Funny to think, that this comes from you. Because I just watched this movie once wth my mom. When I was drunk! Well, not really drunk, but I drank, I was not sober. And I remember thinking, it wasn´t really THAAAAAAAT bad, as everyone on the internet would try to make me to think. But it was bad, mediocre at best. Also: FUCK Paul Feig.
Just a friendly reminder: in the course of the movie, we saw them catch exactly one ghost...and that one ghost escaped due to their incompetence, and murdered a man, so I guess that means they caught _negative_ ghosts.
Female fantasy of replacing original male cast and being declared better yet doing a worse job than them, wow this film did start the Mary Sue trend in Hollywood
Seriously, at least in the original, the ghosts breaking out was due to a guy so obsessed with rules and order that he failed to consider the Ghostbusters might not be crazy.
Right? At least Winston was a character, he was even a skeptic just looking for a job, he ends up being as good a character as everyone else. It's really kind of sad how terrible her character is, then again it may be that the original was just better written and ernie Hudson was just a much better actor, I dont recall him even embodying any kind of black stereotype, just a normal man looking for a job who ends up a vital part of the team.
@@mrnobody6447 Exactly; if you had someone listen to the entirety of Ghostbusters without even looking at it, and who knew nothing about it, they wouldn't know Winston was black outside of maybe that line where he tells the Mayor "I've seen stuff that would turn your ass white" which only a black guy would say. He's just a normal guy who happens to be black. Ridley was a normal character who happened to be female. THAT is equality, not this shit.
@@roeland1205 you because by making everyone stupid it makes the women look stronger...here's an idea. Make their strength come from the fact that everyone is also strong and they push through anyways.
WINSTON: Hold it! Hold it! HOLD IT!!!! Now, you're saying that we're going to go before a federal judge and say that some moldy, Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city?!?!?!
You should check out Scientist Man's video from RedLetterMedia on the subject, it actually seems to be the opposite. They deleted half-hearted comments and left the extremist ones to further the controversy and give the film more attention.
Ya his line "if theres a steady paycheck involved...ill believe whatever u want" lol was great. An like a real person immediately went to work...lol great writing.
As a kid, I loved Venkman and his wisecracks (still do of course). As an adult, I truly appreciate Winston and his "omg am I the only sane one here" attitude.
1984, black character is working class everyman, surrogate for the audience. 2016, black character is an outdated offensive stereotype "oh lawd Jesus it's a ghost". She's literally the same character as the owner from Tom and Jerry. How did this not get called out at the time?
Well its also much older comedy. Thats what comedy usually is an exaggeration of aspects of reality that we often are uncomfortable discussing. Look at blazing saddles. That entire town was an exaggeration. The real problem with most modern comedy, fortunately there are exceptions, can be summed up by comparing the original with this remake. The best scenes to compare would be the ones where they are discussing going into business for themselves.
Ibee, I had a blast watching this movie. Maybe it relates to women mostly. Also, when people HATE a movie, it means it's controversial, not bad. A movie starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth is guaranteed to be FUNNY! So, Ibee, please grab a bucket of popcorn and watch the movie. Then come back and give your sincere opinion.
I saw Charlie's Angels and I was able to lock my common sense in a trunk in the basement of my brain long enough to enjoy the "action"... I saw Ghostbusters and by the end, I was earnestly contemplating suicide.
I remember walking out of the movie and my girlfriend saying "If that's what a female dominated film is........I'm really not interested in seeing another one!" The film wasn't even interesting to women or men. And the black female character came across as racist to me. It was such a racist stereotype that it crossed into mega cringe territory.
I just think its hilarious how the new upcoming Ghostbuster movie actually states in the movie that they've "not seen a ghost in 30 years". Completely ERASING this movie from the timeline and acting as if it never happened. At least that something.
The funniest part about that is the 2016 movie made it clear that the original movies never took place in their universe (despite the trailer acknowledging the original movies existence). By doing that they made it so they could never be referenced in a movie connected to the original's timeline, because it wouldn't make sense. By doing everything in their power to say the film was its own thing and that these new characters were the originals (in their canon), they cut themselves off from any future Ghostbusters work outside of their own specific series. They did this to themselves.
Ghostbusters 2016 was never in the timeline with the original movies. It was its own universe. That quote wasn't added to retcon GB2016, it was just a statement that a ghost hasn't been seen since Ghostbusters 2.
This reminds me of the trailer for Far From Home when Marvel's made sure everyone knew their new face, Cap Marxel, wasn't around... and yet I didn't see FFH. 😂😂😂😂
All-male cast of Charlotte's Angels. And they do nothing but humiliate a city full of dumb, fat, screechy land-walruses. Their assistant is a mentally challenged woman and they only hire her to ogle and humiliate her. Then Cameron Diaz and the other two original Angels die. The token black guy bellows, "SHE AIN'T BE NO ANGEL, MY NIGGAS!!!" Then every single woman gets possessed by Hilarious Clit-non and the MEN save them all.
LTNetjak Yeah, but the current shit writers, directors, actors, etc., almost always make it about gender and/or race. Its almost as if they spend all their time pushing their false ideology instead of creating decent films.
It’s practically an SNL skit that never realizes that the joke should have been over a minute in and continues it even though the audience never found the joke funny to begin with.
I recently started watching some of the older SNL skits, and to be honest, I can't understand how anyone found SNL funny. So much of the "humor" felt forced, awkward, and uncomfortable. Almost as if the actors and comedians were in an improv session that they never took classes for and were trying desperately to come off as mildly amusing. The only parts of SNL that I ever considered remotely entertaining were the parody commercials, a few bits of Chevy Chase's news broadcasts, and the Mr. Bill show. Modern SNL doesn't even pretend it's trying to be funny; it's just pseudo-political banter and bashing conservatives.
The orginal Ghostbuster's feels like a New York movie, even the city had more personality and charm. 2016 feels like a Hollywood movie: Loud, Rude and Phony!
Ghostbusters 2016 I believe was actually filmed in Boston. The scenery is cookie cutter from any colonial city in America with nothing distinctly New York about it. There is a couple scenes in New York but their Headquarters in the Film is in Boston. The reshoots were in Los Angeles. Without reshoots the filming took 34 days.
This is a very good way to put it. I actually did enjoy the 2016 in theatres in the sense it was a fun watch, I actually saw it twice believe it or not. But objectively it was not a good movie. It wasn't charming enough for re-watches over time like the original or other movies in a similar vein. like many reboots these days, it's just filled with a pandering Hollywood vibe with very blunt plots, jokes, and metaphors. I can see why kids would enjoy it or maybe those who are already fans of the cast (even though they've all been in better) but it doesn't have the same universal appeal at all
@@Catz1a Sure, but at the same time, 2016 Ghostbusters got a lot of insane backlash by the critics and the audience alike BEFORE the movie was even released, at least for what I've remember. In my opinion, the movie is bad but the special effects are pretty impressive and the actresses are doing their best to make the film work, but it lacked the charm of the original Ghostbusters movies. The movie have some political perspective to it, especially for the feminism one. People always get upset when political elements are mentioned in every film, thinking that all the "representations" shoved down to their faces which I do understand their point. At the end, the whole crew of Ghostbusters 2016 got so much hate to the point of becoming more obnoxious, especially for the director who is a jerk at this point.
The only thing I've laughed at all day was that 3 second Winston clip: "If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say." It's just a minor line, and it's better than anything in GB 2016.
Leslie Jone's is comedy is boiled down to "I'm large, loud, horny, sassy, 'street', and black". That's all she ever contributed on SNL. Every negative stereotype but loud so it's "funny" instead of offensive and patronizing.
Pretty much I’d imagine if I was a black lady I’d be pretty pissed at my portrayal never quite evolving past dumb and loud it’s like taking old racism and dressing it differently
McCarthy tries (and fails) to be a physical comedian like Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, and Richard Pryor, but she just comes across a dumb and shes not that funny, rule of thumb, if they stick around on SNL for longer that 5 years they are shit comedians and actors
Saying Melissa McCarthy is like Adam Sandler is a huge insult to Adam Sandler. Melissa McCarthy‘s entire comedy style is “Ha ha ha I’m fat and stupid“.
Adam Sandlers wearing fucking thin and all. Happy Madison was about it besides a few laughs. Not much over 20 fucking years! And over $300 of movie tickets.
Well except for her comedy movie "Spy" which she was (well the entire cast is) pretty funny in the movie. Doesn't revolve on the stereotype fat joke all the time which i like
The issue of having no quiet moments, or even everyone talking at once seems common today. Lots of great older movies had moments with no dialogue or music at all. Those actors, directors, cinematographers etc could sell a scene without constantly pandering to the audience's inner ADD.
That annoying habit of having multiple characters in a movie all talking over each other at the same time, was probably started by Spielberg. He did that a lot in Jaws and Close Encounters.
@@andy2550 Actually, I think it might have been Robert Altman who started that trend. If you watch the original 1970 M*A*S*H* movie characters are talking over each other all the time. And the dialogue in Jaws was well written and the exchanges between people seemed believable. Feig doesn't have half the talent of either of those directors.
I was watching Waterloo from 1970 and minutes went by without dialogue, just Napoleon and Wellington each unable to sleep and contemplating the battle that was to come to a brilliant soundtrack.
Genuinely read an article that was written not 2 weeks ago about this movie, where Paul Feig blamed the backlash and negative reviews on ‘white males who weren’t ready for this film’ Unbelievable.
At least Joel Schumacher had the decency to apologize for Batman & Robin being a terrible, corny movie instead of blaming the fans for not appreciating it. Paul Feig and everybody else involved with this movie are probably incapable of admitting fault and will blame "misogyny" and "white males" until their dying breath.
@@Anonymous551656 even george clooney apologized to adam west (maybe it was keaton-either way a batman that is way more loved) for batman and robin. No one apologizes from this movie. They just demand apolgies
Looking back, this film is the height of Hollywood cynicism. A sequel no one wanted, made by a hack director with a mandate to do product placement. Then when the studio rightly recognized the movie was a bomb waiting to happen, they ginned up a “backlash” from male fans. Except they apparently didn’t understand what Ghostbuster’s constituency even is. What a fucking mess this was.
Only half right: We WANTED A sequel. This is a REBOOT. Aykroyd had tried to get a Ghostbusters 3 made for YEARS, but Bill Murray said fuck the third movie. And then Harold Ramis died.
@@sneeringimperialist6667 It's even worse when they say that the movie wasn't made for the men like birds of prey for example and then proceeds to blame men for not watching the movie
"They behave like they're 10 year olds trapped in adult bodies." Well, that pretty much sums up every bit of "comedy" that's made today, from commercials, to sitcoms, to movies.
I was about to type " NOT TAG", but then I realized that the characters are kind of " 10 year olds trapped in adult bodies", but the writing was actually well done and had heart.
I have an explanation for that. People today are infantilized. They have their hands held through 13 years of what we laughingly call 'primary and secondary education,' before having their hands held more in colleges where they drink, do drugs, and screw each other with abandon. It is typical now for young aspiring writers to graduate college and enter the workforce in their mid-twenties poorly educated and utterly inexperienced, without ever having had to struggle for anything, deal with their own mistakes, or fight in so much as a schoolyard squabble. They are, in meaningful ways, little kids. Contrast: Legendary comedian Mel Brooks was drafted into the Army at the age of 18 and served in Europe during WW2. He started doing stand-up by taking initiative when a comedian got sick and couldn't go on. By the time he got his first off-the-books job writing (uncredited) jokes for television, he was a war veteran with actual performance experience. By the time he performed in front of real cameras on the Steve Allen Show, he was in his mid-thirties, married with kids. He was an *adult.* He was also self-deprecating and clever, instead of self-righteous and posturing like modern children. A fun quote talking about an early mentor: "One day he handed me a book. He said to me, 'Mel, you're an animal from Brooklyn, but I think you have the beginnings of something called a mind.'" You ever hung around teenagers desperately trying to be funny, but only managing the most obvious, hackneyed, cringey humor? That's Hollywood writing and for basically the same reason.
Sony sure as hell didn't have much faith in it, that's for sure. I remember seeing an article on Facebook about how they were trying so hard to push merchandise for it. Desperately trying to salvage what they could from this sinking ship before it even sailed. While it was good to see this colossal piece of cinematic embarrassment crash and burn. Unfortunately, it's just another symptom of an ongoing rampant disease called: neo-leftist identity politics. Further worsened by Modern Hollywood being too big for it's own good. Too much money changing hands, too much for hacks to fall back on.
@Luc Germain well this movie was for 16 year olds and movies like the great wall with matt Damon is for china. but like you said, it was a dumpsterfire.
@Luc Germain What about Disney making a black character smaller on their advertising for it in China? If you dont think Hollywood is in bed with China youre either naive or just dumb deaf and blind
@Luc Germain I never said every single movie did i? And most of corona is a lie. It exists, but isnt as deadly as the MSM painted it out to be. But im sure youll never ever take that mask off till your masters tell you to. But question, why havent you been wearing a mask your whole life? You could of gotten someone sick who in turn got their grandparents sick and possibly could of killed them.. How ignorant... Keep eating up what they are giving you lol
Feminist: THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR MEN YOU SHOULD NOT WATCH IT 🤬🤬 Also feminist : THIS FILM WAS FLOPPED BECAUSE MEN DONT WANT TO SEE THE SUCCESS OF WHAMEN.. THEY DONT LIKE TO SEE WHAMEN CHARACTERS IN MOVIES 😩😩🥺
SJW: we dont need to depend on men or their money Also SJW: the success of our movies depend on men and their money Magic mike: we didnt have a problem
So, I FINALLY watched "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2021) the other night and thought "THIS is the sequel I've waited thirty years for." And that's a long time to wait for a movie.
They replace one of the most competent secretaries ever with a guy that's lazy and stupid. And is hired purely as office eye candy. They make all the ghostbusters obnoxious and/or clumsy. Then they have the gall to claim that people who hated this movie just hate women. Projection much?
Don't forget that pretty much every side character with more than two lines is either a drooling idiot( the mayor), unbearably obnoxious( the dean of Erin's college), or both( the dean of Abby's college). Plus all of the poorly edited " riffing". The original had some improve from Murry, but it worked, because he worked around the rest of the casts scripted dialogue, and. he was good at it. None of that applies here.
@@r.prokop660 And the only male characters that aren't either @ssholes, or complete idiots, or both, are Ernie Hudson's characters and the dean from the one college( not the " flipping the bird" guy. The other one) , and they only appear for one scene each.
If something was popular enough that someone thinks they can make money on a reboot, the original will not be surpassed. However, if it's the source material (most often, a book) that was popular, whereas the first adaptation wasn't, a second attempt may not necessarily be a bad idea. For instance, feel free to remake The Hobbit, but steer clear of The Godfather.
Depends. Once in a blue moon you get a Fury Road, Planet of the Apes, True Grit, Casino Royal or Batman Begins. The originals were all good but the reboots surpassed them imo
you can do a reboot but the spirit and style of how you do it matter. Give me the same crew and i could turn that flop into a block buster . The scrip would have to be burn at the stake Art department would have their hands broken.
I saw this while working for an agency with at risk kids. I literally got paid to watch it and still have regrets. Fortunately one of the kids that went said it was one of the worst movies he's ever seen so that gave me some hope.
The thing that struck me when this came out (aside from it being a bad idea), was Hemsworth's casting. Annie Potts was a fetching woman in the 80s, but let's face it, she was not the female equivalent of Thor of Asgard. And Janine was whip smart and a match for the guys in conversation. Apparently Hemsworth's character was... not. Remind me which version was more sexist.
@@melikey3758 I disagree. They're very hit or miss but they still pop out a some gems every year. This is a good cast even, all very capable of good comedic work (Bridesmaids, The Heat, Mckinnon simply being the most versatile actor on SNL, etc). The plot just isn't good and the jokes feel very "in your face" to me. They try too hard to make relatable or social commentary jokes funny instead of letting them flow more naturally in the script and work.
These are the idiots who blame the audiences for not accepting and liking the garbage that they put out, apparently Rowan is supposed to be a metaphor for the people who didn’t like the trailer. Whoever made this movie is a talentless hack.
i mean, if its his style why not, the problme is more that it can looks pretentious and by looking at his attitude and talk it is clearly so yeah thats dumb here. I know a few persone that are classy dressed like that in real life and thats ok because that actualy suit their style, their life and their character, one is an historian from a rich family, you can see a man with good manner and all from aristocracy, and the other was a teacher of mine in cooking school, he was a a maitre d'hotel, allways well dressed, but it realy fit his personality it was actualy nice and funny, but it was natural and looked fine on him so. This director on the other hand just look like an ass and so yeah pretentious
Let's not forget that the antagonist was literally an internet troll, which Feig adapted in to 'stick it to the trolls' because they didn't like the trailer. That's why the bad guy is so pathetic; the villain was put in to symbolize the original Ghostbusters fan base and insult them. Wonderful stuff.
A few years ago we saw "Ghostbusters" was available for free on our family tablet. My daughter (3 at the time) was upset because it was this version and not the original. True story. I've never been prouder.
@@Randy-ry9ss Don't know what to tell you. It really happened because we had watched the original that year over Halloween. I've reported your previous comment.
I love the scene in the 1984 version where they are climbing the stairs and Venkman says "Let me know when we get to the 20th floor... I'm going to throw up." This contrasts with the "hero montage" in front of the building to let us know the guys are only human. Who cannot relate to the misery they were experiencing on the job.
Minor Detail: the Ecto1 was an old style Ambulance that Ray picks up on the cheap and bc it had a unique siren and space in the back for the containment center GB2016: it's a hearse that belongs to someone's business that these trolls just turn into their work car. How sad
It’s funny how the Original two Ghostbusters movies are still talked about years later for being so amazing. And 2016 Ghostbusters is still talked about years later for being a spectacularly massive failure. 😂😂🤣🤣
Roy G Biv trying to push the failure of a film on “butthurt” fans is just a lousy excuse when someone made a shitty movie. Let’s face it GB 2016 was not funny, not original, not entertaining, did not sell well, and did not have likable characters. GB 2 ain’t perfect but still outshines 2016 by a lot. And another little thing called GB: After life, as in reboot the franchise cause nobody liked Gb 2016 except you. The only one butthurt here is you cause the majority has spoken GB 2016 SUCKED
Yes. He was just the average Joe that was able to work along side smart scientist and provided the voice of reason that sometimes the scientist lack. Winston was always my favorite as well. Thankfully, the cartoon did him justice too.
I always liked that driving scene between Winston and Ray, it's a little bit of real talk that actually raises the stakes a bit as the gravity of their booming business hits them both. Then the kick ass music that follows.
There is literally no subtlety in comedy anymore. Some is either yelling, waving their arms around, making a stupid face, falling down, breaking something, etc... Clever writing, good timing, double entendre, and wit are lost arts. Female comedy actors especially rely on being way over the top and wacky to paper over the fact that they aren’t actually funny. Count how many times these SNL hacks make a stupid, over the top facial expression.
@@RickMyBalls It's not against women, it's against over the top comedy since subtlety is key in most types of it. Comedy is different for everyone, but if your humor is fart jokes, long winded spats with no reason to exist, and "LoUd eQuAlS FuNnI!", You won't be considered funny by a majority of your audience over 14.
@@ProjectSparkTM In fairness to David, there have been a number of people who consider women in general to not be capable of being funny. This is not to say that the OP has this stance as the context is about (most) modern comedy today (meaning that the OP may still find female actresses of older films to be funny). However, I can see why David may interpret as a generalization considering how many folks have espoused such.
@@TheSchultinator So I never actually watched it but from what I was told by the person who had to screen it you could have put the movie reels in any order and as long as the first and last were in the right spot no one would ever be able to tell the difference. Its basically two hours of people floating in water and I guess the dialog wasn't that good either. It was crazy though. I don't think a single person actually sat through the whole movie and that was before the disclaimer.
Don’t forget Thor would’ve been in Civil War if it weren’t for this movie. Edit: He could’ve at least gotten a cameo or post credit scene it’s pretty apparent that he’d be way to op for the rest of the cast
Got to admit the idea of a character wearing glasses just for there to be a sly reveal of them having no lens in a quick joke that doesn't hover or come back is pretty good. Just bad execution
This is the only thing I saw that was actually clever and made me chuckle. I used to have a friend who bragged about his 20/20 vision (yet couldn't read a damn road sign) and talked about getting lensless glasses solely so that he would "look smarter". He also would use the term "skinny" as a compliment towards women, and said it was best to try and date chubbier chicks because they have low self-esteem and you could "train them to work out so they would get hot". Oh, he also had a fondness for date-raping women. I tried to have a candid heart-to-heart with him about all this so he could try and improve as a person, but his response was "Keep talking to me like that and I'll hit you."... So I jacked him in the face, he fell backwards off the picnic table he was sitting on, and I left him on the ground outside the bar. He never came back inside after that, and haven't talked to him since. I know nobody probably cared to hear this story, but lensless glasses always make me think of that absolute joke of a "man".
Yeah it was ok, its not like 100% of the movie is bad, a few ideas were ok, but the execution mostly is so trash, and yes the movie is weird, first it doesnt realy respect ghostbuster, they wanted to make more of a humourous film ok why not, but here its so dumb and badly done that it looks more of a parody than a comedy... its so sad
@@SaturnineXTS - You think? Personally, I think it was the worst performance in cinema history and ruined the film. He is responsible for that movie failing at the box offices globally. th-cam.com/video/zTokUVBy0oA/w-d-xo.html
@@mysteryace2129 He carried that movie. I hated the female lead, but was confused as to why i liked her interacting with Chris. I realized it was because he was the only good thing in that movie
@@mysteryace2129 Chris Hemsworth makes everything better. He made Ghostbusters 2016 better. Still a dumpster fire from Gozer's asshole, but he made it better
“Strongest alcohol available, the you keep reserve for end of the world scenarios...” You’ll have to forgive me, I’ve been outta that stuff for a good long while now.
It varies depending on brand and concentration but about 120 to 140 proof, however, medical alcohols are denatured, so you can't get drunk off them, they just destroy your stomach lining and liver. Disclaimer: in case someone doesn't get the joke please don't drink hand sanitiser.
a girl asked the make a wish foundation to see the ghostbusters expecting to see the originals but she got the all-female ones instead. she looked like she realised cancer wasn't that bad.
In the cartoon, one of the best ideas for a plot was Winston saving the day despite the fact that he knows he's not a scientist. He finds a solution anyway, because he's the right man for the job.
It's interesting. In making their villains utterly incapable man children, then having their protagonists struggle against them, the SJW -crowd are basically setting themselves up as failures. Well done! Didn't think that through, did you?
But they did think it through. See, it's something they can use to defend themselves when they want to disregard valid criticism while calling it sexual harassment.
Its because SJW's and leftists only can win in shitty fantasies. Thats why hollywood is full of them. In every other scenario (ergo real life) they would be hunted down and exiled from the city. I find it hilarious the left is talking about civil war in the US, when we all know they would surrender in a few days when the conservative chads kicked their asses a few times haha
It's really sad to see how bad Paul Feig and Amy Pascal have missunderstood the concept of Ghostbusters. It was never about killing them, but capturing them. Also the big difference between the original and this pale copy is in the way the characters were written. In the original, they were normal people, here they're caricatures. 10:03 This sequence says all, they're using the logo of the franchise and destroy it by shooting at his balls. They have damaged the franchise with all their nonsense. I wish we had a live-action Extreme Ghostbusters.
they blatantly inserted every Ghostbusters trope into this movie because they knew they didn't have enough of a movie to stand on its own. And that in itself tells you a lot about this "movie."
Yeah a proper Ghostbusters 3 was what was wanted where the old guard go their seperate ways after going out of business and thus setting up the film so many years later and becoming Extreme Ghostbusters shame we never got that film instead of this piece of shit abomination
I'm sorry it's a good effort but just doesn't make sense. Women don't have extra chromosomes, both sexes have 23 pairs. Oh and the special Olympics is called the Para-Olympics (Parallel).
@whoopdeedoo The few ones that did give it a negative review were called sexist, misogynist etc. Happened to Richard Roeper after he gave the movie 1 star and explained why he didn't like it. This movie basically had activists who would attack anyone that didn't like it.
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As long as there is time for critical analysis and response - coupled with copious amounts of whisky (or alcohol of your choice), where can I sign up? There has to be an actual pay off and things that can be learned and applied. This sounds fun!
To be fair: I don't think we'll ever see actors like Murray or Aykroyd ever again in modern Hollywood. Those guys and many others made every scene a highlight, they were likeable, amiable, authentic, they were pure gold.
Such actors are not allowed in Hollywood, now. A generation of superhero garbage has purged acting of anything except those traits that fit into superhero garbage. Like Ricky Gervais (I think it was) complaining that actors aren't actors anymore; their job now is to sneak steroids, diet, and go to the gym twice a day. Actual acting is not required.
Arguably, Hemsworth was the funniest person in the movie. And I actually really like Kristen Wiig... I mean not enough to remember if it's Kristen or Kirsten... But she plays a decent "Ben Stiller" type of character. And I find her attractive. But this movie was terrible.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Not to this point, but several interviews with him have mentioned that he's a big-time momma's boy. He's certainly in the running for one of the most self-loathing males in Hollywood, and that's saying something.
I have the same reaction. Imagine if they actually made good films nowadays. Drinker would be out of a job, and we'd be out of a lot of money as we actually started spending it at cinema again.
I allowed myself to be dragged to this thing, and I believe THIS was the movie that made me institute my policy of never again paying to see a sequel, prequel, reboot, remake, or comic book superhero movie. I can state for a fact that your analysis of it is not only CORRECT, but INFINITELY more entertaining than the actual film. Bless you! All good wishes.
Anton Nym I thought, It can’t possibly be that bad.... my boy friend at the time reluctantly accepted that we see it. We shut it off at about the 10 minutt mark and agreed never to speek of it again.
My all-time favourite review of this movie was, "My appendix exploded and I almost died this year, but watching Ghostbusters was still the low point of 2016 for me."
@@TheCriticalDrinker the leftist crying because Trump won the election was more entertaining than Ghostbusters 2016 seeing The Young Turks squirm because Trump was sweeping up the election was more entertaining than Ghostbusters 2016
@@TheCriticalDrinker After I saw Constantine I came down with appendicitis. It was that bad it made me sick. Ok, so it was just a coincidence but still, the quote you posted reminded me of it.
@@TheCriticalDrinker THE FIRST 2 MOVIES WERE GREAT MOVIES I KNOW THAT MOST PEOPLE HATE GHOST BUSTERS 2 BUT IT'S MILES BETTER THAN THIS PIECE OF SHIT AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE!
The original was a 59 Cadillac commercial chassis, more technically an endloader combination car that could serve as either a Hearse or an Ambulance. As said the car in this movie is based on a 1984 Cadillac Fleetwood Hearse, so technically idk, it's half right as the original combination Cadillacs could be either.
Fun fact- they filmed the ending scene in the town I use to live and work in. The same set was before used for the boston Marathon bombing movie, and recycled for ghost busters. I actually cut the hair of one of the guys who did lighting and settings. He had worked on many movies and seen many failures. Many kids I went to school with can be seen as extras at the end during the time square scene. I asked him "do you think the movie is going to be good?" All he said was- "I worked on many films, I know when one is going to fail" That was in 2014. If you know where I'm talking about in Mass you can still see some of the set on google earth. They left the facade set up years after and it's an eyesore.
I would think so, why does she want to watch a movie full of preteen boy fart jokes? Feige has a very low opinion of both men and women if he thinks anyone can identify with any of these characters. It seems like it was written to be purposefully insulting. The insult to men is the most obvious but the women looked just as stupid.
To be fair to Adam, he's had his moments. Though him and Melissa have the same problem of playing the same routine over and over and it getting tiresome after a while.
thantrus G I had the same reaction. Adam Sandler is the godfather of shitty humour. That guy hasn’t made me laugh ever. He’s worse than Seinfeld. And yet, McCarthy is similar but constantly and consistently always yelling out her lines. Not just in this, but in every single SNL sketch I’ve ever seen her in
Rob Alexander I actually liked Melissa McCarthy in spy. Probably because it was a different character than she otherwise does. Mind you I also liked Adam Sandler in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Sometimes you get the right setting for comedians such as this.
Remember the scene where the ghost busters get a police escort after the commissioner says what do you need.venkman saying cmon let's run some red lights and then parading them to the crowd like celebrities only for the ground to collapse as they enter. They then climb out of the rubble after a pause while we held our breath. Then reassuring the crowd who applaud them all set to a killer track from the soundtrack in a hysteric heightened hot new York city...yeah that was the last ghostbusters to be made. Thanks
That part was awesome. I so glad you mentioned it. Now I want to see it again. I also liked the part when Winston and Ray were were cruising around and talking seriously about the events happening.
This movie feels like a woman directed it and put alot of immature jokes in because she thinks that's what guys will think is funny. Like Amy Schumer, she thinks she's talking crude like a guy but in reality guys don't talk like that.
It's actually much worse than I remember. And to think, before this atrocity happened, I used to believe that Extreme Ghostbusters was a bit too politically correct! But at least EGB was respectful to the original lore, and had some good stories!
In all fairness, Ghostbusters II did warn us by means of Peter’s interview with his two morbid guests. The lady that he chatted with did make a call that it would be the end of the World in 2016.. The lady guest got it bang on with reference to this coming out in 2016.
someone get this man a medal for sitting down, rewatching, writing a script, saying that script, finding movie clips, editing it all together, and then waiting the 2 or so hours for a 25 minute video to upload
First year of college took a class called “Women in a Film” to fullfill the “power and discrimination” or some such bacc core requirement. Being 2016-17, of course this movie was shown. It was amazing watching this “professor” (who was an overweight feminist, shocking) present it as this fantastic film and a massive mile stone for representation in movies. And the entire class, being 95% female feminist studies students, of course all said it was fantastic, not as bad as everyone was saying, ALL the characters were great, only hated because wamen, etc. Didn’t even bother trying to point out any of these issues, wasn’t worth the argument
@TexMechs That sounds like any "Women Studies" class in any college in the western World.... "You are just upset because she is Wooo Man..." is the only argument they got for all their garbage movies tv shows. No of course it couldn't be the shit writing, bad acting, lazy plot, etc...
From the behind the scenes stuff I’ve seen, it seemed more like he was happy to be included, and watch the actresses do their thing, instead of, you know, directing. He let them walk all over him. He shoulda been fanboying over them from sidelines instead.
The paycheck, recognition, and if something goes wrong ( which obviously did) he can blame other people, basically he wanted the perks without doing the job
@patrick howard If you knew the movie existed how could you possible not know the originals were in it? That was a huge selling point and controversy when it came out. I can only assume Sony thought fans of the original would turn up to see the originals despite them only having cameos but in reality fans were pissed that the originals were being so disrespected.
True story here: As I was leaving the theater with my friend, Tom, I said, "That's the most likeable I've ever seen Rosie O'Donell" . He replied, "That was Melissa McArthy." I actually had mistaken one for the other, but we laughed harder at THAT than we did the entire movie.
@@davidh.4944 you're right, david, but I have witnesses. haha. I believe this was the movie that made me institute my policy to never again see a sequel, prequel, remake, reboot, or comic book superhero movie.
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Rhino 🥛 is best 🥛
thank you for watching these piles so that we don't have to
Funny to think, that this comes from you. Because I just watched this movie once wth my mom. When I was drunk!
Well, not really drunk, but I drank, I was not sober. And I remember thinking, it wasn´t really THAAAAAAAT bad, as everyone on the internet would try to make me to think.
But it was bad, mediocre at best.
Also: FUCK Paul Feig.
I consider Drinker a ghostbuster because of the amount of spirits he vanishes.
Gozer tells Drinker to choose the form of 'The Destructor' and imagines a 100 foot bottle of Jack Daniels into reality.
@@fairwarning007 *Stumbles drunkenly to his feet* "Finally a worthy opponent our battle will be legendary" -Drinker
“Ray. The next time someone asks if you need help for your alcoholism; you say “Nah, it’ll be fine.”.”
I would see that moive.
This comment burns like firewater
Just a friendly reminder: in the course of the movie, we saw them catch exactly one ghost...and that one ghost escaped due to their incompetence, and murdered a man, so I guess that means they caught _negative_ ghosts.
This movie was a Karen's dream come true. You can never top the original.
Female fantasy of replacing original male cast and being declared better yet doing a worse job than them, wow this film did start the Mary Sue trend in Hollywood
Seriously, at least in the original, the ghosts breaking out was due to a guy so obsessed with rules and order that he failed to consider the Ghostbusters might not be crazy.
@@TF2Fan101 And that guy to this very day got not dick.
@@Fedekpc But, he was sent a NICE fruit basket!
I went on a date with a girl to see this movie, I 100% blame this movie for that date’s failure
Did you pick the movie tho
@@Scriptures_K ye if he picked it he didnt deserve the date to go well
If she picked it, you might just have that movie to thank for dodging a bullet.
LTNetjak smart lad
Must've been a very quiet, awkward car ride home.
“We are progressive for making ghost busters women”
*Cast a black woman as the equivalent to Winston, and make them a racist stereotype*
How about the sexist pigs who hire a hot stupid guy because he is hot.
Right? At least Winston was a character, he was even a skeptic just looking for a job, he ends up being as good a character as everyone else. It's really kind of sad how terrible her character is, then again it may be that the original was just better written and ernie Hudson was just a much better actor, I dont recall him even embodying any kind of black stereotype, just a normal man looking for a job who ends up a vital part of the team.
@@mrnobody6447 Shows what happens when you let "wokeness" dictate the type of movies that get made.
@@mrnobody6447 Exactly; if you had someone listen to the entirety of Ghostbusters without even looking at it, and who knew nothing about it, they wouldn't know Winston was black outside of maybe that line where he tells the Mayor "I've seen stuff that would turn your ass white" which only a black guy would say. He's just a normal guy who happens to be black. Ridley was a normal character who happened to be female. THAT is equality, not this shit.
@@roeland1205 you because by making everyone stupid it makes the women look stronger...here's an idea. Make their strength come from the fact that everyone is also strong and they push through anyways.
Drinker, you are a better ghostbuster than this lot considering the amount of spirits you make disappear.
True
Hats off, people!
Ayyyy
Agreed 3000 billion%
Nice
The black character was a total stereotype while Winston Zeddemore from the original was just an ordinary guy looking for a job.
exactly, an ordinary guy that just happened to also be black.
WINSTON: Hold it! Hold it! HOLD IT!!!!
Now, you're saying that we're going to go before a federal judge and say that some moldy, Babylonian god is going to drop in on Central Park West and start tearing up the city?!?!?!
@@grantorino2325 Sumerian, not Babylonian
Aside from Janine, he was my favorite in the movies
When the original film you're trying to shit upon is actually _more_ diverse than your new version, you know you fucked up bad.
The best part of this debacle was when Sony was deleting 1000s and 1000s of negative comments on the official TH-cam trailer.
I wonder if it's still the most disliked video on TH-cam. Maybe that one TH-cam rewind beat it.
Infinite Warfare won't be far behind either
You should check out Scientist Man's video from RedLetterMedia on the subject, it actually seems to be the opposite. They deleted half-hearted comments and left the extremist ones to further the controversy and give the film more attention.
In hindsight, this really isn't a surprise given their efforts to squash Last of Us Part 2 negative criticism.
Kinda like how they’re trying to silence everyone who talks about TLOU2.
Winston was the straight man/voice of the audience in the original ghostbusters, he wasn’t some cartoonish stereotype of a loud mouthed black woman
He may not be the popular ghostbuster, but that doesn't mean he's terrible. I relate to him more than Patty
Ya his line "if theres a steady paycheck involved...ill believe whatever u want" lol was great. An like a real person immediately went to work...lol great writing.
I know why they wouldn't shut up ! Go ahead and ask me
As a kid, I loved Venkman and his wisecracks (still do of course). As an adult, I truly appreciate Winston and his "omg am I the only sane one here" attitude.
@@leynaripley5250 yeah Winston was always my favourite ghostbuster for that reason, he just wanted his paycheck 😂
1984, black character is working class everyman, surrogate for the audience.
2016, black character is an outdated offensive stereotype "oh lawd Jesus it's a ghost". She's literally the same character as the owner from Tom and Jerry.
How did this not get called out at the time?
1980s diversity is best diversity.
If it weren't for double standards they'd be functional human beings.
@@Rueben_Kincaid But then they would have no standards at all.
Damn bro I couldn't have said it better
1984 - working class everyman who happens to be black.
2016 - black stereotypical street smart character.
"Every character in this movie is a ridiculous cartoon exaggeration of a real person." That, in a nutshell, is modern comedy
@Klausbärbel Fömm Politics in general, really.
Well its also much older comedy. Thats what comedy usually is an exaggeration of aspects of reality that we often are uncomfortable discussing. Look at blazing saddles. That entire town was an exaggeration. The real problem with most modern comedy, fortunately there are exceptions, can be summed up by comparing the original with this remake. The best scenes to compare would be the ones where they are discussing going into business for themselves.
Well said! politcs should always remain the "Drama" pile
The office pulled it off right and everyone has tried to copy the shtick ever since.
in nutshell that isn't comedy, its shitty improv that went wrong
I've never seen this movie, I'm very proud of that fact.
6K likes! Thank you everybody 😊
leibun lol dude you are so lame, it’s not hard to tell that this movie was gonna suck hard. you must be a liberal
@@chrishandsome4267 And you must be a moron who deducts someone's political views judging by one sentence.
Best 116 mins I never wasted because of this movie
Ibee, I had a blast watching this movie. Maybe it relates to women mostly.
Also, when people HATE a movie, it means it's controversial, not bad.
A movie starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth is guaranteed to be FUNNY! So, Ibee, please grab a bucket of popcorn and watch the movie. Then come back and give your sincere opinion.
I saw Charlie's Angels and I was able to lock my common sense in a trunk in the basement of my brain long enough to enjoy the "action"... I saw Ghostbusters and by the end, I was earnestly contemplating suicide.
I remember walking out of the movie and my girlfriend saying "If that's what a female dominated film is........I'm really not interested in seeing another one!" The film wasn't even interesting to women or men. And the black female character came across as racist to me. It was such a racist stereotype that it crossed into mega cringe territory.
100%
I just think its hilarious how the new upcoming Ghostbuster movie actually states in the movie that they've "not seen a ghost in 30 years". Completely ERASING this movie from the timeline and acting as if it never happened. At least that something.
The funniest part about that is the 2016 movie made it clear that the original movies never took place in their universe (despite the trailer acknowledging the original movies existence). By doing that they made it so they could never be referenced in a movie connected to the original's timeline, because it wouldn't make sense. By doing everything in their power to say the film was its own thing and that these new characters were the originals (in their canon), they cut themselves off from any future Ghostbusters work outside of their own specific series. They did this to themselves.
Ghostbusters 2016 was never in the timeline with the original movies. It was its own universe. That quote wasn't added to retcon GB2016, it was just a statement that a ghost hasn't been seen since Ghostbusters 2.
This reminds me of the trailer for Far From Home when Marvel's made sure everyone knew their new face, Cap Marxel, wasn't around... and yet I didn't see FFH. 😂😂😂😂
What they are making a 'ghostbusters 3' ? Is it with the original cast and actual real competent writers and directors? If so this is good news
@@chatteyj we'll see.. 🥴👍
Imagine if they made an all male cast of Charlie's Angel's. If that's not okay then neither is the Ghostbusters reboot.
All-male cast of Charlotte's Angels.
And they do nothing but humiliate a city full of dumb, fat, screechy land-walruses. Their assistant is a mentally challenged woman and they only hire her to ogle and humiliate her.
Then Cameron Diaz and the other two original Angels die. The token black guy bellows,
"SHE AIN'T BE NO ANGEL, MY NIGGAS!!!"
Then every single woman gets possessed by Hilarious Clit-non and the MEN save them all.
That’s fine. It’s okay to discriminate against white, straight, men...it’s encouraged even!!!
Goth Mog I’d unironically watch that.
LTNetjak Yeah, but the current shit writers, directors, actors, etc., almost always make it about gender and/or race. Its almost as if they spend all their time pushing their false ideology instead of creating decent films.
@@haillobster7154 You put way too much effort in inventing that plot.
This film could have just been a ten minute sketch on SNL. It wouldn't be any funnier or better, but at least it wouldn't waste so much time.
most SNL sketches are already too long. . .
not everybody lives in America
@@The.Last.Guitar.Hero. ok?
That's how it was written. You can tell that's how he framed it with SNL people too
Perfect
It’s practically an SNL skit that never realizes that the joke should have been over a minute in and continues it even though the audience never found the joke funny to begin with.
3 of them WERE SNL actresses
I recently started watching some of the older SNL skits, and to be honest, I can't understand how anyone found SNL funny. So much of the "humor" felt forced, awkward, and uncomfortable. Almost as if the actors and comedians were in an improv session that they never took classes for and were trying desperately to come off as mildly amusing. The only parts of SNL that I ever considered remotely entertaining were the parody commercials, a few bits of Chevy Chase's news broadcasts, and the Mr. Bill show. Modern SNL doesn't even pretend it's trying to be funny; it's just pseudo-political banter and bashing conservatives.
The orginal Ghostbuster's feels like a New York movie, even the city had more personality and charm. 2016 feels like a Hollywood movie: Loud, Rude and Phony!
Agreed.
Ghostbusters 2016 I believe was actually filmed in Boston. The scenery is cookie cutter from any colonial city in America with nothing distinctly New York about it. There is a couple scenes in New York but their Headquarters in the Film is in Boston. The reshoots were in Los Angeles. Without reshoots the filming took 34 days.
Exactly. The city was a full fledged character. Slimer was. Hell, Ecto1 had a back story and character development. lol
This is a very good way to put it. I actually did enjoy the 2016 in theatres in the sense it was a fun watch, I actually saw it twice believe it or not. But objectively it was not a good movie. It wasn't charming enough for re-watches over time like the original or other movies in a similar vein. like many reboots these days, it's just filled with a pandering Hollywood vibe with very blunt plots, jokes, and metaphors. I can see why kids would enjoy it or maybe those who are already fans of the cast (even though they've all been in better) but it doesn't have the same universal appeal at all
@@Catz1a Sure, but at the same time, 2016 Ghostbusters got a lot of insane backlash by the critics and the audience alike BEFORE the movie was even released, at least for what I've remember. In my opinion, the movie is bad but the special effects are pretty impressive and the actresses are doing their best to make the film work, but it lacked the charm of the original Ghostbusters movies.
The movie have some political perspective to it, especially for the feminism one. People always get upset when political elements are mentioned in every film, thinking that all the "representations" shoved down to their faces which I do understand their point. At the end, the whole crew of Ghostbusters 2016 got so much hate to the point of becoming more obnoxious, especially for the director who is a jerk at this point.
The only thing I've laughed at all day was that 3 second Winston clip: "If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say." It's just a minor line, and it's better than anything in GB 2016.
It's relatable because we all do that at work. No matter what dumb shit your boss says you just nod and comply.
That line is simple, efficient, quirky and relatable.
It was funny because its honest. Its real. These are things comedians in 2020 seek shelter from.
@@johngrave5554 yupp
“Dropping off or picking up?”
Leslie Jone's is comedy is boiled down to "I'm large, loud, horny, sassy, 'street', and black". That's all she ever contributed on SNL. Every negative stereotype but loud so it's "funny" instead of offensive and patronizing.
Pretty much I’d imagine if I was a black lady I’d be pretty pissed at my portrayal never quite evolving past dumb and loud it’s like taking old racism and dressing it differently
I hope she doesn’t ruin (play a big part in) the sequel to Coming to America, the original movie was awesome.
Sounds like you are a racist women hater brah... /s
McCarthy tries (and fails) to be a physical comedian like Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, and Richard Pryor, but she just comes across a dumb and shes not that funny, rule of thumb, if they stick around on SNL for longer that 5 years they are shit comedians and actors
She's a basketball reject. She is tall! She should do Jim Carey in ace Ventura...or a mutant bodyguard. Lol
Saying Melissa McCarthy is like Adam Sandler is a huge insult to Adam Sandler. Melissa McCarthy‘s entire comedy style is “Ha ha ha I’m fat and stupid“.
Adam Sandlers wearing fucking thin and all. Happy Madison was about it besides a few laughs. Not much over 20 fucking years! And over $300 of movie tickets.
I don't find Adam Sandler funny and i agree with everything you said.
…..and loud.
Well except for her comedy movie "Spy" which she was (well the entire cast is) pretty funny in the movie. Doesn't revolve on the stereotype fat joke all the time which i like
Yeah atleast Adam Sandler knows how comedy works
Even in bad movies, you can still find him entertaining
Every comedic scene in this movie is like an underwater level in a game.
Every "comedic" scene in this atrocity of a movie makes psychological horror films like Jacob's Ladder look like Laurel & Hardy
A slog to get through, and when it's done you never want to set eyes on it again?
I'd sooner play all the worst underwater levels than watch this movie again
Unwanted and hard to like, valid comparison
More like a sewer level.
The issue of having no quiet moments, or even everyone talking at once seems common today. Lots of great older movies had moments with no dialogue or music at all. Those actors, directors, cinematographers etc could sell a scene without constantly pandering to the audience's inner ADD.
That annoying habit of having multiple characters in a movie all talking over each other at the same time, was probably started by Spielberg. He did that a lot in Jaws and Close Encounters.
Watch movies made by A24. They understand what makes good movies for the most part.
@@andy2550 Actually, I think it might have been Robert Altman who started that trend. If you watch the original 1970 M*A*S*H* movie characters are talking over each other all the time. And the dialogue in Jaws was well written and the exchanges between people seemed believable. Feig doesn't have half the talent of either of those directors.
This was “The View” with matching outfits.
I was watching Waterloo from 1970 and minutes went by without dialogue, just Napoleon and Wellington each unable to sleep and contemplating the battle that was to come to a brilliant soundtrack.
Genuinely read an article that was written not 2 weeks ago about this movie, where Paul Feig blamed the backlash and negative reviews on ‘white males who weren’t ready for this film’
Unbelievable.
shokuwarrior I'm still waiting to find out if he actually is a white male...I'm guessing he identifies as other...
Like an aging bald man with a comb-over: in denial
Holy balls, a like by Drinker himself! Keep up the excellent work, sir!
At least Joel Schumacher had the decency to apologize for Batman & Robin being a terrible, corny movie instead of blaming the fans for not appreciating it. Paul Feig and everybody else involved with this movie are probably incapable of admitting fault and will blame "misogyny" and "white males" until their dying breath.
@@Anonymous551656 even george clooney apologized to adam west (maybe it was keaton-either way a batman that is way more loved) for batman and robin. No one apologizes from this movie. They just demand apolgies
Chris Hemsworth is Discount Chris Hemsworth in this movie
😂😂
I feel like this comment doesn’t get nearly enough praise.
Like a Chris Hemsworth knock-off ordered from Ali-Express
Read an article that said he basically had to improv the part.
Thor
The Villain is so forgettable in this film I forgot there even was one
I thought the Ghostbusters were the villains....
There was a villain???
@@dadeleemurphy85
Seriously. I thought that the writers and director were the only villains here. With the actors as their henchmen.
Can someone tell me who the villain was. I don't remember either and it's bugging me
@@rasalahmed1209 I think his name was Rowan or Robert. He barely had any screen time and was just some boring nerd.
Looking back, this film is the height of Hollywood cynicism. A sequel no one wanted, made by a hack director with a mandate to do product placement. Then when the studio rightly recognized the movie was a bomb waiting to happen, they ginned up a “backlash” from male fans. Except they apparently didn’t understand what Ghostbuster’s constituency even is. What a fucking mess this was.
Only half right:
We WANTED A sequel. This is a REBOOT.
Aykroyd had tried to get a Ghostbusters 3 made for YEARS, but Bill Murray said fuck the third movie. And then Harold Ramis died.
In today's day and age, it's pretty easy for Hollywood to blame all the failures of those shitty-ass feminist reboots on men unfortunately
@@XionLuis "Men don't like it, that's why it failed. " . " Who's the movie made for?". "Men."...
@@sneeringimperialist6667 It's even worse when they say that the movie wasn't made for the men like birds of prey for example and then proceeds to blame men for not watching the movie
@@XionLuis how many women watch a superhero movie, anyway?
"They behave like they're 10 year olds trapped in adult bodies." Well, that pretty much sums up every bit of "comedy" that's made today, from commercials, to sitcoms, to movies.
...and media hosts as well.
I was about to type " NOT TAG", but then I realized that the characters are kind of " 10 year olds trapped in adult bodies", but the writing was actually well done and had heart.
I have an explanation for that. People today are infantilized. They have their hands held through 13 years of what we laughingly call 'primary and secondary education,' before having their hands held more in colleges where they drink, do drugs, and screw each other with abandon. It is typical now for young aspiring writers to graduate college and enter the workforce in their mid-twenties poorly educated and utterly inexperienced, without ever having had to struggle for anything, deal with their own mistakes, or fight in so much as a schoolyard squabble. They are, in meaningful ways, little kids.
Contrast: Legendary comedian Mel Brooks was drafted into the Army at the age of 18 and served in Europe during WW2. He started doing stand-up by taking initiative when a comedian got sick and couldn't go on. By the time he got his first off-the-books job writing (uncredited) jokes for television, he was a war veteran with actual performance experience. By the time he performed in front of real cameras on the Steve Allen Show, he was in his mid-thirties, married with kids. He was an *adult.*
He was also self-deprecating and clever, instead of self-righteous and posturing like modern children. A fun quote talking about an early mentor: "One day he handed me a book. He said to me, 'Mel, you're an animal from Brooklyn, but I think you have the beginnings of something called a mind.'"
You ever hung around teenagers desperately trying to be funny, but only managing the most obvious, hackneyed, cringey humor? That's Hollywood writing and for basically the same reason.
The only funny thing about this movie was the interview with Chris Hemsworth and he went off script for that
It was agenda driven, lost lots of money and its sequel was cancelled. All I can say to that is GOOD.
Sony sure as hell didn't have much faith in it, that's for sure. I remember seeing an article on Facebook about how they were trying so hard to push merchandise for it. Desperately trying to salvage what they could from this sinking ship before it even sailed.
While it was good to see this colossal piece of cinematic embarrassment crash and burn. Unfortunately, it's just another symptom of an ongoing rampant disease called: neo-leftist identity politics. Further worsened by Modern Hollywood being too big for it's own good. Too much money changing hands, too much for hacks to fall back on.
At least it ment that a true Ghostbusters 3 is gonna be coming out soon with Finn
Shout n reply:
GET WOKE....?
Like Anthony Mackie says about todays movie industry: todays movies are made for 16 year olds and china. thats why most of the movies suck.
@Luc Germain well this movie was for 16 year olds and movies like the great wall with matt Damon is for china.
but like you said, it was a dumpsterfire.
Luc Germain yeah same with mulan but it was still made for China as a whole didn’t say it was good :)
@Luc Germain What about Disney making a black character smaller on their advertising for it in China? If you dont think Hollywood is in bed with China youre either naive or just dumb deaf and blind
@Luc Germain I never said every single movie did i? And most of corona is a lie. It exists, but isnt as deadly as the MSM painted it out to be. But im sure youll never ever take that mask off till your masters tell you to. But question, why havent you been wearing a mask your whole life? You could of gotten someone sick who in turn got their grandparents sick and possibly could of killed them.. How ignorant... Keep eating up what they are giving you lol
@@BloodyElbow707 well said, my friend.
"Grab the strongest alcohol available"
For this movie, this would have to be Diesel, I guess.
Dondolo Parisi formaldehyde with a kerosene chaser.
Rocket fuel
Trump koolaid
Jack Daniels Single Barrel Barrel Proof
Everclear
"I've lost my glasses"
"Oh no, they're in my hand"
- Ghostbusters 2016
I'll pinch hit for the Drinker, since he didn't, for that scene.
"FUCK OFF, FILM!"
I mean that’s not a terrible joke if it’s done during downtime to show someone being a scatterbrained, it’s moronic during a combat scene.
Compare that gem to Venkman describing how Dana sleeps. Both are throwaway lines, but one makes you chuckle and the other is in GB16.
@@Dirtyboxer1 She sleeps above her covers. FOUR FEET above her covers. That's not normal?
@@cringeycronk6710 no it is a terrible joke
Feig means cowardly in Norwegian. Just leaving this here.
Explains a lot.
In german too
"Paul" means "small" in Latin, so I guess "Paul Feig" means "small coward"?
Paul Feig means “little clown boy” CONFIRMED
All2Meme geez man, no need to do diss his ‘manhood’ like that bro.
Feminist: THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR MEN YOU SHOULD NOT WATCH IT 🤬🤬
Also feminist : THIS FILM WAS FLOPPED BECAUSE MEN DONT WANT TO SEE THE SUCCESS OF WHAMEN.. THEY DONT LIKE TO SEE WHAMEN CHARACTERS IN MOVIES 😩😩🥺
We should ban sjws from making movies
Feminists being irrational and self defeating? Why I never.
It's failure is funny because women didn't go see it either
SJW: we dont need to depend on men or their money
Also SJW: the success of our movies depend on men and their money
Magic mike: we didnt have a problem
But they are not even written as women. They are written like teenage boys, the "bad" ones with no self control.
"You can't do slapstick comedy and dramatic horror at the same time."
*Bruce Campbell wants to know your location.*
@Black Ninja And Talent.
Bruce Campbell is a fucking legend. Sad the show got cancelled and he gave up.
I think he means the tone. I never got a horror vibe from evil dead. It was too ridiculous.
Екатерина Геннадиевна Evil Dead 2 certainly had a good mix of horror and humor.
yep perfect guy for that .....just watch the first 5 min of the Congo and you'll be creeped out and laugh at the same time from his famous scream!!
So, I FINALLY watched "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (2021) the other night and thought "THIS is the sequel I've waited thirty years for." And that's a long time to wait for a movie.
When the bad review is way funnier than the actual movie.
LOL
I know right. Although funny his reviews are pretty damn spot on.
They replace one of the most competent secretaries ever with a guy that's lazy and stupid. And is hired purely as office eye candy. They make all the ghostbusters obnoxious and/or clumsy. Then they have the gall to claim that people who hated this movie just hate women. Projection much?
Don't forget that pretty much every side character with more than two lines is either a drooling idiot( the mayor), unbearably obnoxious( the dean of Erin's college), or both( the dean of Abby's college).
Plus all of the poorly edited " riffing". The original had some improve from Murry, but it worked, because he worked around the rest of the casts scripted dialogue, and. he was good at it. None of that applies here.
@@r.prokop660
And the only male characters that aren't either @ssholes, or complete idiots, or both, are Ernie Hudson's characters and the dean from the one college( not the " flipping the bird" guy. The other one) , and they only appear for one scene each.
As a women I agree with this. It’s simply a forgettable movie, nothing to do with gender.
When there’s something strange in your neighbourhood who you gonna call, a mentally disabled man who won’t pick up the phone
BINGO! Ka-Blam!
"They got it right the first time" is the most precise summation of why modern reboots are unpopular and unnecessary.
If something was popular enough that someone thinks they can make money on a reboot, the original will not be surpassed.
However, if it's the source material (most often, a book) that was popular, whereas the first adaptation wasn't, a second attempt may not necessarily be a bad idea.
For instance, feel free to remake The Hobbit, but steer clear of The Godfather.
Depends. Once in a blue moon you get a Fury Road, Planet of the Apes, True Grit, Casino Royal or Batman Begins. The originals were all good but the reboots surpassed them imo
@@DangerDavez Fury Road as in Mad Max? That's a sequel, bro. But yeah it's the best in the series
@@Meesterlijker Press X to Doubt. Of the 3 movies Beyond Thunderdome is the best then Fury Road then the Road Warrior in that order.
you can do a reboot but the spirit and style of how you do it matter. Give me the same crew and i could turn that flop into a block buster . The scrip would have to be burn at the stake
Art department would have their hands broken.
I saw this while working for an agency with at risk kids. I literally got paid to watch it and still have regrets. Fortunately one of the kids that went said it was one of the worst movies he's ever seen so that gave me some hope.
do they get to see better movies
The thing that struck me when this came out (aside from it being a bad idea), was Hemsworth's casting. Annie Potts was a fetching woman in the 80s, but let's face it, she was not the female equivalent of Thor of Asgard. And Janine was whip smart and a match for the guys in conversation. Apparently Hemsworth's character was... not. Remind me which version was more sexist.
Yes.
Ghost Busters 2016: We're the worst woke Feminist movie ever!
Terminator Dark Fate: That is adorable.
Birds of Prey: Let me show you how it's done.
Charlie's Angels: hold my soy latte.
Terminator Dark Fate looks like Citizen Kane compared to Ghostbusters 2016
@@daralenoach Batwoman: my damn lead actress walked out on me I dunno what y'all complaining about
Sonic: you guys have weird standards.
Ocean's Eight remake:Hold my Beer.
You basically got the entire cast of SNL in there. How could this movie ever have been anything other than painfully unfunny?
Newsflash: SNL hasn’t been funny since the 90’s.
@@melikey3758 I disagree. They're very hit or miss but they still pop out a some gems every year. This is a good cast even, all very capable of good comedic work (Bridesmaids, The Heat, Mckinnon simply being the most versatile actor on SNL, etc). The plot just isn't good and the jokes feel very "in your face" to me. They try too hard to make relatable or social commentary jokes funny instead of letting them flow more naturally in the script and work.
@@Catz1a that’s nice
@@Catz1a HA! Leslie Jones capable of comedic work? What are you on?
@@Catz1a I think Kate McKinnon is actually one of the most overrated cast members just like Bill Hader.
That director being in a three-piece suit even while FILMING is just so over the top pretentious.
Wes Anderson and Christopher Nolan would find it embarrassing and not at all classy
These are the idiots who blame the audiences for not accepting and liking the garbage that they put out,
apparently Rowan is supposed to be a metaphor for the people who didn’t like the trailer.
Whoever made this movie is a talentless hack.
i mean, if its his style why not, the problme is more that it can looks pretentious and by looking at his attitude and talk it is clearly so yeah thats dumb here.
I know a few persone that are classy dressed like that in real life and thats ok because that actualy suit their style, their life and their character, one is an historian from a rich family, you can see a man with good manner and all from aristocracy, and the other was a teacher of mine in cooking school, he was a a maitre d'hotel, allways well dressed, but it realy fit his personality it was actualy nice and funny, but it was natural and looked fine on him so.
This director on the other hand just look like an ass and so yeah pretentious
Leslie Jones, being literally every black woman stereotype.
UncleSam13 Yep, black lives matter 👎🏻
Ironic coming from the woman who gets offended at black stereotypes
I bet she is looting right now.
Pointing that fact out is racist
I can't imagine her having a role in anything if not for her gender and race.
Let's not forget that the antagonist was literally an internet troll, which Feig adapted in to 'stick it to the trolls' because they didn't like the trailer. That's why the bad guy is so pathetic; the villain was put in to symbolize the original Ghostbusters fan base and insult them. Wonderful stuff.
But feig said so
Until you broadcast said movie to someone that has known guys like Rowan and understands that they typically lack finance and focus to do what he did.
She hulk typebeat
A few years ago we saw "Ghostbusters" was available for free on our family tablet. My daughter (3 at the time) was upset because it was this version and not the original. True story. I've never been prouder.
That brought a tear of hope in my eye of hope for humanity
Here's hoping i see her pic on a milk carton one day LIAR!
@@Randy-ry9ss What a horrible thing to say.
@@tylerlittleton6583 what you said was a horrible lie......you should apologize to you tube right now.
@@Randy-ry9ss Don't know what to tell you. It really happened because we had watched the original that year over Halloween. I've reported your previous comment.
I love the scene in the 1984 version where they are climbing the stairs and Venkman says "Let me know when we get to the 20th floor... I'm going to throw up." This contrasts with the "hero montage" in front of the building to let us know the guys are only human. Who cannot relate to the misery they were experiencing on the job.
Minor Detail: the Ecto1 was an old style Ambulance that Ray picks up on the cheap and bc it had a unique siren and space in the back for the containment center
GB2016: it's a hearse that belongs to someone's business that these trolls just turn into their work car. How sad
Shhhhh, they're women; they're allowed to do anything.
Dead people become ghosts!
If you don't find that funny, you're a racist, misogynist, homophobe.
A big-finned Caddy!
We watch a lot of the same people. Damn.
> that belongs to someone's business
To some MAN's business.
It’s funny how the Original two Ghostbusters movies are still talked about years later for being so amazing. And 2016 Ghostbusters is still talked about years later for being a spectacularly massive failure. 😂😂🤣🤣
@Roy G Biv It was alright. People were just disappointed because of how good the first one was.
Yes. “Answer the Call” vindicates Ghostbusters 2.
Roy G Biv still leagues better than Ghostbusters 2016
Roy G Biv trying to push the failure of a film on “butthurt” fans is just a lousy excuse when someone made a shitty movie. Let’s face it GB 2016 was not funny, not original, not entertaining, did not sell well, and did not have likable characters. GB 2 ain’t perfect but still outshines 2016 by a lot. And another little thing called GB: After life, as in reboot the franchise cause nobody liked Gb 2016 except you. The only one butthurt here is you cause the majority has spoken GB 2016 SUCKED
@Roy G Biv Saying "It's just my opinion bro" doesn't work after you call other people "butthurt" for disagreeing with you.
As a kid, Winston was my favorite buster. Never knew why but I get it now. He is the voice of the viewer.
Yes. He was just the average Joe that was able to work along side smart scientist and provided the voice of reason that sometimes the scientist lack. Winston was always my favorite as well. Thankfully, the cartoon did him justice too.
The "audience stand-in", if you will.
I always liked that driving scene between Winston and Ray, it's a little bit of real talk that actually raises the stakes a bit as the gravity of their booming business hits them both. Then the kick ass music that follows.
There is literally no subtlety in comedy anymore. Some is either yelling, waving their arms around, making a stupid face, falling down, breaking something, etc... Clever writing, good timing, double entendre, and wit are lost arts. Female comedy actors especially rely on being way over the top and wacky to paper over the fact that they aren’t actually funny. Count how many times these SNL hacks make a stupid, over the top facial expression.
Tina Fey is an exception though.
Souds like you just have something against women.
@@RickMyBalls It's not against women, it's against over the top comedy since subtlety is key in most types of it. Comedy is different for everyone, but if your humor is fart jokes, long winded spats with no reason to exist, and "LoUd eQuAlS FuNnI!", You won't be considered funny by a majority of your audience over 14.
@@ProjectSparkTM In fairness to David, there have been a number of people who consider women in general to not be capable of being funny. This is not to say that the OP has this stance as the context is about (most) modern comedy today (meaning that the OP may still find female actresses of older films to be funny). However, I can see why David may interpret as a generalization considering how many folks have espoused such.
@What Went Wrong try Dry Bar Comedy. Lots of good shows.
I used to work concession when this was in cinemas. Never seen so many people walk out in the middle of a movie.
Open Water. I remember selling tickets to that movie with the disclaimer “you have 30 minutes to leave once the film had started or no refund.”
They deserve everything they get for actually deciding, and paying, to watch this movie
Lmao quite a few people walked out of "the glass house" but only a few went to see it so i guess it evens out... I liked it tho.
@@NoPowerintheVerse Never saw it, what made it so bad?
@@TheSchultinator So I never actually watched it but from what I was told by the person who had to screen it you could have put the movie reels in any order and as long as the first and last were in the right spot no one would ever be able to tell the difference. Its basically two hours of people floating in water and I guess the dialog wasn't that good either. It was crazy though. I don't think a single person actually sat through the whole movie and that was before the disclaimer.
The only movie where I wished the ghosts would win
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@@user-tl9gp4dn4q There is another one.
Ha..ha... see what I did there...
What about Return of the King?
@Boss Killa, That's a demon, but it's not my specialty.
Don’t forget Thor would’ve been in Civil War if it weren’t for this movie.
Edit: He could’ve at least gotten a cameo or post credit scene it’s pretty apparent that he’d be way to op for the rest of the cast
Really?
@@bassage13 They where both released within 2 months of each other so it's pretty likely that it was the reason
@@Doctor.Trolling I bet he regrets that bad decision. Hopefully he fired his agent after that.
bassage13 yeah
Jeeze, how much did they pay him to be in this utter utter utter utter utter utter shit.
Got to admit the idea of a character wearing glasses just for there to be a sly reveal of them having no lens in a quick joke that doesn't hover or come back is pretty good. Just bad execution
This is the only thing I saw that was actually clever and made me chuckle. I used to have a friend who bragged about his 20/20 vision (yet couldn't read a damn road sign) and talked about getting lensless glasses solely so that he would "look smarter". He also would use the term "skinny" as a compliment towards women, and said it was best to try and date chubbier chicks because they have low self-esteem and you could "train them to work out so they would get hot". Oh, he also had a fondness for date-raping women. I tried to have a candid heart-to-heart with him about all this so he could try and improve as a person, but his response was "Keep talking to me like that and I'll hit you."... So I jacked him in the face, he fell backwards off the picnic table he was sitting on, and I left him on the ground outside the bar. He never came back inside after that, and haven't talked to him since.
I know nobody probably cared to hear this story, but lensless glasses always make me think of that absolute joke of a "man".
@@skizz0phrenia270 screw that guy dude, he got what was coming to him.
@@skizz0phrenia270 I'm sure that's what happened.
@@jayw900 You're right man, I fabricated that tale for internet points. You can sleep easy tonight knowing you did good.
Yeah it was ok, its not like 100% of the movie is bad, a few ideas were ok, but the execution mostly is so trash, and yes the movie is weird, first it doesnt realy respect ghostbuster, they wanted to make more of a humourous film ok why not, but here its so dumb and badly done that it looks more of a parody than a comedy... its so sad
There's nothing worse than actors trying to be "wacky" in comedy.
well Chris Tucker pulled it off just fine in The Fifth Element
@@SaturnineXTS - You think? Personally, I think it was the worst performance in cinema history and ruined the film. He is responsible for that movie failing at the box offices globally.
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@@AnyoneCanSee Funny, I had no idea that was the case. I'd think people simply weren't ready for that sort of character yet haha
Never play for laughs.
@@SaturnineXTS to this day, I hit the mute button whenever Chris Tucker opens his mouth in Fifth Element.
Chris hemsworth played the best “they paid me well to play this” role I’ve ever seen
“Do I want to be in that? No way that looks horrible. Wait, your paying how much? Fuck yeah I’ll take it”
@@marlinazul7786 Men in Black International
@@mysteryace2129 He carried that movie. I hated the female lead, but was confused as to why i liked her interacting with Chris. I realized it was because he was the only good thing in that movie
@@outtaideas849 Ehhh he was just the eccentric drunk agent who was supposed to be the top of his class but wasn't.
@@mysteryace2129 Chris Hemsworth makes everything better. He made Ghostbusters 2016 better. Still a dumpster fire from Gozer's asshole, but he made it better
“Strongest alcohol available, the you keep reserve for end of the world scenarios...”
You’ll have to forgive me, I’ve been outta that stuff for a good long while now.
I got a half a bottle of "Blue" left , just in case . Johnny Walker , good stuff , smoother than water
@patrick howard even everclear can't make this shitshow more palatable.
it's like the characters from Sex and the City having to put on a grade school play of Ghostbusters. Horrible.
"Strongest alcohol available"
Me: pours hand sanitizer into my can of monster.
ah, a man of culture i see.
ah, a fellow connoisseur of impromptu beverages i see
What's the 'Proof' of hand sanitizer anywho? Inquiring minds what to know.
It varies depending on brand and concentration but about 120 to 140 proof, however, medical alcohols are denatured, so you can't get drunk off them, they just destroy your stomach lining and liver. Disclaimer: in case someone doesn't get the joke please don't drink hand sanitiser.
a girl asked the make a wish foundation to see the ghostbusters expecting to see the originals but she got the all-female ones instead.
she looked like she realised cancer wasn't that bad.
That's just soul crushing.
Jesus H Christ. Imagine having cancer and having to watch Ghostbusters 2016. Hadn't that poor child suffered enough!?
i feel bad laughing at this
I guess Milo was right; having cancer is better than having feminism.
@@wulfherecyning1282 milo yiannowhatever... quoting him is basically waving a flag saying "Incel here!"
That "come back to haunt her" joke was funnier than anything in the actual movie.
I had too pause the video laugh at that one.
@@adammalone3414 Same.
In the cartoon, one of the best ideas for a plot was Winston saving the day despite the fact that he knows he's not a scientist.
He finds a solution anyway, because he's the right man for the job.
It's interesting. In making their villains utterly incapable man children, then having their protagonists struggle against them, the SJW -crowd are basically setting themselves up as failures. Well done! Didn't think that through, did you?
But they did think it through. See, it's something they can use to defend themselves when they want to disregard valid criticism while calling it sexual harassment.
Lol they're basically shooting themselves in the foot...never thought of that 😂👍
They never think anything through
Its because SJW's and leftists only can win in shitty fantasies. Thats why hollywood is full of them. In every other scenario (ergo real life) they would be hunted down and exiled from the city. I find it hilarious the left is talking about civil war in the US, when we all know they would surrender in a few days when the conservative chads kicked their asses a few times haha
It's because they're generally blinded by their own sheer hypocrisy
It's really sad to see how bad Paul Feig and Amy Pascal have missunderstood the concept of Ghostbusters. It was never about killing them, but capturing them. Also the big difference between the original and this pale copy is in the way the characters were written. In the original, they were normal people, here they're caricatures.
10:03 This sequence says all, they're using the logo of the franchise and destroy it by shooting at his balls.
They have damaged the franchise with all their nonsense. I wish we had a live-action Extreme Ghostbusters.
they blatantly inserted every Ghostbusters trope into this movie because they knew they didn't have enough of a movie to stand on its own. And that in itself tells you a lot about this "movie."
So this was faithful reboot to the original ghostbusters, both are shitty movies.
@@markoliimatainen2565 Wait, you hated the original Ghostbusters? First time I ever heard anyone say that. What didn't you like about it?
Yeah a proper Ghostbusters 3 was what was wanted where the old guard go their seperate ways after going out of business and thus setting up the film so many years later and becoming Extreme Ghostbusters shame we never got that film instead of this piece of shit abomination
10:03 But it's funny when men get hit in the balls! Ha ha ha!
This movie has more extra chromosomes than the special olympics.
I'm sorry it's a good effort but just doesn't make sense.
Women don't have extra chromosomes, both sexes have 23 pairs.
Oh and the special Olympics is called the Para-Olympics (Parallel).
Rotten tomato score of 74% literally because critics had to support it or be deemed sexist.
@whoopdeedoo The few ones that did give it a negative review were called sexist, misogynist etc. Happened to Richard Roeper after he gave the movie 1 star and explained why he didn't like it. This movie basically had activists who would attack anyone that didn't like it.
Rotten Tomatoes is Disney owned....I rest my case.
Mr. Drinker, you are performing a valuable service. Not only have you helped steer me clear of bad movies as well as helped me to win serious arguments with fans of Rey, but your commentary is very useful guidance in character development and plot pacing for my own writing. Never underestimate the value of your work on this channel, sir.
Meh
Personally, I recommend that you watch this movie as an example of what not to do.
Hoplite Thirtynine I think watching the review is good enuf
@@handsomest1 You decided that, after reading this comment the only thing you could think to say was "Meh". Meh
Just think what he could achieve if he was sober!
I have a great idea for film school:
Monday 9am - 4pm: Critical Drinker
Tuesday 9am - 4pm: Critical Drinker
Wednesday 9am - 4pm: Alcoholic beverages research
Thursday 9am - 4pm: Bring your research to class and watch Critical Drinker
Friday: Go away now
i would attend class regularly
(Throws money at the screen)
The weekends would be, nah it’ll be fine.
As long as there is time for critical analysis and response - coupled with copious amounts of whisky (or alcohol of your choice), where can I sign up? There has to be an actual pay off and things that can be learned and applied. This sounds fun!
Erm... you do not want to bring your research to class, believe me...
144 mil to make a turd. That's an expensive turd.
@strontiumXnitrate In the words of one Peanut(Jeff Dunham), "Polish a turd, it's still a turd."
Is that how much money it lost?
A 9 year old could make a better ghost buster movie
It provided a lot of jobs at least. Carpenters, CG guys, catering companies, transport companies etc etc
Never mind a big Twinkie, this movie was one big pile of shit.
To be fair: I don't think we'll ever see actors like Murray or Aykroyd ever again in modern Hollywood. Those guys and many others made every scene a highlight, they were likeable, amiable, authentic, they were pure gold.
Such actors are not allowed in Hollywood, now. A generation of superhero garbage has purged acting of anything except those traits that fit into superhero garbage. Like Ricky Gervais (I think it was) complaining that actors aren't actors anymore; their job now is to sneak steroids, diet, and go to the gym twice a day. Actual acting is not required.
"Ghostbusters 2016 - Its As Bad As I Remember?"
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: lol yes, actually, it's even worse!
Long answer, it was even worse
Those two answers contradict each other. "As bad" implies equal, so something can't be "as bad" and "worse" at the same time.
>could afford Chris Hemsworth
>makes Melissa McCarthy the star
Paul Feig just wanted to ogle Chris Hemsworth, only reason he is the movie, plus to get non-gay girls in the movie seats
Arguably, Hemsworth was the funniest person in the movie.
And I actually really like Kristen Wiig... I mean not enough to remember if it's Kristen or Kirsten... But she plays a decent "Ben Stiller" type of character. And I find her attractive. But this movie was terrible.
@Willie Murray she was great in "Paul"
Kristen Wiig is hot!
Hahahahahahahaha true right mate.
Paul Feig is too cowardly (German: Feige) to say the following sentence: "No ladies, that wasn't funny!"
Didn't he say that men aren't funny? Hard core feminist mangina.
No man tries that hard to be a feminist without some really dodgy shit in the past. Has anything come out about him yet?
@@arkantos2227 I personally hold the stance that men generally have a better sense of humor than women, but hey I guess I'm not allowed to say that.
Didn't Paul Feig made that "Men Aren't Funny" video thing? I guess he was proving his own point.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Not to this point, but several interviews with him have mentioned that he's a big-time momma's boy. He's certainly in the running for one of the most self-loathing males in Hollywood, and that's saying something.
"grab the strongest alcohol available"
me in quarantine: that bottle of disinfectant
I hate to tell you but the whole pandemic was contrived. Your government hates you
Critical drinker: the reason I get happy when a shitty movie comes out. More food for a new video.
I have the same reaction. Imagine if they actually made good films nowadays. Drinker would be out of a job, and we'd be out of a lot of money as we actually started spending it at cinema again.
His best videos are when he's hating
"So forced, cheap, dumb, obvious, desperate gags that came from a mind of a 5 year old". Yep that sums up Ghostbusters 2016 perfectly.
a 5 year old can’t come up with this kind of bullshit🤣
I allowed myself to be dragged to this thing, and I believe THIS was the movie that made me institute my policy of never again paying to see a sequel, prequel, reboot, remake, or comic book superhero movie. I can state for a fact that your analysis of it is not only CORRECT, but INFINITELY more entertaining than the actual film. Bless you! All good wishes.
Anton Nym I thought, It can’t possibly be that bad.... my boy friend at the time reluctantly accepted that we see it. We shut it off at about the 10 minutt mark and agreed never to speek of it again.
My all-time favourite review of this movie was, "My appendix exploded and I almost died this year, but watching Ghostbusters was still the low point of 2016 for me."
@@TheCriticalDrinker the leftist crying because Trump won the election was more entertaining than Ghostbusters 2016 seeing The Young Turks squirm because Trump was sweeping up the election was more entertaining than Ghostbusters 2016
@@TheCriticalDrinker After I saw Constantine I came down with appendicitis. It was that bad it made me sick. Ok, so it was just a coincidence but still, the quote you posted reminded me of it.
@@TheCriticalDrinker THE FIRST 2 MOVIES WERE GREAT MOVIES I KNOW THAT MOST PEOPLE HATE GHOST BUSTERS 2 BUT IT'S MILES BETTER THAN THIS PIECE OF SHIT AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE!
The Ecto wasn’t a hearse, it was a Ford ambulance. Any fan worth their salt knows that. Not even the movie got that right:
Bout time somebody said it. Well done pal😁👍
The original was a 59 Cadillac commercial chassis, more technically an endloader combination car that could serve as either a Hearse or an Ambulance. As said the car in this movie is based on a 1984 Cadillac Fleetwood Hearse, so technically idk, it's half right as the original combination Cadillacs could be either.
Ya but the og's also caught Ghosts. The new team blows them all up and "kills" them? Kills the already dead ghosts? ...what a stupid movie.
Kinda showed us what they were trying to do with the franchise.
Fun fact- they filmed the ending scene in the town I use to live and work in. The same set was before used for the boston Marathon bombing movie, and recycled for ghost busters.
I actually cut the hair of one of the guys who did lighting and settings. He had worked on many movies and seen many failures.
Many kids I went to school with can be seen as extras at the end during the time square scene.
I asked him "do you think the movie is going to be good?"
All he said was- "I worked on many films, I know when one is going to fail"
That was in 2014.
If you know where I'm talking about in Mass you can still see some of the set on google earth. They left the facade set up years after and it's an eyesore.
Tear it down
I'm a sucker for back-stage stories like this.
My wife enjoys Hallmark movies and thinks they are the best. She thought Ghostbusters 2016 is the worst movie ever made.
I would think so, why does she want to watch a movie full of preteen boy fart jokes?
Feige has a very low opinion of both men and women if he thinks anyone can identify with any of these characters. It seems like it was written to be purposefully insulting. The insult to men is the most obvious but the women looked just as stupid.
ohh damn
I recommend that she watches Trucks (1997)
I'd like to coin the term "Karen Humor" for movies like this.
More like a bowl of Kix with sugar in it to make it taste good, but still taste like cardboard shit soaking in milk.
Lol that’s exactly what I said.I love that ”Karen” meme.It makes it really easy to describe some shit humor
Captain Marvel is the ultimate Karen.
We thank you for your underrated comment.
19:11 That way he said "And going!" actually feels more funny than the actual gag in that scene of the movie
"Adam Sandler but not as funny"
...ouch, man.
To be fair to Adam, he's had his moments. Though him and Melissa have the same problem of playing the same routine over and over and it getting tiresome after a while.
thantrus G I had the same reaction. Adam Sandler is the godfather of shitty humour. That guy hasn’t made me laugh ever. He’s worse than Seinfeld.
And yet, McCarthy is similar but constantly and consistently always yelling out her lines. Not just in this, but in every single SNL sketch I’ve ever seen her in
Rob Alexander I actually liked Melissa McCarthy in spy. Probably because it was a different character than she otherwise does. Mind you I also liked Adam Sandler in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Sometimes you get the right setting for comedians such as this.
I’ve still never seen this. The trailer was more than enough.
Same here, hope I never see it either.
you sir have dodged a cinematic bullet
It's like being shot. I've never been shot but I know I would not like it.
@@pandax75 My God, that was a great statement. Bravo, Sir!
Same
*insert unfunny, unwitty line*
-silence
*insert unfunny, unwitty line at ear-rape volume*
-silence
*Something, something, patriarchy...*
Sr Pelo should sue. Nobody should make unfunny *LOUD* jokes in the same quadrant of multiverses as our Spaniard lord and savior.
I couldn’t get past the fart joke. I was like, “Alright, they wanna be juvenile, I’m out!” Thankfully I caught this for free on Hulu or Prime.
Remember the scene where the ghost busters get a police escort after the commissioner says what do you need.venkman saying cmon let's run some red lights and then parading them to the crowd like celebrities only for the ground to collapse as they enter. They then climb out of the rubble after a pause while we held our breath.
Then reassuring the crowd who applaud them all set to a killer track from the soundtrack in a hysteric heightened hot new York city...yeah that was the last ghostbusters to be made. Thanks
That part was awesome. I so glad you mentioned it. Now I want to see it again. I also liked the part when Winston and Ray were were cruising around and talking seriously about the events happening.
I like GB II. That movie gets way to much hate.
@@LoganWood121 try harder
The only thing GB 2 was guilty of was not being as good as the original. It wasn't perfect but it was decent.
This movie feels like a woman directed it and put alot of immature jokes in because she thinks that's what guys will think is funny. Like Amy Schumer, she thinks she's talking crude like a guy but in reality guys don't talk like that.
@TheVolourn that's what we call a useful idiot for female execs who want to subvert art created originally by men. Rian Johnson is another.
i do, however, believe schumer when she says her vagina smells like a barn. that's probably the only 'joke' she never stole.
Or people can do something without thinking “what do men want”… A novel idea I know
@@Promthanius The problem with this particular film though, is that they didn't go into it thinking what men wanted.
She only sounds like a guy because she robs all her material from male comics!!
It's actually much worse than I remember. And to think, before this atrocity happened, I used to believe that Extreme Ghostbusters was a bit too politically correct! But at least EGB was respectful to the original lore, and had some good stories!
In all fairness, Ghostbusters II did warn us by means of Peter’s interview with his two morbid guests. The lady that he chatted with did make a call that it would be the end of the World in 2016.. The lady guest got it bang on with reference to this coming out in 2016.
someone get this man a medal for sitting down, rewatching, writing a script, saying that script, finding movie clips, editing it all together, and then waiting the 2 or so hours for a 25 minute video to upload
First year of college took a class called “Women in a Film” to fullfill the “power and discrimination” or some such bacc core requirement. Being 2016-17, of course this movie was shown. It was amazing watching this “professor” (who was an overweight feminist, shocking) present it as this fantastic film and a massive mile stone for representation in movies. And the entire class, being 95% female feminist studies students, of course all said it was fantastic, not as bad as everyone was saying, ALL the characters were great, only hated because wamen, etc. Didn’t even bother trying to point out any of these issues, wasn’t worth the argument
@TexMechs That sounds like any "Women Studies" class in any college in the western World....
"You are just upset because she is Wooo Man..." is the only argument they got for all their garbage movies tv shows.
No of course it couldn't be the shit writing, bad acting, lazy plot, etc...
wow I think you defined one of the levels of HELL there, man lol
Ok incel
Modern day filmmakers haven't watched Alien or Aliens and it shows
Things like this makes me glad that I go to a tech school where the entire campus makes fun of dumb shit like this.
Paul feigs A director that didn’t even direct. He just told them to do whatever. Why is this guy a director again?
From the behind the scenes stuff I’ve seen, it seemed more like he was happy to be included, and watch the actresses do their thing, instead of, you know, directing. He let them walk all over him. He shoulda been fanboying over them from sidelines instead.
The paycheck, recognition, and if something goes wrong ( which obviously did) he can blame other people, basically he wanted the perks without doing the job
@@eyeseaweed Kristen Wiig is the only one who should've had that power. Atleast an actual funny SNL alumni would have better jokes.
I'm sorry but the term " theoretical comedians," is among the most hilariously accurate burn that is just fucking fantastic just so good.
It's been 4 years since this movie came out and I only now discovered that it had an antagonist.
@patrick howard If you knew the movie existed how could you possible not know the originals were in it? That was a huge selling point and controversy when it came out. I can only assume Sony thought fans of the original would turn up to see the originals despite them only having cameos but in reality fans were pissed that the originals were being so disrespected.
True story here: As I was leaving the theater with my friend, Tom, I said, "That's the most likeable I've ever seen Rosie O'Donell" . He replied, "That was Melissa McArthy." I actually had mistaken one for the other, but we laughed harder at THAT than we did the entire movie.
Better humor than the entire movie. You win!
The sad part is it didn't matter which one it was
The hardest part to believe is that you actually saw it in the theater.
@@davidh.4944 you're right, david, but I have witnesses. haha. I believe this was the movie that made me institute my policy to never again see a sequel, prequel, remake, reboot, or comic book superhero movie.
The best movie Rosie O'Donnell never made.
I wish someone could go back in time and tell Melissa Mcarthy that she will NEVER be the female version of Chris Farley.