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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 23, 2022 9:29:22 GMT -5
Can we say any of the war over Ghostbusters '16 in general? It was a mediocre attempt to refresh an iconic IP, yes. Pretty much Bridesmaids in GB's body, with its actresses doing the same thing. But yeah...I don't know who started the gender issue, but again..yeah! A lot of the "raped my childhood" whines as well. Yeah there's bad movies based on beloved IPs, and they can be downright infuriating at times. But there's disliking bad movies and being melodramatic about it. (didn't Transformers fans threaten Michael Bay's life, for instance, back in the day?) I see the Star Wars prequels are being seen more favorably now, on the other hand. With the prequels a big part of it is that the people who saw those as children have come of age now and for them that was Star Wars, they have the same feelings about those movies as many of us had about the original trilogy.
I suspect there are still quite a few who look down at them but for the most part we've gotten older. I have no great love for them, I'm not even sure if I've ever rewatched them but I've hit a point in my life where if people like them, good on them. It has no affect on me. Hell, Attack of the Clones would have been a decent action flick if they didn't have the worlds worst attempt at a love story shoved in there.
Checks....23 years tops?!!? Geez, now they made me feel old, new crime against the movies! ;-)
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jul 23, 2022 9:46:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I would agree that all of it usually is, but I will pick one and say the James Rolfe backlash over that f***ing Ghostbusters remake. Framing him as being sexist simply because he didn't want to see the remake was pathetic. I lost all respect for Patton Oswalt with that whole situation. Oswalt straight-up bullied him over a meaningless video. Yea this was another one Nobody is obligated to spend their time/money on a movie or other creative project just based on who is in the cast. He also gave legitimate reasons why he didn't want to see it based on the trailer. Not to victim blame, but him making a video to say he wasn't going to watch it probably drew most of the negative attention to begin with. He could have just not said anything. I actually enjoyed that 2016 Ghostbusters movie. Yeah it's not the classic that the original was, but if nothing else the action sequences were better done than the original
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jul 23, 2022 10:20:05 GMT -5
Cammy wearing Trousers.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Jul 23, 2022 14:44:21 GMT -5
Speaking of the Joker movie.
Remember when Jenny Nicholson reviewed it, then some reactionary podcast made a TWELVE hour video responding to her?
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Post by DeeBee on Jul 23, 2022 16:21:32 GMT -5
Speaking of the Joker movie. Remember when Jenny Nicholson reviewed it, then some reactionary podcast made a TWELVE hour video responding to her? Holy shit. Parts of me wants to seek out this podcast...
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Post by schma on Jul 23, 2022 16:48:08 GMT -5
I never really felt like the Joker movie was really a Joker movie. It was an alright movie about a man going over the edge but to me this wasn't the Joker.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 23, 2022 17:01:31 GMT -5
I say most of it, especially when pertaining to stuff in movies and tv shows that people don’t like. I can’t judge completely, because I’ve done it too. But people take stuff WAAAAY too seriously. And that’s obviously not limited to wrestling fans. It’s great to have passion over a franchise you love, but sometimes you to repeat to yourself, it’s just a show and you really should just relax. It seems to really, really have taken off the same time the Internet did. People making the media they consume their entire personality and lives is really bizarre to me.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 23, 2022 17:04:44 GMT -5
I'm sure it was there, but overall I thought the reaction to that was pretty restrained. Pattinson was already like a decade removed from the Twilight movies, and had spent most of that time saying he hated them and did them for the money. People respected his honesty, and he'd shown he had acting chops in the meantime. Honestly I don't remember people being that upset. And like, wasn't the announcement around the time he was awesome in Tenet? I think there was more of a gap then that. Time kind of distorted during the pandemic, but I do remember Tenet being released just as things were really popping off because Nolan wanted to be an artiste and insisted on a theatrical release even if no one was there to see it. The first trailer for The Batman came out during the DC forum online that summer, so at least some of the film was shot at that point. Good Time already had him trending the right direction though.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Jul 23, 2022 17:16:49 GMT -5
I still can't help but laugh at all the hysterical bullshit about how the Joker was going to cause mass shootings or some sort of Incel uprising.
Or some dorks in a move theater tweeting about how they were scared because some twat laughed at a scene what wasn't supposed to be funny, is somehow f***ing newsworthy.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 23, 2022 19:38:24 GMT -5
I say most of it, especially when pertaining to stuff in movies and tv shows that people don’t like. I can’t judge completely, because I’ve done it too. But people take stuff WAAAAY too seriously. And that’s obviously not limited to wrestling fans. It’s great to have passion over a franchise you love, but sometimes you to repeat to yourself, it’s just a show and you really should just relax. It seems to really, really have taken off the same time the Internet did. People making the media they consume their entire personality and lives is really bizarre to me. It was around before the internet. Just was posted in fanzines and genre mags. For example when Keaton got announced as Batman for the 89 film,all the comic zines and mags were full of people freaking out. And another example,when Jason goes to Hell came out the horror zines and mags were full of people pissed about the film.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jul 23, 2022 20:02:54 GMT -5
I still can't help but laugh at all the hysterical bullshit about how the Joker was going to cause mass shootings or some sort of Incel uprising. Or some dorks in a move theater tweeting about how they were scared because some twat laughed at a scene what wasn't supposed to be funny, is somehow f***ing newsworthy. It just sounds like lazy reporters being lazy. I remember when Wolf of Wall Street came out and there was a story about how at theaters near Wall Street stock brokers were laughing at the “wrong” scenes. As it was even Redbox listed it as a comedy later on.
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Post by GodzillaIsMyMonster on Jul 24, 2022 1:02:37 GMT -5
Have to say, the outrage over Heath Ledger as Joker turned out to be ridiculous to everyone once the first trailer hit. Remember how disparagingly people talked about him and calling him the Brokeback Mountain guy. Really eye rolling in hindsight. I'll never understand the love for Ledger as Joker. It was so f***ing hokey and terrible. In fact the whole Nolan trilogy is just... terrible.
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Post by Scoops on Jul 24, 2022 1:03:18 GMT -5
I still can't help but laugh at all the hysterical bullshit about how the Joker was going to cause mass shootings or some sort of Incel uprising. Or some dorks in a move theater tweeting about how they were scared because some twat laughed at a scene what wasn't supposed to be funny, is somehow f***ing newsworthy. I remember a guy in a different forum basically admit that he nearly assaulted a fat, unkept, nerdy guy in a theater because the dude was looking around the theater and he had big pockets that he assumed had a weapon in them. Then it turned out the guy was just looking for his friend and the pockets were for a big bag of candy he snuck in. :l
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jul 24, 2022 6:17:43 GMT -5
Have to say, the outrage over Heath Ledger as Joker turned out to be ridiculous to everyone once the first trailer hit. Remember how disparagingly people talked about him and calling him the Brokeback Mountain guy. Really eye rolling in hindsight. I'll never understand the love for Ledger as Joker. It was so f***ing hokey and terrible. In fact the whole Nolan trilogy is just... terrible. Not to me, I *adore* the Nolan Batmovies. I really liked the Reeves one, but it wasn’t as “all hands on deck, we’re all f***ed” like Dark Knight was. The Chicago-ish Gotham gets criticized because Reeves had a slight more comic-ish feeling to his Gotham, Right? So what I liked about Nolan’s is because it looks and feels like an ordinary city, when Joker comes to tear it up, that’s scarier to me. In the Pattinson one, everyone but Batman and the mayor chick has resigned themselves to the idea that Gotham sucks.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Jul 24, 2022 9:22:01 GMT -5
I'll never understand the love for Ledger as Joker. It was so f***ing hokey and terrible. In fact the whole Nolan trilogy is just... terrible. Not to me, I *adore* the Nolan Batmovies. I really liked the Reeves one, but it wasn’t as “all hands on deck, we’re all f***ed” like Dark Knight was. The Chicago-ish Gotham gets criticized because Reeves had a slight more comic-ish feeling to his Gotham, Right? So what I liked about Nolan’s is because it looks and feels like an ordinary city, when Joker comes to tear it up, that’s scarier to me. In the Pattinson one, everyone but Batman and the mayor chick has resigned themselves to the idea that Gotham sucks. I personally loved both series, minus Rises. One of the things I like about different adaptations of the same comic is how they differ from one another. Nolan's version asked what a "real" world Batman and his rogues would look like and act. Reeves showed the affect Batman could have on a city without hope, how his methods and actions (however extreme) would be perceived by those who have been beat down for so long. There is room for both interpretations to me.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 24, 2022 10:40:09 GMT -5
Speaking of the Joker movie. Remember when Jenny Nicholson reviewed it, then some reactionary podcast made a TWELVE hour video responding to her? Holy shit. Parts of me wants to seek out this podcast... Brace yourself. Or not. I mean, who even has the time?
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Post by The Ichi on Jul 24, 2022 11:14:36 GMT -5
Everything about The Last of Us 2, which I'll put in spoilers just incase. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Joel's death (Laura Bailey actually received death threats and supposed "fans" of the series went into full gatekeeping mode on anyone that didn't have a problem with it) {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Abby having an unrealistic build (despite actual women having a similar or more ripped build.) {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}The anger over how grim the game was (because the first was a cute game about kittens But mostly the first. f*** Naughty Dog "fans".
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Post by DeeBee on Jul 24, 2022 17:04:42 GMT -5
Holy shit. Parts of me wants to seek out this podcast... Brace yourself. Or not. I mean, who even has the time? Good lord. I just skimmed through it, I cannot imagine watching this whole thing or even recording the whole thing. A lot of this felt like a bunch of dudes who are pissed because the pretty girl YouTuber dares to question their precious movie or even insinuate that she may know more about constructing a good plot than they do. Who subscribes to this and listen to this, anyway? I probably don't want to know the type of people who would be into all 12 hours of this. Unless it's an audiobook or Lapsed Fan, no way in hell am I devoting time to something that long.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jul 25, 2022 11:12:29 GMT -5
Holy shit. Parts of me wants to seek out this podcast... Brace yourself. Or not. I mean, who even has the time? After 12 hours of this, do you at any point think, 'maybe I need some help'?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 25, 2022 11:29:39 GMT -5
After 12 hours of this, do you at any point think, 'maybe I need some help'? I guarantee you that there is a lot of this going on with both the people in the video and those in their audience:
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