What's up with "easter eggs"?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)

 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters:_Afterlife#Critical_response

There is nothing hidden in GB3 (Ghostbusters: Afterlife). The plot is not that complicated. Everything on the screen is plainly visible. I really don't know why that headgear thingy that Louis Tully was wearing when he was being tested for whatever was sitting on a work bench in a farmhouse.  I doubt that thing had the same sentimental value to Egon that it did to a lot of kids who watched the movie back in 1984-1990 who saw that and were like "woah...that is some tricked out s&it!"  And why was a 40 year old candy bar stuck in Egon's jumpsuit?  Did it really mean that much to him that Venkman took back "some of things" he'd said about him?  Maybe it did, but the candy bar would have been beyond edible by that point and probably would have ruined the jump suit by the time Phoebe and co. made it over to the farmhouse....that's assuming that the candy bar wasn't just sitting in the jumpsuit for 40 years.....I mean, is that what people are referring to as an "easter egg"?  I don't know how someone could be so vapid as to not connect the dots there.  If you're not a real fan of the first two movies (or at least the first movie), then, yeah, the significance is going to be lost and you won't even care.  To those who do care -- why?  Just because you recognize something doesn't make it significant.  Like "OH, I found the easter egg!"  Okay?  So you have one or two more badges that confirm your geekhood.  Good for you, I guess?

 

The movie was OK.  I really think it was a mistake to be sequeling the movie.  They did an acceptable job with GB2.  If they were going to continue the legacy, they should go more in the direction of Dan Aykroyd's original script, which was more edgy and horror-like.  I don't know if there's enough demand to warrant financing the cost of making such a movie.  I wouldn't expect them to just do a total adaptation, but even a scaled down version of that movie would be risky.  But then again, isn't it always?