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Nevahoidofit. This is what being off the grid gets you. Thanks for the heads-up.
My favourite Blair Witch fact -- they returned the video camera to the store for a refund after shooting, someone out there has the camera and doesn't even know it.
I watched the Ladies Ghostbusters film and liked it well enough, DiF talked on their commentary for the original film about how the guys were basically given a budget and a release date and left to it, this is totally the opposite in every way.
The plot could have done with some improvement, the jokes certainly could and whilst the cast was pretty flavour of the month Melissa McCarthy somehow avoided derailing the whole thing with her usual "I'm fat and vomiting" persona. which is quite the achievement.
Is it a touch on the original? not by miles, is it actually a bad movie? No. I had fun.
That's interesting Faldor, I couldn't make it through half the movie myself. I found no stakes, no tension at all, nothing to keep me interested, no arc or sense of direction to the story. Plus the only laughs I got were from Chris Hemsworth, because he looked like he wasn't trying soooooo hard to be funny at every moment, like the rest of the cast (Kate Mckinnon especially).
I found no redeeming qualities at all from the first hour I watched. The editing in particular was almost comically inept. Some scenes were ended so abruptly I started laughing to myself.
Every scare was undercut with jokes, nothing was scary. They have a scene where a ghost shows up in a subway tunnel. Constricted, cramped dark space with a ghost, potential to be pretty scary right?
Nope.
1. They walk literally about 30 feet into the tunnel, and you can still see the lit, populated platform behind them. No sense of claustrophobia or isolation.
2. The tunnel is lit to hell and back, giving no sense of atmosphere or darkness.
3. Ghost looks like a guy in a suit color-corrected blue. Not scary.
The person who encountered the ghost gets scared and runs away from the camera, and I was expecting them to be chased, because that would imply the ghost atleast being a threat of some sort. Nope, the scene just ends with the person running from a stationary camera.
The whole movie is lit like a fucking sitcom. It looks like a childrens show, color everywhere, warm and bright.
I've enjoyed Paul Feig before, I really liked "Spy" and was laughing like hell throughout that one. Why he even bothered with this one I'll never know.
I'm with you. By the end of the movie, I was thinking:
"These would be some pretty badass action figures." and
"Wait, what?"
I agree that there was a lot of "they fight, because it's in the title". I enjoyed the fighting but as MCU grows it's one I may skip in marathons. Depends on how its own actions are paid off later down the line.
The whole Riddick thing continues to be this fucking mystery to me. What a bizarre series of rungs to try to build a single ladder out of.
I like Prometheus, myself, but I can't explain it either.
Interesting. I could see that being done well but it'd have to be with a very delicate touch. Sounds like they had meant well but didn't quite have the finesse to pull it off?
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