Ghostbusters 2016 - A Horror of Horrors 

This certainly was a movie. Well, almost.

As a 90’s kid who grew up on these supposed “classic” movies I must say that while the writing, story, acting, sfx, fun, and entertainment were all present and done excellently, there were far too few dance numbers. I’m so glad that by simply dumbing down certain characters, stories, ideas, lore, and everything else that makes these timeless movies classic they were able to give us what we wanted: dancing

One other interesting tidbit about the writing. From the research I’ve seen about this movie, I think even Paul Feig knew the script was bad. Reports say that he was practically forcing the actresses to improv over and over again with the scenes, because he was desperate to make the writing funny. Instead, he apparently burned them out completely and things got so bad most of them had to sign nondisclosure agreements, until after the film is over.

Ghostbusters 2016 was a waterboarding... I mean, watershed event!

I heard that reboot was originally titled "Scooby-Doo meets the Ghostbusters" but they removed all the Scooby-Doo content. They basically beat every joke to death in that movie and then had Melissa Mccarthy ride a proton beam in an alley like it was a bad cartoon. I really wanted to like it but now I wish I had never seen it.

I ain't afraid of no Gourd

Great video. Well spoken with engaging editing. You’re small now, but I think you’ll get larger before long.

While comedy is subjective and this movie really uses the slap stick routine, it is still poorly done. The fact is the comedy is completely different from the original. At least with that movie, you can sort of believe they could be real people whereas 2016 version is just cartoon people. Every single one of them. I'd imagine also with each joke, site gag or whatever that there should have been sitcom canned laughter. This is of course ignoring all of the other issues with the movie and issues outside the movie.

This was an excellent breakdown of how not to make a comedy question did your eyes bleed at all while watching this movie?

calling Answer the Call a comedy is like calling Chris Chan the Smartest Man/Woman/whatever the fuck they are now to ever live.

How does this movie stack up to the ‘93 Super Mario movie on awfulness?

Where was you when you discovered the gourde king

I put myself through both the theatrical version and the extended cut...both gave me PTSD. I did so because I saw the backlash as a patient zero to the oddest marketing trend I had ever seen. Shame marketing. Ghostbusters: Afterlife revealed this movie for the soulless virtue signal it actually was so of course the critics and 2016 GB for the plot it was. Great job in breaking it down!

Your channel gonna get huge if you keep dropping this heat I guarantee it

Still haven't seen it and even after all the warnings I refuse to believe the movie can be this bad

This movie, on paper, should have been a hit. Everyone involved *has* talent. What exactly happened to this many funny people to erase 90% of the funny, I will never understand. It seems like nearly everyone just mailed it in. In that regard it reminds me a lot of later Adam Sandler/Mike Meyers/Dana Carvey movies. This had big Love Guru/Master of Disguise energy.

It's as funny as SNL. Nuff said! You put a lot of work in this video I must say. And you don't shy away from a feisty opinion. I admire that.

i enjoyed your review thanks for making it

Your scripts are hilarious (and better written than this film). Well done!

Brilliant Video Mate 👌 Keep Shining ✨️

Thank goodness for afterlife

Where were you when men first set foot on the moon? Me: I wasn't born yet. Where were you when JFK was assassinated? Me: I wasn't born yet. Where were you when the Westfold fell? Me: Uh?...

Oh-no Charles, Bill, Annie, Dan, Chris, Ernie, Sigourney,Slimmer why did you say yes to this movie lol

I watched this movie back in the day, with an open mind. And came to much of the same conclusions back then. This movie is almost as much of an insult to the fanbase as the Dukes of Hazzard movie was. Thankfully, we have a proper Ghostbusters 3 in the form of Afterlife. If you haven't seen that, go watch it. It'll restore your faith in the brand.

Gourd King, Giving your channel a chance, I've "Subscribed" because of this video. Another "awful" movie to review is "Cabin Boy" (1984). It is a "B" movie on purpose. "B" movies are fun when not intended which makes this movie a harder pill to swallow. It is a Chris Elliot vehicle and I am a Chris Elliot fan. An example of the "B" movie stature is the fact that most of the movie is supposed to be on the ocean but you can tell it is filmed on a massive wading pool. It is suspension of disbelief with semi-cheezy acting with sprinkles of believable. Oh, and it's super silly. When I get friends to watch it, they want 2 hours of their life back even though the movie isn't that long. Another movie to review, "Xtro" (1982), if you can find it. It is an underrated whack-a-doodle alien-horror movie. Level of intensity, imagine the intensity of "Ichi the Killer" (2001) with all the same madness, but alien-horror instead of Yakuza, with less cinematography, less plot, and British.

Great video. Great editing. I'm only 2 minutes in...

Like you mentioned, the whole thing started with an idea, and that's the entire problem. Before there was ever a story or a script, we got the director's idea that he wanted to swap genders and remake the Ghostbusters movie. That doomed and limited the movie right there. The whole thing was based on a gimmick. It was never going to take a respectful look at the film, or make an intelligent interpretation. It was always intended as a quirky parody. The story was secondary. Everything was backwards. He chose his dream team of actresses, THEN came up with the story. That's not how award winning reboot films are made. I am not sure the problem was the amount of comedy, per se. The problem was that the comedy was sub par. The film was passable, if you took out the intentional attempts to be funny. I think the biggest thing to hurt the film was the "Us Vs. Them" marketing, and the implication that you HAD to see the film, to prove that you weren't a bad person and that you were a true fan of the series.

Saying they improved it after cleaning their butt with it is the feeling I got from the Wheel of Time adaptation. They can't leave well enough alone, I wouldn't say, instead if they had made a movie starring an all female cast where they were say the daughters or granddaughters of the original characters taking up the mantel when it is proven to them to be real and their grandfathers can't fight anymore. With no references to their gender, like how Ridley from alien was written gender neutral. I would applaud a new exploration of the source material. Like I did for afterlife. Instead they took everything wrong by today's sensibilities of the original and dialled it up to 11, while not doing much of what made the original an instant classic. Just like how no one writing Amazon's Wheel of Time seems to have read the story... they ripped away everything racist and sexist from the first book without realizing that the whole point of the story is the balance of yin and yang, male and female and all people of different beliefs, races and creeds having their own unique things to contribute to humanity. Ultimately all of the characters who don't learn and grow die horrible deaths. Even the story of the main male lead is, to learn that while he is the literal, in world protagonist, the world literally revolves around him and his two best friends. That doesn't mean he can do everything himself or should even try. As for the main female lead, she ISN'T the destined one foretold by prophesy and the world doesn't revolve around her but her story culminates as her being just as important if not more so then the main male character. That is the point of her storyline! yet they made her Ta'veren (main character of the world) in the show.... The same goes for the original Ghost Busters, Peter Venkman was a sleaze, that was on display the whole movie and everyone rolled their eyes at him. He was a jackass, that was the point, his arc was the redemption arc.... This movie just seemed to think that was a green light to hate on men. Same with the secretary being slightly dim compared to the main cast... they were university trained individuals on the level of theoretical physics. EVERYONE should appear a bit dim at times compared to them. Instead they gender bend her and make her unrealistically dumb.

I just don't get why people think the fat girl fall down routine of Melissa McCarthy isn't funny.

I find Kate McKinnon kinda hot. But, no, I didn't watch it and probably won't ever.

Where was I the day this turd dropped? It pains me to say this, but I was at my local theater, watching this movie. My friend at the time, who was a member of a San Francisco-based Ghostbusters fan group, was treated to an early screening of the film, courtesy of Sony Pictures' Ghost Corps. He said it was just as good as the original, and recommended that I see it. So on his good word, I saw it on opening night. To this day, I still don't know if he actually liked it, or if he was legally contracted to promote the film for Sony in order to join the early viewing.

Really tight comedy at points (this video, not the subject matter). Funny stuff, but does anybody want a long summary of this movie? Nemoy: The answer, is no. I bet the author would be awesome criticizing something interesting.

Pretty much yeah

The movie had 3 great comedian's in it. That's why I watched it.

What made Ghostbuster 2016 such a bad film wasnt that it wasnt very good but the way the produces started to play sexist card when people hated it.

Unfortunately, this was the film that introduced ghostbusters to me.😢

I was able to watch this movie for an entire 5 minutes........... which is not unusual for any Melissa McCarthy movie within that 5 minutes I knew I was wasting my time and quickly changed the channel it was on cable and I am sad to say I paid cable for this movie I sure was not going to see it in the theater....... like most who have cable I saw a little bit of Peace here and there and it did not want me to see any more of it this was a disaster from beginning to end do as the host subscribes do not waste your time with this not for curiosity not for hate watching not even for is it that bad because it literally is that bad

I noticed, the problem with the humor of this movie is pretty much similar with the "strong" woman in modern media. The writter makes them what they tink makes male heroes popular, this being toxic masculine traits, not realizing that even the most testostoron filled action heroes is far from an actual toxic male. So the comedy here is just what feige thinks makes a good comedy (oh fart jokes, being incompetent) not realizing that this kind comedy was either not or handled differently in the original movie. Also there is a slightly better version of this movie in the game lego dimensions, you basicly replay the movie but shorter, the silly humor makes more sense since is a lego game, and all traits of "male bad" "your just sexist" and all that political crap is pretty much removed. Think about it, the makers or a lego game managed to somewhat rewrite this movie in a decent way. Lastly: No one ever had a problem with a female ghostbuster as the two animated ghostbusters show (not the filmation one) proofed

What comedy ?

The horror. The horror. I saw this disgusting pile of cat sh*t in an empty theater in 2016. The ushers kept checking in to see if I was still there. And I followed this turd all the way down to the bottom of the sewer, all to shut up the women I knew who criticized me for ripping on the movie without having seen it. So I saw it. Now I'm only watching Hollywood burn to the ground because of its Woke nightmare and feeling the dark satisfaction of a man who's lost everything but lived long enough to see the evil forces suffer and die. So...I got that going for me. Which is nice.

the problem with this move was NOT cause the gender differences or sexual things... but the WRITING! also--- "half" separate reasons... every "male" roles in this move were either a complete buffoon OR a HUGE asshole! and ONLY the "female" roles where shone as redeem "heroes"

Only Kate McKinnon’s character actually felt like a character. Everyone else is just being themselves. You know you’re doing something wrong if 1 out of the 4 main characters is the only likable.

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Is this a review? Or angst? I mean this movie totally blew, yes.

I have nothing against Women in Remakes... I Just don't like bad writing, horrible punchlines and the (the Word that rhymes to ape) of the Ghostbusters... My 9 year old daughter forced me to See this, let's say "Film" again, because we watched the two Originals earlier... even she said, "Thanks for the warning Daaaad!" Guess what, i have😅 Such a "Schmutz"

Guess I'm the only person who liked the woman Ghostbusters movie..

Not a fan of the film, it did feel like the beginnings of recasting women in mens roles. Cannot wait for these people to stop virtue signalling and get on with making FICTION!

Hey, leave The Squad out of this. They hated the movie, too.

The movie is bot that bad. My daughter likes it and it introduced her to Ghostbusters. It is a long Saturday might live Ghostbusters skit. It is a bit better the Ghostbusters frozen empire.

Young Mr Virgin Kid, toughen up.