Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

pixelburp

Honestly I didn't think Afterlife did so well it justified a sequel; though IIRC CoVid had its own effect, but here we are.

Looks like they have returned to New York this time, and hard to know if the original cast are getting another "walk on" cheque or will be a larger aspect of the film / story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFNK_KEmcWs

buried

Fair play to Rick Moranis for staying well out of these regurgitated omnishambles.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121342605#Comment_121342605

In fairness, he's coming out of retirement to work in a Honey I Shrunk the Kids legacy sequel, so maybe his judgement isn't that amazing either 😂

johnny_ultimate

Afterlife was perhaps the most putrid of all the 'legacy sequels' - a joyless, mechanical slog. I have little hope for this one as a result, but you'd hope at least they've gotten the more inane nostalgia-peddling out of the way the first time around. But in a world where 'somehow, Palpatine returned', there is the fear there are always new empty nostalgia depths for Hollywood to frack.

silverharp

looks like the cast for a Nickelodeon show, I dont see any Ghostbuster magic, and I get the sense that the script will be bloated and dull, hard pass

Acosta

I thought Afterlife was watchable/serviceable. It didn't deserve a sequel.

AMKC

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121342673#Comment_121342673

I thought it was a great film and I throughly enjoyed it and I will this one too.

I would call this a nice surprise. There has only been one bad Ghostbusters movie so far and it was not afterlife.

buried

The fact they've had to shoehorn the city of New York into the regurgitated omni-shambles just makes this thing look utterly desperate for the member berries.

You can almost hear the chief executives around the mediocrity table

"why wasn't the first regurgitation more successful?"

"I dunno, it definitely wasn't the p!ss poor story, maybe it's because we didn't set it in the iconic city of New York like the original film, y'know the one with the actual good story?"

"We didn't set it in New York, you're right, set the next one in New York, and add some extreme weather climate $hite to it too, the kids are mad for that craic these days"

JP Liz V1

In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age

JP Liz V1

Is Jason Reitman involved in this?

McFly85

Ugh.

Sick of these sequels that are so heavily dependent on nostalgia and just how iconic they think everything in the originals is.

I loved the old ghostbusters vibe that these guys were Rentokil but for ghosts, but this looks to be putting them firmly in the heroes bracket. Pass.

expectationlost

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058321730/ghostbusters-frozen-empire

they showed us things freezing etc and hen describe being scared to death, blood freezing, isn't that contradictory, those people died from cold not fright. this seems like 2012 climate change parable not a ghostbusters movie...

pixelburp

New trailer up for this; looks like the original crew have more involvement than the glorifed cameo last time.

https://youtu.be/HpOBXh02rVc

Big Gerry

There reviews for the new Ghostbusters are not great.

johnny_ultimate

I wouldn’t have thought it could be much worse than Afterlife - a miserable little slice of joyless nostalgia bait - but several reviews I’ve seen have suggested that it very much is.

El Duda

https://twitter.com/TheMovieBadger/status/1770439831299981572

Oh dear

El Gato De Negocios

Nostalgia bait or not, I thoroughly enjoyed Afterlife so I'll be going to see this.🤷‍♂️

pixelburp

At least it seems like they bothered to write the original crew into the story this time, and not just have them turning up in a blatant "clap for your childhood you monkeys" appearance.

rovers_runner

Lot of woke critics have their LGBT hats on here, the backlash to the 2016 shakedown hasn't been forgotten.

Just go and enjoy the film for what it is, a throwback to a comedy classic from 40 years ago.

Big Gerry

Ghostbusters is getting like the predator franchise.

Only one of the films in the franchise is considered to be good and then you have endless sequels.

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922583#Comment_121922583

Huh: what are you talking about? Literally nobody mentioned any of that, or the 2016 film, 'til you did.

rovers_runner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922683#Comment_121922683

I mean the professional film critics. Majority of them are LGBT or got the memo. They have regrouped after the Afterlife sequel showed up the 2016 **** show.

eightieschewbaccy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922583#Comment_121922583

I didn't remember LGBT or whatever relating to the last one. I just thought it was pretty bad and failed at being remotely funny. So nothing to do with being woke.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922608#Comment_121922608

The last predator movie is genuinely great and I've watched it twice. This is more playing on nostalgia and offering nothing interesting/unique to define it.

johnny_ultimate

Mod note: Enough of the culture war conspiracy theories please. Let’s stick to the film itself.

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922608#Comment_121922608

The Predator franchise has had some dross in it but apart from the original some of the others are decent (I really enjoyed Prey). I also really like Ghostbusters 2 as well.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121922583#Comment_121922583

Oh god, it looks like there is another outbreak of woke tourette syndrome.

winstonia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121923284#Comment_121923284

Just seen mod note

pixelburp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121923335#Comment_121923335

Thing about something like Predator 2, it was born from an era when there was a less ... polished approach to sequels; it was mostly powered by cocaine mania mind you, but for all Predator 2's flaws it has energy and identity.

It was also from a time when nobody gave a shït about canon, legacy sequels, or nostalgic regurgitation for cheap dopamine hits and Funko Pop sales. Mainstream blockbuster Hollywood has completely ossified.

silverharp

the Gen Z'ers ruin for me , changes the dynamics from the originals too much, but given how unreliable critic reviews are, wait for the audience one to roll in, trash critic review and decent audience score means could be fun

Big Gerry

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121923335#Comment_121923335

There is no reason for Ghostbusters 2 to exist it's just a rehash of the first film but nowhere near as good.

gmisk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121923825#Comment_121923825

Ah still lots to enjoy, yeah it is a bit of a rehash, but it is fun Peter MacNicol and Moranis are great value too.

Oh and this section.

https://youtu.be/GFPt4S2Zw0w?si=a25YqrvGSPgZQcP2