I watched the 2016 'Ghostbusters' remake with my crew after a long day fixing a main line break in Tacoma.

We were all tired and just wanted something fun. I'd heard the arguments, but figured it couldn't be that bad. Ten minutes in, my lead guy, Mike, just put his head in his hands and said, 'They made a joke about haunted sewer ghosts. We just spent eight hours in a real one.' The whole thing felt like it was trying way too hard to be something it wasn't. It wasn't scary, it wasn't really that funny, and it just made me want to watch the original again. What was the point? Has anyone else seen a remake that just made you appreciate the old one even more?

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blake3222mo ago

It's just a movie, man, not a personal attack on your job.

rose_cooper2mo ago

Tell that to my therapist... he's gonna need a bigger couch.

patricia3171mo ago

I read somewhere that the director was proud of how much improv was in that movie, and honestly you could tell. It felt like a bunch of comedians doing their own bits instead of making a coherent film. The scene where they all talk over each other during the subway ghost attack was painful to watch, like nobody edited anything. My buddy who's a film buff said the original had a tight script written for actors who knew how to play off each other, while the remake was just a mess of ad-libs and missed timing. It made me appreciate how hard it actually is to make something feel effortless like the old one did. That whole movie was a lesson in why you shouldn't mess with a good thing just because you can.