[deadderek]

Why is this thread labeled "potential Afterlife spoilers" ?

[mrmichaelt]

Why is this thread labeled "potential Afterlife spoilers" ?

Leftover from when the thread was started with a different name pretty close to after Afterlife came out and none of us ever deleted it. No point in doing so anymore.

[tylergfoster]

The animated show/movie is already underway so there's at least that to look foward to.

We'll see about that. I feel like they said that about "Ecto Force" and that never materialized. I also feel like they've been saying that about the mystery animated movie. My guess is that Sony is not actually going to let this stuff get that far down the pipeline unless they know for sure the series has momentum.

[timeware]

Weve been hearing about this animated series since 2016.It has been in the works for so long I'll believe it when we eventually see it, if at all. We got concept artwork for that ghosts as busters then nothing ever since. Nothing from Netflix's supposed series either. With all the hype around FE right now you think there would be an update at least. WTF?

[mrmichaelt]

Weve been hearing about this animated series since 2016.It has been in the works for so long I'll believe it when we eventually see it, if at all. We got concept artwork for that ghosts as busters then nothing ever since. Nothing from Netflix's supposed series either. With all the hype around FE right now you think there would be an update at least. WTF?

Ecto-Force was stated to be shelved after offers from streamers came in so they could focus on Afterlife.

The concepts of ghosts as busters was from an early iteration of the animated movie being worked on now with different people.

We just got a status update on the current animated series from Gil Kenan.

Both the current animated movie and animated series were announced on a GB Day. It feels like a given, they will both come up this upcoming GB Day.

[timeware]

What was the update from Kenan?

[mrmichaelt]

What was the update from Kenan?

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[deadderek]

[13th Floor]

If they really want to add the scare factor they need Sam Raimi to direct.

He would definetly have fun with the ghost designs and mixing the humor/scares even in the same scene.
Put some comedy writers and it could be gold.
I was thinking more like Edgar Wright but Raimi could work

[tylergfoster]

Deadline, in keeping with their other writeups about Frozen Empire, has one brief paragraph in their international box office write-up that is more positive than the way other outlets framed the $16m overseas take, noting that it's 15% ahead of Afterlife. They also have info on territories left to open.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/ghostbuste ... 235866885/

[13th Floor]

Deadline, in keeping with their other writeups about Frozen Empire, has one brief paragraph in their international box office write-up that is more positive than the way other outlets framed the $16m overseas take, noting that it's 15% ahead of Afterlife. They also have info on territories left to open.

https://deadline.com/2024/03/ghostbuste ... 235866885/

I keep forgetting the movie will open April 10 in some places.
Feels like april was the ideal month for FE to open not march

[The_Y33TER]

Saw it on opening day, Friday night, 7:15pm at my local Cinemark.
I give it a solid 8/10. Afterlife was a 9.5/10 (only because of lack of 2009 bits)
Personally, I think it could have been MUCH better. an 8/10 from me for a Ghostbusters movie is more like a 5 from everybody else.
Nitpicks:

- The movie's approach seemed a little cheap. They did promotional stuff for things that were basically just gags. The slime blower was a major part of this, since it literally only shows up in the background of ONE scene for a few seconds and could be missed.
- The tech was barely shown nor talked about. They showed the gear better in the damn trailers than in the movie. The new packs were barely used and were only given to the team because peck seized the Afterlife style ones. Phoebe's pack receiving the Afterlife pack scene treatment would have been great, getting some glamour shots of the pack would be amazing.
- NO SIDEARMS? NO 2009 MODES? Come on. 2016 did the gear upgrade arc better than this.
- Some of the gear terminology was kinda stupid. "Proton Fields" could have been instead replaced with a holo-laser grid, like how the community has stated the containment unit should be. As well, the Paranormal Research Center being powered by generators was kind of... eh. Having it be a cyclotron power bank system, like we saw in Afterlife (but set up to be consistent power instead of a capacitor charge) would be amazing, where the system takes the two minutes to reset the accelerators and get them kicked off again. The "Proton Fields" would take a cyclotron to create, so why not have it be the power source to the building.
- The Phoebe and Melody storyline was WEAK. At best. There's some questionable tension there, which is worrying, since queerbaiting could get them in some deep shit. (And in my opinion, completely unnecessary, but oh well, it sells.) Personally, I feel like the scenes with the two could have been written in a much stronger way. That betrayal was solid though. It felt like it had an impact.
- Ending the movie on another "Crossing over" was... cheap. And kind of pointless. Why did Melody ascend? What did she resolve?
- The CGI was too much. The stone tablet sequence was laughable. Too much.

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Praises:

- I LOVED the performance from Kumail as Nadeem. He started out annoying, but was so incredibly likeable at the end. He was one of the genuinely funny and entertaining things about the movie. And I oddly enough thought his "Firebending" thing was pretty cool, especially where he saves Trevor from being Anatoli Bugorski'd (If you know, you know, if you don't, look him up!)
- THE POSSESSOR! THAT WAS AWESOME! The sequences involving it were genuinely super cool. Going a bit more in depth with the ghost types is a great idea that they should ABSOLUTELY lean further into.
- I enjoyed Lawrence. I don't like that he's basically a replacement for Egon, but I love how dry he is with his dialogue.
- Of what we saw, I kinda liked the design of the cyclothong packs. I feel like they REALLY should have explained the yellow with the EPA stuff.
- I loved the return of Peck. Having him be called Dickless by someone other than a crowd member would have been better though.

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My main takeaways are "I really gotta buy the disc." There's clearly gonna be a MASSIVE amount of cut content. Excited for it.

[tylergfoster]

My main takeaways are "I really gotta buy the disc." There's clearly gonna be a MASSIVE amount of cut content. Excited for it.

I wish this were true, but the interview with Gil posted in the deleted footage thread makes it sound like he is acting like Jason did and claiming there isn't a ton of deleted material. To be fair, it does seem like most of the material was trimmed out of scenes that are still in the movie, so maybe that's the loophole they're using to say, "well, only a couple of scenes were deleted," but I'm preparing for a disc that doesn't include a bunch of cut content.

(This is maybe a reach, but could it be that someone got it into their head that having so much cut content on the 2016 releases was a bad look in some way?)

[The_Y33TER]

My main takeaways are "I really gotta buy the disc." There's clearly gonna be a MASSIVE amount of cut content. Excited for it.

I wish this were true, but the interview with Gil posted in the deleted footage thread makes it sound like he is acting like Jason did and claiming there isn't a ton of deleted material. To be fair, it does seem like most of the material was trimmed out of scenes that are still in the movie, so maybe that's the loophole they're using to say, "well, only a couple of scenes were deleted," but I'm preparing for a disc that doesn't include a bunch of cut content.

(This is maybe a reach, but could it be that someone got it into their head that having so much cut content on the 2016 releases was a bad look in some way?)

The hours of cut ATC content was awesome! Hate Sony.

[tylergfoster]

The hours of cut ATC content was awesome! Hate Sony.

To be clear, that's pure speculation on my part. Could just be that they're uncomfortable with the cut material being available, as many filmmakers are.

[13th Floor]

The hours of cut ATC content was awesome! Hate Sony.

To be clear, that's pure speculation on my part. Could just be that they're uncomfortable with the cut material being available, as many filmmakers are.

Afterlife didn't even have a gag reel which surprised me

[DaveLister]

Just came back from theater... wow, this IS the sequel I was hoping for. I'll try to write more about what I thought on the Talkback Thread though. It was awesome, it was my first time suiting up with the whole kit and people we're asking for photos, it was pretty cool seeing kids impressed by the Spirit pack. I went just in time to take pictures with people and watch the movie on time. I was hooked from the start to end!

Welcome to the group! I been trooping since 1990 and I NEVER had the experience I had Thursday at my local theater. Watched it, then geared up. Walking to the building, I heard (!) THAT siren, turned to see a family Ecto!
By the time I got inside, there were about 10 kids/adults wearing gear or jumpsuits. The Ecto 1 family walked in to see the 2nd show that day. Now numbers grew to ghost head themed tshirts and kids with popcorn traps.
Pictures galore; many MANY compliments. And that's kinda what it's about. The positive, welcoming joy we all get. Nothing like it.

[Alphagaia]

Afterlife didn't even have a gag reel which surprised me

Gagreel was integrated in the movie:

[MovieFacts]

Apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong forum, but I have a question...

If you think you have a strong outline for a story. Would you pitch it? Don't get me wrong, I know even you did there is next to no chance of it materialising into anything, I just think I have a strong story. We're ghost buster fans, don't we all?

[13th Floor]

Apologies in advance if I'm posting this in the wrong forum, but I have a question...

If you think you have a strong outline for a story. Would you pitch it? Don't get me wrong, I know even you did there is next to no chance of it materialising into anything, I just think I have a strong story. We're ghost buster fans, don't we all?

I had a grain of an idea when i saw the trailers for Frozen Empire.
It would be about GB trying to secure a marketing deal with a toy company and a contract with the city so they need to try and keep damage to a minimum for good PR till they secure their contracts.Problem is,right in the opening of the movie while on a routine call,the team the team runs into a powerful demon that wants to make midtown his new home.
That's how far i got in my "idea" but the joke would be about GB trying to keep up a good reputation on social media,the news and the government while there's a interdimensional being they are trying to capture.
If GB 84 takes on the Reagan "pull yourself by your bootstraps"/ start a business fantasy i would like to see the GB company dealing with modern bureocracy and social media on their own terms.How do they navigate that?
I also wanted the demon to be able to speak and be kinda funny and scary played by a huge actor like Reacher's Alan Ritchson

[groschopf]

Red letter media liked the movie overall

...they were really weirdly hung up on the Phoebe sub plot.

Mckenna Grace had a rebuttal about that the other day but I haven't watched it yet.

I'll say it again—she's a fantastic ambassador for the franchise. She gets it.

Why is this thread labeled "potential Afterlife spoilers" ?

I presume because the film hasn't been released in every market yet, and we have international friends in the forum to consider.

If you think you have a strong outline for a story. Would you pitch it? Don't get me wrong, I know even you did there is next to no chance of it materialising into anything, I just think I have a strong story. We're ghost buster fans, don't we all?

I mean... you've got a deep knowledge of cinema and the franchise. You seem well-connected. It's worth a shot.

[MovieFacts]

I mean... you've got a deep knowledge of cinema and the franchise. You seem well-connected. It's worth a shot.

Ah, thank you man.

I'll give it a shot, why not, aye? If/when I get a knock back, I'll just post it on here.

[PukieDoug]

Saw it on opening day, Friday night, 7:15pm at my local Cinemark.
I give it a solid 8/10. Afterlife was a 9.5/10 (only because of lack of 2009 bits)
Personally, I think it could have been MUCH better. an 8/10 from me for a Ghostbusters movie is more like a 5 from everybody else.
Nitpicks:

- The movie's approach seemed a little cheap. They did promotional stuff for things that were basically just gags. The slime blower was a major part of this, since it literally only shows up in the background of ONE scene for a few seconds and could be missed.
- The tech was barely shown nor talked about. They showed the gear better in the damn trailers than in the movie. The new packs were barely used and were only given to the team because peck seized the Afterlife style ones. Phoebe's pack receiving the Afterlife pack scene treatment would have been great, getting some glamour shots of the pack would be amazing.
- NO SIDEARMS? NO 2009 MODES? Come on. 2016 did the gear upgrade arc better than this.
- Some of the gear terminology was kinda stupid. "Proton Fields" could have been instead replaced with a holo-laser grid, like how the community has stated the containment unit should be. As well, the Paranormal Research Center being powered by generators was kind of... eh. Having it be a cyclotron power bank system, like we saw in Afterlife (but set up to be consistent power instead of a capacitor charge) would be amazing, where the system takes the two minutes to reset the accelerators and get them kicked off again. The "Proton Fields" would take a cyclotron to create, so why not have it be the power source to the building.
- The Phoebe and Melody storyline was WEAK. At best. There's some questionable tension there, which is worrying, since queerbaiting could get them in some deep shit. (And in my opinion, completely unnecessary, but oh well, it sells.) Personally, I feel like the scenes with the two could have been written in a much stronger way. That betrayal was solid though. It felt like it had an impact.
- Ending the movie on another "Crossing over" was... cheap. And kind of pointless. Why did Melody ascend? What did she resolve?
- The CGI was too much. The stone tablet sequence was laughable. Too much.

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Praises:

- I LOVED the performance from Kumail as Nadeem. He started out annoying, but was so incredibly likeable at the end. He was one of the genuinely funny and entertaining things about the movie. And I oddly enough thought his "Firebending" thing was pretty cool, especially where he saves Trevor from being Anatoli Bugorski'd (If you know, you know, if you don't, look him up!)
- THE POSSESSOR! THAT WAS AWESOME! The sequences involving it were genuinely super cool. Going a bit more in depth with the ghost types is a great idea that they should ABSOLUTELY lean further into.
- I enjoyed Lawrence. I don't like that he's basically a replacement for Egon, but I love how dry he is with his dialogue.
- Of what we saw, I kinda liked the design of the cyclothong packs. I feel like they REALLY should have explained the yellow with the EPA stuff.
- I loved the return of Peck. Having him be called Dickless by someone other than a crowd member would have been better though.

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My main takeaways are "I really gotta buy the disc." There's clearly gonna be a MASSIVE amount of cut content. Excited for it.

I worked a lot on the possessor, the radio controlled vacuum cleaner, paper plane rig, shaking telephone , the broom falling and hitting podcasts recording pack, swinging out the table in the library basement where Andy’s Edison phonograph shoots the wax cylinder in to the trash bag ( I made three versions of walking Baggy puppet for that) I also helped with the possessed wand and made the pizza, so they were not cgi but had some polishing done .

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[Dr.D]

Doug, just wanna pop in and say there was something really satisfying watching Slimer inhale literally a whole pizza. Something about seeing the REAL arms of the suit interacting with the pizza just made it more ridiculous and funny to me. Absolutely fantastic work sir.

[timeware]

I don't think i'll ever get the answer to what happens if someone eats a mini-puft but we know what happens when Slimer eats a pizza. It's nice to know that wasn't all CGI. Overall Doug, what did you think of the movie you worked on?

[Kingpin]

I have no idea how many cast and crew members turned up for London.

Gil, McKenna, Finn and James were present for the UK crew screening in London.

[PukieDoug]

I don't think i'll ever get the answer to what happens if someone eats a mini-puft but we know what happens when Slimer eats a pizza. It's nice to know that wasn't all CGI. Overall Doug, what did you think of the movie you worked on?

I enjoyed watching it , I noticed a few nice effects were not in the Final Cut including a ghost character that appears to have been replaced by Bonesy who I had never seen before, Gil mentioned recently that they cut 2 major scenes so probably in those . I did like it . I would like to see it again , saw it on an IMax screen on Sunday at 5:30pm and only about 20 people in there , which I thought may not be good news, but since have seen the film has made over £1billion , so that’s quite a profit. Glad if that’s true

[Alphagaia]

Slight misread there, Pukie. The BO of all the GBfilms combined made over 1 Billion.

[The_Y33TER]

The hours of cut ATC content was awesome! Hate Sony.

To be clear, that's pure speculation on my part. Could just be that they're uncomfortable with the cut material being available, as many filmmakers are.

L sony

[The_Y33TER]

I worked a lot on the possessor, the radio controlled vacuum cleaner, paper plane rig, shaking telephone , the broom falling and hitting podcasts recording pack, swinging out the table in the library basement where Andy’s Edison phonograph shoots the wax cylinder in to the trash bag ( I made three versions of walking Baggy puppet for that) I also helped with the possessed wand and made the pizza, so they were not cgi but had some polishing done .

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RAD! Awesome to see someone from production here. None of those things I called CGI tho. I really loved the mechanics of all the stuff you did though, super cool stuff.