GhostBusters 2016 **SPOILERS FROM POST 1751 ONWARD**

Grayditch

IMDB ratings are absolutely useless to be honest. I find Rotten Tomatoes generally closer to my own rating of a film.

Grayditch

Grayditch wrote: »

IMDB ratings are absolutely useless to be honest. I find Rotten Tomatoes generally closer to my own rating of a film.

What I find interesting right now is the difference in scores between Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, both of which work on the same basis - an average of aggregated critical reviews.

MT has it at 60%, while RT has it at 73% and "certified fresh"

nix

Deleted User wrote: »

What I find interesting right now is the difference in scores between Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, both of which work on the same basis - an average of aggregated critical reviews.

MT has it at 60%, while RT has it at 73% and "certified fresh"

I usually click on "top critics" on RT to see if there is a difference in rating, usually find it give a more accurate reading based on my own opinion.

The top critics review of this is more in line with Meta, I'm not sure how a certified fresh is given

Carlos Orange

Grayditch wrote: »

IMDB ratings are absolutely useless to be honest. I find Rotten Tomatoes generally closer to my own rating of a film.

In this particular case at least the IMDB rating is meaningless because it is swamped with people giving 1 or 10 for reasons nothing to do with the film itself.

S.M.B.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

What I find interesting right now is the difference in scores between Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, both of which work on the same basis - an average of aggregated critical reviews.

MT has it at 60%, while RT has it at 73% and "certified fresh"

Those 2 figures aren't measuring the same thing.

MC is saying that the aggregate score for Ghostbusters is 60% or 3/5.

RT is saying that 73% of critics have given the movie a favourable review.

On RT a film gets a certified fresh label if it exceeds 75% and only looses it if it drops below 70%.

psinno

psinno wrote: »

In this particular case at least the IMDB rating is meaningless because they are swamped by people giving 1 or 10 for reasons nothing to do with the film itself.

Absolutely.

I remember that before the Wind That Shakes the Barley was released, it was pretty much brigaded by people voting it down due to the fact it was seen as an anti-English movie by an English director.

ShakerMaker91

bit off topic but does anyone know anywhere selling Ghostbusters the video game from 2009 on Xbox 360. Would love to play it again checked Gamestop and Adverts they don't have it. Also Amazon are selling it pre-owned at a massive price. Any help would be appreciated!

Mickeroo

Deleted User wrote: »

What I find interesting right now is the difference in scores between Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, both of which work on the same basis - an average of aggregated critical reviews.

MT has it at 60%, while RT has it at 73% and "certified fresh"

Not really that comparable when the sample size on RT is over 5 times larger than the metacritic one. 52 reviews vs 260+

Plus if every critic gave GB 6/10 it would have 100% on RT, their methods for compiling the figures are different.

ps3lover

psinno wrote: »

In this particular case at least the IMDB rating is meaningless because it is swamped with people giving 1 or 10 for reasons nothing to do with the film itself.

Ghostbusters was at a 2.5 or something like that a week before release, so yeah, people where clearly voting it down.

ps3lover

Mickeroo wrote: »

Not really that comparable when the sample size on RT is over 5 times larger than the metacritic one. 52 reviews vs 260+

Plus if every critic gave GB 6/10 it would have 100% on RT, their methods for compiling the figures are different.

From what I've read, when a critic submits their review to Rotten Tomates, they select either fresh or rotten. That's why some 3/5 reviews maybe fresh and some are rotten.

mdwexford

ShakerMaker91 wrote: »

bit off topic but does anyone know anywhere selling Ghostbusters the video game from 2009 on Xbox 360. Would love to play it again checked Gamestop and Adverts they don't have it. Also Amazon are selling it pre-owned at a massive price. Any help would be appreciated!

Cex have it for €18.

Mickeroo

ps3lover wrote: »

From what I've read, when a critic submits their review to Rotten Tomates, they select either fresh or rotten. That's why some 3/5 reviews maybe fresh and some are rotten.

That makes sense, there's plenty of times I've seen rotten reviews that were relatively positive and fresh reviews that seemed more negative than you'd expect.

Tony EH

ShakerMaker91 wrote: »

bit off topic but does anyone know anywhere selling Ghostbusters the video game from 2009 on Xbox 360. Would love to play it again checked Gamestop and Adverts they don't have it. Also Amazon are selling it pre-owned at a massive price. Any help would be appreciated!

Ebay is probably your best bet.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=ghostbusters+video+game&_osacat=1249&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1311.R1.TR3.TRC1.A0.H0.Xghostbusters+xbox.TRS0&_nkw=ghostbusters+xbox+360&_sacat=1249

Hande hoche!

Will give them credit for not including a dance number in the film. Leaving it till the credits was far preferable, as people could leave.

Was there a dance sequence? I didn't realize as I left as soon as they began to roll.

Grayditch

Oh, Jesus. Glad I avoided that

constitutionus

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Will give them credit for not including a dance number in the film. Leaving it till the credits was far preferable, as people could leave.

ya have to wonder how much of that was down to the backlash. the leaked hack emails had feig mad into including that dance number from the beginning.

lots of stuff got dumped from this by the looks of things right up to the last minute before release.

thank god they dumped that "snot posession" thing too.

Links234

Ah come on, that dance routine was the best thing in the entire movie nearly, I adored it!

ShakerMaker91

Hande hoche! wrote:

Will give them credit for not including a dance number in the film. Leaving it till the credits was far preferable, as people could leave.

That dance routine bit confirmed to me Paul Feig had absolutely no interest in making a proper Ghostbusters film.

Mickeroo

I was disappointed the dance routine got shunted to the end credits tbh, would have been in the spirit of the daft statue of liberty bit from Ghostbuster 2 which is one of the better moments in that film.

conorhal

Mickeroo wrote: »

I was disappointed the dance routine got shunted to the end credits tbh, would have been in the spirit of the daft statue of liberty bit from Ghostbuster 2 which is one of the better moments in that film.

Noooooooo!

It's suddenly occurred to me that the movie Paul Feig seems to have rebooted wasn't Ghostbusters at all, it was Ghostbusters 2, a pale cash in of a sequel that retreads the original storyline with a few minor tweaks that offer nothing new and in which everybody seems to suffer a degree of amnesia about the events that occurred in the original.

I still legitimately can't tell whether you're all pulling my leg or whether there was an actual dance routine.

maximoose

Haha there definitely was. It was the majority of the credits IIRC, mostly Chris Hemsworth and the military extras.

Arne_Saknussem

Apparently they're putting it back in for the extended cut DVD release.

silverharp

apparently the makers of the computer game released in connection with the film has gone bankrupt. Maybe in 30 years all the copies will be found buried in a desert somewhere :pac:

silverharp

silverharp wrote: »

apparently the makers of the computer game released in connection with the film has gone bankrupt. Maybe in 30 years all the copies will be found buried in a desert somewhere :pac:

Do you mean the old game or is there another one coming? AFAIR Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, and others viewed that as being Ghostbusters 3 more than anything else.

Mickeroo

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you mean the old game or is there another one coming? AFAIR Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, and others viewed that as being Ghostbusters 3 more than anything else.

There's a game that tied in with the release of this film.

maximoose

And by almost all accounts, it's absolutely terrible.

silverharp

Deleted User wrote: »

Do you mean the old game or is there another one coming? AFAIR Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, and others viewed that as being Ghostbusters 3 more than anything else.

http://kotaku.com/ghostbusters-developer-fireforge-games-goes-bankrupt-1784625739

Ghostbusters Developer Fireforge Games Goes Bankrupt

Three days after releasing the new Ghostbusters game, development studio Fireforge Games filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Kotaku has learned. The company has been liquidating assets throughout July in an attempt to pay off a debt of at least $12 million, according to bankruptcy filings.

Fireforge, not to be confused with a tabletop company with the same name, may only be known for the recent Ghostbusters game, which was received terribly when it was released alongside the movie on July 12. One possible explanation: The game was developed in just eight months, according to one person who worked on it. On July 15, the company filed for bankruptcy.

Tony EH

Deleted User wrote: »

I still legitimately can't tell whether you're all pulling my leg or whether there was an actual dance routine.

Watch and puke....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dyk4dO_Wbk