May 27 2009What 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.
Reader Comments
1. che-che - May 27, 2009 5:09 PM
damn....DAMN! i dont like the whole idea of a school and cadets type of thing. well shit, i guess i will hang on to the original movie even tighter.
2. Stuey - May 27, 2009 5:22 PM
It was already ruined the second they made the game and put the ULTRA DOUCHES Jason and Grant from Fake Hunters err I mean Ghost Hunters on it.
Shhhh don't tell anyone I said the word Ghost and Hunter in the same sentence. They like to sue because they think they own the word. shhhh shhhhh
3. Mike - May 27, 2009 6:18 PM
That was an episode. It was written by Babylon 5's J. Michael Straczynski oddly enough.
That always seemed strange to me since I liked that episode and hate everything else he's ever done.
4. kjetil - May 27, 2009 6:52 PM
This sucks, the reason why remakes the past 2 years has been a success is because things are a bit more mature, a little more thought through.. Batman being the prime example. This, in my oppinion, is de-evolving the genre, making it kiddy-friendly and wrapped in pink ribbons! Ghostbusters for grownups would be cool!
5. jp - May 27, 2009 8:41 PM
I think it'll be like Indy 4 at best, which seemed to split the fanbase.
At worst, Blues Brothers 2000 ver. Ghostbusters
6. fordongas - May 27, 2009 9:05 PM
Anyone remember what Aykroyd did to 'The Blue's Brothers'... That's right, a little steaming pile known as 'Blues Brother's 2000'. Ghostbuster's is a dead franchise walking, abandon all hope ye who read this blog!
7. NiN - May 28, 2009 3:56 AM
Sounds like he's actually taking Ghostbusters back to his original idea which was based around the Ghostbusters being part of a big corporation and they went around in a sort of spaceship travelling through space, time and dimensions in their hunt for ghosts. That was when it was supposed to star him and Belushi.
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9. Mark Farson - May 28, 2009 12:09 PM
I'm thinking they should get Rodriguez to direct this now, if this is where they intend to go.
10. Dragon - May 28, 2009 12:31 PM
This new idea sucks! What happened with the whole Seth Rogan thing?
11. FuzzyBean - May 28, 2009 1:17 PM
If Kennedy assassinations were sequels, Aykroyd would be the producer.
12. Jeff W. - May 28, 2009 2:01 PM
"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 can't really conceive of a lower-stakes scenario than that. Ghostbusters II was worse enough than the original to take any pressure of another flick, imo.
13. Gando - May 28, 2009 3:49 PM
I've to dig really deep in the archives of my memory! Yeah,i liked Ghostbusters.I remember the special effects were really good! It's a quality movie,hope they continue that way!