@indzman said:
@hallenbeck77 said:
@indzman said:
Rick Moranis should've made a cameo in this movie, dunno why he declined while rest cast all agreed :(
This was taken from the Hollywood Reporter:
When the new all-female Ghostbusters reboot arrives in theaters next summer, nearly all the living actors from the original 1980s films — Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, are doing cameos. But not Rick Moranis, who was offered the chance to appear in a walk-on role but turned it down. "I wish them well," says the 62-year-old comedic legend, who's so stunned by the outcry over his absence in the film that he decided to grant a rare interview with THR. "I hope it's terrific. But it just makes no sense to me. Why would I do just one day of shooting on something I did 30 years ago?"
Shame. Fans'd've loved to see Rick in the movie besides Sigourney :(
I agree with him. By all appearances, he wouldn't have any kind of meaningful role. It'd just be fan service to hopefully get a few more bucks out of people's nostalgia. Why bother? It'd be one thing if this were a continuation of the original series and the returning cast members actually MATTERED in some way. But from what I've heard, this movie doesn't even take place in the original continuity. The cast members supposedly aren't even playing their original characters, they're solely there so people can say, "man, I remember how Ghostbusters was great. Bill Murray was awesome in that. Hey look, it's Bill Murray!"
What the hell is the point? This shit is just as pointless as putting Stan Lee in Marvel movies. It's just nerdy "Where's Waldo" type shit. Doesn't benefit the movie in any way, it's just the cinematic equivalent of easter eggs for fans to find. And I'm of the opinion that that kind of shit usually TAKES AWAY from the movie. Supposing that this movie is good and I'm enjoying it, I'm more likely to be taken right out of being engrossed with it the second that I notice the filmmakers saying, "hey look ewveryone, here's Rick Moranis again!"
And let me point out that I think this movie is a bad idea. Not because it's all women and not because it's supposedly an entirely new take on the story that ignores the previous iteration. I think this movie is a bad idea because the first movie was lightning in a bottle. Regardless of what they do, there's very little chance of getting something remotely as enjoyable as the original Ghostbusters. But IF they're gonna remake it anyway, what they should be doing is DISTANCING themselves from the original movie. At least then, even if it's not nearly as good as the original, hopefully it'll be different enough to stand out on its own and not just come across as all the numerous dime a dozen remakes and reboots that are present these days. But stuff like shoehorning old cast members into pointless cameos is likely to be at the detriment of the movie having its own identity. Deliberately reminding me of the old cast is just likely to make me wish I was watching the original movie instead of the remake. If there's nothing for the old cast to actually do, shoehorning them into the movie for a 15 second pointless cameo appearance is likely to be nothing more than a soulless corporate attempt to cash in on nostalgia. Like, "remember this person in the thing you liked? Well, he's in this too! You should like this too!"
Or to bring up an example, let's bring up Ghostbusters 2. There was a scene where Louis Tully meets Slimer, and says, "It's you!" Well, that scene makes zero fucking sense. It's you? That implies that Louis Tully knows Slimer. Well, why the hell would Louis Tully know Slimer? As I recall, Louis never met Slimer in the original movie. Slimer was not the least bit important in the original movie, and was not the least bit important in the second. There was absolutely NO story-related reason to have Slimer in Ghostbusters 2 for even a single damn second. But hey...by that time Slimer was pretty popular in the Ghostbusters cartoon, and you know that some asshole was saying "shoehorn Slimer in there anyway, the kids will like seeing him again." So when Louis Tully says, "It's you", he's not actually speaking as Louis Tully. He's not saying what Louis woud say, he's saying what some corporate stooge thinks the KIDS will say once they seem Slimer. The implication being that viewers will be so excited to see Slimer show up and do nothing, that it's worth stopping the fucking movie to have a CHARACTER be excited to see Slimer even though the character's reaction doesn't make sense. It's the cinematic version of a "laugh track" in a movie that doesn't use a laugh track. You know those laugh tracks, right? It's that bullshit thing where the people making a TV show include the audience laughing, so that viewers know what to think is funny. "Well golly gee, if the audience is laughing then it must be funny. I should like this too." Same thing. "If Louis Tully is excited to see Slimer, then I should be excited to see Slimer too."
**** that shit. It's one thing if the cast of the original Ghostbusters have some kind of meaningful role in the remake. But by all indications, these are just pointless cameos. They're getting the original cast to show up for a day of shooting in order to get maybe 10 seconds worth of worthless shit that exists solely to make fans of the original movie get excited just for seeing the original cast at all. That reeks so much of soulless corporate pandering and lack of faith in the quality of the final product. If this movie is a good movie that stands on its own, then they shouldn't have to bother stopping the fucking movie to say, "hey, you liked the original movie, right? Well here are the same actors in this movie too!"
Again, just fan service. And **** the fans. That kind of fan service is misguided on a very basic level. Before Ghostbusters came out, there were no Ghostbusters fans because no one had seen Ghostbusters yet. The original movie didn't become a classic by throwing in some fan service, the original movie became a classic by being fucking awesome. You want people to like your movie? Then make your movie awesome. But trying to make people like your movie by reminding them of shit they liked before is destined to fail, because that's just gonna get them to remind them how much they'd rather be watching the original version.
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