Ghostbusters the reboot (2015)

[Henry88]

Box Office: 'Ghostbusters' Tops Friday With $17.2 Million
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/07/16/box-office-ghostbusters-tops-friday-with-17-2-million/#6ef1da31799e

Box Office: 'Ghostbusters' Wins Friday But Ain't No Monster
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-ghostbusters-wins-friday-911348

well it is what it is.

[Edward J Grug III]

Wait for MRAs to claim this as a victory.

[MartyS (Gromit)]

The original didn't make a ton of money opening weekend, about 40% of it's budget, looks like this one will make about 30%.  So it shouldn't be considered a disappointment yet, the next few weeks will tell.

[ScottotD]

The original didn't make a ton of money opening weekend, about 40% of it's budget, looks like this one will make about 30%.  So it shouldn't be considered a disappointment yet, the next few weeks will tell.

BUT THE PEOPLE WHO WENT TO SEE THIS WERE BRIBED!

[Pak-Man]

We were!? I better check the mail for my payment.

[ScottotD]

We were!? I better check the mail for my payment.

The idea of not sharing a space with MRAs is worth the ticket price alone?

[Henry88]

$65,100,000    
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=ghostbusters2016.htm

[Cyrusso]

I dare say that's pretty good.

[Darth Geek]

  I saw it yesterday and overall I thought it was okay. It had a good amount of jokes that worked, although still plenty that just didn't. Also several of the ones that didn't work were just interminable, going on and on for no reason. The downside to just letting your actors ad lib. I liked the characters. Leslie Jones was good. The two jokes from the trailer where she just shrieked like a racist stereotype seemed out of character when in the whole movie. Melissa McCarthy didn't have any fat jokes, which was a relief. Kate McKinnon was a bit hit and miss for me. I liked that she was putting so much energy into her role. But sometimes it just felt like she was more Harley Quinn than a Ghostbuster.
  The jokes weren't dependant on the fact that they were women. So it wouldn't have been improved or changed in any way if the characters had been male. In fact the joke about the first proton pack test making a short limp beam seemed to be taken from a draft where they were male characters.
  I like that the women weren't sexualized in any way. The jumpsuits weren't flattering or revealing. They didn't make any excuses to get the hot ones, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon, in their underwear.
  I really like Chris Hemsworth, and he can be funny. But here he was mostly just grating and his jokes were painfully bad.
  Also, you have Chris Hemsworth in a Ghostbusters movie and you don't use the "Are you a God?" line on him? What the hell? Most of the other reused lines from the original were shoehorned in, it would have been in keeping.
  The one thing that everyone seems to be able to agree with is that the villain was lame. They needed to have someone far more charismatic and interesting than that guy. The character seemed like it was written with Patton Oswalt in mind, and he would have done a much better job.
  I liked the look of the ghosts in the movie better than I thought I would based on the trailer. The...logo ghost...is that what we're calling it? He had a rather lame look. And I don't get why he got a bow tie when he got big.
  I did like the new tech. This helped the movie distinguish itself from the original a little bit. I just wish it didn't seem to come out of nowhere in the movie. The proton packs I can understand they've been developing for a long time, just like the original movies. But several times in the movie Holtzmann pulls new gadgets out of her ass, and we don't have any idea she had any time to work on them.

  I'm glad I saw it, but I doubt I'll ever feel the need to watch it again. And if they can get better writers, I'm okay with this being a start to a larger Ghostbusters franchise.

[anais.butterfly]

  The jokes weren't dependant on the fact that they were women. So it wouldn't have been improved or changed in any way if the characters had been male. In fact the joke about the first proton pack test making a short limp beam seemed to be taken from a draft where they were male characters.

Except all of the ones that were shots at MRAs and everything about Chris Helmsworth's character. Other than that, sure.

[Darth Geek]

  The jokes weren't dependant on the fact that they were women. So it wouldn't have been improved or changed in any way if the characters had been male. In fact the joke about the first proton pack test making a short limp beam seemed to be taken from a draft where they were male characters.

Except all of the ones that were shots at MRAs and everything about Chris Helmsworth's character. Other than that, sure.

Well, now that you mention it, I do remember the one joke about the sexist comment on the Youtube clip. I liked that joke. And yes, there were jokes about Hemsworth being handsome, and Wiig being obsessed with him. Those were relatively minor, I felt, and didn't represent the whole movie.


On a side note, I did think that what happened to Bill Murray's character seemed very petty. I couldn't help but think it was a comment on him being the holdout for so many years which is why we never got a Ghostbusters 3.

[Cyrusso]

I also appreciated the movie for actually having a little bit of heart and soul, and having a couple circumstances where there's a set-up and a pay off.

[BathTub]

A funny intersection with one of my favourite game franchises, Rock Band!

https://www.destructoid.com/how-the-new-ghostbusters-movie-almost-possibly-delayed-rock-band-4-375322.phtml

As I saw someone else mention, they should do proton pack outfits!

[Darth Geek]

That reminds me, the new version of the theme song in the movie was ungodly awful!

[The Lurker]

That reminds me, the new version of the theme song in the movie was ungodly awful!

Luckily it was kinda short.