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Yeah, I finally got around to watching the 2016 Ghostbusters movie the other day.
It's fine. It's good. It's mostly inoffensive. It's not great the way radical feminists would make it out to be, nor is it terrible the way Irredeemably Toxic Shithole-types would make it out to be either.
I also watched Star Trek Beyond a day or two before that. I was actually more annoyed with that than I was with Ghostbusters. As I've said elsewhere, at least when I said "Man, this is stupid" while watching Ghostbusters, at least it was done with a smile still on my face. Not so much with Beyond. It was far too action-y, as I feared from watching the trailer, and all the cutesy dumbshit like using Beastie Boys as a weapon and Kirk on a motorcycle and all that was just stupid. I did like the callbacks to Star Trek Enterprise in Beyond though. That was pretty neat.
Oh, and I watched The Force Awakens and Rogue One as well. Those were straight up great. For TFA, it did indeed show that the style of J.J. Abrams is much better suited to Star Wars than it was to Star Trek.
My main complaint, overall, was against the Wilhelm scream. (EDIT, years later) Since that link there no longer works, given that my original Twitter account no longer exists, the gist of that now non-existent Twitter thread, as best as I can recall now, is that I basically think the Wilhelm scream is overused, and its use will completely bring me right out of my suspension of disbelief when I'm watching something that uses it, similar to the Howie scream and the like. (/EDIT, years later)
It's fine. It's good. It's mostly inoffensive. It's not great the way radical feminists would make it out to be, nor is it terrible the way Irredeemably Toxic Shithole-types would make it out to be either.
I also watched Star Trek Beyond a day or two before that. I was actually more annoyed with that than I was with Ghostbusters. As I've said elsewhere, at least when I said "Man, this is stupid" while watching Ghostbusters, at least it was done with a smile still on my face. Not so much with Beyond. It was far too action-y, as I feared from watching the trailer, and all the cutesy dumbshit like using Beastie Boys as a weapon and Kirk on a motorcycle and all that was just stupid. I did like the callbacks to Star Trek Enterprise in Beyond though. That was pretty neat.
Oh, and I watched The Force Awakens and Rogue One as well. Those were straight up great. For TFA, it did indeed show that the style of J.J. Abrams is much better suited to Star Wars than it was to Star Trek.
My main complaint, overall, was against the Wilhelm scream. (EDIT, years later) Since that link there no longer works, given that my original Twitter account no longer exists, the gist of that now non-existent Twitter thread, as best as I can recall now, is that I basically think the Wilhelm scream is overused, and its use will completely bring me right out of my suspension of disbelief when I'm watching something that uses it, similar to the Howie scream and the like. (/EDIT, years later)
