GhostBusters 3 is Finally Being Made. (2020 Release)

[jaime]

It looks great but I wonder how much comedy it will have. Then again I think the comedy will kind of low key only in the sense you don't have someone like Bill Murray who has a big personality. I mean even Paul Rudd doesn't match Murray's personality.

They have Bill Murray. He’s a lot like Bill Murray. But I agree he’s not a patch on Bill Murray.

Tbh, this is going the route of the original, which has a totally serious story, which the characters take seriously, whilst also being comedy actors. The humour was rarely in the script for GhostBusters. And are it an gets it, because he was a kid like many of us at the time, where ghostbusters to us was more akin to Indiana Jones than anything with John Candy and Steve Martin in at the time.

 

[Dick Whitman]

They have Bill Murray. He’s a lot like Bill Murray. But I agree he’s not a patch on Bill Murray.

Tbh, this is going the route of the original, which has a totally serious story, which the characters take seriously, whilst also being comedy actors. The humour was rarely in the script for GhostBusters. And are it an gets it, because he was a kid like many of us at the time, where ghostbusters to us was more akin to Indiana Jones than anything with John Candy and Steve Martin in at the time.

Back to the Future was very similar in balancing humor with the seriousness of the risks to Marty and Doc.

That was my biggest problem with Paul Feig’s film. Overtly comedic almost all the time. Which is my problem with most modern comedies. The humor is forced.

 

[Jayson1]

That's what I am hoping for and what I think they went for. Lighthearted adventure with comedy beats mixed into the experience.

 

[jaime]

Back to the Future was very similar in balancing humor with the seriousness of the risks to Marty and Doc.

That was my biggest problem with Paul Feig’s film. Overtly comedic almost all the time. Which is my problem with most modern comedies. The humor is forced.

He didn’t get it. For him Ghostbusters was a comedy he saw in his teen years. A lot of what GB is is defined by the younger, most likely VHS audience in the years after.
His film didn’t know if it was a remake, or some kind of spoof of something already kind of sort of a spoof that mutated. He also didn’t get his own political/ideological messaging, which is why the film manages to be sexist towards men and woman, and racist, but largely in a thoughtless manner rather than spiteful. In the end I think it’s like someone who learnt the words to a song, but never the tune, on both counts. A feminist, gender flipped Ghost Busters remimagining should have been easy to write, but they fucked it up, even with a more than decent cast.

 

[Commander Troi]

But, I've always hated movies about groups of kids having adventures (I couldn't stand stuff like The Goonies even as a kid, and I can't stand Stranger Things which this was obviously inspired by way more then it was the original GB movies), so I will definitely not be paying to watch it. I'll wait until its out on video and the public library has it, and even then only if reviews say that at least a couple of the old GB characters get decently sized roles.

YMMV, as they say. I enjoy that stuff. It always makes me wish I was a slightly more adventurous kid.

 

[Jayson1]

I actually liked the cast of the female Ghostbusters but I have started to think Melissa McCarthy only works in small doses. I mean has she made a good movie yet where she is the lead? Should have dumped her and just made Hemsworth the 4th Ghostbuster. Then use Gabe from The Office as the secretary. Make Wiig the lead. Though you would likely still have the main issue and that is all the unfunny riffing.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

I haven't really liked McCarthy since she ended her tv career. Her movie shtick is obnoxious and always the same. She's basically the new Lewis Black. But her character in Ghostbusters was actually far more well-rounded and genuinely fun and endearing than any of her other film performances. McKinnon and Wiig still carried the movie more than McCarthy, but in the case of this particular film she was not the problem.

 

[Coops]

I really enjoyed Feigs Ghostbusters mostly because I tend not to get all high-blood-pressurey about the stuff many people do because, y'know, it's just a movie. And so is Dune.

 

[jaime]

I really enjoyed Feigs Ghostbusters mostly because I tend not to get all high-blood-pressurey about the stuff many people do because, y'know, it's just a movie. And so is Dune.

There’s a whole range between love and hate when enjoying a film, complicated by how much love you have for a franchise if it is part of one. I can’t say I have ever got high blood pressure finding one flawed, but I suppose it’s possible.
It is a shame the sequel won’t happen, because I enjoyed the coda more than the film. (Which was well confused by the end… the time travel aspect is on screen, but never really talked about, for example) But it was buried by audience controversies. It isn’t being ignored by their new quasi MCU approach, but I think it’s a corner of the franchise that will just sit on a shelf now.

 

[Morpheus 02]

There’s a whole range between love and hate when enjoying a film, complicated by how much love you have for a franchise if it is part of one. I can’t say I have ever got high blood pressure finding one flawed, but I suppose it’s possible.
It is a shame the sequel won’t happen, because I enjoyed the coda more than the film. (Which was well confused by the end… the time travel aspect is on screen, but never really talked about, for example) But it was buried by audience controversies. It isn’t being ignored by their new quasi MCU approach, but I think it’s a corner of the franchise that will just sit on a shelf now.

Thanks for letting me know.

IGN had a video (which mysteriously had more dislikes than likes) that pointed out the possibility that was too fast for me to catch.

That made me think....huge missed opportunity of the interdimensional rift... they could have had some original cast members ALSO there, and they might do something to go back to their realities... enough to show the originals happened while having a new thing.

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[Owain Taggart]

I haven't really liked McCarthy since she ended her tv career. Her movie shtick is obnoxious and always the same. She's basically the new Lewis Black.

Out of the movies I've seen her in, I've preferred her in her dramatic roles over her comedy. I feel she truly shines when she allows herself to be dramatic. It's when she does comedy that I feel she falls back on her tired shtick. I can only hope she takes on more and more dramatic roles.

She was excellent in St-Vincent co-starring with Bill Murray, as well as The Kitchen on Netflix.

 

[CuriousCaitian]

Buzzing over this film after that trailer. It looks and feels like Ghostbusters (true, the humour's not apparent here, but the mini-pufts and Paul Rudd give me reason to believe it's still a big part). It looks and feels like it teleported straight from the 80s, albeit with some positive modern twists. It's eschewing the current penchants for desaturation and shakycam and edginess and breathless pacing with warmth, bright colours, smooth but still energetic camerawork and a respect for quieter moments. The attention to detail is ridiculous, from the stumbling Terror Dog to a practical ghost ala the cab driver in the original film.

Yeah, I'm geeking out over this one. Hard.

 

[jaime]

Thanks for letting me know.

IGN had a video (which mysteriously had more dislikes than likes) that pointed out the possibility that was too fast for me to catch.

That made me think....huge missed opportunity of the interdimensional rift... they could have had some original cast members ALSO there, and they might do something to go back to their realities... enough to show the originals happened while having a new thing.

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That is what I really wanted at the end of the film, they did all that ‘rolling back time’ in the heart of New York, and inter dimensional stuff, they even had the original cast to hand. Shock twist ending using that would have *at least* head off any ‘erasing the original’ type arguments.

It *could* be confusing to a new audience, but a few secs of ‘oh my god, there’s like, lol these dimensions out there, and guys just like us… somehow we’ve all got to work together to close the damn hole’ and jobs done. Plenty of opportunity for banter and humour in it too.

‘God damnit, in another universe, someone else gets all the wontons? And it’s me!’

‘Did you see his hair? I could totally rock hair like that.’
‘You’re nuts, that is clearly a dimension without our three-dimensional model of physics. You would be flat.’
‘You sound like my prom date.’
(Hey, if they’re bad jokes, blame me copying the movie style. XD)

It would have been pointless fan service in many ways, but half the work was already done and no-one can figure out why… like with the dance scene on the cutting room floor. It’s a bit of a mess.

 

[UssGlenn]

I'd been pondering putting together an Ghostbusters uniform for a while now. The trailer put me over the top, I've got the Flight Suit and patches on the way. I'm just going to do a DIY proton pack, unless another opportunity presents itself.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I'd been pondering putting together an Ghostbusters uniform for a while now. The trailer put me over the top, I've got the Flight Suit and patches on the way. I'm just going to do a DIY proton pack, unless another opportunity presents itself.

Fantastic! I hope you're willing to post photos once you're done.

 

[Amasov]

I wonder if they'll explain how Ecto 1 reverted back to its appearance from the first movie. It was a bit modified for the second film and was referred to as 1A. I assume they'll just write it off as being a separate car if anything is said at all.

 

[jaime]

I wonder if they'll explain how Ecto 1 reverted back to its appearance from the first movie. It was a bit modified for the second film and was referred to as 1A. I assume they'll just write it off as being a separate car if anything is said at all.

I think separate car is def gonna be the case. We know they aren’t ignoring GBII cos of bookstore.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I think separate car is def gonna be the case. We know they aren’t ignoring GBII cos of bookstore.

Plus Jason had a cameo. No way is he going to ignore the second one!

 

[jaime]

Plus Jason had a cameo. No way is he going to ignore the second one!

If we get Peter and Dana, maybe Oscar will show up. XD

Funnily enough, before Ramis died I had a synopsis I wrote for the third film which focuses on Peter dying in 9/11 (no more ghosts, psychic disruption of something that big closed us off) and being the ‘buster on the other side’ and here we are doing Spengler. I had Oscar be the one that brings the guys in. Funny old world. (I think doing something like Ghost Busters in NY now would always have that 9/11 shadow over it, so I made it a focal point of the story so it could be dealt with respectfully. It wouldn’t surprise me if that is part of the reason we are now in small town America for Afterlife.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i was also wondering how confident you guys ar ein Jason Reitman being able to really call back to the original Ghostbusters vibe while bringing something new? (Definitely having literally grown up with the riginal movies)

I never saw the Quibi version of Princess Bride...but wondering from the vibe of that, can that give nay indication on what level of passion and professionalism AFterlife will (yeah, i know...very different animals...but maybe SOME sense? I have bene wrong before, though... see Bryan Singer and X-Men and Superman)