when a director describes the movie hes making as "an existing property we can make our own". You can feel the love and passion he has for the thing hes working on.
Dear, John Lechlieter Beejor ***** & strontiumXnitrate 's comments are totally off topic to the original post. Just mark it as span and move on, don't bother replying to it.
Just read the articles Paul Fieg writes. He sounds like the guy who only hung out with the girls in school because the boys always made him cry and is now dedicating his career to a teenage, angst fueled revenge war.
Don't waste your time watching the whole actual movie, not even to be fair in critiquing it! Instead, just watch five minutes of each scene, and be annoyed enough to skip to the next scene.
I thought Dan Akroyd just slapped his name on a vodka in a fancy bottle but I recently learned that he actually put a lot of work into it and it's won a bunch of awards. Good for him.
@@thetandfpodcast It's pretty good. It's not too expensive either for what you get. After we finished it me and my friend turned the skull into a "water pipe" lmao.
lol yea in fact thiswhole video is funnier than the whole movie paul feig didnt even have his actors work with scripts the comedy was allimprovised and you can tell they were way over budget for this the effect look good i give em that because they should for 154,000,000 million dollar budget
the stupid idea was that paul is delousional to the point of why would he ever think a non scripted imptovised ghostbustrs reboot with snl actor would be sucessful?
epicus 1088 I'm sure they didn't. That's why you see that 'For Harold Ramis' message near the very end of the credits. As if they realized they forgot that people associate Harold Ramis with Ghostbusters and had to put in something for him out of obligation.
I like to believe that it started as a self-aware generate-controversy-for-clicks-revenue sort of thing, then evolved into gullible people (some with money and power) taking it seriously kind of thing. I mean just look at that director and his suit. I almost feel bad for him. Hollywood (I should say just certain studios) isn't/aren't dumb when it comes to money. It's all about numbers. Someone says "Hey look at all these numbers being accumulated through internet feminism drama" - "Hmm yes, how can we use this..."
In Summary: Paul Feig- a passionate feminist and spiteful little man who's spent the past several months burning every possible bridge he could find between audiences and the movie- gets handed the Ghostbusters reboot. In this movie a failed academic, an obese woman, a lesbian, and a black woman wage war against an intangible evil society tells them doesn't exist. In the end, they defeat the villain- a virgin nerd who wants to destroy them because people beat him up in high school- by castrating him after he literally transforms into the Ghostbusters logo. You can't make this shit up. I'm so amazed somebody didn't stop this from happening.
Vhs Vcr If "asshole OP" is supposed to refer to me, I fail to see how those "insults" are anything but factually correct statements about the characters. If I'm insulting anybody, it's that spineless, spiteful hack Feig. I actually quite like the actresses as individuals, particularly McCarthy.
Pay attention to when he's talking about Chris' improve. He rolls his eyes several times and then Air quotes "hilarious" Then there's that fucking interview where he outright says men aren't funny. Men can't compete with women while making himself look like the biggest fucking tool in the shed. I don't give a damn about the actresses. They have their fans, I don't find them funny at all, so to each their own but Paul Fuck is a hack and a beta bitch.
"By its very nature 90% of all improvisation is garbage. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just makes a mess. Sometimes it does both." John Rhys-Davies, in the LotR DVDs.
I've been to a lot of improv, and the reason it's enjoyable is that you *know* it's improv, and that's it's hard, so when it comes together for a few moments you really enjoy and respect it. But you *can't* substitute it for writing.
Tiamat The Great vast majority of people who have appeared on curb are comedians, hilarious ones at that, and the ones who aren’t like Cheryl we’re supposed to be straight characters anyway. It’s a formula that worked so well specifically for that show. You can’t just copy and paste that concept into other genres with different people and expect the same results.
I come back at least twice a year for both this, and Plinkett's review. As we get closer and closer to Afterlife- which actually looks good, some of the ideas they're discussing here are getting me even more amped for the long awaited, true *sequel.* Proper homage is being paid and I couldn't be happier.
The original Ghostbusters movie was a blue collar film with blue collar dialogue and values. Isolated college professors are forced out of the educational system to find real work. They are litterally forced to become exterminators/dog catchers. Half the film is them getting comfortable in labor jobs. Dealing with customers, lugging heavy equipment around, using tools... That's also sorely missing from the new reboot.
I'll attack collage professors all I want to, they are indirectly responsible for shit like this movie by brainwashing kids into becoming retarded social justice warriors and communists.
I don't understand how a movie designed to sell toys to children and promoting anti-Communist political positions could even be considered an influence in "becoming Communist". Social Justice Warriors, yeah, but that's pretty much the opposite of Communism.
@Just Be Yourself so you don't understand how real life works? That's a shame. It's fine to not like the movie, but if your response is "If you like this movie you are a SJW sexist libtard." You're revealing more about yourself than anything and you're probably a shitty person to begin with. Like you Just Be Yourself. You are a shitty person.
rather have an honest shitty person than a witty passive aggressive snake that tries to give a lecture about life. Don't you think ? It means fuck you.
The reason why Bill Murray was in this movie was because he was forced to do it. Paul Feig threatened to take "legal action" against Murray because he refused to be a part of it multiple times. In case you didn't like Paul Feig enough.
They might have found a way to try and pull his ownership of the Ghostbusters franchise. After Harold Ramis died, Bill Murray was the only holdout against future Ghostbusters movies. In a 2012 Esquire interview, Aykroyd said that Murray may have "abrogated his ownership rights" when he declined to star in an earlier Ghostbusters 3. While this didn't go anywhere, Sony might have threatened to take him to court to actually get this issue legally resolved.
"The female equivalent to an Adam Sandler movie" was so spot on. Imagine if a studio redid a classic like Groundhog day with Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider then cried foul when the fans became upset. Basically Ghostbusters 2016.
Why does the director take pride in not having scripted dialogue? It's like your child bragging to his parents that he's gonna wing the science exam tomorrow.
Sometimes not having scripted lines helps if handled right. Rick and Morty doesn't have a lot of script writing. They have a general outline of how an episode is going to go and tell the voice actors where they want to go. When the voice actors come up with something the writers can work with the voice actors to make the delivery hilarious. There is some script writing for the very heavy scenes but it's mostly ad-libbed and organic. Unfortunately Paul fieg isn't smart enough to pull that off.
Because if you ace the exam while saying you're winging it, you get credit for being a genius. No one's impressed by a good grade after 20 hours of studying. If you deliver a blockbuster after claiming it's all improv, your actors and director get credit for being geniuses, instead of the _writers_ getting the credit. Of course, the flipside is if you fail your exam or your movie... then you're shown up as just being dumb.
Neil M i just think he doesn't care. These people, the Rian Johnsons and so forth, do a job that pays them millions anyway so why care? They shit on everything
I just realized the reason why everyone seems to like Chris Hemsworth's character the most. It's because he stayed in character the entire fucking movie. He was the only person out of all of them to do what he was paid to do, fucking act.
@@Jobother The chinese government hasn't even been communist for decades...calling yourself a communist doesn't make you one. Especially when you have, you know, a state, a stock market, class division etc etc...
Annihilation is a mess, awesome visuals and some good ideas. But mediocre execution, dumb scrip pretending being smart for having a few good moments and some confusing shit.
It had the same problem as how to train your dragon. They shouldn't have named it after a book if it is only going to have one similar theme and the entire plot and characters and setting changed.
It's like he's decided to inhabit the comedy relief interior designer/wedding planner role from a particularly hacky Hallmark movie in his actual life.
This is why I love RLM: while everyone else was afraid to get called sexist and misogynistic these guys were expressing their opinions on Ghostbusters (and indeed on a bunch of these controversial blockbusters, especially Rogue One), and whether or not you like those films it's nice to see someone saying what they believe as opposed to what everyone else is saying. Keep saying what you guys really believe, Mike, Jay, and Rich Evans.
All the Hollywood bullying. I think hollywood didn't care because everyone paid money to go see it after that point and couldn't care less what they said if they paid. James Rolf on the other hand was labled sexist/racist/misogynist/rapist/basementdweller/2017electioncycle JUST for saying he wasn't going to go see it. He didn't even tell people not to go watch it, he just said he had no interest in it and yet he was the only one who got tore apart from it by small-media-outlets and celebrities for the TAMEST and most straight-forward comment he has ever done in his life.
They don't like TFA anymore, they retconned their opinion on that. But they still shit on Rogue One even though it's a much better film. Jay even says in their Rogue One review that Daisy Ridley shows more charisma than Felicity Jones haha, fuck off. Possibly the most wrong he's ever been about anything.
@@noless Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Ozzy Osborne, Charles Dance, Andy Garcia and Chris Hemsworth. With that at least half of the budget is gone.
Secret Name he WROTE AND DIRECTED the movie. He’s just not very funny and neither is that woman who co wrote it. Idk why they wouldn’t just ask wig to help cowrite it instead of only act bc she’s an award winning comedy writer. Comedies only work if the script is funny. Even with the best improv comedy guys, they depend on a funny script with space for improv either written in the script or included in post production if it is actually funnier with the improv. This movie let the actors improv and then they included it even if it wasn’t funny bc they thought that they needed more jokes (they thought they could at least have a good quantity of jokes since they couldn’t improve the quality of the jokes)
@@BeavisSaves I feel like the whole section of reality where Ghostbusters reboot was shot was an alternate dimension that accidentally crossed over into our own, and Paul Feig is a Wes Anderson villain in that dimension, whose character's purpose is to be a sleezy Hollywood film-ruiner. Notice how in 2019 all traces of GB reboot have disappeared? It's because it was an Altered World Event, like in CONTROL. The FBC came in and quarantined the OoP that caused the rift, so now no one remembers or cares.
Check out the midnight's edge channel for a comprehensive analysis of how this ghostbusters went down from the Sony emails. They also pushed Ivan right off a cliff to make this.
Tom Spiegel that makes some sense. Feige was a regular character in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and in one episode there was a guest appearance by Frank Coniff from mst3k. They must know each other.
Force awakens by itself was good enough for a setup. Last Jedi could have addressed its issues and, like, be anything other than it came to be and it could have been solid. Rian Johnson just burned all the bridges that were perfectly fine. Problem was the bridges were made of wood and Rian was let near it with matches and a can of gasoline.
@@nextlifeonearth I will forever hate TFA because when orange Yoda says "good question for another time" I called it in 2015 I fucking called it I said they are never ganna answer that question and here we are in 2020 and not even the comics can say were it came from I think they just dropped it it's to hard for them to write.....fucken hack frauds
@@EdwardEstacado Rian burnt that bridge. He side tracked the entire sequel trilogy. He could have answered it, but didn't. He didn't research the original trilogy, the animated series or even the prequels. I doubt he even watched the force awakens more than one time. I don't blame TFA for its plot holes, since it was meant as a setup for a trilogy. Questions like these is what a trilogy uses to keep it engaging. Problem is, they have to actually answer those questions they raised.
@@nextlifeonearth Riun may have burnt the bridge, but TFA is super boring to watch because all of it is setup and all the pay off is promised in the next movie. Riun definitely could have ran with some (not even all) the ideas and made a much better movie. But TFA was fan pandering nonsense with a lot of "we'll explain it in the sequels". So even if Last jedi was great, TFA is still a boring mess that was banking on it's sequels to make sense of this shit.
This review should be showing in theaters everywhere, then I could spend $12 on going to see it instead of the new Ghostbusters and be more entertained. If you run it twice, that's about an hour and a half.
It's really not nostalgia. If you don't watch that movie today and laugh and smile and enjoy yourself then there is something wrong with you. Everything, from the casting, the characterisation, the jokes, the story beats, the music, the supporting characters, the prop design (proton packs, Slimer etc), the effects. It even has a few moments that are genuinely scary. All topped off with a gloriously crazy ending. It's a definitive 80's movie and one of the best comedies of all time. I don't know what more you want out of it. In what way could it be better?
@@kevtb874 Agreed. Ghostbusters holds up amazing well. If it comes on TV and you watch 5 minutes, you want to keep watching. The characters, the dialog, the plot, the humor, the visuals. It all still works.
In JJ's defense, his vision got a massive Ryan Johnson-shaped wedge stuck in the middle of it, which he attempted to fix with duct tape and string, so we'll never actually know what it was meant to be.
Zambicus JJ didn’t have a vision Ryan Johnson had to deal with JJ’s magic box bullshit He looked in to see where it was going and if JJ actually had a vision Ryan would have expanded instead of diminished Ryan just showed JJ’s plans for what they were.
Just watched this movie for the first time and something that stuck out to me was the lighting. There's so much neon blues reds and greens in the background that when they do take out those proton packs and start shooting it's not exciting because your eyes are already saturated with all the cartoony ghosts and lights in the background. They shot the climax of the movie in fucking times square, one of the brightest most flashy places on earth. If they wanted to make the proton packs special, go someplace dark and shoot the scene. Compared to the original with practical effects, makeup and miniatures this movie is dogshit.
One thing I love about the original, I'm 21 and enjoy 80's movies mind you, is that the Proton Packs were adamantly heavy. Hell, the movie commentary director mentioned that Harold Ramis complained the least about how heavy they were. So basically, it made sense in the story because it was incredible technology. But 2016 made them lightweight and made the busters themselves into badass warriors doing flips n' shit. I liked the original because it was a DISADVANTAGE against a fucking God.
It's amazing to me how this is an issue whilst Denis Villeneuve has pretty much mastered the concept of "yeah, my lead is female, but it doesn't matter". Sicario and Arrival had female leads but did it matter? No. It was well written, masterfully edited drama that just happened to be female led and no-one noticed because it was incredible writing. Women can so easily be leads in action films, just as long as it's well controlled. Emily Blunt is one of the finest most versatile actors working today. From pot smoking cleaner to ROYALTY to assassin. Women can do it. It's just a case of producers being willing to accept this fact.
Films having female leads isn't a big deal. Or at least it wasn't until the appearance of various modern anti-feminist movements, the existence of which this film's principals awkwardly attempted to leverage for marketing purposes.
Your point is valid, except for the small fact that both these Villeneuve movies were original creations that had the time to test themselves. Paul Feig just took an established property and retconned it.
The reason why neither film mentioned had to push identify politics is because they're both quality work that sell themselves. Also, identify politics weren't as big a marketing gimmick prior to 2016.
It's 8 hours to 2018 when i am writing this and the top results when i type "ghostbusters" on google are the wiki followed by the 1984 movie , also the right side bar is all about the details of the old movie. Thank you internet!
The scene in Red Tails of the guy taking what should be a bunch of 30mm cannon shells in the chest as if somebody was throwing confetti at him will never leave me. I seldom witness such hilarious idiocy. Even from Lucas.
Mac Brown That fucking scene was so laughable just by the fucking stupidity of him taking that many shells into the chest. It’s like a child directed it. Also the Germans (of course) are a bunch of comic villains who hate blacks so much (guess George doesn’t know that blacks served in the Waffen-SS).
"here's an existing property, now we can make it our own" that's always a bad sign for any sort of remake, adaptation, or anything like that, unless the original was bad.
I don't like the movie but your comment makes no sense to me. Why make an adaptation/remake of something if you're not going to make it your own? Seems like that would make the endeavor pointless. David Cronenberg made "The Fly" his own, as did John Carpenter when he made the "The Thing" remake. The worst remakes lazily follow the original plot to a T and throw in lazy pandering references.
Pocketses McFlurry I think that should be something that improves on a faulty movie, Ghostbusters is pretty much perfect, those other two remakes are improving those movies.
But if you're going to remake something that's pretty much perfect (which is a stupid idea anyway) I'd rather see someone's unique take on the basic concept than a studio-friendly inferior recreation of what I've already seen. Might as well try something different so it can at least attempt justifying it's own existence.
Two years later to the day, and it's exactly as Jay predicted: "Ghostbusters" continues to refer to the original film, while "Ghostbusters 2016" refers to a horrendously unfunny remake that totally bombed at the box office. When people mention the reboot, they immediately think, "bad movie."
Oh, I fucked up that guy's last name. But you can't really give me shame. I didn't know who the hell Feig really was, I'll give the reasons. It's because, I never cared for his movies, They all sound worse than having fleas. I know that he did all he could, to rape me in my damn childhood. I don't care if he did mean well, I just want him to go to hell.
I keep coming back to this review every so many months. I think its reaching the point I can quote the review moreso than the original Ghostbusters movie.
"The most politically dividing film of the year [long pause] a fucking Ghostbusters remake [longer pause] guuess that's where we're at." How is it that two obviously drunk VCR repairmen just beat every joke in Ghostbusters 2016 at comedic timing, and I've only listened to them for 190 seconds?
I never saw new Ghostbusters, but I watched this review like, 5 times (5 x 45 mins). Plus Plinkett review, like, 5 times (5 x 58 mins). And every time, after those reviews, I watch original Ghostbusters.
Smooth vodka is a meme. 90% of the time it's a mixer and then you are covering it with other flavours and the rest is either to get shitfaced or because you like the taste, and you don't care about taste when you want to get drunk. To enjoy the taste your name has to be Борис.
A lot of people talk about how Ghostbusters (2016) was intended from the get-go to be a female empowerment movie. While that's not far-fetched, another UA-camr, Comic Book Girl 19, brings up an interesting point that the feminist spin to the movie was really an attempt from Sony to cover up the fact that they really just made a shitty movie. They released the trailer, saw the negative backlash, saw some feminist retaliation against the backlash, and then realized they could fuel the flames to cover up their horrible mistake of a film. Her bottom line is that the Sony executives (and big TV/movie executives in general) are just lazy fucks that don't want to put effort into making an original, creative movie with substance, so they milk old franchises and make sequels and reboots and spin them in whatever way boosts ticket sales or views.
Sam Vimes "Except there's behind the scenes evidence of Feig and other members of the creative team pushing for an all female cast for years before the movie went into production." Huh. I was not aware of that. I did say (or at the very least imply) that I was open to both the planned and lazy possibilities. Either way, it doesn't really matter. A crappy movie was made and it generated a giant non-controversy for profit (which I don't know how good or bad the movie did in the box office, but I would assume it flopped).
A female Top Gun remake I'd watch it. The original movie is one of the gayest mainstream movies ever made, so a version about a bunch of hot women would be great.
Well, we've got Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which is essentially the third movie. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. :)
Watching this again, after Jennifer Lawrence's Variety madness, it makes me wonder how many times we're going to have to have the "female action star" discussion.
Looking back, I think this movie is the perfect analogy of what the entertainment industry as a whole has devolved into. Companies can absolve themselves of any criticism by putting in gay/female/poc themes/characters/anything and using them as a shield by calling their consumers bigots if they don't submit
There's two halves to the modern entertainment industry. One is the forced identity politics shit. The other is the utter lack of creativity and willingness to take risks. The former is used as a cudgel against audiences when they react negatively to the latter.
If at least these guys would dare to moke themselves a little bit! Like for example: how better plot would it be that GB were a big corporation which busts ghost mechanically, automaticallt, which has forgotten all the blue collar values from its origins, and then follows the struggle to go back to basis, to remind why science matters but friendship matter the most... ifk, something like tha. Way more interesting, which is not a lot to say.
Thanks from adding that part about not feeling bad about not liking it. I wanted to see it, but it just didn't look good. The end where mike said he didn't like it because it had women in it, cracked me up. :p
when a director describes the movie hes making as "an existing property we can make our own". You can feel the love and passion he has for the thing hes working on.
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The rape grievance industry? Like a bunch of factories where the machines violate people?
''Rape grievance industry''. That sounds painful.
Dear, John Lechlieter Beejor
***** & strontiumXnitrate 's comments are totally off topic to the original post. Just mark it as span and move on, don't bother replying to it.
Just read the articles Paul Fieg writes. He sounds like the guy who only hung out with the girls in school because the boys always made him cry and is now dedicating his career to a teenage, angst fueled revenge war.
Never watched this movie, but here I go watching the RLM review for a 4th time.
It's the least funny comedy ever made. Be glad you haven't watched it.
I’ve seen the movie once. I regret every second.
Same here
Up to my 6th time watching this now
Don't waste your time watching the whole actual movie, not even to be fair in critiquing it! Instead, just watch five minutes of each scene, and be annoyed enough to skip to the next scene.
I don't think I can still watch RLM with the new chairs, it's just not the same anymore.
What's next? Are they gonna replace them with women?
Susan is a woman, though.
I thought he meant replace the chairs with women.
Wow, your 2 comments J Dee are like poetry, they rhyme.
+Chris Hill awww, you are so cute
I thought Dan Akroyd just slapped his name on a vodka in a fancy bottle but I recently learned that he actually put a lot of work into it and it's won a bunch of awards. Good for him.
I don't drink, but I want to try it.
Listen to his appearance on the Off Menu podcast. His vodka really is his passion
@@thetandfpodcast It's pretty good. It's not too expensive either for what you get. After we finished it me and my friend turned the skull into a "water pipe" lmao.
@@jimberjamber8540 Fucking perfect lmao
I used to see his vodka al lthe time in liquor stores and didn't realize it was his. It's actually good vodka lol
That clip of dan akroyd almost killing Larry king was funnier than the whole movie
"..Start of the ruination."
-Larry King
The edited clip at 32:54 was hilarious too
That comment was funnier than the whole movie
lol yea in fact thiswhole video is funnier than the whole movie paul feig didnt even have his actors work with scripts the comedy was allimprovised and you can tell they were way over budget for this the effect look good i give em that because they should for 154,000,000 million dollar budget
the stupid idea was that paul is delousional to the point of why would he ever think a non scripted imptovised ghostbustrs reboot with snl actor would be sucessful?
Sony's worst sin is dedicating this abdomination to Harold Ramis.
He deserved better.
You're goddamn right
I don't even think they dedicated it to him
epicus 1088 I'm sure they didn't. That's why you see that 'For Harold Ramis' message near the very end of the credits. As if they realized they forgot that people associate Harold Ramis with Ghostbusters and had to put in something for him out of obligation.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up for me.
I'm sure Harold Ramis is proud of Ghostbusters 2016
I thought the cast deserved better, too.
The new Ghostbusters didn't ruin my childhood. Fucking polio did.
i like you
The movie GAVE me polio
If there's one thing I can say that I can say about the new Ghostbusters, it's that it more than anything else made me envious of Harold Ramis.
You shouldn't have had sex with polio.
meatrace Heh
I appreciate the power move Mike does by swigging out of the bottle, thereby claiming it as his alone.
Mike is the key to all this.
You’ve clearly never drank from the bottle because you just pass that shit.
The nuclear drama war of people arguing over the internet about this movie was ironically more entertaining than the movie itself.
Oh shit! Joel, you watch RLM. Was not expecting to see you here!
+ERROR: #290384AC vinny and joel at least have joked about/done impressions of plinkett and i think vinny said it kinda inspired him
+GlobstersMessenger Vinny interviewed Rich and Jack.
I like to believe that it started as a self-aware generate-controversy-for-clicks-revenue sort of thing, then evolved into gullible people (some with money and power) taking it seriously kind of thing. I mean just look at that director and his suit. I almost feel bad for him. Hollywood (I should say just certain studios) isn't/aren't dumb when it comes to money. It's all about numbers. Someone says "Hey look at all these numbers being accumulated through internet feminism drama" - "Hmm yes, how can we use this..."
rollerz holy shit really?
In Summary:
Paul Feig- a passionate feminist and spiteful little man who's spent the past several months burning every possible bridge he could find between audiences and the movie- gets handed the Ghostbusters reboot. In this movie a failed academic, an obese woman, a lesbian, and a black woman wage war against an intangible evil society tells them doesn't exist. In the end, they defeat the villain- a virgin nerd who wants to destroy them because people beat him up in high school- by castrating him after he literally transforms into the Ghostbusters logo.
You can't make this shit up. I'm so amazed somebody didn't stop this from happening.
Remember that time Paul Feig wore a skirt on Sabrina The Teenage Witch?
Best of the Worst and MST3K prove that the film industry has been filled with shit for some time, they're just getting a bigger budget nowadays.
+Thomas Danforth can we get a reboot of Manos the Hands of Fate?
Vhs Vcr If "asshole OP" is supposed to refer to me, I fail to see how those "insults" are anything but factually correct statements about the characters. If I'm insulting anybody, it's that spineless, spiteful hack Feig. I actually quite like the actresses as individuals, particularly McCarthy.
Pay attention to when he's talking about Chris' improve. He rolls his eyes several times and then Air quotes "hilarious"
Then there's that fucking interview where he outright says men aren't funny. Men can't compete with women while making himself look like the biggest fucking tool in the shed. I don't give a damn about the actresses. They have their fans, I don't find them funny at all, so to each their own but Paul Fuck is a hack and a beta bitch.
"By its very nature 90% of all improvisation is garbage. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just makes a mess. Sometimes it does both." John Rhys-Davies, in the LotR DVDs.
Jardel Elias I believe always sunny is more than 60% improv.
I've been to a lot of improv, and the reason it's enjoyable is that you *know* it's improv, and that's it's hard, so when it comes together for a few moments you really enjoy and respect it. But you *can't* substitute it for writing.
@@ffs6158 Yeah but curb is based around a man who has written comedy for half a century, not 30-something women who performed other peoples' scripts.
william smitherson So it’s at least 54% garbage?
Tiamat The Great vast majority of people who have appeared on curb are comedians, hilarious ones at that, and the ones who aren’t like Cheryl we’re supposed to be straight characters anyway. It’s a formula that worked so well specifically for that show. You can’t just copy and paste that concept into other genres with different people and expect the same results.
This is still the most rewatchable episode, so many years later.
Disagree, only because of all the screaming.
I agree. I think I have watched this one at least 10 times.
The Snyder JL and Godzilla vs Kong episodes are better
I come back at least twice a year for both this, and Plinkett's review. As we get closer and closer to Afterlife- which actually looks good, some of the ideas they're discussing here are getting me even more amped for the long awaited, true *sequel.* Proper homage is being paid and I couldn't be happier.
When they pull the whool in front of your eyes i'll be laughing
Honestly at this point i'd like to be wrong at least once
The original Ghostbusters movie was a blue collar film with blue collar dialogue and values. Isolated college professors are forced out of the educational system to find real work. They are litterally forced to become exterminators/dog catchers. Half the film is them getting comfortable in labor jobs. Dealing with customers, lugging heavy equipment around, using tools... That's also sorely missing from the new reboot.
Brilliant observation. This movie is the unholy hybrid of Liberal Arts Academia and Blind Corporate Ambition.
I'll attack collage professors all I want to, they are indirectly responsible for shit like this movie by brainwashing kids into becoming retarded social justice warriors and communists.
I don't understand how a movie designed to sell toys to children and promoting anti-Communist political positions could even be considered an influence in "becoming Communist".
Social Justice Warriors, yeah, but that's pretty much the opposite of Communism.
@Just Be Yourself so you don't understand how real life works? That's a shame. It's fine to not like the movie, but if your response is "If you like this movie you are a SJW sexist libtard." You're revealing more about yourself than anything and you're probably a shitty person to begin with. Like you Just Be Yourself. You are a shitty person.
rather have an honest shitty person than a witty passive aggressive snake that tries to give a lecture about life. Don't you think ?
It means fuck you.
The reason why Bill Murray was in this movie was because he was forced to do it. Paul Feig threatened to take "legal action" against Murray because he refused to be a part of it multiple times. In case you didn't like Paul Feig enough.
Wikileaks, dude. From the Sony hack. Also, it was Amy Pascal, not Paul Feig.
Electrolysis sad to think the guy who did the office was such a tard
It's not. Look up the Sony leaks.
I know it's true, but on what exactly would he sue Murry for?
They might have found a way to try and pull his ownership of the Ghostbusters franchise. After Harold Ramis died, Bill Murray was the only holdout against future Ghostbusters movies. In a 2012 Esquire interview, Aykroyd said that Murray may have "abrogated his ownership rights" when he declined to star in an earlier Ghostbusters 3. While this didn't go anywhere, Sony might have threatened to take him to court to actually get this issue legally resolved.
slimer is the key to all this
He's so dense, every shot is just crammed with CG.
We'll never beat Ghostbusters the video game.
We need to get slimer working... because he's a funnier character than we've ever had before..
Every stance kind of rhymes with the last one.
Hopefully it will work.
He's a funnier character than we've ever had.
That Crystal Vodka undid the immortality potion on Larry King and left him with his last 5 years of life
"The female equivalent to an Adam Sandler movie" was so spot on. Imagine if a studio redid a classic like Groundhog day with Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider then cried foul when the fans became upset. Basically Ghostbusters 2016.
You have to get the political agenda thing in there too, not only the cheap uncreative cash grab.
@@freakazoid4691 Sandler comes out as gay then they call those who don't like it homophobic.
Lmao they would never remake a movie with white actors
@@aytony4090 just call all negative Sandler reviews sexist against men. It's about as valid an argument as the Ghostbusters Sony marketing ploy.
@@aytony4090 but Sandler is to vein to do that so it be Kevin James or David Spade
2 years later, the original movie is being relentlessly promoted by every streaming service. The reboot is nowhere to be seen.
Three years later, a new sequel is coming out with the original cast that's going to pretend this piece of shit doesn't even exist.
@@LastRenegade Gonna be tricky since Harold Ramis is fucking dead.
Well I guess that comment aged semi-poorly.
Except on FXX twelve times a week.
... No, wait, sorry - you already said "nowhere to be _seen_ ".
@@FuriousGorge he'll be the ghost
Why does the director take pride in not having scripted dialogue? It's like your child bragging to his parents that he's gonna wing the science exam tomorrow.
Is he bragging because he really knows his shit or because he is just too lazy to study?
Sometimes not having scripted lines helps if handled right. Rick and Morty doesn't have a lot of script writing. They have a general outline of how an episode is going to go and tell the voice actors where they want to go. When the voice actors come up with something the writers can work with the voice actors to make the delivery hilarious. There is some script writing for the very heavy scenes but it's mostly ad-libbed and organic. Unfortunately Paul fieg isn't smart enough to pull that off.
Because if you ace the exam while saying you're winging it, you get credit for being a genius. No one's impressed by a good grade after 20 hours of studying.
If you deliver a blockbuster after claiming it's all improv, your actors and director get credit for being geniuses, instead of the _writers_ getting the credit.
Of course, the flipside is if you fail your exam or your movie... then you're shown up as just being dumb.
Christopher Guest and Robert Altman do improvised movies well
Neil M i just think he doesn't care. These people, the Rian Johnsons and so forth, do a job that pays them millions anyway so why care? They shit on everything
watching mike get zonked and talk about how pringles are the most feminine chip never fails to make my day
The saddle shape is very reminiscent of a pudendum and I’m always fisting the can to get the last ones out.
That moustache
I just realized the reason why everyone seems to like Chris Hemsworth's character the most. It's because he stayed in character the entire fucking movie. He was the only person out of all of them to do what he was paid to do, fucking act.
William Shelton Hayakawa studied at the University of Chicago, I think he probably spoke pretty good English.
"your communist government thinks the movie's witchcraft."
I love you Mike.
12:40
Honestly China banning this movie is the reason we should support communism
@@Jobother I am not in favor of banning a film like this, but really, what are we missing here by not seeing it?
@@Jobother The chinese government hasn't even been communist for decades...calling yourself a communist doesn't make you one. Especially when you have, you know, a state, a stock market, class division etc etc...
I’m glad they banned this garbage.. should’ve
banned TLJ as well...
Good that they didn’t give TLJ the time of day..
It is now 2020 and nobody cares about the Ghostbusters remakes, despite the controversy. That's a good thing for humanity.
Welcome to the future
2020 has way bigger problems
It's 2023 and we wish we had appreciated how good we had it in 2020
@@mr.farrowsclass6592 How's Bitcoin in 2023? Is it still a thing where you are?
2021 here, the Plandemic wasn't as bad as they told us, and Afterlife is looking to be AMAZING!!! That was a big Twinkie.
the drink should be called BOOze
get out
@Geef Bodoe O Chip
take my money!
_* gives thumbs-up*_ "You've . . . . you've earned it."
Tehe! I see what you did there, haha boo 👻 😂
Annihilation is a better female Ghostbusters movie than this.
Annihilation was a good film and Ghostbusters was god awful haha
Annihilation is a mess, awesome visuals and some good ideas. But mediocre execution, dumb scrip pretending being smart for having a few good moments and some confusing shit.
@@r.daneel.90 not enough staring and too much facial expression in the performances
And they just dumped that on Netflix, I never even saw a trailer.
And that’s actually a really good movie.
It had the same problem as how to train your dragon. They shouldn't have named it after a book if it is only going to have one similar theme and the entire plot and characters and setting changed.
I would pay top dollar to see a team of four Rich Evans-es reboot this film. Call it _Skostbusters._
featuring Neil Breen (and tons of tuna)
See you at the moopies then.
How will Skostbusters tie in to the Rich Evans cinematic universe? Will these be the same Rich Evans clones that we see in "Rich Evans vs Alien"?
Schlockbusters
Scatbusters?
"Star Wars got it right.
If you want to milk these franchises that's how you do it."
*Profound sadness*
Cheer up, Afterlife is going to be good.
@@Lost_n_Found_1 That’s not only totally irrelevant, it’s also very inaccurate
@@Phoenixifyable So, you're a fool.
@@Lost_n_Found_1 HAHAHA
@@Lost_n_Found_1 what.
Apparently Pringles wanted nothing to do with the movie. They put them in anyways. Shows more about Sony.
I think Rich is right. Ghostbusters 2016 seems (thankfully) largely forgotten already
There was a new Ghostbusters movie from 2016?
@@ScottRoberts No.....
I believe it was called Skostbusters
I can't believe it's almost 3 years since new chairs
3 years 8 months now
Hahaha 😅 so dumb.
Things have always been the same since the new chairs. Except the chairs. They were new
I'm still recovering.
everything changed after the chairs
39:37 - I love that "oh no" and the smiles between Rich and Jay. It's like "yep, it's happening. Mike is getting shit faced".
The best reviews are the ones where Mike gets more and more drunk as the video goes on
Moving through old RLM videos, are we?
When’s the next bullshitery
Reminds you of that CS:GO drinking game with the tequila?
When’s the next bullshittery, asshole?
Sony, please stick to making TVs, sound systems, and video game consoles.
Thank you.
You mean video game consoles as most of their other shit is flopping. Even the tvs and sound systems.
+Andoc Hi, Matt
and jump Street films
And cameras.
McDeathmask Nah, that would never catch on. Their cameras are popular though, and of good quality.
Feig looks like someone doing a comedy impression of a gay director.
It's like he's decided to inhabit the comedy relief interior designer/wedding planner role from a particularly hacky Hallmark movie in his actual life.
literally nobody acts like that in real life
@MrTsiolkovsky meat packing ;)
Heard it's cuz his mother raised him to hate being male.
this made me laugh out loud.
This is why I love RLM: while everyone else was afraid to get called sexist and misogynistic these guys were expressing their opinions on Ghostbusters (and indeed on a bunch of these controversial blockbusters, especially Rogue One), and whether or not you like those films it's nice to see someone saying what they believe as opposed to what everyone else is saying.
Keep saying what you guys really believe, Mike, Jay, and Rich Evans.
Ian Hammock Angry Joe and TJ Kirk didn't hold back either,but RLM were most articulate about it.
All the Hollywood bullying. I think hollywood didn't care because everyone paid money to go see it after that point and couldn't care less what they said if they paid.
James Rolf on the other hand was labled sexist/racist/misogynist/rapist/basementdweller/2017electioncycle JUST for saying he wasn't going to go see it. He didn't even tell people not to go watch it, he just said he had no interest in it and yet he was the only one who got tore apart from it by small-media-outlets and celebrities for the TAMEST and most straight-forward comment he has ever done in his life.
Rogue One was controversial? did i miss something?
They don't like TFA anymore, they retconned their opinion on that. But they still shit on Rogue One even though it's a much better film. Jay even says in their Rogue One review that Daisy Ridley shows more charisma than Felicity Jones haha, fuck off. Possibly the most wrong he's ever been about anything.
@@sonofnumeric Rogue One was just another terrible Star Wars film.
I love coming back to this review. It warms my heart.
I'm not joking, I sincerely think the Papa John's commercial was better than the actual movie
Certainly more clever than anything in the movie.
Do you like Hatsune Miku?
***** there was a Domino's Pizza ad with Hatsune Miku.
Only thing missing in the commercial was some sodie pops
The fucking Progressive commercial was better than the movie
It's an overlong SNL sketch with slightly higher production budget.
Sort of like Mad About Shoe or NYPD Shoe.
Yeah the effects did look decent so that's one positive thing at least
That's nearly every snl skit
For a budget with 150 million it looks rather cheap. Like it only cost half of that. Where did all the money go?
@@noless Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Ozzy Osborne, Charles Dance, Andy Garcia and Chris Hemsworth.
With that at least half of the budget is gone.
Mike was slowly turning into Mr Plinkett the more he drank
Texaschef84 I wonder if his go to drunk food is pizza roles. Would explain a lot.
Mike.....Mr. Plinkett. there seems to be a connection there, but I just cant put my finger on it......
@@theheebs100 MIster plinKEt ... coincidence?
😂
It’s like Dr. Jekyll slowly revealing the Hyde personality
"JJ Abrams didn't have a vision of star wars that was terrible" well that aged well lol
To be fair, the one who fu88ked everything trying to make something different was Rian Johnson
@@r.daneel.90 well he subverted all our expectations when people expected a good movie
To be fair its not like he had a vision for it in the first place
Noone had a vision. Noone had a story. It was the fault of everyone involved in that so-called trilogy.
@@r.daneel.90 No one had an idea. It was everyone’s fault, especially Disneys
Paul Feig dresses like he's in a Wes Anderson film.
If that only gave him a tenth of wes anderson's talent...
Secret Name he WROTE AND DIRECTED the movie. He’s just not very funny and neither is that woman who co wrote it. Idk why they wouldn’t just ask wig to help cowrite it instead of only act bc she’s an award winning comedy writer. Comedies only work if the script is funny. Even with the best improv comedy guys, they depend on a funny script with space for improv either written in the script or included in post production if it is actually funnier with the improv. This movie let the actors improv and then they included it even if it wasn’t funny bc they thought that they needed more jokes (they thought they could at least have a good quantity of jokes since they couldn’t improve the quality of the jokes)
Your name is Seth.
@@BeavisSaves I feel like the whole section of reality where Ghostbusters reboot was shot was an alternate dimension that accidentally crossed over into our own, and Paul Feig is a Wes Anderson villain in that dimension, whose character's purpose is to be a sleezy Hollywood film-ruiner. Notice how in 2019 all traces of GB reboot have disappeared? It's because it was an Altered World Event, like in CONTROL. The FBC came in and quarantined the OoP that caused the rift, so now no one remembers or cares.
Seth Porter his suits have more artistic depth than his entire career...
Didn't some e-mail leak show that Sony almost blackmailed the old actors to appear in the movie?
iirc that email was from years before this ghostbusters went into production and was related more to a potential ghostbusters 3 than this remake
+Chris C they won't.
+danimalcollective1 There needs to be a something called #SONYbusters
Check out the midnight's edge channel for a comprehensive analysis of how this ghostbusters went down from the Sony emails. They also pushed Ivan right off a cliff to make this.
Nunya bizness I have. They are very good videos. All of them.
5:47 I love how mike tilts his head when Jay says paul feig has done quality work
I'm late here, but Paul "Dickless" Feig also directed some (all?) episodes of Other Space, a sci-fi comedy featuring two actors from MST3K.
Tom Spiegel that makes some sense. Feige was a regular character in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and in one episode there was a guest appearance by Frank Coniff from mst3k. They must know each other.
i have watched this video several times the past year and never noticed that lol.
"Star Wars got it right"
Oh dear, that didn't age well.
Force awakens by itself was good enough for a setup. Last Jedi could have addressed its issues and, like, be anything other than it came to be and it could have been solid. Rian Johnson just burned all the bridges that were perfectly fine. Problem was the bridges were made of wood and Rian was let near it with matches and a can of gasoline.
@@nextlifeonearth I will forever hate TFA because when orange Yoda says "good question for another time" I called it in 2015 I fucking called it I said they are never ganna answer that question and here we are in 2020 and not even the comics can say were it came from I think they just dropped it it's to hard for them to write.....fucken hack frauds
@@EdwardEstacado Rian burnt that bridge. He side tracked the entire sequel trilogy. He could have answered it, but didn't.
He didn't research the original trilogy, the animated series or even the prequels. I doubt he even watched the force awakens more than one time.
I don't blame TFA for its plot holes, since it was meant as a setup for a trilogy. Questions like these is what a trilogy uses to keep it engaging.
Problem is, they have to actually answer those questions they raised.
@@nextlifeonearth Riun may have burnt the bridge, but TFA is super boring to watch because all of it is setup and all the pay off is promised in the next movie. Riun definitely could have ran with some (not even all) the ideas and made a much better movie. But TFA was fan pandering nonsense with a lot of "we'll explain it in the sequels". So even if Last jedi was great, TFA is still a boring mess that was banking on it's sequels to make sense of this shit.
They aren’t completely wrong. Star Wars got it right by keeping it in the same universe.
This review should be showing in theaters everywhere, then I could spend $12 on going to see it instead of the new Ghostbusters and be more entertained. If you run it twice, that's about an hour and a half.
I've watched it twice, and it's just as good the second time around. In fact, it's better after you've read all these UA-cam comments.
Double feature with the Jack and Jill review!
+Patrick Damiani Need to get RLM on Fathom events
it is their best in awhile
the words posted into the chalice space for Mike's summary was clever. made me think of the DaVinci Code
"Die hard" (picture of David Carradine)
wakka wakka.
Works on so many levels. So...many...levels. :P
took me a while to get it but then i laughed my ass off
I thought it said tied hard.
Fuck....I just got that. Like 12 minutes went by and....this comment.....Jesus Christ man....
Richard Pryor?
This film highlights how damn good the original film was.
The original was never that good to begin with actually. 80s nostalgia/rose colored glasses.
It's really not nostalgia. If you don't watch that movie today and laugh and smile and enjoy yourself then there is something wrong with you.
Everything, from the casting, the characterisation, the jokes, the story beats, the music, the supporting characters, the prop design (proton packs, Slimer etc), the effects. It even has a few moments that are genuinely scary. All topped off with a gloriously crazy ending.
It's a definitive 80's movie and one of the best comedies of all time. I don't know what more you want out of it. In what way could it be better?
@@kevtb874
Agreed. Ghostbusters holds up amazing well. If it comes on TV and you watch 5 minutes, you want to keep watching.
The characters, the dialog, the plot, the humor, the visuals. It all still works.
2016: "JJ Abrams didn't have a vision of Star Wars that was f****** terrible"
2020: Sad Pikachu
In JJ's defense, his vision got a massive Ryan Johnson-shaped wedge stuck in the middle of it, which he attempted to fix with duct tape and string, so we'll never actually know what it was meant to be.
@@Zambicus It's crazy how everything they said JJ didn't do and Feig did, Rian Johnson just did it instead.
Zambicus JJ didn’t have a vision Ryan Johnson had to deal with JJ’s magic box bullshit
He looked in to see where it was going and if JJ actually had a vision Ryan would have expanded instead of diminished
Ryan just showed JJ’s plans for what they were.
@@woodlefoof2 But did he had to shit on the whole franchise to do so?
@@woodlefoof2 Who knows if there was anything in those mystery boxes when a random pyromaniac takes a lit match to them
The Ghostbusters remake should've been directed by Sam Raimi.
It would've bombed with style
Yes 👍
Only if Bruce Campbell played Venkman.
He's not a very good director either LOL..
@@dbreiden83080 at least he's fun. And I remember his movies.
the ecto vodka should've been called the Crossed Streams
You should coin that
Approved
try saying that drunk, i think not
That is good. I like it.
That sounds better as a bar that Ray runs in the third Ghostbusters movie.
"Not a movie about a bunch of schlubby exterminators that are losers."
Next shot: Frame of Mike, Jay, and Rich Evans.
Everytime they show a scene from 1984 Ghostbusters, all I want to do is go back and watch it. So amazing that film.
23:55
"We have a new star wars movie with a diverse cast and it's not made a big deal of"
Oh to be back in 2016
I am in agreement.
Metalhead RetroGamer Dark Tide more like
For real
Well, they fucked up with The Last Jedi. They became pushy in that movie, an error not made in the Force Awakens.
@@metalheadretrogamer5330 before the empire
CONGLATURATION ! ! !
YOU HAVE WATCHED
A GREAT MOVIE .
AND PROOVED THE SOCIAL JUSTICE
OF OUR WARRIORS .
NOW GO AND REST OUR
WOMEN !
-Ghostbusters 2016
I get the reference. XD
That was great, man, just excellent.
wow fantastic!!!!!!!! haha XD
Best comment
sorry i dont get the reference can somebody explain me ?
Mike's slow deterioration into intoxication, makes this review freaking hilarious !
Him getting cunty to Rich made me sad though.
Start of the ruination
@@frankmerker630 oh boy
@@tobiasthuresson7270 That's how long time friends talk with each other lol
37:07
Here's to Larry King boys.
May he rest in peace
Came for this
@@d-x-v-i ...yeah..... (lip smack).... yeah.
Def wasn’t the vodka
That definitely was the start of the ruination
Its ok guys, nobody's ever really gone
Die Hard with a picture of David Carradine... well played
really well played inded
Oh my god LOL
@@shevek2954 hehehehe, that's not nice!
@@shevek2954 absolutely brutal.
I sat there for a sec like was he in die hard? Then I made a pants peepee
When Paul Feig talks, he sounds like Walter White when he thinks his lie is actually working on Skyler.
Lance Curtis he’s the best liar!! You may not have noticed ...but your brain did
No, what he sounds like is an idiot.
Oh my god you're so right lmao
Paul Fieg seems to produce 80% of the global smug
More smug than George clooneys Oscar speech!
Jews just act like that.
He gets his daily fill of sniffing his own farts.
Rich: “Die Hard” [briefly insert picture of David Carradine]
100x Funnier than anything in Ghostbusters(2016)
Wow, this is the 3rd time watching this review and I didn't notice that. Comedy gold.
Way funnier than anything in the film itself.
The name of that cocktail should "Ghoul-Aid"
One box ecto drink, one shot of vodka. It really should be called Ecto-1
@@omis6610 "ecto-onedka"
I like that. I would have went with alliteration though: Crystal Cooler.
Do you take cash or credit? Someone's gotta pay you for the rights
We've got a winner.
*Ghostbusters and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull*
Just to suffer
Ghostbusters and the kingdom of the crystal skull vodka
And ghost Aliens.
Crystal skull was the better movie but also dissapointed me more
With cameo appearance of the new talking BTTF time traveling Prius.
Being an 18 year old female, this movie was made for my demographic. It's not doing the best job.
Queefing and poop jokes aren't funny to you?
Shame
@@amanibob1416 Woolie?
I thought your profile pic was an ear. Lmfao
@@FuriousGorge D A R L I N G T O N
Papa John got fired because he called a ghost the n-word.
Sholom
The Day of Reckoning will come
Necronomiconian? 🤔
Just watched this movie for the first time and something that stuck out to me was the lighting. There's so much neon blues reds and greens in the background that when they do take out those proton packs and start shooting it's not exciting because your eyes are already saturated with all the cartoony ghosts and lights in the background. They shot the climax of the movie in fucking times square, one of the brightest most flashy places on earth. If they wanted to make the proton packs special, go someplace dark and shoot the scene. Compared to the original with practical effects, makeup and miniatures this movie is dogshit.
Not to mention their proton packs look they were bought from Etsy and the ecto one looked like someone just dropped a telephone pole on it.
Great observation, something that I couldn't quite put my thumb on. Even more reason to never see it
It's the simple thing in the original, the contrast of the mundane and the fantastical,
One thing I love about the original, I'm 21 and enjoy 80's movies mind you, is that the Proton Packs were adamantly heavy. Hell, the movie commentary director mentioned that Harold Ramis complained the least about how heavy they were. So basically, it made sense in the story because it was incredible technology. But 2016 made them lightweight and made the busters themselves into badass warriors doing flips n' shit. I liked the original because it was a DISADVANTAGE against a fucking God.
It's amazing to me how this is an issue whilst Denis Villeneuve has pretty much mastered the concept of "yeah, my lead is female, but it doesn't matter". Sicario and Arrival had female leads but did it matter? No. It was well written, masterfully edited drama that just happened to be female led and no-one noticed because it was incredible writing. Women can so easily be leads in action films, just as long as it's well controlled. Emily Blunt is one of the finest most versatile actors working today. From pot smoking cleaner to ROYALTY to assassin. Women can do it. It's just a case of producers being willing to accept this fact.
Films having female leads isn't a big deal. Or at least it wasn't until the appearance of various modern anti-feminist movements, the existence of which this film's principals awkwardly attempted to leverage for marketing purposes.
Just gotta agree that Emily Blunt is great.
Your point is valid, except for the small fact that both these Villeneuve movies were original creations that had the time to test themselves. Paul Feig just took an established property and retconned it.
The reason why neither film mentioned had to push identify politics is because they're both quality work that sell themselves. Also, identify politics weren't as big a marketing gimmick prior to 2016.
But if you don't virtue signal about having a BIPOC female lead, your movie is a piece of shit.
It's 8 hours to 2018 when i am writing this and the top results when i type "ghostbusters" on google are the wiki followed by the 1984 movie , also the right side bar is all about the details of the old movie. Thank you internet!
Melissa McCarthy has gone from being pretty funny in a hand full of movies to STILL only being funny in a hand full of movies,10 years later.
It Couldn't be 3 black woman and 1 white woman, lets not get crazy guys this isn't a GROUNDBREAKING movie like red tails!
The scene in Red Tails of the guy taking what should be a bunch of 30mm cannon shells in the chest as if somebody was throwing confetti at him will never leave me. I seldom witness such hilarious idiocy. Even from Lucas.
Mac Brown That fucking scene was so laughable just by the fucking stupidity of him taking that many shells into the chest. It’s like a child directed it. Also the Germans (of course) are a bunch of comic villains who hate blacks so much (guess George doesn’t know that blacks served in the Waffen-SS).
Red Tails could have been awesome.
But that movie sucked ass as well.
"here's an existing property, now we can make it our own" that's always a bad sign for any sort of remake, adaptation, or anything like that, unless the original was bad.
I don't like the movie but your comment makes no sense to me. Why make an adaptation/remake of something if you're not going to make it your own? Seems like that would make the endeavor pointless. David Cronenberg made "The Fly" his own, as did John Carpenter when he made the "The Thing" remake. The worst remakes lazily follow the original plot to a T and throw in lazy pandering references.
Pocketses McFlurry I think that should be something that improves on a faulty movie, Ghostbusters is pretty much perfect, those other two remakes are improving those movies.
But if you're going to remake something that's pretty much perfect (which is a stupid idea anyway) I'd rather see someone's unique take on the basic concept than a studio-friendly inferior recreation of what I've already seen. Might as well try something different so it can at least attempt justifying it's own existence.
Two years later to the day, and it's exactly as Jay predicted:
"Ghostbusters" continues to refer to the original film, while "Ghostbusters 2016" refers to a horrendously unfunny remake that totally bombed at the box office.
When people mention the reboot, they immediately think, "bad movie."
They even changed the title to the new one, now it's called "Ghostbusters - Answer the call"
7 years later and it's still true.
I come back here now and then just to watch the Chris Helmsworth exchange. Gets me every time.
Mike’s the most accurate way to watch this movie. Completely hammered.
Rich laughs like Gruntilda from the Banjo Kazooie series.
BLAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO TRUE
No rhyme?😢
Something Reid don't want to hear,
this movie came out of Slimer's rear.
***** thanx
Oh, I fucked up that guy's last name.
But you can't really give me shame.
I didn't know who the hell Feig really was,
I'll give the reasons. It's because,
I never cared for his movies,
They all sound worse than having fleas.
I know that he did all he could,
to rape me in my damn childhood.
I don't care if he did mean well,
I just want him to go to hell.
I got really drunk on Dan Ackaroid's Crystal Head Vodka today. I thought it was appropriate that I revisit this episode
Were you drink when writing dan's name?
Is it nice?
That bastard never got back to you guys.
@@christianalanwilson434 Another year, another day of no response from Old Man Host. Indeed, the Ruination had got him.
@@_V.Va_ Mr. Host might now be Mr. Ghost?
Just rewatched after seeing Afterlife. Whoever edited this deserves a trophy for the Die Hard joke at 31:53. Holy shit.
My God, Paul Feig is the human embodiment of 'trying too hard.'
Ghostbusters was the most dissapointing thing since my son
don't you mean your wife's son
lol
But it's hard to be disappointed when your expectations are right next to dinosaur bones.
...mom?
but unlike my son who hung himself in a jail cell, this movie will never go away....
I still come back to watch this every now and again.
Ditto.
Cheers!
I keep coming back to this review every so many months. I think its reaching the point I can quote the review moreso than the original Ghostbusters movie.
Paul Feig looks like Stephen Hawking's head photoshopped onto a CEO.
Snailbarf Holy shit you’re so fucking right.
Ahahahaha
"The most politically dividing film of the year [long pause] a fucking Ghostbusters remake [longer pause] guuess that's where we're at."
How is it that two obviously drunk VCR repairmen just beat every joke in Ghostbusters 2016 at comedic timing, and I've only listened to them for 190 seconds?
I never saw new Ghostbusters, but I watched this review like, 5 times (5 x 45 mins). Plus Plinkett review, like, 5 times (5 x 58 mins). And every time, after those reviews, I watch original Ghostbusters.
“Die Hard”
David Carradine pops up.
They need to get Rich Evans back more. He's the key to all this
If we can just get him working!
He’s so dense
Bodhi Brooke-White He rhymes.
Cuz he’s a funnier character than we’ve ever has before
Mellisa McCarthy tries so hard to be funny, but is more obnoxious than everything
*anything
Both are correct
Agree
Has anyone calculated how much she has been paid per "Queef" reference, it might be 100-grand each.
I bought a bottle of Crystal Head vodka on the strength of that Half in the Bag crew's endorsement! It is a smooth vodka!
@@ourDreamcatcher ouch! I paid around 50 for a bottle.
Smooth vodka is a meme. 90% of the time it's a mixer and then you are covering it with other flavours and the rest is either to get shitfaced or because you like the taste, and you don't care about taste when you want to get drunk. To enjoy the taste your name has to be Борис.
Good vodka has no taste and really is smooth, you can drink it straight. Try something other than McCormick for a change. I reccomend new Amsterdam
Im Curious to try it would anyone here know if I could get it in the U.K.?
@@IndecentLouie thanks for the suggestion
"Your communist government thinks the movie is witchcraft" will never fail to make me lose my shit
If you look at the shitty dan akroyd vodkA, you can see they've all had a couple shots by then lol
He wasnt even shitfaced at that point either.
A lot of people talk about how Ghostbusters (2016) was intended from the get-go to be a female empowerment movie. While that's not far-fetched, another UA-camr, Comic Book Girl 19, brings up an interesting point that the feminist spin to the movie was really an attempt from Sony to cover up the fact that they really just made a shitty movie. They released the trailer, saw the negative backlash, saw some feminist retaliation against the backlash, and then realized they could fuel the flames to cover up their horrible mistake of a film.
Her bottom line is that the Sony executives (and big TV/movie executives in general) are just lazy fucks that don't want to put effort into making an original, creative movie with substance, so they milk old franchises and make sequels and reboots and spin them in whatever way boosts ticket sales or views.
Yeah Midnight's Edge did a whole series on how it was hijacked from Ivan Reitman by Paul Feig and Amy Pascal.
Sam Vimes
"Except there's behind the scenes evidence of Feig and other members of the creative team pushing for an all female cast for years before the movie went into production."
Huh. I was not aware of that. I did say (or at the very least imply) that I was open to both the planned and lazy possibilities.
Either way, it doesn't really matter. A crappy movie was made and it generated a giant non-controversy for profit (which I don't know how good or bad the movie did in the box office, but I would assume it flopped).
ian wulf The positive reviews didn't even save it from its abysmal box office.
Sam Vimes It's cool dude. I just found your extra info interesting.
MrAlcazar Heh. Good.
I just looked up the numbers. The budget was around $144 million and it's only earned around $46 million so far. Not even half.
A female Top Gun remake I'd watch it. The original movie is one of the gayest mainstream movies ever made, so a version about a bunch of hot women would be great.
Dude! Someone owes you money for that idea.
Let's make a male Secretary. Just fuck it. Make every movie again.
would it be called Topless Gun and feature a lesbian-undertoned beach volleyball scene
Nope. Instead we get a Rocketeer reboot, with a female protagonist.
Flintstoned And she had to black as well for some reason.
i was about to go to sleep, but fuck that
Same
Yup
some assholes from that "europe" continent, bunch of wusses
Because planet = round
same
Had to come back here after hearing about Larry kings passing and watch almost die drinking crystal head vodka.
R.I.P. king.
It's a pretty good drink though
Neil Breen should have directed this movie.
pippo luiz all movies
Well, we've got Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which is essentially the third movie. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson, written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. :)
These Star Wars comparisons ring differently after watching The Last Jedi
Yes agree
Watching the Last Jedi and Ghostbusters 2016 reviews are like therapy
Indeed
The Last Jedi at least got a handful of salvageable things going on. This thing, on the other hand, seems to have no redeeming qualities.
@@Mick_92 There was indeed a lot of good in TLJ and it sucks people fail to admit/ realize it.
Watching this again, after Jennifer Lawrence's Variety madness, it makes me wonder how many times we're going to have to have the "female action star" discussion.
She invented women in film
'Mike Hat' was the worst thing in the film. Crinegworthy. It's a joke a 5 year old would come up with.
Red Letter Media has by far the best comment section on UA-cam
There is no such thing as a "best UA-cam comment section"
There is only "least worst"
+tmzissupergay the Best of the Worst, if you will.
I hope that doesn't replace Re:View.
Is this praise going to replace the usual complaint about commentators repeating the same joke over and over again?
The image of the original Ghostbusters doing ninja flips and bouncing around like action stars in my head is funnier than anything in this movie.
Looking back, I think this movie is the perfect analogy of what the entertainment industry as a whole has devolved into. Companies can absolve themselves of any criticism by putting in gay/female/poc themes/characters/anything and using them as a shield by calling their consumers bigots if they don't submit
There's two halves to the modern entertainment industry. One is the forced identity politics shit. The other is the utter lack of creativity and willingness to take risks. The former is used as a cudgel against audiences when they react negatively to the latter.
If at least these guys would dare to moke themselves a little bit! Like for example: how better plot would it be that GB were a big corporation which busts ghost mechanically, automaticallt, which has forgotten all the blue collar values from its origins, and then follows the struggle to go back to basis, to remind why science matters but friendship matter the most... ifk, something like tha. Way more interesting, which is not a lot to say.
Thanks from adding that part about not feeling bad about not liking it. I wanted to see it, but it just didn't look good. The end where mike said he didn't like it because it had women in it, cracked me up. :p