@@MrSGL21 A new story isn't the same as a bad story. I'm sure you're intelligent enough to realise that. And the solution to having made a bad film isn't then immediately following it up with a nostalgia-dripping, walk down memory lane, safe to the point of absurdity, cash-grab... If all you wanted was a "Remember this, remember that?" film, I feel bad for you.
@Gigawatt If it's salty to expect a little more from a film than simply to be reminded of why I liked a different film 30 years ago, then yeah, salt me up. Bitch.
You missed one cool easter egg: After Hugging his daughter for the last time, Egon spirit transform into some kind of particles and rise to the sky. But if you paid attention to those particles, you can see how it shapes the ghostbusters logo for a split second. 😉
I think there were two different Ectos, and Egon just took the older one. Also, the field that Trevor drives Ecto through was actually planted for that scene, then harvested and sold.
Correct. The novelization of Ghostbusters 2 makes it clear that the Ghostbusters bought a brand new car, as the old Ecto-1 would have taken too long to repair. Ecto-1A is then refitted to become the Ecto-1B in the videogame. After that car is damaged, the original Ecto-1 is brought back and upgraded with the gunners seat.
To shed some light on the whole Ecto 1 confusion, it’s all explained in a deleted scene from GB2. During the scenes where Ecto 1 is still in bad condition, it actually breaks down with the crew inside. However they break down across from a used car lot, in which sits an identical model Cadillac which they turn into Ecto 1A. Now, that means that Egon may have kept Ecto 1 making a few modifications but ultimately not being able to fix it, and then takes it as per the story of Afterlife.
Just watched it tonight, I'm 48, I cried like a baby at the end. There were sooooo many nuggets of awesomeness in there and the 2 hours flew past so I'm hoping IF there's a future film to follow (as teased) that its in the same spirit as GBAL :)
In Afterlife when Gozer asks Ray, "Are you a god?" it looks like it has a smirk. It isn't giving Ray a second chance, it's basically acknowledging that it recognizes him, Winston and Peter.
Minor point, but in GB:A, Egon *does* use crossing the streams on the gateway through which Gozer is trying to return through. The Proton Cannons that he rigs up in the mine are specifically aimed so that the four beams will converge and shoot down the shaft when the gateway tries to open. Also, it's mentioned that Gozer's energy/power/being is basically energy flowing through the gateway to manifest here on Earth. Attacking the gateway to swing the door not only reverses the energy flow to "suck her back through", but presumably reverses the energy polarity to weaken her/causing her manifestation to lose coherence and power. In the movie, by crossing the streams against Gozer herself, they're banking on a similar effect of the crossed beams weakening and dispersing Gozer enough that she can't continue to attack or do damage here and thus buy enough time to try and trap her. Also, I would argue that by the fact that she's left the mine and the well of souls that is feeding her power moves with her, by that point there's no longer an open gateway to zap, she's already *here*. Thus, all they *can* do is try and weaken her enough that they can ultimately trap her and contain her. Unfortunately, too, while i'm sure Ray knows his stuff about the occult, none of them have the power or the knowledge to open a gateway back to whatever plane of existence Gozer originally inhabits, much less have any way of forcing her and her minions/spirit support/whatever through the portal without letting anything else on the other side come back this way.
And there's the question of permanence - Egon wanted to do something permanent; apparently Gozer can come through repeatedly over the years. And who would our descendants call?
Separate car certainly. As for how they got there, I imagine Winston has a private jet at this point, or could easily charter one. It's a long drive from NYC to Oklahoma.
About Gozer and Stay Puft... If we're regarding the video game as canon still (even if it's soft-canon), they do explain in the game that Gozer's destructor form was locked into the manifestation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man mascot after the Ghostbusters closed the New York gateway. Considering that New York City was also a hub of PK energy at the time, thanks in no small part to Spook Central's influence, it would make sense that the significant lack of PK energy in Summerville would result in Gozer not being able to summon a full sized destructor form but would have to use whatever little bit of energy available to create the mini-Pufts.
The game is canon. ChannelingSpirits did a video essay proving that nothing that occurs in Afterlife prevents the events of the game from happening. It adds so much to the lore.
Here’s a fun one. In ghostbusters 1 they go to jail at some point in the movie. In ghostbusters 2, same. And in Afterlife, the kids go to local jail. I thought it was a cute plot reference.
I find the myth about twinkies having an infinite shelf-life to be hilariously ironic, considering they actually go sour and moldy *super quickly* in reality.
Technically they did not used to, I forget when they stoped using as many preservatives in but for the longest time they had a crap ton of preservatives in them that had rendered it almost impossible for that to happen however they stoped because the preservative they were using were casing a variety of health issues in people.
Egon has a line in GBII about the proton packs having a half-life of 5,000 years. He probably planned it that way as a reminder. When they went ding he’d remember to buy some new Twinkies-that’s also their known shelf life.
I loved this, it was awesome to watch as a Ghostbusters fan, the spirit of it is there not just nostalgia and it sets up the new cast to do more Ghostbusters.
I had heard something years ago that part of that line was cut, in that Egon then said "food of the future". I can't find reference to it now. Might be on a really old making of Ghostbusters show or it was just a rumor, but regardless, I think it would have been hilarious if it had been in the original movie.
The theater in town is playing “Cannibal Girls.” That’s the same movie being advertised on the marquee in Ghostbusters two during the citywide ghost attack when the woman’s fur coat comes alive and runs away.
5:30 There WAS an Ecto 1 toy with a seat just like that! Don't know which came first, the Ninja Turtles or the Ghostbusters toy, but it was definitely a toy thing back in the day.
This. I had that toy growing up, and that was the first thing i thought of. Nearly everything that was an upgrade to this movie's Ecto 1 is pretty much a take from the toy line.
@@adrianpale2342 Hey man don't say anything negative about this film, since it's apparently the greatest goddamn film ever made according, to this fandom.
@@srbell67 Look, fanboy - I know your simple little brain gets off when they say "Who you gonna call?" or when there's little Stay Puft men for no reason, and that's enough for you - some of us expect a little more than a wet, saccharine homage to a 30 year old film. A completely worshipful tone that could not be more different to the irreverent, sarcastic, cynical original. You think that Harold Raimis, director of not only the original Ghostbusters, but also Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, etc would have enjoyed this soppy "tribute"? You don't know what you're talking about.
@@thejagman22 Have you even seen the movie? You post a ton on this video acting like it is a bad movie. It is entertainment. Nostalgia is a valid form of that. The acting was good, there was no 'woke' stuff in this, and it stayed true to the originals. It also gave us an update on all the Busters, and setup the next movie to be its own thing that can not just be a nostalgia trip. I really fail to see what is so bad about it? Is it going to be performed on Broadway next year? No. Is it a fun movie that didn't ruin itself by trying to be cute? Yes. I wish more would be like this instead of pandering to political or societal topics, which half the viewers are going to either love or hate. This is just a simple fun movie.
@@LONlG Let me ask you this: How many times have you watched Ghostbusters 1984? How many times honestly do you think you'll watch this new film? Do you think this film (on its own) will have people talking about it for 30 years? Nothing wrong with nostalgia, but that's what you get from watching the original - do we really need a new film that gives us a double-helping of the same nostalgia that we'd get simply from watching the original? As a fandom, is that all we're looking for? A reminder, as if we needed it, of how wonderful the lightning-in-a-bottle original cast and film itself was? For me it just goes to show that the magic and originality of Hollywood is done-for, creatively bankrupt - they're clearly incapable of making anything new (like GB 2016), so they're now making self-reverent retrospectives and most of the fandom laps it up. You can accuse me of being cynical, but I invite you to go back and watch the original Ghostbusters, one of the most cynical, sarcastic and least reverential films ever made.
@@thejagman22 I can see your point, and I also see another point of this was "kind of" needed for the franchise after the 2016 thing. They needed to show they understand the franchise and that the sequels know their roots. I'm not a big GB fan, I've watched the original a few times over the years on network TV, never seen a theatrical or commercial free version. I'm not actually a fan they should have aimed at. But for me this hit all the right buttons to make me interested in old GB and eager for what their original next movie in the series will be. If the next one is a dumpster fire then I will jump to your side. But this one to me feels like just proving they understand the roots. I am no fan of hollywood. They haven't made much that has an actual story to it for probably a decade. My top movies since 2000 are mainly just things I enjoy one aspect of. And comedies? They haven't made a good comedy in... I don't even know. They are too scared to make dry humor or anything with 'shock' value. Instead we get fart jokes and people getting hurt that is supposed to be funny. Anyway. Thanks for expanding on your comment. I see what you are talking about and support your general mindset. Just this specific movie worked for me really well, and I hope they don't try to feed off a similar nostalgia effect for the next in the series.
@@LONlG Well thank you, that's big of you. Don't see much of that on TH-cam. And I certainly respect your point of view, also. For whatever it's worth, I do think that the movie was for the most part well executed and in a way it's difficult not to enjoy some of the things going on because it plays on themes and characters that we love. But the sort of worshipful tone and reverence didn't work for me... Like, Ghostbusters '84 was basically completely irreverent, cynical and sarcastic - and fundamentally a comedy. So personally I didn't feel like this film did really understand the source material, but instead played it overly sentimental and reverential. There's no doubt it's a better film than GB '16, but that hardly feels like a compliment at this point... Maybe they'll pull it back for the sequel, but I've got a feeling it might be "The Further Adventures of Stranger Things in Ghostbuster-Land". Hope I'm wrong.
I'm pretty sure I saw the "MAID" doorknob hanger from the first movie (the one seen hanging on the "Venkman burn in hell" door, at the university) on a wall in the farmhouse.
I think Ray talking about business slowing down to catching ghosts once a week was a nod to the Real Ghostbusters that lived on past the movies on abc Saturday mornings
This whole movie was a Love Letter to Harold Ramis... And I think they did a beautiful job of bring 'life' into his ghost. Phoebe is my favorite character in this movie, but they were all very strong... Including first-timer Podcast (Logan Kim) who was very funny in this movie.
To be honest... As a long time ghostbusters fan... I never noticed the scan monitor in the background of Tulley's brain scan before (showing a demon dog). That's a cool detail that I always missed.
You know, I would be willing to abandon this notion of Afterlife not including Ghostbusters II as canon if there would have been a scene in Afterlife where... gee, I don't know, if Ray was answering the phone from his bookstore or something.
The reason there are still ghosts in the containment machine in the Ghostbusters main headquarters is answered in the Afterlife film when Phoebe is in jail and on the phone with Ray who mentions that the original Ghostbusters continued to catch ghosts for a little while until they broke up.
I was starting to think I was crazy. I totally got father/son Kamehameha vibes from that ending part, but I hadn't heard anyone else say anything about it until now! Thank you!
The Destroyer can only ever take a single form in any one dimension. When Ray chose the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, it permanently established the form for the Destroyer. That's why they came to life.
But in GB1 the Destroyer has already formed twice according to Louis Tully, unless they are in other realms/dimensions (which has never been established) "Gozer the Traveller, he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants they chose a new form for him... that of a Giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
@@Mr_Jingles_147 That clearly describes either other planets or other dimensions, since nothing of the sort has ever existed on Earth. The comics, if you consider them canon, confirm the Destroyer is locked into a single form in each dimension.
The videogame confirmed that the destructor form is now locked as Stay Puft. The confusion comes from the fact that the emissary who asked the Ghostbusters what form it should take was originally supposed to be Ivo Shandor. Gozer was supposed to be shown only in its Stay Puft form, and nothing else.
Fun thought: some say the activation of the large hadron collider caused some kind of dimensional change, and that moment is when the mandela effect began.
One you didn’t mention that I noticed immediately when I watched the movie was the music queue in the very first seconds. It was the exact same music queue that opened the first movie. Little piano key tingle
@@jimmywim At least some of the cues were re-recorded for Afterlife, and they got some of the original musicians from 1984 to play them. The attention to detail on this movie is incredible.
There are LOTS of bits of the score that re-use Elmer Bernstein's score from the original movie, and they're used in the same types of plot movements in Afterlife. I thought that was pretty cool.
The thing about actual Easter Eggs is they're hidden. These weren't Easter Eggs, these were just eggs lying on the kitchen counter. Nobody missed any of these
@@wwaxwork I'm not in the mood for this today. You decorate eggs then hide them, you don't hover over your own hiding spot point and say "Would you look over here, it looks like an egg! Does that look like an egg to you?". Maybe you do this for a toddler.
I really do not understand why people don't think the film acknowledges ghostbusters 2. Even in the trailer Ray Stanz is running his occult bookstore.. which was from Ghostbusters 2.
When we first see the Zuul possessed mom she's sitting in the same chair Dana was in when she got possessed. The hole where the ghost hand broke through the chair is still there.
I don't understand why no one would consider GB2 canon.. and it has nothing to do with a toaster. Ray was shown owning and running his occult bookstore in GB2 and that is clearly shown in Afterlife as well.
The ecto 1 actually had to be upgraded to shoot the scene in the field. It couldnt do the turns in the field with the engine in it so they changed the engine to shoot the scene
Here's another one When gary (voiced by Paul rudd) was in Walmart, we saw him getting a Baskin Robbins product. In antman, (also starring Paul rudd) Scott Lang was working in baskin Robbins
If they do anymore sequels, Jason Rietman should use some of the Real Ghostbusters material. There's so many good villains and ghosts in that show that I'd be sure they could make more films with. I'm honestly just glad we finally have a close on the original Ghostbusters saga, it's the perfect happy ending.
So I dunno how, as a Dragonball fan I missed that potential reference with Egon and Phoebe. Also, when Ray mentions things going slow with ghost catching I took that as a reference to Ghostbusters 2 where at that point, they were reduced to children's parties.
Phoebe touching the trap at the end and being rewarded with electricity goes back to the ballroom scene in the first film, and, more obvious, the lights used to recreate the ghosts escaping in the "I Believe It's Magic" scene in GB 1.
Bit of a stretch but a specific one, one of the jokes that Phoebe mentions in front of Gozer "What do you call a fish with no i? A fsh" is also brought up by Finn Wolfhard in an episode of GameGrumps that he's featured on. Not that it's a reference to GameGrumps but I have a feeling Finn suggested that line at some point
In the after credits scenes, when Ernie Hudson was talking about restoring the firehouse, in the basement was the containment equipment. There was still a light flashing on it.
I need to watch the start again so I can see what the letters on the Diner spell when Egon rips past in the truck, because when Ecto1 is heading back to the house at the end it takes the corner in the same way and the diner sign says "S INNERS"
In a 1990 specterum ( charter cable ) commercial Dan Akroid said I am really nice guy I don't really eat metal, And then we get the metal eating slimer :) Nice touch
Ugh, expected things here i missed, but anyone who knows to OG movies and has seen the new movie knows this all. Like, if you missed the twinkie or stacked books reference you seriously were asleep at the theater. Movie was total baddass though and in the age of (unwanted) old movie sequels this was the best one sofar.
A lot of those modifications that you seen on the Ecto-one was seen in the animated series. Afterlife ecto-1 has the appearance of the ecto-1 in the animated series as well
No it doesn't. The cartoon version lacked the ladder, and had a very different roof equipment. It also had a Ghostbusters logo hood ornament, instead of the Cadillac badge.
Ghostbusters 2 the echo mobile’s plate is 1A this movie and the first movie it’s 1. So I take it to mean there’s 2 separate ectomobiles 1& 1A. We might see both in the next installment
@@kwdenman I bet it's been done already - after all it'd be super-easy, but it's too popular (not good, but popular) for Ryan to shred... And so ScreenRant won't allow it.
You completely missed one inside baseball easter egg; Jason Reitman's tribute to his father and original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. When Podcast and Phoebe are walking by the movie theatre in town, look at the marquee; the movie listed as playing is Ivan Reitman's first ever feature film he co-wrote and directed, Cannibal Girls. I caught it right away and was impressed! My family was just annoyed that I paused the movie to explain it to them! 🤣
you missed 4 things in your list. 1. in the start you see the pke meter go off when no ghost in the room. later it is shown as being egon. 2. ray says the firehouse is a starbucks??? 3. laster venkman says main hq [firehouse?] 4. post credit scene not saying what it is.. cept GB4 hint?
At the end of your video there's a ghost with a big eye on his forehead. It's a replica of a toy ghost of the 80's real ghostbusters action figures. I still got it.
My theory about the ghostbusters game is canon is that in the Ghostbusters game, we are a rookie trying to become a ghost buster what if that the rookie took the Ecto 1a to start his own business in a different state.
@@RictusHolloweye Of course you enjoyed it. That's what they're counting on! You watched a film ABOUT Ghostbusters, but not a Ghostbusters film. It had all the charm and originality (and characters) of a "making of".
I dont know if its just me but, if i understood well, when Egon was sitting on the chair waiting, he teases himself and die before, so the Terror Dog cant possesed im ?!? Make sense ? 🤔😕
Ghostbusters Afterlife is to Ghostbusters what The Mandalorian is to Star Wars: What people really wanted/asked for.
I said the exact same thing.
Perfect analogy!!! 🥰 🥰🥰
Right - 2+ hours of spoon-fed nostalgia! Who needs a fresh, new story? Take my money, Hollywood, please!
@@thejagman22 what like that trash in 2016? Youre just salty.
@@MrSGL21 A new story isn't the same as a bad story. I'm sure you're intelligent enough to realise that. And the solution to having made a bad film isn't then immediately following it up with a nostalgia-dripping, walk down memory lane, safe to the point of absurdity, cash-grab...
If all you wanted was a "Remember this, remember that?" film, I feel bad for you.
When the police chief says “who you gonna call?” The whole cinema laughed
same haha
"Hurrr dur, 🥴 He said the thing!"
@Gigawatt If it's salty to expect a little more from a film than simply to be reminded of why I liked a different film 30 years ago, then yeah, salt me up. Bitch.
i laugh at the "are you a god" and everyone looks at each other' Like you remember happened last time.
@@thejagman22 ...That's what I yelled. 🤪
You missed one cool easter egg: After Hugging his daughter for the last time, Egon spirit transform into some kind of particles and rise to the sky. But if you paid attention to those particles, you can see how it shapes the ghostbusters logo for a split second. 😉
I think there were two different Ectos, and Egon just took the older one. Also, the field that Trevor drives Ecto through was actually planted for that scene, then harvested and sold.
Correct. The novelization of Ghostbusters 2 makes it clear that the Ghostbusters bought a brand new car, as the old Ecto-1 would have taken too long to repair. Ecto-1A is then refitted to become the Ecto-1B in the videogame. After that car is damaged, the original Ecto-1 is brought back and upgraded with the gunners seat.
To shed some light on the whole Ecto 1 confusion, it’s all explained in a deleted scene from GB2. During the scenes where Ecto 1 is still in bad condition, it actually breaks down with the crew inside. However they break down across from a used car lot, in which sits an identical model Cadillac which they turn into Ecto 1A. Now, that means that Egon may have kept Ecto 1 making a few modifications but ultimately not being able to fix it, and then takes it as per the story of Afterlife.
I love that the purple eyeball ghost from the toy line made an appearance.
I also noticed that when a mini stay-puft was on the grill in Walmart he started melting and as he did he gave a thumbs up like in terminator 2
Haha. Yet another original idea - go Hollywood!
I spotted a mini stay-puft fly his arm like a plane like Buzz Lightyear did in Toy Story.
Just watched it tonight, I'm 48, I cried like a baby at the end. There were sooooo many nuggets of awesomeness in there and the 2 hours flew past so I'm hoping IF there's a future film to follow (as teased) that its in the same spirit as GBAL :)
In Afterlife when Gozer asks Ray, "Are you a god?" it looks like it has a smirk. It isn't giving Ray a second chance, it's basically acknowledging that it recognizes him, Winston and Peter.
Minor point, but in GB:A, Egon *does* use crossing the streams on the gateway through which Gozer is trying to return through. The Proton Cannons that he rigs up in the mine are specifically aimed so that the four beams will converge and shoot down the shaft when the gateway tries to open. Also, it's mentioned that Gozer's energy/power/being is basically energy flowing through the gateway to manifest here on Earth. Attacking the gateway to swing the door not only reverses the energy flow to "suck her back through", but presumably reverses the energy polarity to weaken her/causing her manifestation to lose coherence and power.
In the movie, by crossing the streams against Gozer herself, they're banking on a similar effect of the crossed beams weakening and dispersing Gozer enough that she can't continue to attack or do damage here and thus buy enough time to try and trap her.
Also, I would argue that by the fact that she's left the mine and the well of souls that is feeding her power moves with her, by that point there's no longer an open gateway to zap, she's already *here*. Thus, all they *can* do is try and weaken her enough that they can ultimately trap her and contain her.
Unfortunately, too, while i'm sure Ray knows his stuff about the occult, none of them have the power or the knowledge to open a gateway back to whatever plane of existence Gozer originally inhabits, much less have any way of forcing her and her minions/spirit support/whatever through the portal without letting anything else on the other side come back this way.
And there's the question of permanence - Egon wanted to do something permanent; apparently Gozer can come through repeatedly over the years. And who would our descendants call?
The fact that Paul Rudd’s character chose basken robbins ice cream was a fun nod to Ant-man
And Friends, Phoebe said Mike wanted to work at Baskin Robbins before he became a musician. So it's a Paul Rudd thing.
The god was supposedly Summerian.
And the town was called Summerville.
Sumerian, but yes! Glad someone else got that. :)
"...not Babylonian."
"Yeah, big difference."
I'm pretty sure the Ecto 1 and the Ecto 1A are separate cars otherwise, how did the Ghostbusters get there to help the kids fight Gozer?
Good point. I just figured they had already reverted the car back to original specks by the time of the GB video game, but separate car makes sense.
Separate car certainly. As for how they got there, I imagine Winston has a private jet at this point, or could easily charter one. It's a long drive from NYC to Oklahoma.
Not to mention that Ecto-2 is a helicopter and not another car, so people can be a bit confused with their naming
The novelisation of Ghostbusters 2 confirms that they bought a new car near the beginning.
@@justanotherVic I assumed Winston got them there as well.
When the girl gives Trevor the hoodie and says "here it has a wolf on it" and Finn's last name is Wolfhard 🥰 I loved that detail.
About Gozer and Stay Puft...
If we're regarding the video game as canon still (even if it's soft-canon), they do explain in the game that Gozer's destructor form was locked into the manifestation of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man mascot after the Ghostbusters closed the New York gateway. Considering that New York City was also a hub of PK energy at the time, thanks in no small part to Spook Central's influence, it would make sense that the significant lack of PK energy in Summerville would result in Gozer not being able to summon a full sized destructor form but would have to use whatever little bit of energy available to create the mini-Pufts.
The game is canon. ChannelingSpirits did a video essay proving that nothing that occurs in Afterlife prevents the events of the game from happening. It adds so much to the lore.
Here’s a fun one. In ghostbusters 1 they go to jail at some point in the movie. In ghostbusters 2, same. And in Afterlife, the kids go to local jail. I thought it was a cute plot reference.
They get sent to a psychiatric hospital in GBII, not prison.
I find the myth about twinkies having an infinite shelf-life to be hilariously ironic, considering they actually go sour and moldy *super quickly* in reality.
Technically they did not used to, I forget when they stoped using as many preservatives in but for the longest time they had a crap ton of preservatives in them that had rendered it almost impossible for that to happen however they stoped because the preservative they were using were casing a variety of health issues in people.
They're edible a few years after their expiration. They definetly taste less than fresh but they're okay.
@@JesseJ588 right.. that's just the recommended date. People act like something expires literally the exact day that's printed on the label..
Egon has a line in GBII about the proton packs having a half-life of 5,000 years. He probably planned it that way as a reminder. When they went ding he’d remember to buy some new Twinkies-that’s also their known shelf life.
Ray’s Occult bookstore appears in this movie as well as in Ghostbusters II so therefore Ghostbusters II does exist as canon.
"Ray's Occult. We're closed"
And every phonecall he gets is still just asking about his opening hours :D
Ghostbusters afterlife was an amazing movie in my opinion ☺️, it's a great Tribute to Egon Spengler Harold Ramis 🙏
I loved this, it was awesome to watch as a Ghostbusters fan, the spirit of it is there not just nostalgia and it sets up the new cast to do more Ghostbusters.
The "Spores, molds, and fungus" joke was always my favorite, because every human being on planet earth does this. It's a pretty dark joke. Love it 😄
I had heard something years ago that part of that line was cut, in that Egon then said "food of the future". I can't find reference to it now. Might be on a really old making of Ghostbusters show or it was just a rumor, but regardless, I think it would have been hilarious if it had been in the original movie.
The theater in town is playing “Cannibal Girls.” That’s the same movie being advertised on the marquee in Ghostbusters two during the citywide ghost attack when the woman’s fur coat comes alive and runs away.
Also Ivan Reitman first film
Damn that's subtle, well spotted!
5:30 There WAS an Ecto 1 toy with a seat just like that! Don't know which came first, the Ninja Turtles or the Ghostbusters toy, but it was definitely a toy thing back in the day.
This. I had that toy growing up, and that was the first thing i thought of. Nearly everything that was an upgrade to this movie's Ecto 1 is pretty much a take from the toy line.
If you didn't legit shed tears at the end of this film, then you aren't a true Ghostbusters fan. That ending was perfection.
If you legit shed a tear at the end of this movie then the corporations have won and America will not be a nation within the next 20 years
@@adrianpale2342 Hey man don't say anything negative about this film, since it's apparently the greatest goddamn film ever made according, to this fandom.
Harold Raimis was one of the most irreverent, cynical, sarcastic, unsentimental filmmakers Hollywood has ever produced. He would hate this film.
@@thejagman22 how the hell do you know?? Were you there during the making of the films?? I don’t think so, troll
@@srbell67 Look, fanboy - I know your simple little brain gets off when they say "Who you gonna call?" or when there's little Stay Puft men for no reason, and that's enough for you - some of us expect a little more than a wet, saccharine homage to a 30 year old film. A completely worshipful tone that could not be more different to the irreverent, sarcastic, cynical original.
You think that Harold Raimis, director of not only the original Ghostbusters, but also Caddyshack, National Lampoon's Vacation, etc would have enjoyed this soppy "tribute"? You don't know what you're talking about.
I have no idea why I thought I would hate this movie. I bloody LOVED IT!!!!
If you enjoyed this movie - you would have equally enjoyed watching someone watch Ghostbusters...
@@thejagman22 Have you even seen the movie? You post a ton on this video acting like it is a bad movie. It is entertainment. Nostalgia is a valid form of that. The acting was good, there was no 'woke' stuff in this, and it stayed true to the originals. It also gave us an update on all the Busters, and setup the next movie to be its own thing that can not just be a nostalgia trip. I really fail to see what is so bad about it? Is it going to be performed on Broadway next year? No. Is it a fun movie that didn't ruin itself by trying to be cute? Yes. I wish more would be like this instead of pandering to political or societal topics, which half the viewers are going to either love or hate. This is just a simple fun movie.
@@LONlG Let me ask you this: How many times have you watched Ghostbusters 1984? How many times honestly do you think you'll watch this new film? Do you think this film (on its own) will have people talking about it for 30 years?
Nothing wrong with nostalgia, but that's what you get from watching the original - do we really need a new film that gives us a double-helping of the same nostalgia that we'd get simply from watching the original? As a fandom, is that all we're looking for? A reminder, as if we needed it, of how wonderful the lightning-in-a-bottle original cast and film itself was?
For me it just goes to show that the magic and originality of Hollywood is done-for, creatively bankrupt - they're clearly incapable of making anything new (like GB 2016), so they're now making self-reverent retrospectives and most of the fandom laps it up.
You can accuse me of being cynical, but I invite you to go back and watch the original Ghostbusters, one of the most cynical, sarcastic and least reverential films ever made.
@@thejagman22 I can see your point, and I also see another point of this was "kind of" needed for the franchise after the 2016 thing. They needed to show they understand the franchise and that the sequels know their roots. I'm not a big GB fan, I've watched the original a few times over the years on network TV, never seen a theatrical or commercial free version. I'm not actually a fan they should have aimed at. But for me this hit all the right buttons to make me interested in old GB and eager for what their original next movie in the series will be. If the next one is a dumpster fire then I will jump to your side. But this one to me feels like just proving they understand the roots.
I am no fan of hollywood. They haven't made much that has an actual story to it for probably a decade. My top movies since 2000 are mainly just things I enjoy one aspect of. And comedies? They haven't made a good comedy in... I don't even know. They are too scared to make dry humor or anything with 'shock' value. Instead we get fart jokes and people getting hurt that is supposed to be funny.
Anyway. Thanks for expanding on your comment. I see what you are talking about and support your general mindset. Just this specific movie worked for me really well, and I hope they don't try to feed off a similar nostalgia effect for the next in the series.
@@LONlG Well thank you, that's big of you. Don't see much of that on TH-cam. And I certainly respect your point of view, also.
For whatever it's worth, I do think that the movie was for the most part well executed and in a way it's difficult not to enjoy some of the things going on because it plays on themes and characters that we love. But the sort of worshipful tone and reverence didn't work for me... Like, Ghostbusters '84 was basically completely irreverent, cynical and sarcastic - and fundamentally a comedy. So personally I didn't feel like this film did really understand the source material, but instead played it overly sentimental and reverential.
There's no doubt it's a better film than GB '16, but that hardly feels like a compliment at this point... Maybe they'll pull it back for the sequel, but I've got a feeling it might be "The Further Adventures of Stranger Things in Ghostbuster-Land".
Hope I'm wrong.
I'm pretty sure I saw the "MAID" doorknob hanger from the first movie (the one seen hanging on the "Venkman burn in hell" door, at the university) on a wall in the farmhouse.
I think Ray talking about business slowing down to catching ghosts once a week was a nod to the Real Ghostbusters that lived on past the movies on abc Saturday mornings
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that TRGB is cannon.
Who's your favorite character from this movie?
Idk
The one with buckets of charisma... Ummm... I forget.
can i be five yo again for to answer please ?
Egon has always been my favorite Ghostbuster.
This whole movie was a Love Letter to Harold Ramis... And I think they did a beautiful job of bring 'life' into his ghost. Phoebe is my favorite character in this movie, but they were all very strong... Including first-timer Podcast (Logan Kim) who was very funny in this movie.
Claims to have 20 things we missed.
Proceeds to list 20 glaring obvious things that nobody that knows Ghostbusters missed.
Well thanks!
To be honest... As a long time ghostbusters fan... I never noticed the scan monitor in the background of Tulley's brain scan before (showing a demon dog). That's a cool detail that I always missed.
You know the toy version of ecto 1 did also have a gunner seat.........
The bug eyed ghost also makes an appearance as it was a toy before.
it's not that Gozer is 'ready' this time, it's cos theyre arent enough streams (3 not 4 initially)
Exactly. The official Ghostbusters board game makes it clear that 4 streams are required to successfully wrangle a class 7 ghost.
I just really loved Ghostbusters Afterlife!
You know, I would be willing to abandon this notion of Afterlife not including Ghostbusters II as canon if there would have been a scene in Afterlife where... gee, I don't know, if Ray was answering the phone from his bookstore or something.
The reason there are still ghosts in the containment machine in the Ghostbusters main headquarters is answered in the Afterlife film when Phoebe is in jail and on the phone with Ray who mentions that the original Ghostbusters continued to catch ghosts for a little while until they broke up.
Exactly. Which basically confirms that the videogame is canon, and the Ghostbusters stayed together after GBII.
I think gozer saying “are you a god?” Again is more gozer mocking ray and showing the ghostbusters that she remembers them
agreed, there was a hint of sarcasm in there for sure from Gozer
I loved venkmans reaction to her
You're right. Winston even says "I think she remembers us".
I was starting to think I was crazy. I totally got father/son Kamehameha vibes from that ending part, but I hadn't heard anyone else say anything about it until now! Thank you!
I actually looked iy up as soon as I saw it to see if anyone besides me caught it. Glad others did.
LOL same. I was expecting Chloe doing the walk by herself or helped by her mother but as soon I saw Egon's hand, I hold my breath.
How could you miss any of these? I've seen the movie once and I didn't learn a single thing from this video...
The Destroyer can only ever take a single form in any one dimension. When Ray chose the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, it permanently established the form for the Destroyer. That's why they came to life.
But in GB1 the Destroyer has already formed twice according to Louis Tully, unless they are in other realms/dimensions (which has never been established) "Gozer the Traveller, he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants they chose a new form for him... that of a Giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
@@Mr_Jingles_147 That clearly describes either other planets or other dimensions, since nothing of the sort has ever existed on Earth. The comics, if you consider them canon, confirm the Destroyer is locked into a single form in each dimension.
@@Mr_Jingles_147 One of Rick Moranis' finest line readings ever. I wish they could've gotten him back for Afterlife.
The videogame confirmed that the destructor form is now locked as Stay Puft. The confusion comes from the fact that the emissary who asked the Ghostbusters what form it should take was originally supposed to be Ivo Shandor. Gozer was supposed to be shown only in its Stay Puft form, and nothing else.
Fun thought: some say the activation of the large hadron collider caused some kind of dimensional change, and that moment is when the mandela effect began.
One you didn’t mention that I noticed immediately when I watched the movie was the music queue in the very first seconds. It was the exact same music queue that opened the first movie. Little piano key tingle
I definitely noticed that!! Very classic jingle
Lots of music cues are re-used, it's bloody brilliant isn't it? Another reason that I love it!
@@jimmywim At least some of the cues were re-recorded for Afterlife, and they got some of the original musicians from 1984 to play them. The attention to detail on this movie is incredible.
The references to Ghostbusters 2 are numerous
Ray got the Bible quote right this time. In 1984 he quotes REV 7:12. It’s actually REV 6:12 and he even has it tattooed on his arm now.
It's not quite correct. His tattoo says Revelations, when it's supposed to be Revelation.
There are LOTS of bits of the score that re-use Elmer Bernstein's score from the original movie, and they're used in the same types of plot movements in Afterlife. I thought that was pretty cool.
The thing about actual Easter Eggs is they're hidden. These weren't Easter Eggs, these were just eggs lying on the kitchen counter. Nobody missed any of these
Have you seen an easter egg, they're brightly colored and easy to find.
@@wwaxwork I'm not in the mood for this today. You decorate eggs then hide them, you don't hover over your own hiding spot point and say "Would you look over here, it looks like an egg! Does that look like an egg to you?". Maybe you do this for a toddler.
This movie's alternate title is Ghostbusters: Easter Egg
@Damien Momed Hahaha ha haaa. No. No, it's not. But enjoy your film.
They confuse fan service with easter eggs
I really do not understand why people don't think the film acknowledges ghostbusters 2. Even in the trailer Ray Stanz is running his occult bookstore.. which was from Ghostbusters 2.
When we first see the Zuul possessed mom she's sitting in the same chair Dana was in when she got possessed. The hole where the ghost hand broke through the chair is still there.
That was the chair Egon died in. But same idea overall. Egon being attacked in a chair like that WAS a nod to Dana's possession in the original.
@@VaterAyotte Ok, thanks. I got there a bit late and missed that part.
Dana got grabbed in the crotch
@@vegeta8169 And, other places... 😉
To be so emotionally attached to these characteristics for so long, I can't help but cry every time I see the end scene!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰
I don't understand why no one would consider GB2 canon.. and it has nothing to do with a toaster. Ray was shown owning and running his occult bookstore in GB2 and that is clearly shown in Afterlife as well.
The ecto 1 actually had to be upgraded to shoot the scene in the field. It couldnt do the turns in the field with the engine in it so they changed the engine to shoot the scene
If there really are jobs like the ghostbusters, I'll def join.
I mean you could be an exterminator
Here's another one
When gary (voiced by Paul rudd) was in Walmart, we saw him getting a Baskin Robbins product. In antman, (also starring Paul rudd) Scott Lang was working in baskin Robbins
I know - can you believe Baskin Robbins will sponsor absolutely anything?
"voiced"????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@rockero1313 Voiced and faced.
@@thejagman22 I know, but he said "voiced" like it was some kind of animated character 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@rockero1313Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference nowadays...
I had that "Turtle Van" as a child.
In the dates of interest on the walls the year 1945 is also the cop car number in ghostbusters one that shows up at the shutdown event of the grid.
There's a show called The Sinner where the actress who plays the mom actually stars in. You'll get why I'm saying this once you've watched the movie.
Diner sign at the end
If they do anymore sequels, Jason Rietman should use some of the Real Ghostbusters material. There's so many good villains and ghosts in that show that I'd be sure they could make more films with. I'm honestly just glad we finally have a close on the original Ghostbusters saga, it's the perfect happy ending.
So I dunno how, as a Dragonball fan I missed that potential reference with Egon and Phoebe. Also, when Ray mentions things going slow with ghost catching I took that as a reference to Ghostbusters 2 where at that point, they were reduced to children's parties.
Fun fact: gozer translated to Dutch means something like “dude”
Similar to UK English "Geezer", also means something like "dude". Same root I think?
Yes
Ray's occult books is from Ghostbusters 2 isn't it? Where he was working in Afterlife.
Yep. Ray started the store after the end of the Ghostbusters in the first movie thanks to D*ckless.
5:10 mark the gunner seat is from the toy line from the REAL GHOSTBUSTERS. not the game. the game got it from the cartoon as well
Phoebe touching the trap at the end and being rewarded with electricity goes back to the ballroom scene in the first film, and, more obvious, the lights used to recreate the ghosts escaping in the "I Believe It's Magic" scene in GB 1.
I can confirm, a Twinkie that’s less than 2 years old is not fresh nor “moist”
🤔 so... Didja taste it? 😵💫😵😬
Bit of a stretch but a specific one, one of the jokes that Phoebe mentions in front of Gozer "What do you call a fish with no i? A fsh" is also brought up by Finn Wolfhard in an episode of GameGrumps that he's featured on. Not that it's a reference to GameGrumps but I have a feeling Finn suggested that line at some point
In the after credits scenes, when Ernie Hudson was talking about restoring the firehouse, in the basement was the containment equipment. There was still a light flashing on it.
How about "Bog eye" from the Kenner toy line making an appearance? I thought that was pretty cool.
I remember before the movie started the trailer for no way home played a small group of the crowd cheered
That makes me giggle. It is quite an exciting trailer
I need to watch the start again so I can see what the letters on the Diner spell when Egon rips past in the truck, because when Ecto1 is heading back to the house at the end it takes the corner in the same way and the diner sign says "S INNERS"
If Bill Murray were his Phil Connors character, he could answer the "Are you a god?" question with "Yes. I'm A god; I'm not THE God."
I wonder if he now worries about cholesterol?
Didn’t Ray say the fire station was turned into a Starbucks?
Ivo & Gozer?
Remember Farmer's Insurance, they know a thing or two, cause they've seen a thing torn in two. 😂🤣
In a 1990 specterum ( charter cable ) commercial Dan Akroid said I am really nice guy I don't really eat metal, And then we get the metal eating slimer :) Nice touch
Ugh, expected things here i missed, but anyone who knows to OG movies and has seen the new movie knows this all. Like, if you missed the twinkie or stacked books reference you seriously were asleep at the theater. Movie was total baddass though and in the age of (unwanted) old movie sequels this was the best one sofar.
A lot of those modifications that you seen on the Ecto-one was seen in the animated series. Afterlife ecto-1 has the appearance of the ecto-1 in the animated series as well
and the original toys
No it doesn't. The cartoon version lacked the ladder, and had a very different roof equipment. It also had a Ghostbusters logo hood ornament, instead of the Cadillac badge.
Seriously, all my life, I always thought Peter gave Egon a $20 bill and not a crunch bar!!!
Ghostbusters 2 the echo mobile’s plate is 1A this movie and the first movie it’s 1. So I take it to mean there’s 2 separate ectomobiles 1& 1A. We might see both in the next installment
This is amazing this is a proper movie so it’s like ghostbuster number 3
New person: what things do you like?
Me: *smirks in Ghostbusters fan* I collect spors molds and fungus
I think got it all, why because i watched this great movie threetimes already and counting.. best movie 2021.
Example: The Pitch Meeting
Afterlife needs a Pitch Meeting ASAP
@@kwdenman I bet it's been done already - after all it'd be super-easy, but it's too popular (not good, but popular) for Ryan to shred... And so ScreenRant won't allow it.
@@thejagman22 Apparently they allowed it. Ryan did it. the movie's popularity was barely an inconvenience.
@@jimhuber Wow, wow, wow..
in one scene there is a stay puff add
The taxi driver ghost in the bar is the same one from the original film
He’s a miner not the taxi driver, but very similar in appearance
No he's not. Jason Reitman has said that the miner is a throwback to the taxi ghost, but also based on the fact that the town was built on mining.
This movie was actually perfect, I think...
You completely missed one inside baseball easter egg; Jason Reitman's tribute to his father and original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman. When Podcast and Phoebe are walking by the movie theatre in town, look at the marquee; the movie listed as playing is Ivan Reitman's first ever feature film he co-wrote and directed, Cannibal Girls. I caught it right away and was impressed! My family was just annoyed that I paused the movie to explain it to them! 🤣
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Why on earth is the stay puft marshmallow man in this list...
I thought the Extreme Ghostbusters had a gunner seat that the wheelchair guy would use. Did I remember that wrong?
you missed 4 things in your list.
1. in the start you see the pke meter go off when no ghost in the room. later it is shown as being egon.
2. ray says the firehouse is a starbucks???
3. laster venkman says main hq [firehouse?]
4. post credit scene not saying what it is.. cept GB4 hint?
Yeah I think that after GB1, the team bought a new Ecto and built her different to Ecto-1. Then Spengler kept the original Ecto and maybe sold Ecto-1A
Ecto1A was modified to become the Ecto1B.
Photo Sensitivity Epilepsy warning for the last reference scene
At the end of your video there's a ghost with a big eye on his forehead. It's a replica of a toy ghost of the 80's real ghostbusters action figures. I still got it.
Selenium steel girders. For spaceships and artificial gravity?
My theory about the ghostbusters game is canon is that in the Ghostbusters game, we are a rookie trying to become a ghost buster what if that the rookie took the Ecto 1a to start his own business in a different state.
Doesn't fit with GB3. Also, it's not canon to this continuity. Also, there is a scene in the film that contradicts the game within the film.
@@John231984 actually most of the community’s clarify it as canon
@@John231984 the director confirmed that the game was cannon
The ghost in the diner getting a cup of coffee was the same ghost who was a cab driver in Ghostbusters 1.
Wow, so original!
@@thejagman22 - You're so edgy!
@@RictusHolloweye Yeah, edgy, sure mate. Enjoy your cash-grab. Hollywood thanks you for your donation.
@@thejagman22 - Oh no, I bought a ticket to a movie I enjoyed!
@@RictusHolloweye Of course you enjoyed it. That's what they're counting on! You watched a film ABOUT Ghostbusters, but not a Ghostbusters film. It had all the charm and originality (and characters) of a "making of".
Cannibal girls on the cinema in the background is a reference to Ghostbusters 2
After they blast the dinner with proton streams the sign says “Sinners” instead of spinners.
You missed the giant eyeball ghost that was a nod to the big eye ghost toy from the 80’s.
I dont know if its just me but, if i understood well, when Egon was sitting on the chair waiting, he teases himself and die before, so the Terror Dog cant possesed im ?!? Make sense ? 🤔😕
i loved this new movie
I love Paul Rudd
Ya I even said after seeing it that they referenced DBZ in the end.
Cannibal Girls at 7pm advertised on the cinema!