What I have a hard time with is the original Ghostbusters being forgotten. Those guys fought a skyscraper sized marshmellow man and piloted the Statue of Liberty through Times Square. Those aren't events that would just fade into obscurity
What I have a hard time with is the original Ghostbusters being forgotten. Those guys fought a skyscraper sized marshmellow man and piloted the Statue of Liberty through Times Square. Those aren't events that would just fade into obscurity
So you can suspend belief that ghosts, giant marshmallow men (mini marshmallows men), giant dogs, and possessed people are walking around but you can't get past people forgetting about stuff happening almost 40 years ago?
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What I have a hard time with is the original Ghostbusters being forgotten. Those guys fought a skyscraper sized marshmellow man and piloted the Statue of Liberty through Times Square. Those aren't events that would just fade into obscurity
The older people (Paul Rudd) in the movie haven't forgotten. The other trailers showed this. It's the kids that don't remember them and that's not hard to believe. Many kids these days couldn't tell you about significant events from the 80s or 90s.
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What I have a hard time with is the original Ghostbusters being forgotten. Those guys fought a skyscraper sized marshmellow man and piloted the Statue of Liberty through Times Square. Those aren't events that would just fade into obscurity
It was a running theme through the first two movies that the ghostbusters themselves never got any permanent recognition for their acts, hence why they were always broke. The politicians in that universe were always shown to be exceptionally greedy and constantly tried to throw the Ghostbusters under the bus. There also seemed to be a lot of willful blindness, where the population was repeatedly shocked by ghosts and disbelieved the supernatural, despite constant examples.
While people in the ghostbusters universe would probably remember the statue of liberty and the stay-puffed man, they might not remember the ghostbusters themselves.
Yes, it's all a bit unrealistic, but so is the basic premise.
The politicians in that universe were always shown to be exceptionally greedy and constantly tried to throw the Ghostbusters under the bus. There also seemed to be a lot of willful blindness, where the population was repeatedly shocked by ghosts and disbelieved the supernatural, despite constant examples.
They caused an explosion!!!
Is this true?
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I just finished watching the first season of Stranger Things so seeing Finn Wolfhard this grown up is jarring. He's 18 years old now! Kids grow up so freaking quickly...or I just get older too quickly.
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I just finished watching the first season of Stranger Things so seeing Finn Wolfhard this grown up is jarring. He's 18 years old now! Kids grow up so freaking quickly...or I just get older too quickly.
Heh, I had a similar reaction last night - watched The Goldfinch. He was dropping acid and snorting Vicodin, It took me a moment but I'm like "holy ####, Stranger Things!"
What I have a hard time with is the original Ghostbusters being forgotten. Those guys fought a skyscraper sized marshmellow man and piloted the Statue of Liberty through Times Square. Those aren't events that would just fade into obscurity
Yeah it's dumb, like how in the new Star Wars movies everyone is like "Oh the Jedi, isn't that all a myth??" despite them being well known peacekeepers and running an entire branch of the galactic government like 50 years earlier.
Yeah it's dumb, like how in the new Star Wars movies everyone is like "Oh the Jedi, isn't that all a myth??" despite them being well known peacekeepers and running an entire branch of the galactic government like 50 years earlier.
It wasn't 50 years, it was more like 20. Like seriously, people forgot about an army of wizards with a temple in the capital in a time span that is shorter than most careers? Pre-prequels I liked to think the Jedi were more of a clandestine organization; a myth that operated in the shadows. That is why Han never heard of them. Maybe they were a bigger deal in ancient times, but not in recent memory. Then the prequels came out and you find out Han's copilot fought with the Jedi.
First, we live in a world where people deny COVID, the holocaust, landing on the moon, the earth being round. And not just fringe lunatic groups, a lot of people believe these things. So no, people thinking the Jedi were fake is not weird or far fetched.
Second, the universe is a big place. 99.999% of all inhabitants of the SW universe never saw a Jedi, and if they did, they most certainly did not see them use the force. And even those extremely small few who saw them use the force did not believe it was real. They thought they were just bureaucrats in lame robes who pretended they had magic powers.
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First, we live in a world where people deny COVID, the holocaust, landing on the moon, the earth being round. And not just fringe lunatic groups, a lot of people believe these things. So no, people thinking the Jedi were fake is not weird or far fetched.
Second, the universe is a big place. 99.999% of all inhabitants of the SW universe never saw a Jedi, and if they did, they most certainly did not see them use the force. And even those extremely small few who saw them use the force did not believe it was real. They thought they were just bureaucrats in lame robes who pretended they had magic powers.
Whats really strange is that this 'Galaxy Far, far away' has never invented Wi-Fi.
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