GB3 lost at the BAFTA, life goes on

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I'm honestly rather surprised that this was even nominated.  The only thing I can figure is that many in the Hollywood elite like GHOSTBUSTERS almost as much as your everyday humdrum social media messenger does.
The 2nd sequel / 4th movie was a bit of a mess.  It started out rather slow.  It had some good jokes.  The characters were likeable.  It was a little engrossing.  It sped up a little, but by the end of the movie, the warnings of the apocalypse that the main characters' grandfather had posted on metal sheets along the entry to his barn property just seemed rather disconnected from the rest of the film.  When "the apocalypse" starts up, it's apparent that it's just a repeat of the first movie.  And why did Egon and Ray have a falling out?  Egon couldn't have simply told Ray "Gozer's coming back soon and I've pinpointed the location" instead of wailing on about "the end is near!  We're all going to die!"  And Gozer would have had to go pretty far beyond the confines of that tiny town it was in in order to fulfill ANY thing similar to an apocalypse.  And it hadn't even started.  There was a dinky little town of people to wake up and shake into worship, but it didn't seem to care...it seemed to be content to rest on its laurels (whatever those may have been...).
I haven't seen DUNE, but I've seen little pieces of it and it seems to be at least visually more impressive than GB3.  It just makes more sense that it would have won over GB3.  I would hope that DUNE is an overall better movie, just for the sake of common sense.  GB3 was aimed at a tween / family demographic and was billed as a comedy, so it's not really supposed to make a lot of sense anyway, although I really would have preferred it be more original than it was.  The structure of GB2's screenplay was very similar to GB1, but the story was completely different.  There was no river of slime in GHOSTBUSTERS.  There was no haunted painting in GHOSTBUSTERS.  That's half of GB2 is the river of slime and the haunted painting.  Even if the order of events, the story structure, made it feel very familiar, it's still a sequal so there's always going to be a level of familiarity no matter what.
But anyway.....DUNE is supposed to a more serious film, and it has no built in audience except for fans of the book, who are not numerous enough to make it financially successful and even if they alone spurred on the film's success, many of them would not recommend the film or go back to see it again if it wasn't simply a good movie.  That level of success -- it's grossed over $300 million -- does not come from a modest size group of die hard geeks with weird tastes.  A good # of the audience is made up of good ol' fashion film goers, who want something a little different but also want to be mentally and emotionally engaged.