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SIM Ep 748 Flicking #27: Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Clearly, a franchise revival-cum-nostalgia fest of one of Mick’s all-time favourite movies was going to be Noonan catnip, so she’s been in giddy bliss the four times she’s watched Ghostbusters: Afterlife since it came out in November 2021. But what do Yosra and Hannah make of Jason “son of Ivan” Reitman’s sort of sequel, sort of reboot, definite love letter to the 1984 supernatural comedy classic? Just how many Easter eggs can you enjoy before you feel sick? And – altogether now – who you gonna call(back)? Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were three ordinary women on what seemed like a simple mission to find a film they liked.

0:08.0

One where women got something to do and not just look pretty or be murdered.

0:13.0

Which, to be totally honest, has complicated matters, habits.

0:19.0

Welcome to Flicking. Yes, it sounds a bit rude. That's the joke.

0:25.0

Hello and welcome to Flicking, our monthly canter through some of our favourite films.

0:33.0

Picking what we all cracked out the popcorn for this month.

0:37.0

Mickey Nolan.

0:39.0

Indeed, and this time I chose last year's much delayed supernatural comedy and sort of sequel,

0:45.0

sort of reboot to one of my all-time favourite films, Ghostbusters After Life.

0:50.0

Actually, I am going to start by talking about another reboot, well sort of sequel, sort of reboot,

0:55.0

and that is Jurassic World Dominion, which is out now, and takes aspects of the newer Jurassic World,

1:00.0

and blends in with a whole lot of the actors and storyline from the original, and clearly the best, Jurassic Park.

1:07.0

The creator's understanding that Spielberg et al had nailed it the first time, just sort of made that one again.

1:13.0

And you know, yeah, I had a smashing time, thanks for asking.

1:17.0

Because Franchise Revival plus nostalgia fest wrapped in a big movie, it's Mickey Noon and Catlip.

1:24.0

And so yeah, I'm going to hold my hands up at the top of this and say that it's nostalgia that makes this new film a flicking pick for me.

1:31.0

And it's people like me that it is squarely aimed at.

1:34.0

Hannah, I'm guessing sorry, probably, but I am ruled by my emotions.

1:40.0

But also, I've read a lot of melee mouth reviews hating on this film, and I'm not precious. I'm braced.

1:46.0

However, I did also think it would give us a chance to chat about 2016's Ghostbusters reboot,

1:52.0

which incidentally, after life director Jason Reitman, son of the original 1984 films director Ivan, is a big fan of.

2:00.0

Reports that this Ghostbusters film was a plot to exercise that Ghostbusters film, a greatly exaggerated slash wrong.

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