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Ghostbusters 3 Trailer

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03 Mar 2016 09:32 #223692 by Legomancer
This looks like a lot of fun. And goddamn, Kate McKinnon!

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03 Mar 2016 09:41 #223694 by Michael Barnes
I was iffy on this but yeah, that looks like a good time...right tone, right look...I'm signed up.

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03 Mar 2016 09:53 #223695 by Black Barney
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Is it a reboot or do they know of Venkman and co.?

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03 Mar 2016 10:01 - 03 Mar 2016 10:08 #223696 by Disgustipater
From an article I read, it is a complete reboot. They didn't want the technology just handed to them, and also didn't want ghosts to have already been around for 30 years.
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03 Mar 2016 10:16 #223697 by Black Barney
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So female scientists were the first to invent this ghost catching stuff?

Science fiction.
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03 Mar 2016 10:21 - 03 Mar 2016 10:32 #223698 by Josh Look
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Ghostbusters is, without any shadow of a doubt, my favorite movie of all time. Always has been, likely always will be.

I've gone through quite a journey with this movie. I initially didn't want to see any new GBs, male or female, other than the original four. Their sense of humor is so unique to them and you can't duplicate or try to mimic is with any amount of accuracy. That sense of humor is what made the original what it was.

But I've come around and realized that even those four guys couldn't do it again either. GB2 does have its moments, some parts are brilliantly funny and those get completely overlooked due to the rest of the movie being either bland or downright stupid. So now I'm saying fine, let it be different. It has to be. The only woman I don't care for here is Melissa McCarthy, but hey, there wasn't a fat joke in the trailer, there is hope! Plus, I find their secretary being Chris Hemsworth really funny.

I liked the trailer. Some of it I'll need to see in context, I'm sure, but they've sold me a ticket. That's more than what could be said of most movie trailers, BvS chief amongst them.
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03 Mar 2016 10:45 #223699 by Sagrilarus
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I'll admit I laughed at more than a few of the jokes.

But the roles look awfully cliché though, don't they? Apparently that was one of the parts from the 1980s that they didn't want to change.

S.

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03 Mar 2016 11:26 #223701 by Columbob
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Black Barney wrote: So female scientists were the first to invent this ghost catching stuff?

Science fiction.


History (or Poltergeist at least) has shown us that women are highly attuned to the ghosting world.

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03 Mar 2016 11:45 #223702 by Space Ghost
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Ghostbusters is my favorite movie as well -- I feel pretty similar to it all as Josh does, so don't have much to add.

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03 Mar 2016 12:04 #223704 by SebastianBludd
I think I'm going to miss the ghost puppets from the original - as well as Dan Aykroyd's paranormal world-building - but I am now legitimately interested and even a little excited to see this. As Barnes said, the tone seems to be spot on and it definitely feels like its heart is in the right place; unlike other reboots such as Total Recall, Robocop, etc.

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03 Mar 2016 12:37 #223706 by jeb
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Wow. I got nothing from that trailer. It seems so empty. That dated 80s synth music? It wasn't dated in 1984. It was hip as hell. Why bring that back?

They don't seem to have updated the formula in any way. Nerdy into-it one, brilliant engineer one, jaded one, and token black one. Getting slimed, check, unexpected hearse, check, hot possessed antagonist, check. What the fuck? Did Barry Sonnenfeld direct this?

I think I'd rather see them all do a scene-for scene remake of GHOSTBUSTERS a la Van Sant's PSYCHO than watch this. Sorry to rain on the parade. I love the cast, but this seems like a hollow shell of a great movie.
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03 Mar 2016 12:48 - 03 Mar 2016 12:49 #223707 by MacDirk Diggler
Gotta agree with Jeb. Looks more like Ghostbusters Karaoke than a cover with an original take on the source material. I can wait until it's on HBO and even then....


You know the joke is coming when they TRY and cross the streams, but can't.
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03 Mar 2016 13:58 - 03 Mar 2016 14:00 #223709 by Mr. White
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Yeah, I'm not feeling this either.

Ernie Hudson unfortunately didn't make the first movie poster, but he at least played a real character. Leslie Jones looks to continue the stereotypical 'Oh, Hell no...' role. As a stretch, maybe she'll also say '[someone], please!'
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03 Mar 2016 15:05 - 03 Mar 2016 15:08 #223714 by Josh Look
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I of course can't say with any certainty, but I will bring this up for people to keep in mind.

I've edited video in a whole lot of forms, but I never had to edit something together to sell a film. That being said, I think I could do it a hell of a lot better than most trailers I see, but comedy? That seems hard. You need to show something to entice people to get into the theater, but you also can't show your A material. I think all of us went to see a comedy and came out thinking they'd seen all the funniest bits in the trailer at some point.

I went back and watched the original GB trailer after seeing this one and it really isn't spectacular. And really, think about how you would sell that movie without ruining the best stuff? You can't. It's a tough task for sure and I don't envy who edited it or this one in the least.

Not trying to sell anyone on it or change their minds...just bringing attention to the fact that this shit ain't easy.
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03 Mar 2016 16:31 #223722 by Black Barney
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How could they think that just putting a bunch of SNL comedians into a movie would automatically make it good?!

I can't even get through the trailer. The only thing that feels fresh is Melissa McCarthy being Melissa McCarthy, cuz you know she's not an actress, but at least she's hilarious.

not excited.

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