Will this ghostbusters movie work?

They're making this thing as I type this. I don't know. I'll be working my job at LGA and having nothing to do with this movie. But if I did? I'd make a ghostbusters movie to end all ghostbusters movies. How long have we fans waited for a 3rd movie? Now apparently this is a full reboot, or remake of GB. It's going to be redoing the story from the female perspective and not actually act as a continuation of the original movies...

I don't know... I know HOW to make a GB movie work. I've literally watched EVERY GB cartoon episode ever made, I've watched both movies on rewind a million times as a kid, played with the toys, dreamed of a GB3 happening one day.

And here I sit, I'm almost 30 and they're actually bulldozing forward with a new ghostbusters movie in front of my face.

And it looks GOD AWFUL.

That's coming from someone who loves ghostbusters deeply here. I mean no joke, I wonder what David Coulier thinks of this shit, or Arsenio, or even Murray and Akroyd. This is their baby and it's being to me, massacred right in front of our eyes.

Is Ghostbusters a flexible concept that can be redone and reshaped to work in variety of ways? Sure... It's a comedy. It's not bound to any single style at all. I've read dozens of ghostbusters comics that are really just not what you'd think gb would be but that's ok, it's ghostbusters, have fun with it and don't take it seriously.

But then again, this thing is like looking to me to be like a lot of comedies we got years, decades, later that were trying to ape off the original and fail. Son of the Mask, Home Alone 3, Not a comedy but the Next Karate Kid.

I've been alive a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time, I've seen a lot of movie sequels to actual good decent classic films and they don't really work, just got made because the studio bought the rights and had to get it done.

Does the studio even care if this movie works? Or are they hoping people run to the theater because it's got the GB logo on it. I think this movie's going to be a tragic failure, sad to say. It's going to basically be A LOT like Home Alone 3. Not a bad film, but NOT a Home Alone film.

Without Culkin, It's NOT Home Alone.

I think it's safe to say Casper will have to serve for all eternity as the last true live action GB film...