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Post by johnnyb on Jul 20, 2016 14:52:45 GMT -5
I don't think those tweets by her are at all offensive or intended to be racist.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2016 4:58:50 GMT -5
I watched multiple reviews of this film and it seems to be pretty bad. And sexist towards men. The Angry Joe review pretty much sums up how I feel about this movie after hearing about how bad it is, and reading the leaked script or whatever it was.
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Post by johnnyb on Jul 23, 2016 17:28:30 GMT -5
I don't think those tweets by her are at all offensive or intended to be racist. Agree with this, but look who you're talking to. I enjoyed this film a lot. Beginning was slow, and I was definitely afraid of this film falling down rabbit hole of stupid jokes, but most of the writing was natural and there were tons of clever jokes. Definitely didn't find anything about the movie sexist by any means, but most people reporting that it is heard that from a third-party who most likely went into the film to be outraged, and haven't seen it themselves. Saying that shooting Rowan in the balls is sexist is like saying anytime a character gets hit in the gonads, it's sexist. There's a lot of dumb conversation surrounding this film by people who haven't, and most likely never will, see it. Yeah, and "This movie is sexist against men!" reeks of "Why isn't there WHITE history month?"
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Post by Yayo on Jul 23, 2016 17:38:04 GMT -5
Agree with this, but look who you're talking to. I enjoyed this film a lot. Beginning was slow, and I was definitely afraid of this film falling down rabbit hole of stupid jokes, but most of the writing was natural and there were tons of clever jokes. Definitely didn't find anything about the movie sexist by any means, but most people reporting that it is heard that from a third-party who most likely went into the film to be outraged, and haven't seen it themselves. Saying that shooting Rowan in the balls is sexist is like saying anytime a character gets hit in the gonads, it's sexist. There's a lot of dumb conversation surrounding this film by people who haven't, and most likely never will, see it. Yeah, and "This movie is sexist against men!" reeks of "Why isn't there WHITE history month?" Yes, and anyone who likes this film is just "pushing a feminist agenda." It's scary the lengths that people will go to dispel something because it's a change from what they're familiar with. But then again, with Ghostbusters being an iconic "nerd staple," this was always bound to happen, due to the fact that most nerds do not like change. Nostalgia can be a terrible thing.
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Post by RSCTom on Jul 25, 2016 10:23:13 GMT -5
Most everyone here that knows me knows I am a huge Ghostbusters fan. I have been indifferent for years about new Ghostbusters, including a third movie, because I think movies are just different in this day and age and I'd rather not have an over the top, 'bad-ass' Ghostbusters movie like everyone else wants, including 'passing the torch' (which in of itself is becoming an absurd cliche.)
I think people are embarrassingly lame being worried about 'girl' Ghostbusters and it makes me facepalm knowing some are so far behind, but I still didn't really weigh in.
That having been said, I saw the movie and enjoyed it. The first 45 minutes were amazing...on par with anything else I could watch and funny...it was almost like the Marx Brothers (which it's been said was a key influence on the original two.) The things I hated about it are things I hate about almost all movies this day and age (I am a huge hater of Marvel movies, hate 3rd act 'boss fight' showdowns and audience attention spans that need an action sequence every 15 minutes) and I also wish they had gone their own way in so many cases. They would have had some great, original scenes if they had not had to shoehorn in a reference to the old Ghostbusters and just done their own thing.
Everyone being salty and skipping it because it's 'not their Ghostbusters' are really missing out. I understand sending a studio a message but this wasn't the movie to do it with after all. Should have done it with Ninja Turtles.
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Post by T R W on Jul 27, 2016 7:25:29 GMT -5
I saw it Monday, and despite my thoughts that it looked pretty awful from the previews, I was pretty impressed. I laughed a lot, and I thought it was pretty good. It had flaws, but none that were worthy of the hate received from so many people. Kate McKinnon stole the show to me.
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