joshvanrad
Sr Member
Re: Ghostbusters 3
You just said everything I'd hoped to articulate since the news broke that he was looking to make this a horror-comedy. Thanks you.
At this point, I think the best response is simply "Who cares?"
I mean, seriously, every bit of news coming out about this since they announced it's actually happening has been either neutral or bad. Given the direction it sounds like he thinks he's headed, I think this will be a total ****ing disaster of a film. It might as well not be called Ghostbusters at all.
I've gotta be honest here, I tend to think that it's basically impossible to do a 50/50 split of genuinely scary and genuinely funny. Hybrid horror-comedies only really work on a 25/75 split or vice versa.
Scream: 25% comedy, 75% horror
Scary Movie: 75% comedy, 25% horror.
Know which movie tried to do it 50/50?
Club Dread. And it honestly was...just not that great. It couldn't decide if it was funny or scary, and as a result, kinda whiffed it on both. It wasn't terrible, it just...wasn't that great. Moreover, it KILLED the success of the Broken Lizard guys, and coming off of Super Troopers, too, when they could seemingly do no wrong.
It sounds like Feig is going for that same kind of 50/50 split. The original had a few jump scares, but otherwise was straight-up comedy. Like, not even 25/75. More like 95% comedy, 5% scares.
I just think this is going to end up being complete garbage.......and in a weird way, I'm actually kind of excited to see just how bad things end up going. And the thing is, to do the movie he says he wants to do, he'd actually be better off not calling it "Ghostbusters," if only because (A) that sets up invidious comparisons, and (B) it tells people "This is gonna be a funny comedy, not anything really scary." Feig could do something like, say, Slither, and get the kind of vibe it sounds like he's going for. Comedic horror, basically. But Ghostbusters is not comedic horror. It's not even scary comedy. It's just comedy.
He should just go make his own ****ing movie and call it "Paul Feig's Spook Patrol" or something.
You just said everything I'd hoped to articulate since the news broke that he was looking to make this a horror-comedy. Thanks you.