{"id":50804,"date":"2024-02-18T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T00:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=50804"},"modified":"2024-02-18T16:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T00:55:54","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%a5-ghostbusters-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2024\/02\/18\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-ghostbusters-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f3a5; Ghostbusters: Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1034,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/boxd.it\\\/f4Pw&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/film\\\/ghostbusters-afterlife\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021): <a href=\"https:\/\/boxd.it\/f4Pw\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one took long enough to hit reasonable rental prices that we\u2019d lost track of what the reviews said, so we weren\u2019t sure what to expect, and after other recent attempts to resurrect old franchises that didn\u2019t work out so well, weren\u2019t terribly optimistic. Happily, we enjoyed this more than we expected to. It was amusing, the kids weren\u2019t annoying, the effects nicely\u00a0called back to the originals, and we appreciated that the plot picked up on a lot of the original film (for us, it wasn\u2019t \u201ctoo much fan service\u201d, it was continuing the story). Glad we finally got around to giving it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>(That said, I will continue to be annoyed that the whiny, racist, sexist, childish backlash against the 2016 film means we don\u2019t get to continue that storyline. That I enjoyed this one and am now looking forward to the next one doesn\u2019t mean I wouldn\u2019t happily swap them out for a timeline where the 2016 film got continued instead.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happily, we enjoyed this more than we expected to. Glad we finally got around to giving it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[775,2454],"class_list":["post-50804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-ghostbusters","tag-ghostbusters-afterlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}