Sean’s movie thoughts

 I think this movie might be trying to do too much. Maybe the classic Ghostbusters did not need to be here. Perhaps the torch was passed in the last movie.  Also maybe since this is the fifth or sixth movie I watched this week and I listened to a bunch of podcasts, I kind of forgot who a couple of the supporting characters were for a moment or so. Perhaps the film did not reintroduce the characters well. (Heh.) I think the Stay Puff Marshmallow men did not need to be in this movie. There were not in the movie a lot but if there is another one of these movies, they don’t need to be brought back. We already have the Minions, we don’t need c grade Minions. I did not hate this film. It is not as successful as some of the other movies I saw this week (in terms of what the movies were trying to do). Some reviews of this movie mentioned there were a lot of callbacks to the first movie. There were some but they didn’t bring the movie to a halt.  (Camoes from the original cast pla...

I am okay with movie franchises ending. Not every franchise is Godzilla or James Bond. Franchises can end and maybe that is a good thing. Rocky ended and it was a dead franchise before writer/director Ryan Coogler created Creed. I liked the first two Creed movies. Creed III didn't feature Rocky and if there is another Creed film, maybe that film won't feature Rocky. The Rocky series is over and that is okay. Creed came from Rocky and it was nice to Stallone as Rocky again (I did not think he'd ever play Rocky again). This leads to Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. I have not seen it yet. I probably will. Reviews aren't good overall and a lot of critics don't like how the franchise has changed. Some critics think the movie tried to do too much or it feels more like E.T. than Ghostbusters. I get it. I liked Ghostbusters Afterlife but it is not like the first two films tonally.  In 2024 there are new films in the franchises listed below Ghostbusters Bad Boys Aliens Kung Fu P...