It was not beholden from top to bottom with what came before, and even if the plot beats could ring similar, every character, joke, and ghostly figure worked to solidify that this vision was going to be working on its own terms.Īnd yet, despite making a wildly fun movie that lived up to the spirit of the original and opened a portal to a world of new opportunities, the damage was perhaps done before opening weekend. Understanding the inherent silliness of the 1984 original’s premise, everyone involved embraced the lunacy with a modern sense of humor, upped the ante on the supernatural bedlam, and threw out just enough references to function while standing firm that this was its very own beast. Had we as a society had the opportunity to have a normal discourse about the movie, and have the foresight to see what was coming after the success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens the previous December, people maybe would have better embraced how Feig, co-writer Katie Dippold and the cast delivered the best possible version of a reboot of a beloved franchise. Not even needing these five years for retrospective, it was instantly clear how much of a shame that response was. And a big chunk of this was all before the movie even came out. In essence, any praise (or valid criticism) was drowned out by children who opened a box on Christmas, and saw that the toy they got wasn’t the exact one they wanted, and proceeded to pout a la Veruca Salt. Said babies made the first trailer the most “disliked” film trailer in YouTube history, and in turn made every conversation about the movie have to share space with sexism aimed at the cast, racism aimed at Jones, and general rage that this reboot simply didn’t look like the new movie they wanted.
Instead, the entire conversation was dominated by controversy, and by “controversy”, I mean big babies taking to social media. The necessity for Terminator-style time travel stems from the fact that when the movie from director Paul Feig and starring Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, and McKinnon dropped over five years ago, we didn’t give ourselves a chance to bask in its comedic brilliance.
#GHOSTBUSTERS 2016 MOVIESHARE SERIES#
Cherish every fleeting moment, because while it may not be perfect or the new take on the series you were expecting, I was telling the truth when I said what’s coming would be much, much worse. Cherish the expertly assembled ensemble of hilarious people making every sequence a riot cherish the bonkers new take on spirits, spectres, and ghouls that need busting cherish the titan that is Kate McKinnon stealing every scene and getting her own slo-mo action sequence and cherish the fact that this is a reboot/remake/whatever that means to respect what came before, but remains 100 percent confident in its new vision. On that day and any day after, buy your tickets, sit down, and cherish every second. That tonic arrives on July 15, and it’s the new Ghostbusters movie. The second will be that although that is very much true, there will soon be a short-term tonic. The first will be to-after referencing the general state of everything by waving my arms hysterically-tell everyone that it can and will get much, much worse. Setting my time machine (don’t ask me where I got it) back to about early-mid 2016, I am going back to tell past humans two things.
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