GHOSTBUSTERS (2016) Headed For Massive Loss

[Paul MacLean]

Amazing...this actually makes Ghostbusters II look good by comparison.

[Monterey Jack]

With last year's Vacation and this, you have to wonder what the hell Hemsworth is doing with his career.

[AndyDursin]

The real problem with Hemsworth is whatever novelty there may have been casting him in a straight up comedy was negated by that Vacation cameo.

As feeble as this looks at first glance I do predict this will be better than that dud at least....I'm just hoping theres more comedy in the film than what little there is in these ads.

[DavidBanner]

Based on what I have heard about the production itself, I have a feeling this will bomb badly. Everything about the movie sounds like a bad idea, and the egos involved were so inflated that they couldn't agree even on what to put in the trailer.

My hope now is that in the aftermath of the crater, perhaps we can have a good result. Kristen Wiig will obviously continue her movie career, hopefully doing cameos where she's always been strongest. And this will be a great opportunity for Paul Feig to return to television, where he's done his best work when supervised by stronger creative producers. And I wouldn't be surprised to see McCarthy get a new sitcom in a year - that's always been her strongest venue.

[AndyDursin]

McCarthy is currently making millions upon millions of dollars in movies. No way she goes back to TV anytime in the forseeable future. Why would she? Both she and Feig are on a hot streak of $100 million grossing comedies together -- even if this bombs, they've made a fortune making it. And going back to do a sitcom when she just finished doing 6 years of one? Makes no sense whatsoever at this stage of her career.

[DavidBanner]

It's true that McCarthy may be able to continue doing more movies for a few more years, but unless she develops some new material, these streaks don't last that long. On the other hand, she made millions and millions of dollars acting on television, and will do so again. This kind of humor tends to work better in small doses. As an example, look at the cast of Two Broke Girls. That kind of broad comedy works great for 20 minutes on a sitcom with regular punch lines, but gets old quickly when you try to stretch it out.

After this movie bombs, I'll be curious to see what Feig inflicts next. Depending on how hard the movie craters, he may get one more movie before he needs to return to his earlier work. Plenty of other directors have been in the same boat.

[AndyDursin]

Even the new videogame looks like crap...

[AndyDursin]

Melissa McCarthy bemoans the "confusing", bad trailer, but says they didn't care what she thought of it. lol

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/m ... ery-889787

In the wake of the Ghostbusters trailer being voted as one of the most disliked in YouTube history, one of the stars of the Sony reboot acknowledged the early promo clips were "very confusing."

As a guest on The Johnjay & Rich Show, Melissa McCarthy addressed the issues surrounding the trailer. "It's a reboot, not a remake. I know it's weird that they say [in the trailer] "30 years ago," but in this movie it's like the first one didn't happen," said the Spy star on what the new all-female interpretation of Ghostbusters really was.

[AndyDursin]

You have to give Sony and everyone involved credit, trying to turn the tables on "the haters" by labeling everyone a sexist who doesn't like the look of their movie. lol

Here's the new theme song -- don't be a sexist! It's awesome!

[AndyDursin]

I give them credit for trying to portray "the haters" as awful sexists, but the dust is settling and the reviews from major outlets -- not the pom-pom media -- are as pathetic as you'd anticipate.

Whereas Feig has previously managed to cross genre streams successfully (building up to exciting spy- and cop-movie set pieces in his earlier comedy hybrids), here he succumbs to the familiar curse of the digital-effects era: When there’s almost nothing the computer can’t conjure, it falls to the director to know when to stop. The film’s unwieldy finale begins with an amusing possession gag, as the spirit villain inhabits first McCarthy’s and then Hemsworth’s body, but then it quickly spirals out of control as a flood of computer-generated ghosts cross over and start wreaking havoc around Gotham’s Mercado Hotel — a melee reminiscent of Robert Schwentke’s similarly unwieldy high-concept bomb, “R.I.P.D.”

http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/gh ... 201810318/

The unfunny mess that hits theaters Friday, like a big goopy splat of ectoplasm, will no doubt make those naysayers feel vindicated. But the fact is that an estrogen-infused makeover, particularly one with such a comedically gifted cast, was a promising idea. Sadly, that's where the inventiveness ended.

Although the new Ghostbusters follows the template of the original by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the witless script by Feig and his co-writer on The Heat, Katie Dippold, has no juice. Short on both humor and tension, the spook encounters are rote collisions with vaporous CG specters that escalate into an uninvolving supernatural cataclysm unleashed upon New York's Times Square. It's all busy-ness, noise and chaos, with zero thrills and very little sustainable comic buoyancy.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review ... iew-909313

[Monterey Jack]

Drew "I gave an A+ to Man Of Steel and I'm sticking by that" McWeeny gave it a rave, of course.

[AndyDursin]

There are going to be a lot of reviews from liberals looking to make a social point. I'll give the film a fair shake when I do see it eventually but I'm suspicious of the raves...especially from that guy!! Lol

[Monterey Jack]

At this point, I think it's going to literally be impossible for any critic's review to not be picked apart and analyzed as either misogynist grousing or feminist back-slapping, nothing in-between. With all of the depressing, real-life horrors in the news lately, it's baffling to see just what a lightning rod of hatred this movie has become. The movie may well suck, or might surprise people, but why does it HAVE to be a he said/she said line being drawn in the sand? I mean, even if the new cast has been all-male, I'm sure aging fanboys would have found plenty to bitch about.

I wish everybody would get a grip. As much as I hate the term "First World Problems", it totally applies that a silly reboot of a silly 80's special effects comedy is getting THIS much heated controversy. If the movie sucks, it'll be forgotten almost immediately, and people will still watch the "real" version from the 80's, so why the whining? Those lame re-does of Carrie, The Omen and Robocop have already passed out of the public consciousness.

[DavidBanner]

After this bombs, I have a feeling there will be very little discussion about it. It's simply not that important of a movie, and as noted, the failed reboots of other movies from the 70s and 80s didn't get much attention afterwards either.

I think there is more interest in Melissa McCarthy's upcoming appearances on the Gilmore Girls reunion, where I think she'll be more at home. And I have a feeling we'll be seeing Feig returning to TV as well, which would probably be a smart move for him. Not always fun to see this stuff happen, but they're not the first to suffer this way and they won't be the last. Tom Selleck thought he could have a movie career too. In the end, he smartly realized his bread and butter would always be TV. And now he's been able to anchor no less than 3 TV series.

[AndyDursin]

I think it's going to take a lot more than 1 failed film -- if this does commercially fail -- to send McCarthy and Feig back to TV, given the amount of hits they've both had. What other McCarthy led film has bombed? None of them have. Even THE BOSS made $60 mil domestic despite being horrifically unfunny; as bad as it was, it'll outgross THE BFG, WARCRAFT and other summer bombs while being produced at a literal fraction of the cost. Her film career, if it ended tomorrow, would be 100 times more successful than Tom Selleck's movie output at this point.

But we've had that conversation before. lol