08-06-2016, 10:10 AM
Oops.
I pit stopped in Vegas at the South Point hotel. Low and behold there was a cinemark cinema in the hotel, just an escalator ride away from the smoke filled Casino floor. I was sorely tempted by the fact that they were doing Thursday night screenings of Suicide Squad. But wanting to maintain marital harmony, I opted for Ghostbusters. Yes, I could have also seen the new Star Trek, but Ghostbusters fit better into my schedule. Oh, the mistakes that are made due to convenience.
Ghostbusters 2016 is bad. No two ways about it. What the fanboys who hated on the movie when it was originally announced should have done was waited until it came out before shredding it. Rather than shredding it before they had seen it. If they had opted for the first option, they would have been justified in their hatred. By pursuing the latter course, they just came across as mysogynistic loons.
But back to the badness. In the first scene, a guys seems to die by falling into some dark depths. The next time we see the guy, he is alive and talking and no explanation is given as to how he escaped. He was just back talking to the Ghostbusters. He did mention he was so scared he pooped himself, but no explanation of how he is still walking around. Pooping himself was the level of the humor for the picture.
It seems the whole movie was just an excuse to throw back to the original Ghostbuster. They had cameos from the extant survivors but they weren't very good. They showed some of the original sets to no effect. They teased with snippets of the original soundtrack but the new tracks paled in comparison.
At the end, the whole exercise seemed kind of pointless. They never brought their own original take on the story. The McKinnon character, the blond actress who everyone raves about, just seemed to be arch for no apparent reason.
There was no learning curve in the movie either. All of a sudden they just had the tools to snare the ghosts but no explanation of how they actually worked. And there was never any trapping of the ghosts, they were just destroyed. It was a muddle.
Chris Hemsworth was funny but it was a one note kind of funny. He plays Kevin and Kevin is dumb. What else you got for me?
Yes, it is hard to live up to the brilliance of the original film but this film didn't even come close. The story was bad. The jokes weren't funny except for one. The effects seemed derivative. The best thing about the film was the closing credits and the tease in it. If I had anything to do, I would have left while they rolled.
I pit stopped in Vegas at the South Point hotel. Low and behold there was a cinemark cinema in the hotel, just an escalator ride away from the smoke filled Casino floor. I was sorely tempted by the fact that they were doing Thursday night screenings of Suicide Squad. But wanting to maintain marital harmony, I opted for Ghostbusters. Yes, I could have also seen the new Star Trek, but Ghostbusters fit better into my schedule. Oh, the mistakes that are made due to convenience.
Ghostbusters 2016 is bad. No two ways about it. What the fanboys who hated on the movie when it was originally announced should have done was waited until it came out before shredding it. Rather than shredding it before they had seen it. If they had opted for the first option, they would have been justified in their hatred. By pursuing the latter course, they just came across as mysogynistic loons.
But back to the badness. In the first scene, a guys seems to die by falling into some dark depths. The next time we see the guy, he is alive and talking and no explanation is given as to how he escaped. He was just back talking to the Ghostbusters. He did mention he was so scared he pooped himself, but no explanation of how he is still walking around. Pooping himself was the level of the humor for the picture.
It seems the whole movie was just an excuse to throw back to the original Ghostbuster. They had cameos from the extant survivors but they weren't very good. They showed some of the original sets to no effect. They teased with snippets of the original soundtrack but the new tracks paled in comparison.
At the end, the whole exercise seemed kind of pointless. They never brought their own original take on the story. The McKinnon character, the blond actress who everyone raves about, just seemed to be arch for no apparent reason.
There was no learning curve in the movie either. All of a sudden they just had the tools to snare the ghosts but no explanation of how they actually worked. And there was never any trapping of the ghosts, they were just destroyed. It was a muddle.
Chris Hemsworth was funny but it was a one note kind of funny. He plays Kevin and Kevin is dumb. What else you got for me?
Yes, it is hard to live up to the brilliance of the original film but this film didn't even come close. The story was bad. The jokes weren't funny except for one. The effects seemed derivative. The best thing about the film was the closing credits and the tease in it. If I had anything to do, I would have left while they rolled.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm
