blueharvest
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I do wonder if my feelings towards this film has a lot to do with the fact that I never watched the cartoon as a kid and am more of a casual fan. Very interesting to see such different reactions to this across the board. Some love it, and others (like myself) were let down.
A ton of trailer moments did not appear in this film. I wonder if this is a deleted scenes thing or a trailer lying thing.
Definitely thinking about a 2in1 mashup of Afterlife and Frozen Empire. 'Ghostbusters: Family Business'
I have to wonder if they spent less on marketing this time though. It just feels like there was not as big of a push with this as there was with Afterlife, for whatever reason.
100 million budget, while not exactly cheap, is still closer to that "mid size" blockbuster compared to today's 200 million+ behemoths.
Was Frozen Empire a 100 million budget? As in today’s terms that’s not huge and makes this movie making money more likely.
Just came out.
I liked it. I notice much of the problems that have been mentioned in reviews, but the truth is I was never bored... I just wanted more of some of all the different stuff they focused on. The movie spent too much time on side characters when it could've been showing us many other moments.
The movie did find some great GB moments for a sequel though. Some cool ideas, new equipment, new lore, character pairings and much more that left me wanting more. The movie felt long and short at the same time, if that makes any sense.
What's with all the scenes and moments and stuff that were in the trailers but not in the final movie?? I call false advertisement on that.
Wonder why this wasn't a summer film?
Thats not good….is it? The hudget for this was over $100 million.
Worldwide box office so far, it's up to $61 million.
I thought the opposite. The movie went to a halt every time it focused there. It didn't feel Ghostbuster-ish to me.I honestly wish
The subplot between Phoebe and the gost girl was more of a focus. it had the potential to be interesting.
If all you care about is world building, maybe I can see this perspective. But I don't care as much about world building as I do good stories. I do think the overstuffed world building harmed the stories. It's great to develop a world, but you have to care about what's going on in the story. If you don't, what does the world building matter?Call me crazy, but I kind of enjoyed the ‘overstuffed’ aspect of the movie. It was nice to see this universe populated with fun characters, and I felt like the bouncing between them kept the pace of the movie breezy while still pushing the main story forward.
Could you have cut a few characters and had a tighter movie? Absolutely. Did it ruin the movie for me that it was so crowded? Not at all. Especially when Phoebe, Gary and Ray were clearly the anchors of the movie.
I think from a world-building perspective, I just enjoy that you have so many pieces on the board now to play with. Some characters will inevitably recede more to the background, but some could come more to the forefront. You could have Kumail’s character come back and play a bigger role in a future story for instance. The thing I appreciated about what Afterlife setup was it created this open-ended feel of where this franchise can go. You can’t keep doing the Amblin thing obviously, because the kids will quickly age out of it. This movie was kind of in a bit of an in between. But by the next film, they can pretty much treat Phoebe like a young adult, which can change the whole nature of the story/tone. If there is a next film of course…we shall see.