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GhostBusters 3 is Finally Being Made. (2020 Release)

EnderAKH said:
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.
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That was kind of me too, but only made it through 20 minutes of the movie before shutting it off. It just wasn't my cup of tea.
 
I'm surrounded by bureaucrats. Never seen one who thought it was within his authority to have someone shot for getting in his way.
 
The article says that the earlier reports are actually inaccurate and the movie is about a whole family, rather than just a group of kids, and that the mother is actually the main character, not the kids.
 
It could be interesting if it was done like those supernatural horror films that focus on the psychological trauma they’re going through. But the experts they bring in are the Ghostbusters. Closer in tone to the original which is all played pretty straight with the humor coming from the Ghostbusters’ reactions to ghosts and each other, plus Louis who is a living cartoon. All the stuff with Dana is played very seriously and has actually scary scenes.
 
You guys bring up a great point about the comedy. When EVERYTHING is zany and unrealistic, comedy loses it's effect...
 
crookeddy said:
Hate those things. How can anyone enjoy them?
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I expect most fans here to know this, but the 2009 GB video game is as close as we'll ever get to a proper GB 3. I don't really bother with finishing video games anymore, but had a blast with what I did play of it.
Cheers,
CS
 
JD said:
The article says that the earlier reports are actually inaccurate and the movie is about a whole family, rather than just a group of kids, and that the mother is actually the main character, not the kids.
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That's a relief. Anyway if Carrie Coon is in this movie it makes me more interested. She's great.
 
I think I like the Mother & Son plot even less.
This doesn't really match the whole "giving it back to the fans" vibe they've been trying to give. This is far removed from what most think Ghostbusters is.
 
Danna's kid in GB 2 as a boy right? My first thought was that she was going to be the baby from GB 2, but that does seem unlikely if it was a boy.
Would she be the right age to have been one of the guys' daughter born after GB2?
 
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