- February 5th, 2017, 7:20 am#4889736
Saw the movie. I remember from previous discussions of downloads it's frowned on here. Though I watched it streaming from a website.
Reading the comments above, I don't understand why people like Holtzman. The actress sure, she played the part very well. She and Chris Hemsworth did a great job portraying their roles. But Holtzman herself was just lame. Technobabble and creepiness and the general GB16 stupidity and trying to be Peter Venkman with lame one liners nearly every freaking second of the movie (like the rest of GB16). That's all there was to her character.
What I liked, even though its a bad movie: Had two halfway decent jump scares, ruined by a lame scene afterwards. Like Melissa McCarthy hiding herself away from the ghost with the classic rattling of the door, but followed by the ton of snot scene. When the GB16s were trapped under the Stay Puft balloon that was great. Best cameo of the movie, lol, and their faces being smushed and them still talking was great physical comedy. Shame about the lame scene with the itty bitty pocket knife afterwards.
And maybe that's a point worth mentioning about this movie. Why some scenes were good enough for people to like, but the movie still ended up being bad. I read other reviews before that one major problem with this movie was not everybody can be the wisecracker, you need normal deadpan people around to make the jokes have funny impact. Having everyone trying to be the funny guy, with the stiff and lame dialogue, meant nobody was funny overall.
For me, what emphasied the above point, is that they kept trying to make a funny one liner through out the whole movie. It's as if they kept throwing crap on the wall, hoping futilely that something would stick. Same with the after credits scene, none of them were good, and I see why Feig cried trying to shoot the big dance scene, but they kept showing after credits scene one after the other as if trying to find something good while making the final cut of the actual movie.
So I think the movie overall could have been better, if they hadn't made constant attempts at jokes and paid more attention to setting up a good joke once in awhile instead. So I guess one other thing to like about the movie, is there might be potential there, though hoping a sequel will be far far better than the first is pretty hopeless.
(I am glad to have seen the movie, only because now I can say I have seen it, while talking about the controversy.)
Reading the comments above, I don't understand why people like Holtzman. The actress sure, she played the part very well. She and Chris Hemsworth did a great job portraying their roles. But Holtzman herself was just lame. Technobabble and creepiness and the general GB16 stupidity and trying to be Peter Venkman with lame one liners nearly every freaking second of the movie (like the rest of GB16). That's all there was to her character.
What I liked, even though its a bad movie: Had two halfway decent jump scares, ruined by a lame scene afterwards. Like Melissa McCarthy hiding herself away from the ghost with the classic rattling of the door, but followed by the ton of snot scene. When the GB16s were trapped under the Stay Puft balloon that was great. Best cameo of the movie, lol, and their faces being smushed and them still talking was great physical comedy. Shame about the lame scene with the itty bitty pocket knife afterwards.
And maybe that's a point worth mentioning about this movie. Why some scenes were good enough for people to like, but the movie still ended up being bad. I read other reviews before that one major problem with this movie was not everybody can be the wisecracker, you need normal deadpan people around to make the jokes have funny impact. Having everyone trying to be the funny guy, with the stiff and lame dialogue, meant nobody was funny overall.
For me, what emphasied the above point, is that they kept trying to make a funny one liner through out the whole movie. It's as if they kept throwing crap on the wall, hoping futilely that something would stick. Same with the after credits scene, none of them were good, and I see why Feig cried trying to shoot the big dance scene, but they kept showing after credits scene one after the other as if trying to find something good while making the final cut of the actual movie.
So I think the movie overall could have been better, if they hadn't made constant attempts at jokes and paid more attention to setting up a good joke once in awhile instead. So I guess one other thing to like about the movie, is there might be potential there, though hoping a sequel will be far far better than the first is pretty hopeless.
(I am glad to have seen the movie, only because now I can say I have seen it, while talking about the controversy.)