- August 5th, 2021, 5:04 pm#4953380
He's going to be subject to a considerable level of comparison to his father on multiple levels... And having grown up seeing how Ghostbusters has remained a constant presence in his father's life... A yard stick to which every film he's directed and produced after will always be compared to, I think we'd all support Jason if he wished to move on to other projects, even in the hopeful scenario of Afterlife proving successful.
It's wonderful he took on the task of making the film his father wasn't able to, but I wouldn't want him to have the pressure of becoming the film franchise's custodian at the expense of him doing the projects that best interest him... And as we've seen with Ivan, and even Robert Zemeckis with the Back to the Future trilogy, even having the original director on-board doesn't guarantee their next work in that universe will be as good or successful as the originator.
But if we're lucky, Afterlife might well be this franchise's Back to the Future: Part III: unable to eclipse the original, but a damn enjoyable film, probably the most solid after the first, and helps to soften the negatives of the middle movie.
Bison256 wrote: ↑August 5th, 2021, 4:12 pm I have doubts that the farm house will survive the movie. Why else would they build a verison on a sound stage.I get the impression the sound-stage version is a combined interior/exterior set... Something that'd allow them to, say, film a tracking shot following a given character running from inside of the house and out into the farm immediately surrounding it... Something that avoids the tricky "quick cut" to stitch the two locations together that even the best efforts don't always pull-off.
droidguy1119 wrote: ↑August 5th, 2021, 4:59 pmHe says in "Pass the Proton Pack" that he was the age his father was when Ivan made Ghostbusters, and I think that made him introspective. I want the franchise to continue for sure, but I also think that Jason will move on to another thing after this, and not stick around to be the steward of Ghostbusters.It's a considerable pair of shoes for Jason to step into, not just with regard to following up the 1984 hit and its sequel, but also to lay the foundation for how the franchise goes forward.
He's going to be subject to a considerable level of comparison to his father on multiple levels... And having grown up seeing how Ghostbusters has remained a constant presence in his father's life... A yard stick to which every film he's directed and produced after will always be compared to, I think we'd all support Jason if he wished to move on to other projects, even in the hopeful scenario of Afterlife proving successful.
It's wonderful he took on the task of making the film his father wasn't able to, but I wouldn't want him to have the pressure of becoming the film franchise's custodian at the expense of him doing the projects that best interest him... And as we've seen with Ivan, and even Robert Zemeckis with the Back to the Future trilogy, even having the original director on-board doesn't guarantee their next work in that universe will be as good or successful as the originator.
But if we're lucky, Afterlife might well be this franchise's Back to the Future: Part III: unable to eclipse the original, but a damn enjoyable film, probably the most solid after the first, and helps to soften the negatives of the middle movie.
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