I’m sorry, having watched the reboot again last night with a friend, I’m going back to militant mode. Plinkett is full of it here. ATC has a lot of tension building, low key moments. None of his cliche “improvements” are remotely necessary. The movie isn’t filled with “go boom” humor. And the cameos are only painful to a fanboy/girl who’s obsessed with being jaded and above it all.
And again, Plinkett’s character parallels are way off.
Sorry, Plinkett, you may have pleased a lot of bitter fanboys/girls, but you jumped the shark in doing so. That’s what fandoms are about today, rejecting quality for belonging to the crowd. Once again, I’ll be over here enjoying GB2 and ATC. RLM, I hope those “reviews” haunt you forever as the moments you ceased to be critics, and just became fanboys.
And again, featofstrength, I’m not mad at you for sharing. This is just what discussion boards are for.
Oh but I have to say, Plinkett is supposed to be a murderer, at least, that’s what he always brags about. I mean, I always took him at his word anyway!
the only thing it may do is cause someone to love GB’84 even more. For me, that’s the best part of the review. He really understands why GB84 works the way it does.
I tried when it popped up in my youtube recommends but man I got 15 min in and couldn’t take any more…for a guy who claims to know what’s funny and what isn’t, his delivery and painfully unfunny quips negate anything he said for me.
I watched the review in its entirety and felt that it brought up a lot of decent points on the way that the film was shot and written. As someone who’s actually edited the film down, taking out a lot of that unnecessary line-o-rama makes the film flow more and that the jokes really don’t have time to land due to the need to keep throwing out lines. So some of those points were correct. I don’t agree with the characterizations. I feel that they took this order: Ray, Egon, Peter, Winston and took the ladies and turned them all a half turn so Yates is a Ray/Egon, Holtzmann an Egon/Peter , Tolan Peter/Winston and Wiig Winston/Ray or as close to it.
Didn’t Sony want to avoid the comparisons of the old GB by not only cast woman but give them different characters as well? I realise Holtzmann looks a bit like RGB Egon and is the tinkerer, and Patty has the same skin color as Winston, but that’s about it, right?
Well considering how much was already lifted from the original (admittedly Feig and Dippold didn’t have to do much) It absolutely makes sense that they took the 4 archetypes (Mouth, Brains, Heart and Soul) and used that as a basis. They tweaked the characters to the right to make their personalities blend more. Again that’s just my interpretation of it. It makes sense though. Yates is the hard scientist but also the enthusiastic one. Hotlzmann is the builder and mouth, Tolan is the mouth/everyman and Wiig is the soul (ghost girl) and about the prestige (tenure, proving ghosts are real).
Well I enjoyed Plinkett’s review for the most part. True that could be because I am a bit bitter about how ATC turned out. I do love hearing other people’s POV though. I actually love that there are so many people that took away a lot positive aspects from the reboot. I wish I enjoyed the reboot more. That doesn’t mean I hate the movie far from it. I like it for what it is, but I don’t love it like I do the first 2 films and the Video Game. ATC wasn’t going to be able to meet any of my expectations because there was so much build up since 1989. Then the Video Game came out in 2009 and it sparked more interest and the expectations got built up even more. Then the comics started giving me a taste of what another round would feel like with these characters. After all that I was hungry and excited for another film in the series and then they went with a Remake. Just a wee bit of a letdown. ;).
That is the biggest obstacle that ATC has is standing on it’s own after so much hype for a third film. For the most part it doesn’t do too badly. I mean even if this movie is considered a flop it could have been much worse. It could have bombed as bad as Jem. My apologies for drawing that comparison. It really isn’t the same because that was a crowd funded film and was on very few screens. ;). I am just saying that the property could have taken a much bigger hit that could have ruined any chance for a future film. As bad as ATC is it did succeed in getting the general public talking Ghostbusters again. Like I have said the franchise may not be as big as Star Wars, but it is big enough to survive a minor misstep. The franchise will go on and the ATC can move forward in comic form as long as there is interest. It is kind of fun knowing that there is a strong future for Ghostbusters, but not knowing exactly what they have in mind. Like I said it is going to be a fun few years.
Ok. I was going to make a thread about this but I just didn’t know where it would belong. Plus I’m so frazzled by what I just saw I just clicked the first thread I saw.
Does anybody watch the show Vice on HBO? Well they just aired an episode on the ■■■■ rally in Charlestom(it’s on YouTube for free right now but I’m doing this from a place where I can’t access YouTube so forgive me for not providing a link). Guess what it showed? A Neo ■■■■ group with this huge banner. What did they have as their logo? The friggin Ghostbusters no Ghost logo. That’s right. The episode follows a group of Neo ■■■■’s spouting insanely racist things so if you are someone who would rather stay away from that sort of thing, don’t watch it. I’m so disgusted I’m shaking. It’s literally hard for me to type. Not just at the use of our beloved logo but the entire episode shows such hatred that I can’t believe human beings are still capable of in this day and age.
Apologies for the off topic discussion. Maybe I should have created a thread. I’ll leave that to someone else. I just..I can’t even.
I’m not even sure I can wrap (or would that be warp?) my head into understanding the logic of what they could possibly be using the logo for (unless they’re somehow trying to “take it back”?)
It makes me feel more inclined to throw together that no-klansman /Klanbusters/KKKbusters logo that I mused upon earlier today.
Boy do I feel like a heel. I’m an idiot. That video made me so angry that I mistakenly took the GB logo as a Neo ■■■■ banner. I rewatched it and it’s actually an anti KKK logo that says something along the lines as “I ain’t afraid of white supremacist”. Sorry folks. I was wrong. The way the footage was cut together when I originally watched it I thought I was looking at the Neo ■■■■ crowd(plus I didn’t get a good look at the slogan part). Watching it on my IPad it became clear it was a sign against KKK. I guess I just assumed it was the Neo ■■■■’s since I read earlier that the Detriot Red Wings(a hockey team) were suing a Neo ■■■■ group that used the Red Wing logo at the rally.
Apologies folks. Shouldn’t have been so quick to rush to judgment. So sorry.
The confederates ■■■■■■ up. Their monuments should be removed. Not destroyed, but removed. They should be placed in a museum–a place for the past. Not displayed as if the people they depict are honourable. The confederates erected them because they represented their values, but as evidenced by the evils that turned out to protect the monument in Charlottesville–the KKK, Neo-nazis, white supremacists–those monuments do not represent good. They represent the confederates who ■■■■■■ up. The only people who admire those ■■■■ ups are the current ■■■■ ups of society. The ■■■■ ups of society are the KKK, Neo-Nazis, and white supremacists. They are institutions for evil ■■■■ ups, and they will not be tolerated. The monuments don’t represent the values of good people, the values of Americans, but the values of ■■■■ ups.
