Pixels isn\'t a reboot though.
It\'s an adaptation of a viral video, so sort of.
Not even sort of Tucker.
...It shares a premise but not contin- Look, it\'s more of an adaptation, but \"reboot\" can, broad strokes, define it.
Spectral, that\'s a really broad stroke. By the logic you\'re using: This Is The End, 12 Monkeys, Boogie Nights, Frankenweenie, District 9, The Evil Dead (original one), Napolean Dynamite, Office Space, Sling Blade, Cashback, Sin City, Half Nelson, 9,THX-1138, Saw, Mama, Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels, Machete, and more are reboots.
The best term to describe it would be Concept Expansion, I suppose.
Pixels may be an \"original\" property, but it is clearly based in he nostalgia for old video games.
It\'s also shite.
GREETINGS FRIEND! Isn't the world so beautiful? Let's get some troping done! You wanna have an adventure!?
You\'re not going to be able to objectively prove that KOC.
This kind of crap https://youtu.be/a66Lx5-95KY?t=102![](\"https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/external_link.gif\")
rather than the film itself is the reason for the backlash. We don\'t want more films copying its marketing strategy
Your link is broken Ansem Paul. If it\'s about the yogcast thing, then yes, it was done in poor taste, but yogcast\'s reaction to it wasn\'t much better, if at all; you would also be ignoring that the yogcast thing is only a small part of the backlash.
Well, it is nice to see other people share my opinion.
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Ghostbusters (2016) - It's good, can we move on please?
It's fine. Guys, are we good? Can we please move on now? Can people *please* stop shouting each other down as either misogynists or Feminazis?
In any case, the actual movie at the center of this whole internet debacle is a film that had everything stacked against it. The idea of [1] getting remade is a stupid idea to begin with and the trailers were shite (though to be fair, this is a Paul Feig film, and his films NEVER have good trailers), add on to that the whole debacle about the female cast and you've got yourself a recipe for disaster. Thankfully, the film is actually pretty decent. Not a great movie, no where near as good as the original, and not Paul Feig's best movie, but it is a decent film.
The film's good parts can mainly be attributed to the cast: Melissa Mc Carthy as Abigail Yates, Kristen Wiig as Erin Gilbert, Kate Mc Kinnon as Jillian Holtzmann (who is THE BEST CHARACTER IN THE MOVIE ) and Leslie Jones as Patty Tolan (who, despite what the trailers may tell you, is much more than just a walking stereotype) are all obviously having great fun as the Ghostbusters and are endlessly watchable as a result. Most of the jokes land, and Chris Hemsworth is endlessly funny as the receptionist, though the film does over use him at some points. Aside from the main cast, the practical effects and the Ghostbuster's gadgets are really cool to look at, all the Ghosts have great designs (even if the CGI isn't always 100%) the action is a lot of fun and if nothing else, I do want to see Yates, Gilbert, Holtzmann and Tolan in a sequel.
However, this film does have some pretty major flaws: to start with, the villain, Rowan (Neil Casey) is entertaining but ultimately flatter than cardboard, the film is chock-a-block full of advertising, it's somewhat unevenly paced with a rushed third act, the CGI on the Ghosts is sub-par and whenever the film tries to tell a joke and it fails, it REALLY fails. The biggest problem I have with this movie however, is that it makes way too many references to the original movie. The film seems to be afraid to do its own thing (and when it does do its thing, that's when it becomes good) so there are many cameos by the original actors and props and story beats from the first movie that instead of coming across as cute nods to the original, instead feel like a movie afraid of straying too far from covered ground. All this familiarity can't help but leave the film tasting a bit exploitative.
All in all, if the film had been a bit braver in forging its own identity, I think it could rival the original. As is, it's got enough in the cast, the comedy and the ghosts for me to give a casual recommendation. As far as nostalgic reboots of old properties go you can do much worse than this. Much, much, much, much worse.