a script and tell them to not worry about staying 100% faithful to it if they have any ideas. If that had been done, and if the production as a whole been at least competently run, then we could've gotten a good movie, hell we might've even gotten a great one.
@@Arroweast He thought he was filming another The Office episode, got confused
My favorite criticism of this movie is that they tried to make a Ghostbusters movie with 4 Venkmans. Everyone's ad-libbing and making dumb jokes constantly. But no one's playing the straight man.
Ghostbusters: Oops! All Venkmans
"But no one's playing the straight man"
Pun intended? lol
That’s what makes Egon my favorite ghostbuster. His over-the-top straightness makes it funny
Venkwomen
@@1hotni66a I wouldn't call Egon the straight man, he's the "comically logical" character. I'd put Winston as the straight man, the one character who reacts like an average joe to the freaky stuff.
Okay, I'll admit it: I've never even seen this movie, but I've watched this review 20 times. In a row.
Me, personally, I love this review.
Oh, it's a good movie. Better Than the original too
You sure it wasn't 37
@@elektronzer3809 No, I'm not sure.
@@DeviantDork Liar.
When someone's review of your movie is better than the movie itself, it's time to re-evaluate some things.
Ada Thomas What are you gay!?
Yeh.
I could not have said it better.
I was 666th person like this. I always knew I was evil.
Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes.
The way Paul Feig talks feels so slimy. He doesn't speak like a director he talks like a marketer. He talks around the point and constantly reaffirms how great this is instead of talking about the processes and intention with the direction. The way he dresses, gestures, speaks it all screams "I was not hired to improve this, I was hired to sell this"
YUP, you perfectly described the vibe that I'm getting from him. What a hack 🤣
Dude has the mind of a woman. His wife is the man in the the relationship.That's the vibe I get from him.
@@kodyk.7649 He may not be gay. Hes just so in tuned with his feminine energy that he forgot how to access his masculine energy. Honestly I don't think this determines if somebody is gay. But I suspect this behavior (dominant energy of opposing gender,) may lead to being bi, trans and other conditions.
@@kodyk.7649 Oh yeah? Can you link a source where he confirms it cause I couldn't find anything.
But he kinda got drip though
Every actor in this film:
'Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll do anything you say.'
When you watch the uncomfortable improv scenes, you can almost see the cast waiting for the director to step in and say, "Okay stop it there, tweak this, and we'll shoot the scene like that," but it never happens.
love how an ad for a depression medication played half way through
Lmfao
Its always the same depression ad for me on RLM videos. Trintelix or some shit.
I got an ad for Lynchburg tennessee Jack Daniels. It was too good to be true.
Michael Allen i thought i was the only one who got it incessantly
Yeah I get those to FOR ALL THE PLINKETT REVIEWS how dose it know? IS MY COMPUTER WATCHING ME? OH GOD
2:45 Paul Feig: _"I'm not ashamed by that trailer at all"_
*later on*
_"Don't judge the movie by the trailer"_
What a disingenuous piece of shit, that Fieg.
Ends with; "Don't judge the movie by its contents."
Now he should say "Don't judge a bad movie just because you saw it and you think it's bad, because it's actually good".
Btw isn't the whole point of trailers is to sell you the movie, to make you want to go to a cinema and watch it?
@@asterixobelix20 Well, it used to be.
Leslie jones looks like a man in a wig, but Feig loved her.
Paul Fieg is like a parody of a writer and director. It's absolutely bizarre to me that people like him actually exist.
He seems like a nice enough man not a asshole director type but I don’t understand how a movie studio can give him millions of dollars to make a movie.
@@Ken-fh4jc "He seems like a nice enough guy" yeah, no. The reason he got millions to make a movie is because he hangs out on "the island" with the rest of them bud.
Late-stage Hollywood
That demon dog scared the crap out of me when I was a kid, I was so scared for Rick Moranis when it was chasing him.
Same here. It's something about the way it chases HIM, and only him, ignoring everyone else all the way until he catches him at the park.
It's like that kind of nightmare where you're being chased and the monster only cares to get you.
And it comes right after that "Who brought the dog?" line that's funnier than the whole 2016 movie combined.
The scariest thing for a kid is the fear of being eaten.
Me too. While I was a little older when I watched Ghostbusters so I wasn't exactly scared, it definitely unnerved me a bit. But it's also hilariously funny because of Rick Moranis's reaction to it
Add the nuance of everyone at that restaurant not caring at all he was being mauled makes it funny; unlike this film.
I love watching when they show Paul and the actresses laughing and none of the extras or camera operators are even Smiling.
It was the funniest moment in the video. Mr Plinkett is a hero for bringing it up here.
Oh they were smiling
What’s the time stamp?
30:48
@@settispaghetti2273 You da real MVP.
Saw this for free while I was on tour in iraq, and i would rather have been taking fire somewhere
Holy fuck dude
I hope somebody tweets this to Feig, just to hear the little pansy cry more about we're all a bunch of meanies for not liking the movie
Goddammit they really don't have any respect for the troops anymore. Showing them trash like that...
Craplatte Also got to see rogue one a week early tho so not all bad lol
Glad you enjoyed that one at least XD
"he has already moved onto his second writing project: His suicide note" is such a great line
Without a doubt this has to be one of the funniest and greatest reviews ever. I can't believe 58 minutes went by so quickly, 58 minutes better spent than watching that dumpster fire of a remake.
Epic work Mr. Plikett...
His Star wars reviews are equally, if not more, epic.
I have only seen this review 3 times and the actual movie 0 times.
You are missing nothing. I torrented the movie and I feel like I was cheated. It's not good.
Gorb “give me back my seeds damn it”
I still haven’t seen it. I figured it would pop up on TV some time and then watch it. Still haven’t seen it. This movie has been burned.
Those are rookie numbers.
"YoU DoN't GeT tO jUdGe My PeRfEcT mOvIe If YoU'vE nOt SeEn It!!!!!!11"
I think this video got more views than the actual movie.
I've watched this review twice and the movie zero times.
@@21Arrozito lol me too
Ernie Hudson looked so freaking uncomfortable when Bill Murray said he thought they were funny...
Its because he said the only reason he did the movie was “the girls are funny” It was pretty well known that the studio threatened him with legal action if he didnt appear. So he deadpanned a half assed sarcastic praise of the cast when everyone in the room knew the only reason he did the movie was so the morons at sony wouldnt sue him.
Paul Feig is an odd guy. He was the producer of a netflix show of clips hosted by Joel Mchale. Even though the show was mostly clips of reality shows, every show had to have a completely unfunny bit with Paul Feig in the audience holding a cat or something stupid. The guy loves the sound of his own voice and seems to demand being on camera. For the life of me, I can't figure out how he has this career. He is anti comedy, he's one of the most unfunny people on the planet.
so the guy who should have played the mayor directed the movie
Paul is just one example of what has happened to the film industry on the whole. Marketing is king. Content with actual substance is unwanted. Writers cost too much. Just fill it with ads instead. Merchandising and product placement are how films actually make the most money anyway.
Hollywood nepotism.
"For the life of me, I can't figure out how he has this career". "Freaks and Geeks" became a bizarro unsung "cult classic" and he coasted his career around that.
@@darwincity yeah I liked it as a teen but went back to rewatch it and there's really nothing there, other than it's interesting to see where a bunch of these people started. That has nothing to do with the writing though.
All four ads that played during this video were for the exact same depression medication...
Silvermania they were probably playing that to help people who had to whatch the movie
In Germany it was an ad for Glenfiddich whisky :-)...
That's all for our own good, you guys. Big pharma knows what do we REALLY need to fill the vacuum of emptiness in our lives. Trust your mechanic.
What's the medication called?
Silvermania XD Lol
Here comes Plinkett to throw some calming gasoline on this dumpster fire.
Some nice healing salt for that wound.
FWOOSH!
With the Pringles she's like "Here's a fun fact..." and I'm like "nothing about this is 'fun'."
Why even lie about the Pringles product placement? You must think your audience is nothing but mentally handicapped people if you actually expect them to believe that.
Five years later and I still quote “stop dancing” every so often 😂
_"We want our own original story with our own original characters."_ -- Paul Feig
*Remakes the original Ghostbusters beat-for-beat
@@alosim1541 And any of the on-point pacing.
*Uses the same character archetypes for the Ghostbusters team*
Minus the charm
Paul feig is a dumbass i do not like him or the actors in this movie
sixstanger00 That’s because he’s a brainless hack
The editing when the camera cuts to Ernie Hudson when Bill Murray says “It’s because I knew these girls were funny” is literally the best fuckin’ thing ever. It’s also quite sad because Ernie Hudson’s face sums up how most sane people feel about the new film.
Edit: Bill looks like he’s being held hostage in that interview.
Bill is friend with Melissa and is actually a fan of her work they became friends when making a film together before Ghostbusters it was the movie where he played her neighbor
He kinda was
I don't think he's lying about them being funny. They've all had their moments either on TV or in other movies where they were hilarious. Actually I don't know anything about the black woman, so I'm just ASSUMING she's capable of being funny.
But yea, it's possible that they had some contractual leverage over him.
The reveal shot of the original cast... yeesh. He’s not even trying to smirk. I love that moment almost as much as McKinnon’s face at 56:30 ... priceless.
I love how Annie Potts just looks at the floor and refuses to open her eyes, too XD My dad actually acted stage plays with her back in the day - says she was very nice and naturally funny.
Paul Feig bragging about how so many of the scenes were just improvised because "the girls are just so funny" sounds like a juvenile excuse for him and the screenwriters to not have to do any work by actually...oh I dunno....writing a film.
Or to try to blame its failure on them
Bill Murray is well known to adlib his way through most of his films, but if you actually look up and read the shooting script for the original Ghostbusters movie (and you can, it's available for free), there is very little difference between the dialogue written for Peter Venkman and what Bill Murray actually says in the movie. So sometimes you just have to reign in your actor. That's the job of a director. Feig failed at it.
I really appreciate Ghostbusters 2016... For giving us this Plinkett review.
Yes, you know it's a bad film when the review is funnier.
Yeah.. Still not fan of his "voice work", but for around half the time, the video was at least ten ti... wait! I only laugh three or four times because of some Leslie Jones lines or reactions... Damn! that was bad.
It was worth it "BEND OVER BEND OVER LET PLINKETT COME OVER"
"If you don't like it, it's probably because you're a sexist."
-Paul Feig.
In other news, Last Jedi bombed because of racism towards aliens
cool cat777777777 I'm imagining Mr. Plinkett approaching paul feig slowly, singing that, while brandishing a rusty crowbar..... My day has been made
@@Vatniks_are_clowns I'll have you know I'm part martian!
@@Vatniks_are_clowns You wanna be probed?
As a woman, I gotta say ..........
....... I'd love to have Mr. Plinkett *_come over._*
Feig: "Dont judge the movie off the trailer." Me: THATS WHAT A FUCKING TRAILER IS FOR.
LOL. Good comment.
Well to be fair many trailers misrepresent the movie.
The trailer for Drive was terrible and the film was amazing. The trailer for Good Time was okayyyy but the film was terrific. The trailer for Green Lantern was amazing but the movie was Green Lantern. The trailer for Only God Forgives was great but the film was.... well it was technically a film!
Raven Karlin Props to your for that Only God Forgives joke, lmao.
To be fair, Feig probably wasn't too happy with the trailer and the negativity it garnered. I doubt he had much involvement with it anyway.
A director who wears an over-the-tip suit to every day of shooting tells me everything i need to know.
Loved hearing Zoidberg trash this awful movie
Land Robits!!!
When Paul Feig says to the crew stuff like "Thats so great" and "That is so funny." he sounds like Data from Star Trek. He knows it is supposed to be funny according to his programming, but it just isn't and he can't understand why.
Paul Feig shouldn't direct. To me he seems totally out of his natural element - which seems more to be marketing/advertising. He has that polished front saying a lot of politically correct things that means nothing and trying to convince the other party he's constantly right. There must be a cultural problem within Sony films. I can't see how this hack would ever be trusted with a big time production like this even just 10-15 years ago.
Fun Fact regarding his last name "Feig" & what it means as it is of German Origin (Sorry that he ended up in the USA and create this Movie)
In the 1700s when Germans who did not have a Family Name yet had to adopt Family Names per Decree, Families had to choose Names.
So the Name "Feig/Feige" means "Fig" as in the Fruit. But "Feig/Feige" also is what you call someone who is a Coward, usually someone who is afraid of both Physical Confrontation but also afraid of Criticism or to "face" something.
So f.e. "Du bist feig/feige" = engl.: "You are cowardly."
Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps
He reminds me of that other lawyer in My Cousin Vinnie, the one who seemed more professional but then couldn't public speak his way out of a paper bag.
Freaks and Geeks is fantastic though
@@jvjjjvvv9157 true. at the very least we needed it at the time and i wish i'd seen it then.
This film really demonstrates that "comedy" now is just "people bickering"
Comedy is done right in a lot of places. Just don't expect to get it from snooty out of touch Hollywood weirdos.
This film really demonstrates that "criticism" now is just "misogyny"
@benzo "a lot of good movies that's not just nonstop joke" example: Ghostbusters. The real one. And feminists were supporting this movie
Lol exactly
@@TomCruz54321 Reminds me of the time Don Rickles guested on The View and Joy Behar - idiotically thinking she's pulling a Rickles - just starts being a crass, loud-mouthed bitch, just spouting random dumb remarks, totally off-beat and tone-deaf, completely focused on talking over Don and not letting him speak rather than making a joke or actually being funny. No rhythm, no wit, timing, not a single minute lent towards being clever or creative. And she had the biggest, shit-eating grin looking at Don - who looked like he wanted to pull a Sean Connery on "this dumb broad" - like she felt she had achieved something and gotten one over on him. I remember it because it was the first time I've ever seen Don look genuinely annoyed at someone.
"Embarrassingly unfunny" is the perfect description. I felt embarrassed for all involved.
When Bill Murray finished singing the actor's praises, I had to laugh considering how weak the applause was. I think it MIGHT have been a bad sign. Ernie Hudson's reaction was priceless, you know he wanted to laugh.
The main problem with this movie is the writers/producers think that references are "jokes." References are NOT "jokes." Jokes are carefully crafted, with a setup and a payoff and they take time and effort to create.
And yet, people still love Family Guy. I guess references can be funny if done correctly.
Which is the great thing about the original, it was funny without being full of jokes. The best/funniest lines came from Bill Murray, and it wasn't a standard "joke" format of setup punchline (mostly), although there were several of those. He was that friend we all have who is just funny because they say something witty at the right moment. Things that most people wouldn't think even could be a setup for a joke, get turned into a joke. More so, it works because it isn't "setup" in the way you would, where you know there's a punchline coming next.
The best example is when they are in the mayors office and Walter Peck is going on about environmental hazards and noxious fumes. Everyone is playing it straight (which is one of the keys to the film's success), and Ray sets up the joke by insulting Peck, "Everything was fine until dickless here shut off the containment grid." (Mayor) "Is this true?" (The best part is that he is asking the question to the room, not anyone specific) (Venkman) "Yes, it's true. "This man has no dick."
It's a completely smart ass and insulting thing to say, and it's played completely straight- which is why it works as a joke. No one laughs at how funny it is. Chaos ensues, Peck tries to get at Venkman and has to be restrained by the police. Venkman pulls another line out "Well that's what I heard!" referencing what Ray had just said- showing he doesn't actually have an answer to the Mayor's question, and was just being an asshole to Peck. It's brilliant, and it's funny; not because it follows the traditional setup-punchline formula, but because it fits with what Venkman would do as a character. It's the sort of thing that that one friend would say, and then move on from- because they are just being a smart ass, not because it's meant to be a "joke."
ugh...i know a guy & almost everything he says is a reference to something, nothing original & he likes the obscure references more than the popular ones. it gets tiresome
Duane Barry
Family Guy does parodies. Not references.
The main problem with this movie is that it was a blatantly obvious attempt to retcon a successful all-male lead cast franchise by swapping the genders of the characters in some kind of insulting statement about equality for women & feminism. It's why Feig relented creative control to the actresses -- the goal here was clearly to make a female Ghostbusters, inspired by women, portrayed by women, for women.
It's a premiere example of how shitty a film or TV series can be when the production crew emphasizes sociopolitical soapbox preaching over a carefully crafted, well-written, well-thought out story.
Nobody was asking for this to be made. Not even feminists. No GB fan, regardless of gender, gave a rat's ass that all 4 lead characters were male. If the argument is that, "the original GB was sexist because all the main characters were male," then this film should therefore suffer from the same exact form of sexism, just with the genders swapped. Epic fail.
"Bend over, bend over, let Plinkett come over." Goddamn
LMAO, no pun intended
I have to believe with nearly 5mil views that Paul Feig has to be one of them. We could probably find him somewhere in the comments under some pseudonym like GhostJizz57
That cat in the bag scene was just painful. I’m glad I haven’t seen any more of this movie than what I’ve seen in this review.
I can't help but think about the poor film crew.... having to sit there for hours listening to shit that's not funny while their families are waiting for them and their dinners are getting cold. ☹️
They still got paid they don't give a shit they just roll the cameras and hold the booms then go home. They don't have time to be worrying about the content.
lol... like the women in the age where this movie could be produced would make dinner for their spouse or even give a shit if he gets to eat it. They'd probably just order Papa John's and not give a shit if there's any left when he gets home.
Amazing as it is to believe gender roles perpetuate in the first place because they're hard wired into the brains of many people and many women would quite happily play home maker since its what they feel comfy with, it's not a dead concept you know its as old as the human race is itself and it will always exist no matter what feminists march about waving placards. Lots of women like cooking and nesting. @@mawnkey
Imagine the poor bastards who had to edit this film together.
@@PelemusMcSoy dude, i was wondering about that! okay so how does a paid person go about trying to be a part of making a good film when he or she knows that it is utterly bad and unrecoverable? how does that process work i wonder. i thought i would clarify my inquiry further: how does one go about functioning to increase appeal in a work where the editor finds no appeal?
Movies today have a horrible tendency to tell audiences what they're seeing rather than just letting the audience see it and let it register on it's own. Like none of us have a functioning brain.
Screenwriting 101 is "Show, don't tell".
Predators would have been so much better if Adrian Brody hadn't stopped and explained what was happening every five minutes
Even 3 year olds wouldn't like this.
After what public schools, universities, and the news and entertainment industries have done to people, no, most people do not have functioning brains. They've been raised since children to be compliant. Not to think, but to repeat what they've been told. A collective solipsism.
Raises hand, doesnt have functional brain lol
This is why you shouldn't laugh at someone's failed jokes to make them feel better.
God, it just kills me every time it zooms in on the miserable crew. Just think, some poor sucker had to hold the boom mic for that 40-minute take.
Poor sucker: Just glad to be working...
@@wallerwa4 reminds me of the part is Rat Race where Cuba Gooding Jr is on the flooded bus with all the Lucy impersonators: "Two million dollars...two million dollars..."
*S T O P D A N C I N G*
Tahkos Remember Jaws?!
Remember Scarface? REMEMBER SCARFACE? R E M E M B E R S C A R F A C E!?
DO YOU GET THAT PAUL FEEIIGGGG?!?!
It's like poetry, so they rhyme
STOP DANCING! Remember Scarface? STOP DANCING! Remember Scarface? STOP DANCING! Remember Scarface? Remember Scarface? Rember STOP DANCING!
Ghostbusters 2016 is Chris Hemsworth`s Simple Jack.
You ma-ma-m-ma make me haunted
We like Simple Jack!
Pretty sure it's *everybody's* _Simple Jack._ I think the only person involved with this turd who isn't embarrassed by it is Feig.
"Never go full regal"
Chris: "I g gotta go good braaaaiin"
Feig: " I think ya gotta fine brain chris"
As a child ghostbusters was legitimately scary as well as being fun. There’s not even an attempt to be spooky or creepy in this
Exactly! It was a scary movie that was also hilarious, making it all the more enjoyable and a hell of a ride
I couldn't think of why the phrase "Remember Scarface" kept popping up in my head until I rewatched this
Wanna know how bad this movie is?
The scene where they hire an assistant is less funny than the scene where Oscar Schindler hires his assistant.
That's right, this is a comedy that's less funny than Schindler's list
@@proudtobehere Hmm dude? We call them WoPeople now. Patriarch
Schindler’s list? Is that a movie spoof of the porno Schindlers fist?
Lmfao, dude this comment made my day. Thank you. Yes this movie is bearable only through plinkett, it looks so cringeworthy, the jokes are so horribly written it's embarrassing that humans wrote this....humans wrote this right?
@DecepticonMecha yeah you're right. Wtf was I thinking. 🤣🤣
Schindler's list was my proudest fap
I can't believe Paul Feig wears a three-piece suit to the film set.
And to every single interview, complete with a boutonniere. What an absolute ass.
He hopes it hides the fact that he’s a talentless hack. I’d be insecure to if I had managed to get that far in Hollywood without knowing anything about real film making.
Doesn’t he get hot in that? I would.
I actually like his suit, I like it when writer/directord have weird quirks to them, and he has said in interviews that it's because he yearns for the bygone era when successful people wore suits, which I think a lot of people can agree with.
This movie sucked, but I liked Bridesmaids, and I liked the Office episodes he did. I don't think he's 100% without talent.
@@geneparmesan8748 the problem today is people (like this dork) are intentionally quirky.... like they think to themselves "how can I be quirky?" It's a farce. Like when a hot dumb girl puts on glasses and says "I'm a total nerd tee hee"
I blame Zoey Deschanel for the over abundance of annoying attention whores. You know the type.
I still haven't watched that steaming pile but I've watched this Plinkett review half a dozen times
If the movie ended like Scarface where an entire army of ghosts assaults their headquarters and shoots them all in the back with a shotgun while they're dancing for 4 millionth time the entire movie would've been immediately amazing
As a woman, these "women-only" remakes of classic movies are the most insulting things
Thank you! How demeening is it that something great needs to be taken and remade with females added to leads for female empowerment? Why can't their be more original bad ass girl movies like Aliens, Kill Bill, Underworld, hell even Hunger Games.
I think it goes without saying that the problem with the movie is not that it has an all-female lead cast, just that it happens to suck.
Did you see Oceans 8? It suuuucked. And, while not a remake, Atomic Blonde was female John Wick and it too sucked
They're are so focused on meeting a demographic, they forget to make actual characters you can relate to.
Best part of Atomic Blonde were the fight sequences, great cinematography and stuntwork saved an otherwise okay movie IMO.
I’m so glad this movie exists just because this review exists.
I'm happy you exist 😊
javy sto way to be a creeper dude.
@@80sMoviesRule1 : this is a no white knighting zone.
Ba dum tss
Joshua Ratcliffe good going on being a white knight 👍 Fuck off is a compliment
This is the epitome of why comedy movies died…they all devolved into endless improv and EVERY SINGLE PERSON tries (and fails) to be funny by acting unrealistically obnoxious, dumb, or awkward. Nobody is willing to be the straight guy
That mortgage joke is amazing. Even when I was a kid, I still got the point. And then as an adult, it's so much better.
THIS is how you do a critical review because anybody can crap on a movie, but being able to discern and identify how to improve a movie or fix a scene is why this channel reigns supreme.
Exactly. This isn’t just a guy ranting about nitpicks. This is why I love Plinkett Reviews. You actually learn something.
@@cjhl0383 I stopped watching him because of that, and I just started back watching last week. It must have been at least two years, and it seems like he's more balanced now.
This is high level shitting on something. Like, shitting on something at the professional level. That's why it's so entertaining, it is the pinnacle of shitting all over something.
And even do it moderately on the spot with half in the bag is 90% more impressive
@@lookoutforchris I would say that Redbar radio is the true pinnacle of Hating, the man has pissed off so many comics just by nitpicking their podcasts and making absurd jokes, so much so that several of them have gone on rants about how much they want to kill him.
I remember reading an article where Gillian Anderson wanted to be a Ghostbuster. DANA FREAKIN' SCULLY! But no, Sony was probably like, "Today's teens wouldn't know who she is -- and be sure to reference Jaws, Roadhouse, Scarface, etc. that's current and hip, right?"
SquigPie the ultimate skeptic as a believer in the paranormal - it's a better gag than anything in the movie.
Oh my god if they put David Duchovny as the skeptic for that it would have been amazing lol
The *Jaws* reboot has to star Chris Pratt, and it's gonna be almost the exact same beats and tone as *Jurassic World.* I don't know that even fucking SONY would be stupid enough to try to remake *Scarface* in the 2020s. Are people even still interested in gangster movies? Even Scorsesse isn't making gangster movies anymore.
See now THAT would have been interesting. She has the dry sarcastic tone this movie needed.
+Zen Punk And unlike these four, I can actually see Gillian Anderson as a brilliant scientist, rather than just some idiot who jokes about pussyfarts and wontons.
Feige, "Well we don't want to be compared to the first movie."
Also Feige, "Proceeds use the plot, story beats, and match multiple shots and angles from the original."
In the original, none of the characters acted like a comedian. They were funny simply by how their personalities clashed with the special situation they were in.
In 2016s, they all talk and act like comedians and it's just tiring and annoying. GB ain't supposed to be a sitcom.
They're not even good comedians either, seems like if you're going to go this route you should actually get people who are legitimately funny while improvising(which these ladies were not in this movie) or at least set them up for success with good writing instead of just throwing them to the wolves and shouting "just improvise it, girl". If this movie was a standalone production it would have been doomed to obscurity due to its ineptitude but since it draws from something that was actually successful and well made it will naturally be compared to the original which I think sealed its fate as a bad, if not infamous movie.
Only Rick Moranis came out of this situation with his reputation intact.
What about Evans?
GeorgeMonet he came out with crippling diabetes.
And Harold Ramis.
He straight up said "What's the point?"
And if I didn't love the man already.....I sure did hearing that.
Thankfully Ramis didn't live to see this turd. RIP.
Watching the Papa Johns product placements after the “day of reckoning” interview is making this even more magical.
“Oh, and Fallon, one small thing.”
“Yeah?”
“When you bring me out, could you introduce me as Papa?”
@@RobertJones-bs9pf Yeah but OJ Simpson was an actual actor in The Naked Gun not a throwaway with 2 lines or just as a product placement. He at least had a part to play and played it as it was supposed to be in the movie.
You mock him, but the Papa has seen the end and he laughs at the foolishness of mortals.
@@publiusventidiusbassus1232 Papa bless.
“He’s on his way to writing his new work. His suicide letter”
I’ve watched this movie zero times. I’ve watched this review at least five.
Winston was my favorite Ghostbuster as a kid. He was the one who let you imagine you could be a Ghostbuster, too.
They all let you imagine you could be a ghostbuster, they were all believable characters clearly in over their heads.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx That is true. What I mean is; he's the only character who's just an everyman. Ray is a paranormal expert. Peter is is a con artist. Egon is a supergenius. WInston is just... Some guy.
@@goryguy5106 if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.
one of the best lines in all the movies.
Though he was the odd one out as the only sane guy on the team.
he's the everyman, and he's understated... adds a ton of breathing room for the edit timing.
This movie takes place in New York. I'm from New York. You know who in New York orders Papa John's pizza? People who aren't from New York. The Ghostbusters' firehouse is in lower Manhattan, a stone's throw from Little Italy but it doesn't have to be. The ubiquity of pizza here is akin to that of fallafel in Israel. Most of the city is so densely packed with delis and pizzerias that you wouldn't have to walk more than five blocks to get a decent bagel or slice. We would not order that slop in the middle of the day while a perfectly good local pizzeria was open.
there are four pizza places within three blocks of my house (brooklyn). no chains
it's just product placement
Slop? Buddy you're SO wrong
ZuluKasuki valentino's and gino's
Everyone in New York City knows multiple local pizzerias with amazing pizza. Usually with a Vinnie in it. This would be like having Olive Garden in Rome. Like ordering from Red Lobster's in Maine. Like ordering Taco Bell in Guadalajara. And so on.
I feel sorry for the actors. The worst director you can have is one that forces you to improvise, trying to avoid responsibility for themselves.
I say "DO YOU GET IT NOW PAUL FEIGGGGG" too many times than I'd like to admit during the day..
You can hear Mike’s…….I mean Mr. Plinkett’s anger and disdain for that fraud Feig…….
@@benjaminperez7328 its both real anger and pretend anger for acting purposes.. at the same time.. I dont know how Mike does it hh
What's really creepy is how many fake youtube channels were created to leave "positive" comments on This New Ghostbuster's Trainwreck.
Brilliant commentary by a fictional critic. Mike Stoklasa is not only a competent movie critic, he really understands what cinema is and what it should be.
Yes. He really knows film and film making.
He would be a pretty good screenwriter as well.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 he'd also be an excellent script editor or reviewer
@@anshkaushik7920 he'd probably do well with anything concerning scripts. Or advising or mentoring in the industry in general
Baron von Limbourgh Too bad the people financing movies are a bunch of cowards. Should be a no brainer to use the most popular movie critic on the internet.
Lester Brunt it sort of seems like they try to do this without actually hiring him or crediting him or paying him. (so still cowardly, and missing the point). like JJ Abrams directing the Star Wars sequel (as he basically suggested), or the third Star Trek reboot movie being better. I'm sure at least some of those Disney execs are aware of RLM, given how obsessed they are with fan service and responding to internet commentary
The casting of Melissa McCarthy in any show or movie is a death knell.
Even scarier than that? When Melissa McCarthy is the BEST part of your movie (Little Mermaid reboot)
Then it's time to re-evaluate all your life choices! 🤣
Thank you for saying what this guy didn't have the balls to say. It's lame how even people who are rightfully critical of this movie are always afraid to call her and leslie jones not funny.
she was good in the bill murray movie st vincent. it was a more dramatic played straight role but im not gonna act like she is incapable of good performance just because all her comedies suck.
McCarthy: ‘you can’t even chase a bunch of girls’. Isn’t that sexist
It seems like major studios think people are too dumb to get dry humor, which is what the first film did so well. Or maybe they are too dumb to write witty comedy? Now we get queefs, and annoying, incessant babbling, mixed in with pointless pop culture references. I some more fucking skull vodka.
ChimpFromSpace Good points and the way and the amount of shit Sony movies being made is enough to drive you to drink!.
They gave up on the stuff that takes talent.
They know if they keep pumping out shit that turns into the new normal and the standards drop and they can just make cheaper and shittier movies every year
That's why I love the segment of this review with Rich as the Sony exec and Jack as Paul Feig.
Rich: _"Paul. If people aren't TALKING, people aren't LAUGHING!"_
I have no doubt that there are Sony execs who actually think that way.
Well, they are correct, aren't they? Some people see movies for stupid and arbitrary reasons, and generally large audiences have poor judgment and tastes anyways. Emoji Movie may be vilified, but people are still going to see it because they have kids who will mindlessly enjoy it. Sequels to stupid horror movies are being made because people actually like those shitty formulaic franchises. Even if there is a clear explanation to why a movie is bad, people will ignore it and rely upon their own tastes.
Hell, even people in this comments section are focusing more on the one-note jokes and themes of the movie itself, whether or not they hate them it takes up more of their attention-span than the actual problems of the film that the video explains in detail. It is no wonder that Sony was able to get away with their sexism defense, because people were superficial enough to actually take the bait and start up pointless arguments about feminism rather than talk about the true reasons as to why this movie was poorly made. I don't care about the stupid gender politics of our time (this is a cheesy movie, not a political movement for godsakes), rather I care about letting a cast and crew know that you have to put serious effort into a film and not goof about during the entirety of production! I care about letting Directors know that you cannot be a good Director by being a bloody yes-man!
ChimpFromSpace American don't get dry humor , that's why all American comedies (other than south park ) are shite
I always loved how Egon flashes his fingers at Venkman during the negotiation scene, signaling the amount he should ask for.
What i love about GB is how grounded the characters are these are guys you may find at your work.
Benkman isn't good at anything but charisma. dude buys you with a speech and a smile and then proceeds to make you work for him, his only incentive is money. But that's where his smarts are at, at making you spend money. He's perfect as the guy initiating the enterprise.
Egon is the one with the technical knowledge. Dude learns anything you give him and improves it. Not good on socials tho.
Ray is the passionate one. This is a guy who LOVES his job, maybe a little too much.He's very well meaning , even if he is kind of oblivious about anything around him
And Winston is the hard worker that's just there for the money, he doesn't have any emotional investment but he's gonna do his best to do his job.
Again, those are people you could find in your coworkers. The reboot GB are too corky, too zany, too cartoonish to be real people. None of them really follows any coworker archetype. And you may say the egon wannabe is akward.
Well that's the thing, everyone in this movie is akward , and obnoxious, and kind of annoying because they make every joke last for too long
This is a prime example of when the review is eminently more entertaining than the movie it's reviewing.
Paul Feig looks like the archetype of that posh guy who spends his time poncing around in receptions having shallow conversations with arty-farty snobs.
100% agree.
Smoking one of those British cigarettes.
I literally thought he was a made up comedy character until I saw this review.
Paul Feig: The ponciest ponce to ever ponce.
You should see some of his horrible early acting like in Ski Patrol.
IMDB his shit acting career
"Do you want some coffee, Mr. Tulley?"
"Do I?"
"Yes, have some."
"Yes, have some."
Still kills me 35 years later...
Me too. Even the small clip in this video had me laughing.
That's a great one. Another really funny Louis Tulley part for me is when he's rapidly explaining how he dealt with Dana's loud TV, while the door is shutting in his face.
Tulley: "I climbed out on the ledge, but I couldn't get in, so you know what I did?"
Dana: "Bye, Louis."
Tulley: "I turned up my TV real loud too, so people would think both our TVs had something wrong with them."
Tulley: "Okay, so I'll give you a call!"
Tulley: "I'm gonna go have a shower!"
The timing of everything and the speed of his talking just cracks me up, as well as how oblivious he is to Dana's annoyance with him.
Chris Hahn
Ghostbusters is known for its wonderful dialogue.
Even when they didn't say anything I chuckled, like when they turned the pack on for the first time and started to back off in terror at the noise it made.
@@CurryFeatures same. Just reading your comment makes me laugh :D
Paul Feig: a reminder that sh*t always floats to the top.
0:01 intro
1:36 1. Epic Failboot
2:49 2. The Director and Writer
7:25 3. Sony Pictures is a giant dumpster fire
12:58 4. 2016 v 1984
17:57 5. Too much dancing and pointless movie references
19:31 6. the plot
30:35 7. Casting and Improv
36:37 8. I ain't afraid of no jokes
43:27 9. ACTION! because there's nothing left
50:39 10. cameos and fan service
54:22 11. The autopsy results
How do you not have more likes?
"his suicide note" lmfao!
andy lai wow he uses the Kurt Corbain suicide note as refrence
Holy shit that was funny.
andy lai you do know imfao meand in my fucking annoying opinion so
"His suicide note" in my fucking annoying opinion
Jack's portrayal of Paul Feig is masterful.
Best casting for him, especially being in the same friend group
He was born to play Paul Feig in a movie review on UA-cam.
There are no writers in this movie. They basically took the plot of the original and tweaked it then let the actors make it up as they go along. I feel embarrassed for them that they actually thought this was funny.
So wait. They were staying above the Chinese restaurant, but she orders delivery? She couldn't walk downstairs to pick it up?
Hey now! She's a woman! She's entitled to have her food delivered to her, not go and get it like some peasant!
(btw this is a joke. Don't kill me)
@@michaelwinchester5003 - At least you didn't point out that the morbidly obese get tired walking up a flight of stairs. 🙄
She's afraid of getting Corona. 🤣
@@YautjaSpacePirate 2016 called. What does Corona Beer have to do with a Chinese Restaurant?
That would require exercise
Feig means "Cowardly" in norwegian
That is just perfect lol
Feigling is German for "Coward" haha
thanks for sharing that , I knew there was something off key with the dude and the name didn't help him much.
@@MisterSpinalzo alomst. its "Feige" but some of our dialects wil say it withaout the last e.
so fair enough
It means "shitty director" in English. My guess is, Uwe Boll was unavailable.
"Say hello to my little friend, Say hello to my chocolate blend" is an amazing edit
There's some really interesting points Plinkett says about letting jokes have silence so the audience can enjoy them, it got me wondering if this movie couldn't have been a bit fixed during the edit. Like it wouldn't have saved it all the way, but it could have made stinky, rotten trash into just trash. Might have even made the movie enjoyable _enough_ for people watching in the theater
a solid edit and more firmly scripted scenes would go a long way. it would still be mediocre.
Red Letter Media should be required study material in film school.
Agreed 😂
Also Biology; you know because of AAAAAAIIIIIIIDDDSS.
No education can heal ignorance and stupidity so deep.
You say that, but there are professors (at least one) that show Arin Hanson's biased, hypocritical, nostalgia filled Zelda Sequilitis.
@@xacmashe3852 "biased, hypocritical, nostalgia", hmmm I'm curious about that, can you elaborate on why zelda sequilitis are those things?
every once and a while "do you get that Paul Feiiiiiiig" will pop into my brain and it instantly makes my day
Seen this review over 100 times and I am just now noticing a depressed Jay as a crewmember 40:50
Jack looks exactly like Paul Feig.
@@lukedavis1436 I want him to wear that wig on best of the worst.
Plinkett literally fixed the joke timing. He edited it 100 percent better. I cant even describe how bad the filmakers look. Around the 37:00 mark. Brilliant video essay again more entertaining than the film.
You’re right. It’s unreal that this guy, who basically impersonates Buffalo Bill while doing movie reviews (which are fucking hilarious) for a UA-cam channel, does 8,000 times better at editing a film than “Hollywood pros”. And for free! And with no budget!
I take it back. It’s not unreal. It’s infuriating. All the hours of unfunny improv, all the wasted film, all the wasted time, all the wasted money. All to make a total piece of shit movie. This is why so many people hate Hollywood these days. You waste that much money and resources and we’re still supposed to believe you’re good people, artists who’ve mastered their crafts, and intellectuals who we should listen to when it comes to things like voting. Plinkett made me laugh, per usual. But that still couldn’t get around how much the very idea, let alone the execution, of this movie pisses me off.
Hollywood is dead. I have infinitely more fun watching UA-cam make fun of it for free. There’s actual REAL talent out there in the basements of the world, keeping great big fat women locked away, spoiling their bichon frisés rotten.
Anything is more entertaining than the film.
@@TheWrestlingful nope no numbnuts. Editings no excuse. He saw the finished take...tf!
And from the makers of Space Cop.
Remember in the Attack of the Clones review when the hooker is watching it with Plinkett? Her reaction is "Oh my god, this is terrible. I've heard it was bad but I didn't think it'd be this bad." I find myself saying that every new snippet from the movie. I'm filled with horror and disgust.
This statement is so accurate, it should be pinned to the top of the comment section.
I actually really thought this movie had good jokes writing and characters. Then I realized I picked up the wrong dvd from target.
Everytime I hear the cast mention they did lots of "improv", I remember a comedian on a radio show say that improv is just one letter away from, "improve," which is something bad improv comedians need to focus on.
@Donald Donald What did he rant about Will Ferrell?
That's so cringe
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Ok I'm just going to say this. My 6 year old daughter loves the original Ghostbusters. She loves the song, we played the game saw all the movies they have made for Ghostbusters and the 2016 one is the only one she doesn't ask to watch. We watched it once and she was good.
That is adorable 😂