RichardLess wrote: ↑February 20th, 2021, 4:14 pm It interesting to me how many of you treat Ghostbusters & it’s plot points like it’s Star Wars or something. The obsessing over continuity & “will it acknowledge the video game, is it canon?”. Sometimes it seems like most of you view Ghostbusters as a serious sci fi concept vs the comedy film it really is. Which is fine. There’s no right or wrong way to look at this franchise. It’s just interesting to me & different than how I view the films. The actual Ghostbusting scenes are fun but they’ve always been the least interesting parts of the movie to me. I love the characters, their interactions. All that good stuff. The ghost busting is just gravy. The cherry on top.
The last thing I want from this movie is a CGI fest of ghost armies and action for the sake of action. I love how restrained Ghostbusters 2 is. There’s very little proton pack action. Less than the first film. Which makes the moments when the proton packs are used, feel special. The reboot climax was just a mess of CGI crap & non sense that might make sense for a Marvel movie. Yes the original film has a big awesome FX heavy Climax. But all of it is character based. Mr. Stay Puft is a character moment for Ray. It’s also a terrific sight gag. I’ll be really disappointed if GBA features like 8 characters with proton packs busting ghosts in the climax.
For me the order of importance in Ghostbusters goes like this; #1 Character, #2 Comedy, #3 Plot, #4 Action-Ghostbusting.
I’ve said this before but my favourite scenes in Ghostbusters 1 & 2 is just the guys hanging out & investigating stuff. Scenes like Rays Occult or the Slime test. Ray & Egon chilling at the fire house looking at pictures & thinking about what to order for dinner.
I'm with you 100% on this. I only ever wondered if the game would get a nod because it was Ramis' final Ghostbusters outing. Ghostbusters has to be a comedy above all else. Whenever I hear anyone talk about how it should go grimdark it's just so depressing. Ghostbusters works and it stands the test of time so well because it was made as an ensemble comedy by professionals of ensemble comedy, rather than as a sci-fi.
It's something I'd actually give Paul Feig credit for, myself. It would have been easy to go pure Marvel, but he went for contemporary improv leaning comedy. Happy to admit it's not to everyone's taste, but it
does fit the 2016 comedy milleu, as Ghostbusters fit with the loose Blues Brothers/Trading Places post SNL anarchic vibe and GB2 fit with the more bucolic Twins/Cool Runnings/Beethoven early 90s family comedy vibe. To lean on a cliché, they are all of their time.
It'll actually be weird to have a sequel that is completely thematically consistent with any of the earlier ones!