Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire — Review Thread

Has a 45% on RT so best to watch Dune again instead.

2016 Ghostbusters was the wheel that broke Rotten Tomatoes. If anyone might have suspected that movie critics could have a bias, agenda or would use their own opinions to influence their reviews then the reviews for that movie removed all doubt.

I seen neither Dune 2 nor Ghostbusters: Afterlife. One of those I plan to watch in the coming days. The other…not anytime soon.

I was entertained by the conversation surrounding Ghostbusters 2016 more than anything having to do with the actual movie. I can't remember the last time an actual movie studio and cadre of film critics around the world declared war on an entire audience of ticket buyers. Unfortunately most people don't like to be guilted into seeing a movie, especially when it's not very good.

89% of its audience liked the movie. Meaning that 11% of Daily Wire viewers didn’t like the movie. Who are these 11%? Can we reach out to them? Would love to know their thoughts on the movie.

Frozen Empire has only been out for a day and a half. Pretty much only the fans of Ghostbusters would have rushed out to see it. SnoBorderZero threw the critics score at Doomsday as if Doomsday forgot about the 2016 movie. I think Doomsday would rather know what fans think. 87% (less than Afterlife’s 94%) paints a better picture for him. There’s also the IMDb and Letterboxd ratings to add more context. Across the board, it seems like fans liked this one less than Afterlife. Is it because it’s an objectively worse movie (as critics seem to think) or because Frozen Empire went on a different route than Afterlife? I don’t think Doomsday cares either way, but audience ratings (at least verifiable ones) have their merit.

I saw Afterlife. It was as useless a reboot as it gets. Escapes the brain the moment the credits roll.

I didn't see the 2016 Ghostbusters. Don't intend to.

There were definitely people on youtube talking smack, I just can't remember the last time a studio mobilized in order to publicly rip random people who were criticizing their movie before it even came out. Sony vs. YouTubers was always a silly matchup, like why waste the time? Why not try to make people want to watch your movie? Lots of people have been harpooning Star Wars for years (look at Acolyte discussion over the past 24 hours) but as far as I'm aware Disney executives haven't come out and said 'First off, misogyny.' And I remember at the time reading a number of the Ghostbusters reviews, both good and bad, and it was very odd that almost every single positive review started off mentioning 'feminism' or 'toxic masculinity' and relegating anything having to do with the actual movie to 4 paragraphs later. There was clearly an agenda on the part of mainstream critics, probably because of the backlash to the trailer, but at the end of the day its such a strange hill to die on. Richard Roeper said how bad it was and people laid into him. Why? Like how did a Ghostbusters movie become this battle of Salamis? There had been race and gender swapped movies for years prior, there have been a ton since and the online vitriol if anything has only gotten worse but nothing has been a lightning rod quite like Ghostbusters was. But any fair minded person will acknowledge it was terrible, it lost money albeit because of its bloated cost and not due to lack of ticket sales, and it was quickly swept under the rug and replaced by a movie featuring the characters that fans had wanted in the first place. Ghostbusters 2016 fought. Ghosbusters 2016 lost.

If you count drinking and playing Elden Ring then yes.

This better make your top ten how how you're talking this thing up.

If my comments' section is any indication, finishing the video is no prerequisite for having an opinion on it.