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

I approve solely on the fact that it’s making Lolcows bitter about the 2016 one again.
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I have no desire to see Afterlife.

Ghostbusters is one of those things that has just been beaten to death with each new version and after the 2016 movie, I'm skittish about any Ghostbusters related projects.

And this one is clearly trying to make up for that fiasco, but Stranger Things with Proton packs doesn't interest me.

Honestly, if they are going to do it, I wish they'd take Ghostbusters to the point that Akroyd originally envisioned where Ghostbusters were as common as firefighters.
 
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All these people are acting like they said others were with Ghostbuster 2016, pretty funny. But if you don't like the look of something absolutely complain and if the complains are crazy, people will just laugh at them.

This movie looks interesting to me. happy it's trying to do something different and not just adding bad improv as the awful remake did. Jason Reitman has also made some good movies like Up in the Air, Young Adult and Thank You for Smoking but also made Men, Women & Children and Juno, so crapshoot if it will be good but can't be worse than the last time.
 
XYZpdq said:
that reminds me I should finish Tenma San Ga Yuku aka Sony Presents Original Busting Ghost Persons of Japan Do Not Steal
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I was not aware of this. I would like to see Ghostbusters properly licensed out to other countries to see their take on it.
 
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Still cautiously optimistic. They can't ruin every IP I grew up with. Right?
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I'm not looking forward to this movie at all, the people that made the first one couldn't even make a great sequel. I can go the rest of my life without new Ghostbusters and not feel like I'm missing something.

But there is this little part of me, where this movie seems to be a work of love from Jason Reitman over the loss of his father, that hopes this actually turns out alright.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
I approve solely on the fact that it’s making Lolcows bitter about the 2016 one again.
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Stfu "Brianna" Jason did this to ensure his father won't die with only the bastardization that was awnser the call as his last memory of Ghostbusters speaking of
Polyboros2 said:
But there is this little part of me, where this movie seems to be a work of love from Jason Reitman over the loss of his father,
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JFC man don't scare me like that! I thought Ivan had gone to join Harold ramis in the hereafter when I saw that (though at 74 it's just a matter of time at this point)
 
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Stfu "Brianna" Jason did this to ensure his father won't die with only the bastardization that was awnser the call as his last memory of Ghostbusters speaking of


JFC man don't scare me like that! I thought Ivan had gone to join Harold ramis in the hereafter when I saw that (though at 74 it's just a matter of time at this point)
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Ah shit, I'm retarded and mixed things up.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Horrorfan is the kind of dude that falls for being told there's a spider on his back.

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Can you blame me? I've seen the deaths of Micheal Jackson, Farrah fawcett, Robin Williams, the aforementioned Harold ramis, bob hoskins, Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher, Billy Mays, Angus Scrimm and your namesake Bruno Mattei.
 
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SteelPlatedHeart said:
I approve solely on the fact that it’s making Lolcows bitter about the 2016 one again.
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Lady Ghostbusters didn't even have a premise. It was just "funny women do some of the stuff the Ghostbusters did." And they couldn't even find any funny women.

Who wants to see heartwarming family ghostbusting? I don't know, I kind of liked the implication in Ghostbusters 2 that the guys, Dana, and Oscar are one big happy family. Maybe it's the positively-charged mood slime depressing my usual cynicism, but I liked the idea the kid would grow up around his goofy uncles and one day play with their toys. (I know, I know, the proton pack is not a toy.)

It's terribly reductionist to call this a "heartwarming family" film when so little is known about it, anyway. One might as well dismiss the first Ghostbusters as a "typical struggling small business film," or a "right-wing attack on environmental regulations," or a "criticism of lax nuclear power regulations," etc. There's a thousand facets you could single out to dismiss the film, while ignoring how it works with all the others to produce a coherent whole. We don't know what the whole of Afterlife will be yet.

I remain cautiously optimistic because it's impossible to destroy every beloved IP from my childhood. Even if they tried, they'd screw up and make a good movie once in a while by accident. Doing everything wrong all the time takes a kind of Satanic perfection not even Hollywood has mastered. I really feel pretty ambivalent about this, but I'm willing to give it a shot based on what I've seen so far.
 
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horrorfan89 said:
Can you blame me? I've seen the deaths of Micheal Jackson, Farrah fawcett, Robin Williams, the aforementioned Harold ramis, bob hoskins, Gene Wilder, Carrie Fisher, Billy Mays, Angus Scrimm and your namesake Bruno Mattei.
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It's almost as if people die.
 
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Getting back on track, whatever you lr feelings on the 2016 movie are know this.



We lost out on Max Landis directing a Ghostbusters 3 at last all because Paul fieg beat him to Sony and pitched the reboot with the words "all women." The failure of 2016 almost killed off Ghostbusters permanently.


Wherever Harold ramis is now at least his legacy will not die with him in vain.
 
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