Half in the Bag: Ghostbusters: Afterlife (SPOILERS)
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- čas přidán 20. 11. 2021
- Mike, Jay and Rich Evans talk about the third sequel to the classic perfect comedy film Ghostbusters. If at first you succeed, fail, fail, and fail again! But this one's got kids in it.
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No one's ever really Egon.
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@@Kysgarq yup!
Noooo, you phrased it wrong:
No one's ever real Egon
Discrard
I see what you did there 👏 👏 👏
Let's all be honest with ourselves here: The original Ghostbusters ran around with unregulated nuclear devices on their backs for hours every day for years. None of them were ever going to have offspring.
And if they did they wouldn’t look like McKenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard.
Outside of Winston i don't see anyone of them settling down
@@oneinathousand2156 I mean, they might look like Finn Wolfhard. That dude has a face for radio.
But its okay. Egon moved out of the way on the elevator. He should have been fine, lol.
@@dash4800 Finn wolfhard isn't what I'd call ugly in the slightest.
I have an idea for the next Ghostbusters film. There will be four college age kids. There's a nerdy brainiac girl, a preppy model girl, a jock, and a stoner and his dog. They drive around in their van and investigate hauntings and mysteries. It's a work in progress but it might have potential.
That could work. Gonna need a laugh track or this idea will never get off the ground.
I have a name for your idea!
Ghostbusters: the next generation!
That will never work, kids don't like dogs, unless they talk.
I doubt a dumb idea like that could make 14 tv series, 45 movies and 6 tv films
You should add a goofy chase scene that uses some kind of current music.
"Nostalgia Bukkake" is now forever burned into my lexicon
Mike is such a gentleman with words
Bill Murray at this point has two moods; suicidal and Wes Anderson.
...and also regretting his role as Garfield in the live-action Garfield duology
What's the difference?
@@MickHaggs The difference is that with Wes Anderson, he's happy. If Wes Anderson made Resident Evil movies, Bill Murray would be his Mila Jovovich.
@@flibbittygibbitt With less skin-tight clothing and/or nudity.
@@Corbomite_Meatballs I think you meant "more".
In 30 years I’ll be dragging my kids to see Half in the Bag: Another Round and forcing them to play with my Mike and Jay toys.
The Rich Evans toys will all be recalled due to unspecified dangers
just wait for them to completely sell out and become hack frauds.
*"RLM! I FUCKING LOVE RLM! FUCKING RLM!"*
“Surprise Surprise, it’s Rich Evans in disguise!”
Remember Mr Plinket being a deranged maniac? Remember the gay wedding arc? Remember when they actually had customers besides Plinket? Remember "who wants a pizza roll?" Remember "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FAAAACE?"
George Lucas and other studio execs remember.
"Cocaine is sorely missing from the movie."
Honestly this is really what's wrong with hollywood. Too much clout and not even cocaine.
All the good writers have moved over to streaming services, as long as you satisfy whatever oblique set of instructions Netflix or HBO desire of the show you can explore a theme far better on a TV show than a movie.
A lot of movie and TV production moved to Atlanta when they heard there was a huge Coke factory there...
This, with only a hint of sarcasm. At least if everyone was on coke again then ridiculous (but not self-aware) pitches would not only get made but also green lit. The industry's in such a state, it's like they're not even sober, they're off their meds.
They got the child "actors" done right. Groomed them well even.
This is the best and most salient take. The absence of cocaine and it’s consequences have been a disaster for American cinema.
I just watched Fletch again and it’s still amazing but it would be nothing if it wasn’t for the use and abuse of cocaine by Chevy and at least the writer and director.
Paul Rudd getting chased into the parking lot and then raptured by a literal dog from hell is a relatively generous depiction of Walmart-related incidents, should you have any doubt they had their hands in that scene.
Ha! This is such a good gag!
As John Carpenter put it, the reason for all of these remakes is because studios save a fuckton of money on advertising when they dredge up a product with built-in name recognition.
cant wait til they ruin the thing again
This wasn't a remake
@@disturbedone8731 It was a remake of a concept from a reboot of a sequel.
@@Corbomite_Meatballs a seaboot
Can't blame Hollywood if it makes them money. People are still running to get tickets for the 7000th superhero movie and all the reboots that can be made of something.
Sadly it's the fault of the audience
Mike nailing it on the head: "The proton packs, light sabers, the fucking Delorean, [were] always in service of a story and characters. And now it's like the opposite; the characters are in service of the tech."
The props can’t demand a higher salary in the sequel; better to anchor to the IP they own outright.
Also think of the endless plastic shit they can sell to the man babies.
On a side not are they ever releasing RLM action figures? Maybe a plinketts house play set?
The fact is, that era of filmmaking is dead and gone, everything now is a CGI behemoth and they only look for the profit centers. Nevermind the fact that ghostbusters probably wont really work in present times, whether with an all woman cast or an all kids cast, they know that the lightsaber and the proton pack were 80s gold that they can sell to kids and adults again. Its so weird how they're basically trying to mind wipe everyone into reverting to an 80s shopping spree, like we're all going to go crazy trying to buy all the he man and star wars figurines at the toy barn.
That's what moron studio execs don't realise. They reason people like the stuff in movies is because they obsese with the film not the bits. That stuff comes after the love for the film to feel more connected. Now they want the connection straight away and it's hollow
@@MegamaXX500 You must only watch massive summer block busters. The best movies I've ever seen have been in the last 3 years. You've probably never heard of them.
"I, like any manchild, have thought about what would you do for Ghostbusters 3"
The answer is a good videogame, a cult classic
The answer for like over twenty years at this point has been "Don't make Ghostbusters 3"
Or Extreme Ghostbusters, which I found fun myself.
Can you Imagine an open world, Skyrim style Ghostbusters game? You run all around New York in a sandbox built around the story cannon.
@Dtaysche I beg to differ. That whole game was written by Reitman, Ramis, and Aykroyd. It expands on the paranormal aspects while also having the cynical funny dialog between all the original characters. Although it being in video game form allows alot of fantastical spectacle which kinda takes away from the groundedness of ghostbusters but is more practical than filming it. Also the game's programing hampers the comedic timing slightly tho I could so easily see the jokes landing well if it were a 3rd ghostbuster film.
They could just continue with the chicago ghostbusters or do what zootfly was going to do with their videogame that was cancelled because the other video game.
As a child, I only ever watched Ghostbusters on VHS and a crappy 13" tv...I had no idea Peter was passing Egon a Crunch Bar...I thought he was giving him money.
Me too!
@@kamikazetsunami9137 Nah, we never reached that level at my house.
You didn't... But your brain did.
And even though you couldn't comprehend what you were experiencing you understood the first film was a master of art.
Same. I thought I’d missed a bet somewhere, or it had been cut for some reason.
"there are not characters in this movie, there are pawns"
*cue Ishtar trailer*
I have watched many videos about Ishtar but have not brought myself to watch it lol
I thought the exact same thing!
“Three, two, three, four! Four, two, three AND!”
@@samwoodson9603 'They were just a couple of parapsychologists...'
“they were a couple of songwriters”
“The ghosts, the proton packs..it’s all true.”
“Venkman, we’re home.”
"people only started looking for the ghostbusters after they dissapeared"
@Stella Hoenheim *SNORT*
@@ebi_tempura "Here's a map that Egon left in case we need him. He doesn't want to be found by anyone."
"Somehow, the ghostbusters returned"
@@Wapaz they float now?! They float now.
Ghostbusters 3 is that one video game where you play the new guy and get stuck in on a interdimensional adventure on your first day.
That was better than the stranger things remake they just did.
You just get done learning how to use a proton pack, and next thing you now you're fighting the grey lady in some alternative dimension library. Crazy first day.
You fight book golems it's magic
That was one of my first 360 games.
Good times man.
4:31 "There are not characters in this movie, there are pawns, " is not only an all time RLM quote, but an all time quote for cynical movie reviews in general
I don't know "nostalgia is the new cocaine" has a certain ring...
These men are PAWNS
@crackstuntman2261 Thank you!! That trailer started playing on a loop in my head as soon as soon as Jay said that
Nerd Crew member: "Do you think a Egon with a proton pack could beat Vader with a lightsaber?"
Alriiiiight! Let’s give it up for the proton packs!
*proceeds to clap for five whole minutes*
@@harvesterofstorms4932 "Very cool. Very cool."
"Very cool."
you could literally ask this on r/whowouldwin
Followup question: Do you think Egon with a lightsaber could beat Vader with a proton pack?
Depends if it’s a ghostbusters or Star Wars movie
Bill Murray’s relationship with Ghostbusters today is incredibly similar to Harrison Ford’s with Star Wars
No role is too big, no acting contract is too big
Exactly, “let me off this train right now!”
@@charlesrense5199 the thing is though he likes Indy. He’s said that Indy is his favorite character to play. And he actually looked like he gave a shit about acting with 2049. That scene where he’s looking at Rachel and sheds a tear or when he sees his daughter, he is genuinely great and seems like he cares as well because he gets to actually act. Han Solo just gave him nothing to work with. The reason we love Han Solo is because it’s pretty much just Harrison Ford. Han is one of my favorite Star Wars characters ever but if that was the character I had to play for 40 years, I’d be pissed off too, because there’s not much “acting” with Han. Deckard and Indy have way more scenes of an actor having to actually act.
@@charlesrense5199 or a Presumed Innocent sequel with a cast of CGI versions of Raul Julia, Brian Dennehy, Paul Winfield and John Spencer in a plot actually based on the sequels of the original book in which the same damn thing happens to the main character 20 years in the future.
I think the main difference is that Star Wars got bad cuz of of soulless branding. Harrison Ford got jaded because he saw it coming. Ghostbusters started to suck because Bill Murray killed any possibility of preventing that. Now he's gonna spend the rest of his life getting jerked around by corporate douche bags and he knows it's his own fault.
I was really hoping at the end the granddaughter says “No ghost can escape my busting” then shoots Egon and traps him. Cut to the faces of the other original ghost busters with their jaws dropped and Bill Murray says “What the f-“ and it ends
Why is everyone every single comment on here a better movie than the one we got? I don't think I've ever seen that before
No before it ends she shouls also say "that made me feel GOOD."
That would be too smart for them to come up with 😉
Funhaus/Roosterteeth did that in a short skit many moons ago.
"Its ghost bustin time" and then she busted ghost all over the old guys
“Nostalgia Bukake” is the name of my next band.
"I've never been a fanboy, I've liked stuff." - Mike "this reminds me of Star Trek" Stoklasa
Immediately mentions the awful Picard series he hated after he says it too lol.
He’s a purist tho and has a multi-layered personality. Unlike people who completely identify with a singular IP and gave up their individuality
Reminds me of that one episode of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ where they accidentally create Professor Moriarity
Nah, Mike is a fan, not a fanboy. Mike can call out the bull%^ and inconsistency in Star Trek. A fanboy will deny and head-canon you to death.
Nah, Star Trek isn't Mike's entire personality. That's alcohol's job.
"to be fair, I don't know if ernie hudson ever takes off his jumpsuit in real life."
-jay while wearing his lightning fast vc . . . oooooooh
It’s like the costume department did the wardrobe to match the character!
"Nostalgia is the new cocaine.". No truer statement.
Doesn't feel anywhere near as good.
Nah, never was new, people are always on nostalium since the dawn of time.
@@exquize1660 yeah but nowadays it's undeniably the most commercialised it has ever been.
“The reason they keep screwing up sequels is they are literally beating a dead horse and this is a conversation we probably would have been really excited about 20 years ago. But now it’s like literally a shell of something that only people over 40 remember and it’s now some kind of twisted, weird version of itself that isn’t even worth wasting our breath on.” - Mike
If that doesn’t encapsulate the sentiment about this whole Reboot Culture, I don’t know what does.
So they don’t remember the Snyder cut being discussed in the black void? That’s the most redlettermedia thing ever
The dementia is truly setting
That was an episode of Half In The Worst
Thats also pretty Snyder cut. Not much to say about it.
well let's get this sh*t over with
Dementia is clearly passing between them
The Ghostbusters video game from 2009 was basically the real Ghostbusters 3, the original actors voiced the characters and Aykroyd and Ramis wrote the story.
Except for the mute "Rookie" character (aka the player) awkwardly shoehorned in. But yeah, that was indeed the true Ghostbusters sequel.
tbh i think this ghostbusters movie was meant to please people who say theyre ghostbusters fans because they more than likely saw the cartoon growing up more than the movie. basically people my age or slightly older who saw the cartoon and the toys. but what do you expect from Sony?
This is true, although I think they didn't write the whole story. I remember Aykroyd and Ramis are credited with "script doctoring".
And thank God it was just a game , coz it was more of a copy of the 1st movie than afterlife is. Garbage.
Can we all just agree yet that Ghostbusters 2 was actually pretty good? No, it's not nearly as good as the first(one of the greatest films ever made) but if u compare it to GB'16 & Afterlife... it's memorable & a lot of fun.
"Everyone who comes out says it was a real tearjerker, which is a great sign for a comedy", say what you will about Bill Murray, but the man cut right to the heart of everything wrong with modern media in one knife thrust.
The actual quote is, “Everyone one that has seen it says that they cry at the movie, so it should be an extremely successful comedy.”
Don’t use quotation marks if you’re going to paraphrase.
@@trumantheodorefruitty596 Erm atucaully that was a "Scare quote"... hardy hah hah.
RIP Betty White. I can't wait for the Golden Girls sequel where they all come back as CGI ghosts.
The Golden Ghost Girls.
They'll get AI'ed, like it or not.
"There are not characters in this movie, there are pawns" is one of the most brutal things I've heard come out of Jay's mouth.
THREW TWO THREE FOUR FOUR TWO THREE AND...
@@shponglemcdongle5387 They were just a couple of songwriters...
THESE MEN ARE PAWNS
I was waiting for someone to mention Ishtar.
Has to be one of the most brutal ways i've seen a movie get reality checked. I've heard the "no character in that character", i've heard the "no development" or "no personality", "rubber duck character", but to outright call them "pawns", i was like, it's already dead, please, mercy.
Jay acting like Dan Akroyd wouldn't start taking to strangers about ghosts is almost as odd as Dan is himself.
That's what I thought while watching this. In all honesty that's just what he would do irl
I still can only think of the Ishtar trailer everytime they say "Pawns!". Especially when Jay says it for the first time. I fully expected a cut to the Ishtar trailer.
Best comment on this video so far
I hated that the young girl could wear the proton pack with no struggle. The thing would weigh upwards of 50 pounds. Also that the kids put on the Ghostbusters uniform and they fit. The uniforms were for mostly overweight men in their late 30s.
Wait... how the hell didn't i notice any of that. So true what you said, oh my god 🤦🏻♂️
The kick from the energy being shot out would break bones as well. It was not at all kid friendly.
Wow, Jay's cosplay of Jay is uncanny.
...uncanny valley
There's Academy talk
He really pulls it off well.
Mike's Ghoaast shirt is almost a cosplay as well
Jay Bauman is Jay in: Half of The Bag. "Guest Appearance by Rich Evans as Mr. Plinkett."
"We've been saying Betty White jokes for years now. She is Immortal" Really tempting fate here guys.
Oh God
Personally I'm scared for Mel Brooks. He's 95 for crissake!!
That's why Mike had to add Kissinger in there, to counter the jinx
I like Ghostbusters 1 for the same reason I like RedLetterMedia. A bunch of cynical men got together for comedic effect. Definitely side with Mike on that.
I'll say one thing for this movie: I appreciate that there were more practical effects than I initially guessed there would be.
I honestly liked the movie overall. The Redletter guys just seem too cynical for me nowadays I guess.
@@melnickmultimedia the whole movie is cynical tbf
@@melnickmultimedia Cynicism is what has always driven their channel. They have been spot on with a lot of their reviews, but they forgot how to have fun at the movies.
@@TheVCRTimeMachine Totally agree with you!
The reuse to the purple wispy spirits was really nice to see. It was my favorite load in the nostalgia bukkake. Right ahead of the sounds of the proton packs firing up, or the Echo 1 siren.
Mike: This film wasn't enough of a comedy.
Also Mike: Make the grandaughter a drug addict and turn the setting into Rob Zombie's Halloween.
Because it would be fuckn hilarious
The duality of man
@@charlesrense5199 yeah, I'm also from the 90s I've lived and worked with junkie comedies, actually kinda a good time
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 "Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy." - Michael O'Donoghue
Never seen always sunny huh?
An alcoholic deadbeat mother with an drug addicted 17 years old daughter who inherits the franchise rights to the Ghostbusters, tries to make money off of it and in the end has to team up with her daughters ex-convict boyfriend to save her home village from the ghosts of evil miners sounds amazing. I want to watch THAT movie now...
* evil unionized miners.
Sounds like a great Rob Zombie film
And the daughter is trailer trash preggant and at the end of the movie it's revealed that the evil ghost villain corrupted the soul of the to be born baby so as it's born at the end it has that evil devious cheesy smile as she's holding it swaddled up rocking it and then the credits roll. That would make room for a sequel.
Ironically sounds too legitimately wholesome for this timeline, where the closest things can get to "wholesome" generally try to manipulate your emotions either through glurge, nostalgia, pandering, or all of the above. Character development seems like a dead fucking art.
Also, Ivo Shandor being in the cave randomly would indicate he assumed Gozer would have been stopped in New York and he needed to be stored at the second gate
shandor had a cult right? and they have his body in a case like vladimir lennon. they probably realized they couldnt leave their flat dead cult leader in a glass case in a high rise in new york so they put him in a cave/mine/ temple at the alternate location.
Harold Ramis said in an interview once that sequels were ridiculous and that he would never do one 😬😬
Yeah, this was clearly the foot in the door for studios holding off sequels till an actor dies, then they license the actor's likeness from their estate and put them in projects they'd never do while alive. The precedent's been set. Next time it'll be all the easier for them.
Ghostbusters II begs to differ with you.
@@lookbovine Not half as good as the first. Strong rose-tinted goggles.
Proof?
I read a few of the scripts. It kinda got worse and worse. GB going to hell isn’t a bad idea but should’ve been tweaked a bit. The one with slimers origin was weird.
Mike's favorite character: The shiftless alcoholic. Mike's suggestion for the movie: more child neglect.
More like child exploitation in this case. Could be somewhat softened by the fact that the kids don't care bc they're doing what they love anyway -- building ghost hunting weapons and testing them in public. This almost sounds like the OG Bad News Bears.
I know, right? Stop trying to make bleak stories that wouldn't be any fun. Just put on your big boy pants and go to therapy like an adult.
@@AzureKnight2 it wouldn't be bleak, it would be done in a comedic over the top way if done correctly. So I guess it would be bleak
@@peterchrist1945 Some things just don't translate well to humor, IMO. It's extremely hard to make both depressing people/concepts and seeming disdain for the franchise you're going to be a part of fun and/or funny.
Especially when it's super easy to not do that.
@@AzureKnight2 I think Mike's suggestions were absolutely hilarious. It was a dark satire which is exactly what is needed
I love it when Half in the Bag turns into writing multiple better movies than the one they just saw
I don't because then I'm reminded that we live in the reality where the real films came out and they're worse.
"What if she found out she had the rights to the Ghostbusters franchise." is actually a great god damn setup.
Down on her luck single mother with bills piling up finds out that her daughter, Egon's Granddaughter, technically owns the Ghostbusters franchise. So she starts franchising the shit out of *_Ghostbusters nostalgia_* with her help in order to save her and her kids from being kicked out of their childhood home by the bank. Y'know, like a satire and commentary about 80's franchises today.
Everything seems to be going fine. Their house is back, they got a new car and college funds for all the kids. But she starts to go beyond her original goal, feeling the greed, despite her daughter's protests.
They get a guest spot on a late-night talk show where she capitalizes on the nostalgia and anniversaries of the original events of the movie. Brave heroes, one of them her dad, saving New York twice, pretending to have been his protégé while growing up.
Even though she actually doesn't know anything about her father, Egon.
Then suddenly there's a massive ghost event that's threatening New York again or the small town or something. And who does everyone look to for help? Who do they call? The Ghostbusters. *_Her._*
@@MiniMackeroni And the reason for the giant ghost thing showing up is her trying to ring up business, but she awakens something powerful.
@@MiniMackeroni A female protagonist who has normal human ambitions and flaws? Not happening.
Had the biggest crush on Jamie Lee Curtis when i first saw it.
The joke about Hudson never taking his jumpsuit off made me laugh… but… he’s like the NICEST guy… so you get ONE Hudson joke.
Bless Ernie Hudson. I say, take those convention hall nerds for all they're worth
@@MegaZeta I'd do it... imagine having not just your kids but your great great great great grandkids college funds set up just by going to a few events where people shower you with praise.
13:35 okay a ghostbuster where Bill Muray is dealing with a union strike is something I now realize I need to see
The sad part is, most of their plot for the hypothetical 3rd film, is what happens in the Ghostbusters video game that came out years ago on the Xbox 360. You’re a new recruit that they are training to open a new franchise and since you are the new guy they give you all this experimental new equipment in case it goes wrong.
And closes up all the Evo Shandor stuff better too.
The Ghostbusters 360 game is the real GhostBusters 3.
There's even a few edits of the game on CZcams to make it into a giant movie. Recently got remastered and it's actually fun to play. Outside the original movie and first 75 or so episodes of the cartoon it's the best thing to come out of Ghostbusters.
That game recently got rerelease on the Switch not too long ago.
Not gonna lie, I was worried it had became as another forgotten license game from late 2000s. It's actually better good.
Yeah that game was awesome. Play control and story and everything
Film critic, Matt Singer, on Twitter November 16th: "Ghostbusters: Afterlife is like the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV meme for 125 minutes. To be honest, it made me kind of sad."
Oh god.. the pitch meeting episode for this movie will be 40 times "He/It/this is from the other movie!!!" oO
@@sebastianmanthey742 Very tight!
:|
I remember watching the ending in the theater and it had me feeling so incredibly used. Probably the worst I've ever felt leaving a movie
You felt incredibly used? I guess they weren't joking about the nostalgia bukkake in this review
@@kreatona4219they really weren't. It was a sticky situation.
Yeah it was good enough to get me invested but ultimately wasted it when it just got so cynical with the nostalgia and brands.
Also fancy seeing you here
Caring about movies this much is cringe
I always love when Rich is on half and the bag. He’s got good opinions on new movies!
He's not as cynical as Jay and Mike can be sometimes
@@pogcompagni that's because he's the nostalgia freak that they're making fun of in this review.
A movie where Ghostbusters became extremely over-franchised and corporate would be absolutely incredible.
Because it’s already happened
@@gnargoyle9638 Captain Obvious to the rescue
It's a product of reganomics, it would be a logical conclusion.
Similar to what Douglas Adams did with the latter Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy stories.
@@gnargoyle9638 spoiler alert, are this sarcasm or you really saw the second postcredit scene?
I got teary eye when I saw Jay's Lightning Fast VCR Repair Jacket, but I ugly cried when I saw all three of the original Half in The Bag cast together on screen.
How can you not, remember Star Wars:The Force Awakens!
Idk I hate when Hollywood use cgi to bring back dead actors.. so uncanny with Rich sitting there
I also got teary eyed when I saw how unfunny Red Letter Media have become.
Especially Mike who turned from one of the funniest guys on youtube into just "the bully". - with nothing funny to say.
In fact my comment is funnier than red letter media today.
@@fyfyi6053 nah lmao you’re the unfunny one here lol more of a kill joy if anything :)
@@YurrWhat cry
"Nostalgia bukkake" lmfao Mike has such a way with words
This is my favorite Half in the Bag after Rise of Skywalker. Just keeps on giving.
“If there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say”. Great cut.
Solid cut
Snyder Cut
"Nostalgia is the new cocaine." - that made my day.
Slamming nostalgia just doen't have the same impact...
Is it though?
Cocaine gets shit done.
Get sad every time I watch old half in the bags and new ones because they all aged so much :(
@@sanguine2552 that’s what happens lol
At least cocaine can help you write a good screenplay
At this point, I consider the Xbox360/PS3 ghostbusters game the official 3rd in the franchise. Played it as a kid and I remember at the time there was a rumor going around that Dan akyroid and Harold Ramis were motivated to do a 3rd movie, but bill Muray was uncooperative. It was a great game with an engaging story. And one of the first games I actually purchased a strategy guide for.
This might be my favorite opening Jay has ever done. He's so dead inside.
We are Jay Bauman.
I think his halloween ends one is hard to top. But this is pretty close
I'M DEAD INSIDE 😀😀😀
Hearing Mike say “Ghost” in his Wisconsin accent is what makes this worth it.
I'm from Wisconsin so I don't hear it lmao
Also from wisconsin, but moved to florida. Mike doesn’t have an accent. Not even close
I'm pretty sure none of them are 'from' Wisconsin. Mike and Rich are from Chicago, I think.
@@joet7580 You hear him say Winnebago?
Wisconsin is that place in news all the time
“Nostalgia Bukkake” gave me a genuine spit take.
At least we know you don't swallow, so clean-up is going to be time consuming.
Bustin' makes me feel good.
I feel so funky
Hilarious
Bustin' makes him feel good
"If there's a paycheck in it, i'll believe anything you say." Well played! i laughed super hard.
Ghostbusters 3 was the 2009 game with the original cast
I like the idea of the movie being about kids discovering forgotten tech they don't understand how to use.
It's a metaphor for Hollywood adaptations, sequels and reboots.
10/10 best comment
The little girl sure knew how to use the tech
"If you can use the TikTok, you can use the proton pack!"
@@Corbomite_Meatballs *TikTok text to speech voice* "Check out this devious lick" *camera pans to show a proton back stuffed into a big bag*
@@tadpolegaming4510 I can hear that godawful TTS voice from your comment.
"Nostalgia Bukkake" has to be up there with Mike's greatest ever quotes.
@@ryanjavierortega8513 oh no
I feel like that will soon become the accepted fan terminology for that type of thing.
I got the feeling the movie would be like this from the 2nd trailer. I think that's the one where they showed the marshmellow people in walmart and I got the strongest memberberries vibes. The first trailer was alright and didn't go overboard but holy shit at the 2nd one. I was out after that one.
Hes more into vulcan bukkake.
I’m predicting within the next 5 years, we’re going to see a CGI Christopher Reeve Superman show up to save the day again. Hell, it might even happen in The Flash…
Good God no.
Hollywood would do it.
CGI Reeves himself will look wonky, but the CGI wheelchair will look 100% spot-on.
This aged well, there are indeed rumors now of CGI Christopher Reeve, Lynda Carter and Adam West appearing in The Flash.
Hopefully Ezra Miller and his horrible actions have killed that franchise dead.
you were right
*"What can I say? It's really all about the family... what the f*ck is wrong with you all?"*
- Carrie Fisher, Ghostbusters Rebooted 2022
"Our generation will never let go of our toys." -- Rich Evans 2021.
It's the most insightful thing said in the entire video
True statement I do not see old people talk about Casablanca like gen x does about star wars
i grew up watching old bugs bunny and popeye cartoons, so not sure this observation is really unique to 80s era
Can't wait for Casablanca 2 The Revenge of Rick!
The obsession in this culture with movies made for children 40 years ago is deeply disturbing. Plus the takeaway from these films just misses the point.
one thing doesn't change throughout the years: i always want to watch movies based on Mike's idea more than the actual reviewed movie
It’s true
You can always trust a cynical movie critic to have better ideas than the executives who usually do the job. Because people like Mike will only suggest ideas that don't make them feel sad and hollow inside.
Need someone to animate them!
Mike devolving into madness is great "Make her meth, alcoholic, drug addicted... Just make them the worst!"
In a far outpammm of the unijammm all these pitches are real blockbusters, ihhosweet hindsight
I never went to them, but do you remember those theme park rides in the movie studios? The T2 experience, the star wars death star run, stepping into the DeLorean with Doc Brown? That's what now passes for "modern blockbuster". They are just packaging up familiar scenes and nostalgia for props into 2 hour cash grabs. Gone is any thought or originality or, heaven forbid, movies that entertain and allow us to escape through their stories. It's just a theme park ride. I think we have passed the golden age of these types of movies: quirky, original productions that gambled with a ridiculous concept and created something special.
Whats worse is that the most influential parts of the discourse seems to think that Marvel movies are actually high art and that all else falls under the umbrella of “film bro” and that taking film seriously is an uninteresting venture. People WANT generic and formulaic. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers
Ive seen dozens of threads attempting hald baked analysis of how Scorsese makes “toxic” and “shallow” films but that Marvel films are about universal human values. Marvel is the perfect Neoliberal artform. Ideology theme park
Ooh, what a metaphor! *Applause* Yes you are exactly on point. All these movies are just the franchise experience. With no originality or nutrition. Like a McDonald's hamburger, made of soy and industrial plastic.
@@itsallgoodman4108shallow and toxic? Oh God, this world doesn't even deserve Scorsese anymore.
The problem with Ghostbusters is that people legit look at the OG first two as ACTUAL serious hero movies. I got in a big debate with an old friend. Told him to go back and watch it with comedy in mind. He text me days later apologizing. People really don't get the point of what the Ghostbusters where trying to say
You have to admit though, the designs and universe is awesome. I'd love more Ghost Buster video games and in-universe content that does not involve the OG cast. I just really like the idea of science vs ghosts, it's fun.
Part of the problem I think is that the franchise surrounding the first film also doesn't get its cynicism so it ends up warping the perception of what that first film was like to people who haven't revisited it in some time or didn't watch it at all, I didn't grow up with the series so I always assumed it was a more sincere Star Wars kinda movie with emphasis on comedy rather than the cynical satire it actually is because of this nostalgia tinted perception of it that Hollywood and 80's consumer manchildren perpetuated.
Compelling argument but neither movie needs a disclaimer telling the audience: "This movie is a comedy!" Ghostbusters is funny through and through but it's not so comedic that it doesn't take itself seriously when appropriate. Reitman and Ramis always talked about how the comedy is mundane i.e. Louis' attack by a terror dog in full view of a restaurant is forgotten in a New York minute. I could go on but being a comedy doesn't mean that's all the movie is capable of and the franchise has proven that.
"they don't understand movies like I do! Now that I've explained to them the proper way to watch movies, they hate everything just like I do"
Speaking of 80's properties that will never die...
Robert Zemeckis has been reported as saying that as long as he's alive, he won't allow a remake/reboot/prequel/sequel to Back to the Future. And the only thing I can ever bring myself to think about is what the standing script and casting list is for Back to the Future 4 that 100% exists that's just waiting in the wings for him to croak so that it can be announced.
Whatever it is, you can bet Chris Pratt or Finn Wolfhard will be in it.
Meet Martha mcfly, played by Daisy Riddly, and professor Emma Brown played by Whoopi Goldberg , as hilarity ensues when this unlikely duo go back in time to fight misogyny and slavery .
Back to the future 4 , directed by Paul Feig
@@badjujubes what do you mean or? They're probably both in it
I would only support a BTTF remake of Marty bangs his mother's in a full ten minute unbroken, Irriversable like, take.
@Stella Hoenheim oh my God. Can you imagine an elderly Michael J Fox on talk shows - looking depressed as shit - trying to sell this movie?
I want to see Mike’s version of GhostBusters 3… “you fired the GhostBusters because they wanted to unionize?” GENIUS!
And then the new corporate guy becomes the Big Bad. Send RLM the royalty check already, Sony!
Ghostbusters 3 was already made. It's a video game on 360. It got a remaster for PS4/PC/Xbox One and Switch.
Ghostbusters: Union Busting
Especially with all the safety shit that’s going wrong in the entertainment industry now, it’d be perfect
I think what irked me the most was the cgi Harold ramis, not just on the ethical idea of using a celebrity post-mortem to create media/promote products, but also that he doesn't say anything? I guess they might've thought having a ramis-soundalike or an impressionist would be awkward but by saying it feels more like the puppeteering of a corpse
Heaven forbid the puppeteering of the corpse _feel_ like the puppeteering of a corpse
He wasn't used in any promotion material.
... And the film was dedicated to him.
He had a lot of input and wrote a lot of what was in the story of this beautiful and wonderful movie. It was done with the blessing of the family and is what he would have wanted. The additional respect was in that they didn't have anyone voice his character.
"This beatiful and wonderful movie"
Yeah your comment is definitely coming from a place of bias.
the idea yall had for the mom selling the logo etc and the dead miners returning is seriously a great idea and would've def made for a better film.
Gotta say, I’m looking forward to ‘Caddyshack: Afterlife’ -
Where the grandkid of Rodney Dangerfield realises that golf is in his blood and the Bushwood Country Club is his destiny. Can’t wait for the lingering and loving shots of Chevy Chase’s golf club and Bill Murray’s pitchfork. It’s the heartwarming, rootsy, rural-drama Caddyshack sequel we’ve always wanted.
Oh God, you KNOW they'll do it too, don't give them ideas.
Can't forget about the baby gophers that are there for literally no reason
Then he stumbles into a secret room. And then we got Nostalgia shots of him seeing Rodney's automatic golf bag for the first time.
I'm already crying!
Chevy isn’t even dead, just nobody wants to work with him
"They won't let it die."
LITERALLY. Harold Ramis actually died and they just brought him back in the computer.
the real ghostbusters sequel will be the fans trying to get the dead CGI cast back into the grave
I can add one more thing. In the first ghostbuster movie they've stated Gozer always choose a different form to appear.
It's supposed to be a small, dead mining town in Oklahoma, but it's got this brand new, clean Walmart and a well-funded police force. Apparently, it is also the most diverse town in the United States.
There are also...... Ghosts
@@TheMBE2003 Well, I've had some experiences that make me a believer there. I'm fine with ghosts.
@@TheMBE2003 Small towns frequently have ghost stories and inordinate amounts of superstition. They also often have majority aging, white populations, really shitty buildings and stores, and nonexistent police forces. If it takes place in the real world, make it true to life. You wouldn't portray New York as white and polite, or Costa Rica as all black and landlocked.
@@ColemanJRimer You couldn't be funnier if it were on purpose
diverse? There was mostly just white people in the film.
I love that one RLM show where they sit around and talk about movies.
The Ellen show?
For a looooooooong time
Oh yeah I remember that one
The Star Trek show with Mike and Rich? I remember that show
Is this replacing that one show where they all sit around and talk about movies?
I would’ve seen Mike’s plot of ghostbusters unionizing a dozen times in theaters.
@Stella Hoenheim I’ve never had the words to express exactly what you just said but you hit the nail on the head. The fact that studios make the movie to be seen once whereas making a movie to be seen and enjoyed multiple times. The last movies I’ve seen multiple times have been Baby Driver, Infinity War, Blade Runner 2049, and Mad Max: Fury Road. To me the saddest part about all those movies I’ve mentioned though is that Baby Driver is the only original one. I love all those films but there’s such a lack of originality and creative expression with films nowadays.
@@henghistbluetooth7882 cynical huh? And "all nostalgia is bad?" Kind of like exactly how the original ghostbusters was?
I think we've reach a point where people just think they feel nostalgic but they really don't. "I recognise that!" is not nostalgia.
There is a term for feeling nostalgia for something you never experienced. not sure what it is though.
The mint in box exclusive fan-backed backpack pack Rey action figure on the table works on so many levels in this review that I can't even process.
I just imagine Ray's story should have been about him traveling the world in search of ancient Gozerian monuments with a plan to destroy them but he ends up as Interpol's most-wanted for indiscriminately blowing up UN world heritage sites
Or even better, literally anyone else that was in Tobins Spirit Guide other than the baddie that was in the first one. In this sense, GB2 was many times better than GBA
Ray accidentally the Taliban.
Aykroyd has some legitimately crazy, but tremendously original ideas that could have made followup films and media so much more entertaining. Shoot, even the Ghostbusters animated series found 140 entertaining stories worth telling.
@@nathanddrews I'd take a ghost influenced by Gozer's impact coming back and possessing the Podcast kid for revenge against Ray Stantz...because they're just that petty over this trainwreck.
Or get Pazuzu ( the Exorcist one) Its ancient Assyrian and Babylonian.
It really is odd that there's this kind of emotional nostalgia for a silly comedy like Ghostbusters. Like, imagine them doing a teary-eyed nostalgia sequel to Airplane.
Delete this comment before Hollywood reads it, and gets inspired.
It’s more like if in 2050 they do an emotional sequel to that 21 Jump Street movie with Jonah Hill. Just insane behaviour.
There'd be a five minute scene of everyone fondly remembering the "Calm down, get a hold of yourself!" woman as they slap and shake her corpse at the funeral while that Sarah McLachlan song they use for the dog commercials plays.
Airplane 3: 9/11
Airplane 2022, but the twist is that it's set in an alternate timeline where the ghost of Leslie Nielsen prevents a national tragedy. That tragedy? Well that there's the best part pal. Twist ending; we realize that the eponymous Airplane ends up hijacked by terrorists, and is bound for New York on September 11th, 2001.
Thankfully, Ghostly Nielsen saves the day with paranormal hijinka
Half in the Bag: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is going to be exciting.
Ghostbusters: Nostalgia Bating.
im so glad they finally made a half in the bag about dune!
It's about family and that's what's so powerful about it.
It broke new ground!
DO YOU REMEMBER!!!! "It's sort of like poetry it rhymes.
Very coool
this a thing now because more funk stay puft toys to buy for money base on this movie
The Guardian's review of this movie had the perfect line: "Here, we can find a damning summary of modern Hollywood's default mode-a nostalgia object, drained of personality and fitted into a dully palatable mold, custom-made for a fandom that worships everything and respects nothing."
“…that worships everything and respects nothing.” Goddamn that’s a poignant line
Perfectly embodied in the ridiculous quotes at the end.
@@Sinisterlizards and yet when we respect something like the Star Wars trilogy and talk shit on the insult that was the sequels then ‘fanboys are toxic’, give me a break lol
Rage channels on yt in shock right now
@@kostajovanovic3711 yes
Ray never would’ve said that Egon can burn in Hell.
Sometimes I come back to this video to mourn their pitch for Ghostbusters 3 and the fact that it will never exist
Lmao seeing my Rich animation in this was a nice surprise. Thank you
Congrats.
Thanks for commenting! I was wondering who made that
Your animation of Rich was great 👍
Your vids look great!
Thankfully that animation will be able to sell nerd crates long after Rich leaves us.
"Put down the flask, and pickup the proton pack!"
Coincidentally, this is what Ramis yelled at Murray every day when shooting the first Ghostbusters.
Like Jay's amazing intro said: Cocaine was sadly missing during the production of this film
As a longtime massive Ghostbusters 84 fan...I have to agree with most of what is said here sadly.
In The Extreme Ghostbusters (completely underrated series IMO) they build a GIANT ghost trap out of a garbage truck, which was AWESOME. And they use it to catch a giant Cthulu type ghost in NYC. I would like to have seen something like that too. I thought the silos were going to be a trap or there to be a huge underground trap. However, from the effect of Gozer being trapped, it seems like they were ripped apart and put into multiple traps, so that one trap being opened wouldn't constitute a return of Gozer.
The fan made porn is also worth a watch. In many ways it's more respectful than a dead dude on screen.
They did the garbage truck ghost trap, on the Real Ghostbusters as well.
The original Ghostbusters had a "feel" that modern movies don't have anymore. There's a distinct lack of slick-ness to the original that nobody bothers to replicate anymore, not just stylistically, but tonally. There's no veneer of ironic detachment in the comedy that Marvel movies beat to death, it was just funny. Even if Murray is kind of the godfather of that kind of humor, it comes off way more sincere in the original.
God I miss Harold Ramis.
The thing about the first Ghostbusters is that the Ghostbusters themselves aren't cool at all. They're exterminators. They're all like, 30something balding dudes. They're shlubby and dorky and weird, and they literally never get a moment where they suddenly graduate from shlubs to cool badasses. The idea of badass Ghostbusters just kinda doesn't work, at least with the original cast.
Completely agree. Music has suffered the same fate. Nothing feels authentic anymore, really. Plus the people writing and directing these movies of that era were, and I might get shit for saying this, significantly more creative and talented.
Modern movies lost that feel because sincerity itself barely exists in modern popular culture. The original movie found humor in the contrast between irony, silliness and sincerity. Today every fucking piece of media you see is ironic. Ironic humor has lost all it's force because there's nothing to contrast it with.
There's that scene in the 84 movie where they have the TV commercial. It's funny because it's mocking what commercials were like back then -- they would show serious-looking people trying to appear respectable and sincere so they could sell you a product. That joke could never work now because commercials today don't do that anymore, now every commercial is self-referentially mocking the idea of commercials.
You can't recapture the tone of Ghostbusters because the culture it referenced and parodied doesn't exist anymore.
Why doesn't that exist anymore? Does it exist somewhere? I like that a lot. Hell even the OG Star Wars was a bit like that.
@@chiefchimp2789 Maybe a better way to phrase it is "straight-forwardness." There's a lack of straight-forwardness.
"we won't give up our toys," is the most real thing anyone has said ever.
How can we when daddy gets to mad when he has some booze.
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
- 1 Corinthians 13
It‘s okay to still like the toys but forcing them onto each following generation is just annoying as hell. Too bad that making mediocre new movies that evoke amazing old ones is so successful.
@@theviledelinquent3920 I liked Ghost in the Shell, too.
Tell me about it...
I just got myself a C64Maxi and a Retrotink
Finally got around to watching this tonight. It’s the fact they turn up with proton packs that get me. Ray was pissed specifically because Egon buggered off with all their kit. We’re also shown why: because he had to rig the 4 of them together to point down the hole. It made no sense.
Wow 2 years later and I never questioned where they got the proton packs from.
A 12 year old girl recognized and repaired a miniaturized particle accelerator. That happened in this movie and no one in the writers room objected.
Miniture Mary Sue.
Yeah, I don't mind genius kids, but there is a limit or else you get the Wesley Crusher effect. This movie needed to be about adults with maybe one kid.
Her talking to Paul Rudd and being as knowledgeable about earthquakes as she was while also installing a lathe in her apartment and recognizing parts of the accelerator and (even with the help of her ghost grandfather) repairing it.... it went over the line.
A boyscout built a nuclear reactor in his back yard. He didn't even have the internet.
Dan Akroyd is quoted saying that the Ghostbusters video game is what the third true sequel to Ghostbusters would have been. Akroyd had a part in creating the video game. They basically find an island where all the slime is being produced. It was actually pretty good and interesting. So check it out if you are a fan of Ghostbusters.
The game finally answered the question of where the slime beneath NY came from. Even though GBII tried to tie the slime with Vigo it always felt like they existed separately.
Thanks for the tip!
I mean, I agree with it, but not because Aykroyd said it. Let's face it, he's been desperate to revive this franchise for years. He'll praise anything that has the Ghostbusters brand.
The Ghostbusters game is so chock-full of amazing lore and the story is spectacular. I've always wished it was adapted somewhat into a film and I'll always accept it as the third sequel.
I know I ugly cried when I played ghostbusters the movie the game
Rich saw it coming. He was trying to save Betty White from the Stoklasa curse. RIP
Not all heroes wear capes
First they killed Stan Lee and now Betty White. Maybe they should start political podcasts too.
the stoklasa curse works on everyone but william shatner
What is the stoklasa curse?
@@MotokoKusanagi Anytime he talks about an old actor they die
49:30 I think the idea in the movie is (and this is pretty much shown in the beginning) that Egon was on his own on that farm, so he built that minefield of traps to be able to lure ghosts to his house and then catch them there without help. Because it's shown that one proton pack isn't enough to catch them and you can't fixate them and then position a trap beneath them (as shown in the original movies) without support. So this was his workaround, the trap minefield wasn't meant to catch Gozer.
That being said I moderately enjoyed Afterlife. It could have easily been much better if they focussed more on the setting and the characters and didn't make it a nonstop action movie pretty much after 20 minutes of introduction. Copying much of the first movie in the second half didn't help either of course. I liked many of the elements though, the small rural town setting, the characters, the John-Williamsesque soundtrack, the visual effects, even the Walmart scene worked for me, it had a nice Gremlins-like charme to it. Of course the idea to use tiny marshmellow men was a bit problematic since the original marshmellow man was not just some creature but the result of a very specific event in the first movie. But I could have lived with it. All in all the movie was too light on telling its own story, it felt rushed and all about getting to the action and the references.
@@mangolassi_. I forgive the Mini Pufts because they remind me of mischievous parrotlets.
Egon but not forgotten