GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE (Spoiler Review) - Do NOT Answer The Call
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is here and boy are we excited for this one. In this hotly anticipated follow up to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, we get everything we wanted in a legacy sequel… kids, drones and old people. Don’t miss our gushing review.
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Thank you for reminding us how little success has come from our efforts, lol. But seriously, we’re ready for a little algorithm love.
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This review was everything I hoped it would be...and I’m 2mins in.
I worked at the central library in 1987 I loved it , but I didn't see any ghost what a disappointment.
Afterlife and this are just so tonally off from the originals. The whole tone of the originals was that these were a group of normal to nerdy guys who were taking on what should have been a glamorous job, but in such a way that it was no more glamorous than being a local plumber, all for comedic effect. The problem with these sequels is that they're made with the audience's nostalgia in consideration and baked in. Afterlife took itself so seriously it expected us to treat the Ecto-1 with almost religious reverence, but originally it was the punchline to a joke that they were so poor they could only afford an old broken down ambulance as a company vehicle. And now in this movie the tone is pushed even further out because Winston has a high tech ghost containment research facility that looks like it would take a budge in the millions to maintain and operate, and yet the Ghostbusters are still driving around in what is now a car that's pushing 70 years old. Together none of it works.
You'd think Winston would have supplied them with a reliable vehicle from this century but then how would they cash in on the nostalgia?
Yep, a lot that doesn't make sense. Two years has passed since Afterlife, Winston is rich, with a new lab, but can't buy a new vehicle in that two years time? I mean, there is the newish van, but it's not being used much.
The film is actually a little better on second watch, but still needs a lot of improvements. SONY needs to get their act together and stop with the memberberries, and get better writers for the next one, with less CGI.
Indeed it's very off-brand
It's funny because the technology they used in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon is 10 times better than any of the crap in these new movies. 🤣
Being born in 2000, the movies I watched as a kid were mostly from the 80s and 90s, these new movies are just using nostalgia and IP's like Ghostbusters or Star Wars to try and forge them into something they were never created to be. Stories used to have greater meanings than a 15-year-old lesbian crush who happens to know every convenient thing to build whatever plot they need so she automatically becomes the chosen one. This movie felt like it was trying to merge modern BS with great movie arcs like The Goonies or Super 8, showcasing how kids in films can have real meaning/purpose.
The girl melts down the fire poll to have the boss pack, but after the fight, the poll is back up. In the final fight, the ghost closes himself inside. And they had to put kids in the movie. You can't have a movie with multiple white male leads
I found it interesting you guys kept going back to the Real Ghostbusters, because this movie seems to have stolen the idea of the Junior Ghostbusters, which even the cartoon writers admit helped kill the series. Maybe they should have done a time skip to age up the characters to young adults when doing this sequel?
Awesome review as always btw.
This isn't Ghostbusters just like Star Wars isn't Star Wars or Road House wasn't Road House. They have no new ideas and they're killing every IP. Up next? Back to the Future
BTTF is safe until Gale and Zemeckis are dead. The day after they are gone... get ready.
Wack to the Future 😄
They aren't allowed to fuck up BTTF as long as Gale and Zemeckis are still breathing anyway
I loved the game! I still have the shirt from Gamestop
I hate that Finn kid so much 😂
I just want to say that you guys deserve much more recognition than this channel is getting, it is just like youtube is holding it back... Anyuhow, I am glad I found it and I can listen to your brilliant commentary! Please just keep it going, you've got it all, no homo or lezzing out as you said!
Appreciate it, dude. RUclips can’t hold us back forever.
Hitting up some of your back catalogue here. Really enjoy your banter and chemistry, and by no way take any offense to how hard you guys shit on movies haha. We shit on a movie on our channel and people take huge offense, you guys get away with it, good for you! Even though I liked Frozen Empire (more than Afterlife more for it's tone I think, it felt more like a Ghostbusters movie), and still liked it upon a second viewing, I totally agree with everything you guys said. Just as a fan boy I choose to kinda look past it, even though it bugs my ass.
I guess people just prefer us taking dumps on things over praising them, lol. When we give positive reviews we tend to get the MOST hate from people because we nitpick details. That’s the whole reason we love doing this. We may have dumped on Frozen Empire but it’s fun to go back and forth with people about our differences. Will check your channel out!
@@hardcutreviews You're ALLOWED to nitpick! Isn't that the whole purpose of a review? That's why I come back to you guys, the nitpicking is enjoyable! Most of our reviews are positive, as we are more of a "Go check this out" channel, so when we get super negative people probably aren't used of it, you guys seem to cover mostly new movies which are EASY to dump on! Cheers, keep fighting the good fight!
Is the "chess girl" the same ghost who visited Dan Akroyd in the first movie when he was sleeping?
Chess girl doesn’t hold a candle.
Just let the franchise rest in peace
I find it dumb how nobody in the world cares that ghosts, demons and ancient gods exist.
Movies are such junk nowadays... all the good writers are doing like streaming mini series. I want the writers from Dark and Brooklyn 99 to make a Ghostbusters baby
That’s the mashup we all didn’t know we needed.
Sorry for the following novel.
I liked Afterlife. It gave the Egon character a nice send-off. But any Ghostbuster movie without Egon just makes me sad. Harold's humour was felt in Afterlife with the lamp guiding Phoebe and I liked that. But after Frozen, it just made me sad to not see or hear Egon again.
There was too much in this movie, that I actually fell asleep, I woke at points when my friend asked me about things since I had binged the OG 1, 2, and Afterlife before watching Frozen. But I would fall back asleep after waking up partway through the end of the 2nd act. So I can't comment on the movie to much or negativity too since I will need a rewatch it when my body isn't so tired.
It'd be easier if the cast was split between two movies to prevent over crowding a movie it ruins the intimacy and character development. So have one movie on the parents, Winston + Ray (cameos from the kids in University), the other one with the kids, Dana (who maybe has a 2nd child in the same uni as the kids), and each team in their own movie with their own big bad character for act 3.
I would like to see Loius Tully (maybe a university teacher), Dana and Oscar Barrett again if they separate the parents from the kids, have Callie, and Gary in a team with Oscar and Lars let them be the active on-call NY team and put the kids through education to get PhD's like the OG's had. Use that to just focus on the parents working with Winston and Ray.
The last two movies have mostly been through Phoebe's eyes, we need to be giving the other characters their time to develop in a movie.
Sorry for the novel
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Thanks for watching so we don't have to. (A noble service.)
Spot-on review. It was such a Frankenstein's monster of a movie. Just corporate, safe, and soulless. In what logistical planet would Winston not tell the Ghostbusters about his freaking ghost research facility?? Thing #194 that made no sense at all in this movie. The whole thing is just cliches, nostalgia, and cartoon logic. Don't even get me started on the ending--a crowd that's clearly on a set, Murray calling Peck a clown (with the weird ADR'd "You're just never gonna get it are you?" line after), everything wrapping up tidily with a nice little bow.....Sigh.
Like Fast and Furious, Ghostbusters is a franchise nobody watches but we cant see ourselves without. The only difference is Fast and Furious movies are at least their most enjoyable in a theater, Ghostbusters movies are never enjoyable.
New review! Let’s goooo!!
Let’s take a look at some hot garbage
Nobody gave a shit making this movie. Everybody looks embarrassed to be there on screen and behind the scenes. There's a shot in the movie where they're supposed to trapped and frozen and as the camera pans you see them literally just standing there clueless like it's a camera test or something.
Until you commented on this video, we had completely forgotten we watched it and reviewed it.
Not verbatim, "We want to see this progress, we don't want to be stuck in the past, but that doesn't mean to make it a Marvel movie" but very accurate.
You speak the facts.
Kumail Nanjianis character became a fire bender. 😂
His character was pointless.
@anubusx Sadly enough, his character became a welcoming break from the teen angst that this movie overly focused on.
Ive been waiting for yall to do this review😆 ever since i watched this movie in the theater, theres a lot that needs to be critiqued...😑😤
All of it needs to be critiqued. Its painful.
9:29 Yooooo i thought that tooo , but when it was that random girl ( who i think is lesbian, but hollywood was trying to be lowkey about it) , i was like bruh..
Please bash Fallout. Nobody is, and it sucks.
As a fan it pains me to say this but I have to be honest - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is a bad movie.
The film is total a mess. It's boring, poorly paced, confusing, convoluted and overly complicated. There are far too many characters, some of which have been needlessly shoehorned into the story. It's overstuffed with unnecessary dialogue, dull subplots, pointless characters and scenes which go on for far too long. It's not funny either. I didn't laugh once during the movie, and neither did the audience I was watching it with. Neither is it frightening. Laughs and scares are the two things you expect from a Ghostbusters film but this latest entry in the series is completely devoid of any.
Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan may be talented directors, but they're the wrong people to be writing Ghostbusters films. Afterlife was mediocre at best, but Frozen Empire is just plain bad.
With a heavy heart, I rate this film 3 out of 10.
I feel a lot of fans are in denial about just how bad this film is.
There is a proper team out there somewhere that could continue the legacy the way it was meant. Sadly this is not it.
@@hardcutreviews I think that the studio should continue with Venkman, Spengler, Stantz and Zeddemore, by making the next sequel an animated film instead of live action. If they chose the right style of animation it could work, and we'd be back with the characters that we know and love. The story could be set in the past, with the characters still in their 30s and 40s. If it works it could open the doors for a whole series of animated sequels starring the original characters.
@@ghostbusterscollector8593 Would love that.
@@ghostbusterscollector8593 A good premise in theory, but my concern would be that because it's animation, it would repeat the same mistake that has been made since GB2: tailoring it for kids.
The 1984 GB wasn't made for kids. A lot of the OG's humour is adult, with notable sexual innuendos and subtext (Keymaster and Gatekeeper) that passed over our heads as kids, but adults understood immediately and giggled in response.
Not to mention the GB's were a bunch of down-to-earth, boozing, smoking underdogs , with Peter Venkman in particular being a fast-mouthed, womanising charlatan who's into ghostbusting predominantly for the fame and
money ("The franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams"). Making the franchise more kid -friendly has taken all of that realistic edge out that makes it appeal to adults.
On a related note, I'm a major GB fan, but one thing I specifically dislike about the recent films is they are too cartoonish, largely because everything is made easier by CGI. The 1984 GB relied more on practical effects, which is more work-intensive than CGI, but grounded the film in reality.
Even if you didn't believe in the supernatural, you could at least buy while watching the ghosts and monsters on screen were real supernatural entities interacting with our real world and, with the possible exception of Slimer, this made the ghosts scarier.
Watching the newer films, at no point was I not aware the ghosts I was seeing were CGI creations and not ghosts that could plausibly interact with the real world. Because the ghosts and other supernatural entities look so cartoonish and unreal, I can't suspend disbelief enough to buy this is the real world this is happening in, as opposed to some cartoonish alternative reality.
Now I'm an adult, that really doesn't appeal to me and I worry an animated film could just put another nail in the coffin of a franchise I love.
@@Hypestrike1 I agree with everything you've said. There hasn't really been a good Ghostbusters film since the original, and a major reason for that is because every film since has been primarily geared towards a child audience. Consequently, a lot of the humour and horror has been watered down and weakened.
If an animated sequel was to happen, it should be geared towards an adult audience. They need to recapture the look, tone and feel of the original, but they'd need to use the right style of animation and write a damn good script. I think it could be really good, provided they have the right approach.
Nothing bad would’ve happened in the movie if the ghost busters did not exist, so by the end of it your thinking do they really deserve this celebration.
No. They do not.
@@hardcutreviews The girl walks into the ghost-busted headquarters and can log into the computer and use a dangerous and untested device, there is no password protection on the computers and no locks on the door. If she didn't do this the main villain would not have been freed and the machine holding all the ghosts would not have broken.
No, bustin' doesn't make me feel good. 🤢
Bustin’ hasn’t felt good for some time now.
The greatest Ghostbusters movie ever.... /s
You take that back.
Waking up to a review from hard cut is a good day.
I recently saw “Afterlife” and enjoyed it. This one sounds FRUSTRATING!
It’s a YA movie that could have been based on a fanfic written by a YA. Kid-centric, with occasional adult humor, mostly focusing on teen angst and coming-of-age issues.
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Appreciate you sticking with us as we claw and scrape our way through the RUclips death maze. They’re not making it easy.
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Ghostbusters was supposed to be a mocking of the paranormal and occult craze of the 60’s-80’s. They’ve forgotten what Ghostbusters was supposed to be about. Or maybe, society isn’t “there” anymore because the charlatans had been exposed. Thanks for ruining Ghostbusters, James Randi!
Made it like a Harry Potter movie except not great. The actors did a good job and the special effects were good but the movie wasn’t good. Bummer. They made a kids movie.
100% agree, Frozen Empire was crap. But I liked Afterlife. They have killed all our favourite movies from the 80s and 90s, they only thing that has survived is Back to the Future.
great vid as usual guys thanks!
Is RUclips holding you back in some way??? Or are you allowed to discuss that question,,, I’ve truely enjoyed every moment of your channel,,, god I hope their not,,,,may the algorithm be with you!
It’s funny. Our sub count slowly grows, yet views drop each video. Been seeing this across a lot of channels in the past few months. YT is definitely not on the level.
Phoebe's soul extraction part is basically FNAF's Remnant, but dumber.
Literally is
@@Titan_Nebula and stupider than Remnant. Man, I miss when FNAF wasn't so complicated😐.
these hard cut reviews are amazing and better than the movies themselves. i probably will not watch this new ghostbusters.