Ghostbusters : Afterlife
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Chukzombi
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Its what the 80s would do. The 80s way is hardly ever wrong. There are serious scenes in OT Ghostbusters, but its majority comedy. GB2 was more serious, like the funny parts were more forced. The baby oscar shit ruined a lot. The GB crew ending 1 as heroes and then starting 2 as losers again also hurt the movie. But mainly baby Oscar.
Asmadai
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I'm confident Paul Rudd will bring the funny. Looks promising though. Plus that was Murray doing the voice over during the end of the trailer, yes? He's never let me down.
Edit: Ok listening closely that was prolly just the same recording of the line he did in GB1 but i'm still hopeful.
Edit: Ok listening closely that was prolly just the same recording of the line he did in GB1 but i'm still hopeful.
Cybsled
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detail I didn’t notice until pointed out.
The old mine they visit is called Shandor and was established in the 20s. Shandor as in Cult of Gozer and he started that in the 20s. Explains the gozer dog leg we see and why Egon would have been in that town.
The old mine they visit is called Shandor and was established in the 20s. Shandor as in Cult of Gozer and he started that in the 20s. Explains the gozer dog leg we see and why Egon would have been in that town.
DickTrickle
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Just going off memory here but I feel like the line delivery is different. I think it may be old Murray delivering that line now.
Cybsled
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Ya, they are keeping that close to the vest. Janine is probably the grandmother, she gives the kids some additional info at some point/let’s them know about slimer (he shows up no doubt at some point). Egon probably found the Shandor mine and realized it could bring Gozer back, so the OG go in a vanish/die/whatever and come back as ghosts later (or maybe got turned into gozer dogs). Bonus points if Egon’s grand daughter’s missing dad ends up being Dana’s kid from GB2.
You can see slimer (least it looks like him) in the car chase scene of the trailer, so that's a positive.
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j00t
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my favorite part about the trailer, is that everyone's forgotten what ghostbusters are. the reference point they have for "no one told you about this?" was the 80's. meaning, they have effectively and completely ignored the girlbusters. so that's pretty great
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Angerz
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They were supposed to start their own universe, where the OG movies didnt exist. However, it is now it the same place as the Dark Universe movies and we are back to the OG boys.
As for the trailer not being funny, I'm fine with that for a trailer one. Even the OG trailer Chuk posted isn't a laugh a second. A big part of what made the movie work was everyone in that movie who wasnt a Ghostbuster or Rick Moranis played it 100% straight. The movie was serious, the situation was dire and our heroes were shlubs. It was a perfect storm of dry wit and satire juxtaposed against the serious situation. Writing that again today would be near impossible. Writing it for GB2 was impossible and everyone involved in 1 was still alive.
Giving us a summer movie with action and paul rudd and stranger things is a recipe for a good movie. Expecting them to recreate GB1 with a new cast 35 years later is folly and setting yourself up to be disappointed. Respecting the IP doesn't mean recreating what we've already seen.
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