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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer (written and directed by Jason Reitman)
- Thread starter Khanimus
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They obviously went for a serious trailer because the biggest honest complaint about the last one was that it was only comedy
I'm intrigued, even if the trailer didn't show a whole lot. Looks better than the last one at least.
I really don't see any connection to the Force Awakens. There have been movies about discovering lost legacies before the Force Awakens and there will be plenty afterward.
I think I'd like it more if it had come a couple of years earlier. Nowadays this whole late sequel mixed with nostalgia has gotten a little old.
lol, true. Particularly the second half of the trailer really reminded me of the force awaken trailers
Wait. Did Spengler have a kid? If he had a daughter after the events of GB2, how does she already have a teenage daughter?
Edit: I guess if he had a child immediately after events she would be 30. Could have had child at 18. 🤷♂️ But that kid would be 12 and Carrie Coon looks much older than 30.
Edit: I guess if he had a child immediately after events she would be 30. Could have had child at 18. 🤷♂️ But that kid would be 12 and Carrie Coon looks much older than 30.
Gozer would become the ultimate joke villain if it came back a second time and got its ass kicked by a bunch of children, after its previous manifestation involved it turning into a giant cartoon mascot and flailing around New York for a few minutes before being blasted back to hell.
There have been before, but it wasn't common before TFA. Either way I'm tired of that trend. 2049 and fury road didn't do that, yet were still sequels way later, not a rehash, but also not just about myths of the past.
I think you're rampantly overthinking this. Harold Ramis is dead, they kind of have to find a way to introduce the new characters in a way that isn't just "THEY KNEW THE WHOLE TIME".
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Apparently the synopsis suggests that he was a distant father all this time, and that his daughter never really knew him.
Did they though? The other characters are still there. Why couldn't they already know and either already be ghostbusters, or maybe have it be that they never wanted to follow that legacy but got forced jnto it or something. Why did to have to be a long lost myth (which doesn't make sense) and they have a coming of age?
Well, I'm not the biggest Ghostbusters fan (in the sense that I don't remember the characters' names, but I loved the first and the all-women one), but I really liked this trailer. I don't think the movie will be like Stranger Things and have a serious tone. It's just a trailer that's less than three minutes. They probably just wanted to introduce the new characters and what the mystery is. Give it room to breathe.
That's horrible. For real? That makes his character look like a piece of shit. Why not just make his child a bit younger and take on this same role?
There was a plot leak on Reddit two months ago that is lining up with all the details from the trailer and the Variety article. If it's to be believed, I'm pretty excited for the movie.
"there hasn't been a ghost sighting in over 30 years."
lol. Seriously though, this looks good! I'm gonna give this one a chance.
lol. Seriously though, this looks good! I'm gonna give this one a chance.
He's a man of science and social interaction was something he never truly mastered. I can see him becoming a father by donating his sperm to see if he/she would take on his genius.
"Wait, your parents never told you about the time the Statue of Liberty came to life and you never even like, googled it?"
"It was the '80s. I figured it was just a bad special effect."
Too much setup, seriousness and grandiosity IMO. This trailer is banking on the viewer being enthused/intrigued about discovering long-hidden franchise lore... but said franchise is merely two comedies, not fuckin' Star Trek or Game of Thrones.
Looks like a real tonal shift, so far. Maybe it'll be good but it's not looking like the first two movies at all, yet.
Looks like a real tonal shift, so far. Maybe it'll be good but it's not looking like the first two movies at all, yet.
Kid from stranger things .... Yea that's a no from me in theaters.
But going with kids just feels off, wish the characters were older, perhaps early 20s. Just seems half assed to have kids learning to use everything or learning about ghosts for first time etc
But going with kids just feels off, wish the characters were older, perhaps early 20s. Just seems half assed to have kids learning to use everything or learning about ghosts for first time etc
Every film lately seems to have a third of its threads be people going on and on about how they've read leaks.
Just watched the trailer. I think this thread kind of proves how conditioned people are to demand cookie-cut fanservice.
The payoff of this film may miss, but I can't say they were actively pandering. I thought it was nice and gives the impression the franchise is willing to do something different, which it needs.
The payoff of this film may miss, but I can't say they were actively pandering. I thought it was nice and gives the impression the franchise is willing to do something different, which it needs.
I feel like the first two worked on the backs of their main cast. Funny, weird, charming.
From this trailer this just feels charmless...? I dunno. Unless it gets strong reviews I'll wait to Redbox it.
From this trailer this just feels charmless...? I dunno. Unless it gets strong reviews I'll wait to Redbox it.
And the cartoons, and video games.
The leaks make this sound great, the trailer not so much.
I think it's just the trailer. The trailer is trying so hard to make things about the mystery when what we want to see is the ESSENCE of the film.
Mystery trailers are never a good idea and I don't know why Hollywood is so obsessed with them (actually I do, it's so people will share articles on Facebook and discuss them on social media)
Would it, though? Egon is not exactly the most socially well-adjusted person. He'd probably make a terrible dad. At least he's not experimenting on his kids the way he experiments on himself, though.
We don't know what happened yet. Sounds like he and his son died long ago.
Pretty much. The original movie worked because it a lightning in a bottle of a group of hilarious comedians in this inverse tone gloomy nyc, where they make ghost busting a exterminator type job.
that looks absolutely awful, wow
got the fucking crusty old van doing fast and furious skip stops lol
got the fucking crusty old van doing fast and furious skip stops lol
Egon's Granddaughter who looks exactly like him gangs up with a stranger things kid and their other school mates to take down ghosts in rural America because for some reason there is a paranormal well out there. Oh and America in the 80s somehow managed to cover the fact that Ghosts fucking exist. Sony, baby, you're killing me here with this bullshit.
This looks waaaaaaaay too serious. The tone of the lady ghostbusters movie was way more on point than this, and that still didn't turn out good. Nu-uh to this.
And I'm getting sick of that stranger things kid being in like everything that's "cool horror" these days.
And I'm getting sick of that stranger things kid being in like everything that's "cool horror" these days.
I took them all to be eccentric. Not lacking compassion. This is putting out there that during the events of GB1 and GB2 he either was actively disregarding his family or he didn't know about them. Which seems strange as well. They could have achieved the same effect if they had cast slightly older, mid 20s, and just made that person Spanglers kid. To make him a horrible father seems so weird and weird to the spirit of the characters. 🤷♂️