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Karkador said:
In what world will a "supernatural comedy" not be compared to Ghostbusters anyway? At least with the Ghostbusters name, they can drop the pretense and do the stuff people want to see.
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I get you, but what is that? The appeal to me wasnt the proton packs. It wasnt the cool design of the ghosts. That was side dressing. It was those actors. Doing their thing. At that time. Moreso than most 'concept' films. They input and gave so much to the characters they inhabited.

This film will invariably drop in moment after moment of the side dressing but Ghostbusters have been those four guys for 30 years in pop culture. This isnt a James Bond deal. Their shadow looms large over this and I dont think whatever good intent they have theyll creatively be able to shake it.
 
liquidtmd said:
I get you, but what is that? The appeal to me wasnt the proton packs. It wasnt the cool design of the ghosts. That was side dressing. It was those actors. Doing their thing. At that time. Moreso than most 'concept' films. They input and gave so much to the characters they inhabited.
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It's a fair point, but I guess I feel optimistic that another group of four people with good charisma and chemistry can take up the mantle and continue doing the "side-dressing" stuff that people do enjoy (like me)...and not just to entertain me, but to entertain a new generation of kids who probably have no interest in an 80s movie.

I mean, the template is there to make a good "supernatural comedy" because the proton packs and the ghosts are fun. The original actors will age and move on, but it seems a shame to throw away all of Ghostbusters just because those actors are mortal. Making another movie and calling it something else is abandoning the salvageable parts.
 
I have pretty mixed feelings on it, one of the downsides is that it means we won't get Key and Peele as Ghostbusters, and after their guesting on Fargo as FBI agents I think they'd be sort of awesome.
 
Count me on board if Aisha Tyler is a Ghostbuster. We need GAF represented!

As for the rest, I'm not hyped. I thought Bridesmaids had a sweet love story ruined by formula and non-funny "comedic" situations. And the best part of The Heat was watching it on Blu Ray with the MST3K guys commentating, because my wife and I saw it in the theaters and thought it was awful. Thank god we saw it for free!
 
Hero_of_the_Day said:
Don't know if this was posted, but Feig confirmed this was a full on reboot with zero ties to the original:
Full interview here.
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Urgh. I think I'm out then. I kinda hate the whole "reboot for the sake of reboot" trend. I think you can make a good Ghostbusters sequel, set in the original universe but with a new team elsewhere(set it in LA or Chicago), basically being it's OWN thing while saying, "Yes, the others DID take place... but in NYC.". I don't know why people are so against that sort of thing. It's not hard to do.

Real Hero said:
What if its good?
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It depends. I have a feeling they are going to try to appeal to the Bridesmaids style of comedy, which I personally feel isn't right for the Ghostbusters. If they went more align with the tone of the first two movies(they are funny, but they DO focus on the supernatural events and creepy imagery), I'd be down for it. But given the lack of restraint seen nowadays, I doubt that's going to happen.
 
Exterminieren said:
Having absolutely zero connection or empathy for half of the human race right off the bat is horrifying, and the fact that you don't recognise that this might be the case is even worse.
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I have connection and empathy, just no interest whatsoever. At worst i won't be buying a ticket for this movie. It's not that bad dude :P
 
Currygan said:
I don't hate anybody. I just find her terribly unfunny and her movies pure trash
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Yeah, I don't hate her either. What I hate is the typecasting her of as "goofy overweight woman". She's a good actress, but I have a feeling they're going to goof her up in the Ghostbusters reboot because.... MODERN COMEDY!

Personally speaking, if the comedy was toned down. Like I said, while there was comedy in the original Ghostbusters movies, there was also a focus on the supernatural threats and creepy situations. Comedy was used, tactfully, to lighten the mood in every scene that demanded it. It was restrained to the point that shit went down and the characters COULD be serious in situations when need be. I'm wondering if that's an outdated style, though. Restraint doesn't seem to be a value of modern comedy(well, modern mainstream comedy).
 
I'm against the idea of this movie in general, but I was willing to at least try to keep an open mind even back when we heard rumors of it... until it was said to be a complete reboot.

Now, just... ugh. No. If you're going to saddle it with a lame, gimmicky concept like that, at least give us something that ties it back to the originals. If they aren't going to go even that far? I just... I just don't care, honestly. I'll watch it on a plane some day when it's an in-flight movie option, probably.
 
LordAzrael said:
Women don't interest me. The more women in the cast, the less engaged I am going to be. Being gay doesn't help, but I can't even tell most women apart.
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Jesus Christ.

How can you just blatently disregard half of the human species? Being gay doesn't have anything to do with it all. You don't have to be sexually attracted to someone to think that they have value.
 
I was really interested in this. Now that I know it is actually happening, I'm sorta indifferent. I have no idea why I found a lot of interest in it in the first place. Melissa McCarthy is definitely the new Rob Schneider.

I'd hope it'd just be a Ghost Busters version of 21 Jump Street. That was unexpected gold.
 
LordAzrael said:
Women don't interest me. The more women in the cast, the less engaged I am going to be. Being gay doesn't help, but I can't even tell most women apart.
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That's a horrifyingly closed-minded and ignorant viewpoint to have, gay or straight, unless you have some sort of disorder where you literally are incapable of identifying individual women.
 
Currygan said:
I don't hate anybody. I just find her terribly unfunny and her movies pure trash
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Yep.

GB1&2 had great casting. Fantastic characters and great dialogue. It's the story of 3 close friends and the comradery between them is warm and unforced. It's a great buddy movie.
I really can't see a team of women pulling that off. I can't think of a single movie where that happened.
 
cyberheater said:
Yep.

GB1&2 had great casting. Fantastic characters and great dialogue. It's the story of 3 close friends and the comradery between them is warm and unforced. It's a great buddy movie.
I really can't see a team of women pulling that off. I can't think of a single movie where that happened.
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Poor Winston... :(

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WordAssassin said:
Unless they go with the stupid all-female cast idea.

Which is dumb as shit.

I love Ghostbusters with my heart and soul and I am more than happy to see women added to the/a team, but this just sounds like the fuckin dumbest, worst way to execute the idea.
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Yep, exactly.
 
All my life I've wanted another Ghostbusters movie but now that it's happening I find myself neither here nor there about it, really. Now that I'm old enough to realize it was the cast that made the movie special, and that's what I've been in love with for the last 30 years, I just get depressed knowing that it will never happen again.

In fact the more I think about it the more I am finding that the whole Ghostbusters mythology just doesn't mean anything to me. The original cast could have made an entire movie about making cheese sandwiches in Venkman's apartment and I'm fairly certain I'd have loved it just as much.
 
I loved Ghostbusters 1 and 2 and would love to see a 3 as the films were such a profoundly important part of my childhood however this sounds like a terrible, terrible idea. I was even a massive fan of Bridesmaids and this director in general but Paul Feig and his current legacy being applied to Ghostbusters turning the reboot/sequel into a hilarious all-female comedy? The film will just inevitably be an abomination that any Ghostbusters fan will vocally and loudly despise.

It honestly strikes me as an extremely naive ill-thought out plan in some boardroom somewhere where a light bulb went off above some inexperienced studio executives' head and everyone nodded and clapped supporting what is just a horrible idea. I think Paul Feig is a good director for the types of films he makes but he should not be anywhere near this franchise. Seriously we waited thirty years and they're doing this? As I said I love his movies to some extent (Bridesmaids, The Heat and so on) but he is the last person on Earth that should be chosen for this.

Ghostbusters is a fantastical, modestly comic action adventure series. Not a straight comedy.
 
Ramza said:
Then call me a hater, because, aside from a scene or two, GB2 was horrible.
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Yeah I agree. Ghostbusters II did have its moments here and there, I liked the intro with the busted up Ecto 1 and Ray and Winston showing up for a children's birthday party, and the bit with Peter Venkman hosting some public access paranormal talk show was great too. But once the movie settled in formula and familiar trappings of the first movie, then it sort of went into auto pilot. Though another highlight of Ghostbusters II was the actor that played Janosz (the guy that did Vigo's dirty work) . There was also some pretty funny stuff with Louis Tully that was unfortunately cut out.

Ghostbusters II wasn't the worst sequel ever, it was still passable. but not as good as the first movie.
 
Nope. Pass. Kill it. Bury it and forget it. In the words of Bill Murray, "It’s a nightmare. This is my nightmare…"

I do not like anything Paul Feig said in the EW interview. He is not the right person for this job. When Colin Trevorrow talks about Jurassic World, I know he understands the JP franchise and why people love it. Trevorrow is the best man for the new Jurassic Park. Feig is not the best man for the new Ghostbusters.

What really bugged me about the Feig interview is how he was having such a hard time figuring out how to make a sequel and have the story work after not only the events of the first 2 films, but also the last 25 years. It shows a lack of imagination on his part. He doesn't understand that fans don't just want another ghostbusters film; they want to see what that original crew is up to again and see them pass the flame to the next generation.

Heres an idea: make it a period film.

Set it in 1992 or 1993-- 1 or 2 years after the events of the video game and 3 or 4 years after GB2. Use fancy digital effects and makeup to make the original actors look young (in Ramis' case; alive) and then have them do battle in the first 20 minutes with a ghost that robs them of their youth. BAM! Instant old guys and you don't have to deal with 25 years of missing history between GB2 and GB3. Introduce a new younger crew that can still battle ghosts and you go on your way with sequels from there.
 
Yeah from what I have read, he doesn't seem to be the right man for the job. I feel like this will be a "Ghostbusters" movie by name alone. There are a lot of elements that makes a Ghostbusters film a Ghostbusters film and this guy wants to throw just about every one of those elements out the window.

I would be fine with a female cast so long as they chose the right actors for the job but beyond that this is a complete reboot and I even heard the Ecto-1 won't even be in the film along with other things that made Ghostbusters unique.

I'm not interested in this at all and I feel like this may end up being one of the worse Hollywood reboots yet and damn is there a lot of competition for that.
 
Schattenjäger;133608983 said:
So what's next?

Back to the Future reboot ?
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It will happen. Will be a total reboot with no love or respect for the original films. Won't even feel like a Back to the Future movie outside of the title alone.

Can't blame Hollywood entirely though since people line up for all of these remakes. If people keep buying into crappy remakes then Hollywood is going to keep "not giving a damn" and keep on releasing crappy souless reboots.
 
I don't mind reboots/remakes if they do it like 21/22 Jump Street did. They were fully aware of how silly it was and had fun with it. If they do something like that, I might get back on board.
 
This has killed my interest. An all female cast? I can see this reboot being handled so poorly and a less than mediocre film coming out at the end.
 
OnPoint said:
That's a horrifyingly closed-minded and ignorant viewpoint to have, gay or straight, unless you have some sort of disorder where you literally are incapable of identifying individual women.
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totally honest, this thread made me look up face blindness and i might have something like that. :/ i was diagnosed with aspergers a few years ago and its explained some things I didn't know before. im not a monster, I swear...
 
Schattenjäger;133608983 said:
So what's next?

Back to the Future reboot ?
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We are safe from that. It was written into the contracts of the original writer and such that no reboot or even another movie could even be considered without their permission.

Writing at BTTF.com back in 2010, Bob Gale left no room for doubt. "As both Robert Zemeckis and I have stated repeatedly over the years, we have no plans or desires to make another Back To The Future movie - not a Part 4, nor a remake of Part 1", he posted. "Nor does Universal or Amblin Entertainment have any such plans. How do we know? Because, per our contracts with these companies, no Back To The Future sequel or remake can even be scripted without discussing it with us first.
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