Red Mosquito

Here, we can find a damning summary of modern Hollywood’s default mode – a nostalgia object, drained of personality and fitted into a dully palatable mold, custom-made for a fandom that worships everything and respects nothing.

Strat wrote:Ouch

Here, we can find a damning summary of modern Hollywood’s default mode – a nostalgia object, drained of personality and fitted into a dully palatable mold, custom-made for a fandom that worships everything and respects nothing.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/o ... udd-review

Consider the casual cowardice of a script that uses its own mythology to subtly erase 2016’s all-gals reboot from the canon, giving the rage-choked trolls carpet-bombing IMDb with zero-star ratings the vindication they’ve always craved.

JuanHamm wrote:I don't understand why some people got so upset that people didn't like that movie. What a weird thing to include in the review.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Strat wrote:no surprise, getting awful reviews.

NO story, all nostalgia, nothing makes sense.

Ill wait to see it at home

why do u hate pearl jam

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Strat wrote:Much like the Rise of Skywalker, I bet ill gush about this Afterlife immediately following watching it because I am a sucker for nostalgia.

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i loved Gozer, the ghosts, the demon dogs...i wish we got more of the guys...the kids were so boring. Carrie Coon and Rudd were ok, but i wish we got more of them too....and as a fan of Egon, i dont buy the whole farm thing....its weird he left those guys.

VinylGuy wrote:So this one was Ghostbusters: The Force Awakens after all.

New characters with no dept, beat by beat moments with the original, cameos from the original movie, easter eggs...basically everything is a setup for making a remake of the original but for kids.

No comedy whatsoever, no funny moments, rushed sequences and a very divise finale for sure.

The looks good tough, the set pieces are great, and it was cool to see those guys again after so fucking long.

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i loved Gozer, the ghosts, the demon dogs...i wish we got more of the guys...the kids were so boring. Carrie Coon and Rudd were ok, but i wish we got more of them too....and as a fan of Egon, i dont buy the whole farm thing....its weird he left those guys.

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Egon left them to save the world.

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yeah, i got it but...Gozer comes again and they break up? It seemed weird. Also the first sequence with Egon felt unnecessary.