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Ghostbusters Needs To Go Away, Maybe Forever | Giant Freaking Robot
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Strongly disagree.
I want fun movies. I want good movies. Ghostbusters are fun. The original and it's sequel were both fun. The first was better than the second, but both were good.
Afterlife was fun. Afterlife had a lot of good moments. Yes, some were nostalgia, but there is plenty of good in that film.
Ghostbusters is comedy/horror, that's a tough genre.
The 2016 Ghostbusters was too slapstick/funny. The actors they hired did a great job at that, but that isn't Ghostbusters.
I haven't seen Frozen Empire, maybe it has problems, but the crew they've been recruiting to take the franchise forward have been solid.
Ghostbusters has a lot of potential, if they can make something fun and pretty good I'm in.
I actually liked the 2016 movie. I kinda wished they would have pivoted off of that an continued on. Instead they pretended it didn't exist.
That's simply my $0.02 though.
I haven't seen it since it came out, so it's hard for me to give it an honest review nowadays.
In terms of cast I don't think you could have asked for anyone better. I think a zany ghost film might have worked. I think calling such a film a Ghostbusters reboot was a mistake. The newer Jumanji films do the same thing, create in unrelated film, slap a nostalgic title on it.
You could argue that the Ghostbusters franchise was already dead, so a reboot makes sense. However I think it's important that a reboot still hold true to the original source. The 2016 film lacked the horror elements that made a Ghostbusters film, Ghostbusters.
I definitely think the girls could do another movie.
It wasn't their performances that took me out of it. I actually think they did pretty great. It was the sloppy writing and not staying true to the formula.
I think they could do an alternate universe crossover. Have the after credits screen with the 2016 cast involved in a climatic battle similar to the one just concluded in Frozen Empire but they are losing. A portal appears and The Originals step in. "Didn't we just leave this party?" There is a bit of witty dialogue between the OG's and the 16's including a request that they come to our universe to help out with a larger issue. The 16 cast agrees. They all group up in a hero shot of the ensemble and "on the count of three, go on two"... re-join in the battle.
Afterlife reinforced why I didn't like 2016.
2016 went off the rails and dropped the ghost trap.
True that the original movies bosses were defeated without traps, but the mindless pew pew nature of the second half of 2016 just rang hollow for me.
For me, the coolest part of ghostbusters mechanics are the traps and the containment cells.