Official Ghostbusters Thread

Ghostbusters is a great standalone movie that mistakenly got turned into a franchise.
It doesn't work as a franchise, it never did.
A lot of people rightfully call this movie "lightning in a bottle" because it can never be repeated.
Everything that came after the original has ranged from underwhelming to outright abysmal.
 
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Aside from the films, I also really enjoyed the two animated series they made (The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters). I watched the newest film, and while it wasn't as awful as the 2016 one it still wasn't very good.
 
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Mac Monster said:
Aside from the films, I also really enjoyed the two animated series they made (The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters). I watched the newest film, and while it wasn't as awful as the 2016 one it still wasn't very good.
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The newest one just feels meh as fuck and the less said about the 2016 abomination, the better. This franchise really should have just ended in the 2000s with the game as that felt like the ending to a trilogy.
 
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Idiotron said:
Ghostbusters is a great standalone movie that mistakenly got turned into a franchise.
It doesn't work as a franchise, it never did.
A lot of people rightfully call this movie "lightning in a bottle" because it can never be repeated.
Everything that came after the original has ranged from underwhelming to outright abysmal.
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Ghostbusters II (1989) has aged well at the least from being a product of its time.
 
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I agree Ghostbusters is a standalone film that got turned into a franchise - like Jurassic Park if anything - but its sequel and the cartoons were legitimately charming and the Vidya an excellent nostalgic capstone. I admit I laughed at IDW comics' reference to the Rookie player character when Peter asks how "Rookie"'s doing only for Ray to retort that Rookie's franchise was more profitable than theirs. That's how you do one-off references right!

I also think Ghostbusters got truly lucky surviving the culture wars and Sony's attempts to turn it into an endless franchise. Yes, really! For all the damage Girlbusters did to the brand... the original movie has truly stood the test of time and sequel media from its time period is still remembered fondly. Thus, Girlbusters can be written off as a failed revival attempt, already all but forgotten, and the current set of sequels the same if it comes to. Not many media franchises get such a strong core set of media to fall back upon whenever it's time to dust them off for another shot.
 
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Idiotron said:
It doesn't work as a franchise, it never did.
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The franchise was great. Peter even predicted its success in the first movie. You had great toys, a great cartoon (that got an inexplicably good reboot in the 90s), Ecto-Cooler.... The 80s were a great time to be a little consoomer.
 
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