Calling Rotten Tomatoes critics "actual critics" is funnier than the film itself.

@JamesASharp

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. What happened to Ian? Bring him back please.

@CaptainCat101

Жыл бұрын

calling the Oscars a high honor is a joke

Dan Aykroyd didn't support the movie, hes said so as much in interviews after it flopped Also I see you glossed over the fact they Bullied Murray into appearing in the movie I really struggle with this movie its so stupid, it was just a terrible movie and it was easy for people to blame it on sexists online etc but their was no reason for this movie to exist

@Revkor

3 жыл бұрын

they bullied the entire cast using legal methods to do so. Rick was spared because of his retirement and the reason for it

WTF Happened to Ghostbusters 2016... well it was atrocious... and it was forgotten about.

@andrewblanchard2398

Жыл бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

The movie was like a bad SNL skit that went way too long

@CoreyHague

3 жыл бұрын

So like a regular SNL skit then?

@jasonp_45

3 жыл бұрын

Agree

@lopezfan24

3 жыл бұрын

Well most of the cast is or was from SNL with the exception of Melissa McCarthy, who does host SNL often.

@Hjurado27

3 жыл бұрын

@@CoreyHague modern snl. it hasnt been good since the 90s

@DLEVANS65

3 жыл бұрын

Amen to That !!!!

I've watched my last WTF Happened To this Movie. The goal seems to have shifted from "Why did this fail" to "Why was everyone so wrong in not appreciating why this film is good". This was made clear when I heard him say "the movie was met with overall positive reviews from actual critics". Don't worry. You made it clear what you think of us.

Why remind us of this? Why oh whyyyyyyyyyy, I had forgotten that they even made this, now I know again

When you dismiss legitimate gripes about a movie and call it misogyny, you will never improve. They always seem to use this excuse to justify a bad movie or show. "Oh it was actually good but all the trolls!" Why didn't anyone go to watch it then? There has been a disconnect between 'actual' critics and fans for a long time. Critics have an agenda to push. There have been countless movies with a Grand Canyon size disparity between the fan score and the critic's score. Always trust the fan's score here.

@Jackraiden500

3 жыл бұрын

Your asking cowards to look themselves in the mirror and have some self reflection.

@Shorty_Lickens

2 жыл бұрын

yeah they got defensive way too early and way too passionately, it only hurt them. All the big film makers learned a long time ago its best to ignore the haters and just make the movie you wanna make. Thats the main reason Quentin Tarantino is so successful. He's not making films for the general public. He's telling the kind of stories he wants to hear and if some people happen to also like them, so be it.

@gregorymirabella1423

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jackraiden500 *you're

@Jackraiden500

2 жыл бұрын

@@gregorymirabella1423 what exactly is with the grammar police these days? Im writing in a youtube comment section not war and peace 🙄

@jvenom174

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t say always trust the fan score. There have been a lot of good horror films in the last ten years that got a shit ton of bad audience reviews that seem to be written by dummies. I would say I agree with the Suicide Squad, BvS, and Rise of Skywalker critic reviews, but there have also been plenty of mainstream films that I though were bad that got mainly positive reviews with critics. It’s always a back and forth with film criticism. Sometimes you’ll agree with the consensus sometimes you won’t. Sometimes the critics get it wrong, and sometimes the audience will end up championing bad movies. There is not a clear answer as to who is wrong or right all of the time. Either you like a movie or you don’t, and the. You move on with your life. Why bother getting angry over what the mainstream audience consensus is or what film critics are saying about a particular movie.

I was luckily to have a four hour break at work one day, and went to see this. I would rather have been at work.

@Beardedvikingweirdo

3 жыл бұрын

Second to worst movie I've seen in the theater. Employee of the Month was first

@jdraven0890

3 жыл бұрын

I got it for free on one of my online movie accounts, and I want my money back

@skinlesswalnut6259

3 жыл бұрын

Simp

WTF Happened To "WTF Happened To This Movie?" next please.

@lonelylama5222

3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@powerglover2021

3 жыл бұрын

They went full woke, you never go full woke.

@TheSully00714

3 жыл бұрын

sounds like a manlet that pays for a girl to recognize his existence

@mentalphilanthropist35

3 жыл бұрын

Vote with your feet, unsub like I just did.

@CaptainCat101

3 жыл бұрын

WTF did happen? This isn't WatchMojo.

am i the only one who doesn't like the "tone" of this video? i feel like they are blaming the toxic people for the flop of the GHOSTBUSTERS 2016? Internet geek trolls are just a vocal minority, if the movie was good it would have made lots of cash

@denske1272

3 жыл бұрын

The channel is floundering because of low views

@Victriol

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah 100%. "The actual critics said it was overwhelmingly good." You know because the standard fan does not know a good movie from a bad one. Most "critics" look at how brave the movie was because womenz. I do not give a dang if there are women in the movie, but this was trying to be a woke movie and well, if you are a "critic" it is a must like. BTW 77% is not overwhelmingly good.

@miamijules2149

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t like the tone either

@timriggs08

3 жыл бұрын

Like the comment about the trailer being downvoted over 1.1M times. No call out for the absolute shit look of the visuals, the bad exorcist joke? How about the people pissed off by that craptacular Fallout Boy cover of Ray Parker Jrs classic?

@thomasplummer8103

3 жыл бұрын

I like how they made it sound like the massive dislikes on the trailer were all about my soggy knees, rather than the fact it looked like technicolor vomit, and was as unfunny as the movie would prove to be.

"incessant bashing" - I'm not saying there weren't sexists like that out there, but please watch RedLetterMedia's scientist man video regarding the topic - they seem to have done their homework as opposed to you (and I'm saying this as someone who usually enjoys your videos)

@shelbymckinney8888

3 жыл бұрын

Thank U! About time someone mentioned that video.

@nemanjajovanov

3 жыл бұрын

Every video RLM did on Ghostbusters 2016 is spot on.

@kham2914

2 жыл бұрын

RedLEtterMedia knows two things: jack and shit. and jack left town.

What happened, boring "story" unfunny stars. Bland camera work. An absolute waste of time.

@thomasplummer8103

3 жыл бұрын

You forgot terrible ghost designs, and terrible visual design in general.

@Beardedvikingweirdo

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasplummer8103 god yes. Ghosts looked like they stepped out of Haunted Mansion. Ghosts in the original were practical effects and they looked scary. These were shite

@kareliask

3 жыл бұрын

They genuinely think it's in the same league as the originals in all of those qualities, they couldn't recognise a good film if it introduced itself to and dined them.

@bubbytumby8509

3 жыл бұрын

the movie chose to make all 4 ghostbusters into silly comedic characters. the original had two Serious regular characters. Winston and Egon were serious. this movie made everybody clownish

@ironox8480

3 жыл бұрын

@@bubbytumby8509 That was a problem. The other part was picking unfunny people with an unfunny script who were supposed to be funny.

The trailer for Ghostbusters Afterlife was better than the entire Ghostbusters 2016 movie.

@Renoistic

3 жыл бұрын

It looks dreadful but for different reason. There hasn't been a good GB since the first so that movie really just feels like lightning in a bottle. Even the game was bad and all the actors were phoning it in.

@moonlitebrite9317

3 жыл бұрын

@@Renoistic *sigh* I'm so tired of the "lightning in a bottle" excuse, every good movie is lightning in a bottle as it is incredibly difficult to make a good movie. If Ghostbusters sequel is going to be success trying to make it exactly same as the 1984 original is probably not going to do it. Ghostbusters: Afterlife needs to be DIFFERENT if it has a chance at success.

@Yoshimitsu4prez

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah another soft reboot bullshit sequel with the old cast in it, so exciting. It’s just as much of a cynical cash-grab piece of shit as this movie.

@moonlitebrite9317

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yoshimitsu4prez You can say that about any sequel to any movie.

@Johnston212

2 жыл бұрын

It's got the original director working with his son, so I am looking forward to it.

It had nothing to do with having females cast. These same internet "trolls" and " nerds" idolize ripley from aliens it has to do with pandering and virtue signaling. As for the casting you avoided the fact these females maybe funny occasionally they always play the exact same character in every movie and it didnt match well. The humor fell flat. The " dumb" blonde male being ogled by the females pretty much ruins the argument that the females always make about males doing the same to them. They outright stole not " called back" but stole scenes from the original yet put a " spin" on them which means took all of what made those scenes good and screwed it up. I really wanted this to be a good movie but it was just plain terrible.. i actually had to see if my nostalgia goggles were causing this and watched the first 2 movies all over again and... nope nostalgia goggles were not the problem... paul f was.. oh and Leslie jones.. she just sucked.

@dezzydee3013

3 жыл бұрын

100% agree with everything stated.

@Craxin01

3 жыл бұрын

It's a bunch of white knights defending this movie but using the female cast as their own personal shields. Unoriginal, uninteresting, poorly planned, badly written, mediocre acting at best, not one argument about not wanting Ghostbusters to have boobs.

@darknessviking

3 жыл бұрын

yep

@RalphJr-xp3hp

3 жыл бұрын

🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯💯💯. Thank you for giving your honest opinion and actual true facts about why Ghostbusters 2016 sucked major ass.

@thenerdyadventuresofcore9661

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah... Unsubbing.

You completely avoided actually why the movie failed 🤣🤣.

This dude is another one of those "only trolls dont like this movie" when it was so bad my 10 year old niece wanted to walk out because it was so bad. Sorry buddy it wasn't misogyny the movie just sucked.

@highwaysurfin

3 жыл бұрын

well I really enjoyed the female Ghostbusters: lot's of fun, action -and many easter eggs referring to the original film.

@Digitalhunny

3 жыл бұрын

Blame the script. Those writer(s) should NEVER EVER work in Hollywood again!

@moserfugger6363

3 жыл бұрын

@@highwaysurfin How many times did you spam your comment already? 10 times? 20? Yeah, you clearly just wanted to state your opinion. No trolling here. ;-)

@moserfugger6363

3 жыл бұрын

@cooler_in_text Yeah, JoBlo should just rename the section: "We make up some bullshit about WTF happened to this movie". It's sad. I actually liked their stuff. Not great, but entertaining and sometimes charmingly amateurish. Research was never their strong suit, but this video seems deliberately one sided with many important facts left out (Sony Email Leaks and Amy Pascal, the aggressive attacks against James Rolfe etc.). Greetings from Germany! :-)

@highwaysurfin

3 жыл бұрын

@@moserfugger6363 I only posted my comment twice. That's it.

"Actual critics" @ 11:34 Oh poor JoBlo, haven't you figured out the actual critics no longer matter?

Uh, the first trailer got all those thumbs down because it was horrendous, not because of trolls.

@jvenom174

2 жыл бұрын

But that doesn’t fit the narrative of this video, so he intentionally left that part out to keep his good standing with studios that offer him and his coworkers early screenings and swag bags.

Who would have thought an all-female Ghostbusters with mainly improvised lines and next to no plot would be crap? (everyone).

@dyansis

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it would have been better if it wasnt just an interconnected series of adlib gags.

@FatNorthernBigot

3 жыл бұрын

@@dyansis or if they'd tried to make a Ghostbusters movie, rather than just the next Paul Feig comedy.

@SparkyMarkyMark23

3 жыл бұрын

If these ladies were related 2 The Original GhostBusters like sisters, cousins, nieces or daughters I would so go & see it. If they were students of The Original GhostBusters I would say "It's Totally Worth It!" But unfortunately It's Not Totally Worth It!

@laurocoman

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's almost as if you needed a script for a film or something.

@jvenom174

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. You can’t have every fucking actor in your movie doing improv in every CC single scene. Bill Murray was pretty much the only actor in the original to adlib most of his scenes, and it worked well because there was still a fully written script that the director was following while making the movie. Paul Feig has admitted that he basically let the actors take over the film, which you should almost never do. A Ghostbusters film needs structure, witty dialogue, jokes that are allowed to breathe, horror elements that are played straight, actual stakes, and overall it should just be a fun ride of a movie that moves along at a pace that’s constantly building upon itself till it reaches it’s climax. The biggest challenge of a ghostbusters remake should just be finding a good cast that can play well off of each other. The cast of the 2016 is good, but they don’t play well off each other. Every actor is fighting for the spotlight in every single scene rather than being generous performers who know when to let a fellow actor have their moment. The movie needed a strong director to rein the actors in and Paul Feig did a terrible job in that regard.

thats funny: a reboot had to bomb so badly for a real sequel to finally get made...

@JoJoJoker

3 жыл бұрын

That’s how we got The Mandalorian

@IwonaKlich

3 жыл бұрын

And this real sequel looks really awful...

@koatam

3 жыл бұрын

@@IwonaKlich I don't think Sony/Columbia Pictures can make good movies anymore.

@jodi2847

3 жыл бұрын

@@IwonaKlich Looks like Ghostbuster had a baby with Stranger Things. Meh.

@maxcovfefe

2 жыл бұрын

@@IwonaKlich I'm lowering my expectations so low that it can't possibly be as bad as that. If I'm not at least a little pleasantly surprised, they did a bad thing.

Mr. Plinkett’s review does an excellent job describing what went wrong with this movie.

I can't wait for the new Ghostbusters movie. I grew up watching the the first movie and the second movie. I watched the Ghostbusters cartoon religiously as a child.

@Beardedvikingweirdo

3 жыл бұрын

I even enjoyed Extreme.

@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo

3 жыл бұрын

Religiously as in Praying and Worshiping the Cartoon?

@lacyinmon1004

3 жыл бұрын

@@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo as in I never missed a single episode

@maxcovfefe

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in the same camp. I'm trying not to expect too much, but I'm also a little excited for this one. I think using kids is a smart move because it invites us to sort of see ourselves playing Ghostbusters as kids.

@lacyinmon1004

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxcovfefe I completely agree with you

This video seems bitter towards people daring to have high quality standards for their entertainment.

REal ghostbusers cartoon was so good. Truly so many things got to a nearly perfect point between the mid 1980s through the to the mid 2000s when everything began cooling off and getting lame. What a time to have been alive! Glad I was there.

Watch red letter medias review to understand why it was just a shitty movie.

WTF Happened? Someone thought it was a good idea to make it. Done

@warreng675

3 жыл бұрын

A mistake, plane and simple

@AnalyticalMenace

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes a good idea...should *stay* an idea.

@warreng675

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnalyticalMenace Good idea?

Personally, because it was a reboot, if it had just been a continuation it would've been way better. I wanted to know how that world evolved not get feed recycled crap.

@pca1987

3 жыл бұрын

With Feig in the helm it would still have sucked.

@moonlitebrite9317

3 жыл бұрын

@mild soup I mean, if Ghostbusters 2016 every gets a sequel then it would technically be a continuation.

"Actual critics" You say that like the critics opinions are in any way more important than anybody else's.

@jdraven0890

3 жыл бұрын

I used to hit up rotten tomatoes all the time to see if a movie was worth going to -- now I absolutely do not trust mainstream critics, who take great pride in their political agendas

@bryansoto6355

3 жыл бұрын

It’s as is these sites are worried they’re becoming obsolete, because they are. I look at user reviews on IMDb, and have for years.

@nemanjajovanov

3 жыл бұрын

Well, they are - if they're actual critics, not some RT bums.

@prod.justjae9957

3 жыл бұрын

Most of them have won awards so yea they are

The movie was just so bad we forgot about it completely

@BrokeNerfing

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I think I blocked it out emotionally

@KoboldBluePhoto

3 жыл бұрын

Well that and it was just lazy. Lazy writing lazy directing and then you got a lot of performers attached to this movie who gave some of the worst performances of the career

@BrokeNerfing

3 жыл бұрын

@@KoboldBluePhoto I gave it a real honest chance. I actually wanted to like it but it seemed like an SNL parody. A bad SNL parody at that.

@alimarpr1110

3 жыл бұрын

same

@warreng675

3 жыл бұрын

Almost

I haven’t watched this movie and I never will, just watching the trailers and reviews from people I trust was enough for me to know that the comedy would never compare to the originals and it did way more to disrespect those original movies than it did to honor them.

@whiterabbit1632

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t waste your time

This is so disingenuous. Agreed there was a huge amount of toxic misogyny etc around before the movie; but that slapping scene and the incredibly poor cgi ghosts contributed heavily to the dislikes. Most people thought it was going to terrible, not because of wimmin, but a director who clearly didn't care about the original was cobbling together a poor derivative of a modern classic. Then the movie is released and confirms our worst fears. There was no characterisation no jokes and no fun. The critics blatantly just gave out positive reviews to counter all the harassment, if there was no controversy, this would be luck to be over 0% on RT

@emilengen7825

2 жыл бұрын

There was more misandry. Men weren't even allowed to have opinion on this movie.

@ammagnolia

2 жыл бұрын

I saw it free online. Couldn't watch it. It was just so stupid a bad. Like they got the worse of the improv and made that the movie.

@princewellidk

2 ай бұрын

Shut Up Woke Girl

@princewellidk

2 ай бұрын

Shut Up Jewish Experiment

Never was interested in a female Ghostbusters version. Didn’t even watch. Genderswapping is soo lazy. Why not making original movies with female leads.

@Kj16V

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the movie was okay but I agree with you there.

@zarabee2880

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! The original still stands up! Hollywood won’t stop remaking good films instead of giving money to talented original scripts & directors 😒

@KenDAKL4ever

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, that's too much work for them. Just race and gender swap and that gimmick will sale the movie, so they think

@mermadone6465

3 жыл бұрын

@JCJ 26 How about we blame your woke culture?

@jodi2847

3 жыл бұрын

Because they have no real faith in the success of an original female character in an original film. Dr. Who is another example, along with countless other attempts and failures. A woman, according to THEM, is not actually able to stand on her own two feet. She must replace an already successful male lead in an already successful franchise. Her defining characteristic is strength, while her male counterparts are written as weaker and stupider to prop her up even higher. The hypocrisy of third wave feminism is laughably transparent.

The narrator of this video: “oh no my video is being downvoted by crazy people in the middle of the night, online”

Ghostbusters the game is the third film. 16 had no comedy, was very disrespectful to the legacy, and surprisingly was sexist and homophobic

@rbl205

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! And racist also! Isn't it strange how the only black lady on the team has to beg and plead for the white girls to let her join the team, and even then they only let her join after she tells them she can get a car and be their personal chauffeur? And how about the shiny new weapons they get at the end of the movie? While the white women get laser blasters, proton bazookas, and a boxing glove that can liquidate ghosts (what the hell Feig?), what does the black gal get? A wood chipper. I guess Feig thought that a laser mini gun would be too good for a black woman, so instead he just gave her a piece of farming equipment. I think we all know who the real bigot is here, and it ain't the fans.

@brandonlyon730

3 жыл бұрын

@@rbl205 Yeah funny thing they did the whole ‘make the black person the driver’ thing they did the same thing in the old ‘real’ ghostbusters cartoon in the later crapper seasons. Because a bunch of focus test groups (who didn’t even do any sort of research) thought Winston had no place in the group and made the executives to force the writers to make him the driver of the group. The shows creator got so pissed off by that noting the unfortunate implications doing that with the only black character n the show, among other forced unnecessary changes he left the shows production.

@christopherparrisjr.3146

3 жыл бұрын

I understand what the filmmakers were trying to do (have a Ghostbusters reboot with heroines rather than heroes). The execution was poor, however.

I tried to watch twice, I fell asleep twice. I refuse try to watch that madness again. Hope afterlife will be better :D

I hope joblo actually reads the comments with a open mind, not an as Joe Diaz would say "captian save a hoe" mind. Probably not though. Becareful JoBloe, go woke and go broke. Why is it so bad to say something was bad if it has any female leads, are women untouchable? Can they do no wrong? Meh im just waiting my breath.

@Phoenix-xn3sf

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, people still use 'go woke or go broke'? You can stop 'waiting' your breath, this video is not a review or a revisionistic opinion piece, it's just a report on how it got made and the controversy surrounding it.

@muffinsmcgeez4899

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, because the joblo shill didnt editorialize at all, he's not like every other "independent outfit" that blames every Hollywood flop on a bigoted audience. I'm a liberal, but the unbridled bullshit coming out of Hollywood has turned me against my own kind, why do liberals have such a blind spot for this pandering crap; its like the far right with trump- dumbfounding.

@nemanjajovanov

3 жыл бұрын

@@Phoenix-xn3sf Except it carefully omits that this movie was a total financial flop and that it has an atrocious score on IMDB - it only mentions the way less reliable RT critic score, which basically just says that 73% of critics tolerated the movie because it was lucrative for them to do so.

@freman007

3 жыл бұрын

Strictly speaking they're going woke because they're going broke. They're running on fumes and trying to open another audience, but it's an audience without money so it fails too.

I'm SO OVER blaming the fans for movie failures. Can we all just agree that everything about this Ghostbusters was terrible? If it was good, it would've made money.

@jvenom174

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. As long as there is a vocal minority of people who hate on things for dumb reasons then everybody else will have to pay the price and be lumped in with a couple of assholes. You didn’t like the new Ghostbusters with female leads? Then you’re one of them sexists. You didn’t like The Last Jedi? Then you’re a butthurt fanboy who needs to check his or her expectations at the door. Most people who don’t like certain films or shows have legitimate reasons why, but people who push agendas don’t care. They don’t want to actually take real criticism into account because then it breaks their argument and makes them look bad.

This movie was not funny, thats what happened

1:45...Ray Parker Jr was NOT actually a one hit wonder....he had three other top-10 pop hits and quite a few more on the R&B charts

I have yet to see one comment on any platform complaining that there was women in the movie, not one.

@moserfugger6363

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, JoBlo should just rename the section: "We make up some bullshit about WTF happened to this movie". It's sad. I actually liked their stuff. Not great, but entertaining. Research was never their strong suit, but this video seems deliberately one sided with many important facts left out (Sony Email Leaks etc.). Greetings from Germany! :-)

"From actual critics" you mean people paid by the studio to say they like a movie the audience hates? Critics also like jodie wittecer's doctor who... onlt 11% audience score tho.

@jayjackson19

3 жыл бұрын

@Jett Lucas Hayes Someone, ANYONE get this man a punctuation mark!

“Actual” critics. That’s a joke right?

@John.Angell

3 жыл бұрын

I almost spit out my drink when I heard that. The problem is you and I are just stupid movie-goers. We don't possess the vast intellect and education of ACTUAL critics. Like The Mary Sue lol...

I don't mind an all-female team ( _well duh, it's not what you have between your legs that matter_ ), it's that the trailers and the script left nothing to be impressed by. I still need to watch that movie but, all my friends whom seen it has said what I expect to say after watching it; " _It's alright, but nothing special._ " I will say that I do feel some hype over Afterlife. Because if it was one thing I hated with 2016 GB was how it felt like it was spitting in the face of Ghostbuster's legacy, the fact that Afterlife is a sequel, is so much more interesting to me.

The problem that I had with this movie is that they were trying so hard to be funny but missed the mark by miles. All those scenes with McKinnon dancing or being weird came out like that, weird! All these girls make me laugh in SNL but the Ghostbusters 2016 movie missed the mark.

While the title song Ghostbusters is certainly Ray Parker Jr's biggest hit, he was not a one hit wonder.

I have to disagree with you on one thing. Considering that "Afterlife" features a thirteen year old girl as the main character, and the internet hasn't exploded into a raging storm of sexism, I'd say that the gender of the reboots' cast wasn't the reason for the hate it received at all. In my personal experience throughout the whole reboot fiasco, most people just didn't think that Paul Feig's writing, directing, and comedic style would work for a Ghostbusters movie. Heck, Feig himself described his vision for the reboot as, "Bridesmaids with ghosts", and well, that's just not what long time fans wanted from a movie they'd been waiting nearly three decades for. Adding even more fuel on the fire were Feig and his actresses pointing and shouting "sexist" at anyone who didn't get down on their knees and worship this film as though it was the second coming of Christ. That's not to say that there weren't any racist or sexist remarks, there definitely were, but it was no where near the extent that many believe. I do agree with you about the expensive cost of making this film. That was definitely a contributing factor for the failure to launch a sequel, but it goes a bit further than what you mentioned. Sony gave Feig $140 million to film, and then invested an additional $140 million to advertise. This means that Answer the Call would have needed to make about $280 million just to break even, and that's not even including the additional money needed for the re-shoots. Even then, Feig also stated that in order for the studio to consider it a success, it would need to make something like $500 million. In the end though, it only managed to earn $229 million world-wide, not nearly enough to break even. The film was considered a financial failure by Sony and all plans for sequels and spin offs were canceled. It just failed to find an audience, that's all.

@Revkor

3 жыл бұрын

I put as to the reason goign all female was not a good one. Note the Extreme Ghostbusters has, a woman not sure on race, a black man, a lantio man, and a HANDICAPPED guy. pretty diverse there and was liked. No the female team for reboot was done for pandering not for a legit reason

Get woke go broke, I have a feeling your about to get a good education on this subject.

This movie was just bad and I’ve almost never really agreed with “actually critics”. It’s just a mediocre movie. Attacking actors in the disgusting way some fans did was completely uncalled for. I blame the writer /Director for this movies shortcomings. Especially when you hear more about what his said behind the scenes. All these women could have been in a great Ghost Busters sequel. Instead they ended up in a subpar reboot.

@Lazrael32

3 жыл бұрын

I just think it's nearly impossible to recreate the charm of the originals without the chemistry of the original actors. However if some people liked it then I'm okay with it.

When it GB2016 came out. Bunch of friends asked me i was coming along too see GB, me na, why u sexist they said. I asked afterwards, any good, friends replies na its shite

@anonb4632

3 жыл бұрын

That was like when a friend invited me to see Batman vs Superman (minus the sexism accusation)

@janotopspin

3 жыл бұрын

I’d bet my soul that that “why u sexist” bit never happened

I know Extreme Ghostbusters wasn't as loved by some, but i feel like it was a good step in the right direction and a good way of respecting the franchise, while passing the torch on to new Ghostbusters. If they had gone with a live action version of that, or taken inspiration there, i think it would have been better.

Yes! About time! Also,this should have been retitled: WTF were they thinking?

Dude for the record you’re being way too kind. You were also way too kind on wonder woman 1984 just saying

@whiterabbit1632

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Wonder Woman is pure garbage

Jo is getting ratioed as hard as the Ghostbusters 2016 trailer...

Well... This video was almost as lazily made as Ghostbusters 2016. Using accusation of sexism to hide from criticism of a bad movie is very immoral. That defence is what’s really toxic as it poisons the well. Making many people distrust further accusation even if they are valid.

@kevinconn

3 жыл бұрын

If you think it’s a bad movie after watching it, awesome. BUT the sexist comments started before the movie even came out.

@IAmHumongous

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinconn they deleted all the negative comments except the sexist ones ffs. It was their entire marketing strategy

@kevinconn

3 жыл бұрын

@@IAmHumongouswhoa! So you work for Columbia pictures? How’s the pay? Or did you actually go to every site and see all these non-sexist comments removed? That’s exhausting. Because that is the dumbest most pathetic conspiracy theory you fucks have come up with 😂😂😂

@IAmHumongous

3 жыл бұрын

@@kevinconn Why bring up Columbia?! It was Sony, you idiot and their email got hacked. Read them yourself

@moserfugger6363

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, JoBlo should just rename the section: "We make up some bullshit about WTF happened to this movie". It's sad. I actually liked their stuff. Not great, but entertaining and sometimes charmingly amateurish. Research was never their strong suit, but this video seems deliberately one sided with many important facts left out (Sony Email Leaks and Amy Pascal, the aggressive attacks against James Rolfe etc.). Greetings from Germany! :-)

The 2016 movie's issue was that is was written as a comedy with sci-fi/supernatural themes. Where as the original came across as a Sci-Fi/supernatural movie that had comedic moments. Also the new movie treated audiences like they were stupid (see intro to proton packs in the old movie vs the 2016 one). The new upcoming movie looks and feels like the original.

The real question is "WTF is up with no Peter MacNicol cameo". Dude jammed a handle in part 2 and carried it the entire way.

If interested Rich Evans and Jack from Red Letter Media play through the atari game on their defunct streaming show PreRec. Jay shows often, and the streams are a real treat for RLM fans.

@emothegunslinger

3 жыл бұрын

Thats a great tipp, thanks.

Most of the blame for this movie goes to Paul Feig. When you have a cast made up of improv actors you need a director who's strong enough and confident enough to let them play, but then reign them back in. Ghostbusters 2016 has the feel of a movie where they were told "do whatever you want, we'll film it all and figure out how to piece it together later." So you have four actors constantly talking over each other, each trying to be the wacky one and get in the best jokes. The script may have sucked too, I don't know. I'm honestly not sure how much of the actual script made it to the finished movie.

@FunnieApple

Жыл бұрын

Perfect take honestly. If Paul had reigned these comedians in then it would have been great. All it needed were some really genuinely funny scenes but they just never really hit their mark.

Red letter media has a great review of this movie and a video on all the “misogyny” that supposedly took place. I love how all the WOMEN that spoke out about how terrible this movie was were ignored by the media and lots of others

Oh and yah, the 2016 film was...another slightly tryhard feminist agenda attempt at things that was not done too well. It was not terrible...but it was like a 5-6 on a 10 scale at best. So okay...some enjoyable moments...but too much feminist agenda ruining things along with shoddy writing here and there. MELISSA MCARTHY IS GREAT THOUGH!

@FatNorthernBigot

3 жыл бұрын

We were hit-over-the-head with feminism in that film.

Paul Feig disliked this video.

This movie had so many problems. Although I still wonder why they thought loud = funny.

I’ll never forget how different urge first Ghostbusters hit me and I watched it on my own on a Saturday morning, after my parents had watched it the Friday night prior as a new release VHS tape. My mum asked if I wanted to watch it before we had to take it back. Between the storyline, the effects, the comedy, the acting, the gothic flavours of the film had and the fact the film encapsulated that distinct ‘NYC’ vibe, which as a 12 year old I couldn’t really discern, but appreciate it now.

This is a great video. Thanks guys!

The original Ghostbusters was the perfect mix of comedy and horror (yes, it was a horror movie), and it had some real occult references. Ghostbusters 2016, on the other hand, was just horrible.

This focused way too much on the outside drama and not enough on wtf happened to make the movie so bad. Cop out of a video.

@shooting6lasers

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Like he could have talked about how the director relied way too much on the cast’s improvisation, which was already out of place in a movie like this, but just dragged forever and wasn’t funny.

Sony should consider adapting EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS into a live-action

One of the main issues people had was that it created a sexist portrayal of men. With one or two exceptions, all men in the film were portrayed as dumb, creepy, or as assholes. It’s like they went out of their way to portray them as the secondary villain of the film.

It took almost 8 minutes for you to start lying about why people hated the movie. You probably should have left this movie alone.

@moserfugger6363

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, JoBlo should just rename the section: "We make up some bullshit about WTF happened to this movie". It's sad. I actually liked their stuff. Not great, but entertaining and sometimes charmingly amateurish. Research was never their strong suit, but this video seems deliberately one sided with many important facts left out (Sony Email Leaks and Amy Pascal, the aggressive attacks against James Rolfe etc.). Greetings from Germany! :-)

Ruining the legacy of the originals!

I actually got an ad before this video. It was a tampon ad. (Period jokes are freakin’ hilarious, come at me)

Thank you. You touched on all the realities of things without personal hate ether way for or against.

Lets Face it, the Movie is bad and steals a lot of stuff from the first Movie

I love those girls on SNL, but they are comedians, not actors, you could clearly see the difference of acting chops between Thor and them. Jokes were bad, story was bad, movie was bad!

@jdraven0890

3 жыл бұрын

They needed to be given something better to work with, exactly. the director admitted he just turned the camera on and expected magic to happen because he had four good female comedians working together.

@shooting6lasers

3 жыл бұрын

They relied on way too much improvisation, and for a movie like Ghostbusters that should be tightly scripted, that was a huge mistake. Not to mention the dialogue just dragged so long in the movie, and was rarely funny.

Lesson to Hollywood--You can't reboot a popular franchise by DESTROYING the original characters/story that everyone loves. Without respect-we reject!

10:20 "..improvisation SKILLS..." 🤣🤣Skills🤣🤣 I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Dude, what are you talking about.... we didn’t give a SHIT it was women.... we did give a shit THAT IT SUCKED!! Sup with the tone of this video?

Ray Parker jr. had a few hits. Just saying. But I'm glad that Huey Lewis got his share.

That opening edit of Leslie charging Bill made me chuckle :)

That edit when it looks like Leslie is charging Bill is awesome. See, that’s what good and sneaky editing is about. 👍🏻

And it all turned out to be garbage!

Ivan Reitman said Ghostbusters worked because it had the head (egon), the heart (ray), the joker ( venkman) and the audience (Winston). The reboot was all jokers and kinda head and kinda heart..but it was not specific enough and was confusing as a GB movie. I saw it and thought it was a funny movie that wasn't specific. It's like if the heat was Ghostbusters..which i liked as those characters..but not enough thrills and nerdy enough to be a gb movie.

@FunnieApple

Жыл бұрын

This movie definitely captured the spirit of the OG film, it just wasn't as funny as it should have been. The jokes and performances were just weak and unforgettable and like you said every character was a joker to an extent which made it hard to relate. Unlike in the original were there is Zeddemore who plays that audience character and Venkman who plays the skeptic/nihilist. This movie IMHO was better than Afterlife. Afterlife was cringe and really wanted to change Ghostbusters into something it never was and not really in a good way. They only ever succeeded massively changing GB in the Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters.

always excellent vids

Everyone I know understands that when the critics praise or criticize a movie, it normally because of activism. Typically, you won't be disappointed if you just look at the user reviews.

@PaulMcElligott

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That’s hilarious. “User reviews” are easily gamed and completely worthless. I’m not saying that critic reviews are infallible. There are plenty of great movies with terrible RT scores and shit movies with good RT scores, but by and large, critical reviews are 1000% more reliable than anonymous audience scores compiled by some website.

I watched only 10 min of the ghostbusters 2016 version and my eyes started too bleed

Lol, "actual critics"

You're opening "Hit me as hard as you can" fits with this movie, cause it feels like a punch to the face.

Hemsworth was by far the funniest character in the new movie. Which is VERY ironic considering what they were going for as a statement by making the main cast all female! 😂

So according to the narrator of this video, this movie only failed because it was too expensive? WTF Happened to JoBlo Videos?

"Don't be like the mayor from JAWS." "Never compare me to the JAWS mayor! NEVER!" My favorite moment in the movie.

@anonb4632

3 жыл бұрын

Boris Johnson has said the Mayor is his political hero. (Not joking.)

Bringing out the OG Ecto 1 so awesome!! I bet that car has been sitting there over 30 + years

I haven’t seen your videos in such a long time. I subscribed after your justice league videos :(

Mmm, seems you spent a lot of time building up to the movie rather then living up to your title.

For me the genderswapping wasn't the issue, it was how unfunny I thought it was. Just didn't get a laugh out of me.

@warreng675

3 жыл бұрын

The terrible looking ghosts, yeah bad CGI, poor ghost. Bad story

@mcnultyssobercompanion6372

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I was very surprised how irritating it was, in fact. With the exception of Leslie Jones, who I think is the least funny person on the planet, the main cast was made up of people who have otherwise always made me laugh. But this film is just...humming with mediocrity.

@donovanchilton5817

3 жыл бұрын

Being beat over the head with third wave feminism wasn't a good look

Dont know a lot of the history of the movie with video game and the new film with Paul Rudd. I love this channel always learning new info from films and movies

Reading the comments, the outrage continues ... guys, take it easy - it's just a movie.

It’s pronounced “deek”, not “dick”

@MotorBro78

3 жыл бұрын

The folks from this channel have a really bad habit of mispronunciation across the board.

Wow. This analysis was bias and wrongheaded. The casting was recieved poorly because it was a cynical, they were not casting women for creative reasons they were casting women for marketing. The trailer was poorly recieved because it was all Farrelly brothes type gross out comedy, not the dark and sarcastic humour of Ghostbusters. And the movie lost money because it was a bad movie. It's that simple.

They tried re doing a classic, that's wtf happened

The biggest problem with this movie was every time it got going...you were taken right out of it by a cameo or another nod hitting you over the head.