Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Failed By Forgetting What Makes The ...
30 Mar 2024
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has failed to give the franchise new life. What went wrong, and what does the next movie have to do?
1984’s Ghostbusters also places a strong emphasis on working-class camaraderie, as its principal characters are basically just glorified exterminators with proton packs. While they’re starting their business, Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) walks up and asks for a job, and the next time you see him, he’s already doing Ghostbusters stuff. There’s no long-winded explanation about how he has to prove himself, talk to HR, or even be trustworthy … we can reasonably assume that those kinds of lengthy conversations happened off-screen because the Ghostbusters want to get to work.