Ghostbusters!
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jackI really enjoyed it.
*All* of it didn't resonate with me, but there were enough awesome moments I really enjoyed it.
The beginning, being sucked into the basement of the old house, was really scary.
I felt like there was a bit of a missing middle. Like, first they were disbelieved completely, then they had a climax at the concert. Then I was expecting some other gigs, but they seemed to go straight to "shut down, then called to the dramatic conclusion".
Holtzman was amazing. <3 <3 <3. I loved smashing the guitar. And the moment I went from "ok" to "it's amazing" was when she was showing down with the ghosts with her new pistols near the end.
I realise I'm not really supposed to nitpick this, but... if your takeaway soup is bad, why don't you buy it from somewhere else instead? That doesn't even require any human confrontation at all.
Also... there's two people who wrote a book. One of them wants credit for it. The other wants no credit for it. Hey, you think you can see a compromise they could have made here...?
Men
I sometimes felt Kevin was over the top in exactly how clueless he was -- not just surprising but impossible. And maybe they should have TAUGHT him how to answer a phone, not just lamented it. But it was also a funny and sweet, the way the ghostbusters were protective of him.
I enjoyed the villain. Both that he was an evil pathetic dork for whom the ghostbusters were the perfect foil. But also, that he had just enough irony to make to make it funny, like when he infiltrated a club and high-fived one of the other club-goers. And when he possessed Kevin, and made the whole crown dance.
Question
Something I've noticed in other films from some of the same people. There seems to be a LOT of "Hey, um, I don't want to be too direct, but um, I noticed you didn't do [obviously reasonable thing that's massively inconsiderate to and inconvenient for the speaker], so um [voice trails off in unspoken implied request to maybe do that in future if it's not too inconvenient]..."
And I think that's a mildly exaggerated form of an often female-coded form of speech, of being indirect because it's often not accepted to be direct. But it seems to be played up a lot. And I'm not sure if (a) it's just normal speech I don't hear so much of or (b) it's supposed to be funny in a sympathetic way. Is it obvious to other people? Because I get the feeling it's the latter, and I feel like I'm supposed to sympathise, but I find it somewhat painful to watch, like embarrassment humour.
*All* of it didn't resonate with me, but there were enough awesome moments I really enjoyed it.
The beginning, being sucked into the basement of the old house, was really scary.
I felt like there was a bit of a missing middle. Like, first they were disbelieved completely, then they had a climax at the concert. Then I was expecting some other gigs, but they seemed to go straight to "shut down, then called to the dramatic conclusion".
Holtzman was amazing. <3 <3 <3. I loved smashing the guitar. And the moment I went from "ok" to "it's amazing" was when she was showing down with the ghosts with her new pistols near the end.
I realise I'm not really supposed to nitpick this, but... if your takeaway soup is bad, why don't you buy it from somewhere else instead? That doesn't even require any human confrontation at all.
Also... there's two people who wrote a book. One of them wants credit for it. The other wants no credit for it. Hey, you think you can see a compromise they could have made here...?
Men
I sometimes felt Kevin was over the top in exactly how clueless he was -- not just surprising but impossible. And maybe they should have TAUGHT him how to answer a phone, not just lamented it. But it was also a funny and sweet, the way the ghostbusters were protective of him.
I enjoyed the villain. Both that he was an evil pathetic dork for whom the ghostbusters were the perfect foil. But also, that he had just enough irony to make to make it funny, like when he infiltrated a club and high-fived one of the other club-goers. And when he possessed Kevin, and made the whole crown dance.
Question
Something I've noticed in other films from some of the same people. There seems to be a LOT of "Hey, um, I don't want to be too direct, but um, I noticed you didn't do [obviously reasonable thing that's massively inconsiderate to and inconvenient for the speaker], so um [voice trails off in unspoken implied request to maybe do that in future if it's not too inconvenient]..."
And I think that's a mildly exaggerated form of an often female-coded form of speech, of being indirect because it's often not accepted to be direct. But it seems to be played up a lot. And I'm not sure if (a) it's just normal speech I don't hear so much of or (b) it's supposed to be funny in a sympathetic way. Is it obvious to other people? Because I get the feeling it's the latter, and I feel like I'm supposed to sympathise, but I find it somewhat painful to watch, like embarrassment humour.