New Ghostbusters and the NFL
It’s funny how a movie that got so controversial vanished from the public mind so fast. The internet got so up in a huff about this damn movie for over a year seemingly based around one thing (Ladies were involved) and then it comes out, does mediocre business, and everyone forgets about it in minutes. Which is exactly what I expected and why I didn’t bother to see it. I found the outrage hilarious because it looked like the same as every other pointless remake of a classic that’s come out in the past few years. Robocop, Total Recall, Poltergiest, Point Break. Remember these stellar remakes? No you don’t. They were bland, competent products meant to earn back their money on pandering nostalgia for the classics. Please Hollywood, if you get anything from Ghostbusters’ mediocre to disappointing box office, it’s that you need to stop pointlessly remaking shit that was already perfectly timeless. As RLM said, “Congrats Internet, you wasted your time”. This movie never deserved to be anything but forgotten. Which I think it already has been.
Honestly, for as important a movie as the feminist side of the argument was making it out to be, it probably shouldn’t have been. This isn’t some big step forward for women in major roles. This felt like Sony had a soulless product remake on it’s hands and needed a way to sell it, so they came up with the female cast. It felt like a gimmick. These women didn’t get a real place to showcase why they are worth starring roles, they got stuck in a pandering product that was always going to be overshadowed by the original film. If anything, it strikes me almost as another example of Hollywood kind of screwing women over, by making them the gimmick to sell mediocre pandering disguised as a movie. I guess it sort of worked, feminists rallied behind it. But it makes me wonder if the movie would have gotten the attention at all if the cast was dudes. The female cast was the only aspect of the production that seemed interesting, because it was the only thing that looked new and different.
Ghostbusters and remakes in general really are like the New Browns. The old Browns were a classic. Jim Brown, that’s a football player. They had some okay to decent sequels well into the 80’s and early 90’s, but they weren’t quite the same team. But those teams get looked upon fondly now, don’t they? These new Browns have been nothing but disappointing to the point where it’s almost sad they remade them at all. This isn’t the team we wanted. We wanted more Browns, not this new crap. They can dress it up with gimmick selling points like dumb new uniforms and Johnny Trainwreck but it’s just another pointless remake. They need to get a real director in there to find what was great about the franchise again.
Yeah, I like your point about the film. Sorta like, “Sorry, women. We can’t come up with anything original for you to star in, so we’re gonna relegate you to some remakes.” That’s a little insulting in a way. Would have been more interesting if they kept continuity in place and these ladies were the four daughters of the original Ghostbusters or something.
As for the Browns, I really still see them as the least successful expansion team in my lifetime. Panthers and Jags have had some success. The Texans have two playoff wins… The Browns (est. 1999) have none. Zero! I know they got to “keep” the records of the Ravens franchise when it moved to Baltimore… that might good on paper, but it’s not reality. The Browns/Ravens franchise has been operating continuously for 60-some years and has two Super Bowl victories. The remake? Not so many…
I really wish they had just done the “soft reboot sequel” thing like they did with Jurassic World or Force Awakens. Technically a sequel but also a sort of reboot. I would have probably gone to see it if it was more of a Ghostbusters 3 with the original cast handing over the reigns to the ladies of the new generation.
This comic is not very funny. In fact it feels like the comic was made just so that you could talk about Ghostbusters and how you won’t watch it. And why won’t you watch it? Who cares, make jokes about sports, not movies.
The joke is about sports – or whatever youc all that the Cleveland Browns are trying.
Literally two comics ago, he made one talking about Pokemon. Just. Pokemon.
Awwwww is baby mad about someone making fun of Ghostbusters? :
1. It is technically a sports joke, only the blog post isn’t much about sports but that’s because
2. It’s July, which is literally the worst possible time for Football news in the entire year, but none of this even matters, because
3. It’s my site I can do what I want. You’ll get your football news back soon enough. One more week before preseason.
lol, u mad bro
I noticed a tv for hockey in the back,
Who the fuck watches the Colombus Blue Jackets. People are more likely to watch the Ohio Glory of the old WLAFle
Also, #JimBrown4Saddness
#FactoryReopeningToday,#MakeClevelandBeleveland
My future in-laws watch the Columbus blue jackets, so you watch your tone mister
As a decade long CBJ fan, I fail to see the difference in the level of sadness for rooting for either the Browns or the Jackets.
(And hey, it could be the Lake Ernie Monsters. AHL Champs!)
Forgot about lake Erie.
THE PUNS
Mad Max: Fury Road was amazing and Dredd was pretty good, although it’s not like they were remaking a classic with that one. Generally speaking though the blizzard of remakes over the past five years or so has been pretty sad. I didn’t want to see Ghostbusters because it didn’t look that funny and Ghostbusters 2 was bad enough, I didn’t need more. Of course I wasn’t making a big stink about it on the Internet. I have better things to do.
Fury Road isn’t a remake, it is the fourth installment in the series. George Miller wrote and directed all four movies. Also Tom Hardy is a better Max than Mel.
Fury Road is a sequel, and I’m not even sure I’d call Dredd a remake. It had nothing to to storywise with the original Judge Dredd, it felt more like a reboot of the Dredd character than just remaking the original beat for beat like the examples I posted.
Both movies did indeed own.
So what you’re saying is, we need to dig up the corpse of Harold Ramis and make him the new Coach and GM of the Browns. He’ll turn that team around!
That’s also my pitch for the sequel to Ghost Busters.
I recall first hearing about the Ghostbusters reboot when I saw a poster in a movie theater with a Ghostbusters logo on it. Nothing about the new cast being all female or anything like that. Just a poster with a Ghostbusters logo on it. My first thought was “That’s probably gonna suck.” Boy, I wasn’t expecting the shitstorm this movie was gonna cause.
Eventually, it just became SJWs and Anti-SJWs bitching at each other. If you don’t like the movie, you’re sexist, if you do like it, you’re a stupid feminazi and SJW. Once it hit that point, the arguments weren’t even about the movie anymore and solely about why certain ideologies suck. Hence why the movie is now totally forgetten. The shitstorm was never about the movie. No one cared about the movie to begin with.
yeah, which is why I got so amused, because this movie never deserved a lick of the controversy
I saw it. I’m shocked so many people had such strong opinions one way or the other. It was a summer comedy that wasn’t that great but wasn’t terrible.
You have to realize though, after it’s original theater run 1984 Ghostbusters was the 8th highest grossing movie of all time. Behind only the original Star Wars trilogy, Jaws, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Beverly Hills Cop (which also came out in 1984). Even after inflation it’s the 34th highest grossing movie of all time. Movies like the original Ghostbusters don’t happen often. You can reboot Robocop, Total Recall, and a ton of other movies, but remaking one of the most successful movies of all time is a recipe for failure.
I think remaking classic movies is already a recipe for failure, because the originals are already timeless classics. What chance does a remake have against a stone cold classic already revered? It’s a pointless uphill battle. Robocop is a classic, did it really need a remake? Did Total Recall? those movies were just fine already.
Hollywood needs to remake flawed films, films that didn’t reach their potential to begin with, because then comparing it to the original isn’t an automatic recipe for inferiority.
So Roadhouse?
Dave, I am shocked and appalled at you.
How could you not let us know whether the bowl on Colin’s desk is filled with M&M’s or Skittles?
That’s just offensive negligence, Dave.
Use your imagination
They’re jellybeans!
I love how half of the user names are just things that don’t exist (Dan Marino’s Super Bowl ring, Bernie Kosar’s liver, Landon Collins’ hands, Russell Wilson’s Oversized coat, Angry Pats fan, etc.)
Ayyy someone got the joke.
And then there’s Peyton Manning’s Sixhead, which ruins the streak of non-existent things.
Well, technically Peyton has an infinitehead.
Sowwy
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Did I miss anything?
Lmfao
I don’t know why, but ‘A Rashad Jennings 2 Yard Run’ is my favorite user name out of all of them, despite me never hearing of Rashad Jennings before prowling this comment section.
Irrelevant to the comic, but Terrelle Pryor, who has been a WR in the NFL for less than half the time Rueben Randle has, is probably a better route runner
I look at that Browns sweater with the bolder orange and think “Wow. Johnny Manziel was supposed to aid the franchise in selling all that new swag. They were supposed to be the new Seahawks. It was supposed to work out.”
Moral of the story: never let your quarterback wear the number 2. Matt Ryan is the only player it has ever remotely worked out for. Everyone else from johnny to couch to JaMarcus to Gabbert, it never works out for the player, and oftentimes it comes back to haunt the team too.
Saw it. It was a pretty good movie. I’d say it’s a remake more along the lines of Peyton Manning on the Broncos – not quite as glorious as the first time around, but still pretty damn impressive.
this is precisely what i’ve heard from the critics so far
Because womyn!
People weren’t mad that ladies were involved. They were mad because it was yet another remake. Nobody gave a hot shit about the women being involved. The problem was that any criticism of it was immediately shot down as “sexism”