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It's on the official ghostbusters youtube channel. They release about an episode a week. It's a shame they haven't re-released it on DVD with all those extras and commentaries from a few years back. Those were gold.
Dan Aykroyd tweeted that he's in the UK working on Ghostbusters with Patton Oswalt.
And of course he doesn't waste the opportunity to plug his weird vodka brand!
It's actually a pretty decent vodka. I may (or may not) have a Crystal Skull vodka bottle on my Ghostbusters shelf...And of course he doesn't waste the opportunity to plug his weird vodka brand!
Oooooh... that looked cool! ( pun intended).
I loved Afterlife even though i'm not a fan of re-using iconic villains who are supposed to be dead or defeated but it worked well enough for the reboot/sequel/revival/whatever. Afterlife worked on it own but if you loved the original movie you got so many easter eggs and heartwarming nosalgia moments.
Now that they did the nostalgia they're ready to create their own stories and i hope this will be a good one, the trailer at least did its job to get me excited. Didn't expect the movie to come out so soon, i'm there for it!
I loved Afterlife even though i'm not a fan of re-using iconic villains who are supposed to be dead or defeated but it worked well enough for the reboot/sequel/revival/whatever. Afterlife worked on it own but if you loved the original movie you got so many easter eggs and heartwarming nosalgia moments.
Now that they did the nostalgia they're ready to create their own stories and i hope this will be a good one, the trailer at least did its job to get me excited. Didn't expect the movie to come out so soon, i'm there for it!
Wow, that seemingly came out of nowhere. McKenna Grace has been growing, one more way to feel old....
Might be out growing being the young version of character X.
As a big fan of Afterlife, I cannot wait for this sequel.
I agree with those who said that now that they've done the nostalgia sequel (and done well in my opinion), here's to new villains and threats.
That said, it's great to see Dan and Ernie back...and I didn't expect Bill to return, too! But I'm the most excited about seeing all of the new cast returning, especially McKeena Grace and Carrie Coon. And we get Patton Oswalt and Kumail Nanjiani?! I'm ready!
I agree with those who said that now that they've done the nostalgia sequel (and done well in my opinion), here's to new villains and threats.
That said, it's great to see Dan and Ernie back...and I didn't expect Bill to return, too! But I'm the most excited about seeing all of the new cast returning, especially McKeena Grace and Carrie Coon. And we get Patton Oswalt and Kumail Nanjiani?! I'm ready!
I detested Afterlife and have no desire to ever revisit it.
This ... well, it's hard to tell from a two-minute teaser, but ... eh. "Frozen Empire" is such a goofy and clunky title (I get the reference to New York being the Empire State, but, still, it's a very clunky title for what is ostensibly still a supernatural comedy), and the green-screening of Coney Island and the Wonder Wheel is tragicomically bad. "Death chill" is a strange name for a phenomenon and Aykroyd isn't selling it.
It was supposed to come out next month, but clogs in the VFX pipeline pushed it to March.
It would have been a moving send-off and tribute if Egon had been off-screen the whole time, just silently guiding and helping his granddaughter.
But, no, because Egon was Jason Reitman's favorite character as a kid, we had to get that CGI monstrosity that just ... kept ... going, to the point that it was almost exploitative. Jesus, that made me ill in the theater.
Also, for God's sake, people, it's Mckenna Grace. Not McKenna, not McKeena, not McKenzie. Mckenna.
This ... well, it's hard to tell from a two-minute teaser, but ... eh. "Frozen Empire" is such a goofy and clunky title (I get the reference to New York being the Empire State, but, still, it's a very clunky title for what is ostensibly still a supernatural comedy), and the green-screening of Coney Island and the Wonder Wheel is tragicomically bad. "Death chill" is a strange name for a phenomenon and Aykroyd isn't selling it.
It was supposed to come out next month, but clogs in the VFX pipeline pushed it to March.
It would have been a moving send-off and tribute if Egon had been off-screen the whole time, just silently guiding and helping his granddaughter.
But, no, because Egon was Jason Reitman's favorite character as a kid, we had to get that CGI monstrosity that just ... kept ... going, to the point that it was almost exploitative. Jesus, that made me ill in the theater.
Also, for God's sake, people, it's Mckenna Grace. Not McKenna, not McKeena, not McKenzie. Mckenna.
I had no idea this was coming. I took a while to get around to Afterlife but ended up liking it a lot so I'm genuinely excited for this. As @The Nth Doctor says, I am surprised to see Murray in it, I expected we'd just get Ackroyd and Hudson. Do we think they might consider killing one or more of the originals off? (although this is a world where ghosts are real so that might not be the end of a character!)
Looks promising so far. I'm in! Really enjoyed 'Afterlife' so I'm happy to see it's mostly the same team again. Yes it was dripping in nostalgia, bit it wasn't shallow about it. It actually meant something. The movie managed to both respect and pay tribute to the original, and very much do it's own thing at the same time.
Not wild about the title though. Pretty sure I heard the working title 'Hell Freezes Over' somewhere (might have been one of Dan's earlier attempts to reboot the franchise), and while also not the best, it has a little more going on than 'Frozen Empire'. Hell; as unoriginal as it sounds, calling it "Ghostbusters: Sub-Zero" would at least have been slightly more evocative.
Seeing so many new people running around in the overalls and proton packs felt a little weird too, though I enjoy the idea that the core of it is Egon's family. Being a part of a family business of sorts at least gives some credibility to the notion the kids would be involved, since families that run small businesses typically "employ" the younger members of the family to some degree or another. So those three + Gary, as well as Lucky, Podcast, whoever the new guy is, and the three surviving OGs. I know we don't see Ray suited up, but if they have Winston & Pete in the overalls, no way they're leaving him entirely out of the action.
I guess the way I pictured an expanded version of the company wasn't just "more Ghostbusters", but specialised teams, most of which (including the oldies) never having to leave the Firehouse on a workday.
Mildly curious as to what pretence they'll have for Lucky & Podcast being in NY. I'm guessing some kind of scholarship program sponsored by Winston? Or just visiting for the summer? Either way they're a loooong way from home.
I did notice some interesting details here and there in the trailer; like the packs appear to have been updated again, with some of the parts coloured yellow, and possibly some new pieces of handheld equipment. Hard to tell in those shots, but I'm pretty sure they also changed the paintjob on the Ecto-1 by extending the red on the tailfins in stripes that run all the way to the headlights.
Also; who wants to bet that in this movie; instead of a little RC car trap, they'll have a drone trap launch from Ecto-1's roof rack? Seems like a perfect opportunity somewhat borrow the disc-trap design from the 90's cartoon, but that's just me.
Not wild about the title though. Pretty sure I heard the working title 'Hell Freezes Over' somewhere (might have been one of Dan's earlier attempts to reboot the franchise), and while also not the best, it has a little more going on than 'Frozen Empire'. Hell; as unoriginal as it sounds, calling it "Ghostbusters: Sub-Zero" would at least have been slightly more evocative.
Seeing so many new people running around in the overalls and proton packs felt a little weird too, though I enjoy the idea that the core of it is Egon's family. Being a part of a family business of sorts at least gives some credibility to the notion the kids would be involved, since families that run small businesses typically "employ" the younger members of the family to some degree or another. So those three + Gary, as well as Lucky, Podcast, whoever the new guy is, and the three surviving OGs. I know we don't see Ray suited up, but if they have Winston & Pete in the overalls, no way they're leaving him entirely out of the action.
I guess the way I pictured an expanded version of the company wasn't just "more Ghostbusters", but specialised teams, most of which (including the oldies) never having to leave the Firehouse on a workday.
Mildly curious as to what pretence they'll have for Lucky & Podcast being in NY. I'm guessing some kind of scholarship program sponsored by Winston? Or just visiting for the summer? Either way they're a loooong way from home.
I did notice some interesting details here and there in the trailer; like the packs appear to have been updated again, with some of the parts coloured yellow, and possibly some new pieces of handheld equipment. Hard to tell in those shots, but I'm pretty sure they also changed the paintjob on the Ecto-1 by extending the red on the tailfins in stripes that run all the way to the headlights.
Also; who wants to bet that in this movie; instead of a little RC car trap, they'll have a drone trap launch from Ecto-1's roof rack? Seems like a perfect opportunity somewhat borrow the disc-trap design from the 90's cartoon, but that's just me.
Honestly I couldn't care less about the plot so long as it's at least reasonably coherent; I just want to have fun watching the characters bounce off each other, and get to see people shooting Neutrona Wands at cool looking visual effects.
Yeah, seeing Bill back kinda threw me. He's been pretty consistently against coming back for so long that I guess I just assumed his appearance in 'Afterlife' was just as a one-off favour to Reitman and a sense of obligation for Ramis' character's send-off (also it was just two scenes.) Then again he seemed into it again for the video game, so perhaps the problem for him was always Dan's scripts? Or maybe that was because being able to just riff in a recording booth took the pain out of the process? Who knows?
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He most certainly was not "into it" for The Video Game; he no-showed multiple recording sessions and it got to the point that Terminal Reality was panicking and Aykroyd and Hudson were recording additional dialogue in the event Venkman had to be removed from the game. Eventually, Murray showed up for a six-hour session on one day and a four-hour session on the second day, and that was it, which is why Venkman effectively disappears for about a third of the game. And his performance shows; he's sleepwalking through it like he'd just taken a triple dose of Ambien and then downed a fifth of vodka right before getting into the booth. (Although, given Murray's well-known substance abuse habits, that might not be terribly off-base...)
See, I don't get this. It's falling into the nostalgia-baiting trap of a lot of stuff over the last few years; just titillate the audience with memberberries and they'll be happy like when you jingle keys in front of an infant and they giggle. "Ooh! He said / did The Thing! This is the greatest movie ever!"
Show me something new.
It's got exactly fuck and all to do with nostalgia for me beyond "it's a Ghostbusters movie". It's about being able to just enjoy a fun popcorn movie. I don't care how it fits into the damn lore, or what they do and don't reference, if anything. I like the characters, I like the premise. That's enough for me.
People can cry "memberberries" all day long for all I care, so long as I'm enjoying it. Also, and this is just for me personally; if you have to reference an episode of South Park of all things to make a point, you've probably already lost me. Those two idiots can't tell their arse from their elbow.
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