I am guardedly hopeful, as much as anyone who's been burned as many times as I have by 21st-century nostalgia for 1980s IPs can be based on two and a half minutes of trailer. I mean, if nothing else, it's definitely not a remake, and that means I'm at least interested in it.

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"New York in the '80s? Was like The Walking Dead."
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It looks like they might be drawing some from the comics/animated series as well, with the gunner's seat and all. Hopefully they'll drop another couple trailers in the leadup to release that at least hint at everything not being entirely srs bsns as the Internet kids these days say. Or was that last generation? Seriously, I'm gonna need a rocking chair to go with this cane soon...

As for Afterlife, it does look as though they're trying to give us a worthwhile film, if not the sequel that Murray kept delaying until Ramis shuffled off his mortal coil. I saw a comparison made between this trailer and that first trailer for The Force Awakens years ago: Numerous nods to nostalgia, a new cast of characters tied to the original in some way, and ending the trailer on those characters driving around an iconic vehicle (Falcon in TFA, Ecto 1 here) to cause fans to jump out of their seats. So I'm interested, but I'm gonna wait to see more trailers to see if where they're going with this is something I'm interested in watching.

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