Ghostbusters - In theaters July 15, 2016

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[CONTAINER][MOVIE1]Title: Ghostbusters (2016)

Genre: [GENRE]Horror[/GENRE], [GENRE]Action[/GENRE], [GENRE]Comedy[/GENRE], [GENRE]Science Fiction[/GENRE]

Director: [DIRECTOR]Paul Feig[/DIRECTOR]

Cast: [ACTOR]Melissa McCarthy[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Kristen Wiig[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Kate McKinnon[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Leslie Jones[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Chris Hemsworth[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Andy García[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Michael Kenneth Williams[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Matt Walsh[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Neil Casey[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Cecily Strong[/ACTOR], [ACTOR]Nate Corddry[/ACTOR]

Release Date: [RELEASE]2016-07-15[/RELEASE]

Runtime: [RUNTIME]0[/RUNTIME]

Plot: The plot is unknown at this time.[/MOVIE1][POSTER1]

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Spoiler: Old news

From IMDB
The Los Angeles Times talked to Dan Aykroyd about Ghostbusters 3 that is in development at Columbia Pictures. Here are several excerpts:

Aykroyd said Sigourney Weaver is on board now, as are the original squad of ectoplasmic specialists -- Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson.

"We could be in production by winter."

Aykroyd said he wishes Ivan Reitman would return to direct the third film in the series but that he's "too busy as a mega-producer" to take it on; his second choice is Ramis, who, of course, co-wrote the first two "Ghostbusters" films with Aykroyd and has numerous directing credits, most notably "Groundhog Day" and "Analyze This."

The details of story are still in play, but Aykroyd said he's hoping for a five-member "new generation" team with several female members. "I'd like it to be a passing-of-the-torch movie. Let's revisit the old characters briefly and happily and have them there as family but let's pass it on to a new generation."


www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=55711

Full article

 

[Flash]

@Flash Who knows, mate. Maybe you are right. But its the behind the scenes drama that led to this uprising. It had nothing to do with male or female. The dramatic sexual turn of its cast was in a way contrived to be sarcastic to some. Remember the original intention was to add a female cast. But not like this.

What happened to Ackroyd's ideas? They were canned, And he had been working on it for over 20 years.

I have no idea but as I said the longer it went on it wasn't going to happen and I am very happy with the end result. I don't think the original cast would have featured in this film if they didn't like it. As I said it was wonderful to see them in their cameos, it was a lovely passing of the torch, I think they really went to a lot of effort with this film. It's funny online on Twitter etc now men are complaining women like it because they are women watching women, lol

As a women I wasn't too happy it was to be women but it's a great film I am so much happier with these new exciting characters than some chump trying to play Ray or Peter etc

 

[denizen]

I will certainly watch it sometime (Not sure when). But i fear that it will not do as well as expected in theaters. The rest of the cast were tired of waiting and naturally jumped on board because it was all they were going to get.

Ackroyd once said. The true GB 3 is the recent game.

 

[Flash]

I will certainly watch it sometime (Not sure when). But i fear that it will not do as well as expected in theaters. The rest of the cast were tired of waiting and naturally jumped on board because it was all they were going to get.

Ackroyd once said. The true GB 3 is the recent game.

you haven't seen it, ok then... I would say give it a shot, lol

As I said the petty stigma is going to affect it which is a shame, it's a great film but really it's about how the individual enjoys it, so many films I like considered 'flops' but I love them and that's what movies should be about.

Great bit of a review here says it's all

 

[Noodles]

There's a pretty interesting article here about how Max Landis once pitched a Ghostbusters movie to Sony, which came very close to happening and sounds a lot better than Feig's idea IMO... but then I'm yet to see his version, so I guess I can't really judge it at the moment.

As for the whole 'old male cast versus the new female cast' thing... I never had an issue with the change (apart from McCarthy ). I personally don't think the previous cast would've worked anyway... mainly because they're old as now (and Ramis is obviously no longer with us, may he RIP). A new cast was always needed IMO, and to make them female was even more refreshing.

The trailers still look garbage to me, and I'm in no rush to go see the film, but I think it's great that Ghostbusters has been introduced to a new generation (and gender) of fans, who will also probably grow up to hate on future Ghostbusters reboots lol. This photo just about sums it up anyway...

 

[Flash]

Aww @Noodles it's really good, that's a lovely picture and I wish when I was a young girl we had central characters of films and to have something like this to really make it seem like we could maybe one day be a ghostbuster.

I think as they are new characters it's fine, I don't agree with pre-existing characters being changed, even as a women, Iron Man should not be a woman.

 

[bloodsnake007]

 

[Flash]

I was watching repeat of Graham Norton with the cast and they are lovely funny women and seeing the clips again it now after seeing the film, it really had a lot of clever moments and I hope people give it a shot.

Just read this article on Vanity Fair

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...busters-didnt-ruin-their-childhoods-after-all


(It's pretty good, particularly like this bit)

 

[thewoe]

I saw this tonight, i grew up with the original 2 movies and i have to say i loved the new "reboot". It was nothing but pure fun awesome visual efx and the best 3D ive seen in a long time.

Day 1 purchase for me.

 

[Flash]

I saw this tonight, i grew up with the original 2 movies and i have to say i loved the new "reboot". It was nothing but pure fun awesome visual efx and the best 3D ive seen in a long time.

Day 1 purchase for me.

I didn't see it in 3D, is it really good?

I really hope this gets a steelbook

 

[thewoe]

I didn't see it in 3D, is it really good?

I really hope this gets a steelbook

yeah the 3D was awesome. proper pop outwards 3D. the proton beams actually came through the standard black bars. was very enjoyable.

 

[Flash]

I was just reading about the racist abuse that Leslie has suffered on Twitter.

She had to tweet the other day "...I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart. All this cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the **** I got today wrong."

She has since rejoined and hope it doesn't continue. These social media things Twitter/Facebook etc have some good points but the amount of hate they breed and put onto people is terrible.

Leslie is brilliant in the film absolutely hilarious, and the level of stigma the film has received is ridiculous already but to take it even beyond that is awful.

 

[ash1115]

I really like it when they use not just the poster art but on steelbooks it's nice to have something a bit different, in my opinion. I was just reading about the racist abuse that Leslie has suffered on Twitter.

She had to tweet the other day "...I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart. All this cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the **** I got today wrong."

She has since rejoined and hope it doesn't continue. These social media things Twitter/Facebook etc have some good points but the amount of hate they breed and put onto people is terrible.

Leslie is brilliant in the film absolutely hilarious, and the level of stigma the film has received is ridiculous already but to take it even beyond that is awful.

I don't want to get off topic at all but I have to agree with you, Leslie is funny as hell and the main reason I decided to go see the movie in the first place and it was actually quite good and I'll happily purchase the steelbook when it's live.

It's a real shame that anyone nowadays has to endure any amount of intolerance and ignorance on any platform. Personally I gave up on social media myself, there's just too many creeps out there and it's not worth it.

Regardless I hope everyone takes a chance on the film, the steelbook looks dope and I can't wait to get it.

 

[Flash]

I don't want to get off topic at all but I have to agree with you, Leslie is funny as hell and the main reason I decided to go see the movie in the first place and it was actually quite good and I'll happily purchase the steelbook when it's live.

It's a real shame that anyone nowadays has to endure any amount of intolerance and ignorance on any platform. Personally I gave up on social media myself, there's just too many creeps out there and it's not worth it.

Regardless I hope everyone takes a chance on the film, the steelbook looks dope and I can't wait to get it.

Extremely well said

 

[Flash]

This is a cool image

 

[bobafettish66]

would you be male by any chance? (just an honest curiosity)

Am noticing a trend that mostly females are loving this - guys just get uncomfortable at queef jokes it seems

There in lies the problem. Gender is irrelevant.

Even before the film was released the trailer got a ton of heat as it looked like a bad film. Everyone immediately assumes it's misogynists not liking the film because of it's female led cast, you obviously get trolls acting that way (this is the internet) but that was never the point. Sony knew the film was awful. the marketting before that trailer was non existant, with apparent leaks from the cast dismayed at how bad the film was. they took this backlash and turned the launch of this turd of a film into a playground for sexist rows.

Sony pretend the film is about the empowerment of women, it was about using their goldmine of a license they've been sitting on for 25+ years to print cash. that is how the mass media has promoted this film, see this film to support feminist equality, or be a sexist jerk.

they completely lucked out, if this movie had a male lead cast, The film would of just died.

alot of reviewiers refused to go near this film, simply beacuse if they said anything that wasn't positive they'd immeditaly be castrated as sexist. It's sad that alot of reviewers simply pandered to that Idea of gender equality, essentially praising the girls for even trying which is ridiculous and part of the problem.

"isn't it also sexist to say: this is good, just because there are woman in it? this is like saying: this drawing is ****, but since it was made by a 4 year old i am gonna tell him/her it is great"

and by the way, I'm not even singling out the film for it's poor quality, the tie in game is just as bad, and you play as boys and girls in that

and here is a girl saying pretty much the exact same thing, though perhaps more eloquently.


Fart jokes are below ghostbusters and to see it resort to that was depressing.

 

[moonbucket]

I don't find Paul Feig's brand of comedy funny at all but I still feel obliged to see this. Can't say I'm looking forward to it - Red Letter Media pretty much confirmed my suspicions that Feig did not understand the previous movies - instead of comic actors playing characters, this time it's all low-rent fart jokes and hyper-active wisecracking in every scene with Feig clearly demanding his actors be "funny" constantly.

He's a hack.

Worst is, I can't convince anyone to come see this with me so I will be suffering alone!!

 

[Flash]

Paul Feig is hilarious, a wonderful writer and director and probably multi-millionaire so probably people moaning online that he is a hack, would only amuse him lol

It's amazing the amount of time spent by people who hate or want to hate the film/the cast/the director, it makes no sense why they bother to spend so much effort slagging it off.

This is a super funny film and throughly enjoyable, it's pretty sad that in most reviews they have to write 'female led' ghostbusters. It's pathetic. These are new characters taking on similar themes and they managed to perfect a great level of humour/horror/comradery yes they are women but they are great actresses, is there a few crude joke yes, a few silly moments but it's really good. I mean the ridiculous crude level of hangover for example was fine but women can't make a fart joke lol

This is a great film but no one is forcing anyone to see it but those curious should forgot the stigma and give it a go and you'll have a enjoyable time.

 

[denizen]

My general opinion is that i don't really enjoy movies that carry strong toilet / sex humor. I just find it unnecessary. It's also awkward to watch when sitting with the fam. There have been some great attempts at breaking the ice in comedy that need not require any lengths of desperation. Regardless of sex. I personally have no idea why some have criticized the cast. Regardless of their sex or race. I personally disliked the creative direction they took. They were going to continue the original franchise with new recruits, 2 of them already being female. I disliked the politics that went on behind the scenes in order to make this movie. Bill Murray was the reason it took 20 years.

 

[Flash]

Each to their own, I don't like toilet humour much either but this has little of that and the rest of the film is so fun, clever and really made me smile.

We were in Tesco and there was this mum and maybe like 13 year old girl and they were buying the Ghostbusters movie tie in book and the mum was saying to the checkout person how lovely it was they are making an effort with females characters, she said she's got the daughter the pops and is just loving the postive impact it has had on her, improved her confidence. I thought it was lovely.

If it simply makes alot of people happy and helps them even if it flops as a movie I think it's succeeded.

 

[moonbucket]

Paul Feig is hilarious, a wonderful writer and director and probably multi-millionaire so probably people moaning online that he is a hack, would only amuse him lol

No, it most certainly did not amuse him. He lost it on twitter big time (and whilst inadvisable, I do understand him snapping under the extreme provocation). He is a hack - there is little artistry in his compositions and his brand of humour is absolutely low-rent. I don't ever aim vitriol at someone on social media nor agree with witch-hunts (Leslie Jones being chased of Twitter a la Joss Whedon sickens me) - and believe me I wanted this entry in the Ghostbusters series to be well crafted and received. And I will go see it but from the trailers, snippets and reviews I don't expect it to be anything more than a cgi-dominated misfire that completely misses the heart of what made the original so beloved.

This is a super funny film and throughly enjoyable, it's pretty sad that in most reviews they have to write 'female led' ghostbusters. It's pathetic. These are new characters taking on similar themes and they managed to perfect a great level of humour/horror/comradery yes they are women but they are great actresses, is there a few crude joke yes, a few silly moments but it's really good. I mean the ridiculous crude level of hangover for example was fine but women can't make a fart joke lol

This is a great film but no one is forcing anyone to see it but those curious should forgot the stigma and give it a go and you'll have a enjoyable time.

Just because The Hangover had crude, base humour does not mean a film like Ghostbusters needs to have the same. No-one for a second is saying that women cannot indulge in toilet humour but if Feig, and the audience, can't see that the original film drew humour (and some ad-libs) because the script, situations and characters were well written and not because Melissa McCarthy has to wise-crack at every moment - then he's even more of a hack than I realised. He seems to beleive, incorrectly, that you just throw a bunch of Saturday Night Live comedians at a film and let them loose.My resistance to this film has absolutely nothing to do with a female cast - my favourite films almost always have a strong female character (Ripley, Alien was the first I remember seeing) and even as a child I would watch something like A View to a Kill and become utterly frustrated at the love interest screaming for help from Bond at every moment - that did not correlate to me with the real women I knew who were formidable and capable.

Think of every single classic comedy from the 80s (unquestionably the golden era of comedy-action films) and tell me - where they improv toilet humour or did they cleverly insert a comedian into the main role(s) and use their comic timing (and relatively decent acting) to drive the plot, drawing humour from the situations they were placed into?

Beverley Hills Cop
Trading Places
The Blues Brothers
Ghostbusters
Coming to America
The Princess Bride
Back To The Future
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

The only films to take Feig's approach, really, are maybe Police Academy and Airplane! (but Airplane was so, so well written it's hit rate of jokes is unmatched). I hated Bridesmaids, a film that could have played out like the aforementioned list but instead didn't know if it was meant to be a goof-ball wisecracking silly comedy so that when the drama came in, it was uneven, jarring and not a pay-off the film had earned. The "Cornetto Trilogy" (Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End) to me, show exactly how to do a modern comedy and are far superior to anything Feig has or will ever create. Even the Pegg-written Star Trek Beyond shows that craft, that gift for drawing the laughs out of the characters acting as you would expecte in given situations. It's not an action-comedy but that light touch is what Ghostbusters needs. Another modern comedy that balances the sillyness and narrative perfectly, is Elf. Dammit, now I am drooling at the thought of how good a Jon Favreau directed Ghostbusters would have been.

I am, though, glad you got so much out of the film - I always want a film to succeed knowing how much work goes into them. And inspiring young girls into seeing women succeed - or maybe even sparking an idea that leads to a career in science, all for that. And I shall endeavour to watch the bloody thing this week and will post back my findings and whether the film managed to change my expectations.

But for now:

Imo RLM nail it, again. It's a long watch, though, and their "humour" is a bit of an acquired taste. However, they really do get films - their evisceration of The Phantom Menace is legendary.