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[nero-neptune]

the ghostbusters trailer is very. hm..

why is it so serious? the original ghostbusters (which i thought was just ok) was camp. the 2016 ghostbusters was Camp. where is the camp for 2020?

[dannybboytron]

Seriously, give me a live-action Extreme Ghostbusters series.

[lethargicactionhero]

I’m a lifelong Ghostbusters fan, it as my first obsession as a kid, and I had pretty much ALL the toys. Even the Fire Station. (My parents had money in those days.) THAT BEING SAID…

The trailer for Ghostbusters Afterlife (which I admit is a brilliant title) felt dull and unexciting for me. It all focuses on the narrative of a new generation stumbling into the “legacy” of what came before. But did you notice there’s no actual humor in the trailer? One or two snarky comments from the kids, but the trailer seems to focus on cold, calculated nostalgia than the humor of the property. Ghostbusters is a cool concept, but it’s still a comedy too. This didn’t feel like a trailer for a GHOSTBUSTERS movie. It felt like a trailer for one of the new Star Wars movies.

Just like the fact that the Ecto-1 has had all the GBII modifications removed to make it more recognizable to mainstream audiences. I get it, GB2 wasn’t a popular movie. But that’s a meta thing. In-universe, it makes no sense that they have gone to such lengths to remove the extra paint aps and upgraded equipment of the Ecto-1A.

And at the risk of sounding REALLY cynical,  kid characters have such a spotty record in franchises. Wesley Crusher from Star Trek, Wheelie from Transformers, Justin from Power Rangers, Scrappy Freaking Doo… kid characters don’t inspire confidence.

Not to mention bringing in a kid actor from Stranger Things, another 80s-centric property, and this entire project feels less like a passion project, and more like an even more cynical cash grab than the 2016 GB movie, to capitalize on this 80s fad that’s starting to feel less like a nostalgia wave and more like an unhealthy fixation with the past.

[unfortunatelyevent]

The star of the new Ghostbusters is a girl though.

*sighs* my problem isn’t the movie itself, its the reason it was made (to save the franchise from the horrible hands of those women), its the dudebros reaction to a movie that is 74874883 times less accurate to the original movie than the 2016 ever was saying “oh now finally a faithful sequel to the original movies”, its the harassment that the whole 2016 cast went through bc fanboys “didn’t like it bc it was such a bad movie”

it’s a movie made only to please angry dudes and make money of them

[clautastic-deactivated20200705]

Ghostbusters Remake Now Officially Not a Flop

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2016 AT 7 A.M. BY JEF ROUNER

This past weekend the controversial reboot of Ghostbusters finally brought in more money than it cost to make, topping $158 million in total worldwide box office receipts, putting to rest any notions that it would be a flop by not making back its $144 million budget.

“But wait,” a whole lot of dudes who got way too personally invested in seeing the gender-swapped action comedy fail said, “The director said the film would have to make $500 million to make money. It’s never going to do that! (P.S. I’m not sexist).”

American movies do cost a ridiculous amount to market, often more than the film’s production budget. The idea that half a billion dollars is wrapped up in the experiment that is Ghostbusters is perfectly conceivable, and the idea that that money will not all be recouped in ticket sales isn’t far-fetched. However, making that your only measure of success is looking at things in a very narrow way.

Sony is interested in Ghostbusters as a brand, much the way Disney was interested in Star Wars as a brand when they bought the rights for $4 billion from George Lucas even though The Force Awakens brought in only half that in ticket sales. Nobody with any sense would call The Force Awakens a failure, knowing that renewing the film series was basically a license to print money in the form of spin-off media, toys and more.

The same is looking to be true for Ghostbusters. It’s not just a movie, it’s a Top 20 album (No. 1 on the soundtrack charts). It’s a surprisingly successful line of action figures. It’s a bestselling book on Amazon.

Not only that, the rising tide lifts all boats. Know what else is currently a bestseller on Amazon? The original Ghostbusters DVD and its sequel, currently sitting at #38 and #148 respectively. That’s not even counting however many people are streaming them. Renewed interest in Ghostbusters, the brand, is selling a pair of 30-year-old movies like hot cakes and Sony just has to lean back and watch the cash roll in. Heck, the new film isn’t even out on DVD or Blu-Ray yet and IT’S already one of the top-selling movies on Amazon thanks to pre-sales.

Sony has other big plans for the Ghostbusters brand. A new animated television series set in 2050 called Ecto Force is due to arrive in 2018, with Ivan Reitman producing. Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, Rory Bruer, has unofficially confirmed a live action sequel, and we may also be getting an animated movie. That is a lot of Ghostbusters.

The point is that Sony had a lot more riding on Ghostbusters than just a big box office, or they never would have approved that ridiculous budget. When all is said and done at the box office Ghostbusters will maybe not have gotten back every single buck spent making it or selling it in ticket sales, but it will have successfully breathed life into an old property that is making money on everything from fruit juice to children’s books to Halloween cost-OMG THAT IS ADORABLE! It re-affirmed Melissa McCarthy and Paul Fieg as major box office draws, launched Kate McKinnon as everyone’s new favorite comedic actress, and even taking into the mantrum that happens in online movie user ratings, most people enjoyed the film. In short, by every reasonable definition of success, Ghostbusters is one. Period. The end.

http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/ghostbusters-remake-now-officially-not-a-flop-8622080

[the-desolated-quill]

Hey, remember when the trailer for the Ghostbusters reboot came out and loads of butthurt fanboys hated it? Remember how they insisted it was because this was a cynical cash grab and NOTHING to do with the fact that the characters were women?

Well the trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife has come out. A film intended as a sequel to the original films and is no doubt a cynical cash grab just like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and many other Hollywood films pandering to 80s nostalgia, (in fact it’s almost comical how much this trailer tries to copy Force Awakens. Lol), and yet those same butthurt fanboys love it. Funny that. It’s almost as if - ALMOST as if - the real reason they hated the Ghostbusters reboot was because of good old fashioned sexism and had nothing to do with it being a reboot at all.

So yeah. Ghostbusters 3 is now a thing. Looks incredibly bland and derivative to me, but at least there’s no women in it, right kids? 🙄

[ljones41]

Unpopular Opinion

I just learned that Ivan and Jason Reitman have made a new Ghostbusters movie in response to the 2016 version that so many had slammed.  In that case, I WILL NOT watch this new movie when it is released next summer.  I never had a problem with the 2016 film.  And I refuse to accept this view that it was terrible, because it starred women.  So the Reitmans and Columbia Pictures can take their new movie and shove it up their collective asses.

[foureyedfreezy]

The new Ghostbusters trailer is out and they’re still going in on the last movie. People can say the hate against Ghostbusters 2016 isn’t misogynistic, but the actresses still been through so many rape and death threats for being in it. Milo Yiannopoulos and his alt-right followers called Leslie Jones a monkey and hacked her iCloud and leaked her nude photos and address. Daisy Ridley, Ana Diop, and Kelly Marie Tran went through the same amount of harassment because people hated the Titans trailer and The Last Jedi. 

We don’t give (white) male actors the same energy when they’re casted badly or they’re in a bad movie. You can hate Ghostbusters 2016 and say Ghostbusters 2020 was better. But if the reboot were all males, no one would have been victims of harassment. 

[adh-deku]

Me: Wow the new ghostbusters movie looks so good! I can’t wait to see it!

Dude bro™️ who didn’t even see the 2016 ghostbusters: I know right? The last one was so freaking bad 🤣

Me, who enjoyed the last one and would have enjoyed a sequel if they had made it:

[lesbians-love-samwilson]

This new Ghostbusters movie just proves that men hate women and feel threaten when women hold the agenda

[lesbians-love-samwilson]

Me @ the new ghostbusters:

[inthegardensofourminds]

I knew there would be annoying comments disparaging the 2016 Ghostbusters (which was actually a legitimately fun movie, you guys are just mean) when I went into the comments for the trailer for Ghostbusters Afterlife and yet I still looked. But watching the trailer itself, I honestly don’t know what I think about this new film. All the Ghostbusters films are comedies, and while there are maybe one or two jokes or funny moments in the trailer, it’s set up as a serious film. I know comedy is often best when characters deliver the lines seriously, but I didn’t get a comedy vibe from the trailer at all, with the serious music, the editing like a drama at some moments and intense action film in others, drab and moody lighting. No goofy ghosts, no funny facial expressions, almost no one-liners. 

[suddenlysomewherethatsgreen]

I’m kinda bummed by the new Ghostbusters trailer. I mean, it looks awesome but it doesn’t look like Ghostbusters. Its too dramatic, like Stranger Things or Super 8. I want to see Venkmen getting slimed by a green ghost eating plates. I wanna see Louis wearing a colander on his head. I want a 100 foot marshmallow and hear quotes like “We came, we saw, we kicked it’s ASS!” These are the kind of things I want in life.

[premeditatedspontaneity]

New Ghostbusters

It’s an angsty teenage drama thriller with ghosts… the teaser was way better than the f’n trailer. Maybe they thought the 2016 reboot had too much ‘comedy’ so they decided to go with pubescent angst with a kid from Stranger Things. 

[router00]

Ghostbusters: Afterlife looks nothing like a Ghostbusters movie. Answer the Call was more of a Ghostbusters movie then this. This is just a Stranger Things clone.

Yes I liked Answer the Call (2016) film a lot. And I can tell I’m still going to like it more than this movie. 

[desertfangs]

I want to be excited about the new Ghostbusters because NEW!! GHOSTBUSTERS!! I am a huge, lifelong Ghostbusters fan.

But part of me is still super bitter that the 2016 Ghostbusters will never get the sequel it deserved. 

[ocean-chosen]

Hot Take™

(To clarify, yes I’m fully in support of criticism regarding the live action films/Disney’s intentions, but intentionally being negative about them when an average viewer expresses excitement/enjoyment for them is kind of shitty)