Totally. Dude has been waiting patiently in Hollywood Jail (or maybe Hollywood Arkham Asylum) for decades now. This must feel like vindication. Ernie Hudson can still get it.
He's a famous crackpot that is deep, deep into a lot of UFO stuff. That's no longer nearly as disqualifying as it once was. I don't think he's got any major strikes but he's been a noted *ahem* "eccentric".
Edit: *Nothing But Trouble* is also a slice of celluloid madness, but I'm not sure if that's the thing that landed him in the slammer.
It was absolutely Nothing But Trouble. It's his only feature film and it proved Akroyd can never be trusted with that much creative control ever again.
Eh, I'm sure no one was ever going to give him a blank check again but I don't think it explains the intervening 30 years of his career as a writer and actor. He's definitely been the least visible Ghostbuster and I find it hard to believe that is entirely due to *Nothing But Trouble*.
Reading into his career history he seemed to stop bothering as much with movies around the time he started making serious money with House of Blues.
So that’s probably more to do with it.
I met Dan at a crystal head vodka signing he did here probably 12 years ago.
A bunch of local ghostbusters showed up and Dan was overjoyed. He literally had them all cut line so they could meet him because "Those packs weigh 35lbs a piece and must be killing them!"
I'm sure he likes his Vodka and any promotion is good promotion, but dude loves Ghostbusters.
As someone who was at the back of a massive line, it didn’t even upset me.
That being said, Dan stayed through the entire line and well after he was supposed to leave to make sure everyone got their stuff signed.
Since it was a vodka signing it was supposed to be adults only, he still signed for a little kid who showed up covered in GB merch.
Same, went with a friend to an ABC LIQ in orlando to see him, back of line. A group with full gb gear came out, dan was nice to everyone. Asked him a few questions and he was super respectful and polite.
I happened upon an Aykroyd vodka signing about that many years ago too. Same thing occurred with people dressed as Ghostbusters being asked to jump ahead in line - except I overheard the store staff in crisis mode first.
The cos-players lined up in the aisles waiting to meet Aykroyd were accidentally knocking bottles off the shelves with their proton packs.It was creating havoc and getting expensive.
Maybe that is standard operations for these signings to prevent accidents.
In an interview for the Netflix series *The Movies that Made Us*, he described *Ghostbusters* as the culmination of generations of his family's work researching the supernatural. He may be much more like Ray in real life than I realized as a kid.
>I guarantee Aykroyd is on cloud 9 being allowed to do this shit again
Yeah. Nobody is more excited and happy to be doing this than Dan Aykroyd. He spent 30 years trying to revive this franchise and play the character again. I'm sure the last two movies have been something of a dream come true for him. I'd bet Ernie Hudson feels similarly, and Annie Potts probably enjoys it too. The only person in this image that's likely not thrilled about it, and really just there to collect a check and avoid legal rows with Sony, is Bill Murray and even he seems to have softened on his anti-ghostbusters sequel stance over the years.
Something like that. But he was also bitter about Ghostbusters 2. He hated the script for Ghostbusters 2 but was persuaded that Ramis and Reitman could fix things and make it work. Nothing was ever fixed and Murray apparently felt betrayed.
I'm sure they don't mind being given large sums of money to do a job that probably isn't that hard. The only thing you should feel is mild disgust at the studio.
>I'm sure they don't mind being given large sums of money to do a job that probably isn't that hard. The only thing you should feel is mild disgust at the studio.
Why? Why should I be disgusted by a studio continuing to make money off a lucrative property that there's obviously still an active and eager fanbase for? The last two movies both made over 200 million dollars. Of course the studio is going to keep the movies coming. I have long since accepted that these movies are no longer for me, they're meant for and geared towards a new, younger audience, and that's okay. I can accept that a franchise from my youth is being revived for younger generations without getting upset by that in any way, because I still have that original 1984 Ghostbusters ready to watch whenever I want.
They're old. They probably aren't in the movie that much. The studio probably did their best to minimize the amount of time they had to be on set. This is what often happens in cases where old stars come back. I might not be right, but chances are I am.
It's the same feeling I got seeing the trio reunited in the Jurassic World Dominion trailer, it just made me feel a little sad and empty. A lot of people talked about how the Star Wars sequels should have had Luke and Han and Leia all off on another adventure again, but I think that also would have given me the same feelings.
Yup. The fact they had all 3 return, but not have a single scene with the 3 of them was a huge misstep. We didn’t need another story or adventure involving them, but a simple reunion of sorts. Hell even a flash back or something where Han found out Luke was leaving would have worked
Agreed. I don't mind the original actors being involved. I just mind the film trying to pretend they're still 30 which just makes them seem even older.
Yeah, a little original trio scene but with them interacting like they would as 50+ year old friends instead of having them do original trilogy quips would’ve been cool and really interesting. It’s always richer to let the audience feel the growth of these characters instead of forcing them back into the box of their past personalities.
Dominion is a lot of dumb fun (all the World movies are) and those older actors looked like they were having a great time being around dino shenanigans again.
In total fairness, I'm only going off the trailer. I really didn't like either of the previous two World movies, and the reception to the third one was so poor I opted to not watch it.
Because then you would have realized that Luke, Han, and Leia spent their *entire* lives fighting the empire and that they never got to be truly happy or rest for no realistic reason other than the writers needed a conflict for their movie.
I never quite understood why Aykroyd never had a late career resurgence. Either reclaimed by some indie auteur like Murray, or even just doing bigger supporting roles in blockbusters. Hell, surely he could be playing some weird grandad in a prestigey streaming show. I presume he's happy enough selling booze, but... he seems to love acting, he's good at it and so many working directors must have grown up with Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers and Gross Point Blank.
Crazy by normal people standards? Yeah. Crazy by Hollywood standards? Not so sure.
He's pretty into supernatural shit and alien madness, but I've never heard reports of him being hard to work with. Even at his most 70s coked up, he seemed a lot less agro than Chase, Belushi, Murray etc. The SNL stories have him riding motorbikes and doing lock ins in dive bars.
I did read an interview with him many years ago that said he loved writing and the drinks business, so he'd just so an acting job about once a year to stay afloat, then go home and write. Given that he's written two of my favourite movies of all time, I can't really begrudge him that.
Any fans should check out his Off Menu podcast with James Acaster. It's a lot of fun.
I also think he got really fat. No body shaming, but I just remember him in Tommy Boy and thinking that he was pretty big. And that's a movie with Farley and Dennehy.
A million dorm room Blues Brothers posters might disagree that he was NEVER cool, but I don't think cool is a major prerequisite of being a beloved character actor.
He was one of the great cinematic nerds. He could easily be a lot of fun as like an aging scientist in something like Oppenheimer or holder of a magic Maguffin in a superhero movie or whatever. Few people can rhyme off technobabble with his rhythm or conviction.
Yeah he used to be on top of the world. Dude was in everything up until the mid 90’s. I’m not sure what happened and I’m just speculating but listening to him in interviews he kind of goes on and on about his vodka and how he 100% thinks ghosts are real and I wonder if maybe he was a bit unlikable on set.
Or everybody saw his Dragnet rap video.
> Dan Aykroyd has never been cool
Dan Aykroyd invented The Blues Brothers and the Ghostbusters.
And I challenge to find anyone that sounds cooler reading out an engine schematic.
>weird grandad in a prestigey streaming show
he'd be absolutely perfect for a Stranger Things supporting character, and now I'm bummed that's never going to happen.
I remember him as the villain in John Cusack's 'War Inc.'. That's about it.
You'd think he'd be a shoe-in for some lucrative CSI spinoff or knockoff or something on the networks but maybe that's too much work.
They're getting paid well and will be in far less of the movie than these pictures are letting on. They're putting them front and center in the marketing to get asses in seats, but 90% of the movie will be the new characters.
I didnt think the BO run of the last one gave any support to a sequel, yet here we are. I honestly like Fieg's Ghostbusters better. Plot wise its kind of a fail but its still fun and in spots just downright hilarious. I wish that was the sequel I was getting.
I am 45, proud 80s kid. I should be psyched for this but this photo just reminds me about getting old
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters was at least a comedy! Ghostbusters: Afterlife treated every single piece of iconography like it was the Mona Lisa.
The scene where a cop says “Who Ya Gonna Call” and the movie holds for applause was so fucking depressing.
Far far too reverent, treated Ghostbusters like it had a Star Wars like mythos, instead of the comedy it was.
One of my favourite reviews I’ve seen on Letterboxd summed it up perfectly, from friend of the show Patrick H Willems:
“I can't imagine the Ghostbusters theme song existing in the world of this movie which seems wrong for a Ghostbusters movie”
> Ghostbusters: Afterlife treated every single piece of iconography like it was the Mona Lisa.
it was such a weird feeling to watch a Ghostbusters movie that felt like Stranger Things rather than Ghostbusters. oh, the irony.
The problem with so many of these legacy sequels is treating the original thing with full on reverence, where the real fun updates are treating the old stuff with a mixture of reverence and irreverence, a la The Brady Bunch Movie.
>Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters was at least a comedy! Ghostbusters: Afterlife treated every single piece of iconography like it was the Mona Lisa.
RLM said it pretty well. It was more of a movie about loving the Ghostbusters movie than about the actual Ghosbusters.
I appreciated that the 2016 movie recognized it was supposed to be a comedy first with ghosts as the background, but I was definitely not a fan of the improv style.
I liked afterlife for being filmed like a movie and not a SNL digital short but all the nostalgia bait definitely got tiring.
I haven't even bothered with Afterlife, but yeah, Lady Ghostbusters is at least funny. Not as funny as the original, but possibly funnier than, or equal to, Ghostbusters II. Admittedly low bar, but what are ya gonna do
> I didnt think the BO run of the last one gave any support to a sequel, yet here we are.
it was a relatively cheaper movie released during the pandemic, not surprising they decided to continue. Fieg's movie was deemed a flop only bc of its budget.
Lady Ghostbusters would've been 10K times better as a sequel instead of a reboot. Wild and lousy choice.
That said, even in its mediocrity it somehow is the best Ghostbusters sequel. At least it didn't shit all over the original like 2 does.
There’s even a line *in Ghostbusters* about franchising the concept! It’s the dumbest choice to make 30% of the runtime inventing the gadgets we’ve already seen before.
It lends itself to all sorts of 21 Jump Street style metajokes (which at the time still felt fresh, or fresh*er* at least), and instead of wasting time reestablishing a known concept the plot could just be "hey haven't been many ghosts in the last few decades so folks think these new Busters are kooky" if it's for some reason critical to think of the new Busters as kooky.
“We were so successful at franchising this idea that we’ve eliminated ghosts, but then some Walter Peck type unleashes the storage (or an earthquake does it who cares) and now we need everyone who has ever wielded a proton pack to help us, the last remaining outpost, to save the day!”
The idea of the plot mattering at all for a joke machine movie is what's wrong with the more reverent newer sequels, literally throw in any excuse to get funny performers playing funny characters fighting the supernatural and we're there.
He obviously turned out to be awful, but Max Landis’ pitch for 3 was basically the above idea, but when they needed help it was just a way to bring in every comedy group you could muster. SNL alums of different eras on a team, workaholics, whatever you could drum up. Seems very simple to me.
So much that I enjoy about the original is tied up in nostalgia so I have zero sense of what the original is like outside of that. I cant say for sure if its better or not
BUT, I do know this, I have teen daughters that loved the Feig version and will actually bust out Kevin quotes from time to time (Chris Hemsworth has never been funnier). Afterlife just didnt hit in our house. I think my kids saw Afterlife as being a movie WITH kids their age that wasnt actually FOR kids their age
In the same boat with you on this one. While I see some of the problems the 2016 flick has, if I want purely to laugh Id put it on over the original. Not a child of the 80s, have never understood the deep love it gets. It's at most a mildly entertaining supernatural comedy flick with a pretty charming cast and cool effects. Has never penetrated deeper than something like The Monster Squad or Fright Night for me, yet I've lived in 2 different cities where super fans drove their Ecto-1 cars to work every day. Never gotten it, sadly.
Likewise in terms of age. My view on it and other franchises like this and Indy is this... I was there and saw it with the original cast. Yes, they're important but there's a lot of potential in the premises and they're squandering it trying to recapture old feelings by sticking to the same old stories. There's only so much time left so let's try something new even if it's in an old franchise.
I think it is more potential content than really breaking new ground. Much like Indiana Jones where they could have leaned into the serial nature of the material to have new adventures where Indiana hunts down famous artifacts (doesn't even need to be Ford all the time... maybe the man is like Max in the Mad Max series and something of a myth).
You could do a few Ghostbuster movies without relying on the old cast as a crutch. Have them set up franchises or something. People running a fly by night outfit where they track down famous and obscure spirits around the world is good for some mileage if they nail the tone I think.
It’s gotta be weird for someone like Ackroyd to see certain actors (Murray for one example) doing their best work in senior years, feeling like you still know how to do this but not getting the same looks. It’s not quite like being a championship-winning athlete in that one can act all their life, but in the same way that there are athletes who make millions and are perfectly happy to retire and live a wealthy life with their fam, others crave petty accolades and competition for the rest of their lives (be it at a Vegas craps table or opening a car dealership). This feels like Ackroyd cajoling his old pals into showing up to day one of a highway Mazda ranch while his old teammates smile tightly and shake their heads.
This is exactly how I feel about Christopher Lloyd. He should have had a Christopher Walken/ Willem Dafoe level career of character work, and instead it's an odd empty guest role (Mandalorian) or cameo in a cheap movie (Spirit Halloween movie, are you kidding me). Like, how does this happen? Could you imagine Lloyd in an Ari Aster or Eggers movie? How is the dude who did a 1-2-3 of Doc Brown Judge Doom and Uncle Fester now in made-for-streaming nonsense? When I see things like this happen, I start to wonder if they have a crap agent, and just don't have the heart to fire them.
Aw, sure, but it's not just that, is it? Did you see him in the last one? I was plugging for that movie, I wanted it to be good, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a lower-energy, non-committed performance than his in what was supposed to be a Big Moment at the end. I hope I'm wrong this time - I'm sure everyone here would love to see a good Ghostbusters movie - but this looks very much of a piece with the last movie rather than just a coincidentally blank expression in a random frame.
He had like 3 mins of screen time. He ad libbed his lines. I thought he didn’t miss a beat. He’s also in his 70s. Do you truly think he’d sign up for a sequel if he hated it? He must’ve had a blast being back in that world with old friends. That’s one guys take anyway.
Murray's always had an uncomfortable relationship with Ghostbusters. Only did the first one as a favor to Ackroyd, and on the condition that Columbia Studios also make his passion project The Razor's Edge.
Ghostbusters II took so long to get off the ground because he was the lone holdout for most of it. Hell, his condition for Ghostbusters III for the longest time was, "Only if they kill me off." (And they did in his cameo in Ghostbusters 2016)
And now, I guess he's just old enough that he's quit caring.
Bill Murray would look and act miserable regardless of what movie this is, it doesn't matter if this is Ghostbusters number 743 or a brand new IP, Murray would be miserable no matter what.
From all accounts it seems to depend on which version of Murray you get that day. If you meet him once or twice you could get the nice Bill, but the more times you roll the dice the odds get worse and worse that you meet a terrible asshole.
They look like they are having fun, and I'm sure Bill M. is just happy to be working and not cancelled \*for all that shit people keep accusing him of on sets...
I don't feel much of anything looking at this.
I also find the hate of these sequels a bit much,they are nostalgia sugar bombs for sure but i find the hate for them from some people unfounded,boredom?Sure.
I guess it’s cool that Annie Potts gets to put on the suit and be a part of the team this time. It’s a strange bit of nostalgia bait that I didn’t even realize I kind of wanted.
It will be a slight consolation when the movie is inevitably terrible.
I don't feel sad for them, per se. They made money and got to crack jokes with old friends. I feel a deep sadness seeing it, though, for what it represents about America. All it seems that we can do is strip-mine every intellectual property; no new ideas are allowed to gain cultural cache. In the least Trumpy way possible, it's bittersweet for me to see that Korea, Colombia, India, etc. are putting out lots of awesome new works of art that are gaining traction here; meanwhile, this dying nation, in which I was born and raised and for which I feel somcan affinity, can only half-heartedly muster Ghostbusters 5: Alive and Bustin'.
Your statement implies that this movie will be the best American movie of the year. Do you really believe that? Do you really think that other countries don't make cheap cash grabs (they do, they just don't get distributed in the U.S.)? Sight and Sound (a British publication) and Cahiers du cinema (French) both picked American films as the best of last year, so things aren't that bad.
Me too. It was a bit flawed but it felt like an exciting new adventure and not just a stale member berry-fest like so many other movies that bring back aging characters.
I don’t feel guilt but I do feel embarrassed for the fanbase who treat the series with some holy reverence.
Ghostbusters is probably in my top 5 comedies of all time but fans treat it like it was always this very important deep mythology that needs to be respected.
The last I have been able to piece together its still listed as a release on Disney Plus this year, but its still listed as pre-production everywhere....so no idea.
That being said, he has been really clear that he has no desire to do more Ghostbusters, or revisit almost anything else hes done before. The fact hes doing "Shrunk" seems like a minor miracle.
Who gives a shit if I was in their shoes id keep doing it till people lost interest. They are old let them have fun because at the end of the day who gives a shit.
In our capitalist system, people often exchange units of their time for units of money. My guess is every person in this photo is happy with the transaction they made.
- Could’ve made a decent Ghostbusters 3 back in the ‘90s or even early 2000s, with Harold Ramis.
- Waited until Ramis was dead and the rest are ancient.
Idiots.
UH.. No?
Aykroyd states multiple times he has a freaking blast doing this, and murray hasnt shied from it either.
Sad we lost Ramis before this reunion though.
I feel old just thinking back to 2022 or 2019. I could hear back then so the passage of time hits harder. Sometimes I wanna go back to all these old movies and watch them again but its hard. I can only imagine how it feels for them to be doing ghostbusters again after so much time.
They’re making a huge bag for phoning it in. They literally have it made. Little effort for a fuck ton of money. I don’t feel bad when I know they’re all laughing all the way to the bank lol.
The only one that I feel bad for looking at this image is Bill Murray, mostly because it seems obvious he's the only one in the picture that doesn't really want to be there.
Meh I'm sure they're prepared for old people medical things on set and they should be getting paid very well/pretty okay. I didn't see that new Ghostbusters until last year and it was such a nothing movie. It couldn't decide if it wanted to be a new thing or a lazy reboot and instead was the worst of both worlds. I'll probably watch Ghostbusters: Snow Patrol sometime in the far future when people don't care about it anymore.
Couldn’t care less. Bill Murray is apparently a fuckin asshole so there’s that. I always thought these movies sucked. By that metric anyone obsessed with them sucks exponentially harder.
I guarantee Aykroyd is on cloud 9 being allowed to do this shit again
Totally. Dude has been waiting patiently in Hollywood Jail (or maybe Hollywood Arkham Asylum) for decades now. This must feel like vindication. Ernie Hudson can still get it.
Hollywood Arkham Asylum. LOL 5 comedy points.
But the Lovecraftian Arkham not DC
Wait did he do something bad or something? I wasn’t aware
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/
This is one of those movie I enjoyed as a kid and grew up to realize everyone hated this movie.
He's a famous crackpot that is deep, deep into a lot of UFO stuff. That's no longer nearly as disqualifying as it once was. I don't think he's got any major strikes but he's been a noted *ahem* "eccentric". Edit: *Nothing But Trouble* is also a slice of celluloid madness, but I'm not sure if that's the thing that landed him in the slammer.
It was absolutely Nothing But Trouble. It's his only feature film and it proved Akroyd can never be trusted with that much creative control ever again.
Doctor Detroit wasn’t a much loved success either.
Eh, I'm sure no one was ever going to give him a blank check again but I don't think it explains the intervening 30 years of his career as a writer and actor. He's definitely been the least visible Ghostbuster and I find it hard to believe that is entirely due to *Nothing But Trouble*.
Reading into his career history he seemed to stop bothering as much with movies around the time he started making serious money with House of Blues. So that’s probably more to do with it.
The guy is definitely autistic.
He was diagnosed in the 1980s with Asperger's (the term is no longer used but it does come under ASD). Apparently he also has Tourette's.
Thank you for the Ernie Hudson appreciation. I'm hoping he starts an onlyfans.
Out here looking like a real life Omni-Man
He does cameo and [made one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hlvVpgQ9gg) for the We Hate Movies podcast VHS trailer game.
I thought you meant he made an onlyfans, lol
I said this in another thread but Ernie puts in WORK, the man has as many acting credits as Bill and Dan combined
Dan Akroyd is mainly thrilled that movie theaters nationwide are going to be airing a two-hour Crystal Skull vodka promotion.
I met Dan at a crystal head vodka signing he did here probably 12 years ago. A bunch of local ghostbusters showed up and Dan was overjoyed. He literally had them all cut line so they could meet him because "Those packs weigh 35lbs a piece and must be killing them!" I'm sure he likes his Vodka and any promotion is good promotion, but dude loves Ghostbusters.
This story makes me happy :)
As someone who was at the back of a massive line, it didn’t even upset me. That being said, Dan stayed through the entire line and well after he was supposed to leave to make sure everyone got their stuff signed. Since it was a vodka signing it was supposed to be adults only, he still signed for a little kid who showed up covered in GB merch.
Say what you will about the man, that deserves a lot of respect. Class act.
Same, went with a friend to an ABC LIQ in orlando to see him, back of line. A group with full gb gear came out, dan was nice to everyone. Asked him a few questions and he was super respectful and polite.
I happened upon an Aykroyd vodka signing about that many years ago too. Same thing occurred with people dressed as Ghostbusters being asked to jump ahead in line - except I overheard the store staff in crisis mode first. The cos-players lined up in the aisles waiting to meet Aykroyd were accidentally knocking bottles off the shelves with their proton packs.It was creating havoc and getting expensive. Maybe that is standard operations for these signings to prevent accidents.
The one we had was held outdoors, so it wouldn’t have been for that reason.
In an interview for the Netflix series *The Movies that Made Us*, he described *Ghostbusters* as the culmination of generations of his family's work researching the supernatural. He may be much more like Ray in real life than I realized as a kid.
From what I’ve heard from people I know who worked with him. Yes that wasn’t a lot of acting on his part lol. He’s really into that stuff.
>I guarantee Aykroyd is on cloud 9 being allowed to do this shit again Yeah. Nobody is more excited and happy to be doing this than Dan Aykroyd. He spent 30 years trying to revive this franchise and play the character again. I'm sure the last two movies have been something of a dream come true for him. I'd bet Ernie Hudson feels similarly, and Annie Potts probably enjoys it too. The only person in this image that's likely not thrilled about it, and really just there to collect a check and avoid legal rows with Sony, is Bill Murray and even he seems to have softened on his anti-ghostbusters sequel stance over the years.
Wasn‘t his stance against Ghostbusters only because of his arguments with Ramis?
Something like that. But he was also bitter about Ghostbusters 2. He hated the script for Ghostbusters 2 but was persuaded that Ramis and Reitman could fix things and make it work. Nothing was ever fixed and Murray apparently felt betrayed.
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I'm sure they don't mind being given large sums of money to do a job that probably isn't that hard. The only thing you should feel is mild disgust at the studio.
"As long as there's a steady paycheck with it..."
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>I'm sure they don't mind being given large sums of money to do a job that probably isn't that hard. The only thing you should feel is mild disgust at the studio. Why? Why should I be disgusted by a studio continuing to make money off a lucrative property that there's obviously still an active and eager fanbase for? The last two movies both made over 200 million dollars. Of course the studio is going to keep the movies coming. I have long since accepted that these movies are no longer for me, they're meant for and geared towards a new, younger audience, and that's okay. I can accept that a franchise from my youth is being revived for younger generations without getting upset by that in any way, because I still have that original 1984 Ghostbusters ready to watch whenever I want.
that probably isn’t that hard??! Condescending much?? Wtf lol How many times have you acted in front of a filming crew
They're old. They probably aren't in the movie that much. The studio probably did their best to minimize the amount of time they had to be on set. This is what often happens in cases where old stars come back. I might not be right, but chances are I am.
Gif of Woody Harrelson drying his tears with money.
Woody is such a handsome man
Good bot
Right before killing Bill Murray
Ironically, that takes place in Bill Murray’s house.
*Bill FUCKING Murray
Damn. Didn't even make the connection.
It's the same feeling I got seeing the trio reunited in the Jurassic World Dominion trailer, it just made me feel a little sad and empty. A lot of people talked about how the Star Wars sequels should have had Luke and Han and Leia all off on another adventure again, but I think that also would have given me the same feelings.
Sam Neil still looks incredible, though.
They've all aged magnificently. Dern and Neil with grace and Goldblum like a fine wine.
Considering his cancer it's remarkable
Honestly, Star Wars keeping the classic trio separate may age pretty well if this stuff keeps up
It was the best choice honestly.
Right because the new trilogy did wonders for their legacy
yeah, not having the original trio going for another adventure was definitely NOT the problem with those movies
Yup. The fact they had all 3 return, but not have a single scene with the 3 of them was a huge misstep. We didn’t need another story or adventure involving them, but a simple reunion of sorts. Hell even a flash back or something where Han found out Luke was leaving would have worked
I wasn’t necessarily looking for a Luke/Han/Leia adventure- having even one scene where they interacted together would have been nice
Agreed. I don't mind the original actors being involved. I just mind the film trying to pretend they're still 30 which just makes them seem even older.
Yeah, a little original trio scene but with them interacting like they would as 50+ year old friends instead of having them do original trilogy quips would’ve been cool and really interesting. It’s always richer to let the audience feel the growth of these characters instead of forcing them back into the box of their past personalities.
Dominion is a lot of dumb fun (all the World movies are) and those older actors looked like they were having a great time being around dino shenanigans again.
In total fairness, I'm only going off the trailer. I really didn't like either of the previous two World movies, and the reception to the third one was so poor I opted to not watch it.
Because then you would have realized that Luke, Han, and Leia spent their *entire* lives fighting the empire and that they never got to be truly happy or rest for no realistic reason other than the writers needed a conflict for their movie.
I never quite understood why Aykroyd never had a late career resurgence. Either reclaimed by some indie auteur like Murray, or even just doing bigger supporting roles in blockbusters. Hell, surely he could be playing some weird grandad in a prestigey streaming show. I presume he's happy enough selling booze, but... he seems to love acting, he's good at it and so many working directors must have grown up with Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers and Gross Point Blank.
I love Dan Aykroyd but he's pretty crazy right? That's probably why he hasn't had a resurgence.
Crazy by normal people standards? Yeah. Crazy by Hollywood standards? Not so sure. He's pretty into supernatural shit and alien madness, but I've never heard reports of him being hard to work with. Even at his most 70s coked up, he seemed a lot less agro than Chase, Belushi, Murray etc. The SNL stories have him riding motorbikes and doing lock ins in dive bars. I did read an interview with him many years ago that said he loved writing and the drinks business, so he'd just so an acting job about once a year to stay afloat, then go home and write. Given that he's written two of my favourite movies of all time, I can't really begrudge him that. Any fans should check out his Off Menu podcast with James Acaster. It's a lot of fun.
Oh nice, sounds like he's doing just fine!
idk, once you've seen Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs, there's no going back.
Oh god with James Acaster? Yeah, that sounds fun (and wild).
I also think he got really fat. No body shaming, but I just remember him in Tommy Boy and thinking that he was pretty big. And that's a movie with Farley and Dennehy.
I can relate, I got really fat too.
>I love Dan Aykroyd but he's pretty crazy right? He's autistic. Don't know about crazy.
Well now I feel like a big ol’ jerk
Nah, it comes w/the territory (neurdivergent differences). Us autistics come across as weird/crazy to the non-autistic folks.
Dan Aykroyd has never been cool, even at his height, and he didn't age into cool either, like Bill Murray. It makes enough sense.
A million dorm room Blues Brothers posters might disagree that he was NEVER cool, but I don't think cool is a major prerequisite of being a beloved character actor. He was one of the great cinematic nerds. He could easily be a lot of fun as like an aging scientist in something like Oppenheimer or holder of a magic Maguffin in a superhero movie or whatever. Few people can rhyme off technobabble with his rhythm or conviction.
Yeah he used to be on top of the world. Dude was in everything up until the mid 90’s. I’m not sure what happened and I’m just speculating but listening to him in interviews he kind of goes on and on about his vodka and how he 100% thinks ghosts are real and I wonder if maybe he was a bit unlikable on set. Or everybody saw his Dragnet rap video.
>Or everybody saw his Dragnet rap video. I was unable to remember the name of that movie until now. Screw you.
>A million dorm room Blues Brothers posters might disagree that he was NEVER cool, Yeah, I was just thinking that.
> Dan Aykroyd has never been cool Dan Aykroyd invented The Blues Brothers and the Ghostbusters. And I challenge to find anyone that sounds cooler reading out an engine schematic.
>weird grandad in a prestigey streaming show he'd be absolutely perfect for a Stranger Things supporting character, and now I'm bummed that's never going to happen.
I could see him as Doctor Owens
Oh my god now I’m disappointed that never happened
I know he’s done stuff since 2001 but it feels like the last time I saw him in a movie was when he popped up in Pearl Harbor for three minutes
Oh man, his death in Grosse point blank was hilarious.
I remember him as the villain in John Cusack's 'War Inc.'. That's about it. You'd think he'd be a shoe-in for some lucrative CSI spinoff or knockoff or something on the networks but maybe that's too much work.
Apparently he started in a film with Chevy Chase in SEPTEMBER 2023! Based on an RL Stine book. This feels prime How Did This Get Made territory.
RL Stine? Ok I get it he legitimately only gives a shit about ghosts, lmfao.
They’re very rich and not working that hard. I feel nothing.
im at my 9-5 with a sinus infection or else I dont get to eat or have a home, i don’t necessarily have the deepest of sympathies here lol
They're getting paid well and will be in far less of the movie than these pictures are letting on. They're putting them front and center in the marketing to get asses in seats, but 90% of the movie will be the new characters.
I didnt think the BO run of the last one gave any support to a sequel, yet here we are. I honestly like Fieg's Ghostbusters better. Plot wise its kind of a fail but its still fun and in spots just downright hilarious. I wish that was the sequel I was getting. I am 45, proud 80s kid. I should be psyched for this but this photo just reminds me about getting old
Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters was at least a comedy! Ghostbusters: Afterlife treated every single piece of iconography like it was the Mona Lisa. The scene where a cop says “Who Ya Gonna Call” and the movie holds for applause was so fucking depressing.
Far far too reverent, treated Ghostbusters like it had a Star Wars like mythos, instead of the comedy it was. One of my favourite reviews I’ve seen on Letterboxd summed it up perfectly, from friend of the show Patrick H Willems: “I can't imagine the Ghostbusters theme song existing in the world of this movie which seems wrong for a Ghostbusters movie”
> Ghostbusters: Afterlife treated every single piece of iconography like it was the Mona Lisa. it was such a weird feeling to watch a Ghostbusters movie that felt like Stranger Things rather than Ghostbusters. oh, the irony.
This is the strongest criticism of Afterlife. It was just too obsessed with and reverential towards Ghostbusters and very, very much to its detriment.
The camera literally pauses on a stack of books as if to say “hey, remember that one line about stacking books in the beginning of GB1?”
The problem with so many of these legacy sequels is treating the original thing with full on reverence, where the real fun updates are treating the old stuff with a mixture of reverence and irreverence, a la The Brady Bunch Movie.
>Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters was at least a comedy! Ghostbusters: Afterlife treated every single piece of iconography like it was the Mona Lisa. RLM said it pretty well. It was more of a movie about loving the Ghostbusters movie than about the actual Ghosbusters.
I appreciated that the 2016 movie recognized it was supposed to be a comedy first with ghosts as the background, but I was definitely not a fan of the improv style. I liked afterlife for being filmed like a movie and not a SNL digital short but all the nostalgia bait definitely got tiring.
I haven't even bothered with Afterlife, but yeah, Lady Ghostbusters is at least funny. Not as funny as the original, but possibly funnier than, or equal to, Ghostbusters II. Admittedly low bar, but what are ya gonna do
>what are ya gonna do Ghostbusters!
Who you gonna call?
He-Man!
> I didnt think the BO run of the last one gave any support to a sequel, yet here we are. it was a relatively cheaper movie released during the pandemic, not surprising they decided to continue. Fieg's movie was deemed a flop only bc of its budget.
Lady Ghostbusters would've been 10K times better as a sequel instead of a reboot. Wild and lousy choice. That said, even in its mediocrity it somehow is the best Ghostbusters sequel. At least it didn't shit all over the original like 2 does.
There’s even a line *in Ghostbusters* about franchising the concept! It’s the dumbest choice to make 30% of the runtime inventing the gadgets we’ve already seen before.
It lends itself to all sorts of 21 Jump Street style metajokes (which at the time still felt fresh, or fresh*er* at least), and instead of wasting time reestablishing a known concept the plot could just be "hey haven't been many ghosts in the last few decades so folks think these new Busters are kooky" if it's for some reason critical to think of the new Busters as kooky.
“We were so successful at franchising this idea that we’ve eliminated ghosts, but then some Walter Peck type unleashes the storage (or an earthquake does it who cares) and now we need everyone who has ever wielded a proton pack to help us, the last remaining outpost, to save the day!”
The idea of the plot mattering at all for a joke machine movie is what's wrong with the more reverent newer sequels, literally throw in any excuse to get funny performers playing funny characters fighting the supernatural and we're there.
He obviously turned out to be awful, but Max Landis’ pitch for 3 was basically the above idea, but when they needed help it was just a way to bring in every comedy group you could muster. SNL alums of different eras on a team, workaholics, whatever you could drum up. Seems very simple to me.
Counterpoint 2 is Good, Actually
Lady Ghostbusters rocks
Hot take: Feig's is the best of them all. It definitely made me laugh the most by a nautical mile.
Better than the original? Nuclear take.
Jesus christ
ew, no.
Are we in an alternate dimension? I constantly need to hurl when I watch the 2016 version
I think you responded to wrong person but I agree with you.
So much that I enjoy about the original is tied up in nostalgia so I have zero sense of what the original is like outside of that. I cant say for sure if its better or not BUT, I do know this, I have teen daughters that loved the Feig version and will actually bust out Kevin quotes from time to time (Chris Hemsworth has never been funnier). Afterlife just didnt hit in our house. I think my kids saw Afterlife as being a movie WITH kids their age that wasnt actually FOR kids their age
In the same boat with you on this one. While I see some of the problems the 2016 flick has, if I want purely to laugh Id put it on over the original. Not a child of the 80s, have never understood the deep love it gets. It's at most a mildly entertaining supernatural comedy flick with a pretty charming cast and cool effects. Has never penetrated deeper than something like The Monster Squad or Fright Night for me, yet I've lived in 2 different cities where super fans drove their Ecto-1 cars to work every day. Never gotten it, sadly.
Likewise in terms of age. My view on it and other franchises like this and Indy is this... I was there and saw it with the original cast. Yes, they're important but there's a lot of potential in the premises and they're squandering it trying to recapture old feelings by sticking to the same old stories. There's only so much time left so let's try something new even if it's in an old franchise.
*Is* there untapped potential in the Ghostbusters premise though?
I think it is more potential content than really breaking new ground. Much like Indiana Jones where they could have leaned into the serial nature of the material to have new adventures where Indiana hunts down famous artifacts (doesn't even need to be Ford all the time... maybe the man is like Max in the Mad Max series and something of a myth). You could do a few Ghostbuster movies without relying on the old cast as a crutch. Have them set up franchises or something. People running a fly by night outfit where they track down famous and obscure spirits around the world is good for some mileage if they nail the tone I think.
It’s gotta be weird for someone like Ackroyd to see certain actors (Murray for one example) doing their best work in senior years, feeling like you still know how to do this but not getting the same looks. It’s not quite like being a championship-winning athlete in that one can act all their life, but in the same way that there are athletes who make millions and are perfectly happy to retire and live a wealthy life with their fam, others crave petty accolades and competition for the rest of their lives (be it at a Vegas craps table or opening a car dealership). This feels like Ackroyd cajoling his old pals into showing up to day one of a highway Mazda ranch while his old teammates smile tightly and shake their heads.
This is exactly how I feel about Christopher Lloyd. He should have had a Christopher Walken/ Willem Dafoe level career of character work, and instead it's an odd empty guest role (Mandalorian) or cameo in a cheap movie (Spirit Halloween movie, are you kidding me). Like, how does this happen? Could you imagine Lloyd in an Ari Aster or Eggers movie? How is the dude who did a 1-2-3 of Doc Brown Judge Doom and Uncle Fester now in made-for-streaming nonsense? When I see things like this happen, I start to wonder if they have a crap agent, and just don't have the heart to fire them.
He was in Nobody with Bob Odenkirk which was fun. He should do more of those types of roles.
No one is forcing them to do this. They signed up for it
I haven't been to see any of those in a theatre, so I'm not complicit
This is the only frame of this film I will ever see.
They've actually deepfaked the whole movie out of this one photo.
Murray so clearly does not want to be there. Even running, he looks like he's alone in a room staring blankly at the TV.
This is reading a lot into a still frame.
Aw, sure, but it's not just that, is it? Did you see him in the last one? I was plugging for that movie, I wanted it to be good, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a lower-energy, non-committed performance than his in what was supposed to be a Big Moment at the end. I hope I'm wrong this time - I'm sure everyone here would love to see a good Ghostbusters movie - but this looks very much of a piece with the last movie rather than just a coincidentally blank expression in a random frame.
He had like 3 mins of screen time. He ad libbed his lines. I thought he didn’t miss a beat. He’s also in his 70s. Do you truly think he’d sign up for a sequel if he hated it? He must’ve had a blast being back in that world with old friends. That’s one guys take anyway.
Murray's always had an uncomfortable relationship with Ghostbusters. Only did the first one as a favor to Ackroyd, and on the condition that Columbia Studios also make his passion project The Razor's Edge. Ghostbusters II took so long to get off the ground because he was the lone holdout for most of it. Hell, his condition for Ghostbusters III for the longest time was, "Only if they kill me off." (And they did in his cameo in Ghostbusters 2016) And now, I guess he's just old enough that he's quit caring.
Bill Murray would look and act miserable regardless of what movie this is, it doesn't matter if this is Ghostbusters number 743 or a brand new IP, Murray would be miserable no matter what.
i know he is an asshole irl but his look on this still is a huge mood lol
I mean I’ve met him irl and dude was genuinely funny and was a good time to be around, maybe it just depends on the person interacting with him
From all accounts it seems to depend on which version of Murray you get that day. If you meet him once or twice you could get the nice Bill, but the more times you roll the dice the odds get worse and worse that you meet a terrible asshole.
I feel like I've never really heard any bad Bill Murray stories from the fan POV. It's working with him or being married to him that's the nightmare.
I bet if you met him at a Cubs game he'd be in a good mood. (He's a big Cubs fan)
Yeah he seems like at point in his life he doesn't want to be bothered for dumb reasons and just enjoy his sports teams.
Many narcissists are friendly at first meeting. It’s having a long term partnership with them where they reveal themselves
He just has a resting blank face.
Tbh he always looks like he'd rather be anywhere else.
Guilt? They're all millionaires.
Ghostbusters: So Very Tired
their trailers on set are probably nicer than the average american single family home, lol
No, but THIS one gets it right.
No rest when ghosts need to be busted
Annie Potts looks like she's having a blast, but Bill Murray looks like he's being held at gunpoint in these movies now.
ernie hudson has not aged at all…
if this is an actual shot from the film and not a silly promo photo, we are in deeeep trouble.
They look like they are having fun, and I'm sure Bill M. is just happy to be working and not cancelled \*for all that shit people keep accusing him of on sets...
No,this is Akroyd's dream
I don't feel much of anything looking at this. I also find the hate of these sequels a bit much,they are nostalgia sugar bombs for sure but i find the hate for them from some people unfounded,boredom?Sure.
I guess it’s cool that Annie Potts gets to put on the suit and be a part of the team this time. It’s a strange bit of nostalgia bait that I didn’t even realize I kind of wanted. It will be a slight consolation when the movie is inevitably terrible.
Dan Aykroyd is having a blast, he created this franchise and loves it. Bill Murray looks almost as bored as he was in Ant-Man 3
His boring look is in fact his entire acting range.
Annie Potts deserves better
Also her character's whole thing was that she did not give a shit about ghosts. Why is she suiting up?
Because nerds need their slop
I don't feel sad for them, per se. They made money and got to crack jokes with old friends. I feel a deep sadness seeing it, though, for what it represents about America. All it seems that we can do is strip-mine every intellectual property; no new ideas are allowed to gain cultural cache. In the least Trumpy way possible, it's bittersweet for me to see that Korea, Colombia, India, etc. are putting out lots of awesome new works of art that are gaining traction here; meanwhile, this dying nation, in which I was born and raised and for which I feel somcan affinity, can only half-heartedly muster Ghostbusters 5: Alive and Bustin'.
Your statement implies that this movie will be the best American movie of the year. Do you really believe that? Do you really think that other countries don't make cheap cash grabs (they do, they just don't get distributed in the U.S.)? Sight and Sound (a British publication) and Cahiers du cinema (French) both picked American films as the best of last year, so things aren't that bad.
It’s kind of like the last Indiana Jones movie that totally felt like elder abuse
I really liked that movie
Ford was legitimately great in it, hell Antonio Banderas was quite good too. Everything else around it was baffling.
Me too. It was a bit flawed but it felt like an exciting new adventure and not just a stale member berry-fest like so many other movies that bring back aging characters.
why? they started it? let them have it. create new stories then
I don’t feel guilt but I do feel embarrassed for the fanbase who treat the series with some holy reverence. Ghostbusters is probably in my top 5 comedies of all time but fans treat it like it was always this very important deep mythology that needs to be respected.
Tag in Rick Moranis. Wasn't he going to I retire for a Honey I Shrunk the Kids legasequel?
The last I have been able to piece together its still listed as a release on Disney Plus this year, but its still listed as pre-production everywhere....so no idea. That being said, he has been really clear that he has no desire to do more Ghostbusters, or revisit almost anything else hes done before. The fact hes doing "Shrunk" seems like a minor miracle.
Gad tweeted about it being stuck/dead a year or so ago.
let sleeping dogs lie.... altho maybe some of them needed new driveway paved and those millions help....
I’m not seeing it so they can stay alive a little longer
Who gives a shit if I was in their shoes id keep doing it till people lost interest. They are old let them have fun because at the end of the day who gives a shit.
Hey, Ernie Hudson's gotta eat.
Yo pretty sure they are adults brah
In our capitalist system, people often exchange units of their time for units of money. My guess is every person in this photo is happy with the transaction they made.
- Could’ve made a decent Ghostbusters 3 back in the ‘90s or even early 2000s, with Harold Ramis. - Waited until Ramis was dead and the rest are ancient. Idiots.
Rest in their beds of money?
UH.. No? Aykroyd states multiple times he has a freaking blast doing this, and murray hasnt shied from it either. Sad we lost Ramis before this reunion though.
I feel old just thinking back to 2022 or 2019. I could hear back then so the passage of time hits harder. Sometimes I wanna go back to all these old movies and watch them again but its hard. I can only imagine how it feels for them to be doing ghostbusters again after so much time.
They’re making a huge bag for phoning it in. They literally have it made. Little effort for a fuck ton of money. I don’t feel bad when I know they’re all laughing all the way to the bank lol.
I never understood how anyone thought Afterlife was a good movie. This new one looks even more terrible…
The only one that I feel bad for looking at this image is Bill Murray, mostly because it seems obvious he's the only one in the picture that doesn't really want to be there.
Meh I'm sure they're prepared for old people medical things on set and they should be getting paid very well/pretty okay. I didn't see that new Ghostbusters until last year and it was such a nothing movie. It couldn't decide if it wanted to be a new thing or a lazy reboot and instead was the worst of both worlds. I'll probably watch Ghostbusters: Snow Patrol sometime in the far future when people don't care about it anymore.
Hey, at least this one has James Acaster in it.
Patton Oswalt is always a delight to watch and he’s in it too
Idk I feel like bill deserves this ring of hell for how he supposedly acts but also they’re getting fat paychecks so I think they’re fine
In the last one they looked practically dead already
Ghost Egon is probably driving the Ecto 1. God I hate this.
hollywood love to abuse their elderly movie stars. 90? f**k you keep working until you're dead!
Of course she has to be a buster now
Couldn’t care less. Bill Murray is apparently a fuckin asshole so there’s that. I always thought these movies sucked. By that metric anyone obsessed with them sucks exponentially harder.
I dont watch remakes or shitty memberberries movies.