I’ve heard Jason speak on various podcasts. I like him. I think he’s talented. He has the ability to pull this off. But of course it all comes down to what the script is.
I saw an article the other week (NYT? THR? Variety?) that talked about Sony’s utter lack of franchises, which is what all of the studios are relying on today. For example, Disney has Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar. Time-Warner has Harry Potter, DC and Lego. So Sony is desperately trying to build franchises where it can.
This. Quote. Sucks.
As much as I disliked the reboot, simultaneously dismissing its fans (which I know bunches of) as fake while tacitly endorsing the extremely toxic bros that hounded it…
Yeah, this is how you get me not to see your movie.
My first thought was “Ghostbusters: Stranger Things Edition”
I’m terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
That’s definitely a new direction for the franchise.
The trailer looks like a standard horror movie, and a pretty poor and clichéd one. Is this even going to be a comedy?
Yep. I come at it as a fan of Answer the Call, so I’m a bit more invested in this aspect than you are, but…
I’m also a fan of the franchise as a whole, so I would have been interested in this if it were just going back to the original universe. Answer the Call didn’t destroy the original movies, and an original-universe sequel won’t destroy Answer the Call. The toxic fans would still have made me way less enthusiastic than I would have been, but I’d still be on board, because up to now, any Ghostbusters has been entertaining (yes, even the second movie and the later seasons of the cartoon after Slimer took over)…
But explicitly throwing them a bone makes me wary of what kind of movie it will be.
In the end, I’ll probably watch this when it hits Netflix, but I won’t be seeing it in the theatre. And in the meantime I’ll be supporting the IDW comics, which explicitly embraces all other Ghostbusters media.
Which is what the first one was if you edited out someone the dialogue. I think this was a brilliant first trailer. I’m going to predict that the next trailer is going to be 90% comedic.
Was the first one a comedy, or was it a serious movie with a bunch of funny lines? If you asked Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd, I bet they’d say the latter. Dan especially took all the ghost stuff very seriously. I think that that’s why the movie worked - because it placed its comedy on a sturdy horror scaffolding. That, and Bill Murray.
Loach:
Ditto. Whenever she’s a celebrity panelist on the modern versions of Match Game or Pyramid, I cringe.
The kids were chasing Slimer around town (nice shooting Tex). I will not put it past this movie to turn Slimer into the sidekick he was in the cartoon.
Exactly. If they wanted to make Ghostbusters with female leads, they should have just done this. Everyone had a daughter, they all went into the family business, done and done. It’s stupid obvious; in fact it’s so stupid obvious I would have actually complained about its stupid obviousness, but it still would have been better a better idea than the half-baked ill-conceived bullshit they gave us.
Wow that comedy trailer was so hilarious…
This.
I mean, consider the environment. It looks like a very small town. I like the idea of urban ghost hunters. The biggest character missing from this trailer is actually New York City.
I was always on board with the female cast version until I saw it. I even made the thread for those trailers. I really disliked the movie. But this, doesn’t even seem like Ghostbusters.
I’ll still probably give it a chance though.
Huh. Well.
Ok.
Actually, I think I might like that.
I assume the small rural town location was chosen to give the film a plausible 80s retro look with the outdated hair/clothes, people driving old pickups and station wagons, etc while still having it set in the modern day.
It’s just that it’s more reminiscent of modern horror to be in a rural town.
The second was definitely scarier than funny.
Ladies and gentlemen of th-, of the audience. I disagree. Though the sequal had scary parts… The original was more gritty.