Utopia Talk / Movie Talk / Ghostbusters

Palem rank	Mon Jul 25 05:07:57 2016 No spoilers. I had no plans on seeing this movie based on the trailers, but after some reviews came out with a consensus that it wasn't a dumpster fire that I anticipated, I figured I would watch it and judge for myself. The best way I can describe it is that I spent the whole movie really trying to get on board, but there was just something about it that I couldn't. Honestly, the movie had a lot of good things going for it. I found it to be fairly funny. Mellisa McCarthy (whom I can't fucking stand) actually did a movie where she didn't spend the whole trying to play the "overweight everygirl" which was a pleasant surprise. It's still there a little bit, but she doesn't bash you over the head with it. I've never really had a problem with Kristen Wiig. The SNL Beiber girl's character was actually really funny. Despite all these nice things the movie has going for it, it never develops into a good comedy. Some of the horrible things working against it... -The movie sets itself in a different "ghostbusters universe" than the original films. which I liked. However, with callback after callback after callback after callback along with all of the other blatant similarities to the originals, it just completely destroys the premise -Leslie Jones (who I actually do find funny) really drags down the film down. She added nothing of comedic value to the movie. The film would have been much better if they had just left her out completely. -While the original Ghostbusters isn't necessarily inappropriate for kids, the target audience was adults. The new one goes the horrible direction of aiming to be a "family" film that will satisfy parents and children. So they try to do things that will appease to small boys like super cringy "action" scenes and so on and so forth. It was trying to please everyone at once and I really can't think of too many non-disney movies that do that with any success at all. Final thoughts: They gave it a good shot, but you don't fucking remake the god damn ghostbusters/10
Palem rank	Mon Jul 25 05:22:19 2016 "really drags down the film down." I'm so fucking good with words guys lol
Cthulhu rank	Mon Jul 25 07:57:58 2016 You're probably one of those Heteronormative cisgender caucasian males. You're disparaging comments against Leslie Jones are clearly out of spite, both for the fact that a women hasn't learned the place that the vicious patriarchy seeks to impose, and for the fact that a person of color is being allowed to be equal to people not of color. You are clearly a symbol of white privilege and all that is wrong with the world. You should probably kill yourself /sjw rant
pillz rank	Mon Jul 25 09:06:40 2016 "You're probably one of those Heteronormative cisgender caucasian males. " 10/10
Cherub Cow rank	Mon Jul 25 09:12:18 2016 Definitely. Sounds like Palem didn't like it because of sexism and racism. Furthermore I think that Palem should resign, apologize, and self-select out of the gene pool to finally end the bullying of AttackHelicopter-gendered people! ;D Good review! ..I'm probably not going to watch it until it's free to do so
Palem rank	Mon Jul 25 15:10:27 2016 I was going to look up wtf a "cisgender" person is but I'll probably just get annoyed lol
Palem rank	Mon Jul 25 15:12:50 2016 Also, technically I don't think it's ever legal to watch a movie for "free" lol
hood rank	Mon Jul 25 15:50:36 2016 Palem: straight. For some reason, some dipshit thought that it was necessary to rename a completely accepted term with something quite obtuse.
hood rank	Mon Jul 25 15:53:59 2016 Or more specifically, cis is someone who identifies with the gender they were born as and is attracted to members of the opposite sex. Which, again, is just straight.
Palem rank	Mon Jul 25 16:59:06 2016 Yep, I was right. That's annoying lol
McKobb rank	Mon Jul 25 19:54:51 2016 Cis = real, right?
tumbleweed rank	Tue Jul 26 05:59:23 2016 but if you just say "straight" it's not clear that you have a chip on your shoulder against them
tumbleweed rank	Tue Jul 26 06:01:02 2016 it's like when Jews say 'gentiles'... i just assume they hate me :p
hood rank	Tue Jul 26 14:38:41 2016 Any Jew that actually uses the word gentile outside of a historic perspective isn't worth your time anyway. Fuck those guys.
swordtail rank	Tue Jul 26 17:47:37 2016 "Fuck those guys." dinner and a movie first no?
hood rank	Tue Jul 26 20:24:16 2016 Not that kind of fucking. Regularly... Dinner yes. Movie no.
Cherub Cow rank	Tue Jul 26 23:19:26 2016 [Palem]: "Also, technically I don't think it's ever legal to watch a movie for 'free' lol" I'm fine with them getting residuals, but they'll only get those residuals via my Netflix subscription! :p .. [Hood]: "Or more specifically, cis is someone who identifies with the gender they were born as and is attracted to members of the opposite sex." Actually I think "cis" refers to high priority functional groups that occur in the same orientation relative to the double bond: http://che...63453/=fig1-2-4.png?revision=1 So when people say "cis-scum" it's because cis isomers tend to be less energetically favorable and tend to be used in fatty acid chains for energy storage, which, really, seems to be a form of fat shaming ;D
Hood rank	Wed Jul 27 05:21:10 2016 I like that response, CC. I'm always down for injecting chemistry into things.
McKobb rank	Wed Jul 27 05:26:57 2016 Chemistry has no place in sexuality!
Habebe rank	Sun Dec 15 22:07:29 2019 I seen some previews...looked like shit. Are the original GBs in this? The one coming out next year looks better seems to have the three living original ones.
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