Ghostbusters: Afterlife

[Nebulous]

I’m slightly apprehensive about it not being set in New York, which was a character in the other films. It’s one of a few cities in the world with that quality. I’m not sure some random small town can fill in for it.

No. No it can't. It's definitely trying to evoke the Stranger Things small town/kids vibe which is so popular right now. IT too with the small town Derry and kids. It COULD work, but I would also prefer the New York setting. I'm optimistic for this though, I hope it's enough of a hit to relaunch the franchise.

 

[Tonguez]

It COULD work, but I would also prefer the New York setting.

See thats something I dont understand, I know that New York is a great character so a good place to tell stories, but I've already seen that story in the first movie trilogy, I dont need to see it recreated.

I like that this sequel is telling a new story with different characters- including the small town.
I hope it doesnt lean to heavily into the Stranger Things vibe, but am excited about expanding the Ghostbusting universe

 

[Nebulous]

Ghostbusters was a comedy, but it was also scary to the kids watching it in the 80s. The Real Ghostbusters also accounts for a HUGE chunk of the origin Ghostbusters Fandom, far more than Ghostbusters II really, and that show had some really striking scary stuff amidst the 'Slimer bothers Peter' gags.

I didn't really think about until you mentioned it, but the GB cartoon is - to me- way more satisfying than the official GB 2 movie. I haven't seen it in ages, but I do remember some of the visuals were terrifying. I should look it up on Youtube.

 

[Nebulous]

See thats something I dont understand, I know that New York is a great character so a good place to tell stories, but I've already seen that story in the first movie trilogy, I dont need to see it recreated.
I like that this sequel is telling a new story with different characters- including the small town.
I hope it doesnt lean to heavily into the Stranger Things vibe, but am excited about expanding the Ghostbusting universe

I consider the video game Ghostbusters as movie #3 as it had the same actors and Dan Aykroyd wrote it.

It's too early to tell if it will overly lean into Stranger Things. i hope not. It will come down to the writing and the acting. But Paul Rudd will be awesome no matter what.

 

[Morrus]

See thats something I dont understand, I know that New York is a great character so a good place to tell stories, but I've already seen that story in the first movie trilogy, I dont need to see it recreated.

It’s a character. Why would you not one one of the characters back? Do you not want to see Venkman etc. either?

 

[Undrave]

It’s a character. Why would you not one one of the characters back? Do you not want to see Venkman etc. either?

Venkman was kind of an a-hole so...not really?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Yeah, it's definitely a bad look, intentional or not. The idea that people forget about and/or sweep this ghost stuff under the carpet would make it easier, if anything. It wouldn't be that hard to have someone Skype with Holtzmann briefly to confer on a bit of tech, or make reference to the Rowan North cover-up.

FYI, the Ghostbusters Remastered PS4 game is on sale in the PS Store for the next two weeks or so for about $18. As stated, it feels a whole lot like a third Ghostbusters film, and is a ton of fun. Until Answer the Call came out (of which I am an unabashed fan), I thought that was going to be it for the franchise.

Just think of the optics on this sequel - it comes on the heels of a contentious fight and you know that there are critics of the 2016 effort who see it as their white knight charging in to restore the masculine honor of the original Ghostbusting crew and their fans against the tides of encroaching feminine appropriation. Or some such naughty word.

 

[Undrave]

I didn't really think about until you mentioned it, but the GB cartoon is - to me- way more satisfying than the official GB 2 movie. I haven't seen it in ages, but I do remember some of the visuals were terrifying. I should look it up on Youtube.

Look up the Boogeyman episode! It's a classic!

Yeah, it's definitely a bad look, intentional or not. The idea that people forget about and/or sweep this ghost stuff under the carpet would make it easier, if anything. It wouldn't be that hard to have someone Skype with Holtzmann briefly to confer on a bit of tech, or make reference to the Rowan North cover-up.

FYI, the Ghostbusters Remastered PS4 game is on sale in the PS Store for the next two weeks or so for about $18. As stated, it feels a whole lot like a third Ghostbusters film, and is a ton of fun. Until Answer the Call came out (of which I am an unabashed fan), I thought that was going to be it for the franchise.

The 2016 movie is in a different universe so they're not gonna show up. If they hadn't made it a reboot in the first place we wouldn't be in this position...

I highly HIGHLY recommend the IDW Ghostbusters comic books. They pick up after the video game ('The Rookie' heads the Chicago Branch) and are filled with cool stories, great characterization and cool nods to other incarnations (an incarnation of Kylie from X-Treme Ghostbusters shows up, for exemple) and they eventually cross over with the Answer the Call universe!

 

[gyor]

Sauce for the goose and all that. If anything, the 2016 movie's team/backers probably have a better case for complaint. Just think of the optics on this sequel - it comes on the heels of a contentious fight and you know that there are critics of the 2016 effort who see it as their white knight charging in to restore the masculine honor of the original Ghostbusting crew and their fans against the tides of encroaching feminine appropriation. Or some such naughty word.

I'm pretty sure that the principals involved don't see it that way considering the support they gave the 2016 project and cameo appearances (though Jason Reitman has made some boneheaded gaffes), but it does seem a bit of a snub. That said, 2016 being a reboot does kind of take it outside the continuity anyway, so it's not like it can't be understood why it isn't referenced.

No actually they don't, they made the movie hyper political from the beginning and ran the worst PR campaign I've ever seen a movie run. They insulted the fan base, disrespected the IP and then were surprised when the fans turned on them in droves. And movie was a huge flop as a result. They used women as a human shield against reasonable criticism, which was unfair to women. They cherry picked unrepresentive examples from their worst critics, to smear the far more reasonable majority of critics.

And they want this new Ghostbusters to fail not just for petty revenge against the Ghostbusters fans who refused to support their movie in 2016, but because if this one succeeds where the 2016 movie failed, given this one has female ghostbusters as as well, but with a different approach to the IP that is less political, it will expose their accusations of mysgony against the Ghostbusters fandom as the lies they always were and that is what supporters of the 2016 movie fear above all else.

 

[Nebulous]

No actually they don't, they made the movie hyper political from the beginning and ran the worst PR campaign I've ever seen a movie run. They insulted the fan base, disrespected the IP and then were surprised when the fans turned on them in droves. And movie was a huge flop as a result. They used women as a human shield against reasonable criticism, which was unfair to women. They cherry picked unrepresentive examples from their worst critics, to smear the far more reasonable majority of critics.

And they want this new Ghostbusters to fail not just for petty revenge against the Ghostbusters fans who refused to support their movie in 2016, but because if this one succeeds where the 2016 movie failed, given this one has female ghostbusters as as well, but with a different approach to the IP that is less political, it will expose their accusations of mysgony against the Ghostbusters fandom as the lies they always were and that is what supporters of the 2016 movie fear above all else.

I just want a good movie