Episode Transcript
I'm so excited that it's finally here. It's Ghostbusters afterlife. Yeah, you can't tell I'm excited at all, can you? But a little over the top. I have already seen this movie in the theater multiple times. I'm going to go and see it even more times. And I try to set my expectations fairly low before going into a movie. This one, I couldn't help it. I set my expectations super high. And best thing is, it actually exceeded those high expectations that I had. But we waited 33 years for this movie since Ghostbusters two. Now, I have to say, I have to give credit to whatever that Ghostbusters thing was in 2016. It's almost not even Ghostbusters. It shouldn't be counted as Ghostbusters.
I mean, when it's that awful. But at the same time, if that one hadn't sucked as bad as it did, we wouldn't have gotten this one, because they didn't want that to be the legacy of Ghostbusters. They didn't want to go from the original stories to whatever in the hell that thing was.
But, oh, they so more than made up for it. And this story just is everything that you ever wanted in a Ghostbusters movie and more on so many different levels. Now, it is a PG 13 movie. I don't know why it's a PG 13 movie except the fact that it says the sh word three times. That's really the only thing. It's no more scary or no more intense than what the original Ghostbusters was. If you were a fan of that, this one gets you right in the feels. It's like if you have ever enjoyed watching either of the other movies, it touches and it references both of the original Ghostbusters movies so many times in this. And best thing is, after I got to watch it the first time, I saw it the second time with my best friend, he actually went with me to see this. I'm lucky enough that I call my best friend my better half, also known as my husband. So, yeah, it was so much fun back in New York during the Manhattan crossing. The whole big event that happened there in the first Ghostbusters movie, the beams that were in the skyscraper that made it the conduit for all this ghost activity came from this mountain in Somerville, Oklahoma. And so when Egon dies, we're going to just kind of pretend like he didn't die years ago in real life because in the movie, he was actually still alive at the beginning of the movie. So, like I had said before, we're going to be missing Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis. We're actually only missing Rick Moranis. And you will find out more about that if you actually check out the movie yourself. But we're kind of given a glimpse into the egon that lives in Somerville, and he is known affectionately and jokingly to the local residents as the dirt farmer. That also will kind of be explained as it goes. Like I said, I'm not completely spoiler free here on the podcast, but I'm not going to ruin that because that's like a major part of the movie. So his daughter and grandkids move to Somerville because they literally have nothing left but this farm left to her by her dad. And along the way, the grandson, his name is Trevor. The granddaughter, her name is Phoebe. And their son is the typical 15 year old just kind of teenager. Wants to make friends, wants to have a social life, just kind of has fun. Phoebe, on the other hand, is a total science nerd just like her grandpa, and they just really captivate on that through the story. And I just love how it plays out. Like I said, it references so many things in the other movies. And yes, once again, they are going to end up reactivating kind of all of the psychic, supernatural energy around this mountain. And it's going to absolutely come to a precipice that it's going to take these family members coming together and finding the clues that Egon left them, along with some help from some other friends. And if you listen to my upcoming movies where I talked about this, you know that everybody else is coming back. And yes, I'm animated and I'm excited, but this one is just like I said, it exceeded everything that I could have ever expected, at least in the case of everything but Slimer. I mean, it's Ghostbusters. So having slimer there is existentially a Ghostbusters thing. But here we don't get Slimer. Instead, we get a free floating metal muncher. Now, if you can't quite picture what that is, picture Slimer if he was in the body of a hippo that only ate metal and was as dumb as a box of rocks. There are so many new funny things, though, to this one. There's one thing right off the beginning of the movie, and it's called, well, let me go into a little bit more detail here. Phoebe has a hard time making friends. And when she goes to school for the first time at Somerville, she runs into this kid named podcast. Now he calls himself podcast because of his.
Now. Hmm. Should I change my name to podcast? No, I think I'll stick with movie deputy, because I have a podcast.
La la. Here we are. The podcast at her house comes across this whistle, and he blows into this whistle, and it is this God awful screech that we cannot even begin to try to recreate. He goes, can I have this? And of course, the mom is like, yes, just don't do that again.
And it's kind of another kind of a funny line that just kind of sums up Somerville. It's when they're first pulling into Somerville, Trevor is looking on his phone, and he notices he doesn't have any bars. And he's like, oh, there's not any bars. And she's like, oh, there better be a bar.
More kind of an adult type line joke there. Kids might not get that reference, but it's not too adult that it would be not suitable for kids. But yeah, this whole story, it's just if you're worried about the staple marshmallow man from the whole thing in Manhattan, but here we get it even better, because we don't just get a marshmallow man, we get tons of marshmallow men. They're these itty bitty little guys.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: Demented little creatures.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: They're completely demented. They literally are, like, roasting each other over a grill and turning each other into s'mores. And one of them, actually, I don't know if they bite or what he does to the guy's finger, but honestly, if you were bit by a marshmallow, would it even hurt?
[00:06:48] Speaker B: I mean, it's a marshmallow, but it's a ghostly marshmallow.
[00:06:53] Speaker A: It is a ghostly marshmallow, and it's an evil, demented, ghostly marshmallow.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: Well, they're not just one. There's many of them that are evil and demented.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: You don't just have one picture. If you divided this 100 foot marshmallow man into these little three inch marshmallow men, how many of them you'd have? And it's maybe not quite that many, but it kind of feels like it. It just kind of. As the whole story progresses, Phoebe just kind of follows the clues that her grandfather has left her, and he kind of comes back in a way and helps her. They end up working together to try to trap all this psychic, paranormal energy that is trying to wreak havoc on the world. And they have to contain it before it's too late. But there's only one way to do so. In order to do that, they're going to have to require the friends. Like I said, the whole cast is coming back. So you get to see everybody. And unfortunately, we do not get a classic line that don't cross the streams because as we know, at the end of the first movie, they had to cross the streams in order to get gozer under control. You have to cross the streams and everything. But I'm kind of jumping all around on this whole movie. I don't want to forget to mention that you will honestly never look at Walmart the same way after this movie.
[00:08:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Really?
Because the dogs are also back, too.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Yeah, the demon dogs are back. And you don't just get to see them as these creatures on top of the building.
You're watching them run and scratch and gorge themselves on these huge bags of dog food at Walmart. And the chase that just ensues through the store and out the store. Now, how is a demon dog going to get through the door?
Any way he wants? And that includes by just breaking through. So if you could ever look at a Walmart the same way after a story such as this, I give you kudos for that one. We were just driving by one earlier and we couldn't help a look over and just know I'm going to see that every time I look at a Walmart for pretty much the rest of my life.
[00:08:57] Speaker B: The only thing different in this one is the nice doggie.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: Yeah. Nice doggie. Yeah. There's nothing nice about these doggies, but there's so many more references in this one. Like I said, you've got Gozer, you've got the gatekeeper and the Keymaster. And like I said, everything is all back together. And best of all, even as it all wraps up, it does something that is going to hit you right in the fields. They dedicate this whole story by saying, for Harold in the night sky. And even now I have goosebumps just thinking about that. Because, I'll be honest, I cried during the times. I've watched this already. I have yet to watch it without crying. I don't know if I'll ever be able to watch it without crying. But there's just something to that. And you think that's almost going to be the end of the story, but it's not.
It kind of leads into that. There could be something more following this one. Now, there are certain dates that are playing along in the movie. If you're paying attention to the fine details, kind of like I do. It had like the 1984, and then it had the year now of 2021, and then the next year was 21 34. And if we have to wait 113 years until the next movie, I'm not going to be happy.
But then again, it didn't have 1989 on there, even though it covered 1984 in 2021. That was a bit unusual. If you do go see this in the theater, there is a bonus scene in the middle of the credits, and then there are actually two scenes in the post credits and they kind of play into one another. It brings the whole story full circle and it is just over the top in an incredible way. Now, you're probably wondering what I gave this movie on the deputy scale. As you've seen and heard in my previous podcasts, I can be fairly strict and stuff on my scores, but on Ghostbusters afterlife, I did give this an 8.5 out of ten on the movie deputy scale. Now, if you have paid attention to movie deputy at all, you know how special that is. I have always said that the original Ghostbusters is my favorite movie of all time. And no, even though I gave it a lower score, I'm still going to stick to that. But this is a very, very close second. There is just something special here that without the first one, this wouldn't make any sense, or without either of the first ones, this wouldn't make any sense, as it plays off of both. But like I said, this is just really spectacular. And if you've ever enjoyed the Ghostbusters franchise, the story, either, any of the movies, anything, this is one that you absolutely must check out. And I want to thank my husband for sitting in here with me and just kind of contributing on this. I asked him if he would participate on this one, and I'm the movie buff of the family, so I'm just kind of the silly one. But I just want to thank him for participating. So thank you, pumpkin.
[00:11:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm glad to be here.
