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I didn't think this movie was going to stand a ghost of a chance.
Coming out of the theater I was a little bit torn. I had
mixed emotions. I laughed a lot,
but there were a lot of times where I just didn't care as well.
Some of the characters in this movie I really liked.
Some of them I found a little bit unbelievable.
Some of them were non-existent.
Kristen Wiig does what she is expected to do. She's a shameless,
played-down kind of character who's got nice timing.
Similar to Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy does what you expect her to do.
She's a bit loud, a little brash.
But she's a likable character. You know, she's fun.
My favorite performance and character is Leslie Jones as Patty.
So likable, so much fun, and
so natural. I didn't feel like she was working at all.
Her character's the most genuine and I think that's the way it's written
because she's not delivering a joke every second.
She's just being natural and it works.
Kate McKinnon is Jillian Holtzmann. Now, this is one of the places
in the movie I'm a little confused. I had mixed emotions here. I'm not quite sure
what to think. The first 45 minutes of this movie
I wasn't even quite sure where she was. She hardly spoke.
It just felt like the character wasn't fully developed.
I think she might have left her script at home for part of this.
So let's talk about the script.
You know, it starts out and they introduce you to the characters
and it feels good. I'm starting to get attached, I'm concerned,
I'm along for the ride. There's a bunch of references
for people who saw the original. You know, the older part of the audience.
Then there's things that are a little over the top for the teens
and the kids and it's even a bit cartoony at some times.
I'm not quite sure who the audience is for this movie.
There's a lot of attempts to be funny.
The jokes are written right in and they're doing one liners back and forth
and the problem with that is there's a little too much comedy
and not enough character development and the way this affected me
was by the time we got to the end of the movie, I just didn't care anymore.
The only thing I'm waiting for them to show me is the exits.
So the things I liked about this movie.
Well, it was cool to hear the original Ghostbusters song.
You know, by Ray Parker Jr. And also the score.
It's nice because as they're doing different things you hear
the original Ghostbusters theme woven in and out it.
You want to know what the worst part of this movie is?
The bad guy. Woah. He was poorly written.
And poorly performed. I mean,
what was he doing? It felt to me like they were trying to hide this guy from me.
I mean, there's long stretches of the movie where he's nowhere to be found.
What?
Worst bad guy ever.
A lot of the movie is CGI.
Now it's CGI ghosts...
so I have to be honest, I don't really know what this is. There's also a ton of different
equipment that they use in this movie, and again
I don't know what it looks like or even what it does.
The ghosts are kind of wisping around, you know, they're [whoosh sound] just sort of
wisping around the screen. So I was sort of like, "who cares?"
I think the problem with it is that they're not characters.
Maybe you can have ghost and sort of give them voices.
If they had a little bit of personality it'd be a lot more fun for me.
So even for a sighted person, you take all that away and what do you really want to know...
did they win or did they lose? And that's why it always comes
back to what I always talk about - content is king.
Story, story, story. So for Ghostbusters...
I'm going with 2.5 out of 4 eyes open.
I want to see this movie twice until I saw it once.
[theme music]
Can someone please tell me why people clap at the end of a movie?
I don't think they're in the theater watching it with us. I really don't.
There's a point in this movie I felt like I was at the supermarket
all I wanted to do was checkout.
I'll bet you a dollar if you saw this in the theater you wouldn't watch it on HBO.
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You know what kind of street a ghost lives on, don't you?
A dead end! [laughs]
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