If you've seen more than a few movie trailers, you're either being hyperbolic or you employ a pretty worthless set of standards for judging.
GhostBusters 3 is Finally Being Made. (2020 Release)
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If you've seen more than a few movie trailers, you're either being hyperbolic or you employ a pretty worthless set of standards for judging.
That's what I was thinking too. Either that or their grand children. I don't really have any issue with it either.
Probably grandchildren at this point, Oscar would be in his early 30s at this point. If any of the guys had kids they'd be grown at this point unless they had them late in life.
it would be more interesting if they weren't related.
.... they will totally be related.
.... they will totally be related.
Agreed. The originals are tightly written deadpan masterpieces. The 2016 film is an awkward mix of broad humor and just expecting the cast to randomly improv funny moments. Randomly improvising jokes can often yield some very funny results but I don't think it works when the expectations are this high.
It did respectably for a Paul Feig movie, though not as well as Bridesmaids or The Heat. I think the big problem was how much more expensive Ghostbusters was compared to his other films. Had he been able to keep costs down, I think Sony would have ignored the fan backlash and gone ahead with a sequel to it anyway.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?view=Director&id=paulfeig.htm
The second film is a lame repeat of the first.
I wanted to like the 2016 movie, and there are elements I like about it. And I love all of the individual performers, I love Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. But the humor in it just did not work for me. When I tried to watch it the first time, I turned it off at the scene in the Dean's office, with Steve Higgins. That just rang so false and unfunny, with him just flipping them off in a variety of ways. Ivan Reitman said in an interview you bring in one off kilter thing, but otherwise the world is real. For example, in Dave that there could be an exact duplicate of the president, or in Ghostbusters that ghosts were real and could be captured. Outside of that thing, the comedy comes from the world reacting to that one off-kilter thing. It felt like Paul Feig was just trying too hard to be zany, and the humor just flat failed for me.
Let's be real. In Ghostbusters (1984) there was more that was unreal besides just the ghosts. Generally speaking, the characters acted in cartoonish ways. There was nothing real or authentic about the way Louis Tully acted, or the way that Walter Peck behaved, or the way that the Ghostbusters themselves conducted themselves.
That's comedy though. Realism is traded for laughs. If you were to somehow subtract the paranormal and science fiction elements from Ghostbusters, it would still have an air of unreality about it, because there is fantasy inherent in slapstick and farce.
That's comedy though. Realism is traded for laughs. If you were to somehow subtract the paranormal and science fiction elements from Ghostbusters, it would still have an air of unreality about it, because there is fantasy inherent in slapstick and farce.
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It was. Plus, Atherton was fantastic.
Yeah, I actually do have to agree with you. When I saw that they were really doing GB3, the last thing I expected was for it to be about a bunch of kids.
If they wanted to go for a new movie with a new generation of Ghostbusters, I would have just expected them to go for people like Chris Pratt, Seth Rogen, and Jonah Hill. I'd put at least one or two women in there too, but I'm drawing a blank on younger comedic actresses right now.
Did you SEE Ghostbusters 2? "Masterpiece" isn't what I would call it. An adequate follow up, perhaps. But, not a masterpiece.
To be frank, I don't know why we even call Ghostbusters a franchise. It's 1 great movie, followed up by... whatever it was. The Saturday morning cartoon was good, but...come on.... Ghostbusters wasn't Indiana Jones or Bond or Star Trek.
It was one great movie... The smart play WAS to reboot it. They didn't do a great job of it. Maybe it should just ... be left alone. The time to have done a sequel was 20 years ago.
If a franchise franchises and no one hears about it, is it a franchise?
I honestly had to look up the second animated series. and I'm vaguely aware that there have been comics. The biggest blip on my radar was the game from however many years ago.
YMMV, but, even though stuff has happened, if it doesn't quite reach the public at large, I don't know if I would use the F word.
I guess it depends on your definition of franchise.
As for the comics, I read the first collection of the ongoing series, and it was good, I'd definitely recommend it for any Ghostbusters fans who read comics. I must not be the only one who read it since the IDW comics have been coming out fairly regularly since October 2008.
As for the comics, I read the first collection of the ongoing series, and it was good, I'd definitely recommend it for any Ghostbusters fans who read comics. I must not be the only one who read it since the IDW comics have been coming out fairly regularly since October 2008.
I thought dickless was a perfectly fine portrayal of a mid-level city bureaucrat waving his arbitrary authority around.