that preview gives me hope i can get a job as a colorist. jeezus. simplistic cell shading 101
Despite the lukewarm box office results…it seems a sequel has been pretty much confirmed:
(Meh. They said the same thing about Fan4stic before it fell through.)
Either way, I’ll wait to see it actually materialize before I start flipping tables about it, especially since against all odds the sequel could be an actually good movie.
Not that I trust SONY’s movie division to either be competent or release anything of quality.
He may earn one after this issue!!
Another Preview pic from the twitter of the writer of IDW comic series:
Peck with a Pack!!
Superman Returns and Fan4stic were planned to have sequels too. We never got them.
superman nor fantastic four had a whole lot built for the franchise. they are def making at least two more movies purely cause they build that lot alone.
The box office performance doesn’t justify it though. They’re already at a huge disadvantage given all the money they made on this. The public word of mouth would just make audiences even more alienated by the time the sequels rolled along. Sony would do best to just repackage this as a animated series and pretend the movie never happened outside some references in an animated series.
The company that made the video game for this movie filed for bankruptcy a week after launching this game.
they made the lot before the movies were released…no way a studio isnt getting at least one more movie outta that thing.
The difference between the Arthur images and the Mario Kart video is that the Arthur images are legitimately clever. They are taking random images out of context and using them for random every day life. A lot of the humor is that still images from a children’s show could accidentally relate to adult life. The Mario Kart video is just bad racism but because its video games it gets a pass. No the whole thing is fucking moronic.
When you want to go for those types of joke, they kind of have to have some meat to them. Jokes have to make some sense. If you’re going to combine to different things, they need to share some weird thread that makes your brain click. In honor of the thread, I just thought this up to use as an example. Sing it in your head with the same melody as the Ghostbusters theme:
[details=Spoiler]Thugbusters
I’m not afraid of no Thugs!
[/details]
Did it make you laugh? Why did it make you laugh? You could argue that this has a lot of undertones of racism. I’m still taking a childhood element and making it adult as all hell.
If you wanted to really make a video juxtaposing mario anything with adult stuff, you’d be better off making a video where Bowser is pro immigration (because he needs the immigrant goombas and koopa troopas to work for him) and Mario is xenophobic person who wants to make Mushroom Kingdom Great Again by jumping on immigrants or some such. Maybe he builds a wall out of pipes. who the fuck cares, the mario kart video sucks about as much balls as the new Ghostbusters.
The neat thing about the original Ghostbusters is that it was an adult film that kids could watch. There was some silly humor, some dry humor and just enough to work that line really well. I don’t necessarily think it was aimed at children but the opportunities were there to make it a successful franchise for children.
How does that play out in this new version? Dangerous_J mentioned that the bright ghosts were kind of childish. I don’t necessarily think the glow was what pushes things off of the horror subtheme of the original but the general tone of the movie does. Nothing is ever legitimately scary to any of the cast. There were some really serious ghosts but the main villain is really goofy a lot of the time. In the original two, the main villains are really serious threats. In that way the heaviness of the villains kind of plays a straight man to the rest of the cast. You have these guys with this job and weird personalities dealing with this really crazy shit; similar situation to Goldblum’s character in Independence Day.
How devoid is it…They’re sort of there but they don’t necessarily commit to them properly.
Watched it tonight because my wife wanted to see it and … learned exactly the same lessons everybody else had. Bad movie is bad. I love Kristen Wiig (call me), Kate McKinnon is kinda awesome, I’ve seen enough Melissa McCarthy for a while, and Leslie Jones … shrug: not as funny as I thought she might be. The editing was pretty bad to the point of being jarring - simple visible continuity errors in a number of places (the chips, the window, the slime, the equipment… and I don’t usually notice things), culminating to them being in pristine uniforms after the final boss fight. :wtf: The weaponry doesn’t make sense and isn’t handled well even according to the plot. At least with the good original Ghostbusters you know those fuckers are handling their proton packs with care. Here, not so much. And the super laser whips in the final fight… why? If you’re going to fight for your life, wouldn’t you use all your tools ASAP? But no, gotta have an extra sweet VFX scene. Ugh. And the cut dance sequence makes the entire finale awkward.
I haven’t checked IMDB, but I could see this being some form of Alan Smithee edit. Surprisingly badly done for a major movie.
TIL I could have checked this thread ahead of time and saved $12.
(Welp, that’s another $12 that this movie didn’t deserve. You should have convinced your wife to go see Bad Moms instead. For shame.)
So the horror elements basically as devoid as I thought, at least on a tonal level. Gee, that’s not surprising. It would have helped break gender barriers if instead of excising the horror from the horror-comedy movie that was The Ghostbusters that had kept horror in to show that women can be actual protagonists in horror movies beyond being victims and “Final Girls”.
Oh well. Just another of the many wasted opportunities with this movie.
Oh, no one’s saying that they won’t try. It just doesn’t mean it will actually go anywhere, especially since they’ll have to likely get a new director after Feig likely has something akin to a nervous breakdown (like he apparently deserves) when this movie drops out of theaters after bombing.
If they want to make use of that lot, then they likely can’t profitably do it making a sequel to this horrible movie. [/why yes, I am milking the fact that this movie is doing terribly for all it’s worth, why do you ask?]
Found your problem.
After my review, any SRK members that watches this disaster deserves it.
(I finally watched RLM’s Scientist Man video about this movie. Haha at seeing Melissa McCarthy’s massive ass backpedal now that they know the movie is failing.
Also, damn. Dan Aykroyd is even further off the deep end than I already thought he was.)
Speaking of which, in keeping up with how the movie is doing in the box office via IMDb for what is likely the last time, I highly doubt it will make the Top 10 next week at this rate. That means it couldn’t even go a month without dropping off and is unlikely to break even considering the international sales. As much as I don’t like Suicide Squad either from what I’ve heard of it, it’s pretty fucking hilarious that in one weekend Suicide Squad did far better domestically than this movie in an almost entire month; even when WB fucks up, it apparently still fucks up less horribly than SONY (or Fox):
- Suicide Squad – Weekend = $135.1M – Domestic Gross = $135.1M – Weeks Out = 1
- Jason Bourne (2016) – Weekend = $22.7M – Domestic Gross = $103.4M – Weeks Out = 2
- Bad Moms – Weekend = $14.2M – Domestic Gross = $51.1M – Weeks Out = 2
- The Secret Life of Pets – Weekend = $11.6M – Domestic Gross = $319.6M – Weeks Out = 5
- Star Trek Beyond – Weekend = $10.2M – Domestic Gross = $127.9M – Weeks Out 3
- Nine Lives – Weekend = $6.5M – Domestic Gross = $6.5M – Weeks Out = 1
- Lights Out – Weekend = $6.0M – Domestic Gross = $54.7M – Weeks Out = 3
- Nerve – Weekend = $4.9M – Domestic Gross = $26.9M – Weeks Out = 2
- Ghostbusters – Weekend = $4.8M – Domestic Gross = $116.7M – Weeks Out = 4
- Ice Age: Collision Course – Weekend = $4.3M – Domestic Gross = $53.5M – Weeks Out = 3
I’d laugh about it doing worse than Nine Lives, but I already know that America takes cats stupidly seriously, so Nine Lives doing okay-ish isn’t surprising.
That said, to get one final laugh in, apparently it’s still doing way worse than Independence Day: Resurgence did on an international level even though that movie got panned far more even if you take out whatever reviews for this movie that SONY probably outright paid for. I have to wonder how much of that is China though.
I need these in my life. They where $18 each at 2nd & Charles today. I assume there cheaper online somewhere. I NEED posters of these covers. And I picked up Ghostbusters International #7 there too today.
DAT KYLIE AND MELANIE!!!
HNNNGGGG!!!
Glad that you staying on top of the IDW Comic series and enjoying it as I am!!
The success of sucide squad and the failure of this new ghostbusters just goes to show that ideologically driven critics will always lose out.
(My, those are some real nice instances of cover art.)
That’s debatable, especially since trying to “drive” an ideology via movie is hardly automatically a bad thing and it can even be done well. It’s just that a) SJW-ideology is almost entirely bullshit and b) this movie sucked on top of that.