#ghosbusters afterlife

[g3othermal3scapism]

Busting makes them feel sillyyy:33

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[sinclairstarz]

hold on maybe i DO find finn wolfhard attractive

[the-eyemunchies]

Sooo anyone wanna do a ghostbusters OC RP on discord?

I plan on doing a ghostbusters OC rp on discord, the server qill be english speaker i will make a small character sheet to fill up and be approved, if the poll do well i will make another post on the server link and rules.

[grimlocksword]

Ghostbusters 2016 is Now DOUBLE DEAD.

[missanthropicprinciple]

Coda: Chapter 2 Tête-à-tête  by cephalopod_groupie - A Ghostbusters: Afterlife fanfic

[samsdei]

Finn Wolfhard

[groundcontroltoj-rios]

Ghostbusters - Afterlife  illustration !

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Halloween 2022 - Day 8 - Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

And you could have it all, my empire of dirt...

As much as that 2016 reboot drew a lot of ire, there’s been a bit of a Ghosbusters resurgence in the last few years and it looks set to continue too. You had the re-mastering of the video game from 2009, this movie of course and there’s doing another game soon. Though, that’s one of those asymmetrical multiplayer games, think Left 4 Dead, Friday the 13th or Dead By Daylight, so it’s not one I’m overly looking forward to. Afterlife is something I didn’t get around to seeing when it came out last year so what better time to right that wrong?

It feels a little weird to me that we spend the opening 5 minutes of the movie watching Egon Spengler’s grisly demise. The movie does go the route that I and I think most everyone else would expect from a modern day sequel, that of a younger generation taking the mantle and almost having the whole thing bequeathed to them, but I just expected it to be a quiet off screen death. I suppose it does add a lot more drama to everything. I guess I had envisioned the family trying to sort through his belongings after receiving the news and maybe inadvertently finding this almost secret identity after everything had been swept under the rug or discredited. It does kinda play out that way but it’s painted more that the world just kinda moved on and forgot about the whole thing because the ghosts just pretty much went away. And Egon kinda discredited himself by going off the grid and sounded like a nutjob talking about the end of the world. Only, no one was ready to believe him so they just left him to it.

The movie kinda slowly pulls the curtain back about his identity but thankfully it’s not treated as some ‘aha!’ moment because it’s obvious from the outset who it is, even though they don’t have close-ups of the character you can get the idea from the Ghosbusters parphenalia, the big hair, the glasses etc. It would have been pretty insulting if they’d been like “It was Egon all along, gotcha!”

Plus the whole family resemblance thing is strong with young Phoebe Not just with the nerdy motiff and love of science but Mckenna Grace does an amazing job of nailing that very dry sense of humour mixed with a little youthful enthusiasm. She does tend to drive the humour a bit more where Egon was more a straightman, though, it’s more necessary for her since she is such a big focus of the movie where obviously Egon was in more of an ensemble and had others to share the workload with, especially Bill Murray.

She does have help though in her side kick of sorts, Podcast, named purely because he has a podcast. They have a fun dynamic, she’s the nerdy, reserved type where he’s more outgoing and ends up insisting his friendship upon her and she just sort of tags along. But their adventures lead them down the rabbit hole of discovering Grandad’s old gear including an old ghost trap that they let loose which isn’t the best of ideas.

It does certainly ramp up the weird goings on in town, like their summer school teacher taking a trip to the local Walmart only to find it swarming with Baby Stay Pufts.

For a split second, my eyes were rolling at this reveal because it seemed like such cynical merchandise bait, especially in the wake of things like Baby Groot and Baby Yoda. But they won me back round with the absolutely horrific scenes of these little guys just straight up murdering each other. Only, they seem to get some sadistic thrill out of it because even though they might be getting impaled with a skewer and set on fire over a grill, they still have these big smiles on their faces. Like Billy Gun on No Mercy on N64, you could put that guy in the Camel Clutch, break his back and make him humble and he’d still have a big, stupid grin on his face.

Oh, there is the small matter of one of the Vinz Clortho also being on the scene. Hey, at least you’re in the right place to defend yourself, just go grab one of the guns off the shelf and have at it.

Gosh, I really loved this one. In terms of what it’s setting out to do, I think they did a perfect job with it. If you’re trying to re-introduce this franchise to a new generation then it makes perfect sense to do it with this young adult skew to it. This is pretty much entirely Phoebe’s movie who seems to be early teens , older brother Trevor is around too but his love interest story is almost a little distracting at times. Like, you’re starting to get into this developing Ghostbusters comeback and then you’ll just get 5 minutes of Trevor’s attempts to try and woo one of the local girls. But it does start to tie in with some of the bigger plot points eventually.

Kids tend to like having that on screen analogue they can pictures themselves as so it makes sense to me to have these young characters they can get behind, but you’re also not leaving the grown ups shortchanged because there’s copius fan service throughout that they can appreciate. Right down to that weird helmet that they had Louis Tully wear whilst he was possessed or Egon’s collection of moulds, spores and fungi.

And of course, SPOILER ALERT, the remaining Ghostbusters makes their triumphant return to help save the day and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t marking out at that. Again, you could see it coming a mile off but it doesn’t make it any less awesome. Even if the whole Egon’s ghost joining in at the end came across a little weird again, granted they did have his Daughter involved with the production who gave her blessing but just seeing the CGI version of him irks me a little. Maybe down to the fact that they had all that time that they could have done that third movie but they never did. Then suddenly Harold Ramis pops his clogs and it’s all hands on deck. But, maybe that was the issue, maybe they thought they had all the time in the world to do it and it took his passing for everyone to realise that they really needed to sit down and sort this thing out once and for all.

In universe, did the original team need this moment? Probably not. There wasn’t really any threads left undone after the first two movies and, whilst it would have been nice to have more movies with these fun characters and creative settings, it’s not as if there were crucial story moments that needed closure.

But maybe the franchise did, the whole story about the third movie is a long and complicated one that people have discussed in great detail, such as James Rolfe from around the time the reboot was coming out and people were trying to paint him as another gate keeping, woman hating MRA type. Sure some of the planned story elements made their way into the 2009 game and that is seen as something of an unofficial third movie due to that and the involvement of the main cast, but after all this time it feels right to finally have this moment where they once again don their proton packs in order to vanquish evil.

And hey, now that you’ve got the nostalgia fest out of the way, you can move on with telling your own unique stories with these new characters or some other new team members with the original team chipping in from time to time as mentors.

So, yeah, maybe this is a lot of fan service and it does hit a lot of the same beats as the original, but I think it does enough to remix that into its own thing so it’s not just a carbon copy like a Hocus Pocus 2. The wider family drama angle feels like it gives the nostalgia some context so it comes across less like someone jangiling keys in your face saying ‘hey, remember this thing you liked?!’. Reviews seem to be fairly positive and there is a remake slated for next year which they bait for in the post credits with Winston re-opening the firehouse so I’ll be curious to see if they start to try and do their own thing now they’ve got this love letter out of their systems. But it’s a love letter I can get behind and it’s one I really loved. Great action, great comedy, great visual effects and I even got a little sentimental at the ending. What can I say? I don’t know what you’d call the trope but I’m a stickler for the old ‘friend swoops in at the last second to save the day’ thing.

[g3othermal3scapism]

My first movie reviewing type post because i have so many opinions on movies and i can ignore speaking on them no longer.

GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE

review under the cut

Okay, so this might not be the neatest post in the world. Whatever im yapping here. Figure it out yourself.

Let me start off by saying Ghostbusters is one of my favorite franchises in the whole world, if not my favorite. I love all of the movies, yes even the third one everyone hates, which I have a million other points to make on, but that’s another post. I personally adored Afterlife, I thought it was a great continuation that didn’t rely too heavily on nostalgia but was very much a respectful sort of love-letter to the originals, as well as a good beginning to a new era. Other than it lacking in the comedy department a little, (especially for a comedy movie fanchise) I thought it did most everything right, or at least well. I was in love with Pheobe and Podcast as well as Gary, and the story with Egon was a really lovely homage to the old ghostbusters and of course, the late great Harold Ramis. I was beyond excited for Frozen Empire. So don’t think this is coming from a place of bias, because I really hate to say it but I didn’t like Frozen Empire much at all. I’m going to try to break down my reasoning as organized as possible.

- It was not funny. I touched on this earlier, but one of the biggest issue with this new era is that they are severely lacking in the comedy department. Ghostbusters has always been a comedy movie, more than a horror and much more than a drama. These movies are trying too hard to be a serious action movie, and Frozen Empire was not really funny at all. It had that whole intro with the firefighters in 1904 that had not one comedic moment, and the rest of the offhanded jokes they tried to make felt forced and more akin to the writing of an old disney channel sitcom. This is especially troubling because they hired amazing comedians like Patton Oswald, Kumail Nanjiani, and James Acaster, as well as the old amazing Paul Rudd, Bill Murray, and honestly all of the og ghostbusters, yet all of them barely had a funny line through the whole thing. Really baffling and the attempts at seriousness and angst really did a disservice to the enjoyability of the movie IMO.

- It was insanely rushed and there was too much going on. This is probably the main, over-arcing problem that really ruined the movie. There’s so much build up to a main conflict that lasts five minutes and solved immediately. I was baffled, convinced it was a joke and there was still half a movie we had yet to see. They tried to hard to make so many (already not well writtwn) plots fit without having a good way to conclude them. This, as well as the story being far too overbloated with characters. They tried so hard to keep the original Ghostbusters and make like 47 main characters work, that our real main characters were shoved to the side. Pheobe was barely in it, and when she was, we never really got to see her being Pheobe. Callie should’ve been a much smaller character, and while in my heart Pheobe, Podcast, Lucky, and Trevor should have been the new Ghostbusters, I think this movie should have focused more on Pheobe, Gary, and Ray. I have a vague plot in my head but that’s not the point. The movie was just trying to do too much and managed to do absolutely nothing.

- Callie. This might be a hot take, but I don’t care about Callie at all. She should not have been a Ghostbuster in this movie. It doesn’t make any sense. In Afterlife, Callie showed no signs of being interested in ghostbusting or that world at all, she just loved her dad. She’s not a scientist whatsoever. Pheobe was right, she absolutely should have just been the receptionist. On top of it not making sense, Callie just isn’t interesting enough to be a main Ghostbuster. She’s already not a scientist, but she offers no special skills or anything unique to herself, she doesn’t have an interesting personality and her arc is so boring. She was not needed in this movie. Again, Trevor, Pheobe, Lucky, and Podcast should be the main Ghostbusters. I don’t give a fuck about this family business thing and it was a bad choice IMO. In all honesty Trevor doesn’t need to be super major either.

- Jumping off of that…. Trevor. Oh my god. They murdered him in this movie. Trevor was never my favorite, but I liked his character a lot in Afterlife. I thought he could have been more interesting, but compared to Empire Trevor, in Afterlife he’s like Tarantino-level entertaining. Trevor sucked in this movie. The words “I’m 18 now” should have never left his mouth. It’s such a tired, overdone bit, and they didn’t put any spin on it at all. And it was literally. His entire personality. It was so obnoxious. Give him something, especially since Finn Wolfhard is a funny actor. The idea of him having a running gag with Slimer wasn’t bad, and payoff was one of the funniest moments in the whole movie. (A three second scene of Finn Wolfhard seeing Slimer and going “Hey! I know him!” being the funniest bit in a Ghostbusters movie. Yikes.) Jesus fuck was he annoying in this movie, and him and Pheobe barely had any scenes together.

- Okay. Melody. Big fucking yikes. Pheobe being fruity? We been knew but I adored it. Exploring the ideas of inter-dimensional plane romance and relationships? Super interesting and a fun risk to take. Execution? Oh. my god. I loved Melody when we first met her at the park, I was super excited, but she just became.. nothing. We barely learned anything about her past or her life or her at all, and they totally missed the chance to make her from an old era, make her wear funny clothes and talk funny, and be an interesting character. She was just kind of this mysterious dead girl. Not learning about her past at all in turn made it hard to care about her story, if we don’t know her family or her life, why should we care that she wants to get back to them? Why is it justified that she would betray Pheobe to get to heaven or whatever? It doesn’t make sense. We see her at the diner, and the diner is called Melody and it’s never brought up again? If she were like a ‘50s themed ghost this would have been a fun little piece, but in the movie it doesn’t make sense, because we already know her place of death was her house that she burnt down. What does the diner have to do with anything? And the scene where she just stands in the road and has the goofiest corniest conversation with idk the voices in her head or whatever. God, pack it the fuck up. Then at the end, it’s so obvious she’s going to come back to save them, so the scene really holds no impact, even though it doesn’t make any sense for her to come back. She made her choice, she betrayed Pheobe to see her family (for whatever fucking reason), and she went through the barrier. We never see that the barrier didn’t work, or that something changed and made her change her decision. If her family is so fucking important, why on earth would she just go back to save people she hardly, or didn’t know? It doesn’t make any sense. Plus, if they wanted to give Pheobe a ghost girl romance (which I’m a fan of) they should have given her and Melody any semblance of chemistry. The actors didn’t have any chemistry and their dialogue was just sort of lame. Seeing Pheobe discover crushes and see how she would behave under those circumstances could have been very interesting, but it was just overall boring. Melody did not matter and nothing she ever did made sense. She wasn’t a character, she was a plot device to move the story along.

- This brings me to my next point.. none of the writing really made all that much sense? I mean they put all this work into the lore of the monster, even though really Ghostbusters shouldn’t be about lore, it should be about cool ghost designs and funny likeable characters, and then none of the lore mattered. I mean I barely remember anything about the big villain because it was all intensely boring and I just did not gaf at all. On top of this, the way the characters behave.. makes no sense. Pheobe’s family was so insensitive to her after she had to stop doing the thing she loved, despite it quite literally being her thing. In my opinion, if Pheobe wasn’t a ghostbuster, the whole thing would shut down. Trevor and Callie would be clueless, even with a little help with Gary, it just wouldn’t work. On top of this, when Pheobe destroyed the lion, and all the ghostbusters were mad at her??? What on earth was that about. The lion was quite literally going to kill Ray, and they’re ghostbusters. It is quite literally in the job description that you’re gonna destroy some shit and cause some problems. She had to, and Winston was all up her ass about it? It just didn’t make sense. He would’ve been on her side completely, and really all of the ghotsbusters involved shouldve been fighting for Pheobe. They’re supposed to be a team?? And I mean after everyone spend the movie getting mad at Pheobe literally anytime she breathed, the only time she actually messed up, almost killing herself and causing the end of the world for a cute girl, everyone’s all “Oh we’re just glad you’re okay!! everybody makes mistakes!!!” It’s so clownish actually. There are a million other things that just don’t make sense, but I’d have to rewatch it to make any real coherent analysis of them.

- The villain was so fucking goofy?? It was just this big cartoonish stereotype villain that wasn’t ironic at all. It was so unserious and not scary at all. That design sucked shit and there was nothing interesting about him. What’s the point of Ghostbusters if the big villain doesn’t talk and doesn’t have any funny scenes? Plus, like, oh wow big evil world ending dead god. I’ve never seen anything like this before. My mind is blown, Ghostbusters, you’ve done it again. (sarcasm 😊)

- Podcast and Pheobe were barely in the movie. They carried the last movie and they’re my favorite, so this is slightly biased, but them not being in it at all was insane. Especially, since, you know, pheobe is the main character. Even on the poster, it’s way too filled with characters, and Pheobe is no where near the focal point of the poster. It’s fucking Paul Rudd for some reason. Besides this, Podcast was no where near as funny as he should’ve been. Both Pheobe and Podcast lost that young awkward charm that made them so loveable, and you cannot convince me Podcast stopped being so dorky so easily. I also believe he would be super interesting in working in Ray’s shop, but I don’t believe he would let everyone be ghostbusting without him?? Pheobe ghostbusting without podcast? Absolutely not on his watch. Their characters were a little butchered.

- Ah. The ending. This fuckass ending. You saw it from a million miles away and so did I, and so did everyone fucking else. It was the most expected ending I’ve ever seen. No twists, nothing goes wrong, and when it does, it does not matter. None of it matters. Oh they all get suited up and team up? Doesn’t matter. you’re all frozen and will do nothing for the ending. Oh no, they all got frozen and can’t stop the bad guy? Doesn’t matter. Unrelated side character comes out of nowhere and saves the day in five seconds with no problem. No one lift a finger. Not even to mention how ridiculous the ice spikes were. They did all this set up with Kumail Nanjiani, jist for the payoff to be that. None of the conflicts they ran into in the movie had really any impact on the story later. They were just things that happened.

Overall, I thought the movie was a mess that was trying too hard at everything and succeeding very little. Now I’ll talk about some things I did like! Keeping the old ghostbusters, especially Ray, I thought was a good choice. The idea of Winston being the rich one who’s really running ghostbusters behind the scenes is perfect, especially considering Ernie Husdson really being the one to keep Ghostbusters alive, and having ghostbusters tech where he works with ghosts and makes containment units and new traps and what not was great. Pheobe and Gary trying go navigate their new relationship was an interesting and heartwarming idea, even if I thought it wasn’t executed amazingly. Pheobe tinkering with her proton pack and coating it with copper to blast the monster was a really fun, great idea. I love when they do little things like that, putting little spins on things, and I wish we could’ve seen more of that. Venkman had some of the best scenes in the movie. Him throwing the pens at Kumail Nanjiana was a very fun scene, and did keep the spirit of Peter Venkman very much. More than that, the scene where he shows up at the firehouse and immediately goes to wear he has a hidden thing of Whisky was gold. A perfect Venkman scene, a perfect “i lived here for years” moment, and very funny.

This is my analysis of ghostbusters frozen empire 😊😊🙏💖 sorry ghostbusters fandom i am one of you i love you please dont cancel me or whatever

[xatanas]

Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021)

2021-11-23 // ★★★★★★ 

Back in 2016 when the Ghostbusters reboot was announced I didn’t care a whole lot about it. I mean I love the original movie but one movie is not enough for making me a diehard fan of a property.

I saw the 2016 version at my local theater and left with a “meh” feeling it wasn’t a horrible movie, but it was profoundly mediocre and relied a little too heavily on slapstick for its comedy for my taste.

It felt uninspired, like a mess cobbled from a lot of improv (which later interviews with the director confirmed my impression). Most of all it felt that there was something missing, I FELT that there was something missing, which I found weird because like I said I didn’t consider myself a Ghostbusters fan.

Then that movie started the trend of attempting to shame people into consuming corporate products. If you didn’t like Ghosbusters 2016 it wasn’t because you felt the comedy felt flat or the effects were subpar or the acting a tad exaggerated, ect. No according to Sony it was because you were a misogynist, a racist, or worst something that rhymes with “taxi”.

W.T.F. Corporations started to pull a page out of the Religion’s handbook, it was or rather it’s still insane. This tactic doesn’t seem to be effective for religion anymore, why would they think it would be effective for bland corporate products.

All of that brings me to this movie, which seems to have be green-lit as a direct response of that whole controversy. Ghostbusters Afterlife is by no means a perfect movie, but what it is though is a perfect nostalgia hit. A hit large enough to make me recall something I’d long forgotten.

I *was a Ghostbusters fan*, but not because of the movies, but because of the TV series. A full decade of episodes.

This movie is not a continuation of that, in fact it ignores the show altogether; but while watching it, I FELT like I was watching the cartoon again, it felt like fun.

As a film I would have a ton of criticism toward it, but as an experience it is nearly perfect. It reminds me of how the last Evangelion movie was able to satisfy me against all odds.

Imagine that, give fans what they crave and they’ll respond positively.

[betelgeusessonajblog]

BRAND NEW GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE TRAILER 

[not-mary-sue]

"Potential frost bite" Egon was definitely the panicky kind of parent, consistently very concerned, and I'm very much here for it.

@MI_Ghostbusters originally posed this screenshot from Egon's board this morning on Twitter and I can not get over it...

"Image has strong impact on my pulse" 😭😭

[missanthropicprinciple]

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT GHOSTBUSTERS. I don’t mind questions about the cartoons, although I only really watched Extreme Ghostbusters. I will still continue to tag “Ghostbusters Afterlife Spoilers”.

[0ut-of-my-head]

#relatable

[pepaldi]

Ivan Reitman (October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022)

RIP Ivan. Thank you for suiting up. Harold, no doubt, loved that.

Continue the magic now with your “smarter brother.”