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GhostBusters 3 is Finally Being Made. (2020 Release)

Yeah, the cast was perfect. I liked the movie, but it was an odd tone for Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is basically a horror movie where some of the characters are funny, Dana’s storyline is played as straight horror and the stakes are serious. The Ghostbusters themselves are funny, but only in the way that people in real life are funny and some of the situations they’re in are played for laughs. Louis however is a living cartoon trapped in a serious of wacky hijinks which is ignored by everyone around him.

2016 was a straight up comedy that happened to have ghosts in it. It’s closer to the Judd Apatow style of comedy than anything else. I liked it, but it being Ghostbusters just made it feel a bit off. I wish they had toned it down just a bit. Keep Kevin the same because Hemsworth is a comic treasure, him being around normal people would be even funnier.
 
Untitled Hallmark Sequel said:
My headcanon is that Peter insisted on the changes to drum up business and Ray later removed it because he didn't like it and Peter wasn't willing to do the work to put it back or just didn't care enough to bother.

One doesn't have to be married to have kids.
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In my culture we have to be married before having children. It is very important.
 
EmoBorg said:
In my culture we have to be married before having children. It is very important.
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Regardless either way, it usually makes inheritance much easier. And y’know that’s what’s in the trailer. Of course, Egon was Jewish, and tends to be matrilinear. Janine is the kosher option (this is mildly a joke. With a dash of true.)
 
Untitled Hallmark Sequel said:
Yeah, the cast was perfect. I liked the movie, but it was an odd tone for Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is basically a horror movie where some of the characters are funny, Dana’s storyline is played as straight horror and the stakes are serious. The Ghostbusters themselves are funny, but only in the way that people in real life are funny and some of the situations they’re in are played for laughs. Louis however is a living cartoon trapped in a serious of wacky hijinks which is ignored by everyone around him.

2016 was a straight up comedy that happened to have ghosts in it. It’s closer to the Judd Apatow style of comedy than anything else. I liked it, but it being Ghostbusters just made it feel a bit off. I wish they had toned it down just a bit. Keep Kevin the same because Hemsworth is a comic treasure, him being around normal people would be even funnier.
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Oh yes, Kevin. The playing saxophone or listening to saxophone scene is one of my favorites. That, and the name of his dog.
 
I think the original Ghostbusters universe owes a lot to HP Lovecraft, a world where there are things that most people either don't know about or refuse to know about to keep their little lives sane while a few with knowledge of such things struggle to hold them back.

Parallels like Tobin's Spirit Guide = Necronomicon and Gozer = Cthulu with the terror dogs = Shuggoths and Shandor = Abdul Alhazred. Not direct parallels but there are similarities that would make these work so well with the Ghostbusters like The Collect Call of Cthulu did.
 
Untitled Hallmark Sequel said:
Yeah, the cast was perfect. I liked the movie, but it was an odd tone for Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is basically a horror movie where some of the characters are funny, Dana’s storyline is played as straight horror and the stakes are serious. The Ghostbusters themselves are funny, but only in the way that people in real life are funny and some of the situations they’re in are played for laughs. Louis however is a living cartoon trapped in a serious of wacky hijinks which is ignored by everyone around him.

2016 was a straight up comedy that happened to have ghosts in it. It’s closer to the Judd Apatow style of comedy than anything else. I liked it, but it being Ghostbusters just made it feel a bit off. I wish they had toned it down just a bit. Keep Kevin the same because Hemsworth is a comic treasure, him being around normal people would be even funnier.
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For the most part, there's two types of comedy in film/TV. Situational, where the characters are reacting to events in a traditional dramatic manner, while the events they're reacting to get increasingly insane and funny, and Knowing (for lack of a better word), where the characters are in on the joke, and react accordingly. Ghostbusters is the first type, while Deadpool, at least for the title character, is the second.

Louis is a traditional Sad Sack, always getting the short end of the stick. He tries hard/means well, but isn't competent enough to do better.
 
I have figure out who's the kid with glasses grandfather that died is and base on the actor that played him had died in 2014 and also the kid kind of look like him.
 
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I have figure out who's the kid with glasses grandfather that died is and base on the actor that played him had died in 2014 and also the kid kind of look like him.
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They pretty much tell us in the trailer when the kid is looking through the Ghostbusters uniforms, so it's not that hard to figure out.
 
Definitely Egon’s grandkid. There are Petri dishes all over the place on that table, and he was always into “spores, molds and fungus”, which is what one grows in Petri dishes. :)
 
A bit late to this party, but in re: the granddaughter/math debate. Is the assumption this movie takes place in 2019/2020 sound? Maybe it's in "the near future", which gives more flexibility to the lineage. The remark about there having been no ghost sightings in 30 years loosely references GB2, but it doesn't have to.

That being said: movie looks fun, although it might be more appropriately titled "Stranger Things: The Motion Picture".
 
Untitled Hallmark Sequel said:
Yeah, the cast was perfect. I liked the movie, but it was an odd tone for Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is basically a horror movie where some of the characters are funny, Dana’s storyline is played as straight horror and the stakes are serious. The Ghostbusters themselves are funny, but only in the way that people in real life are funny and some of the situations they’re in are played for laughs. Louis however is a living cartoon trapped in a serious of wacky hijinks which is ignored by everyone around him.
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Agreed, with regards to the original film. I think part of what made it so successful was finding the right balance between the two elements. There's clearly some pretty funny elements like the marshmallow man, but there's enough darkness to keep some of the seriousness intact as well. :)

I've also felt like the original animated series did some good balance with this as well, in some eps, and had others addressing the fact that not all ghosts are inherently dangerous. Some are just souls that got lost after death, and it's nice to watch the team find a way to help them that doesn't involve a trap. :D
 
The animated series, particularly the first couple seasons, had a good balance between the expected Saturday Morning Cartoon elements and having an eeriness and lore to it.

I also like the little musical montages/chase scenes set to some unknown 80s pop-rock band.
 
Trekker4747 said:
The animated series, particularly the first couple seasons, had a good balance between the expected Saturday Morning Cartoon elements and having an eeriness and lore to it.

I also like the little musical montages/chase scenes set to some unknown 80s pop-rock band.
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I think the band was called Tahiti. Or one of them was. There’s a soundtrack album.
And there’s one doing the rounds with all the shuki levi stuff. I lost my copy, but it was great.
 
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