Tweet of the Day, This Is A Good Point About GotG/Ghostbusters.

All three GOTG films understood that if your heroes are a pack of comedic goofballs, the villains must be serious as heart attacks. That was the secret sauce in the original Ghostbusters, a Lovecraftian cosmic horror tale that gets utterly wrecked by its madcap heroes.
— John Hayward (@Doc_0) May 8, 2023

…and it’s one reason why I think GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE worked better than either of the other two sequels/reboots. The first and fourth movie in that series both recognized that their heroes were in an old-school Lovecraftian cosmos — and by ‘old-school’ I mean ‘the heroes can actually win*.’ The fourth flick could have been funnier, but at least it was thematically congruent with the first.

Moe Lane

*I have nothing against today’s nihilist neo-Lovecraftian cosmic horror oeuvre. In fact, I read it all the time. But the old stuff did allow for more satisfying tactical victories.

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One thought on “Tweet of the Day, This Is A Good Point About GotG/Ghostbusters.”

The whole point is that humanity is doomed, but the threats aren’t hostile (except for *maybe* Nyarlathotep).
Humanity is so insignificant that indifference is even a stretch, as that implies we were at least noticed.

So *of course* the heroes can win and stave off annihilation for another day. Mayflies can live longer by simply never getting the attention of the trout, but “longer” is highly relative.

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