Since I work from home most of the week and have what I call partial insomnia (sleep about 4 hours a night) I figured I would go to a late showing of the movie. I'm generally turned off by most modern day entertainment, but I wanted to support this movie since it was being trashed by some critics and I heard some people I trust (as well as people here) say it was good. As an 80s baby I loved Ghostbusters and I liked the second one as well. 2016 was a lousy movie so I'm glad they made this one. It is pretty pathetic for critics to be upset because the director of Afterlife said he was doing it for the fans.

It wasn't a perfect movie but in this day and age it was refreshing to have a female lead that wasn't capable of doing everything and who only served to show how much better she was at everything than men were like so many modern day movies and shows do. I loved seeing the original Ghostbusters at the end and when she started to struggle the ghost of her grandfather helped her which is a no no in modern day Hollywood. She had flaws and needed the help of her friends like a normal person.

It did kind of annoy me because Harold Ramis wanted to do a sequel and I liked the "For Harold" message at the end. 2016 could have been a sort of tribute where they have the original ghostbusters training a new generation, but for some reason Sony thought it was wise to crap on the fans and be a bunch of douchebags. Also made me wonder what kind of reaction Force Awakens would've gotten if Rey was fighting valiantly against Kylo Ren but losing and then Luke appears to help her. I guarantee they would've cheered at the theaters.