Ghostbusters: Afterlife
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Ivan Reitman was constantly on the set, i reckon he's steered his son in the right direction to do just that.
The 2016 movie was the most confused pile of **** i've ever seen. The first trailer makes direct reference to the events of the original movie then they try and say it has nothing to do with it. Add to the fact that you have a director who's only ever had real success in parody movies, and thinks men "aren't funny" and it was a recipe for disaster from the start. Every male character in the 2016 movie was either incredibly thick, a complete ass, or a combination of both.
They should have made it a parody movie and i doubt anyone would have batted an eyelid.
Didn't even find him funny to be honest, his character was so stupid it was just cringey. Only thing i found mildly amusing was the University dean finding different ways to flip them off before they got kicked out.
Just envisage a large turd in your mind anytime the 2016 movie is mentioned, it's the most fitting image of it.
Well it doesn't have an idiot in charge that has some weird distrust of men because he got bullied in school, all Feig (guess what his nickname was in school) seems to do is make parodies with women in place of the men for some reason.
None obviously as it was about 3 men starting a business.
Wonder who it is in the trailer that's using the pke meter, that was basically egons gadget, and its obviously not one of the kids using it. Wonder if its a flashback to when Egon was still alive and they have a cg version of him in a few scenes.
Doubt it, looking at the hands, looks like an older man.
Gozer was a good choice to bring back as it has had numerous incarnations in different worlds going by the storyline, also it was never destroyed, it's avatar was with Gozer's essence being thrown back through the gate and the door shut. Would make for a more interesting storyline if Gozer appears much earlier in this movie so the character can have some screen time and development, vs only appearing for a few moments in the original. It looks like thats whats going to happen going by the trailer as they seem to be exploring the temple when Gozer is making its return.
Thinking about it there's a lot of other things they could also address, did Gozer experience the passage of time or was it like an instant door opening after being pushed back into its own dimension? Will it recognise the original Ghostbusters? Will it get a destructor form? Stay Puft is hinted at with the possibility of the mini pufts combining but the trailer with the voice over with Jason Reitman seems to suggest otherwise. Is Gozer a Red Herring and will something more powerful emerge?
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Merely mulling over some possibilities.
The ecto siren is an odd one, if you watch gb2 at the start of the movie where the car drives along puffing out smoke it has a different sound, gb1 it's more electronic sounding, gb2 it's more horn like. Plus in the gb1 movie during the montage it also has a different faster sounding siren.
It's funny at just how little there is inside the proton pack but Bill Murray still complains about the weight, its mainly aluminium, fibreglass, a battery and a few lights. They were a lot heavier in the first 2 movies due to the batteries they used being massive and the packs had more metal components.
Interesting seeing inside the pack and the cyclotron light is now a light on a spinning mechanism instead of 4 seperate lights that go on and off in sequence.
The originals with battery were in the region of 50lbs (though Dan Aykroyd has claimed much heavier contrary to the prop makers), the newer ones are less than half that, 20-25lbs or thereabouts.
Is that one of the originals or one of the new ones they made for Afterlife? There are differences. The wand has a new handle, new wiring and there's a quick connect on the wand as well.
The afterlife ones were all scratch built, presumably the shotgun grip is only on the spengler "wand" as there was a toy version sold with the name spengler wand.
Nice to see they haven't deviated too much from the originals, well so far from what has been shown at least.
I have the parts to make a wand up, just never got round to it
No clue about electronics either so that's part of the problem.Seen a few of those, not bad looking but take an age to print.
Really wanted to get an aluminium wand and have it be an all in one with light and sound, very tight fit to say the least. Though there's a handful of people that make them out of aluminium and none are taking orders currently. =/