scythemantis wrote:
Yes. Exactly. That IS what Ghostbusters is about. It is about the idea of a hi-tech extermination service for ghosts, in a world where all kinds of weird ghosts and demons and spirits cause trouble for humans.
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I think this is the problem behind most of the arguments here. Ghostbusters means different thing to different people. For some all you need to be considered Ghostbusters is that it contains ghosts and that they are busted. Pretty simple, but I've seen a couple people that would be very upset if the ghosts were destroyed/ dissipated (like IDW's ghostsmashers) instead of trapped and contained. For them it wouldn't be Ghostbusters.
Others care less about the tech side and more about the supernatural side. A lot of people like how seriously or at least researched the lore of GB is. Everybody likes the Keymaster & Gatekeeper jokes but others like the reference to ancient cults where sex magic is a serious part of their beliefs. In IDW's series a lot of their ghosts and plot lines involve "real" historical people and lore like the current Macguffin in GB International.
For still more people it's about the characters. For them GB is all about Peter Venkman and Egon Spengler (or Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd). There are still people out there who dislike or haven't seen Star Trek: The Next Generation because for them it's Kirk, Spock, McCoy or bust. Granted the quality and success of Next Generation make these people very few but they are out there.
And that is where you lost me a little.
In fact, I'd be absolutely all for a TMNT series with entirely new turtles as well. Isn't anybody sick to death of the same team, after more than a dozen turtle reboots?
I'm pretty sure you would be in the minority on that one. TMNT has always been about those specific characters and not really about the concept of normal turtles being mutated into superhuman vigilantes.
Star Wars doesn't seem to have this problem. For my experience there are 2 types of SW fans. You've got the Jedi fans, who are all about the lightsabers and space magic and the X-wing fans, who want space battles all the time and drool over all the tech, vehicles, and hardware. Star Wars is big enough to offer a lot to all of their fans and there is a lot of overlap between them. For example, I am decidedly on the X-wing side but loved the KOTOR series.
The SW fans don't seem to be fighting each other over the direction of the franchise or debating what it's meaning even is, though to be fair its not like I'm checking their fan sites or forums to check.
I don't know why GB fans aren't able to do the same.
For me Ghostbusters is the total package. Being born in '84 I've always seen the movies and RGB as one and it had it all. GB is about 4 best friends who live and work together, in a cool firehouse HQ, using science and cool technology to battle the supernatural and catch ghosts. GB is 4 ordinary guys who regularly save the world by the seat of their pants and are funny and have fun doing it. And their car is stupid awesome.
Because this is my view of what GB is about I have some problems with the reboot and the direction they want to take it in. Getting it back to the original topic I would rather have the guys in the universe. The concept and franchise is big enough that there is room to expand and the OGB's don't need to be in everything but for me they do need to exist.
That is my major problem with this movie but I understand why they are doing (some of) the things that they are. I just simple disagree with it. If only everybody could just leave it at that.
Sorry for the long post. If you made it this far you get a
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