Spectral Effects: The Ghosts of Afterlife (6:29) looks at the design and visual effects of the featured ghosts including the tiny Stay Puft Marshmallow Men, Muncher and yes, ghost Harold Ramis (the physical stand-in was Bob Gunton). These folks, I feel, had applied their own expectations onto the film, and blamed the film when it didn’t meet those expectations. Sony releases Ghostbusters: Afterlife onto Blu-ray where it’s presented in the original theatrical 2.

If you’re not upgrading to 4K, Sony is bringing Ghostbusters: Afterlife to 1080p Blu-ray in a single disc Blu-ray + Digital set. From director Jason Reitman and producer Ivan Reitman (Director of the original Ghostbusters and Father of Jason) comes the next chapter in the original Ghostbusters universe. On the plus side, the dialog is clean and the surround experience it does offer is pretty good - but there is a notably much better audio track out there that folks who don’t rock and roll with 4K are going to miss out on. Pressed on a region-free BD-50 disc, the disc loads to trailers for upcoming Sony releases before arriving at a static image main menu with the bonus features along the right side of the screen and a standard navigation menu along the bottom.Ghostbusters: Afterlife's 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray delivers 3D High Definition object-based immersive audio in the form of Dolby Atmos. Yes, Afterlife does eventually tread awfully close to the original '84 movie in terms of denouement, and, yes, it's a thin excuse to say that it's merely giving closure to that same story (even though the full-circle effect is quite satisfying), but there's a lot of goodwill courtesy of the things the film gets right, enough to get most people across the finish line and maybe even excited about what the post-credits' stingers hint about the future of this long-running franchise.

When people who believed this film had too much nostalgia went to see the movie, they expected that the movie would completely forget the past and be something completely new.Subs offer a good bass response for some nice LFE, but they don’t rattle, rumble, and shake like the Atmos track. Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more.

I suggest that they should have done what I’ve now done a ton of times: let the movie be what it is, and take them for a ride. For this disc alone, it still comes Recommended, but there is a much better way to experience this film at home available. They wanted something entirely new in a film that is chapter 3 of a book that started a long time ago.The directing, the cinematography, the writing, the effects, it’s all fantastic, and why I give this movie an A+. Where they go from here may well surprise us all (apparently Ackroyd's up for an entire trilogy), and for the first time in decades, Afterlife has given us some hope that more Ghostbusters may not be such a bad thing. So the studio decided to take another bite at the apple and giving fans what they craved, a direct sequel to the original two films bringing in Ivan Reitman’s son, Jason, an accomplished filmmaker in his own right, to direct with Ivan (RIP) serving as a producer.

Some of the elements may have been a bit too familiar for its own good, but all around it was a more-than-worthy outing. Cynics will likely scoff at the screenplay’s desire to connect to the 1984 original, but such memories of what’s come before act as a way forward for the series, with the new installment working hard to revive the magic of the first feature and its underappreciated 1989 sequel. I'm a great fan of the original 2 Ghostbusters and was looking forward to seeing this 3rd installment.Bringing Ecto-1 Back to Life (4:49) is on the development of the classic Ghostbusters car that any kid had a model of growing up in the 80s. I could seriously go on for thousands of words on the film, talking about almost every aspect of the movie, but I’ll leave it at this: if you haven’t seen it yet, watch it.