Literally, LITERALLY, go watch Ghostbusters 2. Then tell me why this matters NOW.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer (written and directed by Jason Reitman)
- Thread starter Khanimus
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I think people are taking the forgot thing too literally.
I sometimes watch 911 footage because I lived through it but why would a child in 2019 even care?
PLUS even just 5 years after the gozer incident you've got people who think they're frauds. If that narrative is the dominant one for 30 years then it's not shocking people either dont remember or care to.
Either way, that trailer gave me chills.
I sometimes watch 911 footage because I lived through it but why would a child in 2019 even care?
PLUS even just 5 years after the gozer incident you've got people who think they're frauds. If that narrative is the dominant one for 30 years then it's not shocking people either dont remember or care to.
Either way, that trailer gave me chills.
Some people in this thread seem to think Ghostbusters was a whacky, slapstick comedy and not mundane & dry as sin 90% of the time.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts are all in this too, they just haven't shown them yet.
Ghostbusters 2016 is not nearly as bad as the comments suggest. It's fine. RT 74%!
The toxic backlash to 2016 was part of the gamergate movement, and I have a hard time taking anyone seriously that acts like it is the worst movie ever.
So you're saying it is the same, and everyone else is upset that it is different? What is happening..
The toxic backlash to 2016 was part of the gamergate movement, and I have a hard time taking anyone seriously that acts like it is the worst movie ever.
So you're saying it is the same, and everyone else is upset that it is different? What is happening..
it really was, though - villain was MCU wave 1 weak, but it knew it was an actual comedy & ghostbuster film - this trailer didn't give off any of that
film stays underrated
The backlash was due to an awful happy madison tier trailer that looked bad. The movie isn't as bad as the trailer, but not much better.
Forgetting the existance of ghosts and spirits while they took over nyc and the statue of liberty walked around wouldn't be just some forgotten event of the past.
Yeah, I dig this. The part where Paul Rudd said "a ghost trap?" and it did the little piano thing from the first movie - I genuinely got chills.
Sadly this is going to be another political football for people defending the 2016 movie, or claiming that this is giving the manbabies what they want.
Sadly this is going to be another political football for people defending the 2016 movie, or claiming that this is giving the manbabies what they want.
Hell yeah baby, I was expecting the theme song to kick in when Finn started up the Ecto-1 but I am still super into everything they're showing here.
And even if they were the same vehicle, there's zero reason what so ever to keep all the "We're back in business!!!" shit on it for 30+ years. After like... 6 months they would have taken that stuff down, if even that long.
Also, gonna champ for the IDW comic series, because it sounds like exactly what you want. There are multiple Ghostbusters HQs set up in it, they go across the US and even to other countries, there are rival ghost busting companies, etc. It's so fuckin' good I can't praise it enough.
Lmao y'all THAT'S THE JOKE
Three guys find undeniable proof of the afterlife and what do they do? They build a business around it. They monetize it. They treat the act of wearing nuclear bombs on their backs which they use to literally wrangle undead souls into a giant ghost prison like it's some shitty 9-5 job killing bugs or rats. And the world around them doesn't give enough of a shit to care, and writes them off as frauds. That is like the core of the Ghostbusters concept lmao hello, McFly!!
Besides which as people keep pointing out, in the trailer it's not that everyone has forgotten the events (there's video of them on freaking YouTube) but specifically these kids who don't know about a thing that happened 15+ years before they were born and was likely outright hidden from them.
Apparently Ecto-1 and Ecto-1A are two different vehicles. There's supposedly a shot in Ghostbusters 2 where the 1A license plate says Ecto-2 instead, whoops!
And even if they were the same vehicle, there's zero reason what so ever to keep all the "We're back in business!!!" shit on it for 30+ years. After like... 6 months they would have taken that stuff down, if even that long.
If Bill Murray hadn't been such a prick about it, this is exactly what we would have gotten. Dan Aykroyd wrote drafts of Ghostbusters sequels all the way up to Ghostbusters 6. He envisioned a world where they had franchised out across the country, shots of fleets of Ecto-1s crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, garbage truck sized mobile Ecto Containment Units. I think that a lot of people either forget or just don't know that Dan is a total fucking paranormal obsessed kook and this is his passion, he lives for this shit. They have to water it down for audiences but if he could he would jam all kinds of ghost lore into the movies. Hell the original concept of Ghostbusters before it got scaled way the fuck back to be even feasible as a movie was a group of janitors who were responsible for cleaning up paranormal anomalies across time and space, of which things like Stay Puft were just one of many - and one of the smaller ones at that.
Also, gonna champ for the IDW comic series, because it sounds like exactly what you want. There are multiple Ghostbusters HQs set up in it, they go across the US and even to other countries, there are rival ghost busting companies, etc. It's so fuckin' good I can't praise it enough.
Lmao y'all THAT'S THE JOKE
Three guys find undeniable proof of the afterlife and what do they do? They build a business around it. They monetize it. They treat the act of wearing nuclear bombs on their backs which they use to literally wrangle undead souls into a giant ghost prison like it's some shitty 9-5 job killing bugs or rats. And the world around them doesn't give enough of a shit to care, and writes them off as frauds. That is like the core of the Ghostbusters concept lmao hello, McFly!!
Besides which as people keep pointing out, in the trailer it's not that everyone has forgotten the events (there's video of them on freaking YouTube) but specifically these kids who don't know about a thing that happened 15+ years before they were born and was likely outright hidden from them.
You should at the very least watch the original, it's very good. Ghostbusters 2 is pretty much a beat by beat copy of the original, but it still has some great stuff in it and memorable lines and characters. It's Answer the Call you don't really need to watch. I mean, you can, it's not nearly as bad as some people act like it is, but it's its own self contained thing now.
You're talking about a sequel a lot of people like to forget....literally.
I mean, comedy is subjective and all that, but I personally thought the 2016 was incredibly unfunny. And I even worked on that movie.
This trailer plays it straight and dry like the 1984 original trailer/teaser. Ghostbusters, as its best, is super mundane with spikes of insanity.
It's true. I got to pee next to Ivan Reitman and everything.
Original GB Trailer, a bit more serious than the actual film:
Ghostbusters wasn't a straight comedy. It had comedic elements sure, but to water it down to just being a comedy is wrong. The humor will be there, I'm sure of it. I want it to be more straight like the original one was, not more slapstick like the 2016 film was (and I kinda liked that movie).
I've already seen people who should know better hoping this flops because the 2016 version did.
The comedy is there, it's very dry and smart like the original movie.
This film is not zany, it's grounded in as much a film about ghosts can be just like the original.
Already better than the last time they tried a sequel although that ain't too hard.
Interested to see more but not jumping out of my seat yet.
Interested to see more but not jumping out of my seat yet.
Yeah the 2016 one wasn't good and that was even with a pretty amazing cast.
I like the difference in tone/setting. For all the complaints about mining nostalgia (which they are doing here), should we not want them to be trying out different things?
Also, if they're going for more of an Amblin-style adventure vibe with jokes, I can see that working. There's nothing intrinsically funny about busting ghosts, so maybe being fixated on the franchise being heavily comedic is a limitation.
Also, if they're going for more of an Amblin-style adventure vibe with jokes, I can see that working. There's nothing intrinsically funny about busting ghosts, so maybe being fixated on the franchise being heavily comedic is a limitation.
Ghostbusters 2016 was an average ghostbusters movie i thought it was watchable but no where close to the quality of the original 2, i like that cast and i would have liked to see how it could have improved in a sequel. But im happy we are getting this, i was bummed that 2016 wasnt connected to the originals at all. I hope this is good.
that's cool that you did, i found it better than 2 and way more in the spirit of GB than what i'm seeing here
hope you're right about the trailer vs the film, this could be fun but it doesn't seem like a great direction so far is all - then again, 2 wasn't the same vibe as the lightning-in-a-bottle that was 1 either, so i get the appeal of not chasing that any more
after perusing this thread and seeing the 2016 movie being brought up, people trying to lifecoach finn wolfhard from their computer chairs, and critiquing the entire movie from a less than 2 minute teaser, i'm convinced that most ghostbusters fans don't know what the fuck they want and are just angry all the time that nobody else holds the first film on a pedestal
personally i'm excited for this, but jesus fuck are there a lot of people salty about nothing in this thread
personally i'm excited for this, but jesus fuck are there a lot of people salty about nothing in this thread
Honestly making me upset because I distinctly grew up with a bunch of kids who fucking loved it. It had great toys too. I'm not that into this trailer but latching on that because it involves kids is making me roll my eyes so hard.
Definitely one of the few movies I will see in a theater that isn't a Marvel or Star Wars movie.
As an 11 year old that summer Batman and Ghostbuster 2 were the best things ever. I live the 1st movie but as a kid that 2nd one was so great.
Whereas the Paul Feig movie was missing the dry wit from the original, this one looks like it may have overcorrected and made a straight up action adventure.
Hopefully, this is just the teaser not ready to show off the jokes.
Hopefully, this is just the teaser not ready to show off the jokes.
Looks great! I'd have been happy if Kristen Wiig and the cast of the last movie reprised their roles, because a blend of that tone and this one would be the sweet spot for me. But the writing and directing murdered their movie, and if we have to sacrifice an excellent cast to move far away from that film, so be it.
I wish it didn't suggest we're getting kidbusters, but I like the vibe. I'm all in.
I wish it didn't suggest we're getting kidbusters, but I like the vibe. I'm all in.
I mean there are kids that grew up thinking home alone 3 was the best. Kids don't always know better
Yeah the toys from the first movies/cartoon were a big fixture in my house growing up. My parents still have those toys at their house and my kids get to play with them a lot.
This film seems to have a target family friendly crossover vibe of YA and the people who were kids when the originals came out and are now raising kids of their own, and that honestly has me super excited.
This film seems to have a target family friendly crossover vibe of YA and the people who were kids when the originals came out and are now raising kids of their own, and that honestly has me super excited.
We've gone from a film conceived as a Saturday Night Live alumni comedy (built around ghost enthusiast mumbo from Aykroyd) in an everyday man underdog comedy in same vein of Stripes...
To an 80's-like nostalgic adventure with Spielbergish DNA, like a bastard child of Poltergeist and Goonies...
And I'm fine with that.
I think going with the SNL alumni comedy everyday Joe underdog tale for a 4th time would have came off as tired... especially after 2016 in which it failed.
To an 80's-like nostalgic adventure with Spielbergish DNA, like a bastard child of Poltergeist and Goonies...
And I'm fine with that.
I think going with the SNL alumni comedy everyday Joe underdog tale for a 4th time would have came off as tired... especially after 2016 in which it failed.