Ghostbusters (2016) - 6/10
Managed to finally watch this after it appeared on NowTV. It's hard to not compare this to the original film, which I love to this day. The 2016 version wasn't a bad film but it also wasn't a great film. I don't like how the film was adapted to be a comedy. While the original has it's comedy throughout the film, it isn't and doesn't feel like everythings a joke. Great visual effects was used though and it was nice with the original cast making appearances.
I'll say that I vastly disagree with your rating of it, I thought it was utterly dire. But I agree strongly on how the film was made. The original Ghostbusters is funny, but it's not a comedy. Delivery of lines, acting, faces they pull are all funny but there aren't many specific jokes written into it. They find funny parts within the writing but they don't effectively tell one liners throughout. That is where the new film fails miserably, it's not a film which finds comedic moments through good writing, it's like a bad overly long SNL sketch where every scene, the entire plot and every actor is there to tell a series of jokes like a long stand up set.
The biggest issue is it's mostly one terrible joke after another, with a badly written plot linking one joke to another. Even if they just wrote a good plot then tried to fit jokes into the script to add more comedy, but it's the other way around, here is a list of silly jokes we can think to do within this context, now write a bad script to link them together.
I think everyone is bad in it, it's badly written, it's not funny and it's racist and sexist to boot.
