Ghostbusters: Afterlife first clip

I think at least half the magic of the original film was Elmer Bernstein’s score which they wisely resurrected

I cannot get behind this. None of this looks good. It's like a million miles away from what Ghostbusters was. Ghostbusters is about NYC, tons of ghosts, the actual GHOSTBUSTERS themselves. Heck, I know that the last movie was kind of a bust, but at least it kept things closer to the first two. Big-city ghost-hunting. Not a bunch of kids in the middle of the desert, plus Paul Rudd.

I thought it was shitty how the female version of Ghostbusters was ripped apart, all the idiot fanboys who thought their precious original had been wrecked by icky girls seemed to have missed that the female version takes place in an alternate dimension.

And that all of the surviving originals gave it their blessing and appeared in it.

omfg. How fucking cute!

I think it would have been cleverer to make the Walmart a really scary portal to hell rather than home to cutesy ghosts.

They exaggerated the sounds of the cracklkng wrapper to make it sound like the cracking eggs from this scene

Same music queue too

Would rather have a sequel to the original than a movie featuring a bunch of kids.

Er, a sequel to the remake

Paul Rudd! 🤤

This looks terrible. Who looked at ghostbusters and thought "single mom raising troubled teens" was the way to go?

I used to think the original was great when I saw it as a kid. I saw it again recently and it’s pretty lame. Everyone is making it up as they’re going along

I rewatched Ghostbusters about 3 or 4 years ago. I thought it had aged pretty well, but that was largely due to the cast. I am not sure those teens have the charisma to carry this off. Although, besides have a good cast, one of the reasons it worked was because it was only about 90 minutes long. It did not stretch out a premise largely designed to give Bill Murray a chance to deliver wisecracks too long.

Paul Rudd still looks good - and looks better than I ever did - but is finally starting to show his age a little bit. He would be a good successor to Bill Murray. I just wish he was playing off of other adults. Not everything needs to be influenced by Stranger Things. At least from her quick shot in the trailer, Annie Potts looks great.

I am probably in the minority, but I would not have minded the female ghost busters get another movie. The movie was a bit mediocre, but liked the characters and they set thinks up well for a sequel, that with tighter writing could have been a decent film. I also would not have minded Hemsworth getting a chance to revise his himbo character.

The original Ghostbusters is one of my favorite movies, and one that I always stop to watch if I catch it while channel surfing. One of the reasons is that it had enough comedy elements to make it a fun movie. This one looks like they're going the teen angst drama route. It may be a good movie on it's own, but may not compare itself well to the original.

I do like the concept of Egon's grandkids finding the traps and the station wagon.

I never saw any of the other versions.

Not amused. Everything is so calculated and meme-chasing these days. I kind of wish they’d leave old classics alone and stop trying to cash in and franchise everything.

I love the trailer. It looks like a great action flick.

Awwwww, r3 and r4, the mean boys are so mean, and daddy never hugged you, did he? waaaaah! Waaaahhh!

(It sucked. People hated it. It was stupid. Get over it. )

I liked the trailer for the nostalgia aspect. They probably included all the old references in the trailer, but I’m hopeful for more. Loved the Ray cameo at the end. I’d like to see Dan Ackroyd show up to help his buddy Egon’s grandkids.

So Egon finally hooked up with Janine and had at least one kid? Good for Janine- Egon was always my favorite Ghostbuster.

Poor Louis Tully, though. I wonder what happened to him. Maybe he finally got Dana Barrett and her ugly kid Oscar.

There's no point to this, there was no point to the all female remake either - the original was lightening in a bottle, all the right people falling together at the right time - and the Ghostbusters were quintessentially male figures, as in men - not kids and not women.

I watched the new trailer.

Isn't Ghostbusters supposed to be a comedy?

Yeah I am sold on the new film with this trailer.

Made me miss Egon.

[Quote] And that all of the surviving originals gave it their blessing and appeared in it.

Bill's cameo was awkward. I think Winston's was the best.

I just watched the trailer and it seems the film is clearly modelled on Stranger Things (right down to the casting!). It might be decent, although they should probably have made it it’s own thing instead of slapping the name ‘Ghostbusters’ onto it and adding some fan-baiting cameos. Or maybe I’m just a cynic.

Well said, R14. Ghostbusters is my all time favourite film, and I feel like what I've seen in the trailer does the original justice whilst also updating some narratives to appeal to a whole new generation. I miss Harold Ramis but I do feel like he has been honoured (and I hope this proves to be true).

Can't wait to see this in the cinema. I hope my local replays the original leading up to Afterlife's release, I'd get a real kick out of seeing it on the big screen!

Illeana Douglas looks great!

R3: The first two movies never treated Janine like an idiot the way this movie treated the male secretary like one.

Sure, but Chris Hemsworth’s idiot secretary was my favorite part of the 2016 Ghostbusters. He does comedy so well.

He was an dumb actor/model who took the secretary gig to make some money. It wasn’t his career like it was for Janine.

Which proves what an unnecessary venture it was if the only laughs they can get are from treating men worse than the original treats women.

Not the only laughs, but the most laughs. And so what? Who gives a shit if hot ass himbo looking Chris Hemsworth was used as a joke? Kevin didn’t seem to mind.