this is both exactly what I was worried it would be, and somehow slightly better than i was worried it would be. They’re all pretty much playing the same characters they seem to always play, and the props still look like cosplay items, but the rest of the effects look pretty solid. I guess i’m still neutral.

I was unclear; IS it a sequel or a reboot? That was pretty much exactly the Librarian Ghost encounter in the trailer, but there seem to have been ghostbusters in the past in this world from the VO. I was making the joke that with the volume off, that could have been a TMNT trailer right up until we saw the ghosts.

My IRL reaction is:

As modern trailers go, I thought it looked okay. It’s really hard to judge a movie’s true quality by its trailer these days. Especially comedy films. Comedy trailers ALWAYS play the lamest jokes dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. Make no mistake, this trailer wasn’t for Ghostbusters fans. This trailer was for the average person on the street who hasn’t seen Ghostbusters since they caught the last 20 minutes of GB2 on basic cable at 2am. In my experience, most non-fans remember elements from both films as being “the first movie.” Or they’ll often forget that there was ONLY two films, and say they “can’t remember what the third one was about.”

For a trailer, the ghosts looked fine. The props were passable. The cast is okay. But the “performances” and “writing” were butchered in order to give exposition in the trailer. It’s painfully obvious that many of the lines are spliced from several different scenes in order to “Frankenstein” a sentence together for the trailer. Not to mention, I can’t think of the last time I saw a comedy where a joke/scene/shot was featured in the trailer, but ultimately deleted from the final cut. The last two Muppet films are especially guilty of this.

All that being said, my interest in this film has not diminished. Perhaps my expectations have evolved? I’m genuinely looking forward to a total reboot. My biggest fear at this point is that it’ll be too similar to the originals, and not bring anything new to the table. Like Star Trek: Into Darkness. Or Man of Steel. I WANT new equipment. New cast. New ideas. I even kinda want a new theme song! But hey, you’re reading the opinion of a guy who spends most of his free time creating new ghosts and scenes for his own Ghostbusting team.

At the end of the day, I’m rooting for this film. If it’s a success, then that’s awesome. If it sucks, I won’t even break a sweat. Because I’ve already got something better than ANY future Ghostbusters film. And that’s GBR.

Okay. So this has been a big subject of controversy among not just my Ghosthead friends but most nerdy friends I have. I’m on the fence about this movie. Sure there was the issue with the whole “Scientists” changed to “friends”. The lines were a bit cheesy, obviously they were all taken from several places in the movie and stitched together to form a Frankenstein like all trailers are. But at the end of the day I didn’t hate the two trailers. If anything, it’s actually raised me from being skeptical about this movie to kind of hopeful that it’ll be a decently good movie.

All that being said; I don’t have any issues with the new Proton Pack, the PKE or the Ecto. But the Ghost Trap, featured on http://www.paranormalstudieslab.com/ in it’s Equipment section. The design bugs me. It reminds me of the something they’d use in the new Bay Ninja Turtles franchise. It just looks bad.