That’s how I felt when you didn’t like Booksmart!!
Ghostbusters has a great cast, a bunch of hilarious bits, and a ton of cool ideas. But while of course allowing for each person to have a genuine connection to the movie, I argue that what most people are connected to is the zeitgeist of Ghostbusters, which owes far more to the cartoon and toys. Every attempt to remake the movie has missed what hooked Ghostbusters into pop culture --it wasn’t the movie.
I compare that to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (the OG), whose enduring popularity owes a significant debt to the cartoon and toys, but I would argue stands far stronger on its own than either of the original Ghostbusters movies.
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a goverment super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain glitches have made Ripley become paranoid.
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I haven’t seen Booksmart yet. It’s on the watchlist. There’s hope.
Obviously I agree that nostalgia is a big component in any comedy you liked as a kid, but that one was rewatchable as hell and still holds up now. If I could only protect three Bill Murray movies from being deleted from existence, I’m quickly protecting Ghostbusters, What About Bob?, and Groundhog Day.
I get that not everyone likes Ghostbusters on its own merits, so let’s set that aside. What post-2000 movies would you say are y the equivalent of BTTF for people of the right age?
@eyebooger If you have something like a YouTube TV subscription, Rear Window is available as a commercial-free streaming option through Sundance TV this month. That movie essentially has to be on the short list of best movies you haven’t seen.
Back to the Future imo will always stand up as an elite movie. But I’m on board with the “maybe Ghostbusters isn’t actually that good” side. I mean, I have fond memories of it, but I think it just happened to fall in exactly the right point in my life where I formed my cultural tastes.
Like, I’m always going to consider One Night in Bangkok an absolutely elite song, but I still recognize that’s a lunatic take.
Just Write has an excellent new retrospective on why the first movie is perfect, the other two are great but didn’t hook, and the fourth and fifth miss everything about why the first was good.
Paw Patrol beating the most highly rated Saw movie ever shows there is pretty much a hard cap on the Saw audience. There is no way a Saw movie boasting an 80 + RT score shouldn’t have made 30 mil. Maybe release it closer to Halloween than they did and the audience shows up a bit more, but who really knows.
I’ve heard Saw 11 is essentially greenlit after the critical surprise of X, but after this opening Ill believe it when I see it.
I’ve not only never seen any Saw movie, but I’ve never given real consideration to seeing any of them. Am I wrong in mentally categorizing it as torture porn and little more? I can take some level of gore, but gore for the sake of it is just not appealing to me.
If you don’t then disregard. Right now they do have Rear Window, Psycho, and Vertigo all on offer. You could just as easily pop your Hitchcock cherry with Psycho, it’s also excellent, but I just happen to prefer Rear Window myself.
Its an over the top soap opera that oftentimes makes little sense but if you pay enough attention, the story is actually a ton more fun than the torture devices.
Honestly, as a wrestling fan, you’d kinda get into it. There are swerves, surprises, backstabbings, betrayals, heels and more heels (very few babyfaces though) action, injury, death.
Reminds me of the time I somehow talked my smokeshow of all smokeshows coworker to go see Vertigo with me. When we got to the theater she saw Bound was playing, and really wanted to see that instead. But I, an idiot, said no, let’s stick to the plan. And she fell asleep 10 minutes into Vertigo.
