It does, actually.

So... you hate it now, or you love it now, Mr Holmes? Because last I checked, "Looks like Schumacher Batman" was the worst thing you could say about a movie.

Incidentally, semi-related off-topic, but as of yesterday I'm being peer-pressured to cosplay as Ladybeard for an upcoming nerd convention. Good idea, or bad idea? (lesbians may be involved)

>>So... you hate it now, or you love it now, Mr Holmes?

The answer is still neither.

>>Because last I checked, "Looks like Schumacher Batman" was the worst thing you could say about a movie.

This is still not a movie, it's a trailer.

Also

Looks like Schumacher Batman may be the worst thing you can say about a BATMAN movie. It might be more appropriate for a Ghostbusters mmovie. I think you could make a case that the original Ghostbusters kind of looked like a Shumacher Batman film.

Also:

(and this a big digression)

LATELY, I've been forced to reevalutate the Burton Batman films, and they're not as great as I thought. Maybe it's time to take another look at Schumacher. They're such a departure, they really should be considered a reboot from the Burton films, although, for some reason, no one ever does this.

As a comedy, the Adam West Batman looks better than ever now. Maybe if I look at the Shumacher Batman in a similar light, it'll work. It's been at least ten years since I've seen either of them. Of course, in the 90s, hard core fans of the Batman of the Comics...uh, graphic novels, wouldn't take kindly to a Batman Comedy... but you know, like the man said, "Why so serious?"

Also :

It wasn't da LOOK of the Schumacher films that was ever a problem. It was da scripts.

Also:

I know "Batman and Robin" is universally recognized as a piece of shit, but is the same thing true about "Batman Forever"?

I meant it as a compliment. Can you imagine a dark gritty Ghostbusters reboot? Ugh.

I will never accept the DC Universe until Zack Snyder is fired for John Waters, no one should.

A John Waters Ghostbusters I could live with. A Joel Schumacher, no.

It's like saying, "ChrisChan, Gonterman, I see no difference, use either of them".

A john waters ghostbusters does sound awesome.

It's a pity that the Ghostbusters franchise will be stone dead after this, because John Waters' Ghostbusters is something I would have been willing to Kickstart.

What if they did Ghostbusters like the Mission Impossible movies, where it's a different director doing their own take on the material each time?

Schumacher does one, then John Waters does one, then everything goes to shit when Michael Bay does one and it somehow ends up being about Benghazi.

Who in the world, other than JHM, sees movies for the 3D? I haven't been impressed by 3D in 20 years and I assume the 2 movies that impressed me then ("Wings of Courage" and some muppet thing at MGM studios) impressed me mostly because I was 9 and it was new.

Remember that scene in the new Mad Max where the steering wheel is coming straight at you for like a full minute? I don't even remember if I saw it in 3D or not but I remember rolling my eyes at it either way.

Who in the world, other than JHM, sees movies for the 3D?

You make it sound like the only reason 3D movies exist is for my benefit.

If there's a 3D option I'll always see it in 3D. I like modern 3D movies and have seen enough to know that all of them are nowhere near created equal. A bad 3D trailer guarantees I wont see your movie.

2D movie art snobs are the easiest to pander to, since the industry can do it easily by investing less in the movie.

JHM speaks truth about batman. I'll probably always like the Burton batman for nostalgia reasons, but it gets worse every time I see it. Adam West batman is the most fun for me nowadays, and I think a John Waters batman would be great if it was a gayed up, well more gayed up version of that.

Weird, I would not have expected 3D to be popular here at all. I'm not a 2D movie art snob (?) but 3D is rarely done well and I generally stop noticing it 5 minutes into the movie anyway. Not all 3D movies are created equal, but it seems like most of them have that terrible pop-up book style 3D tacked on in post.

yes, it does look bad.

"I don't know if this is a race thing or a lady thing..."

really?

I'm not mad, just sayin'...

Yeah, this looks fairly bad and cynical, but I couldn't care less personally.

Stars for fandom nerd rage.

Yeah, this looks pretty decent. Not actually-go-see-it-in-theatres decent, but watch-it-on-the-plane-or-at-home, certainly.

The comediennes were good, the CGI was good, I liked the shots of New York and nods to the culture, the bits of plot as revealed were reasonably Ghostbusterey. Internet should relax.

Maybe watch-it-on-the-plane, but given that we're living in an era of laptops, tablets, and on-plane drinking, the question is: why? Why bother, even with that?

Anyways, I'm glad a not-as-shitty-as-before movie trailer is finally bridging the gap and bringing poeTV together, so stars for friendship!

If I see it in the theater, it'll be for the 3D.

00:11

I saw something like this in a 3D theater trailer for this movie.. Only I think it was slower. I'm saying this literally: NOTHING I've EVER seen in a movie made me react like that. My heart jumped. It was just scary fun.

Really, Fedex. Racism and sexism are real, no matter how much you deny it.

Haha ok I can see trying to convince anyone I could care less would be an exercise in futility

Actually, nowadays, 3D is usually the reason I'll go to see a movie in the theater.

I believe you because: why would you lie about something like that?

Is it because they took out almost all of the bad jokes and replaced it with a
"Emphasize that Tension and A Plot exist in this movie"
trailer?

I'm not going to watch it because I never gave a fuck about Ghostbusters and it looks like a shitty movie.

I loved Spy, The Heat, and even Bridesmaids, and this movie just looks so utterly, heart-wrenchingly awful.

"The Heat" was a lot funnier than I had anticipated.

At least they took the "That's gotta hurt!" out of this trailer.

Oh no, there's a chance I might turn out to be wrong on the internet.

How will I face the morning light.

You know, it occurs to me that we had basically this same exchange in the last Ghostbusters video and it's stupid.

Let's all just agree that this movie would have been better if Harold Ramis were still around to contribute to it.

And also that my cat smells nice and is pretty.

I'll admit it. I'm totally rooting for this movie to be a huge success, and to make the haters look like assholes. But I'm not at all convinced that's going to happen. Luckily, these guys look like assholes either way.

AGREEMENT ACCEPTED.

Now what I WOULD want to watch is the making of the first trailer. World's most incompetent editor or most clueless exec?

They took all the bits that were supposed to be good and cut them into a trailer, on autopilot. They forgot to check the bits for quality.

The second trailer is the real work of genius.

According to her IMDB page, Katie Dippold is listed as "writer" for 54 episodes of MAD TV, which means that she was in the room.

More recently, 7 episodes of "Parks and Recreation" are listed as written by Katie Dippold, which means she wrote them.

I really like Chris Hemsworth.

yes, mainly when getting repeatedly punched by Hulk

(for comic effect)

I was thinking of moments like

"Be careful what you say about Loki... he is still my brother."

"He's killed nineteen people."

"He's adopted."

I like when Thor takes his shirt off.

The striking thing from this trailer is that this has had over 30 years of practical effects and CGI advancement to work with over the 1984 incarnation and roughly triple the effective budget, and the special effects look so bland and unappealing. It's like a no budget SyFy channel rush job that's been given a little polish by a big time studio.

Apparently this movie cost over 150 million dollars to make. Mind boggling. I can't see a penny's worth of that on the screen.

>>>Apparently this movie cost over 150 million dollars to make. Mind boggling. I can't see a penny's worth of that on the screen.

ARGHHH!!! SWEET JUMPING BABY JESUS HORATIO CHRIST!!!!

IT"S NOT THE MOVIE!!! IT'S NOT THE MOVIE!!!! IT'S THE FUCKING TRAILER!!! IT'S THE FUCKING TRAILER!!!

Do you remember the first trailer, which had almost no effects? You think it might be possible that they're not showing you the whole thing at once?

You can take any piece of shit, add the usual fading in and out of black and the usual crashing metallic percussion noises, build to a climax, and make an exciting trailer. I am absolutely certain that somebody at SONY pictures knows how to do that. It doesn't prove anything.

In the Immortal words of Dudley Manlove, "ALL YOU OF EARTH ARE IDIOTS!"

Even though I'm not a medical professional, I'd advise you to take a "chill pill" or five, JHM. Your fevered white-knighting of Neo-Ghostbusters makes your fevered obsessions with...who can remember them all...look calm in comparison.