Some list of bad movies I was looking at a few days ago listed RISE OF SKYWALKER as worthy of inclusion because, supposedly, it became clear somehow that the creative powers involved in the films were just "winging it". I'm just really confused as to how that's a bad thing. I mean, someone going into the production of a movie, be it the writer, director, or producer, should have some idea of what they're trying to do. Taking what started out as a comedy and turning it into a drama midway through production is just kind of dumb. That's just wasteful spending on Hollywood's part and there's no amount of renewed interest in cinema that will make that kind of stupidity sustainable. But if you happen to have ideas for how to make the film better while it's being filmed, why not? The now classic juggernaut known as THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK was not finished during conception. George Lucas' original draft was limpAF and then I guess he either got into a hissy fit and abdicated his director's chair or the studio basically did it for him ('step aside, sir!') And then of course GHOSTBUSTERS, which admittedly is a different film (duh), but, seriously, comedy aside, there are some similarities between the two films. What does a Star Wars fan want from an entry? Adventure, and spectacle are pretty much simultaneously job1&1, respectively. Some people say adventure comes first and some people say spectacle comes first, but I say they the greatest command is adventure and if you do it right the spectacle will follow. Maybe I'm wrong on that front, but it's close enough, anyway... If you do a Star Wars film right, it seems like spectacle would follow the adventure, but of course if you're doing an Indiana Jones film right, the adventure IS the spectacle...kinda...a very different sort of spectacle, for sure.
It does look like GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE will be at least more entertaining than GB3. GB3 was pretty good. It had its highlights. The film made no sense to me, ultimately. I didn't appreciate how heavily the film borrowed from the first film. I understand Gozer coming back, and Gary and Callie being the new KM&GK but did they have to recreate Sigourney Weavers' GK garb from the first film? And why was Gozer just sitting there doing nothing when there was a puny unsuspecting group of villagers not very far away? And that's just a very small PIECE OF the TIP OF the iceberg. How long would it have been before it got to NYC? And it had the same exact form it did in the first one! "It's whatever it wants to be" So....maybe Gozer would be just fine wearing the same clothes every time it comes to this dimension of Earth, but...what does the audience get from such a bland personality on display? And Egon quoted a verse from The Bible describing the end of the world. Not only that but he started going all manic and freaking everybody out. That's not the same Egon who, for a moment, managed to articulate his fright so well ("I've lost the capacity for rational thought") and then a few minutes later managed to come up with a somewhat brilliant plan to thwart Gozer's attempted reign. If he was freaking Ray out, why didn't he calm his ass down and take a breathe and try to seek help and not be a weirdo about it?
Hopefully this coming film will be less brownnosing to crustyold fans and more fresh for people who, like, primarily, just want to watch a good movie....If it happens to echo the first film without unnecessary (and illogical) insertions, at the expense of freshness, then that'd be cool too.
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