You could go on...but you'd end up with shows even more unrelated to Ghostbusters!
Adam Snader, Ben Stiller and the legendary Will Ferrell each make movies either comically brillaint in their own right, or an obvious laugh at the 'camp' medium.
Why would you possibly compare these two mediums though? In my example, I compared Batman with Ghostbusters...which if you're in the 80's makes perfect sense. Batman was very camp, yet the darker side of both the comic and the movie allowed for it to be transplanted into the future where we actually care about what happens to Mr Wayne...
Ghostbusters...how do you make that relateable? How do you make that current? Dont get me wrong, I actually believe it can be done...it just needs to be retasked... but its not an easy job and I certainly don't misunderstand someone thinking its a heavy task at hand.
If Ghostbusters were to become a joke...a zoolander...a comical farse such as dodgeball...would be a supreme dissapointment. When I watched Ghostbusters as a kid... it was a serious action adventure where the supernatural became real. Batman in its recent formations resulted in the same epic emotions..how will Ghostbusters do that? ...its a challenge.
You highlighted the campness, I merely showed you that in the cinema today, the highest grossing comedies ae full of it.
As for the Batman/Ghostbusters comparison in the 80's, when Batman was remade, there was absolutely nothing camp about it, it was the dark, somewhat disturbing take on the comics, as indeed Batman is a deeply dark story.
When I saw the movies as a child, they were films that made me laugh. I enjoyed them on many levels, but ultimately it was the fact they were funny that I loved them, and the fact they are still funny that I continue to love them.
I am not debating it whether it will be hard to hit the right notes, I am saying that I don't see a reason why someone would say they 'can't help think it'll be bloody awful' when there is absolutely nothing to say that.
IF some of the cast weren't involved, or indeed had lost their comic timing, I would say I was cautious, but the fact is these people that are involved are as good now as they have ever been, some of them have even grown and show a greater aptitude for comedy because they have shown they have marketable range within that often limiting genre.
I'll give a comparison.
Beverley Hills Cop is being remade.
Its not using the same people behind the scenes and Eddie Murphy hasn't been funny since Bowfinger - this film actually worries me.
I am worried that EM will not be able to deliver what he did in the 80's because he has shown himself to be quite stale.
The Ghostbuster group don't have this problem because three of the leads have grown with the times, they have made themselves able to grow into other markets and remain interesting and fresh - and as for Dan Ackroyd, well everyone loves a loveable goof.
