Twitter is a great platform. Just depends how it is used. I love it for breaking news, upcoming events, sports updates, comedy, links to interesting articles.
Blaming twitter for Trolls is like blaming telephones for prank calls.
See this right here is the measuring stick we should be using. No GB film is ever going to live up to or surpass the original, but how does it compare to GB2?
Personally I liked GB2 almost as much as the first one, so doesn't really make much of a difference.
I guess I'll wait for some of my less fanboyish/girlish friends to see it make up my mind about seeing it. Although I generally avoid going to see reboots.
The original Ghostbusters to me felt more like a drama that was mildly funny, whereas this new one was a comedy that wasn't really funny. But I still enjoyed it.
It looked fantastic--I saw it in 3D, and I hate 3D. It was bright and colourful and the FX were top notch. Beyond that, Ghostbusters was fun and a bears a certain charm of its own if you're not hung up the role reversal themes which are quite in-your-face.
There was one line in the film, something like, 'you can't listen to what weirdoes on the internet say at 2:00 a.m.' which seemed to amuse me, and only me, at the showing I was at. I LOL'd. Clearly a dig at all the highly-publicized vitriol before the movie was even released.
I was reaallly hoping for a Rick Moranis cameo. I guess it's old news that he wasn't going to do it, but I try my best to avoid movie news before hand, and it was news to me.
I enjoyed it, thought it was a fun action-comedy. The trailers actually seemed to have a lot of the worst moments, maybe those parts are just not my type of humour. Kate McKinnon and Chris Hemsworth both cracked me up a few times.
The audience seemed to be almost all women though.
You've got to think that this is going to be damaging to Wig and MM,
For McCarthy outside of The Heat, she hasn't really drawn big box office, and there might be some fatique around her as a lead.
For Wig this was probably her last chance to really jump into the whole leading sought after actress role but her projects where she's a major character haven't gone well.
The only way I can see them doing a live action ghost busters cast is with a reboot with different less well known actors.
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You've got to think that this is going to be damaging to Wig and MM,
For McCarthy outside of The Heat, she hasn't really drawn big box office, and there might be some fatique around her as a lead.
For Wig this was probably her last chance to really jump into the whole leading sought after actress role but her projects where she's a major character haven't gone well.
The only way I can see them doing a live action ghost busters cast is with a reboot with different less well known actors.
I don't necessarily disagree with your point, but Bridesmaids, however you feel about it or Wiig, was a huge hit.
That's actually not too bad and. As soon as it was announced you got the feeling this was not going to end well for Sony. It's an old movie that a few generations never saw or will get. All female main cast for a large budget movie is a huge crapshoot as well as a major departure from the original. There was a lot going against this movie from day one so losing $70 million isn't that bad when you consider there's been a lot of bombs this year in Alice Through the Looking Glass, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, The Finest Hours, etc, all lost considerable money. Really I don't understand why studios continue to try and bring back old hits as more than not they bomb. IMO what's really telling is that the movie wasn't terrible yet it still bombed. A lot of these remakes are pretty bad.
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Really I don't understand why studios continue to try and bring back old hits as more than not they bomb.
Because movies based on original concepts have an even higher fail rate. With the 'open big or die' reality of the industry today, movies don't have time to generate word of mouth. So they rely on a premise and promotion that will put large numbers of bums in seats before anyone has seen it.
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Because movies based on original concepts have an even higher fail rate. With the 'open big or die' reality of the industry today, movies don't have time to generate word of mouth. So they rely on a premise and promotion that will put large numbers of bums in seats before anyone has seen it.
My impression is that reboots tend to bring relatively reliable money in... What's the current word for "video release" these days? Post-theater?
I know I've watched a whole bunch of crappy remakes out of curiousity, but usually not in theater.
(Should probably stop doing that. Don't want to encourage them.)