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I did watch Ghostbusters and felt like it was pretty shit. The whole online discussion about it turned into some culture war shit and a lot of the criticism was dismissed as part of that, when a lot of it seemed to just be that it just wasn't funny.
My friends aren't much into politics. And their criticism wasn't about politics either. So considering how I know what they like, they know what I like and how similar our tastes are, it's going to be a solid no from me on that basis. If they all felt it was garbage then it's very likely I'd feel the same way.
Maybe the show turns around and some of my friends start recommending it to me. But with this sort of start, I'm not going to hold my breath.
That's pretty bad on a 1-10 scale. I wouldn't bother defending such a thing.
I felt the same.
We must've read different comments and reviews. I saw plenty of people just saying it wasn't funny from what I at least thought were normal commenters. Which is the worst thing a comedy can be, really. Unless it really tries to be funny and fails spectacularly, that can loop around to being funny again. No such luck this time.
I feel like the situation is similar where there's some culture war shit going on and all the praise and criticism will be lumped under that umbrella. Didn't hear that from my friends though, it just felt like it wasn't enjoyable at all.
Fucking hell. I just said my friends said it was shit so I didn't watch it. You wanted to engage me about it.
Same point stands, I didn't go any further than saying my friends said it sucked and I didn't watch it before someone else engaged me about it. I didn't know there was a whole thing about this where some feel compelled to defend the show and shit like that.