Who You Gonna Call When You Hate the New Ghostbusters?

     The Ghostbusters reboot just around the corner. We haven't had anything Ghostbusters related in a while with the last movie, a sequel, made in 1989, a couple of failed projects to get a third movie made, and a video game made almost 6 years ago in 2009. With the smell of nostalgia in the air, you can can feel the excitement or better yet the hate.
      The new Ghostbusters has been the subject of internet hate. Fanboys have taken to repeatedly  down vote trailers and have even gone as far as to harass director Paul Feig and cast members. It's has gone pretty much downhill ever since it was announced that who was directing it and that the reboot would feature a mostly female cast. The most recent of the negativity has come from YouTuber cinemasscre. Cinemasscre, real name James Rolfe, has pretty much made a 6 and a half "non review" discussing about how much he is not going to see and review the Ghostbusters movie. I could talk about how absurd, childish and the lack of professionalism that a supposed amateur movie reviewer on YouTube would go to make a 6 minute rant about how much they're not going to see a movie, but that's another day and another topic. This inspired me to finally talk about the movie and address the hate that the movie has brewed.
     Some opponents of the movie claim that the movie is just another cash grab for the studios to make money off a popular franchise. Hollywood has been the culprit of doing this for the past years and this could spark a debate on truly if Hollywood should should stop the trend of making remakes or reboots just to make quick cash instead of coming up with new innovative ideas and concepts and that is a actual problem. Whether that is the case for this particular movie or not is up to debate. One thing is for sure is that issue will not be resolved with giving the director and cast death threats and harassment.
      Bottom line it's just a movie. It's no need to get this worked up over a movie. No movie is worth this much hate. No movie is worth sending the cast and director harassment and death threats. For the people citing nostalgia and claiming that the movie will ruin the franchise, if one reboot is capable of doing that, then your childhood nostalgia and the franchise itself had nothing to stand on. If this is truly bad then I think the franchise is be just fine, it survived Ghostbusters 2. You can still watch the original Ghostbusters movie and enjoy that. You can even watch Ghostbusters 2 which wasn't as charming and funny as the first one. The new reboot doesn't take anything away from those movies. The new Ghostbusters reboot might be fine after all, then again you wouldn't know that if you're too busy downvoting trailers and making "non review" videos.

P.S. Harold Ramis probably wouldn't be upset over the new reboot. We tried contacting his ghost but reportedly its held in storage in a firehouse in downtown Los Angeles.

What are your thoughts on the negative wave of hate on the new Ghostbusters reboot. Is it justified?

Remakes and Reboots: Do They Really Suck?

     Like fashion, trends come back in again over time. The latest trend in movies to come back is remakes. That's right it is remake and reboot season again in Hollywood. It seems that this summer we have been receiving a ton of remakes happening and being announced.

     We have just gotten news that there will be a remake of the classic Big Trouble in Little China with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and not too long ago we just heard there's gonna be a remake of Stephen King's It. We also heard that there will be remakes of movies like Ghostbusters, The Craft, Gremlins, and many others. We just gotten movies not to long ago like Poltergeist and Mad Max. The remake reboot machine is fully running in Hollywood. But is that a good thing?

    Remakes and reboots get a flack from moviegoers and it seems rightly so. Most people write them off as lazily made with little to no originality in order to bank off of nostalgia and never could be better or is nowhere near as good as the original. And at times they are right. The Amityville Horror remake is a prime example. The original scared us while the remake was just an big overabundance of lame CGI that wasn't. The only good thing about the remake was all the good shirtless Ryan Reynolds scenes. But is it true that any remake or reboot that comes out is marked with the curse of it being bad? 

     It is true that a lot of these movies do end up being bad, but a some of them are not. Scream 4 is a good example. Scream 4, even though it is a sequel director Wes Craven set 4 to be a reboot with a completely new trilogy. 4 was almost as good as the other Scream movies as it was nearly in the same vein. Just as the original trilogy parodies horror movies, Scream 4 parodied the remakes and reboots of horror films. But Scream 4 is just one example.The truth is that remakes and reboots suck just as any other movie. Like any movie, you have to work with a certain, script, image, and direction.
     As for the demand of originality, some remakes do in a way try to be original when remaking a film. People who make these remakes were inspired, or at least they should, by the bar the original has set. Whether they set themselves near that bar varies. They can be very damn near it or miles below. Just like The Amityville Horror the director and the CGI probably tried to be original adding CGI effects to the movie and trying to make things and probably scare moments from the original scarier, but ultimately they failed.
     It seems that people don't really complain about remakes about them being unoriginal, but mainly because we want to see something new. We want to see something we've never seen before. We already know what happens in Poltergeist and Big Trouble in Little China, so seeing a remake of it does seems to be a burden unless to see what small changes have they made to the script, only to compare to the original and decide to complain about how it isn't like the original. What are your thoughts on remakes and reboots?