Because why not, I saw the new “Ghostbusters” today. General impression: I don’t really have one. It was neither good nor especially bad, just… forgettable. Pretty sure I chuckled twice.
Some overly dramatic types have been yapping about how they were thinking, based on the lackluster trailers, that “Ghostbusters” would “ruin their childhood” or some such. Kinda doubt it: in 3 or 4 months, I suspect the new version will be largely forgotten, leaving the original, far superior, “Ghostbusters” to continue to reign supreme in memory.
Because, let’s face it, RoboCop 2014 didn’t ruin RoboCop 1987. The same with Conan the Barbarian. And Total Recall. And Arthur. And Carrie, Clash of the Titans, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Flight of the Phoenix, Footloose, Fright Night, Invaders from Mars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Karate Kid, The Land that Time Forgot, The Manchurian Candidate, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Oldboy, The Omen, Point Break, Psycho, Planet of the Apes, Poltergeist, The Poseidon Adventure, Red Dawn, Rollerball, The Stepford Wives, Straw Dogs, The Time Machine, The Wicker Man or any other other pile of remakes that made their money (or didn’t) and then largely faded from memory.