![]() ![]() It's a fluffy popcorn flick that has tons of Easter eggs for the fans of the franchise, cameos from the original crew, tongue in cheek comments on how serious cinema has become, and no romantic sub-plot. I got 10:20AM tickets long after the hype had died down (because I'm cheap frugal and anti-social), grabbed my sister, filled my purse with boxes of Ecto-Cooler, and went to the theater to see the movie everyone was whining about. It worked! (Well worked well enough to reboot the franchise and make a sequel anyway.) If the new Ghostbusters was anything like that, a cheesy love letter to the fans (at least the ones who can take a joke), I was all for it. They took a plot that was similar to the original, and made it super tongue-in-cheek for fans. I watched it on a whim, I think it was on HBO or something late one night, and don't get me wrong, it's no masterpiece, but it gave me hope. ![]() How can we capture the same feeling with a film set in modern times with modern technology? I was aboard the reboot-hate train, until I watched the new 21 Jump Street. We look back at the original film and it's a perfect time capsule of 80's practical effects, puppetry, and limited digital graphics. (Emo-Spidey and Jar-Jar Binx? After that you can only go up.) Especially after 20+ years! The original cast are a lot older now, Rick Moranis has pretty much retired from acting, Harold Ramis has passed, and with all our advancements in technology.the cinema is a very different place than it was in the mid 1980's. Unless you're talking about Star Wars and Spiderman, reboots/revivals are always a bad idea. Part of it was nonsensical rage targeted at the gender swapped cast, but many fans, myself included, were upset that this was a reboot/revival being made over 20 years after the second film wrapped up! We've all seen the countless articles about the negative feedback this film has received. Get your Twinkies ready, because I got way more into it than I thought I would. It's fun to jump back into it for a moment. I used to write movie reviews back in the days of LiveJournal.
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