Ghostbusters Afterlife (November 11th -2021)

[Wor-Gar]

Ghostbusters: Mediocre

Who you gonna text?

 

[Asta]

The film also took a while before it started to feel like Ghostbusters, which was essentially a spooky comedy.

GA begins with darkness piled on darkness, right through to Ray saying Egon could rot in hell. It was more like Stranger Things. Then it finally gets going, but still feels off. The ending broke the fourth wall with the "For Harold" caption, which just added to the overall strange tone.

 

[Wor-Gar]

So why are people liking this? I mean, is it a good movie ASIDE from being connected to Ghostbusters?

 

[karamazov80]

Impossible for a hardcore Ghostbusters fan like me to say. If you never saw the original, segments of the movie probably wouldn't resonate or even make sense, though, since so much of it references the original film. So in that sense, it's hard to imagine reviewing this in a vacuum. Having said that, if you set your expectations low, and aren't bothered by EXTREME sentimentality and nostalgia-pandering, then I can see how folks could enjoy it. There were some good things about it in my opinion.

 

[Wor-Gar]

aren't bothered by EXTREME sentimentality and nostalgia-pandering

Nope. Nothing worse to me other than just bad filmmaking.

 

[karamazov80]

Was fairly well made from a technical standpoint. And honestly I can't fault the filmmakers too much for doing what they did. The entire film industry is built on sequels, prequels, spinoffs, and reboots, and has been for a long time. Reminding audiences of something they know and like, whether it's Marvel Studios, Star Wars, James Bond, Disney animated, etc. is a smart business move. But creatively and artistically it doesn't work in my view. Having said that, that's just my opinion as a crotchety old 40-something year old man. This has a 95% positive audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and I can see why. It was designed to give the audience a good feeling in their stomach when they walk out of the theater. Post-credit scenes are a microcosm of what you may consider the good or bad of the film overall.

 

[ebor]

Saw it with my 15 yr old daughter. We both enjoyed it. Will go see it again over Christmas. And the first Ghostbusters was inappropriate too at the time. Several scenes aimed at adults and not the younger crowd.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Pole-dancer.

Now whenever I hear Ray say: "you gotta try that pole"... I'll never hear it quite the same way.

 

[Otomofan]

The film also took a while before it started to feel like Ghostbusters, which was essentially a spooky comedy.

GA begins with darkness piled on darkness, right through to Ray saying Egon could rot in hell. It was more like Stranger Things. Then it finally gets going, but still feels off. The ending broke the fourth wall with the "For Harold" caption, which just added to the overall strange tone.

WTF?? Why in god's name would Ackroyd ever agree to even say that line?

I didn't see that part. I downloaded the bootleg on opening day and skipped right to the part where Bill Murray showed up. I had no idea Ray was so out of character. That's ridiculous.

I also had no idea Olivia Wilde played Gozer. It was a low quality bootleg. It didn't have the post-credits scenes.

Thankfully, I found them on youtube not too long after. (God, isn't living in the future amazing?)

I thought the scene with Venkman and Dana was cute (was this the only time Dana showed up in the movie?) but the Zeddemore scene felt forced.

 

[Asta]

WTF?? Why in god's name would Ackroyd ever agree to even say that line?

I didn't see that part. I downloaded the bootleg on opening day and skipped right to the part where Bill Murray showed up. I had no idea Ray was so out of character. That's ridiculous.

It felt as out of place and uncomfortable as quite a bit of the film.

Some of the writing felt amateurish, like a first draft that someone more experienced would've later amended.

The 'rot in hell' scene was when Phoebe telephones Ray from the police cell.

Dr. Raymond Stantz : Egon Spengler can rot in hell for all I care.

Phoebe : [sadly] He died last week.

Dr. Raymond Stantz : [genuinely saddened] Oh, man...


Even though Ray was instantly saddened it just illustrates the depressing end for the Ghostbusters team. How the friends had drifted apart so far. So, if you watch the first two films, and consider GA to be canon, you'll have in mind that there's going to be a break up so angry that even Ray would say that Egon could rot in hell.

All because none of them believed Spengler's apocalyptic warnings.

 

[Otomofan]

It's almost as if they had to do something drastic and write something so completely out of character for the characters we've known and loved for over three decades in order to justify shoehorning in a new cast.

It all feels so familiar but I just can't put my finger on where we've seen that exact situation...

 

[greygoose]

I didn't see that part. I downloaded the bootleg on opening day and skipped right to the part where Bill Murray showed up.

So you saw 5 minutes from a 2 hour film?

 

[Otomofan]

Yeah. 5 minutes recorded on someone's phone in the theater no less. But dude....it's not like I couldn't fill in the blanks from the 20 minutes of footage of this movie that Sony has bombarded us with for the last year on youtube. Not to mention how formulaic and predictable it was.

I just wanted to see my boys in the suits one last time.

 

[Scrappy776]

Liked

 

[matticus]

It felt as out of place and uncomfortable as quite a bit of the film.

Some of the writing felt amateurish, like a first draft that someone more experienced would've later amended.

The 'rot in hell' scene was when Phoebe telephones Ray from the police cell.

Dr. Raymond Stantz : Egon Spengler can rot in hell for all I care.

Phoebe : [sadly] He died last week.

Dr. Raymond Stantz : [genuinely saddened] Oh, man...


Even though Ray was instantly saddened it just illustrates the depressing end for the Ghostbusters team. How the friends had drifted apart so far. So, if you watch the first two films, and consider GA to be canon, you'll have in mind that there's going to be a break up so angry that even Ray would say that Egon could rot in hell.

All because none of them believed Spengler's apocalyptic warnings.

Gee sounds awfully familar...they certainly wouldn't do that for beloved characters like Luke Skywalker or Han Solo. ****in' Hollywood.

 

[a-dev]

Spoiler

While I have seen pics of Sigourney looking old I have to say she looks good in this clip - I still can't help but wonder what might have been if Blomkamp could have made Alien 5 (or Alien 3 alternate)

 

[JAWS]

So why are people liking this? I mean, is it a good movie ASIDE from being connected to Ghostbusters?

Because it was not the 2016 version.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I guess nostalgia-baiting is better than agenda-casting.

 

[xipotec]

It felt as out of place and uncomfortable as quite a bit of the film.

Some of the writing felt amateurish, like a first draft that someone more experienced would've later amended.

The 'rot in hell' scene was when Phoebe telephones Ray from the police cell.

Dr. Raymond Stantz : Egon Spengler can rot in hell for all I care.

Phoebe : [sadly] He died last week.

Dr. Raymond Stantz : [genuinely saddened] Oh, man...


Even though Ray was instantly saddened it just illustrates the depressing end for the Ghostbusters team. How the friends had drifted apart so far. So, if you watch the first two films, and consider GA to be canon, you'll have in mind that there's going to be a break up so angry that even Ray would say that Egon could rot in hell.

All because none of them believed Spengler's apocalyptic warnings.

People keep saying this…..but this is exactly what happened to the original writing team and stars of the original film.

The didnt like each other at all for al long time. Thats the reason you never got a true GB3 . Rietman was in a dispute with Murray for a long time, even Ackroyd got involved with the arguing.

Which is why that moment is in the film….it was very true to what the actors and writers were going through in real life.

So no only is it possible for it to happen, it DID happen to those very people.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The didnt like each other at all for al long time. Thats the reason you never got a true GB3 . Rietman was in a dispute with Murray for a long time, even Ackroyd got involved with the arguing.

Which is why that moment is in the film….it was very true to what the actors and writers were going through in real life.

So no only is it possible for it to happen, it DID happen to those very people.

I wondered when someone was going to bring this up.

It does seem like this is Reitman's son's way of patching things up.