The long anticipated New Ghostbusters 2016 Blog. Also titled "don't listen to the Ghostbros anymore!"

Ahhh, Ghostbusters... If you are a movie fan and you know me chances are that sooner or later we'll be quoting Ghostbusters back and forth and with good reason. It's a movie that reminds us why we like movies. It shows you what can happen when a studio doesn't micromanage something to death or try to cater to a specific fan base. Its what happens when true creative geniuses, comedic geniuses, and a great director come together and make something special.

And yet it got remade this year and to tell you the truth the new movie was good. Paul Fiege's work on Spy and Bridesmaids was excellent and the female actors are some of the funniest that I've seen in recent years. Just watch the first half hour of Spy and you'll see what I mean.

The first act of the new Ghostbusters is just as funny if not more so. Paul Fiege and his actresses excel in this type of funny and silly character-building shenanigans and this is by far the best part of the movie. So good that it warrants a 7.5/10 grade, 8/10 if I'm being very generous.

The second act suffers from trying to put in as many Ghostbuster gadgets and themes as possible to pay homage to the original, which is okay. I mean, its probably hard to make a remake of a movie that is on so many fans's Mt. Rushmore of movies. Mt. Rushmore, at least to me, includes Ghostbusters, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Caddyshack. Many will chose to argue this, but for me they are already carved, adorned, and set in stone.

But that doesn't mean that I'm going to fly off the handle if a movie on Mt. Rushmore gets remade like the current Ghostbro phemonnon which is particularly disturbing and downright lame. It is reminiscent of the Gamer Gate scenario which I won't go into here but is equally lame and dumb. I ask, if you don't like a movie why not just not watch it? Do you have to post a hundred angry reviews to IMDB and then post angry reviews to other movies with the same actor or director in them? The saying goes, out of the contents of the heart the mouth speaketh. It doesn't take Freud to tell me there's a lot of misguided and repressed anger and hatred, that comes out in the online community where there's no risk of real consequence or someone can make multiple fake accounts altogether. 

There was a hilarious scenario recently where two famous comedians, Dave Chapelle and someone else were talking and they mentioned that there had been an argument or angry exchange between them on Twitter. And the second comedian says, "You know Dave, I didn't write those things. I don't even have a Twitter account."
And Dave replies, "Man, I don't have an account either." Meaning, 2 people had created fake accounts with their names on them and had a fake argument.

So to any Ghostbro reading this, I challenge you to live a deeper life than just worshiping your toys, movies, and video games as all there is, and to not fly off the handle like a mental patient when it even sniffs like somehow, someday, maybe, if the planets all align they will come under threat from someone or something new and a meteor might collide with the Earth. 

There's a saying in Yoga that one should "Live simply and think Highly." Meaning, not putting all your attention on "things" and acquiring them, because at death you have to leave them all behind anyway. Because honestly, in five hundred years we might not even have movies or video games anymore or they could be thought of as toys of a near Neanderthal like people that are almost all forgotten by then. Or our civilization will be completely wiped out and the only survivors will be living in dense jungles that completely cover every city, road, and building and "Gunga, lagunga," will be a near meaningless phrase thought to come from an ancient myth instead of part of one of my favorite speeches from any movie ever.

Thanks for reading again. Maybe an Olympics blog will come next.

Sayonara, Peace
Jake