Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2020)

[thecolorsblend]

I see what you're saying, but this looks like a honest attempt at course correcting following the debacle of 2016. At least that's how I am interpreting it from what I've seen thus far,  and taking into consideration how much time has passed since we've had an actual GB movie that isn't embarrassingly agenda ridden.

Judging by progressive Twitter's reaction to the trailer, I'd say the movie is going in the right direction. The more they reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, the more likely it is that we'll end up with a decent product.

Now, there is criticisim that the trailers haven't rly shown anything that looks "funny". So far, a lot of what we've seen resembles a mystery, horror or coming of age thing. Y'know, rather than a comedy. It all seems fairly serious.

But considering how unfunny Girlbusters was, I'm willing to skip the comedy as long as the material is treated with reverence.

[The Joker]

[Judging by progressive Twitter's reaction to the trailer, I'd say the movie is going in the right direction. The more they reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, the more likely it is that we'll end up with a decent product.

Now, there is criticisim that the trailers haven't rly shown anything that looks "funny". So far, a lot of what we've seen resembles a mystery, horror or coming of age thing. Y'know, rather than a comedy. It all seems fairly serious.

But considering how unfunny Girlbusters was, I'm willing to skip the comedy as long as the material is treated with reverence.

I think the comedy will be akin to, maybe, something like the 2009 video game. Its there, its present, but definitely not anywhere near that 1984 GB level. That would be a tall order.

[The Joker]

Nice breakdown of the latest trailer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0TOYAH2CCoI&pp=sAQA

[Gotham Knight]

[The Dark Knight]

Still not really feeling it. The Guardian is a left wing rag but they gave the movie 1/5.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/11/ghostbusters-afterlife-jason-reitman-paul-rudd-review

[The Joker]

I'm sure The Guardian are still PMSing about Girlbusters being completely ignored. Much like a lot of other "Critics" who gushed all over Feig in 2016, and now absolutely loath GB Afterlife.

I'm actually still pretty stoked for this! I'll take fan service nostalgia over unfunny agenda.

[Gotham Knight]

Two vocal appearances from the OG Busters. Ray's Occult Bookstore is still operating. That tickled me, as I really like part 2 and have never understood the hate.

[The Dark Knight]

I'm sure The Guardian are still PMSing about Girlbusters being completely ignored. Much like a lot of other "Critics" who gushed all over Feig in 2016, and now absolutely loath GB Afterlife.

I'm actually still pretty stoked for this! I'll take fan service nostalgia over unfunny agenda.

The Guardian definitely has an agenda. Comingsoon.net gave it 8/10, which is a huge disparity between the two scores. I've been ambivalent about the project in recent times, but I think the alleged ending can make it all worthwhile. That's exactly the type of content I'm hoping to see. And it seems like we're getting it.

Two vocal appearances from the OG Busters. Ray's Occult Bookstore is still operating. That tickled me, as I really like part 2 and have never understood the hate.

Me either. GB2 feels like a true sequel, has logical carry over continuity and is still fun.

[The Joker]

Nice final trailer.

With the "Did you miss us?" line, of course I liked it, but for some reason I couldn't help but think that it almost sounded like Bill Murray doing a Lorenzo Music Peter Venkman, who was doing a Bill Murray impression with "The Real Ghostbusters".

I don't know. Something about the delivery. Hell, maybe it was intentional. I already see that there's a ghost appearing in this, that was originally apart of the RGB '80's toy line.

Knowing the age of Jason Reitman, who was a kid during the peak of the Ghostbusters popularity in the '80's (in addition to appearing in GB2), I'm sure there's going to be all sorts of easter eggs in this.

[Silver Nemesis]

It's funny how they never once mention the 2016 movie in any of these clips. It's like they're all just pretending it never happened; like they weren't all promoting it on late-night talk shows just five years ago. I approve of that.

Meanwhile professional critics are trashing the new movie for not being a sequel to the 2016 bomb. The same critics who rave over formulaic assembly line MCU pictures and hollow nostalgia porn retreads like The Force Awakens are now condemning Ghostbusters: Afterlife for being nostalgic and unoriginal. Just look at the bitterness in the following quote:

Instead, it is a gigantic, perverse admission of defeat. It is Jason Reitman admitting that he will never match the creative powers of his father. It is Sony Pictures admitting that they should have never made a "lady" Ghosbusters. It is the entire Ghostbusters brain trust admitting that the fans have always been right, that they can never be wrong, and that all their devotion and unquestioning nostalgia is the only thing that matters, that will ever matter, so far as ghostbustin' is concerned.

Everyone would have saved a lot of time and money and frustration had Jason simply written his father a nice note ("Congrats, pop, on making such a fun movie. See you in the car!") and then digitally nuked, proton-blast-style, all traces of Paul Feig's 2016 Ghostbusters reboot.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-someone-call-the-ghostbusters-because-jason-reitmans-awful-sequel/

This is from a real review listed on RT. Midnight's Edge highlighted some similar reviews in a new video.

To be clear, I haven't seen Afterlife yet so I can't say if it's any good or not. It might be terrible. But if it is, it won't be because it's not a sequel to the 2016 movie. The US film industry is presently drowning in unimaginative reboots of old IPs, and professional critics have largely failed in their duty to hold the studios accountable for this. In the past, decent critics would rail against 'sequelitis' and demand new ideas in place of repetition. In contrast, the current generation of critics have helped facilitate the sorry state of affairs we're seeing in Hollywood through their complacent and superficial analysis of big brand pictures. So I don't believe for one second that these same critics are genuinely perturbed by the lack of originality in Afterlife. I didn't trust them regarding the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, and I won't trust their consensus on this one either.