Thoughts on Ghostbusters 3

Major big time ghostbusters nut here. saw the movie at my aunt's house way back in the day. Actually saw GB2 as a kid in theaters. Boy man, was that movie crazy, felt a lot more cool watching it as a kid than now. Now I see how shitty GB2 is compared to the original. but to me as a kid watching it, it was fucking sweet, the way the ecto 1a looked and all the ghosts and the creepy weird quality to the movie. I thought it was awesome as fuck as a kid. Now I see why Bill Murray hates it. It just basically rehashes the first movie and obviously focuses way too much on the side characters and doesn't really tell much of a story. The point being that they were catering to the kids who loved RGB so they fashioned the movie to be more like the RGB show. Egon's hair is bigger, Winston is clean shaven, the whole movie comes off like a pretty decent episode of RGB.

Now they are indeed thinking about making GB3.

I'm all for it though this concept of a female team reeks of Extreme ghostbusters where they were for whatever reason trying to play PC and put a girl on the squad, a black guy, a latino, and a paralyzed dude, wtf kind of shit is that? A gb in a wheel chair? Serious?

I mean I love the fact that when hollywood makes shitty movies these days they actually try to erase those movies and make better ones. I never thought they'd reboot spiderman. I figured, ok, going to have to live with the tobey spidey for a good long ass time. Thank GOD they decided to fix that lump of shit franchise.

Now we're getting a proper final star wars trilogy to replace the prequels which will either work or be a serious misstep like Indy 4. Lord knows if spielberg wishes he didn't make that movie now or not. I suppose he doesn't give a damn if that movie exists, It's not like he didn't already jump that hurdle with JP2. As much as the man is a genius, he's still human too.

Also superman returns. We got that movie, fans were a little miffed about it and now they rebooted superman completely. Very weird world we're in now. Back in my childhood, they made a movie and if it sucked ass, TOUGH, not rebooting it. Live with it. I mean they made a fucking sequel to that assfest of a first fantastic four movie right? Now they're saying let's do it right this time and not cast a hispanic as a blonde white woman!!

How many other franchise would have been rebooted instead of getting sequels constantly I wonder... I can imagine if Hollywood was as weak in the knees as they are today x-men would have immediately been rebooted after the first mediocre movie. But no they stuck to their guns and made a far superior sequel that I loved watching all day as a teen. Loved that movie was just disappointed as fuck by x3 after witnessing genius with x2. Now Bryan Singer's back on xmen and I couldn't be happier.

I hope they reboot batman. If you know anything about me, I'm not a fan of the Nolan batman and after that pile of shit that was dark knight rises, I think a lot of the nolanites agree with me these days. I mean there's no defending that horrible film. I went to see it just as I went to see fucking Batman Begins as a teen back when life was awesome, and fuck me, was that movie dire. Just a big clump of half baked ideas and the worst turn as batman that bale's ever done.

Nobody deserved to get shot over that fucking movie, should have bootlegged it... there's an argument for bootlegging, save your fucking life...


What's GB3 going to be about. I think it should be about the technological aspect of ghostbusting. We've never really sat down and explained all the actual real world phsycis that goes into paranormal elimination. All the tech in ghost busters is actually based on real phsycis, which is what I loved about it, none of it was pulled out of thin air, it was potentially real, just would take billion dollar funding to create that stuff, but there was no falsity to the GB world, it was legitimately an exploration of what mankind would do if there were ghosts running around acting a fool. We'd build technology to defend ourselves. I love that whole man is in control of his fate idea to the franchise. If you got the tools you got the talent of course and it's true, by utilizing our minds to create new tech, we are masters of our destiny prettymuch.

Anyway I'd like GB3 to be an extremely complex masterpiece of a film that delves into the entire inner workings of the GB business and how exactly Ray and Peter and maybe even Winston kept it alive and running as they become old men. See that's what's great about ghostbusters. It's not dependent on youth. They can conceivably make GB for years to come because it's a sci fi franchise. It's not about youth, that's immaterial in fact the joke of GB was that they were fat and out of shape in the first movie and too old to be running around after ghosts, but they had badass tech to make up for that inadequacy.

It's like when you see a professor at big time university. They're old as fuck yes, but they're super smart. And that's all that matters. That big brain far outlast the body's youth. And I hope that aspect of GB is prominent in GB3.

I don't want it to be about the GB's coming out of retirement like with GB2, that shit just sucked. They should have been in full swing as a business from the start of that movie, not lounging around not knowing what to do until shit started happening in the city.

So none of that, GB's hanging out waiting for shit to start, business. We're on fire from the start and things get worse and then the GBs have to figure out how to defeat the new threat to the city in a massive very smart way that utilizes all their hard earned knowledge throughout life. That'd be cool.