Well @scruffy that is fucking dumb. We are all different we don’t have to be assholes to each other over stupid shit. 

Plenty of legitimate shit to be an asshole about. 

You know, I don’t expect everyone to like the film. In fact, I’ve pretty staunchly defended the “entertainment is subjective” point. Seen the movie? Think it’s shit? Cool! I disagree, but I can’t dictate to you what it is you think is funny. Besides, as I’ve mentioned before (and as @neverthrive can confirm) I’m actually pretty contrary, when it comes to pop culture. Nothing will put me off of something quite like hearing about how great it is all the goddamn time.

All I want is for fanboys to own their goddamn nostalgia.

We all have nostalgia. We all fall victim to it. Own your shit.

“This movie I’ve never seen is awful and an insult to the original, let me use box office numbers to tell you how bad it TOTALLY IS, oh and also all the shit thay came out when I was a kid was GREAT and all the shit that came out in the past decade sucks donkey balls,” is pretty much the thesis statement for nostalgia.

Yeah, I got hella salty. But you’re behaving like a goddamn fanboy, @Cheshyr, at least own it.

All good bromigo I was just calling a spade a spade.  Much props on how you took my criticism.

Psyral Infection said

Torrent! That is how I watched it. I don’t do the theater thing.  

Eeeeh. I don’t really want a shitty cam copy, y’know?

Considering most cinemas are digital now, I’d have expected more DVD-quality leaks for movies in general, but I guess most people don’t want to risk their jobs so that a bunch of ungrateful nerds on the internet can watch a movie for free, lol.

Neverthrive said

It wasn’t a great film[…]

SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH IT WAS AMAZING**.

** …I might be bias. 

No, but for real, I really did like the movie. It wasn’t cinematic gold, but how many fims are? I get what you’re saying about Rowan, he really wasn’t impressive, but I’d argue he was a good villain, in the sense that he was a relatable everyman. He was a socially inept, creepy loser who went a little Columbine, except instead of a school shooting he tried to kill the world with ghosts???

IDK he was basically me at 13.

Erin’s one-liner after she popped the Stay Puft man fell flat but the broader joke of her saving them with the pocket knife was entertaining, even if it wasn’t LOL-worthy. My experience was that most of the jokes which failed me were the ones that either drug on too long (like Patty exorcising Abby with the slaps) or were multi-faceted (i.e. physical + verbal) generally with one aspect of the joke working, and another part failing, usually for a net neutral experience.

Really, I think a big redeeming factor for me was the characters. Even when the humor flopped I still found the film by and large enjoyable, because I liked and was invested in the characters. Probably if I didn’t like the characters as much, I wouldn’t have enjoyed the movie to the degree I did; it’s sort of like how your friend’s shitty jokes are less cringe-inducing than a stranger’s shitty jokes, because you like them.

Plus I’m basically still riding the high of my all-time favorite actor (Sigourney Weaver) having a babely cameo (STEM MILF) tied to my favorite character (Holtzmann). I mean, I’ll freely admit it: I’m the fanchild type. Good fanservice redeems a lot of sins.

Speaking of fanservice, the post-credit scene (which I still haven’t seen, but know the content of) makes me nervous. I’d love a sequel, and wouldn’t mind them touching upon the plot of the original movie in theory, but I’d hate to see them revisit it verbatim, partially because I’d like to see them do their own thing, and partially because I didn’t think the plot of the original Ghostbusters was that good. I’d hope that if they did revisit it, it’d be in name only; take Zuul and Vinz Clortho and Gozer and really reinvent them. The whole ‘sumerian god’ angle was really…meh.

If we did see Gozer again, I’d welcome the return of the Confuser vibe, tho.

Potato-tan said  

I’d hope that if they did revisit it, it’d be in name only; take Zuul and Vinz Clortho and Gozer and really reinvent them. The whole ‘sumerian god’ angle was really…meh.

If we did see Gozer again, I’d welcome the return of the Confuser vibe, tho.  

Having seen the OG (original Ghostbusters) now, I can say that I didn’t really care for Gozer. It wasn’t really intimidating, or funny, it was just… hokey. 

At least Rowan was actually a ghost, I guess. 

I, too, would rather see something new in the sequel than have them revisit an old plot. 

I liked that ghosts being summoned –with tech similar to the Ghostbusters’ own– was completely intentional and plot relevant, rather than the ghosts they bust just being kind of incidental. And also that the villain was, in the end, a ghost and not a weird Eastern European model/deity. 

Plenty of movies pick up popularity after bombing in the box office. I doubt this movie will, but I’m sure it can’t be any worse than the SLC Punk sequal. That movie was fucking garbage. Disgrace to the original movie, disgrace to punk rock and a disgrace to my city. It was a fucking Nickelodeon movie with some drugs and swearing.