I thought the movie was average. It’s not great, it’s not awful, it’s just average. I’ve accepted that nothing can ever recreate the original. It’s an anomaly of all the right things in all the right places at all the right time. It’s childish, but adult, stupid, but intelligent. By all definitions, it shouldn’t have worked, but it worked perfectly. It really is lightning that will never strike again. Hell, even the original people tried to recreate it and it didn’t work. It got a few laughs, but everyone acknowledges it couldn’t capture the magic of the first. The closest we got is the game, and even then, that had to repeat a lot of stuff. And let’s face it, it wouldn’t have worked as well if we saw them at their real age. I didn’t want to see Ghostbusters 3. For me, it’s asking for another Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or Blues Brothers 2000. If we’re gonna get something new that’s Ghostbusters, I do want it to be different, and the different stuff is when I think it shines the most. You know those shows, movies and comics where there’s like a million parallel universes? This just feels like one of those parallel universes. Not a replacement, just a different version. The Dark Knight films don’t erase out the original Batman. The Rise of the Planet of the Apes films don’t destroy the style and genius of the original. Does it all work? Hell, no. Do I hate that every funny joke is followed by an unfunny joke? Definitely. If you’re gonna say, though, that this movie stole your childhood, you never had a childhood worth stealing. Yeah. Must have been a lot of great things in that life for a movie to take it away from you. But it’s not hard to see somebody hating this film. There are a lot of unfunny scenes and awkward moments, and, yeah, it doesn’t really need to exist. But I can also see how someone can enjoy it. The performers are great, there are some really funny jokes, and it can be really creative. For me, I like it the most when it’s doing its own thing, and it doesn’t need to call back to the original. But not everybody’s gonna see it that way, and that’s fine. Ghostbusters is gonna be something unique and different to everybody, because everybody has their own unique experience to it. So if you want to go see it, go see it. If you don’t want to go see it, don’t go see it, as long as your decision is yours, and you’re not bullied by anybody into doing something you don’t want to do, or think what you don’t want to think.
