Yes -- sorry what are you trying to imply? Ocean's 8 cost less than GB 2016 and made more. This further proves GB 2016 was a failure financially and would be a risky sequel play.
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Leslie Jones heavily criticizes announcement of 'Ghostbusters 3'
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Yes -- sorry what are you trying to imply? Ocean's 8 cost less than GB 2016 and made more. This further proves GB 2016 was a failure financially and would be a risky sequel play.
You and I watched the same movie lol. I would describe my theater going experience to see this as "fun"
"Two thirds really good, ending is awful. "
Just quoting DeathyBoy on his extensive, articulate impressions on Shyamalan's new film, so that we all know how much effort to put into our comments when we dare to voice opinions.
Again she suffer horrific abuse and is simply venting a bit, but sure petty.
I think part of it is I really don;t give a shit about reboots or whatever. Like whatever. I just had fun, I'm not calling ot the bets movie ever or even anything above average to good, I enjoyed it far more than most average to good films but yeah.
The problem with Ghostbusters 2016 was that it sucked. Nobody wanted a sequel because, again, it sucked. This thing could suck too and we'll see another reboot by 2025, who knows? In any event, her outrage is totally misplaced and entitled.
They definitely deserved better. I can understand where she is coming from though, but saying that the movie failed because it wasn't men isn't the reason why it bombed. It played a factor sure, but that movie was really bad. Low tier comedy and bad writing. The whole situation around that movie just sucked.
"fun" is what movies go for because it surpasses quality. Like, Pokemon: The First Movie is a fun movie when you're a child who loves Pokemon but it's not a well made movie. Just because you find something fun doesn't make it good. People should learn to understand that when it comes to various pieces.
Mostly that the movie failed because the studio were morons and paid too much to make it, not that it's actual intake relative to the kind of film it is itself is bad.
Which is why it bombed at the box office doesn;t really work for me as a criticism in itself... because the budget was so abnormally large for the kind of film it was.
I thought John Carter was fun, and that film was still pretty bad.
Leslie, the Ghostbusters being woman was the least of the films problem. It was an overall mess as it was. I do still stand by the fact that it could've been a decent movie if directed by someone else entirely that didn't pump it to the brim with absolutely everything he could. But reboot (unboot?) that garbage that we did get and have a decent crew make a new one.
I mean...Ghostbuster 2016 was a bad movie and bombed. So like...why would you expect anyway to try to continue that?
Lol you didn't actually want to hear why people liked it did you.
Ghostbusters 2016 lost a lot of money. Depending on marketing, a tentpole needs to make 2x - 3x it's production budget just to break even.
Even if you could make that movie for the same price as Venom ($90m which is considered cheap) it would still lose money at $220m gross.
I watched it in theaters in July of 2016. My GF and I had a night of it. There were belly laughs. I left the theater entertained. I had fun. It wasn't a "fun" movie, I'm more describing the experience. Mission success to me personally.
GB2016 was only just okay.
But it was not allowed to be only just okay given its budget and the expectations of the audience, at least not this time. The same audience that two years later, still seems pretty easily triggered into Loud Noises and a lot of "Shut up, Leslie" after having gotten a second middling at best ensemble comedy with the name "Ghostbusters" on it.
But it was not allowed to be only just okay given its budget and the expectations of the audience, at least not this time. The same audience that two years later, still seems pretty easily triggered into Loud Noises and a lot of "Shut up, Leslie" after having gotten a second middling at best ensemble comedy with the name "Ghostbusters" on it.
I don't think it was as good as Sony wanted it to be, or the actors, or hardcore Ghostbusters fans. For the general audience? It was fine.
The version she was in wasn't a good movie and her character sucked (maybe this is more on the writers than on her, and maybe you could talk about how male chatacters are better written than female characters). This is a movie being done by the son of the original director, I'd say that if anyone has the right to try his hands on the franchise it's him
now thats embarrassing
maybe hes changed in the last 2 days, people change you know
The sad thing about that movie was that Hemsworth was the best part, and I love all the leading actresses.The movie was not good and was such a waste of a talented cast.
I thought Jones' character was OK.
But I certainly wouldn't mind if they found a way to bring back Holtzmann
But I certainly wouldn't mind if they found a way to bring back Holtzmann
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Trawling through the Glass impressions threads mere minutes after browsing this thread, couldn't believe my eyes. Gonna go see that shit, though. I'm there for every Shyamalan experience, he always delivers (just not what he wants to deliver). The Happening is the best film to watch ironically.
She feels like its a step back. Like they are being written out of history. And that the studio thought that it being an all female cast was to blame. It certainly looks that way to me, so soon after.
Honestly what presence does Ghostbusters have in popular culture. The franchise was fucking dead on all fronts. There is more of a Rick and Morty fanbase than for Ghostbusters.
I do understand her reaction somewhat considering all the shit she got, but attacking Reitman and the cast and crew working on the new movie is not the way to go since Reitman has never said a bad word about the last Ghostbusters movie.
She also said its gonna be an all male cast when the rumor heavily suggests it will be a cast of teenagers girls and boys she is guessing at this point.
Also invoking Trump just seems weird to me we need a goodwins law for invoking Trump when it's not really relevant.
She also said its gonna be an all male cast when the rumor heavily suggests it will be a cast of teenagers girls and boys she is guessing at this point.
Also invoking Trump just seems weird to me we need a goodwins law for invoking Trump when it's not really relevant.
I read your bit as to why you liked it. It didn't provide any insight as to why the writing, action, plot, etc is particularly good or average. You just said you liked those parts and ended with it being fun for you. That's not examining why it's good or bad, that's just you saying, "I didn't mind it cause it's fun". Show me examples of good writing or cinematography or whatever. Explain why it is. Not just that you like it.
Let's face it the cast, and especially Leslie Jones, were left to hang out to dry by the studio when the film came out - long before actually. Regardless of people's thoughts on the films merits I think she has the right to be aggravated when it happens again and they don't warrant any kind of mention and are basically brushed under the carpet by a studio that did f'all to stand by the creative team through some horrific sexist and racist attacks by idiots.
I see GB 2016 is still a boiling point for a lot of people lol.
The problem with GB 2016 is that it's at best very mediocre but because having an all woman cast to a cherished franchise is super important for representation many people will overlook it's flaws in order to defend the need for representation. Then you also had a really shit group of people who would never give this film a shot because 'feminism' and harassed the cast endlessly.
It's unfortunate since the cast was right but Paul Feig's style of humor doesn't work for big blockbusters with a bunch of special effects.
The problem with GB 2016 is that it's at best very mediocre but because having an all woman cast to a cherished franchise is super important for representation many people will overlook it's flaws in order to defend the need for representation. Then you also had a really shit group of people who would never give this film a shot because 'feminism' and harassed the cast endlessly.
It's unfortunate since the cast was right but Paul Feig's style of humor doesn't work for big blockbusters with a bunch of special effects.
Nope, god awful. Shitty dialogue, bad acting. I felt sorry for the four women at first because I thought it was bad writing but then I read a lot of it was improvised and that makes the bad dialogue even worse.
It was so bad, a pretty meh performance by Hemsworth was hyped up as something spectacular.
As for Jones, this isn't a good look for her. Your movie sucked, deal with it.
Again reminder she suffer serious and significant harassment that was brutal and ugly that actually managed to get a noted and popular white supremacist banned permanently from twitter, a ban that actually suck.
That horrific experience largely influences why she feels the way she feels today, so saying get over it is pretty shitty.
Which while awful, doesn't change the fact the movie sucked.
The ladies are good comedians when there's proper writing and direction.
"Just be funny!" is not that.
Yeah, we know. And the movie still sucked. And her response is still shitty. Not only is it misinformed, it doesn't make sense. Why would Hollywood make anything that is related to that movie? Of course they're going to go in a different direction. They probably want to make money.
I thought GB2016 was decent. It was about as good as I could expect an SNL movie could be in 2016. I thought Kate McKinnon was the highlight of the film, her character was the best and could honestly make a great addition to the new film in the absence of Harold Ramis. Leslie Jones definitely got the shit end of the stick because she had to deal with the most hate and I can understand her frustration, but it also doesn't make sense to give them a sequel considering the mediocre numbers the reboot brought in.
I covered visuals, cast chemistry and action in my paragrpah.
I'm not writing you an essay for free because you need a very specific criteria before you can accept that some people actually thought the movie was good.