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Ghostbusters/Manbusters
In any case I hate re-boots almost on principle alone, but the cast looks great and I'm willing to give it a chance. I love Ghostbusters... but I don't know if it will play as well today, I mean the sequel did suck. Still curious though.
Dan Aykroyd said he loved the idea, Ernie Hudson not so much;
www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/30/gho...e-hudson-female-cast
Ernie wants another paycheck and Aykroyd doesn't need one. He is kind of right that why bother calling it Ghostbusters though. I mean, George Lucas didn't do a re-boot of Flash Gordon, he did a tribute, a homage. That's the way to go and it's a big reason why I hate re-boots.
I don't know, maybe I'm not excited. Bridesmaids (same director) did what it did well though so I do have some faith. But I hated those new Trek movies too.
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The first film captured lightning in a bottle. It was a passion project of Akroyd's and has his attention to detail all over the script with his Lovecraftian references to occult tomes and paranormal phenomena. Harold Ramis then helps hammer the script into shape and Bill Murray is added as the wild card, and what looks like a disaster on paper ends up being one of the best comedies of the 80's, if not all-time.
If there isn't the same sense of world-building (is Akroyd writing or producing?) and if the cast doesn't have the same great chemistry that Akroyd, Ramis, Murray, and Hudson had, then I don't know if I'll be bothered to see it in the theater; though I will see it out of a sense of obligation and morbid curiosity if it turns out to be terrible.
My prediction? A bunch of gross-out jokes and garbage-looking CGI ghosts. Puppet Slimer or GTFO.
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Legomancer wrote: I already love this new Ghostbusters movie solely because it's making so many itty babbies cry that their childhoods are being ruined.
They haven't watched the sequel I guess.
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First I've heard of this reboot, and hopefully the last. With so much money and talent in Hollywood, why does this re-hashed crap see the light of day instead of something original. I will deliberately avoid this unless I get lots of assurances it's not shit.
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cdennett wrote: I will deliberately avoid this unless I get lots of assurances it's not shit.
Amen, Brother.
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