 The Arrow Thread
I get that ‘Ghostbusters’ wasn’t the ‘Ghostbusters 3’ sequel that everyone might have wanted. Remakes like Ghostbusters and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory show how much humour and style has changed in the 35/49 years since the originals came out. My kids and my younger brothers love the newer films but don’t have much to say one way or the other on the older ones, whereas I love the older ones (particularly so in the case of Willy Wonka). I find American humour to be pretty polarising - either really funny or really unfunny - and never somewhere in the middle. The modern SNL style of humour seen in the new ghostbusters is a kind of ‘point out the obvious’, ‘make out everyone is an idiot apart from you’ type of thing that I generally don’t like cause it feels lazy. But, in saying that, I really enjoyed the new Ghostbusters movie and thought it was really well done. I certainly found it funnier than the original, at least in terms of laugh out loud moments. Maybe that’s because it surprised me, whereas I’ve seen the old one hundreds of times now and generally find it more comforting than funny, or maybe because I enjoyed it with my kids. I really couldn’t understand the hate for it at all.
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