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Post by Bub (BLM) on Dec 9, 2019 13:08:20 GMT -5
I'm sold. I live and die by Ghostbusters. It's my favorite comedy of all time. This is a love letter to the past while also creating a new beginning. Exactly like Jumanji.
Also, I love the tone. The original film was played like a horror movie with deadpan humor, so this is perfect. I can't wait to see more.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Dec 9, 2019 13:20:41 GMT -5
I'm ambivalent about another one either way, but going by that trailer that's clearly what they should have done with the property in the first place. Weird that they wasted millions of dollars on that other one
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Dec 9, 2019 13:22:44 GMT -5
I am absolutely here for this one.
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Post by edgestar on Dec 9, 2019 13:26:57 GMT -5
Looks interesting. I can't say anything about the female version, since I haven't seen it. I'm looking forward to seeing this one!!
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Dec 9, 2019 14:13:01 GMT -5
Felt like Super 8 had a baby with Stranger Things.
Kinda cool, doesn't feel like Ghostbusters though.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Dec 9, 2019 14:36:38 GMT -5
Random theory: To make the timeline work, Egon Spengler had a child(ren) in the '70s and abandoned that family well before the events of Ghostbusters [1984] due to his obsession with the paranormal.
Can't tell if the Spengler seed is the single mom here, or the unseen (missing/deceased?) dad. But I assume the kids have the same parents as casting did a great job in making the actors look like actual siblings.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 9, 2019 14:41:36 GMT -5
My enthusiasm has waned slightly. Not really digging that trailer but others will follow and maybe set the tone a little more.
Looks a little like it’s gonna be “Remember the 1st film?!” a lot while trying to establish new characters.
I really, really, hope it doesn’t turn out every kid somehow finds out they’re related to the OG Ghostbusters and they somehow never knew that connection.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Dec 9, 2019 14:41:57 GMT -5
I'm not entirely sold on this yet.
Granted, it took me a bit to be sold on the Ducktales reboot, so give me time.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 9, 2019 14:57:24 GMT -5
Random theory: To make the timeline work, Egon Spengler had a child(ren) in the '70s and abandoned that family well before the events of Ghostbusters [1984] due to his obsession with the paranormal. Can't tell if the Spengler seed is the single mom here, or the unseen (missing/deceased?) dad. But I assume the kids have the same parents as casting did a great job in making the actors look like actual siblings. It's possible Egon fathered a child in the five years between the first and second movie. It's not like the personal lives of anybody besides Peter are delved into in the sequel. Beats Egon being a deadbeat dad, for sure.
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Post by lucas_lee on Dec 9, 2019 15:04:59 GMT -5
Random theory: To make the timeline work, Egon Spengler had a child(ren) in the '70s and abandoned that family well before the events of Ghostbusters [1984] due to his obsession with the paranormal. Can't tell if the Spengler seed is the single mom here, or the unseen (missing/deceased?) dad. But I assume the kids have the same parents as casting did a great job in making the actors look like actual siblings. I think its the mom she looks like the child of Janine and Egon
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Dec 9, 2019 15:21:43 GMT -5
looks gorgeous ever since the teaser and this trailer just emphasises that i also initially dismissed the all female version, but that ended with me and my jaw dropping ..... if this smacks you emotionally then we're all in trouble
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Dec 9, 2019 15:31:06 GMT -5
Random theory: To make the timeline work, Egon Spengler had a child(ren) in the '70s and abandoned that family well before the events of Ghostbusters [1984] due to his obsession with the paranormal. Can't tell if the Spengler seed is the single mom here, or the unseen (missing/deceased?) dad. But I assume the kids have the same parents as casting did a great job in making the actors look like actual siblings. It's possible Egon fathered a child in the five years between the first and second movie. It's not like the personal lives of anybody besides Peter are delved into in the sequel. Beats Egon being a deadbeat dad, for sure. Or the mom with newborn ran from Egon before he told her about the Twinkie.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 9, 2019 15:32:59 GMT -5
It's possible Egon fathered a child in the five years between the first and second movie. It's not like the personal lives of anybody besides Peter are delved into in the sequel. Beats Egon being a deadbeat dad, for sure. Or the mom with newborn ran from Egon before he told her about the Twinkie. To be fair, it was a big Twinkie.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 9, 2019 16:09:49 GMT -5
Or the mom with newborn ran from Egon before he told her about the Twinkie. To be fair, it was a big Twinkie. Egon's Twinkie is thirty-five feet long and weighing approximately six hundred pounds. If he got her pregnant she's lucky to still be alive and in one piece, let alone be able to run away.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 9, 2019 16:22:34 GMT -5
To be fair, it was a big Twinkie. Egon's Twinkie is thirty-five feet long and weighing approximately six hundred pounds. If he got her pregnant she's lucky to still be alive and in one piece, let alone be able to run away. Which raises a concern I had with the trailer. Ghostbusters is a comedy franchise, and your post was funnier than anything shown in the trailer. Did Jason Reitman decide that the 2016 movie went too overboard with the comedy and overdo the course correction? Despite the presence of Paul Rudd I'm struggling to see where the comedy is going to come from in this.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 9, 2019 16:59:01 GMT -5
Nothing about the trailer really interested me. Looks like Stranger Things which also never looked appealing enough to try.
But hey, they are trying something new. With the Ghostbusters remake they just tried to do the same kind of thing with new people and it didn't work. Trying to do a whole new kind of movie invites less comparisons to the first.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 9, 2019 17:13:05 GMT -5
Huh, might be still too early to have a opinion..
But the trailer while looking cool I was expecting to end like this:
“Slimer, we’re home”
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Post by EyeofTyr on Dec 9, 2019 20:16:37 GMT -5
I'm down.
I'm reminded of how Ghostbusters 1 does act and treat itself like a serious horror movie. The comedy comes from the guys (mostly) and some humorous happenstance (like a certain marshmallow man), but if you look at the universe itself it treats itself very seriously and in tone is very much something more akin to a horror movie than the previous attempt to reboot this franchise (or most modern comedies).
So I think they made a choice that feels closer to GB1, which I've always been more of a fan of (even if I do have a soft spot for GB2).
Besides, it's got Paul Rudd in it and this is made by the guy that made Thank You For Smoking and Juno. You know there's going to be at least some comedy in this thing.
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Post by eJm on Dec 9, 2019 20:26:18 GMT -5
I also find the Stranger Things comparison weird because that’s only a bit of what Stranger Things is, really. It’s sort of like me saying it’s a “Buttercream Gang” remake with how much they have in common besides “Kids ride bikes in a small town and stuff happens”.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Dec 9, 2019 20:34:22 GMT -5
If they wanted to go full 'Stranger Things', they'd have Bobby Brown back to do the movie's theme song.
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