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<blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8355887" data-attributes="member: 7028554"><p>I hear you, and I was one of those kids whose mind was blown when the movie came out, and who became way more invested in the cartoon, in part because it was so much heavier on the action than the movies (and also there was just so much more to watch). The Bogeyman episode, the one where Egon suits up and goes into the ghost tank, the one with Cthulhu...scorched into my brain. When I think of Egon, I think of him with that ridiculous blonde pompadour before I think of Harold Ramis. So watching this trailer I got the same sort of tingles you're describing.</p><p></p><p>But fan-service, especially a very specific metatextual version of fan-service like that, where it's about whether you watched or read or played this tie-in project or another, always winds up feeling hollow to me. I'd rather a movie swing for the fences than settle for a safe single. We have way too many of the latter (staring at endless churn of MCU stuff). This movie looks tropey and recycled as hell, like most fan-service is. Meanwhile, the original Ghostbusters and countless other classics became classics because they were just <em>so damn weird</em>.</p><p></p><p>However, I fully agree about the idea of a Ghostbusters franchise premise, especially if it was all just scams and Ghost Hunter-style reality nonsense (since part of the setting for the movies, as opposed to the cartoon, was that paranormal stuff spikes very occasionally, but is usually non-existent).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grendel_Khan, post: 8355887, member: 7028554"] I hear you, and I was one of those kids whose mind was blown when the movie came out, and who became way more invested in the cartoon, in part because it was so much heavier on the action than the movies (and also there was just so much more to watch). The Bogeyman episode, the one where Egon suits up and goes into the ghost tank, the one with Cthulhu...scorched into my brain. When I think of Egon, I think of him with that ridiculous blonde pompadour before I think of Harold Ramis. So watching this trailer I got the same sort of tingles you're describing. But fan-service, especially a very specific metatextual version of fan-service like that, where it's about whether you watched or read or played this tie-in project or another, always winds up feeling hollow to me. I'd rather a movie swing for the fences than settle for a safe single. We have way too many of the latter (staring at endless churn of MCU stuff). This movie looks tropey and recycled as hell, like most fan-service is. Meanwhile, the original Ghostbusters and countless other classics became classics because they were just [I]so damn weird[/I]. However, I fully agree about the idea of a Ghostbusters franchise premise, especially if it was all just scams and Ghost Hunter-style reality nonsense (since part of the setting for the movies, as opposed to the cartoon, was that paranormal stuff spikes very occasionally, but is usually non-existent). [/QUOTE]
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