Curious to see this when I get home…
Curious to see this when I get home…
You see, though, it’s exactly this understanding of why the original is great that makes it so I enjoy the new one.
So sorry to hear man… 6 years isn’t very long.. sorry for your lossI thought it was good. Sure, I have some nit picks, but when don't folks like us always have them? Overall, I felt like it had soul and its heart was in the right place. I'll probably go see it again in Imax and I will definitely own a copy and re-watch it in the future.
The hardest part for me was that our Dog was named Gozer, and she passed from a super aggressive Cancer just over a month ago at only six years old. So, some plot pointshit pretty hard and made me realize how much I miss Her and how raw the loss still is.Like Gozer themselves being in the film, and a large part, along with Egon's spirit helping and supporting from beyond the grave, as well as the general theme of moving on and forward after loss
I guess my point is, as much as I like the original Ghostbusters, I don’t really care enough to get upset about the flaws of Afterlife. I didn’t grow up with any of the toys or show or anything. My first introduction to Ghostbusters was actually in the movie Be Kind Rewind, so I don’t have any warm fuzzy memories of watching it from a very young age. Maybe it’s unfair of me to be saying Afterlife is entertaining, since I don’t have that perspective, but I also don’t care enough to really fight anybody on whether the film is good or not. If you liked it, great! If you didn’t, great!This sums up the crux of the movies shortcomings. Everything you love about Afterlife has to do with the original movie, not what little new material or characters were introduced and believe me there was not much new here. There's nothing wrong with that but it reinforces the idea that what makes this movie so beloved is not how fresh it is, but how well it brought back the original cast.
This was the problem Michael Arnt faced with developing TFA with Luke's presence overshadowing everything. No one is really starry eyed over the new characters. Everyone is just happy with how they brought back the original cast with respect. The new cast weren't so much characters but plot devices to bring the old gang back together.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing because ultimately, it was done with a lot of sincerity. I'm just saying that's the most honest way to approach it. Which is why I hope going forward they really develop the new cast better.
They were really close with this one and it showed far more potential than their predecessors in reinvigorating a franchise. Again I'm not faulting Afterlife or suggesting it was an awful movie. It was fine for what it was though from my perspective I don't feel it was as great as most here do. But that's just my take on it.
I guess my point is, as much as I like the original Ghostbusters, I don’t really care enough to get upset about the flaws of Afterlife. I didn’t grow up with any of the toys or show or anything. My first introduction to Ghostbusters was actually in the movie Be Kind Rewind, so I don’t have any warm fuzzy memories of watching it from a very young age. Maybe it’s unfair of me to be saying Afterlife is entertaining, since I don’t have that perspective, but I also don’t care enough to really fight anybody on whether the film is good or not. If you liked it, great! If you didn’t, great!
Just as long as we all agree that 2016 was awful and the original probably won’t ever be matched.
It is a relaunch and not a reboot. I agree that the difference is important. Thank you for pointing it out.
No worries at all.Sorry for sort of unloading like that. That particular issue is a pet peeve of mine. And I didn't even get into Soft Reboots which are like relaunches except they treat previous continuity as broad strokes and don't worry about the details.