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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Zed wrote: *All statements reflect my opinion at this moment. if some sort of pretty new model gets released (or if I change my mind at random) I reserve the right to jump on any bandwagon at will.
New kit, redesigned Proton Packs. Possibly a sign that Zeddemore has done more than just buy the Firehouse. If those are new, it could be the first heartbeat of the long touted franchising.
Our three renaming original Ghostbusters return, at least for a cameo. Hurrah! Must say they’re also all looking pretty well.
I kind of admire the trailer for seemingly giving away nothing. We know a bit about the big bad, but that’s about it. We know what it does, but not its real motivations or the “why now” of its manifestation.
Though I do have a pet theory. With Gozer being trapped, its defeat in Afterlife may have left a power vacuum in its plane, which has allowed others their shot at piercing the veil. Certainly Gozer’s latest defeat was more lasting, as it was just a case of “not today, Marjorie” and back to whence it came. Gozer was removed entirely from the board. This is of course coloured by 40k’s Chaos, and what might happen were a God to just suddenly not be there.
Given all the other films have had a reason ghosts were suddenly appearing (even the 2016 reboot, regardless of your appreciation of it), this could be a lead in to expand things further, as various demons, gods and Demi-gods start their shenanigans, and hence open routes to new films.
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Supposedly the Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed game actually is intended to be a tie-in, at least with regards to Winston's involvement and the "franchising".
New kit, redesigned Proton Packs. Possibly a sign that Zeddemore has done more than just buy the Firehouse. If those are new, it could be the first heartbeat of the long touted franchising.
Our three renaming original Ghostbusters return, at least for a cameo. Hurrah! Must say they’re also all looking pretty well.
I kind of admire the trailer for seemingly giving away nothing. We know a bit about the big bad, but that’s about it. We know what it does, but not its real motivations or the “why now” of its manifestation.
Though I do have a pet theory. With Gozer being trapped, its defeat in Afterlife may have left a power vacuum in its plane, which has allowed others their shot at piercing the veil. Certainly Gozer’s latest defeat was more lasting, as it was just a case of “not today, Marjorie” and back to whence it came. Gozer was removed entirely from the board. This is of course coloured by 40k’s Chaos, and what might happen were a God to just suddenly not be there.
Given all the other films have had a reason ghosts were suddenly appearing (even the 2016 reboot, regardless of your appreciation of it), this could be a lead in to expand things further, as various demons, gods and Demi-gods start their shenanigans, and hence open routes to new films.
Oh man, please no. I don’t want to see any August Derlething of the lore. The first movie was great at giving us a hint of a much bigger and weirder universe. To bring that back down to Stargate levels of theo-cosmology would kill the mystery and shrink the world, like The Force Awakens level of world unbuilding.
Gozer came from another plane/dimension. That much we know. And I think there is an argument there is a Natural Order to such things, just as there’s a Natural Order to our plane/dimension.
Removing a player like Gozer from the board could quite easily upset whatever that ecosystem was, causing others to gain further power. Not a set a pantheon, just various entities where they’re not being kept in the same check.
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H.B.M.C. wrote: As someone who never saw Afterlife, was that any good?
It was a Ghostbusters movie that cared more about the lore than the comedy, stuffed to the brim with callbacks and memberberries. There’s a love it or hate it climax lofted directly from the end of Dragonball’s Cell Saga. Other than that, pretty solid.
If you can’t stand “I saw the thing and I clapped” movies, you won’t like this.
H.B.M.C. wrote: As someone who never saw Afterlife, was that any good?
It was a Ghostbusters movie that cared more about the lore than the comedy, stuffed to the brim with callbacks and memberberries. There’s a love it or hate it climax lofted directly from the end of Dragonball’s Cell Saga. Other than that, pretty solid.
If you can’t stand “I saw the thing and I clapped” movies, you won’t like this.
I don’t think that’s fair at all.
Being a latter day sequel, there are of course callbacks to what came before. If there weren’t, people would’ve moaned about that. But, Afterlife isn’t a lazy retread, reboot, requel or whatever. It adds to the franchise quite nicely. And it has some cracking scenes.
I say give it a watch.
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I might give afterlife a go if it really is more faithful to the original than that first "reboot" movie. If nothing of the original IP is even respected at all, why bother "rebooting" it? SMH my head.
Yeah, I'd say give it a try, of all the recent remake/reboot/reimaginings of classic franchises, the only two i rate as actually worthwhile watching are Afterlife and Top Gun Maverick.
Afterlife isn't as funny as the originals even though the cast is pretty good, but it absolutely nails the atmosphere and the ghosts are far more effective than the 2016 effort.
I've not really been hyped for many films recently (outside of Dune part two) but this has got me excited.
lcmiracle wrote: I might give afterlife a go if it really is more faithful to the original than that first "reboot" movie. If nothing of the original IP is even respected at all, why bother "rebooting" it? SMH my head.
My issue is that it isn’t just faithful, it’s reverential.
And yes, the acting and plot are solid. I just found the movie too Force Awakens to fully enjoy it.
Automatically Appended Next Post: It also has that 2nd gen fanboy trait of taking everything too literally…except for once.
Egon: (Trying to get Jeanine to stop hitting on him) “I collect spores, molds and fungus.”
Movie: We must fill his house with sample jars of spores, molds and fungi.
Egon: “Print is dead”
Movie: He was just saying that to get Jeanine to stop hitting on him. Fill his house with stacks of books.
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H.B.M.C. wrote: As someone who never saw Afterlife, was that any good?
It was a Ghostbusters movie that cared more about the lore than the comedy, stuffed to the brim with callbacks and memberberries. There’s a love it or hate it climax lofted directly from the end of Dragonball’s Cell Saga. Other than that, pretty solid.
If you can’t stand “I saw the thing and I clapped” movies, you won’t like this.
I don’t think that’s fair at all.
Being a latter day sequel, there are of course callbacks to what came before. If there weren’t, people would’ve moaned about that. But, Afterlife isn’t a lazy retread, reboot, requel or whatever. It adds to the franchise quite nicely. And it has some cracking scenes.
I say give it a watch.
I'll add my voice in support of this. Afterlife is a good movie, a good Ghostbusters movie and a faithful and respectful sequel of Ghostbusters 1 and 2. It deserves praise in my opinion, which isn't something I ever expected myself to say about a sequel to 80s movies made several decades later.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
And a little bit of a different trailer from Sony Pictures India...
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
I'm anxiously awaiting the Frozen Empire stuff for Spirits Unleashed. We got some new dialogue added in a small patch, saying that "the Spenglers are coming to NY after the whole Gozerian incident saw them evicted".
