The AVGN is now a white cis male privilage piss-baby man-child racist sexist shitlord

[GriskaGyoran]

I'm not gonna watch it personally, but i'll just say that the nerds (no, not the AVGN, just nerds) idea of 'preserving integrity of a childhood classic', guys it's a fucking old ass comedy movie about a group of bumbling idiots that bust ghosts. Is it a good movie? Yes. Is it a culture landmark that we should preserve and protect to our dying breath? No, not really.

Not everything is the fucking Godfather and honestly remakes never ruin a classic movie. Has the reputation of Robocop being ruined by the meh 2014 reboot? No.

Both sides of this argument are morons, where are all the people that don't really give a shit about Ghostbusters one way or another at?

I have to agree with James here. However the argument of holding onto one's childhood is valid, but not in the sense people justify it as. It has been seen time and time again that it can be done right. We have Batman, TMNT(not the movie, but the numerous shows on TV), the Avengers, Star Trek, Star Wars(people have a mixed opinion on the new one but still generally positive). People just don't like to see something that they loved taken and shat upon. Eventually yes they forget about it and the shitty whatever that insulted the initial franchise is left to rot. People were probably open to the idea of a new Ghostbusters, problem is that it looked like shit, then they take it looking like shit and compare it to the original franchise as a benchmark. That is where this argument comes from, it isn't exactly about preserving the childhood but comparing the new material to the old and seeing how well it stands against it. This Ghostbusters reeks of bad movie all over it, if it stood on it's own it would have been a bad movie, however now it has to contend with the fact it's related to one of the most popular comedies of the 80s and that alone makes it worse. Overall I say that it is a case of NWP (Not worth pirating).

[Thief]

When they announced it would be all women the reaction wasn't really that negative. When they announced it was a reboot and not Ghostbusters 3, that's when people lost their shit.

Then the unfunny trailer revealed it to be the soulless cash-in everyone figured it was.

I can't wait for this movie to be out just so everyone will shut the hell up about it.

Not me. All this internet drama over it is the only good thing to come out of this movie.

are you really asking about a well-known comedian in a thread about some YT personality though
pretty funny seeing people ride for AVGN on here despite, you know, all the sega stuff he perpetually gets wrong

So that gives us the right to hate AVGN for all the things he gets right then?

[JCU]

are you really asking about a well-known comedian in a thread about some YT personality though
pretty funny seeing people ride for AVGN on here despite, you know, all the sega stuff he perpetually gets wrong

No, I just thought it would be fun wasting my time by typing a question.

I don't follow the mainstream bullshit.

Back on topic though, thank god we received the true swan song of this franchise with the video game from a few years ago.

[Thief]

I don't follow the mainstream bullshit.

Rep'ed for this.

[Arkanoid]

I swear these people just make up new words when no reasonable person is on their side and they have no evidence of anything. "Oh shit, he didn't actually say anything sexist.. umm.. ummm... THIS MAN.. HE IS USING.... SOFT SEXISM.. YES THAT'S IT. GOD WHAT A HORRIBLE SOFT SEXIST, HE IS JUST AS BAD AS THE HARD KIND!"

[SEGA.GENESIS1989]

If I was AVGN, I wouldn't bother to respond to the criticisms. If you grew up in the 80s, you'll understand why not many of us care for this reboot. With the passing of Harold Ramis, the dream of one final sequel is dead. It's a little too late for that.

[The Jackal]

All of this blown out of proportion and twisted for no damn reason. The "media" are idiots, don't need anymore proof of that. Why can't these fools just accept the truth and move on: The film looks shit, end of.

[Allard]

Well of course. Doesn't he know that not worshipping our "progressive" overlords makes you worse than Hitler? Especially doing it while being a white cishet. Hell, being white cishet alone is enough.

[Knuckle Duster]

I don't care that the Ghostbusters are women. I care that they're rebooting this shit with what appears to be a scene-for-scene remake, filled with comedians that aren't funny.


If little girls get excited about it, right on. I just want it to be funny, and nothing I've seen from this shit looks appealing to me.

[EclecticGroove]

I don't care that the Ghostbusters are women. I care that they're rebooting this shit with what appears to be a scene-for-scene remake, filled with comedians that aren't funny.


If little girls get excited about it, right on. I just want it to be funny, and nothing I've seen from this shit looks appealing to me.

I won't say that the women aren't funny.
I don't know them, they could all be hilarious in their own rights.

But what has been shown in the previews (all of them so far, including the newest) just isn't funny.

You look at the original Ghostbusters movie. All of them looked like they had known each other awhile. The way they talked, interacted, joked with each other (and others), made them believable as a group. The exception being Winston because he came in later in the movie as a new guy. But even he fit in well enough. He wasn't over the top or a terrible racial stereotype.

I also don't see this one as a scene for scene remake. It looks like it's just reusing memorable scenes from the first one.

But the whole thing is, as someone mentioned, very "by the numbers" looking. It's just a bunch of things that someone in Hollywood saw as being marketable mashed into a blender, fed into the Hollywood machine, then shit out into theaters.

While that kind of movie can occasionally be an enjoyable pop corn flick to watch... it isn't when it's a remake of something that's so obviously better on almost every level.
I imagine some younger kids will like it over the original because it's almost certainly going to be faster paced.

I've showed the original to people who are under ~25 or so, and they think it's too slow, and not really that funny. So I have no doubt this one will find some success from people who can't appreciate more subtle and slower paced movies (not even saying Ghostbusters was all that subtle... but way more subtle than this trainwreck is going to be).

[Thief]

There are now two videos on this;





Not sure if I'll watch them.


And in a way, while I want AVGN to comment on all this drama, it really would be the best way for him to not acknowledge it in a video.

[Gogogadget]

Well, the whole they aren't funny thing... Kristen Wiig is in it, who is usually quite good to be fair.

The cast isn't even really the problem here, it's the writing.

[EclecticGroove]

Well, the whole they aren't funny thing... Kristen Wiig is in it, who is usually quite good to be fair.

The cast isn't even really the problem here, it's the writing.

You can be a funny person in an unfunny movie.
Yes it's partially the writing. But even some movies with terrible writing can be funny/enjoyable.

If people have no on screen chemistry with each other, it's just beyond the abilities of some people to fake that.

In this case, to me at least, it's pretty obvious there is very little, if any, on screen chemistry between the cast. They are playing their parts, as written, in a virtual vacuum. They each exist independently of one another without any real sense of cohesiveness with the rest of the cast except where interactions are explicitly written.

That's the sense I get from every trailer so far. And only so much of that can come from being a "bad" trailer. It's all still scenes from the movie.

I'll still see what reviews say about it when it comes out. If it's not all terrible I might still give it a chance in the theaters. But until/unless that happens. Still solid Netflix material for me.

[Iron Lizard]

Odd a grown man who screams obscenities at 25 year old video games has so much influence....

[QuickSciFi]

Well, the whole they aren't funny thing... Kristen Wiig is in it, who is usually quite good to be fair.

The cast isn't even really the problem here, it's the writing.

^this