Ivan Reitman film works well for this age
By David Josselyn
When the trailer first appeared for the new Ghostbusters film, it quickly earned the title “most hated trailer of 2016.” I think the biggest reason was confusion surround what this new movie was supposed to be; a sequel or a remake. The trailer opens with the words, “30 years ago four scientists saved New York, this summer a new team will answer the call.” All expectation from those words is a sequel, but the imagery that followed sure seemed to take the same path as the original with no acknowledgment that there were ever ghostbusters before this. No wonder people were confused! The original 1984 film, starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson, was something unique and different featuring favored actors from Saturday Night Live and SCTV. The film never took itself seriously and the dead-pan humor from Murray and Ramis kept the movie from straying into philosophical and theological territory concerning spectral phenomenon. A nostalgia built around the original has preserved it as something special, so it is with trepidation that the 2016 movie is considered.
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