Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
#1026
DVD Talk Special Edition
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
And then Gremlins was released on the same day...double risk.
#1028
DVD Talk Legend & 2021 TOTY Winner
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
See Gremlins did scare me as a kid. Ghostbusters did not.
#1030
DVD Talk Hero
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Well Gremlins is technically a monster movie, complete with murders and graphic violence and scares.
#1031
DVD Talk Legend
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Yeah, Gremlins is actually a fairly dark movie in my opinion. Some pretty gross parts and grisly deaths for the type of movie it is.
#1032
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Not to derail the thread but I remember watching Gremlins with with my son who had not seen it when it came out on DVD. I had not seen it since it came to the movie theater. He was 5 or 6 and terrified when he saw it. Here I thought I was showing some cuddly little cute movie. My memory of it was not good at all.
#1033
DVD Talk Legend
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are cited as the two movies that prompted the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion...e_PG-13_rating
Interestingly, Ghostbusters isn't typically mentioned as a movie that should've gotten a PG-13, if that rating had existed then. I don't think people view it as intense as those other two films.
#1034
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
The original Ghostbusters pulled off a really incredible feat... it really blended comedy with action adventure/scifi/horror perfectly and seamlessly. The film could be viewed as either a comedy or a genre adventure; it carried and blended both things so well that it could be both Animal House and Raiders of the Lost Ark at the same time.
Push the comedy a little more, and it falls apart (see the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot); push the horror a little more and it falls apart again. It also blended the cartoony (Slimer, Marshmallow Man) and creepy (the cab driver, Zuul) to the point where both poles felt natural together.
And I think that if they push the nostalgia/Stranger Things-angle too far at the expense of quirky comedy that might hurt this one.
#1035
DVD Talk Limited Edition
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Some confirmation that Murry is in this movie: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...ters-afterlife
#1036
DVD Talk Special Edition
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Gremlins is cute up until the duplicate Mogwais turn into Gremlin. Then there's some stuff that's legitimately scary for a kid, as well as gross.
Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are cited as the two movies that prompted the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion...e_PG-13_rating
Interestingly, Ghostbusters isn't typically mentioned as a movie that should've gotten a PG-13, if that rating had existed then. I don't think people view it as intense as those other two films.
Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom are cited as the two movies that prompted the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion...e_PG-13_rating
Interestingly, Ghostbusters isn't typically mentioned as a movie that should've gotten a PG-13, if that rating had existed then. I don't think people view it as intense as those other two films.
#1037
DVD Talk Legend
re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Some confirmation that Murry is in this movie: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...ters-afterlife
Anyway, sounds like Murray's participation is more similar to, say, Billy Dee Williams' screentime in Rise of Skywalker than Harrison Ford's screentime in The Force Awakens.
#1040
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
It's now being pushed back to June 11, 2021. This was the one movie I was really looking forward to in 2020 when it was originally supposed to be released but it's being pushed back to the date that is also the 37th anniversary of the original movie's release date.
https://deadline.com/2020/10/ghostbu...21-1234601370/
https://deadline.com/2020/10/ghostbu...21-1234601370/
#1042
DVD Talk Special Edition
Re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Not to derail the thread but I remember watching Gremlins with with my son who had not seen it when it came out on DVD. I had not seen it since it came to the movie theater. He was 5 or 6 and terrified when he saw it. Here I thought I was showing some cuddly little cute movie. My memory of it was not good at all.
#1043
Re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Like I said on another board. I'm just glad the movie is in the can because no matter how many times they delay it, Billy, Danny and the gang won't be getting any older.
#1045
DVD Talk Legend & 2021 TOTY Winner
#1047
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
I remember watching Ghostbusters on VHS when I was really young and watched the whole movie up until when Peck and his crew shutdown the ghost containment storage unit and saw the zombie cab driver. I was scared to death after that and didn't finish the movie.
#1048
DVD Talk God
Re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
Surprise another delay
Variety talked about this a few days ago. They said expect a lot of the Spring and early summer releases to be delayed.
Variety talked about this a few days ago. They said expect a lot of the Spring and early summer releases to be delayed.
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#1050
Re: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021, D: Jason Reitman)
When I was a kid I wasn’t aware Ghostbusters was a comedy.
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Bluelitespecial (01-22-21)