New Ghostbusters Afterlife trailer

[wicked cool]

I like how people that think the reboot was awful get thrown into a bucket . I blame the scripts. Sigourney weaver didn’t lose the ability to act it was bad scripts. The alien franchise became the Prometheus movies due to 1 mans flawed vision. Great actors in all but nobody was interested long term in this
There are plenty of exceptions to second movies being just as good or reboots
Empire strikes back is one of the best sequels-its after that it lost its way for the most part. Heck it’s the thrawn books that carried the franchise for years
Godfather 2-many consider to be better than original
Spider-Man reboots-I find them to be better than most of the originals
Batman-it’s debateable
Star Trek vs new generation-strong debates

90210-reboot crashed and burned . There was no sexism in the reboot. It was just terrible

Terminator 2-another great sequel

 

[embee]

I sometimes wonder at what point in the production of a movie do the actors, producers, and others think they have a hit or dud on their hands? Mark Hamil has said that they all thought Star Wars was going to be a turkey while they were filming it and were genuinely surprised by its success.

Everyone was surprised by its success. Guiness called it a stupid and childish fairy tale (which it ultimately is - farmboy saves princess from the clutches of an evil warlord with the help of a wizard and a pirate).

The stupidest thing ever uttered by a movie executive was "Sure Mr. Lucas... You can keep the merchandising rights and soundtrack royalties." Which is why I side-eye any hate laid at the Ewoks and porgs as a ploy to sell merch; they were no more a ploy to sell merch than were the Jawas.

Other fits of financial brilliance were from Sir Alec Guiness (or more likely his agent), who opted instead of a negotiated salary to take .025% of ESB's revenues. His estate continues to collect money from it and his take from that movie alone is more than $100 million.

For less than 60 seconds of screen time.

 

[BrokenTwin]

Enjoyed the original, loved the cartoon, was solidly "meh" on the reboot...
Afterlife looks like a pure nostalgia-bait paint-by-numbers popcorn flick. I'll probably watch it once it hits Disney+ or Netflix or where-ever. For Paul Rudd if nothing else.
Be nice if they tied a bit of the reboot in just for the nod, but I'm not holding my breath. A Kate McKinnon cameo would be solid. I found her easily the best part of the reboot, though Chris Hemsworth's ditzy secretary routine was entertaining in its own way.

 

[BookTenTiger]

It's funny how beloved Paul Rudd is.

...

I love him too.

 

[Tonguez]

The stupidest thing ever uttered by a movie executive was "Sure Mr. Lucas... You can keep the merchandising rights and soundtrack royalties." Which is why I side-eye any hate laid at the Ewoks and porgs as a ploy to sell merch; they were no more a ploy to sell merch than were the Jawas.

really? The Jawas kind of miss out the cute factor though, I dont remember anyone kid wanting a cuddly stuffed Jawa to sleep with. Ewoks and Porgs and Banthas however are a winner

 

[trappedslider]

really? The Jawas kind of miss out the cute factor though, I dont remember anyone kid wanting a cuddly stuffed Jawa to sleep with. Ewoks and Porgs and Banthas however are a winner

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[Bohandas]

Re. Ghostbusters 2. Ghostbusters II is a good movie overall that just happens to have a bad first act.

 

[Imaculata]

So to say that it's somehow not worthy of the Ghostbusters brand name is a bit disingenuous.

I never said it wasn't worthy of the brand name. I said they gave it the exact same title as the 80s original, to deliberately confuse the audience.

Which they did.

Re. Ghostbusters 2. Ghostbusters II is a good movie overall that just happens to have a bad first act.

I can see more problems with it than just the weak first act. With a sequel, you often hope that they either advance the story in some interesting way, or go bigger than the first movie. GBII did neither. They reset the business as if they hadn't saved the world, and then repeat much of the same plot, but with a weaker villain and Dana miraculously being in the middle of it all again. And I can see how the ending is a bit cringe too.

But amongst the flaws, I also see some greatness. Janosh is hilarious, Venkman gets a lot of great lines, and Winston has a lot more to do and say. The river of slime in the old pneumatic transit is a cool and haunting idea, and Vigo is genuinly creepy.

 

[embee]

really? The Jawas kind of miss out the cute factor though, I dont remember anyone kid wanting a cuddly stuffed Jawa to sleep with. Ewoks and Porgs and Banthas however are a winner

They were one of the original Kenner action figures. In fact, they were in the initial batch of 12 released in 1977.

They were marketing.

 

[Gradine]

I never said it wasn't worthy of the brand name. I said they gave it the exact same title as the 80s original, to deliberately confuse the audience.

Which they did.

The film's marketing was very, very up-front about what type of movie it was going to be, and the movie turned out to be... exactly that.

No one was maliciously misleading anyone, and I can't imagine what sort of person would walk into that movie expecting anything different than what the movie turned out to be.