They hire a new Ghostbuster, Winston Zeddemore. Not long after that, a number of places are calling in for ghost exterminations and the Ghostbusters are in business. A nice hotel needs them to get rid of a pesky green ghost which they successfully trap and store away on the premises. Soon enough, just as it seems that the Ghostbusters are on the brink of financial ruin, their services are needed more and more around the city. Peter, in particular, takes an interest in the case, becoming especially admiring of Dana's beauty.
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One day, upon arriving home, a few eggs began to cook themselves on her counter, and when she opened her fridge, she came face-to-face with a primordial demon who called himself "Zuul." The Ghostbusters aren't sure how to help her, but they take her on as their first client. Business is slow, but they do have a meeting with a beautiful young cellist named Dana Barrett, who had a strange experience in her apartment on Central Park West. Unemployed and hopeless, the men decide to buy a dilapidated defunct fire station and set up shop as a ghost exterminator business, calling themselves the "Ghostbusters." They hire a receptionist, Janine, and wait for the work to come in. They take specimens back to their lab, where they run into a Columbia administrator, who informs them their grant is being rescinded and they are being fired. The men arrive at the scene of the ghost sighting and come face-to-face with a hostile apparition, but can do little to de-ghost the library. The library contacts a group of "parapsychologists" employed on a grant at Columbia University-Egon, Peter, and Ray. All of a sudden, she is spooked by a not-so-friendly ghost. Do critics really believe that the 2016 film was better than this? Funnier? More true to the Ghostbusters? I have a hard time believing that.The film opens at the New York Public Library, where an older librarian is putting away books. This is not a divide along deep cultural lines-but rather a culture war issue because the media makes it one. So clearly this is not about women in the movies. This could have been called Ghostbusters: The Rise Of Phoebe and it would have been a more accurate film. Groober and the original Ghostbusters are all secondary. The second most important story in this film is her mother’s relationship to Egon. Phoebe is the lead character, pure and simple. A lot was made of this divide on Twitter, with various culture warriors throwing their two cents into the ring.īut here’s the thing: Afterlife is also a female-led Ghostbusters picture.
Fans, on the other hand, just didn’t like the movie. Fans didn’t like the all-female-led Ghostbusters and defenders of the film believed this was due to baked in misogyny. So what gives? I really do think it’s partly the culture wars to blame. Meanwhile, the 2016 reboot was mostly reviled by audiences, who gave it a 49% compared to critics’ 74%-a much more solid “fresh” than this film. Ghostbusters 2016 Screenshot via Erik KainĦ2% of critics currently liked Ghostbusters: Afterlife, while 96% of viewers liked it.
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