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9/6/16

Y'know, you've gotta respect Shia for not biting the hand that made him very, very rich (Michael Bay).

9/6/16

It wouldn't shock me if actors received very little actual direction or interaction with Spielberg. Unlike say Woody Allen or Spike Lee, Spielberg doesn't' seem that interested in actually holding the camera.

9/6/16

Kids, man, kids.

9/6/16

Tanks! Trains! Boats!

9/6/16

I guess it's sort of like my hatred for the Michael Bay Ninja Turtles movies without actually seeing them first.

9/6/16

Planned sequels can be cancelled if the audience doesn't show up. It happens all the time.

9/6/16

Independence Day minus Will Smith.

9/6/16

Bad Moms was a laser targeted success aimed squarely at my wife and her mommy friends. Excuse for a Girl's Night Out has already won half the battle there.

9/6/16

The original Ghostbusters rides about 60% on Bill Murray being Bill Murray.

9/6/16

"Pete is the focus of the film, not the dragon, who does not appear for much of the second act"

9/6/16

My 4 year old liked it, but his grandmother who took him, who has no knowledge of the original, found it boring.

9/6/16

Which oddly enough is terrible in most situations.

9/6/16

The books are delightful but don't easily lend themselves to the screen.

9/6/16

Was ID4 Resurgence a "sure thing"? I feel like once they couldn't afford Will Smith the whole thing was doomed.

9/6/16

There's nothing wrong with the Wimpy Kid movies, but they are on #6 or something. I mean, I enjoy Cars, but a third/fourth sequel (depending on how you count Planes) isn't exactly exciting to me.

9/6/16

Ghostbusters 2016 also got a huge amount of studio hype the smaller films didn't. Hard to have an opinion of a film you haven't even heard of.

9/6/16

It's on our list of "we should probably RedBox that at some point", but yeah, definitely didn't motivate our middle-aged, kid having butts to the theaters.

9/6/16

Huh, I actually think that could work. Take the source novel, but move it to Africa; I'm not enough of an expert to know a time and place it would work best.

9/6/16

I dunno, Ghostbusters II is a pale shadow of the original, but it's not an *awful* film.

9/2/16

Well, this definitely is a case of David critiquing Goliath.