Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Egon Spengler said:
I just hope it isn't "Kid Ghostbusters". I just don't find it believable that the kids wouldn't injure themselves on the equipment without adult guidance. I hope that Paul Rudd offers at least some until the guys come along. I really hope that Winston, Ray and Peter are more than just 5 minute cameos and actually show up early in the film and take an active role.
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What about 6 mins?

Would be cool if they did something useful and not give a quick HI, and then disappear the rest of the movie.
 
Egon Spengler said:
I just hope it isn't "Kid Ghostbusters". I just don't find it believable that the kids wouldn't injure themselves on the equipment without adult guidance. I hope that Paul Rudd offers at least some until the guys come along. I really hope that Winston, Ray and Peter are more than just 5 minute cameos and actually show up early in the film and take an active role.
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I'm not sure anyone but Egon was an adult in the original movie
 
If the Hasbro figures coming out for the movie are any indication, I think (and hope)
they will play a larger part of the story when they arrive. Jason Reitman, like his work or not,
is no dummy and fully understands the legacy that surrounds these characters.
I'm sure they will finally get a deserving sequel. Right from the very first teaser, everything they presented
felt like Ghostbusters. I don't think Bill Murray or Sigourney Weaver wouldn't be as involved, if
they and everyone else all didn't get the same vibe from concept to script and so on. I'm in.
 
I strongly suspect that while the original cast will be involved in it as more than just a quick cameo, I don't think that they'll be the main focus of the movie and probably won't show up until at least halfway through. Judging by the trailer, my guess is that the kids (likely with the help of Paull Rudd) will have some initial success, which will take up the latter part of the first half of the movie, maybe going to the 3/4 mark where they will eventually get in over their heads. This is when they'll call the original gang for help. That or they get help from Dan Akjroyd, but him only because the gang has since gone their own way. But when the chips are down the rest will come back. Either way, I don't expect any of the original cast to show up until at least the latter part of the first half of the movie.

This movie is almost certainly meant to be a passing of the torch movie so that if it does well, more will be made but featuring the new cast. Some of the originals might make appearances in future sequels but they almost certainly won't be the main cast of them.
 
If they respect the characters and ideas from the first two movies and establish the new characters well enough, I'm totally on board with them passing Excalibur to the new Arthur. #tryingtokeepmyexpectationslowbutverysecretlysoexcitedtoseethis!
 
I just hope it isn't "Kid Ghostbusters". I just don't find it believable that the kids wouldn't injure themselves on the equipment without adult guidance. I hope that Paul Rudd offers at least some until the guys come along. I really hope that Winston, Ray and Peter are more than just 5 minute cameos and actually show up early in the film and take an active role.
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I can buy it if the movie portrays it right. These kids look like high-schoolers. I had already been using power tools for years by that age. And these are Egon Spengler's grandkids, not Beavis & Butthead.

The danger really peaks a few weeks later. They get comfortable with the power tools. Pretty soon they end up in a group of several teenagers together without supervision. Then it gets ugly.


As for the old cast, I expect supporting roles late in the movie. More than cameos. This looks like a project that they would actually want to do. It won't take any big paychecks or arm-twisting to get Dan Ackroyd & Ernie Hudson on board for a few weeks of shooting. And I doubt Paul Rudd would throw any fits about sharing the limelight with them.

With Bill Murray all bets are off. He's too unreliable with GB. Even if he does turn out to have a lot of screen time, I'll bet they wrote the script in such a way that his role could be reduced or eliminated if necessary. You basically have to treat him like he's dying of a terminal illness. He might agree to start shooting the movie but there is no guarantee he will finish it.
 
batguy said:
With Bill Murray all bets are off. He's too unreliable with GB. Even if he does turn out to have a lot of screen time, I'll bet they wrote the script in such a way that his role could be reduced or eliminated if necessary. You basically have to treat him like he's dying of a terminal illness. He might agree to start shooting the movie but there is no guarantee he will finish it.
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Just tell him you liked The Razor's Edge and feel it didn't get the consideration it deserved in a year (1984) dominated by more big releases than any other year I can think of. Terminator, Dune, Star Trek III, Conan (the second one), 2010, Gremlins, Romancing the Stone, Temple of Doom, Footloose, This is Spïnal Tap, Beverly Hills Cop, Iceman, The Natural, The Bounty, Highlander, The Neverending Story, The Karate Kid, Blame it on Rio, Firestarter, Breakin', Moscow on the Hudson, Greystoke, Police Academy, Splash, Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (*lol*), Repo Man, The Lonely Guy, Sixteen Candles, Top Secret!, The Last Starfighter, Revenge of the Nerds, Red Dawn, Buckaroo Banzai, Amadeus, All of Me, The Killing Fields, Nightmare on Elm Street, Supergirl, City Heat, The Cotton Club, 1984, Starman, A Passage to India, Johnnie Dangerously, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo -- and that's not even a third, just the more memorable ones.

I do like it, but then I like Somerset Maugham, so there's that.
 
Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
Just tell him you liked The Razor's Edge and feel it didn't get the consideration it deserved in a year (1984) dominated by more big releases than any other year I can think of. Terminator, Dune, Star Trek III, Conan (the second one), 2010, Gremlins, Romancing the Stone, Temple of Doom, Footloose, This is Spïnal Tap, Beverly Hills Cop, Iceman, The Natural, The Bounty, Highlander, The Neverending Story, The Karate Kid, Blame it on Rio, Firestarter, Breakin', Moscow on the Hudson, Greystoke, Police Academy, Splash, Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (*lol*), Repo Man, The Lonely Guy, Sixteen Candles, Top Secret!, The Last Starfighter, Revenge of the Nerds, Red Dawn, Buckaroo Banzai, Amadeus, All of Me, The Killing Fields, Nightmare on Elm Street, Supergirl, City Heat, The Cotton Club, 1984, Starman, A Passage to India, Johnnie Dangerously, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo -- and that's not even a third, just the more .memorable ones.

I do like it, but then I like Somerset Maugham, so there's that.
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I actually did like Razor's Edge.
But I was a weird kid. I also liked One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Slaughterhouse Five.
Another lost-to-the-sands-of-time Bill Murray movie I liked as a kid was Where the Buffalo Roam.
 
Inquisitor Peregrinus said:
Just tell him you liked The Razor's Edge and feel it didn't get the consideration it deserved in a year (1984) dominated by more big releases than any other year I can think of. Terminator, Dune, Star Trek III, Conan (the second one), 2010, Gremlins, Romancing the Stone, Temple of Doom, Footloose, This is Spïnal Tap, Beverly Hills Cop, Iceman, The Natural, The Bounty, Highlander, The Neverending Story, The Karate Kid, Blame it on Rio, Firestarter, Breakin', Moscow on the Hudson, Greystoke, Police Academy, Splash, Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (*lol*), Repo Man, The Lonely Guy, Sixteen Candles, Top Secret!, The Last Starfighter, Revenge of the Nerds, Red Dawn, Buckaroo Banzai, Amadeus, All of Me, The Killing Fields, Nightmare on Elm Street, Supergirl, City Heat, The Cotton Club, 1984, Starman, A Passage to India, Johnnie Dangerously, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo -- and that's not even a third, just the more memorable ones.

I do like it, but then I like Somerset Maugham, so there's that.
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I actually do like The Razors Edge
 
Found these at Walmart today, wonder how accurate they are to what’s seen in the film.

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I've got to admit, I haven't felt so much hope for a trailer for a film that's a sequel since I saw the trailer for Bill & Ted Face The Music (and that film was pretty good). And I've got to admit, I am already ready for this film to come out. I've been waiting over a year for this.
 
While I am hopeful and dare I say it, excited, about this movie, I still approach these things with caution and try to judge it on it's own merits rather than who is involved or who approves of it.

I am very eager to see this though and thus far I've been very impressed with what little has been shown. It would be so great to have a beloved property given a truly worthy sequel after decades of development hell.
 
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