This blog has a huge issue with..."Ghosters 2016"...or..."Ghostbusters: Answer The Call"...
It has nothing to do with it having an all female cast. Quite the contrary. This blog will always welcome the all female cast leads in this movie.
No, the issue this blog has with this movie, is how staggeringly unfunny it is. Not only that, but the half hour of re-inserted deleted footage in this Blu-Ray only makes it unfunnier.
This movie feels as though the first draft script was filmed without a minimum of a dozen re-writes and without inspired polishing of the dialogue on set just before the cameras were set to roll from scene to scene.
It really looks like Paul Feig had nothing more than the barest scrap pile outlines of bad ideas for an overall script from scene to scene, doing nothing more than instructing his cast members to improv from moment to moment hoping that something funny might come out of the spontaneous dialogue. Unfortunately, nothing did.
Instead of working with solid and funny bits of dialogue, the cast members instead are just chit-chatting to one another as best they can, with nothing thoughtful, inspired, and funny coming out of the dialogue.
This blog believes that Paul Feig was too disinterested in this project from a script, directing, and dialogue standpoint to really care.
The dailies of this movie were being seen by many, many people on an ongoing basis as filming had commenced. This includes studio executives, the cast & crew, and Paul Feig himself. Surely it must have dawned on someone(s) within that vast group of viewers that what was unfolding in the newly filmed footage was unfunny, uninspired, flat, pointless, meandering, and chit-chatty dialogue. Someone who could have said..."This dialogue isn't funny, this scene needs to be re-filmed"...
This unfunny dialogue got the.."Stamp of Approval"... from everyone in the group above long before this movie was ever finished and released to the public. That in itself is criminal.
There have been other criminal acts committed by the copyright owners against the..."Ghostbusters"...franchise as well since 1984, primarily in Paul Feig's turd of a movie.
1. The fact that Columbia Pictures hasn't been able to make a funny..."Ghostbusters"...sequel to the brilliant 1984 original for 34 consecutive frickin' years. "Ghostbusters 2"...in 1989 is almost as bad (unfunny) as Paul Feig's turd of a movie.
2. The fact that even with the involvement of Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman in Paul Feig's turd of a movie, it was still staggeringly unfunny.
3. The fact that even with the cameos of Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver in Paul Feig's turd of a movie, all of their cameos were badly written and staggeringly unfunny. Not even all of their combined cameos were able to save this movie from..."Paul Feig's Turd Toilet"...
4. The fact that not even the cameo of the..."Stay Puft Marshmellow Man"...was able to save Paul Feig's turd of a movie.
5. The fact that the relentless and incoherently written..."CGI Visual Effects Orgasm"...towards the end of Paul Feig's turd of a movie had you rooting for no one and instead just left you exhausted and confused watching it.
6. The fact that not one cameo from anyone from the original 1984 movie had you cheering because all of these cameos were so badly written.
7. The fact that all of the dialogue in Paul Feig's turd of a movie can be described in one phrase:
"Chit-Chatty Clap-Trap dialogue in search of funny one liners."
And failing miserably in the process.
8. The fact that Chris Hemsworth never should have left the safe haven of his..."Thor"...movies. His acting was terrible and of course, his part was badly written.
9. Too many scenes were in this movie just for the sorry sake of being there and did nothing to progress what little coherent plot there was. These scenes just appeared from out of nowhere:
a. Chris Hemsworth starts dancing for no reason at all with cops and firefighters. Why?
b. Kate McKinnon suddenly starts dancing with flamethrowers. Why?
c. Melissa McCarthy has a few unfunny scenes with a soup delivery guy. Why?
d. Bill Murray shows up just so his character can be thrown out of a window. Why?
e. The mayor and his female assistant were apparently just there to be staggeringly unfunny.
10. The cameras used to film this movie didn't even need to be turned on to film this garbage. All of the studio executives and scriptwriters associated with this movie didn't know the first things about:
a. Entertaining a mass market audience and the..."Ghostbusters"...fan base.
b. Constructing an entertaining, logical, and funny script.
c. Building a script with solid structure, pacing, verisimilitude, and inspired humor.
11. With the re-inserted, deleted scenes...this movie (even more so) just drags on and on going nowhere in the process. The bad dialogue in particular just paddles faster and faster while going nowhere in the water. The uninspired and unfunny dialogue was..."Dead On Arrival"...the moment it was..."improv-ed"...on the set while the cameras were rolling.
12. The fact that Paul Feig's turd of a movie begins right off the bat being staggeringly unfunny with a tour guide showing people around an old castle. Barely one minute after the movie begins, the unfunny dialogue starts. This has to be a world's record...
Tour Guide: "So, the Aldridge Mansion is the only 19th century home in New York City preserved both inside and out. At the time of its construction, it was one of the most elegant homes in existence. Um, interesting fact. This grandfather clock was on the Titanic and was saved by Sir Aldridge. A Romanian woman and her child were forced to leave the lifeboat to make room. Uh, over here, you can imagine Sir Aldridge entertaining his wealthy guests. It's said that, in this very room, P.T. Barnum first had the idea to enslave elephants. And if you'll follow me... Now, I'm gonna tell you something a little spooky."
https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=ghostbusters-2016
That bit of pathetic dialogue was enough in itself to not only kill this movie, but to also kill any future chances of more..."Ghostbusters"...theatrical films as well.
Here's a thought. How about if all future..."Ghostbusters"...movies (if there are any) after Paul Feig's franchise killing movie, are made by people who actually have a sense of humor?
This unfunny dialogue got the.."Stamp of Approval"... from everyone in the group above long before this movie was ever finished and released to the public. That in itself is criminal.
There have been other criminal acts committed by the copyright owners against the..."Ghostbusters"...franchise as well since 1984, primarily in Paul Feig's turd of a movie.
1. The fact that Columbia Pictures hasn't been able to make a funny..."Ghostbusters"...sequel to the brilliant 1984 original for 34 consecutive frickin' years. "Ghostbusters 2"...in 1989 is almost as bad (unfunny) as Paul Feig's turd of a movie.
2. The fact that even with the involvement of Dan Aykroyd and Ivan Reitman in Paul Feig's turd of a movie, it was still staggeringly unfunny.
3. The fact that even with the cameos of Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and Sigourney Weaver in Paul Feig's turd of a movie, all of their cameos were badly written and staggeringly unfunny. Not even all of their combined cameos were able to save this movie from..."Paul Feig's Turd Toilet"...
4. The fact that not even the cameo of the..."Stay Puft Marshmellow Man"...was able to save Paul Feig's turd of a movie.
5. The fact that the relentless and incoherently written..."CGI Visual Effects Orgasm"...towards the end of Paul Feig's turd of a movie had you rooting for no one and instead just left you exhausted and confused watching it.
6. The fact that not one cameo from anyone from the original 1984 movie had you cheering because all of these cameos were so badly written.
7. The fact that all of the dialogue in Paul Feig's turd of a movie can be described in one phrase:
"Chit-Chatty Clap-Trap dialogue in search of funny one liners."
And failing miserably in the process.
8. The fact that Chris Hemsworth never should have left the safe haven of his..."Thor"...movies. His acting was terrible and of course, his part was badly written.
9. Too many scenes were in this movie just for the sorry sake of being there and did nothing to progress what little coherent plot there was. These scenes just appeared from out of nowhere:
a. Chris Hemsworth starts dancing for no reason at all with cops and firefighters. Why?
b. Kate McKinnon suddenly starts dancing with flamethrowers. Why?
c. Melissa McCarthy has a few unfunny scenes with a soup delivery guy. Why?
d. Bill Murray shows up just so his character can be thrown out of a window. Why?
e. The mayor and his female assistant were apparently just there to be staggeringly unfunny.
10. The cameras used to film this movie didn't even need to be turned on to film this garbage. All of the studio executives and scriptwriters associated with this movie didn't know the first things about:
a. Entertaining a mass market audience and the..."Ghostbusters"...fan base.
b. Constructing an entertaining, logical, and funny script.
c. Building a script with solid structure, pacing, verisimilitude, and inspired humor.
11. With the re-inserted, deleted scenes...this movie (even more so) just drags on and on going nowhere in the process. The bad dialogue in particular just paddles faster and faster while going nowhere in the water. The uninspired and unfunny dialogue was..."Dead On Arrival"...the moment it was..."improv-ed"...on the set while the cameras were rolling.
12. The fact that Paul Feig's turd of a movie begins right off the bat being staggeringly unfunny with a tour guide showing people around an old castle. Barely one minute after the movie begins, the unfunny dialogue starts. This has to be a world's record...
Tour Guide: "So, the Aldridge Mansion is the only 19th century home in New York City preserved both inside and out. At the time of its construction, it was one of the most elegant homes in existence. Um, interesting fact. This grandfather clock was on the Titanic and was saved by Sir Aldridge. A Romanian woman and her child were forced to leave the lifeboat to make room. Uh, over here, you can imagine Sir Aldridge entertaining his wealthy guests. It's said that, in this very room, P.T. Barnum first had the idea to enslave elephants. And if you'll follow me... Now, I'm gonna tell you something a little spooky."
https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=ghostbusters-2016
That bit of pathetic dialogue was enough in itself to not only kill this movie, but to also kill any future chances of more..."Ghostbusters"...theatrical films as well.
Here's a thought. How about if all future..."Ghostbusters"...movies (if there are any) after Paul Feig's franchise killing movie, are made by people who actually have a sense of humor?
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