Uanset traileren, og uanset min kilometerdybe skepsis over for McCarthy og co., så er denne artikel virkelig god læsning, især fordi den peger på nostalgieffekten ved remakes:
If Not "Ghostbusters," When Is It Okay To Remake Movies?Jeg citerer et par steder:
You can't throw a stone without someone fondly reminiscing about a '90s TV show, or positing a new Disney Princess fan theory (did you know the first half of "Aladdin" may connect to the second half of "Aladdin"???). Take a look at anything from the success of "Fuller House" -- despite the noxious critical reaction -- to DC Comics' reboot of the Hanna-Barbera line, to see how we're in an age of looking towards the past. That's why movie studios are constantly rebooting everything, to capture a bit of the brand recognition and built in audience that nostalgia brings. But that's also why fans rebel against them, because the idea of that thing -- TV show, movie, comic, whatever -- they have in their heads is held on a pedestal. Even the imagined idea of that thing is greater than the thing ever was.
But most of those things that we put on pedestals? They're terrible. "Full House?" Terrible. Most of the Hanna-Barbera cartoons? Terrible. Original "Ghostbusters?" Actually good, but we'll come back to that.
That said, just because they were bad (sorry, they were) doesn't mean they were bad for you at the time. They meant something to you when you were younger, whether that was the comfort of watching "Full House" every day when you came home from school, or the predictability of knowing that the old man who let Scooby-Doo and friends into the spooky haunted house would have his mask ripped off by the end of the episode.
Nostalgia has a place, because it made you happy. But your childhood? It's done. It's over. It's moved on. You still have, and will always have those feelings nostalgia brings you... But someone else has a childhood now, and they will be creating a sense of nostalgia for new, equally terrible things. (som forælder kan jeg med sindsro skrive under på denne sidste del
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"This is the key to the remake controversy, particularly in the modern era: there are just fewer movies made, so each one that's released becomes a special flower that we must preserve at all costs. It's not even that the upcoming "Ghostbusters" remake is so bad on the surface to its detractors; it's that this means the long promised "Ghostbusters 3" won't happen because all the budget has been put into Paul Feig's movie.
[that means]we definitely won't ever get the "Ghostbusters" movie that has been building in those fans' collective unconscious, the one where all the original cast is alive and involved and they fight a team-up between Gozer the Gozerian and Vigo the Carpathian and then there's a rip in the universe and the animated Real Ghostbusters come through and ask "mind if we lend a hand?" and then the Transformers are there and G.I. Joes are riding on them and also vroom vroom I'm a truck."
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