Is this a reboot or continuation of the original
story? They have been saying all along that it’s a reboot and the first two
films did not happen. The opening text seems to say that the other films did
happen and we are in the same universe. Which I am fine with if that is the way
they are going. I prefer that actually to a straight reboot. I have always
wanted a Ghostbusters 3. I don’t care if it’s with a different group of people
or that they are all girls, just give me more Ghostbusters. I guess we’ll just
have to wait and see for the movie, the initial text hooked me though and got
me excited with the Ghostbuster song playing
Then we get the opening shot of the trailer
which seems to be an homage to the originals movies opening scene. The opening
scene from the first ghostbusters is brilliant. It built tension and excitement
and then ended with a fantastic payoff joke. This just had Kristen Wiig getting
thrown up on. After the strong start of
just having text flash, it immediately lost me. I’ve watched the trailer a
couple of times now, and it is not as jarring the second or third time, but I
don’t think they should have tried to recapture such an iconic scene and then
display it in the trailer
Then the rest of the trailer I thought was good.
I was immediately drawn to Mellissa McKinnon character Jillian Holtzamann. She
made me laugh during the middle part of the trailer. Watching it again her
facial expression are amazing and I am instantly intrigued by her. McCarthy
though seems out of place. It seems like she is going to play a character
similar to Ray which I think she can pull off, but the trailer did not
highlight this fact well.
Then the end lost me again. Why go with possession
and then spoof The Exorcist? They took the opening of original Ghostbusters and
then ended with a spoof of The Exorcist and neither clip worked for me.
Regardless I’m going to be in the theater on a Thursday
night when this movie comes out. I love Ghostbusters. It is probably one of my
top 5 films from my childhood, and something I can still re-watch endlessly. I
love the second one, which I’ll admit isn’t as good, but I still love it. I want this movie to be good. I wanted a
continuation and if that is what we are getting then great, if not I’m okay
with that too. I just want a good movie and this trailer did little make me
thing this movie will be good.
Though I’ll admit I haven’t liked many trailers
for Paul Feig’s movies. Spy looked horrible, but I loved it. I still haven’t
seen all of the The Heat, but apparently it’s good too, but I thought it looked
bad from the trailers. I don’t think I even like The Bridesmaids trailer, but I
love that movie as well. Maybe he should find someone else to cut his trailers,
or if he does it himself the let someone else do it.
Trailers are supposed to get you excited for the
movie, this leaves me worried. For a movie that already has so much negativity
thrown at it, The Trailer needed to be fantastic, and sadly I don’t think this delivered.
I can only hope the movie, like other Paul Fieig’s movies, is vastly superior to
the trailer..
Let
me know what you thought of the trailer and if you liked it or hated it.
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