Ghostbusters: Afterlife

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Kid-busters, huh.


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Not surprised by these rumored casting choices. Almost everyone is starting to jump on the Stranger Things/It bandwagon and I can't honestly blame them considering how popular they are. It can still work, but I don't want this to be another Force Awakens where the new characters are taking up the majority of the screen time and the OG characters have much of nothing else to do except be there for nostalgic reasons.
 
I think a 3rd movie was always going to be a passing of the torch story though.

Although going with a young cast of unknowns kinda reduces the likeliness that they will branch off with a new bunch of films with them.. It also reduces the chances of over shadowing the original guys role, rather then have 4 adults and the originals to balance
 
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I'm cautiously optimistic, in part because I love anything Ghostbusters, but also because the only way I can see Reitman really wanting to do this, especially after the 2016 movie, is if they were getting the band back together.

I think Akroyd, Hudson and Murray will almost certainly be in this. Murray doesn't want to be a Ghostbuster? Well, neither did Peter Venkman, really, outside the cartoons and comics. It's the perfect material to mine for his character's screentime.

I'm fine with a passing of the torch concept, as long as the original guys get a moment or two to shine. If there's a kid or two, then there's a kid or two. There's mileage yet in the hero worship cocept. Oscar was one of the more charming elements of GB2, and he was a baby (or two).

Prepare yourselves for the Ghostbusters multiverse, or at least a nod to it, though. It's coming.
 
Brian Braddock said:
Who do you think was the demographic for the original movie? Or the second? Genuinely curious.
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Around 15-16 and up. Not kids, with the amount of sex jokes in it. Kids saw it but it wasn't made with them in mind. They were aiming for the SNL and Stripes mature audience.

Definitely not who this movie will be aimed at with a 12 year old as the lead.
 
IT was rated R and it starred kids. I don't think the casting of kids is necessarily a sign of who it's aimed at.
 
I think they should use the animated movie to target the younger crowd like Spider-verse did. For this one they should aim for PG-13. I could go with a 16 year old lead character but 12 seems way too young.
 
This just sounds like it's being made through the eyes of a kid who watched Ghostbusters. Overreverent and making a movie about how it made them feel than tapping into what makes Ghostbusters what it is and going from there.

You had the last movie which was terrible, cynical and nihilistic and this just appears to be overreverent and fan service-y. Both of these things are horrible in their own way.

The original Ghostbusters was about three schlubby guys starting a business. Everything like the ghosts came from that and that's what made it what it was. I don't see how this fits into that. This strikes me as more of them trying to capitalize from Stranger Things and It. I don't mind them advancing things but this seems like a premise to a franchise friendly Ghostbusters film or like a cartoon show.

Obviously I'll see where it goes but this right now doesn't sound good. It sounds like another mistake in a different form.
 

Well...

Erik just a heads up, but I think that tweet violates board rules. Just wanted to let you know.
 
This news of it being kids is not something I'm all that keen on. I know Ghostbusters always had an appeal to kids but kids being the backbone of the whole thing doesn't sound that great of a concept. I was already iffy on this.
 
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I get her being upset, but Ghostbusters 2016 underperformed and wasn’t particularly liked by even mainstream audiences. Not because they were all women, but because it wasn’t a good movie with a poor script.

Politics aside, can you imagine if Rob Zombie tweeted David Gordon Green how disrespectful it was to ignore his Halloween?
 
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I don't care about this new movie. Honestly after the whole discussion of GB16, I'm kinda burnt out on Ghostbusters in general. I never even saw Answer the Call so I can't even comment on it's quality

Jones is being really stupid. And immature. The movie didn't do well and wasn't received that well. She knows it, I know it. I wish it was good to shut up all the babies and losers who were heavily whining about it, but it is what it is. The only people who I know who said they really liked it were people who got caught up in the politics of it. And I don't even hear them mentioning it anymore.

As someone pointed out it's like if Rob Zombie tweeted David Gordon Green how disrespectful it was to ignore his Halloween. Or it's like how for years Thomas Jane kept saying "I'm still the Punisher" after it's clear everyone moved on from him. You just look childish

Move on. Jones' career is still going well, so are the careers of everyone involved. Feig just directed a great movie imo called A Simple Plan.

And of all the things going on in Hollywood this is the thing to tweet and be mad about?

"After mediocre reception and below average box office, on top of all the political nonsense, harassment, doxxing...they should still bring us back!"

How childish
 
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jmc said:
This news of it being kids is not something I'm all that keen on. I know Ghostbusters always had an appeal to kids but kids being the backbone of the whole thing doesn't sound that great of a concept. I was already iffy on this.
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Same. Young adults is fine, though.
 
This must fail. Nepotism is ugly thing we dont need.
 
Actually, I think it's only because of Reitman's involvement that this is being made now.
 
Ghostbusters 2016's main problem wasn't the women. It was the lousy story and lack if imagination. And looks like Jones didn't read up on this sequel as there are women in it (two of them being ghostbusters), supposedly the lead is a teenage girl on top of that so... maybe not jump the gun on calling it a boys club?
 
I was PUMPED when it was announced. And also when the teaser was released.
But knowing that this will be Kiddie-busters sounds almost as bad as theI reboot. Let's hope the trailer will prove me wrong.

P.S.: Leslie Jones is an idiot.
 
Teelie said:
Ghostbusters 2016's main problem wasn't the women. It was the lousy story and lack if imagination. And looks like Jones didn't read up on this sequel as there are women in it (two of them being ghostbusters), supposedly the lead is a teenage girl on top of that so... maybe not jump the gun on calling it a boys club?
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and the comedy was abysmal, outside of Kate.
 
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and the comedy was abysmal, outside of Kate.
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Pretty much. It felt like no thought what soever went into the comedy. And the supernatural elements didn't work either.
 
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