Early reaction from critics on Twitter is positive. Review embargo breaks Sunday at 10 AM PST. The internet will explode if reviews are good.
It'll definitely be unbearable, but I think I'll get at least a little enjoyment from watching everybody who's been so certain that this is going to get panned struggle to try and justify how it could possibly be getting good reviews. I imagine some of them will go to Rottentomatoes and see 'Ghostbusters (2016)' with a red tomato next to it and immediately have a brain aneurysm because they don't know how to process it.
I sadly think that even if it's great it'll get a low RT score. Luckily that doesn't really impact my view of the movie.
I really, really want this to be good for multiple reasons, and I hate the fact that nothing I've seen from it has made me laugh.
The ending of the movie is pretty terrible from what I've heard. Either way, it's unfortunate because I don't think we will ever know people's true opinions on this movie because their minds were made up before they saw it. If you wanted to hate this movie and it's good, you're going to tell people you hated it. If you wanted to love this movie and it's terrible, you're gonna say you loved it.
This is where I'm at right now - love Ghostbusters, think the four leads are really funny but I've thought all the trailers/clips I've seen so far were pretty bad. I'm still going to check it out next weekend though.
If I end up not enjoying this movie, I'll have no problem saying it's not a good movie. But that won't change the fact that the backlash leading up to it was ridiculous and significantly driven by sexism.
Absolutely agreed. I just feel like the entire release is going to be a mess because it really seems like everybody has already made up their minds on how they'll feel about this movie. And then it's going to be a catch-22 because if it gets great reviews, sexists will claim it's because reviewers are afraid of the backlash they'd receive from giving it a bad review and if it gets bad reviews, the other crowd will say it's because the reviewers are sexist. Either way, the review embargo ends tomorrow morning so I guess we'll find out.
I don't think the former will happen. If it's bad I feel like the people who have been championing it are smart enough to see legitimate criticism for what it is
Ninety percent of the world does not know about these arguments on the Internet. It is just a really loud wheel.
Fuck, I'm glad I found this thread. Been hate-reading Reddit comments about this all day and I need a positive place decompress haha. I'm not a huge fan of the original (Bill Murray is fantastic and it's funny enough but most of the reverence for it is purely cult / nostalgia / people who haven't seen them in decades--I saw it recently and it just doesn't hold up to me) but I loooooove the cast and team here so I'm excited to see it. The backlash is so ridiculously absurd and watching dumbasses on Reddit try to prove to everyone (or maybe just themselves) that the it isn't rooted in sexism is infuriating. I really hope this movie does well commercially and critically so I can watch idiots on r/movies make even shittier excuses.
have you watched Spy? I literally spent the runtime of that movie on the floor laughing harder than I ever have in my life. needless to say I'm pretty damn hyped for this movie! (Also, Ghostubsters was my favorite thing as a kid so this is bringing back all sorts of feels.)
This film will be utter shit. Will get average reviews though (50-60 RT score) because journos will be afraid of backlash.
nah edit: The loudest voices about this film have been the people who think it's shit/ruining their childhoods/want to boycott it. They're the ones who will be coming after critics. Anti-Ghostbusters 2016 people were telling Patton Oswalt he killed his own wife because he said he liked the movie. People who want to like the movie/support it aren't foaming at the mouth to combat anyone who feels otherwise.