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Ghostbusters 2016: Talk about the movie(s).
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Filming wrapped about three months ago after starting in June, so I would imagine there's been enough time for enough post-production work to put together a brief teaser at this point (although last I heard a few weeks ago, Imageworks was still hiring more staff to accommodate the effects load to meet the release date). I wouldn't be shocked to see something with Star Wars, and the absolute latest I would expect to see some footage would be a Super Bowl spot.
Great pic. It's apparently the lobby of a haunted hotel, the MIRADO - Spanish for careful or cautious.
Also the name of a line of PaperMate pencils.
Also the name of a line of PaperMate pencils.
I'm really loving the new proton packs.
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Character posters are now up.
That PKE meter seems to be inspired by the cartoon, which is more than okay by me.
That PKE meter seems to be inspired by the cartoon, which is more than okay by me.
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Those posters are really cool! Kate McKinnon grows on me the more I see her.
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She's already my favorite character, and I haven't even seen her do anything yet. I'm biased though because I already adore Kate McKinnon.
She's already my favorite character, and I haven't even seen her do anything yet. I'm biased though because I already adore Kate McKinnon.
I agree. Great casting choice.
I kind of agree. They're going for the iconic green slime look, but at the same time, If I didn't already know what I was looking at, I'd be wondering what it is.
Also, I'd make a poster of the car itself in addition to the character posters, as the car was as much a character of the original as the GBs were. Sort of like how the General Lee to the Dukes.
Those are great.
So, let me get this straight.
People who hate on, are not passionate about or on board with, this movie are haters/extreme trolls or whatever because their opinions are based on what very little information we've gotten so far.
*But* it's perfectly okay to squee on and "love" this movie and the characters because we've gotten a picture of them in their uniforms. (And didn't we already get this several months ago with them in front of the new Ecto-1?)
Aren't the Haters and the Squeers basing their opinions on the same amount of information? How is it possible to "already love" an actress in this movie because now you've seen her in a khaki onesie while wearing a plastic prop on her back? But *that's* okay. It's not, however, okay to dislike an actress in this movie because all of the other comedy movies she's done has been centered around, "Look at me! I'm fat and it's awkward for me to do things in normal-sized people society!" and there's little reason to suspect this outing will be anything different.
Look, I'm on the fence with this movie. Like I am with the new Star Trek movie. I'm not passionate about it one way or the other. I'll end up seeing both, and both of them look potentially good, but nothing I've seen/heard has driven me to passion one way or another.
With Star Trek, I accepted after ID that "this isn't my Star Trek" because, damn that movie was flawed. I'm not a hater on it, I just didn't care much for it and was mostly neutral on the first one. It's not made for people like me so, fine, it's there and I don't have to accept it as any form of "canon" since it has no impact on the "prime universe." The new trailer looks "good" but it doesn't look like Star Trek. Looks like a typical summer action movie. Which, fine, whatever. I'll go see it, probably like it, but for me it's not Star Trek.
With this movie, I'm still neutral. I've yet to see anything to push me one way or another. I don't see the sense in going with an all-female cast (I can see having female members of the team, but why go all-female? Isn't that sexist too?) but until I see some footage in a trailer or something it's hard to know much more about this movie than, "they have four women in jumpsuits with a particle-accelerator on their backs driving around in a mid-80s station wagon."
Yeah, that's something to squee over or even say, "worst movie ever" over.
People who hate on, are not passionate about or on board with, this movie are haters/extreme trolls or whatever because their opinions are based on what very little information we've gotten so far.
*But* it's perfectly okay to squee on and "love" this movie and the characters because we've gotten a picture of them in their uniforms. (And didn't we already get this several months ago with them in front of the new Ecto-1?)
Aren't the Haters and the Squeers basing their opinions on the same amount of information? How is it possible to "already love" an actress in this movie because now you've seen her in a khaki onesie while wearing a plastic prop on her back? But *that's* okay. It's not, however, okay to dislike an actress in this movie because all of the other comedy movies she's done has been centered around, "Look at me! I'm fat and it's awkward for me to do things in normal-sized people society!" and there's little reason to suspect this outing will be anything different.
Look, I'm on the fence with this movie. Like I am with the new Star Trek movie. I'm not passionate about it one way or the other. I'll end up seeing both, and both of them look potentially good, but nothing I've seen/heard has driven me to passion one way or another.
With Star Trek, I accepted after ID that "this isn't my Star Trek" because, damn that movie was flawed. I'm not a hater on it, I just didn't care much for it and was mostly neutral on the first one. It's not made for people like me so, fine, it's there and I don't have to accept it as any form of "canon" since it has no impact on the "prime universe." The new trailer looks "good" but it doesn't look like Star Trek. Looks like a typical summer action movie. Which, fine, whatever. I'll go see it, probably like it, but for me it's not Star Trek.
With this movie, I'm still neutral. I've yet to see anything to push me one way or another. I don't see the sense in going with an all-female cast (I can see having female members of the team, but why go all-female? Isn't that sexist too?) but until I see some footage in a trailer or something it's hard to know much more about this movie than, "they have four women in jumpsuits with a particle-accelerator on their backs driving around in a mid-80s station wagon."
Yeah, that's something to squee over or even say, "worst movie ever" over.
Yeah, I mean, thank god we don't have that with John Candy, Chris Farley, Kevin James, Jack Black, Jonah Hill, or the modern sitcom cliche of pairing fat husbands with trim and sexy wives.
This is like complaining that The Wiz is racist for having an all-Black cast, completely forgetting the history that the original Wizard of Oz didn't have them at all in the first place. It was made to support and boost the visibility of Black talent, and to see what fundamental changes while keeping with the source material would look like, and the Wiz went a long way towards that. It may or may not be the same for women and Ghostbusters, but the intent is a clear parallel. After all, not long ago the runner-up to the most powerful position in the world bragged about having Binders Full of Women, as if that was a sign of feminism.
To be perfectly honest with you, and speaking as a guy myself, it really seems that men only complain about sexism if it feels like they (we) are being deprived of something we've always dominated. In this case, male comic/action leads. If we had spoken up about inequality towards women in film decades ago, maybe, just maybe, we wouldn't be having an all woman cast for this movie because by then the sexes would be more equal. But it wasn't equal then and it's still not equal now -- after all, for decades we've had men dominate comedies and action movies, and still expected women to show up anyway (which they did. It's an assumption that masculinity is universally appealing. If that's true, then why not feminity as universal as well?). Men can afford to give up starring in one comedy action movie, especially since men are more than likely still going to watch this movie anyway.
We men have had so much privilege when it comes to starring in the biggest and most legendary movies and franchises. We can spare a piece of the pie. The damning thing is, when we're so accustomed to privilege, equality seems like oppression.
So to that, I say, let women have an entire team for themselves. Mixing sexes is nice, but it seems too much like a compromise, and a little too late for that, given that we've had, and continue to make, decades of all-male or male-dominated teams. It sends the message that women can't succeed without men, when, again, we've had decades of movies where men succeed without women.
I really have nothing to say about much of your post, which was a bit more about judging on content, and I get that. That's fair. That determines the quality of the movie. But the whole women thing... the very fact that it's a sticking point for male fans means that it is definitely provoking discussion and thoughts on what feminism and gender equality really are, and that's important.
^ Can't say it any better than that. Well put. 
You worked yourself up into this much of a froth over people saying the character posters look cool? Jesus. Get a grip.
You worked yourself up into this much of a froth over people saying the character posters look cool? Jesus. Get a grip.
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