Egon Spengler
Master Member
I just don't get the desire they have to keep pushing the "Teen Ghostbusters" angle. Geez, why can't it just be 4 grown adult slobs learning the ropes? Why TEENS? UGH.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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I just don't get the desire they have to keep pushing the "Teen Ghostbusters" angle. Geez, why can't it just be 4 grown adult slobs learning the ropes? Why TEENS? UGH.
One sounds like a setup to be Egon's daughter
"As for the girl, she crosses paths with the aforementioned boy at some point in the film and they quickly become friends. She’s 12 years of age, from what we understand, and is said to be an insanely smart kid. However, she often has a hard time with “interpreting and expressing emotions and speaks with a flat delivery that make her observations humorous.” Though she wants to connect with others, she struggles with interpreting how her family and friends feel and has difficulty sharing her own feelings. Her “science acumen” is said to prove invaluable throughout the story, though."
"As for the girl, she crosses paths with the aforementioned boy at some point in the film and they quickly become friends. She’s 12 years of age, from what we understand, and is said to be an insanely smart kid. However, she often has a hard time with “interpreting and expressing emotions and speaks with a flat delivery that make her observations humorous.” Though she wants to connect with others, she struggles with interpreting how her family and friends feel and has difficulty sharing her own feelings. Her “science acumen” is said to prove invaluable throughout the story, though."
Egon Spengler
Master Member
What scares me is what we got with Blues Brothers 2000 and a kid. Ugh.
mattycsi
Master Member
I'll buy it if she has a straightened slinky in her toy box.
GB#3 didn't happen while Harold Ramis was alive because it couldn't have.
Bill Murray had a huge falling-out with Ramis when they were making 'Groundhog Day' in 1990. Murray was never going to like any new GB script because he didn't want to do another movie with Ramis. And no studio was gonna fund GB#3 without Murray.
Then Ramis got sick. Murray finally patched things up with Ramis when he was dying.
Maybe that was enough or maybe just because Ramis is gone now, but either way I think that is why GB#3 is back in development. The GB reboot was unsuccessful but the sheer volume of strong feelings around it was telling. There is still money in a new GB movie if it was done better. And Bill Murray might finally be persuaded to do it.
Bill Murray had a huge falling-out with Ramis when they were making 'Groundhog Day' in 1990. Murray was never going to like any new GB script because he didn't want to do another movie with Ramis. And no studio was gonna fund GB#3 without Murray.
Then Ramis got sick. Murray finally patched things up with Ramis when he was dying.
Maybe that was enough or maybe just because Ramis is gone now, but either way I think that is why GB#3 is back in development. The GB reboot was unsuccessful but the sheer volume of strong feelings around it was telling. There is still money in a new GB movie if it was done better. And Bill Murray might finally be persuaded to do it.
Leslie Jones reaction to GB3 on Twitter was in pretty poor taste. I won't post it here because she curses, brings politics in and other social injustices into her rant. Plain and simple, her movie wasn't good. It had some potential but it missed its mark, especially by the Ghostheads. She almost certainly buried any chance they had in any future involvement.
Egon Spengler
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Strikerkc
Sr Member
Just trying to drum up some hits for the 'ol twitter and "talking head interview" circuit by being ******, I imagine. It's why a third of the actors in hollywood even open their mouths most times... another third are yapping to try and virtue signal to their fellow bubble dwellers, and the last third are generally quiet.
I'm looking forward to it, even if it's a bunch of kids/"the next generation". I had no problem with them making the 2016 version, in principal, and it even looked like it could be fun overall; it just turned out to be bad. I'm sure they could have done a good ghostbusters script with those actresses playing the same character, it just didn't pan out.
I'm more than willing to give this one as much or more of a chance, and hope it comes out enjoyable. I think one of the important things they'll need to do, is to tell a different story. I'm not a detractor of the new star wars movies (gear shift, bear with me, I'm bringing it back around), but I'm also not blind, and could see that #7 (and to a lesser extent #8) were mostly just trying to recreate the same or similar events from 4 and 5 (even using the same plot points in most cases), and I everyone I know, believes the films suffered for it.
For that reason, I think GB3 needs to tread new ground (and I don't mean "give each character their own special "proton shotgun", or "Twin Proton Pistols"). Take the premise, write a new story, have new characters.
I'm looking forward to it, even if it's a bunch of kids/"the next generation". I had no problem with them making the 2016 version, in principal, and it even looked like it could be fun overall; it just turned out to be bad. I'm sure they could have done a good ghostbusters script with those actresses playing the same character, it just didn't pan out.
I'm more than willing to give this one as much or more of a chance, and hope it comes out enjoyable. I think one of the important things they'll need to do, is to tell a different story. I'm not a detractor of the new star wars movies (gear shift, bear with me, I'm bringing it back around), but I'm also not blind, and could see that #7 (and to a lesser extent #8) were mostly just trying to recreate the same or similar events from 4 and 5 (even using the same plot points in most cases), and I everyone I know, believes the films suffered for it.
For that reason, I think GB3 needs to tread new ground (and I don't mean "give each character their own special "proton shotgun", or "Twin Proton Pistols"). Take the premise, write a new story, have new characters.
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I'll stick with what makes the most sense, lore-wise. Egon, Ray, and Winston were what kept the company going. Peter mostly saw it as a way to make money off of suckers and get laid. I'm fine with him maturing between 1 and 2, and over the course of 2, and by this time happily doing something else, with or without Dana.
I feel a good connection to the past would be to play up the fast bond between Ray and Winston -- as I said back in the GB16 thread, maybe even coming in on them heading home from Egon's funeral. Also, mindfulness of where the story had gone. It wouldn't suck if Louis was still a Ghostbuster (and their accountant) after his outing in 2, and he and Jeanine worked well together. I'd also like to see Alyssa Milano's character from the video game, Ivo Shandor's granddaughter, still around the team in some capacity.
Whatever else serves the story, at least five to ten minutes of screen time on some flavor of the above to connect past to present would solidify it much my in this fan's mind. Even if it's ultimately a passing of the torch to a newer gang.
I feel a good connection to the past would be to play up the fast bond between Ray and Winston -- as I said back in the GB16 thread, maybe even coming in on them heading home from Egon's funeral. Also, mindfulness of where the story had gone. It wouldn't suck if Louis was still a Ghostbuster (and their accountant) after his outing in 2, and he and Jeanine worked well together. I'd also like to see Alyssa Milano's character from the video game, Ivo Shandor's granddaughter, still around the team in some capacity.
Whatever else serves the story, at least five to ten minutes of screen time on some flavor of the above to connect past to present would solidify it much my in this fan's mind. Even if it's ultimately a passing of the torch to a newer gang.
Strikerkc
Sr Member
Yea. I had to go refresh myself on when he quit. he Stopped some time in 1997, and has only done voice acting since then (and one documentary about an old show of his at some point).
This would be a hell of a great movie for him to come back out of retirement for, and I'm certain the nerds of the world would welcome him warmly. Come back to us Rick, if just for this one time.
This would be a hell of a great movie for him to come back out of retirement for, and I'm certain the nerds of the world would welcome him warmly. Come back to us Rick, if just for this one time.
Oh, he's said he only mostly retired. Got sick of the roles he kept being offered, but he'd definitely come play of he got a good script. He was asked specifically about a Ghostbusters sequel back before all the Pascal/Feig/GB16 mess, and pretty much said he'd love to but only if there were meat on the role and in the story -- not just for a paycheck.
That's why I want Louis to be a bona fide Ghostbuster after he stepped up in Ghostbusters 2. He's still a dork, but he's found his place and worth and a woman who loves him.
That's why I want Louis to be a bona fide Ghostbuster after he stepped up in Ghostbusters 2. He's still a dork, but he's found his place and worth and a woman who loves him.
Strikerkc
Sr Member
Wouldn't that character be amazing in a film that dealt with young weird kids?
"I just don't get it, I feel like a total looser sometimes. The kids at school call me names, and I get scared, and just can't handle it like everyone else."
*Louis stares back at the kid through slightly crooked glasses*
"Well, you know, I don't know, that sounds about right. I was happy and confident and having the time of my life, and I still ended up spending the next three days as a dog. You know. You can't let things like that get you down. You just move on, trust that the smell of burning dog hair will go away, and eventually you find something you're good at, like rescuing your buddies from a giant jello mold."
"I just don't get it, I feel like a total looser sometimes. The kids at school call me names, and I get scared, and just can't handle it like everyone else."
*Louis stares back at the kid through slightly crooked glasses*
"Well, you know, I don't know, that sounds about right. I was happy and confident and having the time of my life, and I still ended up spending the next three days as a dog. You know. You can't let things like that get you down. You just move on, trust that the smell of burning dog hair will go away, and eventually you find something you're good at, like rescuing your buddies from a giant jello mold."
Egon Spengler
Master Member
Cool. I was wondering about that because the trailer looked almost CGI all the way
It would be great if they returned to the use of more practical effects in the film
patrickivan
Sr Member
I want clever humour. Clearly not ALL of the original Ghostbusters was 100% clever, but the writing certainly was far more so than the last movie. And that's what pissed me off. I mean fart jokes, imma black woman is why no one caught me, and not even remotely sexy proton gun licking? That was what they thought people wanted? Oh look how stupid Chris Hemsworth is... ahhahahahhaaaa...
Cute
It was barely one step away from just watching people get hit in the nuts with a football over and over. Toooo funny
Cute
It was barely one step away from just watching people get hit in the nuts with a football over and over. Toooo funny
For me GB2016 was just plain disappointing. It did have some funny moments but the film seemed to wander around between them.
I am really hoping this new film will take it's time to come up with a great story and do justice to the legacy.
I am really hoping this new film will take it's time to come up with a great story and do justice to the legacy.
