What Are You Doing, Ray?
Dan Aykroyd, I'm begging you now, please don't ruin Ghostbusters. I watched Ghostbusters 2 for the first time in years this weekend, and although it certainly had its share of walking-Statue-of-Liberty-controlled-by-Nintendo-controller and characters-somehow-in-the-Renaissance-painting-at-the-end moments that had me rolling my eyes, I wouldn't say it ruined Ghostbusters. It just didn't help Ghostbusters very much, and now the series is in a dangerous spot. The third film is going to be the make-or-break factor deciding if Ghostbusters will be looked back on as great-though-uneven franchise or a single great movie with some increasingly ill-conceived follow-ups.
I'd love to believe Ghostbusters 3 could still somehow be great, but then Dan Aykroyd says this to The Guardian:
There'll be a whole new generation that has to be trained and a leader that you'll all love when you meet her," says Aykroyd. "There'll be lots of cadets, boys and girls who'll be learning how to use the neuron splitter and the inter-planet interceptor - new tools to enable them to slip from dimension to dimension."
The inter-planet interceptor, a new tool that enables them to slip from dimension to dimension. Oh, brother. Obviously I have no idea how that might play out in the script or on screen, but that sounds terrible. That's sounds like one of the lesser episodes of the Ghostbusters cartoon. "Slimer runs away from home and back to Dimension Ghost, and the guys have to use Egon's inter-planet interceptor to teleport over there and save Slimer from the ghost bullies that won't accept him being a friend-of-humans." I'm pretty sure that was an episode.
Anyway, please don't ruin Ghostbusters. That's all.