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... and Finn Wolfhard, and Paul Rudd.
I didn't want to watch it because I am miffed about it existing instead of a second movie about the all-female Ghostbusters (and also I wanted to read last night).
But the teenage protagonists are the grandchildren of Egon from the original Ghostbusters and my first reaction was "It's not old enough for their grandchildren to be that old", and it took me SUCH a long time to work out that they are.
Like Wax said "It was the 1980s!" and I know THAT, I loved Ghostbusters when I was a little kid, and I remember the Saturday morning cartoon as well! But that was just in my childhood, was my instinctive feeling, and now I'm an adult, which is ONE generation!
Eventually I realized that when I first saw it I was very small, which meant my parents were young adults around the age of the Ghostbuster characters, but I still didn't get as far as comparing myself to the Mom character..., who just seemed too... Mom-like.
Until I remembered that Wax's oldest niece is 18 I think, and my oldest cousin-once-removed-but-in-the-younger-direction is... probably 21? So, yeah, the mom is probably my age.
I was getting a little tired of those viral posts that say things like "When I say 2 years ago I mean 2010", but perhaps I have been too hasty...
I didn't want to watch it because I am miffed about it existing instead of a second movie about the all-female Ghostbusters (and also I wanted to read last night).
But the teenage protagonists are the grandchildren of Egon from the original Ghostbusters and my first reaction was "It's not old enough for their grandchildren to be that old", and it took me SUCH a long time to work out that they are.
Like Wax said "It was the 1980s!" and I know THAT, I loved Ghostbusters when I was a little kid, and I remember the Saturday morning cartoon as well! But that was just in my childhood, was my instinctive feeling, and now I'm an adult, which is ONE generation!
Eventually I realized that when I first saw it I was very small, which meant my parents were young adults around the age of the Ghostbuster characters, but I still didn't get as far as comparing myself to the Mom character..., who just seemed too... Mom-like.
Until I remembered that Wax's oldest niece is 18 I think, and my oldest cousin-once-removed-but-in-the-younger-direction is... probably 21? So, yeah, the mom is probably my age.
I was getting a little tired of those viral posts that say things like "When I say 2 years ago I mean 2010", but perhaps I have been too hasty...
