The Ghostbusters Thread (Old, New, Animated, Whatever)

I don't know how hard it is to make a Ghostbusters film where the plot is serious but has funny people in the role to react towards it in a natural way. It really feels that hollywood sees the franchise as a slapstick comedy series like the Vacation franchise, but is afraid to have dry wit in the films.

Btw, going to have over 4 years removed from the film, Ghostbusters 2016, is among one of the worst, if not the worst remake of a franchise ever given any major budget. There are films that are far worse remakes on a technical level or has the fatal problem of turning a R-rated franchise into a PG-13 outting, but this film's problems are far more cynical than that.

The very existence of the film from its construction and the mindset going into the film is contemptuous to boot with having a director who clearly didn't like the original and was a clear mismatch for his (very limited) comedy style. Much of this film plays out like a parody of the original Ghostbusters rather than an honest attempt to reboot a franchise, in fact it shares many similarities with the live action Scooby Doo film in its handling. The difference was that studio demands on James Gunn prevented him from making an R-rated horror/comedy with the franchise which you can sort of see the elements in that movie.

Ghostbusters 2016 really fails to have any identity of its own aside from the nakedly cynical choice in a villain being a complete loser in the film though by the film's logic made a ghost channeling device which ruins any immersion in the film with it being first stupid and second going to bring doubts this man would hold a fuckstatic job and afford such a device. The Ghostbusters outside of the character of Patty Toland (most of the time) were fucking unbearable with no one reigning them in to let the scene rest and Feig being a limp wristed director. None of the jokes were clever at all with the exception of Mike Hat which was actually funny. The focus on action was a clear misunderstanding of what made the original and even the cartoon good for it really isn't an action series at all.

The final closing is that Sony got what they paid for being delusional to give a glorified Bad SNL sketch nearly 150 million dollars, being contemptuous with the fans and the casting choice to hide criticism of the film, and finally polluting any goodwill around this film with most of the conversions being about political nature surrounding it. I hope Sony is happy they lost so much money and help drain their licensing coffers.
 
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Nut-Roaster the 2nd said:
You know, as much as I want to be cynical, I can't help but want to be hopeful for this movie.
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Dear God why?
It looks like a re-skinned Stranger Things, Ghostbusters Jr.
Marketing indicates you liked baby Yoda, so here's a chibi toy selling version of an unexpectedly iconic horror monster.
The joke in the original movie is that your horrific end would come from the most incongruous looking kaiju of all time that was nonetheless a real and terrifying threat. Now he's reduced to an 'LOL so random' and cute member-berry.

I get the distinct feeling that the horror element of a once iconic horror comedy will be reduced in favour of jokes and call backs in much the same manner as that 2016 abortion.

Sony is a dumpster fire and expectating anything even approaching an original idea from that studio is an exercise in optimistim over experience.
 
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You sure they're doing stranger things? Because the Stay Puft trailer gave me Gremlin vibes. I think they might be vomiting out all the old generic "horror for kids" stuff BESIDES Ghostbusters to me.
 
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Secret Asshole said:
The original Ghostbusters and the cartoon were both lightning in a bottle. Recreating it I think is impossible, but of course since this is Hollywood they couldn't get over it and do something different.
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Wherever there still might be a stale dollar, Hollywood will always attempt to ring it no matter how pitiful or fruitless the attempt.
 
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Adamska said:
You sure they're doing stranger things? Because the Stay Puft trailer gave me Gremlin vibes. I think they might be vomiting out all the old generic "horror for kids" stuff BESIDES Ghostbusters to me.
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That trailer is so self referential that I'd go so far as to say it was one fourth wall break away from being Gremlins 2: The New Batch. The other film that springs to mind is Seth Rogan's Sausage Party.. and that's not a good thing.
 
There’s a trailer for Afterlife dropping tomorrow. I’d imagine it’ll be one that actually gives you the plot of the film.
 
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