Turning it into a kids/Stranger Things like stuff seems like the wrong direction. It won't be on a similar tone to the originals. Sure it won't have the "woke" thing but it looks to be a very watered down take.
shareA large reason for it starring kids and taking place in a small town was due to it being in development hell for so long.
Problem now is Ramis is no longer around, the other guys are too old and has been thirty years since Ghostbusters 2, a big budget edition to the franchise needed to be a complete new take for a new generation.
Seeing old geezers come back as starring roles is better i guess.
shareAs long as those “Old Geezers” are Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson, then yes, I’m fine with it. That’s what most people wanted to see in the first place anyway.
Just curious, are you one of those “it sucks because it’s old” type of people who won’t bother with any movies that were made before they were born?
I can’t remember another generation more up it’s own egotistical ass than the current millennials, that 90% of them always says things along the line of “if it was before I was born, then it didn’t matter.” What a bunch of tools.
And before anyone uses the played out and moronic line “ok boomer”, which is so unbelievably stupid and shows you have no real comeback for the discussion, I’m 36. Not a “boomer”.
No i am a big fan of Ghostbusters 1 and 2. I think those classics are better left untouched unless they are Bluray HD 8K'd.
Bill, Dan, Ernie and the other one (did he RIP) won't be able to relive their glory days shenanigans me thinks. Did you see sequels of movies such as trainspotting? T2 Trainspotting? They suck usually.
The other one is Harold Ramis, and yes, he passed away in 2014. He played Egon, and was also the director of classic films such as Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s Vacation, and Groundhog Day.
I completely agree and also think the classics are better left alone, but these people in Hollywood have no originality left, and nothing is sacred with them, and they will milk every last dime out of every beloved movie franchise known to man for the rest of time until they completely destroy them...there’s nothing anyone can do about it, unless people stop supporting them with their wallets.
So basically we can have one more film with the remaining original cast that we loved from the first two movies, or we can have a random group of nobodies crap all over everything. If I have to have another Ghostbusters movie, I’ll take one with the original characters in some form or fashion.
In my opinion, one of the worst days in film history will be the day they decide to remake Jaws or The Godfather. I don’t even want to think about that. Another really rough day was when they decided to remake Ghostbusters. People will never learn how to leave well enough alone as long as there is money to be made unfortunately.
I wasn’t that crazy about the original Trainspotting, so I didn’t see the sequel. I can tolerate crappy sequels WAY more than crappy remakes (or remakes in general) though. There are very few remakes I will even give the time of day to, and even less that I actually like.
'So basically we can have one more film with the remaining original cast that we loved from the first two movies, or we can have a random group of nobodies crap all over everything. If I have to have another Ghostbusters movie, I’ll take one with the original characters in some form or fashion.'
Now that i think about it, i would prefer that too.
'In my opinion, one of the worst days in film history will be the day they decide to remake Jaws or The Godfather. I don’t even want to think about that. Another really rough day was when they decided to remake Ghostbusters. People will never learn how to leave well enough alone as long as there is money to be made unfortunately. '
They have already done Scarface? I heard rumors.
Imagine Apocalypse Now redone. That would be the end of the industry.
Ironically Scarface with Al Pacino was actually a remake from a film in the 1930’s. It was one of the few that turned out well in my opinion, mainly because they took it a completely different direction than the original, making Pacino’s character a Cuban defector instead of a 30’s American gangster.
Yeah, so many classics need protected from the morons in Hollywood. I wish I was rich so I could buy the rights to so many movies that I don’t want to be remade, haha. Apocalypse Now being remade would be disgusting! Hopefully it never happens. I think Robert Zemeckis said Back to the Future would never be remade as long as he can help it, so that’s one classic that’s safe for now. Lol.
I think classic horror movies are the most susceptible to the remake wave. Thankfully even those have slowed down a little bit.
YOU FILM BUFFS ARE AWARE THAT REMAKES/SEQUELS WETHER GOOD OR BAD DONT DESTROY ANYTHING PLUS BRING MORE ATTENTION TO THE ORIGINAL.
shareSut you sound like one of those "it sucks because it’s new" types, stuck in the past.
shareVery clever...I see what you did there. You switched the sentence around and turned “old” to “new”. 🙄
Well, I just watched Extraction and loved it, and that was released about a week or so ago...so I don’t really think your argument holds much weight. The Irishman was an incredible film, but it was made in 1970...oh wait, that was released last November, so that won’t work either. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, hmmm...also last year.
I love films from all eras. I don’t just shit on them because they were made before I was born like so many morons today who think if anything happened in the world before they were alive it didn’t matter.
Neither do I but having a go at a whole generation was a bit wild. Fair do’s.
shareTo be fair, I am 34 years old and a lot of people my age and younger that I know refuse to watch any movie or TV show if it is in black and white so he does have a fair point. I mean, let's face it. Practically everyone my age had a color TV growing up so there are those who can't stand it if it's not in color. I myself grew up enjoying some of the old black and white Universal Studios Monsters movies. Mainly Frankenstein, Ghost of Franknestein, and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Didn't see some of the others in that series til I was an adult.
shareI’m just a year older and some of my friends won’t watch a movie if it has subtitles so i see what ya mean.
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