"Video 2"
It's like almost exactly the same as the first trailer from last year :/ but still it does look good. (please don't be crap)
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TBL I posted this on, Tue 27 Jul 2021, 16:54,
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Looks better than I expected
But I’ll withhold my excitement until I see it.
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LP, Tue 27 Jul 2021, 18:33,
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The only criticism I have is the inclusion of that stupid 'WAAAAARP' sound effect that studios love shoehorning into any scene that justifies a 'high tech' sound effect.
It's like the Wilhelm scream, but not nearly as charming. Plus it only really 'works' if you're at the cinema or have a subwoofer capable of acting like an actual subwoofer.
It also greatly unsettles me that Harold Ramis would have been pushing 77 years old had he still been alive, which is like proper pre-millenial Grandad age, he was only in Ghostbusters a few years back!
Those things aside, this does look like it has potential - even if there's an overpoweringly strong "If you liked Stranger Things, then you'll love this!" vibe from it.
Mind you, the last attempt didn't leave the bar particularly high, did it?
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Has the all-women one been decanonised?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 27 Jul 2021, 18:53,
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I heard nothing but bad things about it (and the corporate twitter bot culture war surrounding it)....
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 27 Jul 2021, 22:09,
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Let's be fair, it wasn't *all* women.
They cast Chris Hemsworth as an airheaded receptionist, apparently as a big "fuck you" to the infamously misogynistic portrayal of Janine in the original that never took place. Or just because "MEN! BOOOOO!"
Either way, that managed to make it all feel incredibly toxic and passive-aggressive. Which was fantastic, because it acted as a temporary distraction from how utterly unfunny and derivative the whole thing was.
I've seen some really bad films. This is the only film I've turned off with 10 minutes left in ten final act because I was so utterly fatigued with how poor the entire experience was that I just couldn't take it any more.
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How did you make it as far as the final act? I watched about 15 minutes, realised the film wasn't doing anything for me, and went off to do something else.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 29 Jul 2021, 1:34,
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I like to see things through once I've committed to them.
But I'm pretty confident that the Ghostbusters remake is the worst film I've ever watched. I can live with bad acting, bad screenwriting, bad cinematography, terrible visual effects. But I don't remember ever seeing another film that has been so explicitly hostile towards its male audience while also so utterly misrepresenting it's supposed feministic values.
I think the thing that irked me most, though, is the fact that film only really exists because Harold Ramis died. Sony were already in the process of putting together a Ghostbusters 3. Bill Murray was having none of it, but Sony were pushing on regardless. Then Ramis died and instead of just pulling the plug on the project, they turned it into the fucking disastrous 2016 reboot and still had the hard necks to dedicate the film to Ramis in the closing credits, as if they hadn't been offensive enough already.
The whole thing was just a complete bastardisation.
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No one's ever real Egon.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 27 Jul 2021, 22:17,
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I wish they'd let the 80s die
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 28 Jul 2021, 0:35,
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Looks good, but why is there a PS5 advert awkwardly crammed into the film advert?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 28 Jul 2021, 18:57,
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are you asking why youtube runs ads, or why are they serving you ads appropriate for a teenager?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 28 Jul 2021, 23:22,
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2:28. It's in the actual trailer video itself.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 29 Jul 2021, 0:47,
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I suspect because it's being produced by Sony Pictures.
I honestly didn't notice it until you gave a timestamp. I finished the video before that point on my first viewing, and didn't spot it on the second viewing as I was expecting to see some blatant product placement during the film itself (which I'm sure there will be plenty of, regardless!).
That being said, it's a bit of a bloody weird thing to advertise: "Remember to buy our incredibly difficult to find almost a year after release games console!".
Surely by now just about everybody with any kind of interest in the PS5 is well aware that it exists. Particularly the target market for this particular film, who I assume will be sad old middle aged twats like myself desperately chasing after the nostalgia of youth, and these 80's revival obsessed Zillennials, who's parents were barely even born when the first film was released.
Still, they know far more about this advertising nonsense than I ever will. So there's probably some brilliant reasoning behind it.
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'G' inscribed inside a Pyramid symbol above the Rebublican support office at 1:03
Nice.
Also, 'Shandor Mining Co' in trailer 1. Ivo Shandor was the architect of Dana's apartment building.
And - Annie Potts. Love that voice.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Wed 28 Jul 2021, 19:31,
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