Yeah, you'd think after all this time, Twitter would have some solution in the works, but it seems to me that they really don't care. One of the problems is that it's too easy to just create new accounts. I like that Blizzard has begun instituting some really strict policies for hate speech and bad behavior for their games. You can get a person globally muted almost instantly and banned fairly easily. It works for games like that because nobody wants to just start over, there is a lot of investment in your account. There is no investment for twitter trolls.
Ghostbusters reboot
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Milo Yiannopoulos and his posse are the cancer of the internet. just keep reporting them and hopefully they'll be out of twitter atleast.
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He was banned, last I heard.
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Well if you needed anymore proof of how stupid some of the criticism of the new Ghostbusters movie is http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/ghostubusters-star-leslie-jones-flees-social-media-after-racist-trolls-repeatedly-call-her-an-ape Also anyone know why the tag menu has gone missing?
Wait a second, people call this Ghostbuster movie PC or a SJW dumpster? Leslie Jones' role is considered politically correct? Seriously?
I admit I only watched the trailers, but if this is considered PC then I don't want to know what isn't. Anyway, I don't know who this Milo guy is and why I should care, but those tweets do make me want to see the movie purely out of spite.
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Anytime anyone uses the term "SJW" I switch off. Such a useless term to use as an insult. Ironically, it's very positively descriptive. Who wouldn't want to be a social justice warrior, literally? It sounds amazing.
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Well, despite my trepidations, Captain Usopp really wanted to see this, so we went.
And it was a lot of fun. It was solid. A little uneven in spots but it was fun and it worked, definitely better than Ghostbusters 2. The jokes worked more often than they didn't, way better than in the trailers. It was mostly the trailer jokes that didn't work in fact… maybe because they were already spoiled. Holtzmann was consistently great, and Chris Helmsworth's character was consistently funny. I understand why people complain that "The guy did nothing" and get sexist butthurt about it, but he was great all the same.
Captain Usopp had a total blast and was laughing almost the entire time.
Two minor complaints.
1)The original themesong shows up at the very start of the film and those cords set you in the mood... but then cuts out suddenly and very abruptly. As if it were an afterthought and just shoved in wherever there was space. Later in the film there's a new remix edition by a new group... would have much preferred the original just go there and save the remix for the credits. It was nice to hear the theme throughout the film though, it's such a solid instrumental.
- There was very clearly a huge over the top insane show stopping musical dance number sequence near the end that seems like it would have been a lot of fun. It was totally cut and relegated to the credits. Which seems like a real shame. (So yes, I guess I'm complaining the movie wasn't long enough.)
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Anytime anyone uses the term "SJW" I switch off. Such a useless term to use as an insult. Ironically, it's very positively descriptive. Who wouldn't want to be a social justice warrior, literally? It sounds amazing.
It does describe a certain sort of idiot. But these days the people using it are often equally stupid, if not far stupider.
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@Monkey:
It does describe a certain sort of idiot. But these days the people using it are often equally stupid, if not far stupider.
I know the type of person they think they're describing, but more often than not, they're aiming it at the wrong people. I have a family member who has been using that term a lot; she's a smart person and also very sensitive and I'm a bit puzzled by why it's suddenly become her thing.
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For anyone who saw the movie and cares, They released Abby and Erin's book. I liked the movie so much I picked it up. Haven't sat down and read too much of it yet, but I read the intro, and it answers a question the movie didn't.
Warning: the book presents itself as an "Updated" edition released after the events of the movie, so the question it answers is a big spoiler.
! Bill Murray's character Dr. Heiss survived. He writes the foreword of the book mentioning that he's a believer now and he specifically mentions his huge medical bills and recovery time in it.
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I finally got to see the movie which was annoyingly hard. Even in its second week it had already been delegated to a few couple showings at the dumbest times. Self-fulfilling prohpecy of low monetary success here we come.
The movie itself was pretty good. Sometimes very funny, sometimes cool and usually pretty. Several jokes did not land for me (but for others), a lot of them I liked.
I'll echo that Kevin was just too dumb but Chris Hemsworth made it work much better than it should have.
The in-movie references about haters was done well, I think. In a similar vein, I was enjoying the fact that nobody made any (obvious) remarks about them being women. That is until the end when the villain suddenly transformed into a stereotypical misogynist which he wasn't before. Seemed strange and took something away for me.
The coolest scene was the fight against the army of ghosts and in particular Holtzmann's showing. Everything after that was not as good but still enjoyable.A friend of mine and I were the only two people who stayed to watch the credits and therefore saw the post credit scene. Which meant nothing to me so whatever. But after that there was a supercut of a whole slew of German fans singing and dancing the theme song in costume which was cute.
I liked it. I hope there'll be a sequel.
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Lost money, sony wont do a sequel only animated projects. Movie was a uninspired medicore remake in the same vein as robocop and total recall, and payed the price. Drowned and died.
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Depending on the marketing budget, Sony's looking at about an eighty million loss on the reboot. The overseas market definitely isn't doing much for it.
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I enjoyed it - although, it was close to being a bad movie, because the chemistry between Kristen Wig and Melissa McCarthy wasn't very good.
The movie saved by Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth. The first 30 minutes without them was hard to watch, but once it got going, it got going.
Box Office Wise, I wish it did better to shut up the trolls tho, ugh…
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Box Office Wise, I wish it did better to shut up the trolls tho, ugh…
Right, lets take it to the couple trolls online, who are a small number compared to the general movie audience, and reward a totally useless mediocore reboot by paying sony a ton of cash. xD
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Right, lets take it to the couple trolls online, who are a small number compared to the general movie audience, and reward a totally useless mediocore reboot by paying sony a ton of cash. xD
The general movie audience paid WB a ton of cash for Suicide Squad & Batman V Superman the last one being particuarly egregious being that some of these same people weren't too fond of Man Of Steel.
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Looking up: It made 217 mill on a 144 mill budget. Don't know how that all lines up when counting in theaters and more, but maybe just scale down the sequel?
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Looking up: It made 217 mill on a 144 mill budget. Don't know how that all lines up when counting in theaters and more, but maybe just scale down the sequel?
To make a profit, it would have to reach at least twice its budget and that's probably optimistic considering how much marketing the film got; Sony is probably looking to lose about half what the remake cost.
Far as scaling back for a sequel, Sony doesn't seem capable of actually doing that these days. Just look at how ridiculously expensive the Amazing Spider-Man films were compared to their box office returns.
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Looking up: It made 217 mill on a 144 mill budget. Don't know how that all lines up when counting in theaters and more, but maybe just scale down the sequel?
Typically advertising budget is about half what the actual movie was… and then on top of that domestic theaters take 1/2, and foreign theaters take 3/4.... and they pay out less after the first week. Basically a movie has to make double its costs within the first week or two to break even, and better than that to make a profit. So rough math, to break even on that 217 million investment, after advertising and theatre cuts, it probably needed to make 500-600 million to break even, and closer to 800 to be any sort of success. (How anyone greenlit a thing like this for that ammount of budget is insane. It should have been a 50 mill budget tops.)
These huge blockbusters that cost 200 mill aren't really making a whole lot of money.... (and that includes Pixar and Avengers films) most of their revenue actually comes from the merchandising and dvd sales and tv airings. So, with those things added in, even a failure can eventually make money (especially if a movie stays in rotation for decades) but generally if they don't make back their theatre budget it's by most merits considered a failure.
Even things like Pirates of the Caribbean 4 making over a billion probably didn't ammount to much profit in the end given its 350$ million budget.
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Ghostbusters (2016) Honest Trailer:
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I didn't think it was so bad. Even despite everyone holding on to the ideals of the all star cast of the original (Bill Murray, you know!?). Comparing the two is just not even worth doing really. The refereneces to the original and of course the appearance of some of the original cast members were just a bonus to fans.
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Fun thing with the blu-ray. (and maybe the regular dvds too) They add black borders to the top and bottom of the screen to get the full theatrical widescreen in… and the special effects keep going over those borders.
Its a neat faux 3D effect.
Sadly, the song and dance number I was hoping would be greatly extended into a full blown over the top Cuban Pete style musical number as seen in the end credits, was not actually extended all that much. Ah well.