{"id":89563,"date":"2016-03-09T18:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89563"},"modified":"2016-03-09T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T03:23:00","slug":"lady-ghostbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89563","title":{"rendered":"Lady Ghostbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/lady-ghostbusters\/\">Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Lady Ghostbusters. Some comments from you tube:<\/p>\n<p>-I check back here every so often so I can laugh at the amount of dislikes.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>-Drinking bleach is funnier than this trailer\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>-Society isn\u2019t making Gay Man more attractive, just Straight Woman less attractive<\/p>\n<p>-i do not know why this trailer has so many dislikes. im defiantly watching this when it comes out in theaters\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>-when feminists are trying to take over, we get this movie.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>-Who actually believes a bunch of women would come together &#038; start their own company instead leeching off an already male established one because they got quotas to fulfill?<\/p>\n<p>-This movie looks like it should go straight to dvd\/blu-ray<\/p>\n<p>* Ghostbusters was bottled lightening, it can\u2019t be repeated. The originals had a chemistry that made the file one of a kind. Not to mention the guy who came up with it Ivan Rietman was talented as heck.<\/p>\n<p>Even as a cartoon series, it was popular \u2013 some 600 episodes were made IIRC.<\/p>\n<p>This though has stinker written all over it. They basically had to bully or bribe the originals to endorse this dud. Really a all female team with no chemistry? Excellent way to give the middle-finger to the original fans and keep the younger males away from seeing what they will rightly view as chick flick made for the watchers of The View.<\/p>\n<p>The other problem is Hollywood doesn\u2019t do comedy very well anymore. They\u2019ve become so PC\/MC they\u2019ve been reduced to potty style humor as found in Adam Sandler movies or serious unfunny and annoying garbage like the Fokkers. Ben Stiller is not funny and neither are the writers.<\/p>\n<p>Give me the Rockford Files any day.<\/p>\n<p>* Hollywood has turned into a Soviet Propaganda mill. The entire selling point of the original was these guys were losers who wanted to play it safe by staying in college their whole lives and got kicked out for bogus research. The Ghostbusters was their desperate attempt to cash in on their weird esoteric research in college because they didn\u2019t want to get real jobs and be working slubs. They ended up accidental heroes because of Zool and an ancient cult trying to take over the world when at the beginning they were just in it for money.<br \/>\nThese Pravda card carrying commies are so heavy into politics and feminist grrrl power, that they missed the entire point of the original film and made this into a girl superhero team. Yeah, no. The idea that people with careers and other options would purposely try to form a superhero team to fight ghosts is something you would expect to hear from people involuntarily confined to an insane asylum. No one in their right minds would leave a career to be a ghostbuster. These idiots are so politically motivated they don\u2019t even see how dumb this plot really is\u2026<\/p>\n<p>* Last night we watched \u201cLove Story\u201d (man were the 70s ever dirty and drab, must be all the leaded gasoline and pollution in the air) and then reading about it on Wikipedia I see that they filmed a sequel, \u201cOliver\u2019s Story.\u201d Oliver\u2019s female interest is Candace Bergen, playing an heir to the Bonwit Teller fortune. I wondered whatever happened to Bonwit Teller, so I read the Wikipedia entry and low and behold, Donald Trump bought their flagship store on 5th Avenue, tore it down and built Trump Tower in it\u2019s place. When I started reading about \u201cLove story\u201d I did not expect that I\u2019d end up on Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s kind of like when you buy a car and then you see that model of car everywhere on the street but had never really noticed it before you bought one for yourself. Trump is Everywhere sung to the tune of Elvis is Everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>* That\u2019s worth watching. On one level, it just cashes in on the original hit. The story is anticlimactic and has nowhere to go. After all, LOVE STORY worked as a romantic tear-jerker. With Jenny gone, where can OLIVER\u2019S STORY go? The plot about Oliver\u2019s \u2018good work\u2019 is pretty weak.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s watchable enough, but then suddenly, it has the the only moment in either movie that has the ring of truth.<br \/>\nI like LOVE STORY \u2014 saw it as kid when impressionable \u2014 , but it\u2019s all formula. Even the scenes of raw hurt are exactly what you\u2019d expect and arrive on schedule. Of course the couple must have a fight and reconcile in some special way. \u201cLove means never having to say you\u2019re sorry.\u201d I don\u2019t know what it means but it sounds good.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is contrived \u2014 rich wasp boy and poor dago girl \u2014 , and even the arty moments are like symbolism 101, like the last walk in the snow together against the backdrop of pure white. It is shameless hokum but works(like the stuff in Dr. Zhivago), and I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Sad scene from &quot;Love Story (1970)&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mmzq8t_KQ4E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LOVE STORY copped some of the New Hollywood style of the late 60s and early 70s. It has an element of grit and realism, but it is really just formula.<\/p>\n<p>But the formula begins to unravel in OLIVER\u2019S STORY because the leftover material is so thin. After all, the only reason we cared in the first place was because Oliver fell in love and then lost the girl. So OS has nowhere to go. But then, this is precisely why OS is more interesting. Since the formula has grown weak, there\u2019s need to flesh out the character, and the result is like a mid-level Woody Allen or Paul Mazursky film. (Or a kinder version of Nichols\u2019 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE.)<\/p>\n<p>But then, bang, Oliver\u2019s outburst at Candace Bergen in the following scene(don\u2019t see it if you don\u2019t want spoilers) really rings true. It feels like genuine pain of life than part of the plan, the formula. For that moment alone, OS is worth seeing. Another good thing about OS is the handling of father-son relationship.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Oliver&#039;s Story (8\/8) Movie CLIP - Something Feels Dead Here (1978) HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TV9GpnvWxgQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The movie ends on a more hopeful note than the novel though. I prefer the novel\u2019s closing sentiment. \u201cSometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive.And then I answer: I would also be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erich Segal was pretty good schlock writer. His novel THE CLASS is a shameless piece of drivel but I ate it up.<\/p>\n<p>>>It\u2019s a romantic tear-jerker. It hits all the right notes, pushes all the right buttons.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re right. Ali McGraw was no actress, and the notion of her as a Radcliffe girl studying classical music is hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>But it has all the right ingredients about love, class, father and son, etc.<\/p>\n<p>True, it\u2019s hackwork, but it\u2019s pleasant hackwork, like BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, a kind of populist version of both WILD BUNCH and MIDNIGHT COWBOY.<br \/>\nLOVE STORY is a crowd-pleaser. Just listen to the music.<\/p>\n<p>Does it look \u2018ugly\u2019? I love the 70s look and missed it in the 80s when everything looked so slick and shiny. The MIAMI VICE look? Never liked it thought I got used to it.<\/p>\n<p>A much better Harvard movie is PAPER CHASE. I can understand how even Harvardites can see that one and feel sort of like \u2018home\u2019!<br \/>\nBut I doubt if any Harvardite took LOVE STORY seriously. It is a fantasy about rich folks for the hoi polloi. We need some fantasy too.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing\u2026 given the total degradation of culture with stuff like GILRS and JESSE AND CELESTE(this trash has to be seen to believed), LOVE STORY now does feel \u2018classic\u2019-like.<\/p>\n<p>You gotta admit the \u2018I care\u2019 scene is nicely done, and it\u2019s too bad we don\u2019t have scenes like that anymore. We have millennials with their casual attitude sending texts to each other like \u2018fuc* me in the butt\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Love Story (2\/10) Movie CLIP - The Courage to Care (1970) HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hZzQx9cEjhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>* Yeah, pretty much everyone who\u2019s reviewed the film has noted it was propaganda. The left went ape-crazy praising the PC-propaganda of Star Wars: The Feminist Awakens. In fact, that was supposed to be a selling point in the reviews: see the latest Star Wars, because it\u2019s all grrrl powered and diverse now!<\/p>\n<p>It made money because of it\u2019s franchise tag and because the studio\/director went all out promising the hardcore fanbase that it wouldn\u2019t be the prequels. But there\u2019s only so much yoou can milk a franchise with if the sequel gives you diminishing returns.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the latest Star Wars made no cultural impact\u2014no quotes being bandied about, no internet memes, no chatter after it was out of theaters\u2014shows that the next sequel will have \u201cdisappointing\u201d and \u201cunexpectedly lower\u201d returns than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the most talked about parts of the movie is the references to the old franchise and return of a character from the original trilogy\u2014Han, Leia, and, at the end, the mysterious Luke. That\u2019s a bad thing for Disney; when your movie can only cosplay with the originals, and people are most interested in talking about, not your movie\u2019s new characters or plot, but about old characters you shoehorned into your new movie\u2014well, that means your movie wasn\u2019t that memorable. Which means there isn\u2019t much impetus outside of hardcore fans to go see the next one.<\/p>\n<p>The director also remade the Star Trek films, and suffered the same fate: the first one was a glossy, cosplay remake with literal cultural impact where the most talked about parts were the appearance of a character from the original franchise (Nimoy\u2019s Spock) and the references to the old series. No one remembered the first reboot after it was out of theaters, despite being an ostensible hit. The result? The second Star Trek reboot sequel (Star Trek Into Darkness) \u201cunexpectedly\u201d had \u201cless than predicted\u201d returns. Why? Simple: the movies were no longer Star Trek, but PC-addled action movies with the words Star Trek pasted on them.<\/p>\n<p>*  I actually do know one female commercial airline pilot. But she\u2019s a lesbian type who degrades women more than males do. When she\u2019s encountered other female pilots, she invariably tells people how bad they are at flying and how they only got their jobs because of PC. When she gets drunk she actually starts ranting about how women are too stupid to vote (except her). She\u2019s very red pilly and basically will tell you that she\u2019s an outlier in life and knows it. She\u2019s also very pissed off at this Girlbusters movie (she\u2019s a huge Bill Murray fan).<\/p>\n<p>* Jenny does NOT despise Oliver for what he is. She admits part of what attracts her to him is his money and privilege. She is honest in that sense. And that\u2019s what he likes about her. She is forthright. And she holds no grudge against his father and sort of understands the old man who, by the way, isn\u2019t really a bigot(by his standards).<\/p>\n<p>On the drive back, she says, \u201cI love not only you, but also your name and your numeral. After all, it\u2019s part of what you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If anything, Oliver despises himself and for conflicted reasons. Being part of the 60s generation, he feels uneasy about his wasp privilege. He is the creation of Liberal Jewish Erich Segal. He feels his place in Harvard is so unearned. He wants to break free of the world he came from. But he is also worried that he is under-performing and failing to live up the standards of his grandfather and father. So, his reasons are both \u2018liberal\u2019 and \u2018conservative\u2019. He sees himself as failure by standards of both egalitarianism and meritocracy.<br \/>\nAlso, he has problems with his father because the old man\u2019s ways are passive\/aggressive. He\u2019s not a meanie like Mr. Potter of IT\u2019S A WONDERFUL LIFE. He\u2019s a kindly person, but there\u2019s no doubt he\u2019s been nudging Oliver to excel since cradle and live up to the family name. If his father was a true meanie, Oliver could just hate him and that\u2019d be that. But his father is difficult to hate. He\u2019s no Darth Vader, though sort of like Vader after the mask comes off and he\u2019s a good guy again.<\/p>\n<p>I think there\u2019s a similar dynamics in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. The son is partly angry with his pa because the old man is too \u2018weak\u2019. It\u2019s not so much a rebellion against tyranny as against weakness.<br \/>\nOliver\u2019s father is no doubt an ever-present figure of authority, but because of \u2018gentle\u2019 demeanor, Oliver has a difficult time going against it. And there\u2019s that famous genteel wasp restraint which makes it bad form for family members to lay it all on the table and talk honestly. Oliver\u2019s father isn\u2019t Ralph Kramden or Archie Bunker. In a way, Meathead gets along better with Archie because they lay everything on the table. They despise each other but fully understand one another. And that\u2019s why Jenny gets along with her father much better, though I find it rather unreal that an Italian Catholic girl would be calling her father by his first name.<\/p>\n<p>LOVE STORY belongs to one of the several key films of the late 60s and early 70s about parent-child relationships. The younger generation was beginning to make a difference but Hollywood was still controlled by old folks.<br \/>\nAlso, there was no clear break between old and new in movie culture.<br \/>\nIn pop music culture, the young rockers didn\u2019t care about most of older music. Sure, they had some respect for old blues men and country singers, and etc. But youth culture of 60s was a rejection of much that had come before.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, even the young turks of cinema were steeped in reverence for the old masters like Ford, Hawks, Hitchcock, Welles, Griffith, Keaton, Lean, and foreign greats like Renoir, Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, etc. One of the key features of THE SEARCHERS is the parent\/child-like relation between Ethan and Marty, and that was one of the key films of the \u2018movie brat\u2019 generation. This is why movie culture is richer(with its deep sense of history and foreign cultures) than pop music culture that is generally amnesiac and narrowly Anglo-Afro-centric.<br \/>\nEven in the key rebel film COOL HAND LUKE, the finest moment is when Luke meets his mother and then later sings a song in her honor after she dies. And the most powerful scene in IN COLD BLOOD is when Robert Blake\u2019s character talks about his father. And the sad thing about MIDNIGHT COWBOY is the two grown men are like orphans. They connect mostly deeply when Ratso talks about his pa and then Joe Buck mentions how his grandma died without him knowing; she was like his only family.<\/p>\n<p>Though Harold\u2019s mother is cast as something of a \u2018villainess\u2019, I love her. She\u2019s the kookiest thing I ever did see. She is a great mother. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=reJAzTE980s<\/p>\n<p>FIVE EASY PIECES is about some drifter-rebel, but the story leads to his meeting with his incapacitated pa. And GODFATHER, the maybe the most important film of 70s, is essentially about father and son. The darkest parent-child film of the 70s is maybe CHINATOWN. And then you got EXORCIST where a Liberal modern woman hires religious folks to save her daughter from possession by porn-devil.<br \/>\nAnd even in cases where without parent figures, one of the characters comes under pressure to play the parental role. Like Nicholson in CUCKOO\u2019S NEST and LAST DETAIL where he wants to be the life of the party but finds himself in the role of mentor. BAD NEWS BEARS works in similar vein. And Lucas\u2019 STAR WARS saga is held together by father-son thing. Though SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION the movie was overlooked by critics and audience, it is a pretty solid family drama.<\/p>\n<p>I think the parent-child dynamic became less important in yrs to come cuz the boomers were more understanding of their kids. There was less culture clash since both parents and children grew up under permissive culture of TV and youth pop music. Also, so many kids grew up without fathers in single family homes, so the father-son dynamic has become less of a reality.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s incredible how Lena Dunham became the way she is with the full blessing of her parents. And when Sulkowicz made that atrocious video, she got full support from her mother.<\/p>\n<p>We need more Don Corleones.<\/p>\n<p>Look how people are dressed in the final scene of GODFATHER II. Men are dressed like men, no one has tattoos or piercings. Connie isn\u2019t dressed like a whore.<br \/>\nWas it really progress for Italian-Americans to end up like the freaks on JERSEY SHORE?<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"&#039;The Godfather 2&#039; Ending Scene\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r-I4VIR5yGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Btw, that scene says so much about America. How Sonny says, \u201cyour country aint your blood\u201d and Michael says \u201cI don\u2019t feel that way\u201d.<br \/>\nEven today, maybe more than ever even, we have this competing or simultaneous themes of ethno-America and credo-America. Since credo-America is supposed to trump ethno-America, the theme of \u2018justice\u2019 is invoked to rationalize certain ethnic interests. \u201cSince we were wronged as a group in the past, we need to work together as a people in the present and near future.\u201d So, tribalism is supposed to be bad, but paradoxically it is good and necessary to undo the dominant tribalism of the past. But how long can this go on? If tribalism is ONLY justified on grounds of victimization, does this mean that once a group gains power and privilege, it should drop its tribalism? Jews are coming under this pressure with growth of BDS movement, and some Jews, like Philip Weiss and Glenn Greenwald, are beginning to sound like reform-liberal wasps who became critical of their own group.<\/p>\n<p>One of the surprising things in the Trump moment is the support he got from Palin, Giuliani, and Gingrich. Palin was like a Zionist whore, even going so far as to wear a Star of David bling. Gingrich pandered to Jews at a Republican debate in 2012, saying that the first thing he would do as president is recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel.<br \/>\nGiuliani was like a dog of New York Jews. But they are either supporting or strongly defending Trump when he has pissed off so many Neocon Jews. Palin was Kristol\u2019s brainchild: get dumb shikse whore with boobs to run with McCain to win over the sucker vote. So, why is she going with Trump who has pissed off so many Jews?<br \/>\nDid she realize she\u2019s been used as a whore and that no matter how much she groveled at their feet, the Jewish community just mocked her and laughed at her?<br \/>\nSomething interesting is happening.<\/p>\n<p>* LS was partly autobio as Segal lost someone he loved when young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments at Steve Sailer: * Lady Ghostbusters. Some comments from you tube: -I check back here every so often so I can laugh at the amount of dislikes.\ufeff -Drinking bleach is funnier than this trailer\ufeff -Society isn\u2019t making Gay Man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hollywood"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89563"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89583,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89563\/revisions\/89583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}