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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rancid Schnitzel" data-cid="606463" data-time="1471525802">
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<p>A comedy with chicks in the lead directed by Paul Feig. No that's no chick flick. BTW I think you'll find Bill Murray risked getting sued if he didn't appear in the movie.</p>
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<p><strong>But give it a rest with all that misogyny bullshit. </strong>That isn't the reason this film has bombed worse than Curtis Lemay.</p>
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<p>The fact is Ghostbusters is an incredibly popular franchise with a strong following. It isn't just the 2 movies, but also video games, cartoons and comics. A third film has been in the works for years. It defies belief that Sony would want to reboot such a strong brand in the comedy/horror genre as a girlpower movie. Why would you do that? You piss off the diehard fans, lose a massive audience of male nerds and geeks who don't want to see a chick flick, and the girls don't want to see it because they want a proper chick flick not 30 plus year old women killing ghosts. It makes no sense from any perspective, particularly from a financial one. A mixed team would have allowed them to sell shitloads of toys, but no way that's going to happen.</p>
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<p>They should have rebooted it with a mixed team and with a better director. Now the entire franchise is dead again.</p>
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<p>That bold is quite comical when you started with this comment:</p>
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Were you castrated before or after you went to see it?
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<p>As for some of the other points, the Murray litigation emails pre-date Feig's involvement in the franchise and the idea to have women leads. The email was from when Reitman was still attached to direct and Ramis was still alive.</p>
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<p>Better director? Feig is one of the better comedy directors floating around these days, to suggest otherwise is just stupidity (even if you don't like the fact his films are female centred).</p>
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<p>A chick flick is a romance/romantic comedy film directed at women. As I said, Ghostbuster's isn't a chick flick, it's just a film with female leads.</p>
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<p>So what if the franchise is dead, in this age of reboots, sequels, prequels etc it can probably be kicked back into life if the fanbois get a director, team and story they like.</p> -
<p>my wife and her friends went to Ghostbusters, they liked it....</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="606561" data-time="1471562174"><p>
Was it as bad and derivative as <em>The Force Awakens</em>?</p></blockquote>
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<p>Was it as bad and derivative as <em>The Force Awakens</em>?</p>
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I saw Suicide squad. Had potential but never delivered. Not familiar with the comics but is there any point to the boomerang bandit or whatever his name is. "Crikey cobbers!, that fire breathing demigod is heading our way! Don't worry I'll hiff my trusty boomerang at him!, struth! stone the fuckin crows it did nothing!"
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Nepia" data-cid="606557" data-time="1471561398">
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<p>That bold is quite comical when you started with this comment:</p>
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<p>As for some of the other points, the Murray litigation emails pre-date Feig's involvement in the franchise and the idea to have women leads. The email was from when Reitman was still attached to direct and Ramis was still alive.</p>
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<p>Better director? Feig is one of the better comedy directors floating around these days, to suggest otherwise is just stupidity (even if you don't like the fact his films are female centred).</p>
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<p>A chick flick is a romance/romantic comedy film directed at women. As I said, Ghostbuster's isn't a chick flick, it's just a film with female leads.</p>
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<p>So what if the franchise is dead, in this age of reboots, sequels, prequels etc it can probably be kicked back into life if the fanboys get a director, team and story they like.</p>
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<p>That was a joke you retard. And it should be noted that you came out flying with all that misogynist bullshit from the getgo.</p>
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<p>As usual you completely ignored all my points as to why this film bombed. To suggest Paul Feig was the man to reboot a franchise like Ghostbusters is nothing but stupidity on your part. It's like getting Michael Bay to reboot Dead Poets Society.</p>
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<p>First rule when rebooting a popular franchise: Do not fuck with a winning formula. They did that and the result is a box office bomb.</p>
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<p>It took a quarter of a century to get a third film, do you honestly think it will be rebooted again in our lifetimes? This film has effectively killed any chance of future Ghostbusters films.</p> -
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<p> It's like getting Michael Bay to reboot Dead Poets Society.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rembrandt" data-cid="606560" data-time="1471562056">
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<p>I saw it. It was ok, some good laughs, only real critism was that it was too much like the first one, thought it could have tried to be a little more original. <strong>My female friend liked it.</strong></p>
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<p>love how you just casually throw that out there....:)</p> -
<p>he seems to be fucking killing it since that bitch fucked off on him. </p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Rancid Schnitzel" data-cid="606597" data-time="1471565911">
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<p>That was a joke you <strong>retard</strong>. And it should be noted that you came out flying with all that misogynist bullshit from the getgo.</p>
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<p>As usual you completely ignored all my points as to why this film bombed. To suggest Paul Feig was the man to reboot a franchise like Ghostbusters is nothing but stupidity on your part. It's like getting Michael Bay to reboot Dead Poets Society.</p>
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<p>First rule when rebooting a popular franchise: Do not fuck with a winning formula. They did that and the result is a box office bomb.</p>
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<p>It took a quarter of a century to get a third film, do you honestly think it will be rebooted again in our lifetimes? This film has effectively killed any chance of future Ghostbusters films.</p>
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<p>Uh oh, I'm calling up your nemesis now.</p>
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<p>I didn't avoid any of your points, it wasn't reinvented as a girlpower movie, it's just a movie with female leads. I addressed your director point and you've replied with a Michael Bay quip when clearly Feig is a highly competent comedy director making a comedy. </p>
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<p>Look, I know you're consistently on a poor oppressed man mission, but denying there was no <span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">misogynist bullshit is just a lie. Yes, a bunch of people may have had an issue with the reboot just because it's different than the original, but that doesn't mean the misogynist crap is well crap. Hell, I've been guilty of it myself in the past, I delayed watching BSG for a number of years because I couldn't get my head around Starbuck and Boomer being chicks, then I finally got over myself, watched it and realised how much of a non castrated dick I was.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I think there's one thing you all seem to be overlooking (maybe on purpose), Ghostbusters isn't the sacred cow you're making it out to be - all the main players returned for the sequel, and quite frankly it was average as fuck. Even the guys that got lightening in a bottle for the first one dropped the ball for the second.</span></p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="606620" data-time="1471566865">
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<p>Nepia , address the castration question please.</p>
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<p>I did - "<span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">have a fully functioning pecker", can't you casual </span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">misogynist</span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> poor oppressed males read properly? ;)</span></p> -
A fully functioning pecker could mean the woman who insisted you go and see that film<br><br>
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<p>Uh oh, I'm calling up your nemesis now.</p>
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<p>I didn't avoid any of your points, it wasn't reinvented as a girlpower movie, it's just a movie with female leads. I addressed your director point and you've replied with a Michael Bay quip when clearly Feig is a highly competent comedy director making a comedy. </p>
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<p>Look, I know you're consistently on a poor oppressed man mission, but denying there was no <span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">misogynist bullshit is just a lie. Yes, a bunch of people may have had an issue with the reboot just because it's different than the original, but that doesn't mean the misogynist crap is well crap. Hell, I've been guilty of it myself in the past, I delayed watching BSG for a number of years because I couldn't get my head around Starbuck and Boomer being chicks, then I finally got over myself, watched it and realised how much of a non castrated dick I was.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I think there's one thing you all seem to be overlooking (maybe on purpose), Ghostbusters isn't the sacred cow you're making it out to be - all the main players returned for the sequel, and quite frankly it was average as fuck. Even the guys that got lightening in a bottle for the first one dropped the ball for the second.</span></p>
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<p>I did - "<span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">have a fully functioning pecker", can't you casual </span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">misogynist</span><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> poor oppressed males read properly? ;)</span></p>
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<p>I bet you loved searching for that. Probably did a search for SBW shirtless while you were doing it.</p>
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<p>Again you're completely missing the point and banging on about that misogynist crap. The film didn't bomb because of misogyny and you know it.</p>
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<p>Simply put, you do not fuck with a winning formula. Turning Ghostbusters into a girl power movie (or chick flick as much as that upsets you) wasn't just fucking with the formula, it was shitting all over it.</p>
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<p>LIke I said, there is no logical reason for a popular brand like Ghostbusters being rebooted in this fashion. The only thing I can think of is that they wanted to make some kind of statement. Well it was a pretty expensive fucking statement. Hope it was worth it.</p> -
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<p>my wife and her friends went to Ghostbusters, they liked it....</p>
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<p>On Friday night i watched 50 minutes of an appallingly bad French movie just to see 30 seconds of 2002 Monica Belucci naked</p>
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On Friday night i watched 50 minutes of an appallingly bad French movie just to see 30 seconds of 2002 Monica Belucci naked<br><br><br><br>
Totally worth it.</p></blockquote>
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Just reported this post . Didn't. Name . The . Film.