New Ghostbusters movie in OG movie universe Jason Reitman directing 2020

[frank_one]

Originally Posted by Leo656

All the "Cool Kids" back then liked Ghostbusters.

And those same cool kids are the only ones that still care for Ghostbusters. Modern cool kids won't be in the theaters when the movie will finally come out.
By the way, I'm one of those old cool kids. I loved the movies and It's a pity we never got a proper third movie with Harold Ramis.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Lmao ironically a certain je ne sais quoi literally means a certain I don't know what, but it sounds cooler cause it's french.

That was the joke.

Originally Posted by frank_one

And those same cool kids are the only ones that still care for Ghostbusters. Modern cool kids won't be in the theaters when the movie will finally come out.
By the way, I'm one of those old cool kids. I loved the movies and It's a pity we never got a proper third movie with Harold Ramis.

Modern kids don't like anything that makes them look up from their stupid phones. Kids are losers nowadays, anyone trying to capture their nonexistent attention spans deserves to fail.

And yeah, the "Ghostbusters 3" project is a hard lesson in how it just doesn't pay to wait too long on things or you'll miss your chance entirely.

[Coola Yagami]

The only thing I liked about the trailer was how the characters were reacting to news clips of the Marshmallow Man running around. It makes it feel more 'real' that in that world, crazy **** like that actually happened.

I just hope the characters are likeable enough to help me get past the 'slow buildup' stuff until we actually start seeing the Ghostbusters, and I mean the OGs.

[Leo656]

I bet there's gonna be far less of the original Ghostbusters than anyone would really want to see, but there's a chance it could all still tie together well. We'll see.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I bet there's gonna be far less of the original Ghostbusters than anyone would really want to see, but there's a chance it could all still tie together well. We'll see.

There are two "third Ghostbusters movies" that could be made:

One is "Let's make it for a new generation!" and/or "passing of the torch." Which, for as many times as people often tout "we need a passing of the torch movie!" be it for Indiana Jones or whatever... it's actually never really worked out well in a movie series that endures after.

Two is, "Let's make it to please all the old fans!"

The idea, of course, is to make it be both. Either one comes at the cost of the other, now, so it's a tricky line they have to dance. Obviously the intention from Sony and everyone involved is not to just play in the original Ghostbusters universe and then leave it alone, as a one and done thing. Not at all. So it's safe to assume they're approaching this with the potential to restart the franchise.

So it's back to that line, that ratio of "how much would it be one, and how much would it be two?"

I think the people saying "The O.G. Ghostbusters will barely have cameos!" are insane. But while I don't think it will be anywhere close to 1:1 with the new, regular cast, I think they will be largely integrated into the movie by probably the halfway point. Maybe a third of it.

Also, we never played "Ghostbusters" on the playground as a kid. That wasn't ever a thing. Maybe we'd put on toy proton packs and shuffle around outside or in basements with traps in the dark looking for "ghosts" after school hours, but never on the playground. Self-respecting pre-teenagers of my time only ever played TMNT in the playground, where four of you would verbally announce which of the Turtles you would "be," then proceed to chase everyone else around and pretend you're wielding ninja weapons. Also, if all Turtles were spoken for, whoever else wanted to play... you got to be Vernon or April (and then you'd probably get teamed up on). Or if you're cool, maybe Shredder and then we pretend we're scared of you.

[Wildcat]

They’re gonna have significant parts.

I wonder if maybe Ray continued to live at the firehouse to watch over the containment unit. Peter probably married Dana. Not sure about Winston but they most likely all lead separate lives until they meet up again for this situation.

Gozer seems to be the main villain again. He/she must remember the original GBs too.

[ZariusTwo]

Starting this Saturday and every weekend, every episode of The Real Ghostbusters will be made available on the official Ghostbusters Youtube channel.

[sdp]

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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Starting this Saturday and every weekend, every episode of The Real Ghostbusters will be made available on the official Ghostbusters Youtube channel.

Will they be deleted each week or kept in the channel?

[cammy85]

If you're in Canada and a cable subscriber, you can get all of them on CTV Canada uncut. You do have commercials, though.

[Andrew NDB]

I don't care about this. What I care about is seeing one shred of new footage for the movie that was supposed to have already come out like a full year ago.

[Leo656]

Chillax, brother. Movie ain't gonna be that good. (Probably)

[ssjup81]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Starting this Saturday and every weekend, every episode of The Real Ghostbusters will be made available on the official Ghostbusters Youtube channel.

Cool! Of course I'm biased outside of the first 65 eps before they changed Janine and ditched Lorenzo Music and started turning it into the Slimer show, but cool. lol

[sdp]

If they release an episode a week it'll take them more than 2 years and a half before they release the entire show

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

If they release an episode a week it'll take them more than 2 years and a half before they release the entire show

Maybe that's when theaters will be deemed safe again and they'll release the movie. Though articles I'm seeing popping up are talking about "Don't think for ONE MOMENT this is over! Experts say this could go on for another 5-7 years!"

[Leo656]

It's not going away, they already stopped pretending it would.

"New Flu". We learn to co-exist with it and everybody's supposed to get the shot every year, just like the flu vaccine. They've been saying that for like six weeks now.

Supposedly it'll at least make the overall number of cases more manageable. But nobody's even pretending that "normal" is ever coming back.

The rest just depends on how afraid of the virus everybody is. It's not going away, it just might be "more manageable". Whether things open up again will depend on just how crippled by fear the general population is, whether they remain scared to death of catching it or dying OR if they decide that it is indeed like the flu and just an inevitable risk of being alive and going outside.

Given how wholeheartedly everybody embraced the whole "living in fear" gimmick, I'd say that everything is f*cked. So long as there's a 1% chance of catching it, nobody's gonna feel safe enough to let things go back to normal. And it's NOT going away, vaccine or no vaccine, so... yeah.

[Wildcat]

There’s no living in fear gimmick. We haven’t even reached a full year since everything shutdown.

The virus is not going away. That’s true. Definitely not within a year. Now there’s variants. Vaccines are barely getting around and others are in development, which is good, but it’s still a pandemic.

This was one I wanted to see in theaters but many people don’t care and act as if nothing is wrong. If you cannot cover your face at the grocery store I don’t want to share a theater with you.

Honestly there’s a lot of things that could have been put on hold. Not just movies. I love watching those holiday competitions on Food Network. I didn’t think there’d be any last year but all of them happened.

At first I thought they were shot way in advance but then they mentioned being a tough year and crew members wore masks. I’m sure they took safety measures but they’re just baking competitions.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

There’s no living in fear gimmick. We haven’t even reached a full year since everything shutdown.

Different parts of the country (just speaking about the US) never really did. Or didn't for long. Oddly, most of the biggest pockets in the US that are boasting the biggest numbers of consistently large and new cases and deaths seem to be the states that locked down the hardest? Like, across the board.

The virus is not going away. That’s true. Definitely not within a year. Now there’s variants.

Which... what seems to be the consensus is... more contagious (maybe? I don't even see this as being more conclusive), yet even less lethal? As in, less lethal than 1%?

Vaccines are barely getting around and others are in development, which is good, but it’s still a pandemic.

Well... that's definitely what they like to keep telling us.

This was one I wanted to see in theaters but many people don’t care and act as if nothing is wrong.

Oh, there definitely is.

If you cannot cover your face at the grocery store I don’t want to share a theater with you.

I'll always cover my face at the grocery store, not because I think I'm saving myself or imaginary grandmas I'll hypothetically hang out with but because that's what they make me do. If people are going there and not doing that... I'm not sure how they're being served.

[Leo656]

I'd have to try and find it again, but like two weeks ago there was a study published that looked at the overall results of countries that "shut down" vs. countries that didn't, and the overall takeaway was that shutdowns and lockdowns didn't actually make any significant difference, and that you're more likely to get it from someone you live with and are in close intimate contact with than you are from anyone outside your own house. Statistically, it seems that most people get it from someone they live with. But on the whole, countries that didn't "shut down" did not see any more cases than ones who did, and often actually had even fewer cases. I'll look for it, I just don't remember who wrote the article. It was linked through my Google homepage, for whatever that's worth. That's all I remember.

It really is just a case of "wash your hands, don't kiss anybody." Or so it would seem. That literally seems to be the only thing that ultimately matters.

Regardless, as others have said, if a person can spend an hour or two at Walmart, with hundreds of other people at the same time, they can sit in a theater with twenty other people under the current seating restrictions and feel safe. Those theaters are getting cleaned and disinfected a lot more often than Walmart is, that I can guarantee you. I am almost positive that nobody is significantly "disinfecting" Walmart at all between opening and closing. There's just no time with all of those people in there. They probably scrub hard in the morning and again from closing until midnight, and in-between it's "F*ck It."

Meanwhile, some things on my end have changed and others haven't. I know quite a few people who actually did get it, including several in the "at-risk" categories. It's been a bad Winter, for sure, as around 20 people I know personally (but haven't been around all year) ended up getting the virus in the last 6-8 weeks. So I can finally say I know people who've had it. However, they all got over it in about a week, most didn't even go to the hospital, and they all pretty much said it was like a really bad cold except with more muscle fatigue/weakness. But they all recovered really fast, and while they don't want it again, they're all perfectly fine. It *might* be worth mentioning that they don't smoke or abuse opiate medications, two things that have been repeatedly cited by medical experts as being huge factors in common among people who've had it worse or died. Some of them cite obesity, too, but a couple people who got it were obese and they also bounced back pretty fast and didn't get hit that hard to start with.

SO... I can't say my fear of the thing has grown substantially. It's hit closer to home, sure, and that sucks, and it definitely makes it more "real", not that I ever really said it wasn't. I said I felt like it was overblown, and based on what I've seen/heard from the people I know who HAVE had it... kinda still feel that way.

It's like anything else... nobody WANTS to get sick, but... you're gonna. Whether it's COVID or the flu or a cold or whatever, You're Gonna Get Sick eventually. What good is the whole "shut down the whole world and hide under your bed" thing gonna do? Nobody wants to get sick, people do the best they can, they still get sick. That's Real Life, I don't know what to say.

It still all sounds like "Don't get coughed on, wash your hands, don't smoke, don't be a junkie, and if you follow these specific rules, even if you get it, you'll be okay." Well, I like those odds. If people are gonna willingly smoke cigarettes and pop pills and they get sick and suffer "complications", well... I'm already kinda not gonna care on account of they weren't living very smart to begin with, and they were warned that most of the people who died from this thing were heavy smokers and/or pill poppers.

Meanwhile, some experts say that smoking pot gives you some "protection" against it, which would explain my wife and I. We'd likely be "immune" if that's true. Who knows if it is, though, but that's one of the things they say.

F*ck it, let people go to the movies. They're doing "worse" things and apparently it makes little to no difference. I'm fine with the idea of limited seats but anything past that is overkill. If you can go to the gym or the grocery store you can go to a movie.

[Wildcat]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Different parts of the country (just speaking about the US) never really did. Or didn't for long. Oddly, most of the biggest pockets in the US that are boasting the biggest numbers of consistently large and new cases and deaths seem to be the states that locked down the hardest? Like, across the board.

I don’t know. I haven’t kept track on specific states. I’ve checked the US total now and then and for AZ.

Which... what seems to be the consensus is... more contagious (maybe? I don't even see this as being more conclusive), yet even less lethal? As in, less lethal than 1%?

The fact there’s variants isn’t good. I guess it was bound to happen but I’m just saying.

Well... that's definitely what they like to keep telling us.

Tell is what? That they’re being distributed or others in development? Of course there are. Vaccines were gonna come at some point. No way they were gonna stop with 2 versions.

Oh, there definitely is.

I see what you did there. But seriously many people don’t consider it cause for concern.

I'll always cover my face at the grocery store, not because I think I'm saving myself or imaginary grandmas I'll hypothetically hang out with but because that's what they make me do. If people are going there and not doing that... I'm not sure how they're being served.

Come on man. Ok Imaginary grandmas made me laugh

I can’t tell if your just playing or you actually don’t think it’s that serious. -_- I hope the first.

[Leo656]

Apparently, in most cases it simply is NOT that serious... unless you're really old, really fat, smoke cigarettes, and/or heavily abuse opiate medication.

Even the "experts" telling everyone to be terrified because "There's a lot we don't know", if you really pay attention to who's been hit hardest by this, that's what they say.

So again... don't be fat, don't smoke, don't take Oxy's. Apparently, do All That and even if you get sick, you'll be alright in about ten days. Sounds like good odds.

Meanwhile, I had "just" a cold and I couldn't get rid of it for six weeks. Wasn't a really horrible cold, but it refused to leave. And there's a part of my brain that isn't sure if I'd trade places with my niece; she had COVID, but got over it in five days and now she's perfectly fine. So if I had to choose between six weeks of a cold, OR being too sick to move at all for a few days, but ONLY a few days... huh. That's a thinker. Like, I DON'T want COVID, but... at the same time, 5 days vs. 5+ weeks. I don't know.

But yeah, I can totally believe Andrew honestly feels like it's "not that serious", because even for most people who catch it, it isn't. Statistically, like 1% of people who've had it had it "bad". People are just afraid of "The Unknown", afraid that they'll end up being one of the 1%. And that's reasonable, but it's not reasonable to take that and project it into a huge thing.

At the end of the day, you're still more statistically likely to get killed by a drunk driver than you are from this virus. And yet people still drive. Thus, I think 20 or so people can handle sitting in a movie theater several feet away from each other. Again, think gyms. Think Walmart. Closer quarters, more people, no outbreaks. You've gotta look past the fear and the "unknown" and look at what we DO know in the grand scheme of it all.