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  • ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot’s Brutally Honest Trailer Disables Own Comments

    Yikes. Screen Junkies ain’t afraid of no ghosts but they clearly fear their own commenters. (And they may be right to.) They seemed reluctant to even do an Honest Trailer on the 2016 “Ghostbusters,” wondering how it became the most political thing in the country in the middle of an election year. But after a big push to go there, they went there:

    “Sigh. Are we sure we want to do this one? Fine, we’ll do it, but we’re turning off the comments. You did this to yourself, Internet!”

    The video then issued a “Trigger Warning” for people set off by the very idea of this “Ghostbusters” reboot.

    “Experience a film that created a perfect storm of hatred, uniting people who legitimately hated the trailers, people who legitimately hate reboots of classic films, and people who legitimately like to yell hateful nonsense on the Internet.”

    Cue a clip of Donald Trump yelling, “And now they’re making Ghostbusters with only women. What’s going on?”

    Back to the Honest Trailer:

    “Wait we’re making a Ghostbusters video *and* calling out Trump? I am so getting doxed.

    Get ready for the film that everyone and their blog rushed to judge before they’d even seen it, and proved to all the haters that … it’s bad. I’m not gonna lie to you guys. I mean, it’s not as bad as they said it was going to be, but still. It’s pretty bad.

    Look out, boys, there’s a brand new cast in town. And it’s true, these Ghostbusters have no dick — or chemistry — as everyone in the ensemble plays the comic relief at the same time.”

    Yeah, not everyone can be Venkman, someone has to be the Egon. And maybe the film didn’t need three jokes about soup and four dance sequences. But still. There are many lame reboots and remakes out there, some keeping the same name as the originals, and this is the one that basically broke the Internet and broke Screen Junkies enough that they felt the need to hide from their own viewers. Why so serious?

    Here’s the trailer, which currently has more than 1,372,300 views and zero comments:

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  • You Can’t NOT Be Entertained by the ‘Gladiator’ Honest Trailer

    Screen Junkies better hope Russell Crowe doesn’t have a phone handy after this withering (but hilarious) Honest Trailer for “Gladiator.”

    To be fair, the entire early ’00s are dragged, but even Crowe’s real-life band has an unflattering cameo in this takedown.

    “Watch Max take on every challenge in his life with calm, stoic acceptance; calm, stoic dirt-rubbing; or calm stoic wheat-petting, in this one-note performance that won him Best Actor. … But damn if that one-note doesn’t get me pumped!”

    But “off-putting weirdo” Joaquin Phoenix gets the best critique:

    “Witness one of the most disturbing performances ever, as the evil emperor shows off his many daddy issues, sister issues, and … nephew issues? Ew. He’s basically Jaime Lannister if he couldn’t fight, or command an army, or bang his sister, or really do anything else right.”

    They still love the movie, though, and allow that the confusing mix of real and fake history is still 100 times more real than “300.”

    Watch the trailer:Not gonna lie: “Why is a goat there?!” earned itself an LOL.

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  • ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ Honest Trailer Relaunches Fan War

    Never mind “Batman v Superman,” the real fight is Marvel v DC and it is still raging across the Internet. BvS just came out on DVD/Blu-ray, and Screen Junkies used the opportunity to roast the film as part of its Honest Trailers series.

    It’s a brutal, but also seriously hilarious, and (come on!) pretty fair takedown, pointing out the film’s many flaws but also highlighting the cool scenes that the critics refused to acknowledge were cool. Because once you’ve picked a side…

    The trailer re-named the movie “Fans v Batman v Superman v Critics v Other Fans v Executives v Zack Snyder v Expectations: Can’t Do Them All Justice,” calling the result “a cool new Batman movie, trapped inside a boring convoluted Superman sequel, trapped inside whatever cartoon Lex Luthor is from.”

    Here’s the nearly 8-minute Honest Trailer:
    But the real story is in the comments section, which inevitably took the trailer’s references to Marvel Cinematic Universe as an excuse to continue DC vs Marvel.

    Just as a very brief example, here’s the top comment:

    Oliver Imrie-Cook
    I am a DC fan and really liked batman vs superman (ultimate cut was better) but I don’t have a problem with anything they said; this is hilarious and honest but not biased.

    That currently has more than 1,000 likes and 74 replies debating what makes a true fan a true fan, and whether DC fans should be defending this film or acting as the harshest critics. At least fans seem to agree that “Suicide Squad” looks great!

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  • ‘Minions’ Honest Trailer Points Out the Alarming Number of Deaths

    The Minions are cute and funny and loved by kids, but they also kill a lot of people, send some questionable messages about conformity, and totally would’ve helped Hitler if given the chance. Right?

    The latest Honest Trailers video shares a more jaded view of the little yellow henchmen (of course), and adds a “Death Count” to the movie that hits at least 105.

    “From Universal Pictures’ marketing department comes one of the most expensive far-reaching promotional campaigns of all time — and also a movie, ‘Minions.’ You loved the first two ‘Despicable Me’s, now, in the tradition of ‘Joey,’ ‘The Cleveland Show,’ and ‘The Battle for Endor,’ comes a spinoff that takes a character that’s fun in small doses and makes you wish they had stayed in the background.”

    Awww. Poor Minions. The trailer also wonders why “Minions” is considered an origin story when the movie does not answer any questions about the Minions’ origins. And they have a point about the 1960s references not quite working for little kids or even their 30-something parents. And some of the messages are suspect. And Gru with Minions babies really would’ve been adorable. And maybe they really would’ve helped the Nazis if they hadn’t been stuck in an ice cave. But, as the trailer acknowledges, “Who cares? You’re either 6-years-old or a parent wishing you could check your phone in the movie theater.” Fair enough.

    Check it out:


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  • ‘Terminator: Genisys’ Honest Trailer Slams ‘The Homeless Man’s Channing Tatum’

    Ouch. “Terminator: Genisys” should go back in time and fix itself so it can be spared the scorching burn of this Honest Trailer. The fifth “Terminator” movie was so disappointing to fans that most of the work was already done for Screen Junkies, but it’s still pretty satisfying to see it all spelled out in this classic takedown.

    After the complete failure of ‘Terminator 3’ and the disaster that was ‘Terminator: Salvation,’ you thought the franchise couldn’t get any worse. You. Were. Wrong. Now prepare for a sequel so awful it’s not just bad on its own right, it goes back in time to murder the only Terminator films you actually enjoyed.”


    The trailer fixes the annoying title spelling to “Genesis” (“there we go, that feels better”), spanks all the misused actors (“Come on, Khaleesi, you’re so much better than this”), questions the nonsensical plot, wonders why the guy with the heavy Austrian accent was given the most dialogue, and ultimately changes the title yet again to “Genishyt.”

    Poor Jai Courtney is given especially harsh treatment:

    No matter where you run, no matter where you hide, you’ll never escape from Jai Courtney. The homeless man’s Channing Tatum is back and he’s turned Kyle Reese into a blank-faced moron where charisma goes to die.”

    But tell us how you really feel! Maybe it’s right, maybe it’s wrong, but you have to admit the whole trailer is pretty damn funny. Unless you’re Jai Courtney. Then you probably just think it sucks.

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  • Brilliant ‘Inside Out’ Honest Trailer Lists Emotions Missing From the Movie

    Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers series usually roasts bad movies we love to hate, but the latest video takes on Disney/Pixar’s instant classic “Inside Out,” which makes grown men cry — including during the trailer itself.

    Here’s a pretty good description for the movie:

    Pixar built a reputation with stories that mess with your emotions. Now they’ve cut out the middleman and are messing directly with the emotions themselves in a film that teaches kids they aren’t responsible for their actions — it’s just tiny people in their head pushing their brain buttons. You know, there’s a word for that: schizophrenia!”

    There’s also a suggestion that 11-year-old Riley might be bipolar, since she swings from two extreme emotions. But at least the movie heads into a little girl’s brain and not a guy’s since, the trailer notes, that would probably be a porno.

    After Joy and Sadness are sucked away, the trailer brilliantly adds, “Riley is left with only your average YouTube comment section to guide her: Rage, Fear, and Disgust.” PERFECTION.

    They also list a bunch of emotions (or at least mental and emotional attributes) that didn’t make the cut of the movie — empathy, reason, envy, tranquility, courage, hope, boredom, love, lust, and “that feeling you get when you peel dried glue off your fingers.” (Isn’t that usually disgust?)

    It’s beautiful:


    And for good measure, here are the “Inside Out” characters watching the new “Star Wars” trailer:


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  • The ‘Furious 7’ Honest Trailer Spares No One (Except Paul Walker)

    “Furious 7” is a popular recent blockbuster, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to a brutal Honest Trailers takedown. Screen Junkies did the franchise proud with its latest 5-minute video, mocking the movies’ dumb titles, dumb numerical order, dumb plots, and “mumble-growl” of Vin Diesel, who plays a character “so Italian, he wore a tank top to his own wedding.” Not mocked? The late Paul Walker. Smart move.

    But here’s a sample of what they did go after:

    “You’ve seen it with the The‘s, you’ve seen it without the The‘s, with just the ‘Fast,’ and with 2′s where the The‘s should be. Now prepare for the latest mix of f-words and numbers in ‘Furious 7.’” What began as “Point Break with cars” has been rebooted, spun off, and stretched out with multiple promises of “one last ride” — including the one that’s still to come in “Furious 8.”

    And yet, in a twist on its usual MO, Screen Junkies took a brief break from its “Car Wars: Episode VII” snark to offer a classy kudos to the film on how they honored Paul Walker. They led into it with a head-shake that the movie was so “dumb”…

    “… [it] had you really worried about how they’d handle the death of Paul Walker, yet, against all odds, made a tasteful, heartfelt and emotionally powerful goodbye. Wow. I honestly never expected a Fast and Furious movie to make me cry. That was really well done.”

    Awww. In the end credits, when they list all the cast members, they make punny jokes about everyone, except Paul Walker. There’s clearly enough material to mock without needing to drag him into it. Check it out:


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  • The ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Honest Trailer Mocks ‘Tom Hardly in the Movie’

    Oh, what a diss. What a lovely diss! “Mad Max: Fury Road” — aka “a two-hour game of Mario Kart from hell” from the grandpa director of “Happy Feet and “Babe: Pig in the City” — just got itself a worthy Honest Trailer. Because even great movies deserve a few digs.

    The Screen Junkies video mocks the movie for being short on plot, and set in a world short on fuel and water where everyone drives gas-guzzlers and wastes all the water.

    “And there’s a guy named Max in it too,” they offer as an aside. “He just kind of hangs out. Tom Hardy *kind of* stars as Mad Max, the role Mel Gibson got too mad to play. He’s a man of few words, but many grunts.” In the end, the actor is billed as “Tom Hardly in the Movie.” (Ouch) They also credit “Bane With a Sleep Apnea Machine” and ‘Real Housewives of the Citadel,” and they may be right in suggesting the real winners of the movie are the makers of silver food mist.

    Check it out:


    “Mad Max: Fury Road” is out on DVD/Blu-ray this coming Tuesday, September 1.

    Watch the trailer.

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