Wow I was just thinking exactly that yesterday. That the Mini Pufts stole the truck to combine and become giant again. Had no idea Gil Kenan implied that.
Obviously I love the Mini Pufts/Stay Puft and it would be cool to see him full size again…but I really do NOT want him/them to be a villain anymore. They were clearly nice before Garraka’s trance. They wanted to greet Phoebe. I have to assume they’re back to being independent since Garraka was trapped.
What they should do is introduce a new evil giant and have giant Stay Puft fight them like in the cartoon.
Or more Mini-Pufts are created and they are mobile. Other cities are infected to the point they are a commonplace pest like mice, rats, roaches etc. so the team has to go to other cities or even justifying franchises opening. Or that funny idea or a type of Mini-Puft Trap sold in stores by Zeddemore Industries that can be resealed and mailed to the Paranormal Research Center.
I can see them infesting NY. I think spreading to other cities would be a stretch since they don’t fly like typical ghosts.
I was wondering if maybe Slimer would meet the Mini Pufts and try to eat them but gets scolded with a ghost trap so they end up frenemies like Tom and Jerry.
Haha, that could have been why Ray keeps them in his bookstore.
I suppose they can only get as far they can driving and/or before they crash. More likely to crash before running out of gas. A pocket of the East Coast infested with Mini-Pufts then. Guess it depends where that truck stop was. Could well be heading to northern New York, Pennsylvania or to… New Jersey.
It was something I have jotted down to pay attention for when I go back to see it again but my theory is these are the Mini-Pufts that were kept in the containment terrarium at the Paranormal Research Center and escaped when Garraka escaped the orb. Presumably the exteriors used for filming are honored and the PRC is on northern Staten Island. And this truck stop/gas station is nearby. Would be a nice nod to GB1 bts if it were a Sunoco Gas Station.
[quote=RichardLess post_id=4995796 time=1711781461 user_id=47215]Kevin Feige ran the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies the way he ran Disney productions. He picked the director, the writers, the actor, where it was shot and all the rest.
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I’d have to read the book for myself, because I often say things to you on here and what you interpret is being said from what I wrote is not something I ever could’ve predicted. Frankly, what you describe, even if Feige does come in with all of those decisions already made and Sony has to follow them, that still matches my description of his primary participation being the early stages of the development process. Furthermore, Pascal and Feige have described their working relationship in interviews and it certainly doesn’t sound like Feige makes all those choices by himself in a vacuum, not to mention there have been multiple reports about Disney being annoyed at the way Sony chooses to release and market their Spider-Man movies in relation to what the MCU is doing, suggesting, as I said, that Sony does things without consulting them.
To clarify the point I had been making about those movies: MCU fans (and to be fair, this has died down significantly since No Way Home) had a tendency to behave like the Holland Spider-Man movies were akin to a school group project where one student does all the actual work, and then everyone presents it in class. Even if Feige dictates who the main creative team is going to be, they then go and produce a movie that both Feige and Sony approve, and Sony still has to actually make the movie, edit it, finish post-production, market, and release it. I’m sure he’s around to sign off on all the important stuff, but it’s not like Feige is on set calling the shots and the Sony people are in their offices twiddling their thumbs.
The big elephant in the room with the containment unit being breached is where is Gozer? Was Gozer in the main containment unit? Was it split up into the units Winston had built (doubtful as they’re only unveiled in this movie so seemingly only finished)? Is it still split up in traps in a random field with some kind of power supply attached? Did it escape with the others when Garraka breached the unit? Surprised it wasn’t mentioned given the finale of afterlife.
It absolutely made sense to follow in the footsteps of RGB and jump right in to showing us Ghostbusters busting ghosts and eschewing the first act of every other Ghostbusters film where they brought the group together. Absolutely wonderful call.
I’d like to see the next outing more in the spirit of EGB—keep an OG or two around as mentors, concentrate on a core crew of young 'busters, introduce new gear, and bring everything up to the modern era.
And just to expand on part of that…I love the classic gear and car, but it’s time for a refresh.
What made the first Ghostbusters so successful was grounding the film firmly in reality and contrasting that with the heightened absurdity of the supernatural. It’s just not believable to see tech as old as rotary dial phones still in use in era with smartphones. Ghostbusters would constantly be upgrading their gear in real life. They’d be using readily available off-the-shelf parts or recent surplus to build and maintain gear, not hard-to-find components from the 20th century.
Men in Black had the good sense to show the technological progression of the neuralizer as a room-sized device in their time traveling MIB 3. Packs in this era should accordingly be smaller… or do a lot more with the same amount of space. The meters should be more than flashing lights. The car shouldn’t be a literal antique.
I get that a lot of us here cherish the original tech—in large part because we spent so much time when we were younger studying it and trying to replicate it as props. But we risk the franchise losing relevancy if we’re stuck in dogma about details like Clippard valves and banjo fittings.
Tech is integral to Ghostbusters stories. It’s time to update. Ghost Corps either already has or should be able to find some designers that really understand what worked with the original aesthetics. Bring it all up to current day.
Maybe what Egon conceived in 1984 was well ahead of its time and in this 40 years span there hasn’t been someone able to come up with a way to improve the original concept. We have to remember that he was a genius.
Now that Lars came aboard, maybe we’ll see some effective updates to the tech.
I can go both ways on this one. Since the proton pack is a fictional item, I can live with the visual design not changing significantly (although I did also love the 2016 movie’s approach to the tech by showing Holtzmann improving it throughout the movie – one of the things I really wish the movie had was a shot of the back of the rolling cart version that showed the lit-up red ring on the back, because that would finish “selling” the idea of that turning into the backpack version later). I can even justify the car in that the car is already geared up for all the things they need, and it has the space to hold the packs and everything – the hard part is justifying the actual car aspect, because parts for an old car like that are probably way pricier.
The icing on the cake would have been showing exit signs leaving us to speculate on a new franchise. Jason could have had the mini pufts climbing about the windshield like the liberty commercial.
A streaming show where Phoebe Spengler travels around solving mysteries, busting ghosts, and telling bad jokes. Like a kid Ghostbuster Macguyver She Wrote.
Pinfeld made her almost irrelevant. I thought he was going to be high pitched voice condescending English man but, I ended up wondering why he wasn’t in it more. If they are going to keep with the family, they need defined roles. They are just there because it was better than being stuck in Oklahoma. If they want to keep business as it is, I’d rather no more movies.
I think if they do smaller scale stories rather than world ending threats, it’d make for a cheaper budget and better story. I know people keep going back to RGB and their villains, but I really think a Boogeyman movie where he goes after Spengler’s decedents would be great. Maybe even Grooberson remembers seeing him when he was a kid and is scared to death of him too.
The issue with using RGB characters is even though they were based on actual myths and legends the can’t take the cartoon version and drop it in the film without having to pay rights to the writers who came up with those characterisations, at least thats my understanding.
An example is Tom Paris in Star Trek Voyager.
He was meant to be Nick Lorcano, but was discovered that every time the character appeared they’d need to pay the writers who came up with him hence the name change.
It could be the same here. I’m not saying it is, but it could be.
Well, I think there’s a general approval of it being like the cartoon. I don’t think it needs to actually recreate something from the cartoon. This one felt like the cartoon and didn’t borrow its baddie, so why would the next one?
