All Female cast of Ghostbusters announced

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by peter12

Ass. Unwatchable garbage. Voluminous filth. Eye pus.

I drove through America once with my wife. We took some backgrounds, and by chance, drove by - good lord - a drive-in movie theatre! They were showing Transformers 3 (4? 5? Mark Wahlberg), so uhhh not so great, but the hell, it's a drive-in movie theatre. We were already late for our hotel booking, so why not be more late.

Fast forward. We fell asleep about 90 minutes into the insane montage of rolling mechanical CGI parts, and indistinguishable limb-bashing, and woke up 20 minutes or an eternity later, and pretty much couldn't tell where we had left off in the movie. The exact same thing was unfolding at precisely the same whiz-bang speed.

Awful.

Also wrong.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

Also wrong.

You have changed my mind for good!

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by peter12

You have changed my mind for good!

I knew you'd see the error in your argument if I just pointed it out to you!

[Flaming Choy]

While not the traditional review outlet, i09 seemed to like it. The review is short but doesn't go into the whole sexism angle, which is nice. Quick summary, fun movie, does nostalgia well but villain sucks.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/movie-review-...muc-1783418211

[blankall]

3.8/10 on IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/...?ref_=tt_ov_rt

Really interesting. The votes are polarized, with a lot of 1s and a lot of 10s. Also a 3.5 avg for males and 6.9 average for females.

Another trend is that all the early reviews are great and the more recent ones awful.

[FireGilbert]

I am getting the impression women like the film and men don't so it's basically a chick flick (not that there is anything wrong with that).

I found this positive review written by a female who had never seen the original interesting:

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...6b09e5660e8be7

Men in general don’t come off well in this movie, whether it’s because of their stupidity, hubris or diabolic intentions.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by blankall

3.8/10 on IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/...?ref_=tt_ov_rt

Really interesting. The votes are polarized, with a lot of 1s and a lot of 10s. Also a 3.5 avg for males and 6.9 average for females.

Another trend is that all the early reviews are great and the more recent ones awful.

Have 8,300 people actually seen it yet though?

[kirant]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

Have 8,300 people actually seen it yet though?

I'd throw out all the 1s and 10s as part of this angry internet fight if we want to do any analysis. That will give you an average rating of ~5.2...which I wouldn't doubt being the actual quality of the movie when all the dust settles.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by kirant

I'd throw out all the 1s and 10s as part of this angry internet fight if we want to do any analysis. That will give you an average rating of ~5.2...which I wouldn't doubt being the actual quality of the movie when all the dust settles.

Probably a good way to go.

I haven't seen it. I honestly can't see how a movie like this deserves a ten though. I love the original and still wouldn't give that a perfect 10. Conversely, not many movies are so bad they deserve a 1. The irrationality surrounding this movie is out of control.

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by blankall

3.8/10 on IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/...?ref_=tt_ov_rt

Really interesting. The votes are polarized, with a lot of 1s and a lot of 10s. Also a 3.5 avg for males and 6.9 average for females.

Another trend is that all the early reviews are great and the more recent ones awful.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...imed-at-women/

[nik-]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...imed-at-women/

Do you think there were women giving really low ratings to Entourage?

Another crappy HBO show aimed at one gender.

edit: it appears there's a disparity, but not as much as the Sex and the City one.

Another show, Desperate Housewives (just one I picked out) has a similar disparity from men to women as Entourage. Perhaps it's just because Sex and the City was trash.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by FireGilbert

I am getting the impression women like the film and men don't so it's basically a chick flick (not that there is anything wrong with that).

I found this positive review written by a female who had never seen the original interesting:

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...6b09e5660e8be7

How can woman not like a movie where the way to kill the male villain is to shoot it in the dick with a charged plasma weapon.

[Hockeyguy15]

How do you know it isn't a woman? It wouldn't surprise me if they changed that too.

[troutman]

http://www.calgaryherald.com/enterta...898/story.html

Ghouls and anonymous Internet commentators — who have flocked to their thumbs-down buttons ahead of the film's release — share plenty of characteristics. Each is likely to drool and quickly disappear when you turn on the lights. Feig's "Ghostbusters" ain't afraid of either.

Why should he be, anyway? In his corner he has the best comic actor of the decade, Melissa McCarthy, the klutzy wit of Kristen Wiig, "Saturday Night Live" standout Kate McKinnon and the big-screen breakthrough of Leslie Jones, the film's secret weapon.

His "Ghostbusters" makes some winks to the uproar that preceded his gender-swapping film, but it mostly steers straight ahead, too busy being funny to worry much about misogynist detractors. It does, however, pay a lot — too much — attention to placating "Ghostbusters" fans with the familiar showdowns and iconography of the original two films.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by troutman

http://www.calgaryherald.com/enterta...898/story.html

Ghouls and anonymous Internet commentators — who have flocked to their thumbs-down buttons ahead of the film's release — share plenty of characteristics. Each is likely to drool and quickly disappear when you turn on the lights. Feig's "Ghostbusters" ain't afraid of either.

Why should he be, anyway? In his corner he has the best comic actor of the decade, Melissa McCarthy, the klutzy wit of Kristen Wiig, "Saturday Night Live" standout Kate McKinnon and the big-screen breakthrough of Leslie Jones, the film's secret weapon.

His "Ghostbusters" makes some winks to the uproar that preceded his gender-swapping film, but it mostly steers straight ahead, too busy being funny to worry much about misogynist detractors. It does, however, pay a lot — too much — attention to placating "Ghostbusters" fans with the familiar showdowns and iconography of the original two films.

Really? How many ghost busters fans wanted to see Slimer and Stay Puft forced in? or another hearse? where is the creativity? That is on the film makers, not the demands of fans.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by troutman

In his corner he has the best comic actor of the decade, Melissa McCarthy,

Lol

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by troutman

http://www.calgaryherald.com/enterta...898/story.html

Ghouls and anonymous Internet commentators — who have flocked to their thumbs-down buttons ahead of the film's release — share plenty of characteristics. Each is likely to drool and quickly disappear when you turn on the lights. Feig's "Ghostbusters" ain't afraid of either.

Why should he be, anyway? In his corner he has the best comic actor of the decade, Melissa McCarthy, the klutzy wit of Kristen Wiig, "Saturday Night Live" standout Kate McKinnon and the big-screen breakthrough of Leslie Jones, the film's secret weapon.

His "Ghostbusters" makes some winks to the uproar that preceded his gender-swapping film, but it mostly steers straight ahead, too busy being funny to worry much about misogynist detractors. It does, however, pay a lot — too much — attention to placating "Ghostbusters" fans with the familiar showdowns and iconography of the original two films.

[Sliver]

This is getting fataing absurd. This doesn't look funny because the trailers weren't funny. The trailers are all we have to go on. It has nothing to do with misogyny and the suggestion is getting super annoying. Who's anti-woman in this day and age anyway? Like Rey as Luke from Star Wars was such a good example. We loved her.

[peter12]

Hahaha Melissa McCarthy. Oh that woman is an awful attempt to create a completely ironic, poor-man's John Candy.

[CaptainCrunch]

She's trying to be the female version of Will Ferrell, who's every character is the same loud, fish out of water socially awkward idiot with exaggerated physicality and facial expressions.

She's the same thing in every movie she's in. She's not funny because she's boring and uncreative.

And best comedy actress of the decade. I would watch Tina Fey reading a manual that describes descaling a coffee maker and it would be funnier then the last few movies that McCarthy has been in.