Homsar
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If I had kids this would prolly be a movie I didn't dread taking them to.
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Palum
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Just fuck all these decade late sequels. They're just trying to infect everything that had even passing quality.
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Fucker
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Mahes
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Ah like "thank God my house burned down instead of being hit by a meteor, the insurance company won't have to regrade the property as much". Gotcha.
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Would you rather sequels that shit all over the originals like The Last Jedi. Or reboot the franchise into an abortion like the 2016 Ghostbusters. Or sequels that are made by film-makers with respect and reverence to the originals like Cobra Kai?
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What if there's a genuine story to be told? Lucas had a sequel trilogy in mind, clearly there was room to explore post rotk. Disney just decided to ditch his ideas, and based on prequels a Lucas sequel trilogy would still be disappointing.
He decided to cash out and clearly the franchise had significant creative and financial potential.
If a Disney sequel trilogy was made in the manner of Cobra Kai (I don't think ck is perfect, didn't finish the last series, relies to heavily on cameos and is much wackier then the originals but the makers clearly respect the originals) would you be ok with that?
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DickTrickle
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If there's good stories to be told, who cares if it happens in an existing universe? I don't think things being in a franchise, by itself, is the problem, especially in such an expansive setting like SW. It's just the wrong people in on charge making decisions that aren't about making a great story or experience.
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The problem isn't the story or setting or whatever, it's that these sequels are literally just trash copies. They don't develop anything about the characters or setting, same actors, everything is continued just they're woke now.
I don't have a problem with stuff like the Batman movies when they come along and remake everything and just take inspiration from source material. Now a lot of remakes suck as well.
This is different, because it's a continuation often purposefully debasing the original work. Same thing had they remade Star Wars completely, it would just be ignorable like you watch the Bale Batmans but not the more recent ones or whatever.
DickTrickle
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What is Afterlife? I don't know what series that is off the top of my head.
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DickTrickle
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It's the previous Ghostbusters film. The movie this thread's film is a sequel to.
So, you're doing this diatribe in the Ghostbusters thread and haven't seen it? Par for the course, I guess.
If anything, Afterlife was too reverential to the originals, but it was still clearly full of love and care. Pretty far from debasement, in my mind. I mean, for fuck's sake, it was directed by Ivan Reitman's son.
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