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Post by wvengineer on Dec 10, 2019 17:51:04 GMT
Trailer for the newest Ghostbusters movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been released.
Looks like they are taking this as a continuation of the original pair of movies. They take them as cannon and ignore the existence of the 2016 reboot. Trailer makes it look like a an action/adventure film, and doesn't mention comedy.
We'll see how this one goes.
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Post by the light works on Dec 10, 2019 18:12:56 GMT
we will see. I anticipate it will be as cheesy as the 2016 movie, but with more fan service, therefore the movie will be deemed great.
addendum, it WAS nice to hear the ghostbusters siren noise, again.
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Post by ironhold on Dec 11, 2019 0:59:53 GMT
There was a *very* popular Ghostbusters video game that came out a few years before the 2016 movie which ended with the original cast deciding to start opening up franchises.
If the 2016 movie had retroactively canonized the game by declaring the cast to be the Boston franchise, Feig could have done his own thing while it would have been understood that this was a side-story rather than an effort to replace the original characters.
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Post by the light works on Dec 11, 2019 1:19:46 GMT
There was a *very* popular Ghostbusters video game that came out a few years before the 2016 movie which ended with the original cast deciding to start opening up franchises. If the 2016 movie had retroactively canonized the game by declaring the cast to be the Boston franchise, Feig could have done his own thing while it would have been understood that this was a side-story rather than an effort to replace the original characters. most of us DID understand that. |
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Post by ironhold on Dec 11, 2019 5:08:56 GMT
There was a *very* popular Ghostbusters video game that came out a few years before the 2016 movie which ended with the original cast deciding to start opening up franchises. If the 2016 movie had retroactively canonized the game by declaring the cast to be the Boston franchise, Feig could have done his own thing while it would have been understood that this was a side-story rather than an effort to replace the original characters. most of us DID understand that. The first trailer included fluff text to suggest the film was a sequel, thus contradicting other materials to indicate that this was a reboot. Cue more than a few people winding up confused. |
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Post by the light works on Dec 11, 2019 15:07:22 GMT
most of us DID understand that. The first trailer included fluff text to suggest the film was a sequel, thus contradicting other materials to indicate that this was a reboot. Cue more than a few people winding up confused. more an alternative storyline. so you are saying part of the outrage was because people thought it was supposed to invalidate the original? |
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Post by ironhold on Dec 11, 2019 15:51:16 GMT
The first trailer included fluff text to suggest the film was a sequel, thus contradicting other materials to indicate that this was a reboot. Cue more than a few people winding up confused. more an alternative storyline. so you are saying part of the outrage was because people thought it was supposed to invalidate the original? Contrary to the official narrative being spun by Sony (et al), only a single-digit percentage of negative comments on the first trailer's YouTube page dealt with the cast being female or black. Someone actually sat down and did a sampling of the comments (something like a thousand of them) and posted their process in a video; if needs be, I'll track it back down. The rest of the negative comments were people trying to figure out what was going on. Was it a sequel? Was it a reboot? Why are the jokes not funny? Why does the special effects work look so dated? Things like that. While some people had already been objecting to both Paul Feig and the casting, it was thought of more as a gimmick than anything else. Rather, it was the trailer dropping that did the most to polarize the potential audience. It was at this point that Feig & co started spinning the narrative of "anyone who doesn't like this film is a racist" as a way to deflect attention away from how generally unpopular this trailer was; at one point, it was officially declared to be the single most-disliked movie trailer on YouTube. Subsequent promotional material made it clear that the film was a reboot, but otherwise Feig and Sony didn't learn a thing from the negative feedback. |
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Post by the light works on Dec 11, 2019 15:58:35 GMT
more an alternative storyline. so you are saying part of the outrage was because people thought it was supposed to invalidate the original? Contrary to the official narrative being spun by Sony (et al), only a single-digit percentage of negative comments on the first trailer's YouTube page dealt with the cast being female or black. Someone actually sat down and did a sampling of the comments (something like a thousand of them) and posted their process in a video; if needs be, I'll track it back down. The rest of the negative comments were people trying to figure out what was going on. Was it a sequel? Was it a reboot? Why are the jokes not funny? Why does the special effects work look so dated? Things like that. While some people had already been objecting to both Paul Feig and the casting, it was thought of more as a gimmick than anything else. Rather, it was the trailer dropping that did the most to polarize the potential audience. It was at this point that Feig & co started spinning the narrative of "anyone who doesn't like this film is a racist" as a way to deflect attention away from how generally unpopular this trailer was; at one point, it was officially declared to be the single most-disliked movie trailer on YouTube. Subsequent promotional material made it clear that the film was a reboot, but otherwise Feig and Sony didn't learn a thing from the negative feedback. apparently the ghostbusters fandom is easily confused. and easily outraged. |
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Post by ironhold on Dec 11, 2019 16:13:50 GMT
Contrary to the official narrative being spun by Sony (et al), only a single-digit percentage of negative comments on the first trailer's YouTube page dealt with the cast being female or black. Someone actually sat down and did a sampling of the comments (something like a thousand of them) and posted their process in a video; if needs be, I'll track it back down. The rest of the negative comments were people trying to figure out what was going on. Was it a sequel? Was it a reboot? Why are the jokes not funny? Why does the special effects work look so dated? Things like that. While some people had already been objecting to both Paul Feig and the casting, it was thought of more as a gimmick than anything else. Rather, it was the trailer dropping that did the most to polarize the potential audience. It was at this point that Feig & co started spinning the narrative of "anyone who doesn't like this film is a racist" as a way to deflect attention away from how generally unpopular this trailer was; at one point, it was officially declared to be the single most-disliked movie trailer on YouTube. Subsequent promotional material made it clear that the film was a reboot, but otherwise Feig and Sony didn't learn a thing from the negative feedback. apparently the ghostbusters fandom is easily confused. and easily outraged. Note that I said "potential audience", not "fandom". The decision to bring Feig in and have most of the cast be current Saturday Night Live talent indicates that Sony was trying to reach out to a brand-new and much younger audience instead of simply attempting to favor older fans. Even though Feig was trying to make the film into a "girl power" number, Sony was trying to reach teens and twenty-somethings as a general broad demographic. And as a would-be blockbuster, something like this was going to get interest from other age groups as well. Problem was, the first trailer was a dud that left people scratching their heads, and the decision to blast anyone who didn't like it alienated people who might otherwise have given it a chance. The final straw came when a prominent internet movie critic announced that he wasn't going to see the film because he wasn't sure he could turn off his nostalgia filter long enough to give it a fair review; rather than credit him for his honesty, he was denounced as all sorts of horrible things. After that, large numbers of people decided to just nope on out of there rather than get involved in the rapidly-escalating conflict. |
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Post by the light works on Dec 11, 2019 16:29:18 GMT
apparently the ghostbusters fandom is easily confused. and easily outraged. Note that I said "potential audience", not "fandom". The decision to bring Feig in and have most of the cast be current Saturday Night Live talent indicates that Sony was trying to reach out to a brand-new and much younger audience instead of simply attempting to favor older fans. Even though Feig was trying to make the film into a "girl power" number, Sony was trying to reach teens and twenty-somethings as a general broad demographic. And as a would-be blockbuster, something like this was going to get interest from other age groups as well. Problem was, the first trailer was a dud that left people scratching their heads, and the decision to blast anyone who didn't like it alienated people who might otherwise have given it a chance. The final straw came when a prominent internet movie critic announced that he wasn't going to see the film because he wasn't sure he could turn off his nostalgia filter long enough to give it a fair review; rather than credit him for his honesty, he was denounced as all sorts of horrible things. After that, large numbers of people decided to just nope on out of there rather than get involved in the rapidly-escalating conflict. as I said. easily outraged. and that's an internet prominent critic. |
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