That trailer did nothing for me, if I'm being honest.

They're not even in NYC!

Totally on board, this looks like a blast.

I'm in, that gave me major goose bumps! Woah sweet replica!!

I wish I saw what people are seeing in this trailer.

I definitely prefer when trailers don't give jump-cut summary of entire movie, but this felt like an extended teaser trailer. Besides having Rudd & Sudekis, it's hard to tell if it's even going for comedy, or an action-adventure like Jumanji. And yeah, the Stranger Things derivative vibes are a little too strong. Hopefully it's good, but it also sucks that it won't be able to be separated from the religion formed around worshiping the original and hating the recent reboot.

jokershady said:

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anyone else see that the gate above the mine was SHANDOR mining!! as in EVO SHANDOR from the first movie who built the building where everything went down?!?!

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If you haven't played it, read the plot for the video game they came out with. That plot was developed to be a continuation and almost "3rd movie" plot. And it has a LOT of Shandor in it. And as I said before, the Shandor / Gozer stuff from the first movie is insanely creepy and would be a slam dunk if they could revitalize it and modernize it in this movie.. which looks like what they're doing.

I still can't tell if this is "Egon's kids find his old stuff and stumble their way through saving the day", or a true new generation of Ghostbusters materializing and forming a cinematic universe or ongoing story through multiple movies. If it's the former, yuck. I would likely enjoy it, but Ghostbusters would only be in name only.

From wiki..

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Plot
A supernatural energy pulse emanates from the Gozer exhibit at the Museum of Natural History, engulfing New York City and increasing supernatural activity. The pulse liberates a captive ghost in the Ghostbusters' headquarters, and they and their rookie pursue it to the Sedgewick Hotel. They find that the hotel is now haunted by dozens of ghosts, and that the Destructor Form of Gozer, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, has returned and is wreaking havoc throughout the city. They successfully destroy the Marshmallow Man, noting that it was weaker than their previous encounter with it and that it was pursuing a young woman, Dr. Ilyssa Selwyn.

Another haunting at the New York Public Library draws the team into a confrontation with the Librarian Ghost. They learn that while alive, the Librarian Ghost had been murdered by the Collector, a serial killer, after refusing to give him a rare book, the Gozerian codex. After capturing the Librarian Ghost, a portal opens to the Ghost World. The Ghostbusters travel through and defeat the spirit of the Collector, reborn as the god Azetlor. A recurring symbol the team sees in the haunted locations is revealed to be a mandala representing a spiritual labyrinth running throughout the city with major nodes positioned at the library, museum, hotel, and in the Hudson River. Egon hypothesizes that ghosts are drawn into the mandala, increasing in power as they pass through each node, before being fed into its core to power a Destructor Form, and the energy is gradually merging the Ghost World into the human world.
Mayor Jock Mulligan places Walter Peck in charge of keeping the Ghostbusters from causing too much destruction. The Ghostbusters successfully cleanse the museum and hotel, defeating Shandor's guardians. At the final node in the Hudson River, the team discovers an island emerging from the water. They learn that the island belonged to Shandor and that Ilyssa is his descendant. It was her presence that triggered the Mandala, after Peck apparently recommended her to curate the Gozer exhibit. They also discover machines pumping ectoplasmic slime into tunnels beneath the city, which had been used in the resurrection of Vigo the Carpathian. They disable the pumps and defeat the final guardian, closing the last node and sealing the mandala, trapping its accumulated energies.
Returning to the mainland, the Ghostbusters find that Ilyssa has been abducted and their ghost containment unit shut down, releasing all of their supernatural captives. The team suspects that Peck is responsible and that he is trying to summon a Supreme Destructor. The Ghostbusters battle their way to the center of a massive mausoleum that emerges in Central Park. They discover Ilyssa and Peck are both prisoners, and that Mayor Mulligan is the true culprit, having been possessed by Shandor months earlier. Seeing his god fail twice, Shandor decided to usurp Gozer and become a god himself. After the mandala was disabled, he released the Ghostbusters' captives to provide the energy for his Supreme Destructor Form and required Ilyssa's blood. The Ghostbusters exorcise Shandor from the Mayor but are dragged into Ghost World where they battle Shandor's Destructor Form, a Satanic being called the Architect intent on building a new world over the remains of the Earth. The Ghostbusters cross their proton streams, causing an explosion that defeats the Architect and returns them to the real world. They escape the collapsing mausoleum with Ilyssa, Peck, and Mayor Mulligan.
During the credits, the four original Ghostbusters determine that five of them is just too many for one team, but offer the Rookie a position as the head of a yet-to-be-opened Ghostbusters franchise in another city.

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jokershady said:

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From the YouTube comments...

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anyone else see that the gate above the mine was SHANDOR mining!! as in EVO SHANDOR from the first movie who built the building where everything went down?!?!

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If you haven't played it, read the plot for the video game they came out with. That plot was developed to be a continuation and almost "3rd movie" plot. And it has a LOT of Shandor in it. And as I said before, the Shandor / Gozer stuff from the first movie is insanely creepy and would be a slam dunk if they could revitalize it and modernize it in this movie.. which looks like what they're doing.

I still can't tell if this is "Egon's kids find his old stuff and stumble their way through saving the day", or a true new generation of Ghostbusters materializing and forming a cinematic universe or ongoing story through multiple movies. If it's the former, yuck. I would likely enjoy it, but Ghostbusters would only be in name only.

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I think it's a little a both. But the original cast is all back and will be shepherding them regardless. I can't imagine Finn Wolfhard and friends being the "next generation" so soon - they seem way too young - so, like I said earlier, I think it'll be Rudd who ultimately takes the baton at the end of this movie, in one way or another, and then maybe starts a new team in a sequel to this movie, with new cast members. Then maybe Finn or whoever else join up in a third movie when they're older?

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mazag08 said:

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jokershady said:

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From the YouTube comments...

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anyone else see that the gate above the mine was SHANDOR mining!! as in EVO SHANDOR from the first movie who built the building where everything went down?!?!

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If you haven't played it, read the plot for the video game they came out with. That plot was developed to be a continuation and almost "3rd movie" plot. And it has a LOT of Shandor in it. And as I said before, the Shandor / Gozer stuff from the first movie is insanely creepy and would be a slam dunk if they could revitalize it and modernize it in this movie.. which looks like what they're doing.

I still can't tell if this is "Egon's kids find his old stuff and stumble their way through saving the day", or a true new generation of Ghostbusters materializing and forming a cinematic universe or ongoing story through multiple movies. If it's the former, yuck. I would likely enjoy it, but Ghostbusters would only be in name only.

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I think it's a little a both. But the original cast is all back and will be shepherding them regardless. I can't imagine Finn Wolfhard and friends being the "next generation" so soon - they seem way too young - so, like I said earlier, I think it'll be Rudd who ultimately takes the baton at the end of this movie, in one way or another, and then maybe starts a new team in a sequel to this movie, with new cast members. Then maybe Finn or whoever else join up in a third movie when they're older?

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I'd be on board with that, although Finn is 16 right now. It's not out of the realm of possibility for an 18-19 year old to be on the team.

Also, is there anything out there hinting that Reitman has plans for future movies and this being anything more than a one-off? I surely hope so.

Not that I've seen, but if this one's successful, there's no way they're not making more.

If there's one movie I could see him doing it for it would be a Ghostbusters film, but I'm betting no.

Looks great, definitely seeing this one in the theater.

Makes sense that if they knew about the Shandor mine that they would have been close by to study it and keep an eye on it.

The preview looks good, but it doesn't really look anything like the original movies. There was zero comedy in the preview, but with Paul Rudd in it I've got to assume there is some. If this is just Stranger Things in the Ghostbusters world, I'll be disappointed. It needs to have a lot of comedy.

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Finally watched the original Ghostbusters for the first time about a year ago and I thought it wasn't very good. Come at me, bro!

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I have yet to see it...and I'm a child of that actual era...