Spoilers Ghostbusters: Afterlife grade and discussion thread
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Rick Moranis has basically been retired since he made enough off of the "Honey I Shrunk" movies to never need to work again. I think he has agreed to come back for another one of those (presumably for ALL the money, and more power to him) but I doubt this production could afford him.
And yeah, it does feel like an omission given basically everyone else is back from the first two, but at the same time if you put him in the executor role, then how do you work Janine in? So even if he was gettable, it would mean Louis and Janine are kind of an either/or proposition, and I'm sorry but Janine wins that one every time. It would have been nice for him to show up in one of the post credits though. Oh well!
And yeah, it does feel like an omission given basically everyone else is back from the first two, but at the same time if you put him in the executor role, then how do you work Janine in? So even if he was gettable, it would mean Louis and Janine are kind of an either/or proposition, and I'm sorry but Janine wins that one every time. It would have been nice for him to show up in one of the post credits though. Oh well!
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They could have had Walter Peck as the executor. Also would have been more fitting in that particular role. And Atherton probably would have been up for it, he's been in a Ghostbusters documentary the same year Afterlife was shot.
ETA: Apropos of nothing, I literally only just realised where Summerville got it's name. Sneaky Shandor.
Janine and/or Louis at least makes sense since both were technically friends of the family, former employees in an administrative capacity, and Louis is an accountant who also (technically) has a law degree.
I don't see the connection. Why would some mid-level government bureaucrat in New York be the executor of the estate for someone he tried to have shut down 40 years ago, who's since moved to Oklahoma?
Janine and/or Louis at least makes sense since both were technically friends of the family, former employees in an administrative capacity, and Louis is an accountant who also (technically) has a law degree.
I've never liked Louis (and I'm not much of a fan of Rick Moranis either...) so I'm not at all disappointed he's absent. In a way, I'm relieved.
Me too, I didn’t like any of his bits in gb2 after the courtroom scene. They should have left it there.
Okay, linguistic misunderstanding. In Austria, "Exekutor" is the word for a judicial officer, so I thought Mojochi was referring to the foreclosure scene as a cameo opportunity. There, Peck would have made a lot of sense (considering the highly referrential nature of the movie), as a government officer who in the past thirty years switched from the EPA, and him being the asshole character in the original movie.
He also voiced Peck in the game, and according to Wikipedia, he even voiced him in the theme park sim Planet Coaster.
Of the movies released in the early '80's mentioned by you, Private Benjamin ages better, and (IMHO) is a better comedy about the military then Stripes ever was, just for how Judy Benjamin manages to overcome her initial failures in basic training, get over her personal issues, pass said basic training, and truly become a part of the army (watch her posting to NATO in Europe and how she works with a Turkish Army officer.) John Winger in Stripes, is the same guy at the end of the film that he was at the beginning; a complete fuck-up who somehow 'saves the day' and gets a hero's welcome as he and the rest of the platoon get back to the U.S. when he and Russell (Harold Ramis) should've been court-martialed for taking the McGuffin they were guarding on a joyride to see their two girlfriends (
),thus starting the rescue of Hulka, Stillman and the others that was caused by he and Russell stealing the McGuffin in the first place!The only one who'll succeed of these two movies is Judy Benjamin; Winger will only last if he truly grows up and redoes his training.
As for the Police Academy movies, they were good for two movies; after the first two, the producers, directors, and the Warner executives should've stopped making any more, especially when Steve Gutenberg left after the second movie and it became quite clear how much of a one joke movie series it was.
Guttenberg stuck around for four Police Academy movies, he left after Citizens on Patrol.
And then they made Police Academy 5, which is the best one because Rene is in it
When I was a little kid 2 was my fav but I had a friend who was obsessed with 5. I had a taped copy of it from tv and everytime I saw him we had to watch it.
Random fact: the Police Academy movies are considered comedy classics in Russia.
Is that why they made Mission to Moscow? To try and capitalize on that?
Most likely.
I just saw the movie and love It! Phoebe was great and the end was perfect and emotional. I wish the Star Wars sequels were more like it
I just bought and watched this film again and have to say I almost enjoyed it more on the second watch-through. This got me thinking about what worked with this that perhaps didn't with the 2016 Reboot. (Please excuse me in advance if this has been rehashed as I didn't read all 9 pages of this thread)
I think the 2016 reboot didn't work because it essentially tried to out-funny the classic 80s film. Rather than having humor derived from characters/situations, you ended up with a film filled with fart jokes, jokes about how dumb their secretary was, and a recurring "joke" about wanton soup with one wanton.
In comparison, the new film didn't try to compete with the 80s films. Although it is funny at points, it doesn't *try* to be funny. Rather, it does its own thing and is a film about family and forgiveness. It works because it has heart and an emotional core even though its a story about Gozer and the end of the world. For this reason, although I really liked it the first time, I feel that the second time worked even better because I wasn't anticipating a quotable joke laugh-fest.
This said, I could see sequels taking place in NYC with Ernie Hudson's character in the lead. I wouldn't mind seeing more humor return to the series, but hopefully there is a lesson to be found in having said humor derive organically from the characters and their situations rather than attempting to shoehorn the funny into the film.
I think the 2016 reboot didn't work because it essentially tried to out-funny the classic 80s film. Rather than having humor derived from characters/situations, you ended up with a film filled with fart jokes, jokes about how dumb their secretary was, and a recurring "joke" about wanton soup with one wanton.
In comparison, the new film didn't try to compete with the 80s films. Although it is funny at points, it doesn't *try* to be funny. Rather, it does its own thing and is a film about family and forgiveness. It works because it has heart and an emotional core even though its a story about Gozer and the end of the world. For this reason, although I really liked it the first time, I feel that the second time worked even better because I wasn't anticipating a quotable joke laugh-fest.
This said, I could see sequels taking place in NYC with Ernie Hudson's character in the lead. I wouldn't mind seeing more humor return to the series, but hopefully there is a lesson to be found in having said humor derive organically from the characters and their situations rather than attempting to shoehorn the funny into the film.
Thought it was OK, that's all.
Haven't seen the movie yet.
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