Who you gonna call? - Ghostbusters (2016 All Female Reboot)

I DON'T JOKE ABOUT GHOSTBUSTERS .

 

Oh damn...<ejects>

 

That's the joke.

 

Okay, so when people talk to me about paid reviews the first thing that I always think of is this:

Look at that blurbmeister quote.
This film gets a pitiful 11% over on "Rotten Tatters", you know, that site that "grossly inflates" it's scores.
A long time ago ABCnews had a guy named John Stossel. He went looking for Bonnie Churchill. This is a transcript of his report I watched on 20/20 waaaay back in the day:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124091&page=1
And this is a vastly superior article on the matter published a few years prior:
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-24/news/mn-41536_1_movie-ads
I found Bonnie Churchill here:
http://www.criticschoice.com/members/bchurchill/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161416/bio
The following is her entire film career:

Child actress.
Her website is currently a Chinese blog. Her last 'review' was a 2008 film.
RT does not include Bonnie Churchill's 'review' of Croc3 in it's score. In fact, she's not even listed as a critic; they consider her an obscure celeb.

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And you quote first a 2002 article during the blurbmeister controversy era, rightfully so.. but then want me to conclude that Sony still has a cadre of ninja reviewers on standby because George Clooney is whiny and desperate and "asking for protection". Well I think that request for protection went unanswered for a reason.. there is none to give.
So, bringing Devin Faraci back into this.. Here's a guy that took a big $#!% on TFA just a few months ago:
https://thecantina.starwarsnewsnet....-and-calls-jj-hollywoods-greatest-mimic.8242/
And then we see his article about Ghostbusters:
http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/07/10/ghostbusters-review-bad-news-for-the-ghostbros
And there is not one use of the word 'fanfiction'.
So am I supposed to believe that he's paid by Sony!? Folks, if he was taking money from Sony we'd know about it because he was working for Badass Digest and speaking his mind about things during the dox'd time period cataloged in the Sony Hack. There is nothing in the Sony Hack showing Sony paying Devin Faraci or anyone else to make favorable statements for Sony IPs. If a whiny George Clooney is the only thing you can out of that data dump then those accusations are bupkis. They can't do it since they got busted in '02 and lucky they didn't because North Korea would have sent them back into the courthouse.
You guys wanna see a solid 'conspiracy' pulled out the Sony Hack, here you go:

And before anybody starts posting about Island Arcade:

 

taters* .

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they're like newspapers who have theire typical sources they always go to who can guarantee a good review as in; "you scratch my back and I scratch yours."

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Yeah, but we live in a world of smartphones that can bring up IMDB and RT with a few taps.. The general public attitude toward blurbmiesters nowadays is:

 

Rogert Ebert was the last of them :|

 

Roger Ebert was also a legit film critic who marched to the beat of his own drummer.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003033-brazil/reviews/?page=2&sort=

 

That's not surprising at all. We saw the angry PT and EU fanboys do the exact same thing to TFA on that site. I had to go through a +150 pages of butthurt just to get to positive user reviews of TFA. Well over 50% off those accounts were created the day of TFA's release and have little if any other reviews on them.
Wow, they pushed it down to 3.8.. So much for those proprietary algorithms..

 

Well said, I can't stand behavior like that in fandom. It's just like when all the butthurt BvS fans were whining about critic bias and putting forth absurd conspiracy theories about Disney paying critics to give it bad reviews. In reality though, Disney would have been wasting their money considering critics were destined to give it bad reviews based on the fact that the theatrical cut was an unfocused, self-important, bloated, dour train wreck of a film(I have heard the directors cut is big improvement however). Reshaping reality to fit one's own personal narrative is pathetic, even more so when it involves whether other people like a piece of pop culture that you do or don't.

As for this new Ghostbusters movie, I never really cared that much about it. Sure, all of the marketing for the film has been generally unfunny and terrible, but not in any way that I found to be particularly offensive. It just looked like another uninspired reboot in a long line of uninspired reboots. I figured it would probably do OK, but get middling reviews, which seems to be the case so far. Yes, the film is currently fresh on RT, but the average score is 6.5 out of 10, so a D at this point in time. The folks over at Collider all rated it about the same in their reviews as well, an entertaining enough film with some definite noticeable flaws.

I will say this though, Sony definitely has been dishonest in their portrayal of all of the dissatisfied fans as sexist trolls though. As the Midnights Edge videos that @Talon Karrde mentioned point out, Sony has done some rather underhanded things like deleting negative comments on their trailer, but leaving all the sexist ones in order to manufacture an issue that really didn't exist outside of a small minority of idiots. Sadly, a lot of SJW types are eating it right up to.

The only thing about this movie that has actually angered me though was hearing Fall Out Boy's rendition of the theme song. Seriously awful stuff, my expectations at hearing Fall Out Boy was covering the song were already at rock bottom, but man did they still manage to surprise me in how awful it was. I'm pretty sure that forcing people to listen to it is probably outlawed by the Geneva Convention somehow.

 

Dear God, that song sucks.. Missy Elliot's lyric's sounds like something she wrote while sitting on the commode smoking a blunt.
You bring up a good point about their tactics. I think it was Mundane Matt who said that Sony has just decided to go all in on trolling this mysoginy angle to sell tickets. They've certainly chosen a marketing strategy that is... original.
But then again, maybe we're not seeing the 'bigger picture' here. Maybe.. just maybe.. an even more devious plot is afoot..

 

I myself am not exactly the biggest fan of TFA by any means but even that is pretty low thing to do .

 

Well, I think it's a nice ideal, but IMHO to many in the fandom these "agents" are "the Devil they know" and what you are proposing is "the Angel they don't know". Goes double for the SJW too, btw. The interpretation is that these guys, no matter how off the hinges they are, get results.
I like to think about Fredrick Douglas as a good allegory. Douglas used John Brown's memory during and after the Civil War to get his agenda promoted, and got a lot of results out of it. But what many don't know is that John Brown offered Douglas a spot on the raid team. Douglas declined the offer.
So, it's kinda the human machiavellian nature of "kings and commanders" to play these extremes in this push/pull sort of way.
My two cents on the matter anyway.

 

As bad as the hate is, I said this recently, this movie either should not have happened at all or it shouldn't have been titled, "GHOSTBUSTERS" especially if the idea is to "world build.
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AT LEAST call it GHOSTBUSTERS: The Next Generation .