Ghostbusters 2016 Reboot Trailer & Hidden Website Found!!!
I enjoyed the call back to the original movie , although it does not make much sesne. The shot of the firehouse at night is graet. I also enjoyed the music, both the piano & the remix of the GB song them.
As for the rest…
Ghosts looks to clean and shiny.
The SFX are to slick. Slimer Design is good but looks too much “solid” to me , I prefered the unfocused look of the orginal one. Still way better than the version in GB2.
The library Ghost scene seems way off. The mood is wrong (the original scene is dark & more spooky and seems happening in a old time), which seems the main problem of the movie, visually speaking.
Humor is bad. I agree it is too bland. The puke and subsequent remark is out of place, it is not witty and subtile as I was hoping for.
I find the props to be awful , the car’s ugly, the equipment is cheap. Punching Ghosts, really?
GB has never been about an anti ghost commando, they play it with the wrong attitude.
And the black gal is awful. She shout too much. Everytime I see the trailer I skip the last part with her and the possesor ghost. ( Another bad exemple of humor by the way).
Of all the characters Jillian seems the most interesting , but it seems they went for freaky. Egon, whom she references, is never freaky , only odd. The gun licking is out of place.
The action sequence though seemed cool and I did not notice that Time Square went back in time. That’s a nice detail and might lead to something interesting.
That’s not much overall though.
As a side note, I do not agree when you say Venkmans is the only element that brings comedy to the Original movie.
The situation and how the characters respond to it creates comedy.
Venkman is the origin of many one-liners, but the comedy in ghostbusters goes beyond that.
I kinda like that the tone is different from the original movies, but a lot of the jokes didn’t work for me. The way the trailer opens with references to original movie bothers me. Misleading and unnecessary.
Good point, Raffaele, about the humor in the original film also coming from the ordinary guys being in extraordinary situations. I didn’t think of it like that as I was writing this post because the one-liners usually stick out to me as the funny stuff 🙂 – Paul
The director’s laughable comments about the “misogynistic backlash” of the trailer for the new GB I am sure is more hilarious than this idiotic remake ever will be. My wife saw it first and has been groaning ever since! (so there) The director is substandard at best and OMG do we really have to endure yet another Melissa McCarthy suckfest?! This woman has almost achieved in 6 years what took Adam Sandler over a decade to do. If she is in it….it will blow! I am not even going to complain or gripe about it. I will just not see it in the theater or video. Between the lousy trailer, the bad cast and the hack director I see no reason to even get upset. It will come and go and be a footnote while the original will endure forever! 🙂
