Have I mentioned that we saw Ghostbusters over the weekend?
Very good. Top notch. I wanted more small business finance, but I guess that's the 80s mindset and not now.
Incompetent feds, though? Perfect.
Heck, I even enjoyed the villain being an MRA troll -- the same people they've been busting for months.
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The identity of the villain was great. Holtzmann was wonderful. I liked but didn't love it.
ReplyDeleteRobert Bohl Clearly by having different taste preference regarding a movie about busting ghosts, you have ruined my childhood. Apologize, or name a time and place!
ReplyDeleteI think instead of being about entrepreneurship it was about the survival of new ideas in academia and how to bypass such barriers.
ReplyDeleteI saw it Monday. The group dance sequence was wasted in the credits. Should have been in the movie. Also odd that they cut a Kristin Wiig leaving the group sub plot when they obviously used her separated from the group and return. First act was funny set up, third act was awesome action sequences. Fun movie overall.
ReplyDeleteApparently the first cut of the movie ran over 3 1/2 hours long. I think the dance sequence went well in the credits.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad they edited it down. In my view, a movie should be between 90 and 110 minutes. At 117, it was a little long, but I'm OK with that. Anything under 120 is a success.
ReplyDeleteAt even 2.5 hours, I want an intermission. I want a boozey drink waiting for me, to stretch my legs and hit the head.
Yeah, I binge watched Gormenghast in a day. No big. But WAY too much to do without an intermission.
ReplyDeleteI thought the movie was fine overall, though I didn't exactly care for the villain. Well. The villain is fine, but I thought he made for a weak main antagonist. He felt like an underling to me. (at the time my comment to my friend was "He reminds me of one of the evil geniuses from Buffy. He's kinda creepy, and definitely up to no good but not really... scary.")
ReplyDeleteThe theater wasn't very busy on Monday when we went to see it... a couple of dozen people were there. My friend and I were theonly ones who stayed through the credits, we are Marvel trained.
Matt, did you have the same problem with Rick Moranis as a weak villain?
ReplyDelete[ Do try not to dogpile. Dissenting opinions are AOK ]
ReplyDeleteAnd, from my view, the squirrly little guy was the lead up villain. The real villain ... looked more like a greek god.
Norse god, you mean, William?
ReplyDeleteI disagree, though. The squirrely manchild has always been the lead villain of these movies.
Pretty much.
ReplyDeleteAnd Peter McNichol is a GIFT.
Robert Bohl I'm not sure. I just mean he's ridiculously handsome.
ReplyDeleteI honestly can't say. I know I have seen both GB1 and GB2, and have a general sense that I enjoyed them... but I've not seen either in like 20 years.
ReplyDeleteBut also, neither of those characters were the main villains. In 1 it was Sigourney Weaver as Gozer the Gozarian, and in two is was... whoever it was that played Viggo the Carpathian. The squirly guys were jsut lead ups.... and seriously, in 1 I wouldn't even have called Moranis' a lead up villain... he was just a comic-relief pawn.
So I guess no, after saying all of that I didn't have the same issue because I consider it to be comparing two different situations. :P
Sigourney Weaver is a damsel-in-distress who eventually, in the finale, gets transformed into a villain. But Moranis was the villain throughout the movie.
ReplyDeleteMatt Johnson Maybe, but I think some facts are mistaken and that could make the internet angry.
ReplyDeleteSigourney weaver wasn't Gozar. She was Zule. "There is no dana only Zule". Gozar was the last boss, after the keymaster and gatekeeper turned into dogs.
I'm pretty sure, at least. These deets don't destroy your point -- at all! -- but having the deets right only strengthens your argument.
Even better, neither of them was the main villain in 1. :P Did they both turn in to dogs after they boinked to open the portal? Like I said it's been 20 years... my memory is a bit vague.
ReplyDeleteMatt Johnson That's right:
ReplyDeleteGB1, main villain: Gozar (she had a flat top haircut then became Staypuft). Zule was haunting Dana's apartment. Moranis was trying to bang Dana and was hilarious.
GB2, main villain: Viggo the Carpathian! Viggo was haunting a picture in McNichol/Dana 's art gallery. McNichol was trying to bang Dana and was hilarious.
GB2016, main villain: dead jerk. He ascended to godhod (kind of), and was haunting the city. He wasn't trying to bang anyone, thankfully.
Pretty similar, I think!
Similar, sure. I think the difference for me is that in GB2016 he is still /himself/. Even when he is godlike he just feels... dorky. It doesn't mean not powerful and dangerous and evil... I guess I was just waiting for there to be another villain behind him.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I think I kind of was, too. But I found it refreshing that there wasn't, if that makes sense. But then again, I'm all about the banality of evil.
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