Vacation 3/10 - yet another pointless remake/homage to an 80s classic, this one rips off National Lampoons Vacation, what the hell is wrong with Hollywood have they simply run out ideas? does it not cross their minds that they are simply destroying that decades movie legacy?
So many classics ruined.
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So true,the latest being Ghostbusters.
You can do a remake but if you disrespect the original version then it falls on its ass perfect example of good remakes Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments with Chalton Heston both remakes and yet both beautiful done all tho am not so sure about the new Ben Hur film coming out this year. Another more modern remake is Ocean 11. Aside from that they don't work and when they do remake film it's like it has no soul if your gonna do a remake make it different and have a strong script.
I preferred the darker tone of the remake of True Grit over the more light hearted original
Ghostbusters(1984)
I had to watch this to get rid of the horrible taste left from the 2016 version.From the moment Dan Aykroyd,Harold Ramis and Bill Murray(only hired after John Belushi died and John Candy turned it down)ineptly try and catch the ghost of an old lady in the slime covered halls of the library to the big showdown with Mister Sta Puft,this irreverent romp has to be one of the most insanely enjoyable blockbusters ever made.It also meant that the Saturday Night Live crowd(which was far superior then to what it is now)had arrived to take over Hollywood.
9/10
(12-07-2016 19:43 )greenray Wrote: [ -> ]I preferred the darker tone of the remake of True Grit over the more light hearted original
Me too,the remake was actually more of a closer adaptation of the book than a straightforward remake of the John Wayne version.
I'm going to be in the minority it seems with the new ghostbusters film as i really enjoyed it. Thought Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon & Leslie Jones were good & very funny as the new ghostbusters, Chris Hemsworth was very funny as the receptionist Kevin. Special effects & action was very good and loved the cameos from the original Ghostbusters & nods to the original ghostbusters. There is a post credits scene which does set up a sequel
7/10
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We completely disagreed on everything
Would be boring if we all agreed on everything
Ghostbusters 2016, firstly wanna point out that my review of isn't anything to do with them being women I don't have a problem with genders or races being changed as long as a movie is good.
First I would say the film is neither bad or good it just feels like average movie that your not gonna really remember over years. With the original 1984 film there still classic films which you still remember classic scenes like like Ray calling Peck dickless and venkman saying it's true the guy has no dick and he says "well that's what I heard" or the other classic scene where Venkman talks about Dana:
Dr. Peter Venkman: She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and because she sleeps above her covers... *four feet* above her covers. She barks, she drools, she claws! There are so many qutoes that are so funny and you remember them, are you a god?, then die, Ray if someone asks if your god you say yes lol.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/quotes
The film starts off very well but after that it's trying to hard to tell a joke every two mins along with keep reminding you of the original, they should have either showed the film passing on the torch or made the film totally different to the original which is what I would have done. The film for me just wasn't funny and there's a fart joke they say and it's really crude.
Men in the film put across as thick as fuck especially the Chris Hemsworth his put across like his totally thick and dumb but even worse then dumb the only saving grace is it shows Hemsworth can being comedic.
You can tell the main cast are having fun together but again there's nothing stand out with there characters Leslie Jones surprised me as the trailers and tv spot put her across that she would be over the top which we know the trailers were badly cut and Sony and co attacking people for hating the film, the whole point in having a trailer is to sell the film to the viewer it's badly edited then of course people will hate it even tho you can judge a film till you see it. Kate McKinnon was way to over the top and goofy like a cartoon character, as for Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig were OK. The main villain had to be one of worse villains I have seen in a movie his just upset nerd where's the motivation, or the drive to be truly evil and ruthless your not gonna remember at all no development into his character or his end goal. What they did with slimer was just laughable. What I do think was great was the effects for the proton packs and the effects for the streams but they fuck up what the proton packs do in the final battle totally contradict what the devices do and explain what the proton packs do but they something else. There 2 end credits one with Hemsworth which was just totally silly and cheesy and the very last one end credit which sets up the sequel again not great as its feeding off the original again. All in all average at best not as bad as the trailers made it out to be but I'll happily stick to the original and Ghostbusters 2 which wasn't as good as the first one mainly to do with the real ghostbusters cartoon so it was toned for kids.
What was great about the original is that it played the film serious with a mixture of sci fi, action, horror and the right mixture of humour all tho Ghostbusters 2 lost a lot of that it was still very enjoyable if you took it fit what it was, both films scared me even number two with the titanic coming back and ghosts walking off, the fur coat coming to life and the ghost jogger abs not forgetting the severed heads in the subway which they cut that scene on tv. I'll the reboot credit for the introducing the 4th ghostbusters a lot sooner into the film, giving them more to do and screen time it's the only small problem the original had which the remake does better. 5/10.