This all female Ghostbusters team follows a group of four who battle the supernatural forces of evil in their own hilarious way.
Men in Black III’s Etan Cohen provide the script for this third entry of the Ghostbusters film series.
Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates are two authors who wrote a book that proposes the existence of ghosts. A few years later, Erin becomes a respectable lecturer at Columbia University but when her book resurfaces, she becomes the laughing stock of the university. However, when ghosts invade Manhattan city, proving what she believes all this year to be true, Erin reunites with Abby, and teams up with a nuclear engineer, Jillian Holtzmann, and a subway worker, Patty Tolan, to save the world from an evil and powerful demon named Rowan.
Thirty years after the original film took the world by storm, Ghostbusters is back and fully rebooted for a new generation. Director Paul Feig combines all the paranormal fighting elements that made the original franchise so beloved with a cast of new characters, played by the funniest actors working today.
They are friends and colleagues who discover that ghosts have invaded Manhattan. With their knowledge of the supernatural and their love of New York, the Ghostbusters try to save the city from being taken over. There's been a lot of press about this reboot starring some of the funniest actors (three of them are Saturday Night Live vets) in Hollywood. But, just as in the original, there will probably be some mature jokes and frightening situations.
Ghosts are usually visible and do not possess people; demons are usually invisible and do. But Feig has decided to shake things up, and it seems that once a bit of green goo gets inside you, there’s no telling what manner of head-spinning-all-the-way-round type behavior may ensue.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how carefully all of that must have been coordinated. And one of the strangest things I've seen in a trailer in a while is one of the few public signs of what must have been thousands of billable hours of conversations in the years since 1989.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that has been universally praised is the effects on the ghosts. For the most part, these effects are a combination of practical make up and prosthetic combined with LED lights and minimal CGI enhancement.
ReplyDeleteIn a story I need to be able to suspend my disbelief and get into them as characters. Look again to the originals.
The other gimmick that this movie relies too heavily on is nostalgia. Now if you want nostalgia, then that is what the original movies on Bluray or DVD are for. We can go back and replay those and get the warm fuzzies. By trying to make a new movie using the old ideas but retooled for a modern age, you’re only going to rip the nostalgia to bits and piss people off. It’s a hard balance.
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