Wow, this comment section has really reaffirmed what I said in the beginning about not talking about Ghostbusters online. Before you leave a comment directed at me or anyone else, you should genuinely think about what you’re saying. No matter if we agree or disagree, remember that the way you conduct yourself is representative of your side of the debate. This comment section is flooded with personal attacks/insults on me and other viewers as well as broad, closed minded oversimplifications without any actual evidence to support your opinions. If you wanna debate, criticize, or share an opposing opinion, then you absolutely should. But if you’re using this as an excuse to attack others due to your own self loathing over an eight year old movie of all things, I’m begging you to get a life.

It’s definitely subjective. Respect your opinion, but I couldn’t watch the movie ever again. I’ve watched it a few times, but Afterlife and Frozen Empire put the final nail in 2016’s coffin. The humour was just too slapstick for me!

I didn't HATE the 2016 GHOSTBUSTERS, (I'm an OG GHOSTBUSTERS FAN!), I was mostly "disappointed" that my favorite comedy actresses and the director of "Bridesmaids" (and episodes of "The Office") would deliver such a "MEH" movie. Also, it didn't need to be a "reboot", It could've easily been about a "Ghostbusters" franchise and the challenges of working in the shadow the first Ghostbusters.

“When I was a kid in 2016” Excuse me wtf?

This wasn't a bad Ghostbusters movie.... it's just a bad movie. If this movie is one of ur guilty pleasures in life then so be it, I can respect that. But don't sit there and say ehhhh.... it wasn't that bad when it was. I love Kate Mckinnon and even she couldn't save this train wreak. The two people who really soured me on this movie is Chris Hemsworth and being dumb for no reason, if they gave a quick back story on why he's dumb, it might not have been so infuriating to watch. And Leslie Jones ( Heavy Sigh ) I'm not gonna go into my rant about her, but stereotype about sums it up.

Its a shit show of a movie. Probably my least favorite of the series. But it did make me laugh at points, and I can say that some of the dialogue isnt the most atrocious thing ever. So theres that. You make good points tho.

I have a distinct memory where my family and I went to see this movie in theatres, I was young and stupid at the time. And because of that, I assumed that when the actors were talking without their mouths moving, I thought they were promoting some voodoo or satanic stuff or something and I ran out of the theatre crying. The editing was so bad it actually made me link it back to Satan.

Thanks for doing this. It's been 8 years and I still have no desire to watch this film. I had no idea Rowan even existed so hey more information out in the world. Thanks again.

Really enjoyed this video. You had a really great take/opinion on this movie!!!

I'm glad to see more and more positive talk about this film coming out in recent years, This has always been a strong favourite of mine in the franchise and watching all the films recently realised how much I really do love this movie. I highly recommend you seek out the extended cut as it has a lot more scenes you picked up were missing. Or seek out the fan edit Ghostbusters 3 By take me 2 your cinema, It includes the extended cut stuff as well as improving upon The film and its comedy Holtzman is probably my favourite Ghostbuster of all time and I'm actually making a cosplay of her for Comic-Con!

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Patty's pitch to become one of the Ghostbusters ( "I read a lot of nonfiction and you guys know a lot about this science stuff." ) Wow just wow, maybe if they had made the sequel they could have taught Patty to read instead of just looking at the pictures in the nonfiction books.

Whats the name of the music u use in this video? My shazam wont shazam it, also i agree this movie is under-rated

Was tainted for me before i saw it. Original ads implied a sequel. But the previous movies didnt happen so that was a lie. The stupid "OMG female only!" drama which overshadowed the real problems only made worse when people took it seriously and responded... the "if you hate this your sexist" thing.... cringe.... So when i saw it, i was already jaded. The upgraded weapons woulda made more sense as a sequel too. The effects were a bit too much... the bright blue coulda used another pass through the transparency filter

On paper, it SHOULD have been excellent. It was written, and, directed by a proven comedy hit-maker, and, the cast was stacked with 4 of the most talented, funniest comedic actors working today. For whatever reason, though, it just ended up NOT being the sum of it's parts.

I don't hate it, it is entertaining, though as you noted the editing is terrible, and the writing isn't all that great. I will agree with you that it is equal to G2, I'm not really a fan of that one either. I quite enjoyed Frozen Empire m'self, though I think the trailers try to sell you a different movie.

I tried re-watching the 2016 film right before 'Frozen Empire' came out. It just feels too much like an SNL skit rather than an actual GB movie. Which is a shame, because it's got a great cast. I can really only blame Paul Feig.

I agree with you, and I grew up with the original. I also think Holtzmann and Slimer are the best part of this movie. To me there are some fatal flaws : the editing, too many ad-libs and gross out humor that didn’t need to be there (the queef joke, a lot of dialogue about poop). Also maybe the atmosphere could have been more terrifying or cinematic. But I liked everything else. I especially enjoy the cartoony nature of the ghost and some of the characters. As a fan of cartoons like especially Looney Tunes I don’t think “cartoony” is necessarily a bad thing when it is executed in a funny way. I think Kate McKinnon looks exactly like a cartoon character here and I loved her for that. And the Neon ghosts and Slimer’s mischiefs are also very funny. I also like Kevin , except when he confuses his eyes with his ears, yes that may be cartoony but it would be dumb even for Patrick Star. And with a human character it just doesn’t seem believable. Other than that I thought some of his other traits were funny, like for example using glasses without lenses, I can totally see how a hipster himbo like him could use them only to appear cool or smart.

I agree. It was never as bad as people framed it to be, and the Ghostbusting gadgets were definitely a highlight! I would say it's better than 2, in that i would actually watch this one again. 2 was just depressing...

I forgot Charles Dance was in this movie

Wasn’t a ghostbusters movie, it was an overblown SNL skit

I was a kid when this came out and it was my shit! Now as an adult I see more of its faults and I don’t really hate it. In fact I really enjoy it so I agree with most of your takes. The worst problem 2016 created was that so many nasty people came out of the woodwork and will bring up a movie they hate at any second because it had women, women of color, lgbtqia women. It’s one thing to hate the move for bad writing, that’s fair, but don’t go spreading your bad agenda because a girl was a ghostbuster. Newsflash, THERE HAVE BEEN WOMEN GHOSTBUSTERS BEFORE THIS MOVIE AND EVEN MORE AFTER THIS MOVIE. Women are cool, stop being mean.

Yesss. It was so dumb. They changed so many things around. Only good thing abput it: Chris Hemsworth. 😍

I’ve been crucified for saying FE is hot garbage but I got banned from ghostbusters Reddit for my opinion

This must be satire.

Years later, it's still awful.

Yes. It’s a sin that the movie even exists in the first place.

This film is an anomaly. Very funny and talented people making it, but NONE of it was funny. Not one joke landed. Just a lot of meandering, screaming and slapstick-y behavior. Hemsworth wasn't comically stupid, he acted like a special needs individual. The FX and designs were lackluster. The ghosts all had WAY too much color saturation. And they took them from down on their luck blue collar exterminators and made them into John Wick-esque superheroes. Frozen Empire was great. There was no MCU-ification to it. But this one, they REALLY wanted them to be superheroes. Also, a hero is measured by their villain. What's Keaton's Batman without Nicholson's Joker? Kirk without Khan? Who did this film have? Rowan? So forgettable you had to look up his name 20 minutes later. Without going into any original Ghostbuster comparisons, it's just a BAD film. There's no entertainment value to it. It just wastes your time. And the whole video you tell people to keep an open mind and judge on it's own merits and then call Frozen Empire "trash." That just made your entire video hypocritical.

The worst thing about this movie is that the china town inspired designs for the protonpacks and outfits were pretty sick. It could have given the new ghostbusters their own character- too bad the everything else sucked

It’s not that I dislike the film or anything really, it’s Melissa McCarthy…. Can’t stand her type of comedy, ever since Identity Thief, she plays the exact same character, “I’m fat & I scream really loud cuss words in every movie!!!” Back in the day Melissa was great, I loved her as DNAmy from Kim Possible.. personally this movie is kind of lacking, and it could’ve been great…. But, I think your retrospective was great…. You’ve actually had me see it in a new way. Good work

Yes. Just saved everyone 23 minutes.

This movie is the textbook example of an amazing cast wasted on a terrible film. The plasticy cinematography robs it of the dramatic gravity that balances out the humour of the other films, and that bold choice ends up compounding the movie's other flaws. Studio meddling could be blamed for the editing, but there's no saving the script; and the four GBs (and Hemsworth) valiantly tried. I felt robbed of the amazing movie GB 2016 could have been if it kept the exact same cast, but combined them with an all new script and a different director.

Was it? Yes...some of the most horrific casting in recent history lol.

This 2016 ghostbusters was my favourite ngl.

This was a based chill video,at least you went in depth explaining the good points instead of blindly hating it because it was a female reboot. You are a good man thank you.

That movie was friggin awful

Though I dont fully agree with your takes on Frozen Empire, the whole Picasso speech was great and Im totally stealing it

I don't get why people hated this movie, I thought it was funny. Especially the Chris Hemsworth scenes. Hilarious.

For me i like ghostbusters 2016 and still i do but i think there could be improvements and extra scenes like the ghostbusters 2016 lego dimensions added and i think they should bring back the deleted scenes because i think they are good and adds character and i think people are just overreacting

Yes

i actually like the 2016 movie

I respect your opinin but yes you will like it if it was the first ghostbusters movie you watched as a kid. Totally understand that, this is your nostalgia, but afterlife, and frozen empire is fan service and nostalgia to the og fans and fans of the cartoons, maybe thats why you didnt like it. 2016 was just bad, but maybe im to old.. and 2016 slimer was not slimer. He was ugly.. lol 😆 🤣 i know thats an oxymoron. Anyways frozen empire will always trump 2016, was not a perfect movie but it was good and had amazing fan service.

Finally someone who doesn't just try and bash this movie. I enjoyed it and so did my family. We re-watch it more than GB2 and it still has good laughs and fun moments. I don't understand the hate.

dont know how i got to this video but i would have though that it had way more views... it was quite funny and good

I want a sequel to this movie. It just needs a great script with zeul

it's fun !!

Yes, Yes, it really is that bad, chock full of forced humor and slap stick nonsense. Looked like a 5 minute SNL skit streched out to 2 hours. The movie had a few moments that were fun but the other 90 % of the movie was just stupid. The original GB worked because they took it somewhat serious and even had elements of actual horror.

Internet manboys really hate anything that has women in it.

It's fine. I like it well enough. It's as good as GB2, and honestly, I respect it more than I do Afterlife. Afterlife has a REALLY weird tone. I think people forgot that what everyone liked about Ghostbusters, the thing that "worked" about it more than anything else, is how funny it is. Afterlife takes this nostalgic bordering on religious view of the original and leans waaaaay too hard on "Look! It's a twinkie! Look! It's the Ecto-1! Look! It's the original Ghostbusters! Does it make sense for them to have suddenly showed up? Nope! Did Venkman just break his hip when they got knocked down? Probably, but try not to think about that! It's ghost Spengler, that's not morally questionable, is it? Wasn't the original Ghostbusters movie SO GOOD?" I mean, yeah, in fact if it wasn't for my gf I probably would've just turned off Afterlife to watch that instead.

I love this Ghostbusters , better then the 2 last one by far

I thought it was a fine version. Too many compare it to the original.

No but it shouldn’t be rated better than the newer movies. It’s hard to get through with all the dragged out jokes and the competition of who’s funnier.

The reason no sequel lives up to the original, is that a lot of the original secretly is a little bad and unfunny.

It was shit.

2016 sucked as a ghostbusters movie and it wasn't funny at all which I suppose is subjective but I didn't care how bad it sucked all that much because it's not canon to the original so I easily ignored its existence after watcjung it like 3 times. frozen empire kinda sucked ass though

2016 was better than ghostbusters 2 with original cast.

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I’m sorry I respect your opinion I hate ghostbusters is awful I would rather watch ghostbusters frozen empire over ghostbusters 2016 it the worst ghostbusters movie ever it obnoxious it’s unfunny it insult to Harold ramis memory watch ghostbusters frozen empire any of the week over ghostbusters 2016

I assume this guy was raised by his mom to like this movie.

1. None of the jokes land... 2. You made no mention of the CONSTANT talking/ad-libbing 3. The "Fight scene" was all played on a green screen against cgi ghosts. Theres nothing impressive about it. 4. You are not an expert by any means, please don't present yourself as one.

You were just raised wrong.

Yes, it was that bad. There. I saved you 23 minutes.

Boo.

No it wasn't, it was the hype leading up to it saying "This is going to be Better than the Male Version' and 'Females are going to dominate this franchise' is what caused the backlash. I personally didn't mind the 2016 Ghostbusters and defended it saying it was alright and had a bit of the spirit. Sighting that making males Dumb or antagonist a little Too on the nose.

It wasn't that bad at all. But chronically online incel Republicans needed an easy target to make themselves feel better.

It hurts my soul, you're entitled to your opinion though.

Yes, yes it was. There. Saved you over 20 minutes.

2016 gave us The Huntsman Winter War, Allegiant, and Gods of Egypt. But only Ghostbusters, a perfectly mediocre movie, got crapped on as hard as it did. “Because it ruined my childhood”. Wah. Wah. It’s an objectively no better or worse a movie than Ghostbusters 2. Which you don’t remember. No one remembers it. And no one would remember this one if it didn’t have an all female cast. Asked and answered.

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