- November 30th, 2021, 1:08 am#4962106
So…what was Gozer’s plan?
In the original Gozer transforms into its destructor form. That’s the end game. The portal opens, Gozer comes through and it’s new form is chosen.
So here..Gozer just…does nothing. And takes the same form as in 1984, a “girl”. I think the movie missed a huge opportunity by trying to not out do the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Think of all the funny things they could’ve done. And it doesn’t have to undercut the emotional ending because the final showdown is with the destructor form.
They could chosen Gozer to be…a tiny pebble. Or an Apple. Or a bucket of KFC. A tree. Or some random celebrity like…Daniel Day Lewis. Meryl Streep. A tampon. Phoebe thinks of something so mundane and harmless. An ice cream cone. Or a snow man which will melt in the Summerville heat.
You get the idea. But Gozer just doesn’t do anything. There’s no purpose to her arrival beyond “here I am”. I would’ve liked to see her doing something new beyond uncrossing the streams. She does the finger tip lightning. Ok. What else you got? How about some telekinesis? Some other ghosts or beings are summoned thru the temple.
The more I sit with this movie the more it’s serious lack of imagination bothers me.
And a trap holds Gozer? I don’t think I like that. Gozer needed to be destroyed. And the choose the form of your destruction would be a great way. Phoebe thinks of a form so ridiculous that it’s literally an inanimate object.
I don’t mind that the new movie has Gozer being the villain. No. I mind that they do less with it than the original movie. Nothing new is said or done.
I’m interested to see how I feel about this movie rewatching it over and over because I can’t stop going over the details that make no sense and story beats that are done flippantly because the first film did them.
In the original Gozer transforms into its destructor form. That’s the end game. The portal opens, Gozer comes through and it’s new form is chosen.
So here..Gozer just…does nothing. And takes the same form as in 1984, a “girl”. I think the movie missed a huge opportunity by trying to not out do the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Think of all the funny things they could’ve done. And it doesn’t have to undercut the emotional ending because the final showdown is with the destructor form.
They could chosen Gozer to be…a tiny pebble. Or an Apple. Or a bucket of KFC. A tree. Or some random celebrity like…Daniel Day Lewis. Meryl Streep. A tampon. Phoebe thinks of something so mundane and harmless. An ice cream cone. Or a snow man which will melt in the Summerville heat.
You get the idea. But Gozer just doesn’t do anything. There’s no purpose to her arrival beyond “here I am”. I would’ve liked to see her doing something new beyond uncrossing the streams. She does the finger tip lightning. Ok. What else you got? How about some telekinesis? Some other ghosts or beings are summoned thru the temple.
The more I sit with this movie the more it’s serious lack of imagination bothers me.
And a trap holds Gozer? I don’t think I like that. Gozer needed to be destroyed. And the choose the form of your destruction would be a great way. Phoebe thinks of a form so ridiculous that it’s literally an inanimate object.
I don’t mind that the new movie has Gozer being the villain. No. I mind that they do less with it than the original movie. Nothing new is said or done.
I’m interested to see how I feel about this movie rewatching it over and over because I can’t stop going over the details that make no sense and story beats that are done flippantly because the first film did them.