Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

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Who talked about it

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The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Amblin-era Spielberg films: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous.
    “a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Ghostbusters: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Marvel's Avengers: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (industry): Marvel's Avengers ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
    “trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (craft): Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half.
    “It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Ghostbusters: 7 lines lineage ×2 verdict ×2 contrast ×1 industry ×1 people ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod.
    “This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Come On, Come On: 3 lines theme ×2 contrast ×1

  1. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point.
    “In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Jason Reitman: 3 lines career ×2 lineage ×1

  1. career (career): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Reitman's ghostbusters decision looks like capitulating to Hollywood and may make him a franchise filmmaker.
    “he has kind of minted a future as a franchise filmmaker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:21:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Amblin-era Spielberg films: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Amblin-era Spielberg films. The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous.
    “a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Bringing Up Baby: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Bringing Up Baby → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The screwball energy of Bringing Up Baby is the gleeful-but-smart quality they loved in Ghostbusters, which others dumb down.
    “is the same thing that you and I responded to in Ghostbusters that so many people dumb down.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)

Doctor Sleep: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (legacy sequel (contrast)): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Doctor Sleep. Afterlife is eager to relive the first movie for no reason; Doctor Sleep avoids the original for as long as it can, so its return is earned.
    “Ghostbusters Afterlife is a perfect example of the movie is so eager to relive the 1st movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:07:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Godzilla vs. Kong: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Godzilla vs. Kong. Podcasters are becoming storytelling vectors, as in a character named Podcast.
    “There is a character named podcast in a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Marvel's Avengers: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Marvel's Avengers. Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
    “trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half.
    “It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

That Thing You Do!: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): That Thing You Do! → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Like Ghostbusters, That Thing You Do! is built from top-tier component parts.
    “One thing about this movie is very similar to say something I was pointing out about Ghostbusters.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:44:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Reitman's ghostbusters decision looks like capitulating to Hollywood and may make him a franchise filmmaker.
    “he has kind of minted a future as a franchise filmmaker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:21:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Reitman, who always said he was different from his father, ended up running a franchise with a PowerPoint press conference.
    “now not only did he have to do the franchise that he always said he didn't want to do”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:07:17 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. The original aspired upward for kids; Afterlife makes grown-ups into kids.
    “it made young kids want to be older and cool.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:05:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Both are about families; Come On, Come On is self-aware where Afterlife is not.
    “This is self-aware, even if Ghostbusters Afterlife is not.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half.
    “It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): That Thing You Do! → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Like Ghostbusters, That Thing You Do! is built from top-tier component parts.
    “One thing about this movie is very similar to say something I was pointing out about Ghostbusters.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:44:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (industry): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Walmart product placement for marshmallow men sells toys to children.
    “that scene was the real low point because that is definitely takes place in a product placement Walmart ad”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Marvel's Avengers. Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
    “trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (5)

  1. lineage (sequel ownership): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Sarcastically, Reitman gives Ghostbusters back to the fans with a sequel set apart from the 2016 film.
    “And look at the larger political issue, which is that Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:02:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod.
    “This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Amblin-era Spielberg films. The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous.
    “a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (legacy sequel (contrast)): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Doctor Sleep. Afterlife is eager to relive the first movie for no reason; Doctor Sleep avoids the original for as long as it can, so its return is earned.
    “Ghostbusters Afterlife is a perfect example of the movie is so eager to relive the 1st movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:07:27 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (people): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Speaker liked the 2016 film defensively and because Hemsworth was funny.
    “I thought the Chris Hemsworth character was just like very funny and they should let Chris Hemsworth just be a comedian more often.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:09:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (4)

  1. theme (theme): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Godzilla vs. Kong. Podcasters are becoming storytelling vectors, as in a character named Podcast.
    “There is a character named podcast in a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Come On, Come On depicts a non-traditional family, in contrast with the Reitman point.
    “In a family that, to the Reitman point, is not a traditional family”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:33:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Both put a podcast/radio figure on screen.
    “which is, um, a podcast character of its own”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:34:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Bringing Up Baby → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The screwball energy of Bringing Up Baby is the gleeful-but-smart quality they loved in Ghostbusters, which others dumb down.
    “is the same thing that you and I responded to in Ghostbusters that so many people dumb down.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Afterlife strips out the art and humor of the original.
    “all of the art and the humor that you and I associate with the original Ghostbusters is like totally missing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:07:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Original Ghostbusters showing up at 70 feel flat and unexcited, a bummer.
    “they showed up and it was just very flat and they don't seem excited to be there.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:17:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The movie pencil-sketch-over-a-Xerox feel.
    “the movie does often feel like a pencil sketch over a Xerox.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Stay Puft marshmallow men are shown across a Walmart product placement scene with Paul Rudd.
    “there is just a lot of time spent of Paul Rudd showing you the various deals available at Walmart”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Muncher the blue blob humping a fire hydrant is the one moment of joy; speaker was the only one laughing in the theater.
    “So when like muncher, the blue blob shows up and is humping a fire hydrant.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The Ghostbusters theme only plays in the end credits.
    “Why did I have to wait until the end credits for the Ghostbusters theme song?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Muncher is a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue.
    “it was just a basically also a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Nine-year-olds not knowing ghosts terrorized New York is a nit: it would be the biggest thing since the Crusades.
    “This would be the biggest thing since like the Crusades.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: A character is named Podcast, with a joke about the podcast finding its voice in episode 46.
    “There is a character named podcast in a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Bill Murray declined a third Ghostbusters for 25 years; speaker found the cameos pathetic.
    “Why he came back for this movie, I have no idea.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Jason Reitman filmed a plea before the movie not to spoil the end.
    “Jason Reitman filmed a little thing to go in front of the movie being like, please don't spoil the end of the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:17:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

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