The New Ghostbusters Will Reportedly Be Teens in Sequel (history, actresses, music)
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At least those movies tend to be low budget affairs that understand they are appealing to a niche audience. With Ghostbusters 2016 we were dealing with a big budget movie that would presumably be a blockbuster with a wide audience that they could preach to. Problem was they were too transparent and people saw the preaching coming from a mile away so many of them ignored the film.
If this new sequel has an agenda they are keeping it hidden well and hopefully it will be secondary to the storytelling.
I keep pointing to The Expanse as the way to do that kind of thing organically. Heck, The Expanse has even shown us a couple of group marriages...and they did it totally cool. No press releases or anything.
I saw this tonight. I enjoyed it. I thought the kids being the main characters was going to be cheesy, but it really wasn't. Only thing I didn't like was
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They rehashed too many things from the original movie. Dogs, keymaster/gatekeepers thing, confrontation with Gozer. I was ok with Gozer coming back, but wish it would have been a little more original.
At the same time, it felt the movie was an homage to the original ghostbusters, especially Harold.
I watched this last night, and I enjoyed it a lot. But I just have one thing that I'm a bit puzzled on:
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Just how does Callie (Egon's daughter) fit into the timeline? The first movie took place in 1984, the second one in 1989, and this one in 2021. Callie didn't seem to exist in the first two, so presumably she was born in 1990 at the earliest. This makes her 31 now....with her oldest child being 15. So either Callie was a young teen mom, or Egon did pretty much ignore her when she was a young child.
I watched this last night, and I enjoyed it a lot. But I just have one thing that I'm a bit puzzled on:
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Just how does Callie (Egon's daughter) fit into the timeline? The first movie took place in 1984, the second one in 1989, and this one in 2021. Callie didn't seem to exist in the first two, so presumably she was born in 1990 at the earliest. This makes her 31 now....with her oldest child being 15. So either Callie was a young teen mom, or Egon did pretty much ignore her when she was a young child.
Kinda have to ignore things like that. Also ignore that Ecto-1 has gas.
I thought the movie had fun moments, but it's not a comedy like the original, but more of a Gooneys-style kids adventure.
I liked it, the 14 year old in me loved it. I love that this one did not crap all over the original, the 2016 reboot was not as awful as people said it was but I felt like it was a kick in the nad's to the fans of the original, and the messed up part was that movie would have gotten much less hate if the main characters were playing the daughters and/or nieces of the original GhostBusters but nope they choose the route of elevating women by wiping the original cast out of existence.
Now afterlife is how you do a soft reboot which is always the best choice as it pays respect to what came before while introducing a modern cast(with a male AND female cast).
I watched this last night, and I enjoyed it a lot. But I just have one thing that I'm a bit puzzled on:
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Just how does Callie (Egon's daughter) fit into the timeline? The first movie took place in 1984, the second one in 1989, and this one in 2021. Callie didn't seem to exist in the first two, so presumably she was born in 1990 at the earliest. This makes her 31 now....with her oldest child being 15. So either Callie was a young teen mom, or Egon did pretty much ignore her when she was a young child.
Yeah, that's a head scratcher all right.
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