This isn’t a sequel to the 1984 film. It’s a sequel to spinoff merchandising objects and the coddled memories of kids who were too young to understand that the “Keymaster” and “Gatekeeper” bit was a sex joke. It strip-mines a nostalgia for something that never existed, as calculatedly phony as the ersatz Americana setting, shot in Alberta, Canada. “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” treats with pseudo-religious reverence the events of a movie in which a ghost blew Dan Aykroyd in a firehouse.
Fuckin Brutal. Ban all fandoms why do they keep trying to make sequels and shit to a two hour SNL sketch that has never worked outside of that one movie
God’s Not Dead has a 75% audience score too, people gotta chill with Rotten Tomatoes and metacritic them shits is why mediocrity is the target at the cinema lately and not something to be avoided
Half of movie marketing today is pumping up people’s culture-war reactionary tendencies, in order to turn everything into “cult classic” material.
You don’t try to make a good movie. You just run a bunch of bots that tell people “If you don’t like this movie then you’re not my friend” and bully people into liking it.
The bit about there not being jokes in this movie is pretty much all I have to say. I think I might like the 2016 movie better than this one because it actually tries to be funny, even if it fails most of the time.
Also as an addendum- TV Tropes forum is absolutely fucking insane. I talked about this movie being shit over there and the guys over there got like actually physically offended lmao :tequila-sunset:
Well, that’s your fault, haha.
How is the forum? I like the site but i’m sure the forums must be full of idiots who believe recognizing tropes means they are critics.
It is the most liberal place I’ve ever seen… Fucking absurd like 2007 liberalism too which sux because I miss tradforums so much I put up with it usually
Check out the thread they got on the new Ghostbusters movie, I’m the dude with the Green Knight avatar getting yelled at by funko pop collectors for daring to ask if maybe this remake/sequel/franchise obsession we got now aint a sign of serious cultural decline
Look at my post history, my recent post about Tvtropes.
Haha, imagine saying that shows need to appeal to “both sides”. Bunch of dorks.
It’s amazing to see Lady Ghostbusters be a shameless nostalgic remake of Ghostbusters with Ladies that people hate. And then Kid Ghostbusters is a shameless nostalgic remake of Ghostbusters with Kids that people adore. It’s THE SAME FUCKING MOVIE.
I hate people.
Reminds me of when adult men got mad at The Last Jedi (which is by no means a masterpiece) for having too many women/daring to even question the status quo, and then Disney responded with the incoherent mess that was Rise of Skywalker, dropping any plot points that made the previous film interesting
In response to Female Ghostbusters, they made an inoffensive but completely worthless film
I just remember being the only person to walk out of “The Force Awakens” thinking “What the shit was this giant pile of nostolgic crap? The movie was absolutely terrible!” and getting heckled by my friends as a shameless purist.
Then “Last Jedi” comes out and I hear people bemoaning how everything was ruined. All I could think was “where were you for the last movie?”
I think people were so traumatized by the prequel trilogy that they were willing to be impressed by anything. Also, looking at the best selling films of 2015, the competition wasn’t very good either. The first one promised the return of good star wars films, by the second it became obvious that they didn’t have anything special
The prequel trilogy had a lot of problems, but the underlying story wasn’t one of them. Lucas had a certified winner second trilogy before he Disney-fied everything in post. Putting some distance between the hammy dialogue, and giving the fan community to bevel off the rough edges, really polished those turds into diamonds over time.
The sequel trilogy was comparatively better in all the ways that didn’t hold up. Better acting, better cinematography, more restraint in CGI, better pacing. But the story was one part naked rehash and one part confused retcon bullshit. The mythology of the series was mangled as the entire Extended Universe was discarded for… what? The need to make Even Bigger Death Star overshadowed the character stories that people were really excited to see. Interesting new characters were left on the cutting room floor while classics were dragged out of retirement to just kinda dangle.
And that was all in the first movie. The second actually did try to course correct. But it was playing tug-of-war with a toxic online community, delivering half a good movie and then setting up a disaster of a closer.
a movie in which a ghost blew Dan Aykroyd in a firehouse
skull vodka man didn’t get head from a ghost, he only had a dream of getting it. His work was taking all his time, he was sexually frustrated, he had a sex dream. It had ghosts because he works with ghosts, that’s it. He didn’t actually have sex with a ghost.
Also it wasn’t in a firehouse. He was sleeping in a firehouse, but in the dream he was in some kind of haunted mansion.
