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(Transcribed and expanded a bit from a Twitter thread, rather than just embedding a bunch of tweets.)
(Previous trailer, for reference.)
I'm seeing some people calling this Ghostbusters 3. This is (subjectively speaking and in my opinion) incorrect, because I consider Ghostbusters: The Video Game[1] to be Ghostbusters 3. Afterlife would be Ghostbusters 4. To be fair, Afterlife is the third movie to follow the original two movies, so in that sense, it is basically GB3; but it's not thethirdsecond sequel (and the story of The Video Game was based, at least in part, on the old script for what would have been the third movie, Ghostbusters III: Hellbent, had it actually been made).
The 2016 Ghostbusters movie was okay for what it was (despite the trailers for it sucking rancid asshole), and I liked it well enough once I finally saw the movie itself, but since that was a remake and not a sequel, I don't consider it to be Ghostbusters 3, either. The trailers for Afterlife, by contrast, are doing it right, i.e. they're making me want to see the movie. Doesn't guarantee that the movie itself will be good, of course, but it's a good start, at least.
(EDIT) And yeah, I watched the trailer with the mini-Stay Puft guys invading a grocery store and a ghost trap rolling around on a RC car, and I too couldn't help but think "man, this movie is far too somber and solemnly self-referential and pretentiously up its own ass."
</sarcasm> ¬_¬ (/EDIT)
While I'm on the subject of Ghostbusters, I still someday want to go back and watch all of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, too. (Or, at least, up to the point where it switched to "Slimer And," though I'd probably just go ahead and watch all of it.) That and Extreme Ghostbusters. To this day, the only episode(s) of that that I've seen all the way through is the two-part series finale, "Back in the Saddle," which brought back the original Ghostbusters.
And, just for the sheer hell of it, I kind of want to watch the live-action show The Ghost Busters and the follow-up cartoon based on that (both of which have fuck all to do with any of the above) someday, too. I recall one day when I was a kid saying that I wanted to see Ghostbusters, meaning the 1984 movie of course, but when the people with whom I was spending the night that day got back from the video rental place, they had that live action thing which had nothing to do with what I thought of as Ghostbusters (having only seen The Real Ghostbusters up to that point). I was disappointed at first, but it actually wasn't too bad, at least based on the almost nothing that I recall of it now. I just remember that it wasn't terrible, at least, or so I thought as a kid, even though I still rather would have seen the movie. ¬_¬
[1] - Note, I have not played the Remastered version myself, as I have the original version on Steam and see no real reason to rebuy the remaster, but since Remastered is apparently the only version available to buy on Steam now, oh well.
(Previous trailer, for reference.)
I'm seeing some people calling this Ghostbusters 3. This is (subjectively speaking and in my opinion) incorrect, because I consider Ghostbusters: The Video Game[1] to be Ghostbusters 3. Afterlife would be Ghostbusters 4. To be fair, Afterlife is the third movie to follow the original two movies, so in that sense, it is basically GB3; but it's not the
The 2016 Ghostbusters movie was okay for what it was (despite the trailers for it sucking rancid asshole), and I liked it well enough once I finally saw the movie itself, but since that was a remake and not a sequel, I don't consider it to be Ghostbusters 3, either. The trailers for Afterlife, by contrast, are doing it right, i.e. they're making me want to see the movie. Doesn't guarantee that the movie itself will be good, of course, but it's a good start, at least.
(EDIT) And yeah, I watched the trailer with the mini-Stay Puft guys invading a grocery store and a ghost trap rolling around on a RC car, and I too couldn't help but think "man, this movie is far too somber and solemnly self-referential and pretentiously up its own ass."
</sarcasm> ¬_¬ (/EDIT)
While I'm on the subject of Ghostbusters, I still someday want to go back and watch all of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, too. (Or, at least, up to the point where it switched to "Slimer And," though I'd probably just go ahead and watch all of it.) That and Extreme Ghostbusters. To this day, the only episode(s) of that that I've seen all the way through is the two-part series finale, "Back in the Saddle," which brought back the original Ghostbusters.
And, just for the sheer hell of it, I kind of want to watch the live-action show The Ghost Busters and the follow-up cartoon based on that (both of which have fuck all to do with any of the above) someday, too. I recall one day when I was a kid saying that I wanted to see Ghostbusters, meaning the 1984 movie of course, but when the people with whom I was spending the night that day got back from the video rental place, they had that live action thing which had nothing to do with what I thought of as Ghostbusters (having only seen The Real Ghostbusters up to that point). I was disappointed at first, but it actually wasn't too bad, at least based on the almost nothing that I recall of it now. I just remember that it wasn't terrible, at least, or so I thought as a kid, even though I still rather would have seen the movie. ¬_¬
[1] - Note, I have not played the Remastered version myself, as I have the original version on Steam and see no real reason to rebuy the remaster, but since Remastered is apparently the only version available to buy on Steam now, oh well.
