GhostBusters 3 is Finally Being Made. (2020 Release)

[Shaka Zulu]

Everyone's favorite channel Midnight's Edge gives a good recap on why the 2016 Dumpsterfire Ghostbusters failed and the current state of GB3:

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Yeah, because people like Moronic Edge know so much about movies and why this one failed.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Midnight's Edge makes Cinema Sins look professional.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I would be. At this point think I'd be more interested in a TV series than another movie.

The new leads are a 12 year old boy and a 13 year old girl, I'm pretty sure that's how old the article said they were.

They're older teens, not younger ones.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

They're older teens, not younger ones.

The only specific ages I can find mentioned in any articles are 12 and 13. Those are rumors, and that's only two of the four teenage characters that are supposed to be in the movie, but 12 and 13 are ages with an actual basis in the reporting. The idea that any of the characters are 'older teenagers' doesn't seem to appear in any article I can find, unless you have a link?

 

[Kane_Steel]

The salt this board has towards Midnight's Edge is highly amusing.

There was nothing in that recap that didn't end up being true in the long term.

 

[Awesome Possum]

The salt this board has towards Midnight's Edge is highly amusing.

There was nothing in that recap that didn't end up being true in the long term.

You’re quite naive. Most of us can tell when something is absolute bullshit. You’ll get there one day... maybe.

 

[Kane_Steel]

Clearly the end result proved otherwise, given how Feminist GB failed.

There's no spinning that. What was said in this recap has been proven to be true.


Though, there are those who live in denial.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Though, there are those who live in denial.

Irony.

 

[Marsden]

Ugh, can the whining move to another thread, I clicked on this because I thought there was something about the movie.

 

[Tosk]

You're dreaming if you think there will ever be a Ghostbusters thread again that has no whining of any kind in it.

 

[kirk55555]

Wait, so this is a kids movie? Ok, well that eliminates what interest I had in it (and as someone who likes the first two movies but isn't really a "fan", I was actually fairly interested in this). The franchise has now gone from weird invisible sex jokes to barf jokes to 12-13 year old leads. Why would anyone make a Ghostbusters 3 with child leads? I don't give a shit about the lead characters gender, but they should be either adults or borderline adults. Not being old enough to see a PG-13 movie without a parent is way too young. I thought Dan Akroyd was supposed to be the one who had terrible ideas for a Ghostbusters sequel

 

[Awesome Possum]

 

[Timby]

I thought Dan Akroyd was supposed to be the one who had terrible ideas for a Ghostbusters sequel

He is.

 

[kirk55555]

Its hard to imagine an idea worse then Extreme Ghostbusters but with even younger kids (A worse idea for GB3 I mean, a kiddie Ghostbusters is still a better idea then making a GB movie based on gross out humor starring unfunny "comedic" actors, which is what the 2016 film did).

 

[Trekker4747]

I thought Extreme Ghostbusters was pretty decent.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Exhibit A in defense of the existence of Ghostbusters II, the dopest summer jam of 1989, Bobby Brown's On Our Own:

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I'm more partial to "We're Back" & "Spirit" myself but "On Our Own" is also pretty cool.

So, who would you like to see score this movie? Elmer Bernstein did an amazing score for the first movie, and Randy Edelman's score for part II was "meh." I'd like to see them get a good composer for this new movie. I wouldn't mind Michael Giacchino or Ramin Djawadi do it

I'm always up for more David Arnold or Henry Jackman. And while the movie wasn't great, I really enjoyed Joseph Trapanese's score for Robin Hood (2018).

The one good thing about that 2016 movie I've noticed is it generated a lot of interest in Ghostbusters again, they put TRG on Netflix, although that may not have any causation, and there were a lot more Ghostbusters toys in the stores and I mean Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston, and Slimer Ghostbusters.

That's one of the best things about every new sequel & remake out there, regardless of whether the new installment is any good or not. The lead-up almost always leads to a new wave of merchandise and/or remastered special edition DVD releases of the original. (Seriously, would Warner Bros. have ever gone to the effort of unearthing all of that unseen Superman II footage if they weren't trying to cross-promote Superman Returns?)

I hope they don't do the "inactive since GB II" plot so it won't be another retread of them going back into business AGAIN and having their first ghost busting AGAIN. I think a way to go would be the Jurassic World route, where maybe the public is so used to hauntings and spirits, that they're just commonplace and more of an annoyance like ants on a kitchen sink. The ghostbusters are a nationwide franchise with companies in most major cities (maybe even in small towns). Maybe for the opening act, we see some routine ghostbusting, then a new threat emerges that forces some Ghostbuster franchise to team with one from another city.

Not a bad idea, particularly since that was kinda Dan Aykroyd's original pitch for the original movie before budget constraints & Harold Ramis' rewrites scaled it down considerably.

I had an idea that they could say Egon finally drilled a hole in head and that's why he died

. Actually, turns out that it really worked but he was hit by a bus a week later.

All Robot Ghostsbusters.

I think the cast should be a combination of robots and giant talking ants. All hail our cyborg insect overlords!

And audiences are allowed to reject a movie....which is what happened to Ghostbusters 2016. And Oceans 8.

I was so disappointed by Ocean's 8. Another waste of a great cast. How can you make a movie with Mindy Kaling and have it be so unfunny?!?!

That's true. It's one of those sequels that like to basically retell the first movie with only some slight variations. The upside though is the first movie was good so you got that going for it and you still have fun in the spaces so to speak with the character dialogue and just interacting with each other. The characters still make it work even if the story is totally them just doing the first movie over again.

A lot of sequels are like that. Take the same elements from the first movie, just shake them up a little bit, and you get a perfectly delicious 2nd course. Do it well enough and you might even trick people into thinking that your rehash is better than the original, i.e. Terminator 2.

Not that funny (unless this is the 2016 Ghostbusters kind of "funny").

Go to any sort of comicon. Ghostbusters presence is still strong in many forms. Robocop just doesn't have that grasp by any means and fans are certainly not as passionate.

Also, RoboCop had already been pretty thoroughly vandalized by the 2nd & 3rd movies and the "Prime Directives" miniseries. I don't think many fans had any expectations of the franchise coming back at all except maybe as a quick cash-grab based on the name recognition. That being said, while lacking the satire of the original, RoboCop (2014) at least had some good performances from Michael Keaton & Gary Oldman, which counts for a lot in my book.

Still, given how angry these fan arguments can get, it makes me glad that my beloved Back to the Future will never have to be put through this meat grinder.

Ghostbusters died as soon as GB2 hit cinemas in 1989. I heard with the cartoon the franchise or the interests was an all time high but after that film the brand was hurt severely.

As someone who was a kid at the time and a rabid fan of the franchise, I can tell you that my friends & I were all super psyched after Ghostbusters 2 came out. We bought a bunch of the toys and enjoyed them immensely. The 2nd movie didn't hurt the brand at all. It just sort of faded away the way that most of these zeitgeist crazes do eventually, especially among kids, replaced by the next new thing. Ghostbusters was replaced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was replaced by Power Rangers, which was replaced by Pokemon, etc.

PLus the blasted internet has really helped the more morally loose people out their with what use to be hate mail and now is hate tweets.

Yeah. What used to be a minority of isolated nutters has become a minority of nutters who's every rant becomes an easily accessible open letter to the universe. The world could use a greater sense of perspective on how little anything said on the internet actually matters.

What other possible movie franchises does Sony have? I have trouble keeping track sometimes with who owns the movie rights to this and that. They own Spiderman stuff except Spiderman unless it seems it's a cartoon?

Beyond the aforementioned Spider-Man, Men in Black, and He-Man, they also own James Bond (which hasn't been nearly prolific as it used to be) and Jumanji (Good luck getting that lightning to strike again!).

If the leads prove to be all male or most of them men, I would rather shit on this new movie.

Bad idea. I once saw a guy get banned from Walmart for doing that.

Given that I'm sick of the politically charged nature of this thread, I propose that we change things up with a GOOD OL' FASHION 'SHIPPER WAR!!! (TM). So, in your head canon, who did Janine Melnitz ultimately end up with-- Egon or Louis?

 

[Mudd]

The thread was started for political purposes. What do you expect it to be?

 

[Awesome Possum]

I thought Extreme Ghostbusters was pretty decent.

I enjoyed it. It was a great follow-up to The Real Ghostbusters and fairly dark for a kid's show at the time, even more so than the original. Most of the criticism I've seen is based on new Ghostbusters being "diverse" and not on anything that actually occurred on the show, I assumed that they never saw anything other than promo pictures.

 

[JD]

Wait, so this is a kids movie? Ok, well that eliminates what interest I had in it (and as someone who likes the first two movies but isn't really a "fan", I was actually fairly interested in this). The franchise has now gone from weird invisible sex jokes to barf jokes to 12-13 year old leads. Why would anyone make a Ghostbusters 3 with child leads? I don't give a shit about the lead characters gender, but they should be either adults or borderline adults. Not being old enough to see a PG-13 movie without a parent is way too young. I thought Dan Akroyd was supposed to be the one who had terrible ideas for a Ghostbusters sequel

Its hard to imagine an idea worse then Extreme Ghostbusters but with even younger kids (A worse idea for GB3 I mean, a kiddie Ghostbusters is still a better idea then making a GB movie based on gross out humor starring unfunny "comedic" actors, which is what the 2016 film did).

They're most likely going this route because Stranger Things and It are both big hits.

 

[Awesome Possum]

You just know that Sony saw the Stranger Things kids dressed as Ghostbusters in season two and just heard cha-ching.