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Jan 19, 2024 - 7:02 AM
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Mr. Jack
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It spent so much time pandering to the old film, it never became its own thing...and the mock-up score cemented this feeling.
This is the problem with the contemporary strip-mining of popular franchises from the 70s, 80s and 90s...you can never recapture that original frisson of creativity, so you're left with a cut & paste arrangement of what "worked" the first time through, only with the all-important spark of spontaneity missing. Plus, now you're dealing with leading actors from the original movie who are ancient and clearly only doing it for the paycheck, and the movie gets jam-packed with modern "progressive" values that go out of their way to denigrate what came before as being "problematic".  Afterlife wasn't horrible, but I even preferred the 2016 film to it, which was at least trying to be funny, instead of the dreary, funereal tone of the 2021 one.
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Jan 19, 2024 - 7:34 AM
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FAbso
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I'm a huge Marianelli fan, but I'm not sure if this kind of Hollywood film creates the best environment for him. Recently, in a Q&A with Gary Yershon you can find on YouTube, he said something that I'm sure has to do with this film, because he is not working in many more projects and it fits with how the process of making a movie in Hollywood works nowadays... Talking about whether is better to start early in the process or not, he said what follows:
"Occasionally, and recently in fact, you get bitten because the movie takes so long to come together and the editing process is so, I would say, violent, in a sense that there are convulsions in the way the story is cut up and reassembled that is kind of self destroying working trying to stay with it through these convulsions. So I'm almost changing my mind about telling people that I want to start early. Recently I'm having a hard time."
Hope he finally got to do it as he wanted or at least the final result is good enough.
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Jan 22, 2024 - 7:47 AM
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FAbso
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I liked the last score, which was an impressively faithful adaptation of Elmer Bernstein's material (and the original material was composed and orchestrated in Bernstein's style). If Marianelli follows in the footsteps of the last score and keeps the "Bernstein" sound, then I'm very interested. I know that Sony/Columbia wants the "Ghostbusters" property to become their "Star Wars" and in doing that they are, at least for now, trying to remain somewhat stylistically consistent with the first two "Ghostbuster" films so I think that bodes well for the score having a bit of "Bernstein" in it (or "Edelman," of course, if they decide to go that route). Has Peter Bernstein mentioned working on this one, as well?
Gil Kenan, the director, has published on his instagram some pictures from the recording sessions, being one of them of Peter Bernstein playing the Yamaha DX7 synth. So the answer is yes, he is on board.
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Peter Bernstein: Always the bridesmaid, but never the bride.
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Yeah, that's nice, but wouldn't all really prefer to have an awful cartoon drawing like the recent Serenity deluxe release? You know you want that.
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Jan 26, 2024 - 2:11 PM
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jedijones77
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I loved Ghostbusters: Afterlife. One of the best "long-awaited" sequels ever made. Far, far better than Superman Returns, Indiana Jones 4 or Star Wars 7. It's one of the few that got it right, along with Top Gun: Maverick and Tron: Legacy. Those three films showed respect to the originals, brought in enough DNA to connect the old to the new, and also introduced new characters that worked. They didn't try to reinvent the wheel, and they didn't just unimaginatively copy the original's plot either. Last I checked, the 1984 movie wasn't about kids in rural America discovering a bunch of old ghostbusting equipment and making peace with a deceased ancestor.
All that being said, I'm cautiously skeptical about the new sequel. Bottom line, I trust Jason Reitman, the son of the original director, more than I trust Gil Kenan, who has made some really odd choices in his directing career. Kenan's individual film resume definitely doesn't hold a candle to Jason Reitman's, who's been Oscar-nominated as director twice. I know Jason is involved as producer, but I also doubt Jason was in there ordering his friend around on what to do for the entire movie. Gil bringing in a different person to score the movie who he worked with before also seems to show him exercising control.
The new movie's teaser trailer just didn't have a hook. Nothing like the goosebumps-inducing shot of the Ecto-1 in the barn in Afterlife's teaser. The ice stuff doesn't seem very "ghostly." Looks more like something out of a disaster movie. That being said, I really like the promo shots we've seen of Slimer and Janine in a ghostbusting suit. Those are great nods to the original 1980s canon. And I would never pass up the chance to see Peter, Ray and Winston back in their ghostbusting gear again. I just hope the movie lives up to the quality writing and filmmaking that Afterlife delivered.
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