I've read your posts One Time and I share your thoughts and feelings. I love Ghostbusters. I want it to exist and be popular again like it was in the mid 1980s. But Frozen Empire just left so much to be desired. I think I fell in love with its potential when I watched it the first time, rather than seeing it for what it actually is. I originally said it was a 75/100, but I think it really is more a 65/100. There's just so much that doesn't add up, and easy tweaks that I can think of that would improve it. I also went to see it three times to help boost the numbers because I want another film. Or at least I thought I wanted another one. But having thought on it some more, I think an animated series is really where it needs to go next. I'd set it in the future, with Phoebe being in her late 30s leading a new team of Ghostbusters. Maybe Trevor is a part of that team. Maybe not. Then maybe you could make another film, set in the future with these stablished characters from the animated series.And just to expand on part of that...I love the classic gear and car, but it's time for a refresh.Agree 100%. We simply won’t be getting iterations of the original movies back and need to accept it. We have GB1, GB2 and AF that are the real OG trilogy in my opinion (or Gb1, Gb2, Gbtvg if you are that way inclined).
What made the first Ghostbusters so successful was grounding the film firmly in reality and contrasting that with the heightened absurdity of the supernatural. It's just not believable to see tech as old as rotary dial phones still in use in era with smartphones. Ghostbusters would constantly be upgrading their gear in real life. They'd be using readily available off-the-shelf parts or recent surplus to build and maintain gear, not hard-to-find components from the 20th century.
Men in Black had the good sense to show the technological progression of the neuralizer as a room-sized device in their time traveling MIB 3. Packs in this era should accordingly be smaller... or do a lot more with the same amount of space. The meters should be more than flashing lights. The car shouldn't be a literal antique.
I get that a lot of us here cherish the original tech—in large part because we spent so much time when we were younger studying it and trying to replicate it as props. But we risk the franchise losing relevancy if we're stuck in dogma about details like Clippard valves and banjo fittings.
Tech is integral to Ghostbusters stories. It's time to update. Ghost Corps either already has or should be able to find some designers that really understand what worked with the original aesthetics. Bring it all up to current day.
The proton pack interior in AF was absolute genius in my view it fit the ‘84 design perfectly.
Judging by FE it’s veered so far off the originals they can do whatever they want from now on. Have pink proton packs, etc. I wouldn’t mind any of it, as it would solidify the original and AF pack in cinema history, never to be messed with again.
Edit: I bought another ticket and saw FE in the theatre again to do my part to boost the figures in the hope of a new movie. It's all we can do.
Statistics: Posted by JonXCTrack — April 11th, 2024, 2:01 pm