Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

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   EssexMutant

   I went for nostalgia and it ticked all the boxes. Sure there’s faults in the film but that’s missing the point of the experience. Now I just hope the franchise can end with this relative high. 2 years 5 months ago
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   Siskoid

   I was initially delighted with Jason Reitmen's nostalgiatastic Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Not content to simply provide a Ghostbusters sequel/tribute to Harold Ramis, he imbues a nostaglic quality to the film by essentially tapping the currently popular Amblin Entertainment vibe, with kids spending the summer, in this case, fighting ghosts and Dozer's return. And, I mean, a roller skate diner? Nos. Tal. Gia! I love the kids, personally, and their relationship to the mom. Of course, Paul Rudd is his usual delight. The comedy mostly comes from the characters themselves and there's some great dialog in there. As for the Ghostbusters stuff, Reitman does find new ways to use such monsters as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, so it's not that bothersome that the movie is a direct sequel to the original. And then the fan service hits like a ton of bricks (including some particularly pointless and tedious mid and post-credit scenes), and though there are some sweet moments, I feel like the mood of the film changes and you're walking out of the theater on the wrong note. It's not enough to kill the picture, but I still resent the shift. 2 years 4 months ago
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   crazy_bitch

   Doesn't work for me. I expected it to be entertaining and the cast was very promissing, but for me it turned out boring and unneccessary. The nostalgia is there alright, but instead of little nods to the original(s), the film is leaning heavily on it. It would be nice as little eastereggs that pop up throughout the movie, instead all these callbacks are constantly shoved in your face, saying "hey, do you remember this from the orignal movie? That was cool, huh?". Yes. It was. But this constant barrage of referrences doesn't add any substance to this movie. Also I think it's fine that the plot

   is so similar to the original, with the story of the end of the world, Gozer, the Keymaster and Gatekeeper, but the way it's set up doesn't make any sense. The other Ghostbusters abbandoned and ignored Spengler for decades, even though he could have easily proven to them what was going on in the second temple, and that the end of the world, brought about in exactly the same way they prevented it once, was again an imminent possibility. We are supposed to just accept that they didn't believe that or didn't care, and yet they all show up at the most convenient time after they got a phone call from what is to them a random girl with surely a lot less information than what they got from Spengler

   . 2 years 5 months ago

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