Dan Aykroyd defends ‘Ghostbusters’ all-female reboot starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig: “I think it works really great amongst all the ones that have been made”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dan-aykroyd-defends-all-female-ghostbusters-reboot-1235960278/
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Well, there was one good Ghostbusters movie, so that’s not saying too much. The second one sucked and they spent 20 years failing at getting a third one going until they came up with this hook.
The problem with the 2016 movie wasn’t the cast, it was the writing.
Didn’t enjoy the 2016 movie when it released. Have now watched it about a dozen times with my young kids and it’s honestly the second best in the series. Loads of fun, some great jokes (Mike Cat!), and holds its own. Shave off about 15min and it’d be tied with the first.
Dan you can say whatever you’d like but I’m sorry while it’s definitely not the worst film ever made and there are indeed moments that made me laugh or compliment the effects overall it was a significant letdown in many categories but most of all the writing and the direction of the film try to take. go back to guaranteeing auto parts or pulling over large vehicles with writing only in English instead of also French when they’re in Canada 🙂
It’s been 8 years. A direct sequel came out and that film got a sequel. Can we please just move on?
Well he’s not exactly going to turn around and say “I thought it was shit actually”.
Easily the most laugh-out-loud of the movies. The third act breaks down with too many scenes each trying to be an action climax. But just incredibly funny and quotable.
Kate McKinnon as Holzmann is iconic.
Here’s why I’m inclined to agree with him/disagree with a lot of the critique about this movie.
The badmouthing of this movie didn’t start with reviews when it was coming out. It started when they announced a female cast. To me, that immediately invalidated a lot of the criticism. Movie hasn’t even started production and because it’s got female main characters, it’s gonna be shit?
Now, with the movie actually out it’s fair to say it’s a bit odd in that it’s basically a standalone movie with no ties to the original. Or that Leslie Jones needs to come up with some more depth to her characters, but the movie is not nearly as bad as some make it seem.
I love Dan Aykroyd, but this was a crap movie. Kate McKinnon in particular was so hard to watch. Her entire role in the movie is to make funny faces throughout the movie. They treated the whole film like a long running SNL sketch that didn’t hit, then treated people who didn’t like it as if it was a sexist thing.
The movie sucked, because it wasn’t funny. The humor wasn’t witty, or original. It was just an hour and a half of listing to a bunch of joke that felt like you heard them all before.
All though Leslie Jones had her moments, I think she’s the only one that got a chuckle out of me. I’m a high Wiig and McCarthy fan, and love the original and the new Ghostbusters, so this was a disappointment on a lot of levels.
I enjoyed watching it.
People are too sacrosanct about ghostbusters. It isn’t as good as you remember.
I love the original Ghostbusters movies. I was a kid when they came out, and I saw them in the theater. They are a part of my childhood and thus I adore them.
That said, I love the all-female reboot, too. It is hilarious, and the actors’ chemistry is the best.
Now my kids get to have both universes of these hilarious movies, and I’m so grateful they live in a world where the genders of the leads don’t even register to them.
I cannot understand the hate they got for this movie. My family and I quote it all the time, along with the originals. Mike Hat 4 eva
My daughters and I really enjoyed it for what it was. Fun tech, good ghosts, decent action, pretty funny.
That’s such a Dan thing to say lol
It’s at least as good as all the other sequels. The first is the only properly good one.
Fun fact: if you say you like this movie, people who aren’t even involved in the discussion WILL fall over themselves to yell that you are absolutely wrong and have shit taste in movies.
As this thread has shown, YES, even 8. YEARS. LATER.
It was an “ok” light action comedy.
It was a terrible Ghostbusters movie. If it was its own original IP it might have faired better but attempting to remake a classic but completely changing the tone and comedy of the original was always going to annoy people.
First two acts of that movie were great – but the writing wasted four extremely funny leads.
I really enjoyed the film, disappointed it got so much hate
My hope is maybe they can integrate it better with an Afterlife sequel that would bring the casts together in some way for a solid adventure and give 2016 the chance it deserves to really shine.
Kristen Wig and Kate McKinnon were epic in that movie.
It was better than the two new ones that’s for sure.
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It was fine; it was a Ghostbusters movie.