I understand most of what goes on in the movie blogging world, on this site as on all sites, we are doing what we can to get people to click on our headlines, post comments and generate pageviews while discussing our love for movies. However, there are times when I get so confused as to how movie blogs find the energy to post about things they presumably don’t want and yet continually find ways to write about them. Yes, it generates pageviews and angry comments, but doesn’t it also suggest a certain interest level that could be confused by studio heads?
Currently the most baffling title, to me, is Ghostbusters 3, a film that only seems to be on life-support as a result of blogs continually writing about it. The evolution of the project reminds me a lot of all the constant articles about a potential “Arrested Development” movie. However, there is one key difference, it seemed everyone that wrote about a potential “Arrested Development” movie actually wanted one, but does anyone really want a Ghostbusters 3 or the potential remake that’s apparently being discussed?
I ask because I could be misinterpreting the tea leaves here and everyone is actually excited at the possibility of remaking a film that had one great installment, one bad one and a cartoon series based on it.
Personally, Ghostbusters is one of those products of the ’80s that belongs exactly where it is and the idea of remaking it doesn’t seem to make any sense. I can only imagine today’s studios trying to find young twenty-somethings to fill out the cast as opposed to thirty-something established comedians.
The ’80s in general were so androgynous in identity I don’t believe today’s filmmakers can tap into whatever hair product and leg warmer induced coma created Ghostbusters. The only logical way to approach it would seem to do something like what Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum did with 21 Jump Street and remove any illusion of innocence by today’s standards and go for straight adolescent raunch. But at that point aren’t you just making a paranormal 21 Jump Street clone? Ugh, now I feel a little dirty in that I may have given them an idea.
I could maybe understand a Ghostbusters 3 if they were able to get the entire cast back, which not only includes Bill Murray (which seems, more and more, like it will never happen), but also Rick Moranis, whom we haven’t heard from since 2006. However, even then that’s not a film I feel I actually want.
Let me know what you think in the comments and the poll below.
