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Originally Posted by blankall
Waivering on whether or not to see this.
The politicized tone of many of the reviews is really turning me off. Any review that starts with...male fanboys will be upset...makes me suspect. I really didn't have a problem with the all female thing, and thought it would be good.
That being said I do for some unexplainable reason find Leslie Jones hilarious. That SNL skit with Peter Dinklage was hilarious on a totally juvenile level.
My major issue with the casting is that they've chosen 4 Peter Venkmans. The chemistry in the original worked as you had 4 different personalities, with 3 of them being relatively subdued. Venkman was the only giving one-liners. From what I've seen from the ads this just looks like all 4 characters yelling one liners over top of each other.
Meh...may wait for Netflix.
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Thats a very good point.
I think a huge part of what made the original work was the fact that it was 3 buddies who figured 'screw it' and decided to make a movie one day and it became Ghostbusters.
It was awesome, fun and organic. The sequel is the same as this one. Call it whatever you like, gimmicky, prejudiced, whatever, but when you go from something like the original to anything else its forced, its artificial. It doesnt have that same magic.
The original Ghostbusters was far from the perfect film, but it had that indefinable quality that is almost impossible to capture but they did it so well. Hell, Ghostbusters 2 couldnt keep that lighting in a bottle but somehow the cartoon TV show was the closest they could come.
To sum it up, if you take something that was only awesome on its intangibles, remove those intangibles, and then expect it to continue to be awesome then it doesnt matter if you're a feminist revolutionary or a misogynist, its all going to go down.
And finally, look at the products given out to entice you to pay your money, the trailers, they look terrible.