Yes and it's great and I'm mad that we're not getting a second season.Have you seen Lockwood and Co on Netflix?
Yes and it's great and I'm mad that we're not getting a second season.Have you seen Lockwood and Co on Netflix?
Saw it last night. It… umm… wasn’t good.
I think for me it’s the move from dry humour to frantic madcap humour. And it’s not creepy at all. More zany action with witticisms. Though the action scenes didn’t feel well-directed to me and never quite landed as action scenes either.
The OG cast are really just extended cameos. Aykroyd is in it the most, just tends to pop up in scenes he wasn’t in and just talk like he was there all along. Murray has under 10 lines I’d guess.
Big bad ... immune to proton packs but vulnerable to fire and copper. Felt a little underwhelming. I didn’t really understand his plan or motivation or why he showed up at the firehouse at the end. Does he even know or care who the ghostbusters are.
I dunno. I think it’s like Alien, Terminator, etc. A non-repeatable magic which can’t be recaptured no matter how many movies you make.
Nice to see Ecto 1 in action again though. It’s as much a character as anyone else. Weirdly despite it being in New York, and NY being practically a character in the original films, the city didn’t feel like that this time. Did they film somewhere else?
The sexual thing was definitely there but not there....aka its in the eye of the beholder.My biggest issue was the entire Deus Ex Machina that the only way for the Big Bad to get loose is for the smartest character in the film to do the stupidest thing possible, and it almost seemed like they were also trying to make that a sexual attraction as well...
Hell yeah, you get it!Nah, it was good. Basically a long, live-action episode of the cartoon series — which is exactly what a Ghostbusters sequel ought to be.
The cartoon had some bangers episodes though!Depending on your age, I guess.
The cartoon was after my time, and the idea that the live action movies would follow along that path completely turns me off.
They should never had waited for Murray to do a third one... It'd be easy to write Venkman as being off somewhere.Murray has a real problem not phoning it in with things for which he has no enthusiasm. Previously, that meant he just turned down a lot of work. At some point, though, I think he decided that he likes easy paychecks. Between Space Jam 2, Zombieland 2, these past two Ghostbuster sequels, and letting a T-shirt/NFT store pretend he's their friend, he seems to be doing a lot of low-effort ways of cashing in* on the bizarre fascination** people have had with him for the past 10-20 years.
Yeah, Ray as the 'Lorekeeper', the guy who knows old books, works perfectly fine. He doesn't need to put on a proton pack or anything, just be an expert you can consult. They should have canned Podcast and just give him a live action Kylie Griffin as an employee. Everybody loves a goth girlAykroyd both makes the most sense as the one with real lines, and is surprising in that he hasn't done more in the last two movies. This is still some of his favorite things. I suspect either they don't think people tune in to see him, or he's disagreed with the direction they are taking things and thus he wasn't given as many lines as he'd like.
See, I don't understand why we haven't had a CSI-worth of those yet? Each new location could mean new myths and superstitions to tap in without feeling too stretched (how many cursed museum exhibit can NYC have?).If anything, the way to milk this franchise is with a TV series not starring anyone from the movies -- who are almost all too expensive for that -- and feature some losers setting up the worst Ghostbusters franchise in a place that doesn't seem like it can financially support them and running into problems from a community that already knows of the franchisees as idiots, conmen and losers.
Ghostbusters: Sheboygan or something.
They could have periodic guest star appearances from the movie folks in the form of videos sent out to all franchisees or maybe coming to inspect a failing franchise. But don't lean on them. Lean into the Wellington Paranormal/Los Espookys vibes.
"Mothman again. He's still trying to turn himself in."See, I don't understand why we haven't had a CSI-worth of those yet? Each new location could mean new myths and superstitions to tap in without feeling too stretched (how many cursed museum exhibit can NYC have?).
I don't doubt it. Just a totally different set of expectations, though. The idea that a cocaine-fueled, largely improvised film has a "mythos" that needs to be revered and expected is alien to the folks who were too old for the cartoons.The cartoon had some bangers episodes though!