When there's something new, popping on Youtube...Who ya gonna call?

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lT3LEimWk

Exactly.

And jeez it felt like only Yesterday when the last movie came out. Especially the massive backlash it got.

In case your wondering what the hell I am talking about, a new Ghostbusters movie revealed and coming in 2020.

 

[Hades]

I'm wondering what they'll do with it. I got no interest but I'm genuinely curious if they keep the all female team, bring the old generation back or ignore both teams and settle for a third team that they hope will be less controversial than the second one.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

Wait I thought the sequel to the fembusters movie was cancelled?

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

It will be weird without Harold Ramis, but hey, it's a sequel to the original Ghostbusters movies. I'll take it. It doesn't have to blow me away.

 

[Casual Shinji]

So is Sony following the DCU in course correcting? 'We know you didn't like the last one, but this time it's gonna be good, really.'


Anyway, the only good Ghostbusters movie was the first one, and I doubt this one's going to change any of that.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Wait I thought the sequel to the fembusters movie was cancelled?

It is. Next one's a direct sequel to the first two movies. No relation (supposedly) to the 2016 reboot.

 

[BrawlMan]

Wait I thought the sequel to the fembusters movie was cancelled?

It is. Next one's a direct sequel to the first two movies. No relation (supposedly) to the 2016 reboot.

Then why not just call it 3? Don't answer, rhetorical question.

I don't care unless they're bringing in the characters from Extreme Ghostbusters in live-action form.

 

[Chewster]

The Internet had a meltdown when they had woman Ghostbusters even though the film was average. I can only imagine what will happen this time unless this film is the second coming or whatever.

Anyway, no one asked for this. Just let this franchise just disappear already. If I want more Ghostbusters, I'll watch the first film and boot up the old Xbox game.

 

[the December King]

I am as excited as I was when the 2016 relaunch/boot was announced.

I will see it, but not in theatres.

 

[Squilookle]

This is the kind of teaser that makes me imagine the IP holders just patting themselves on the back while smoking cigars.

"See Larry? All you have to do is show 'em that car with the logo on it and they'll go nuts Larry. Now you'll make bank without even trying!"

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

Honestly, I don't think the best reaction to the last movies failure was "Let's drag the original cast out of their retirement homes". I think Ghostbusters just doesn't work as a movie franchise beyond the first one. Honestly, the reboot, shit as it was, at least had the hook of being about four women instead of four men so at least there was sort of a novelty to it. It's just that the script sucked massive quantities of cock and represented everything that's wrong with comedy now.

Honestly, just take the franchise and make it a tv dramedy. Have some member of the original cast teach a group of rookies, send them on some assignment each episode, come up with some fun ideas for ghosts, you have a great show on your hands. I think there was a cartoon like that at some point. It had a hot goth chick, which is a solid selling point as far as I am concerned.

 

[BrawlMan]

Honestly, I don't think the best reaction to the last movies failure was "Let's drag the original cast out of their retirement homes". I think Ghostbusters just doesn't work as a movie franchise beyond the first one. Honestly, the reboot, shit as it was, at least had the hook of being about four women instead of four men so at least there was sort of a novelty to it. It's just that the script sucked massive quantities of cock and represented everything that's wrong with comedy now.

Honestly, just take the franchise and make it a tv dramedy. Have some member of the original cast teach a group of rookies, send them on some assignment each episode, come up with some fun ideas for ghosts, you have a great show on your hands. I think there was a cartoon like that at some point. It had a hot goth chick, which is a solid selling point as far as I am concerned.

Extreme Ghostbusters is the name of the show you're thinking.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I got no interest but I'm genuinely curious

How does that work?

But, meh, I know you have to milk every franchise to death, but I started thinking Ghostbusters only had vague nostalgia value some time before the last movie came out. Minimal amount of care.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

Honestly, I don't think the best reaction to the last movies failure was "Let's drag the original cast out of their retirement homes". I think Ghostbusters just doesn't work as a movie franchise beyond the first one. Honestly, the reboot, shit as it was, at least had the hook of being about four women instead of four men so at least there was sort of a novelty to it. It's just that the script sucked massive quantities of cock and represented everything that's wrong with comedy now.

Honestly, just take the franchise and make it a tv dramedy. Have some member of the original cast teach a group of rookies, send them on some assignment each episode, come up with some fun ideas for ghosts, you have a great show on your hands. I think there was a cartoon like that at some point. It had a hot goth chick, which is a solid selling point as far as I am concerned.

Extreme Ghostbusters is the name of the show you're thinking.

Man, that show would have ticked so many fucking boxes out of what people expect from their movies AND been the legitimate way of continuing the franchise. Though obviously Ray and/or Winston with Janine would be teaching the new crew rather than Egon but other than that it had a perfect setup.

And like fucking champs, they missed it.

 

[Kyrian007]

One of the biggest problems in another potential Ghostbusters sequel... there was a lot of "lightning in a bottle" elements attributing to the success of the initial film. Circumstances that (because this isn't the mid 1980's) can't be replicated. Even things that went wrong with GB during its production wound up benefiting the product. I'd like to see it work out, we are talking about a very talented group of people involved. Given a good enough script I think something really fun could be put on the screen. But there really is no way they could go out there and make a movie that stands up to the original. Realistically the best they could shoot for is "better than GB 2." And if that's all you're aspiring to... maybe it isn't worth it.

 

[Xprimentyl]

But the surviving cast is just so OLD! Have you seen Bill Murray lately? He looks like death warmed over; leave them alone!! If this film truly is a direct sequel to GB 1 and 2, geriatric jokes will likely be two-thirds of the script and the other third a bunch of contrived fan service (a tasteless appearance of Spangler?s ?ghost? anyone?) I know it?s a tired complaint, but Hollywood really needs grow a pair, come up with some original shit and leave my childhood alone; the well of an industry about creativity and expression can?t really be this dry. A reboot and a 30 years late sequel, neither of which anyone asked for, within a few years of each other? Seriously, Hollywood?s starting to look like those actors in their 80s who?ve had so much work done they looks like plastic caricatures of themselves.

 

[Catfood220]

But the surviving cast is just so OLD! Have you seen Bill Murray lately? He looks like death warmed over; leave them alone!! If this film truly is a direct sequel to GB 1 and 2, geriatric jokes will likely be two-thirds of the script

And it will still be funnier than anything anyone in the last movie said

 

[Something Amyss]

Honestly, I don't think the best reaction to the last movies failure was "Let's drag the original cast out of their retirement homes". I think Ghostbusters just doesn't work as a movie franchise beyond the first one.

The IDW comics did a continuing story I think was ripe for movie potential and shows that it could be done. Not every arc is movie material, but there are plenty of ideas that could have been used for a movie.

At the same time the comics exist so I don't really need to see those on the big screen and it's not going to work with the original cast at this point (even if Ramis was alive).

I think there's plenty of potential for Ghostbusters as film or TV media. I just don't really think they shold bother with the original cast at this point. They don't want to do the 2016 version again, fine. but new actors in a reboot or new actors in a new franchise or something.

Because right now, we have one dead Ghostbuster, one who clearly doesn't give a crap, and one who is more interested in selling vodka in weird containers. Ernie Hudson might be the only one who gives enough of a crap to really make this work, and I'm not even sure about him. Yeah, everyone but Murray was onboard before, but would it have been a good movie even before Ramis died? Arguable.

I don't know. At this point, I think I'd rather see the 2016 line continue. Or no Ghostbusters at all. That might actually be a better idea. Or pull a Legends of To-Meow Meow and use puppets. But it's not so much that I think the franchise can't work. I think they often make dumb decisions with it. Starting with 2.

 

[Drathnoxis]

Well my local newspaper has a section for videos "trending on Youtube" so I suppose I could call them, but I'm not exactly sure what the point of that section is supposed to be in the first place...

 

[The Lunatic]

Well, it can't be any worse than the 2016 reboot, can it?

... It's not possible, right?

Please don't let it be possible.