I didn’t think Afterlife was bad. Then again after the all female reboot I was happy to see someone directing it who didn’t hate what came before like so many modern directors
It was pretty bad. If Ghostbusters 2 killed the franchise by making it more family friendly, then Afterlife dug up the corpse defiled it by making it an actual children's movie. On top of that, it suffered from so many hack writing elements that made it seem like poorly written fan fiction rather than a proper continuation. Here's Gozer again! Endless callbacks! As a kid, I was a big fan of the Real Ghostbusters, so I knew these characters could have adventures involving things OTHER than Gozer, so it's disappointing that all these years later the most Hollywood could muster was rehashing the first movie.
But you're right, at least it didn't shit on its audience like the 2016 reboot did. How sad that's enough for fans to gush all over it.
Yea. I’ve been guilty of over praising modern entertainment due to it not being woke or pushing The Message. What’s funny is with the free streaming sites I’ll watch some b movie from the 80s or 90s and it will be leaps and bounds over most modern entertainment.
I loved the real ghostbusters!!! I’ve been meaning to look for comic books from that era
Real Ghostbusters was part and parcel of the franchise becoming kiddified, frankly. And ironically enough, the other Ghostbusters show was based on Ghostbusters that existed long before the SNL version we know and love - and was itself a live-action kid's show back in the 1970s (featuring the two guys from F-Troop and a "gorilla".) I didn't like the live-action Krofft Bros shit very much (though my cousin loved that stuff), but the Ghostbusters, I did enjoy (and F-Troop, too.)
Afterlife was feminism for prepubescent girls. Just look at the behavior of the older brother to see just how far removed this movie is from genuine entertainment, in opposed to the contrived propaganda that it was.
Would an older brother really let his clumsy kid sister face off with a supernatural evil ghost-god without so much as a peep? Perhaps if it was his older sister and he hated her guts, rofl.
Good point. I guess I was easily swayed by the original ghostbusters and the fact that the director didn’t hate the fans. My standards have dropped big time for modern entertainment. Like I said before an 80s or 90s b movie is superb cinema for me by comparison
Same here but it is true. A movie simply not being woke or not crapping on fans will make me over hype it. A lot of “great movies” for me in modern times would’ve been average 80s movies it seems.
I didn’t think Afterlife was bad. Then again after the all female reboot I was happy to see someone directing it who didn’t hate what came before like so many modern directors
It was pretty bad. If Ghostbusters 2 killed the franchise by making it more family friendly, then Afterlife dug up the corpse defiled it by making it an actual children's movie. On top of that, it suffered from so many hack writing elements that made it seem like poorly written fan fiction rather than a proper continuation. Here's Gozer again! Endless callbacks! As a kid, I was a big fan of the Real Ghostbusters, so I knew these characters could have adventures involving things OTHER than Gozer, so it's disappointing that all these years later the most Hollywood could muster was rehashing the first movie. But you're right, at least it didn't shit on its audience like the 2016 reboot did. How sad that's enough for fans to gush all over it.
Real Ghostbusters was pretty amazing for its time.
Yea. I’ve been guilty of over praising modern entertainment due to it not being woke or pushing The Message. What’s funny is with the free streaming sites I’ll watch some b movie from the 80s or 90s and it will be leaps and bounds over most modern entertainment.
I loved the real ghostbusters!!! I’ve been meaning to look for comic books from that era
Real Ghostbusters was part and parcel of the franchise becoming kiddified, frankly. And ironically enough, the other Ghostbusters show was based on Ghostbusters that existed long before the SNL version we know and love - and was itself a live-action kid's show back in the 1970s (featuring the two guys from F-Troop and a "gorilla".) I didn't like the live-action Krofft Bros shit very much (though my cousin loved that stuff), but the Ghostbusters, I did enjoy (and F-Troop, too.)
You can’t go wrong with the comedy stylings of Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch.
Afterlife was feminism for prepubescent girls. Just look at the behavior of the older brother to see just how far removed this movie is from genuine entertainment, in opposed to the contrived propaganda that it was.
Would an older brother really let his clumsy kid sister face off with a supernatural evil ghost-god without so much as a peep? Perhaps if it was his older sister and he hated her guts, rofl.
Good point. I guess I was easily swayed by the original ghostbusters and the fact that the director didn’t hate the fans. My standards have dropped big time for modern entertainment. Like I said before an 80s or 90s b movie is superb cinema for me by comparison
Same here but it is true. A movie simply not being woke or not crapping on fans will make me over hype it. A lot of “great movies” for me in modern times would’ve been average 80s movies it seems.