Bustin makes me feel....Awkward

[palusbuteo]

I was on YT earlier and invariably saw a suggested clip from Ghostbusters Afterlife.  I have not seen the movie yet and this clip was clearly a spoiler, so I only decided to watch a short bit of it.

I then wondered what ever became of some of the other actors from GB2, so off the IMDB and Wikipedia Land I go....

...And holy crap, GB is a cursed franchise.

The guy who played Vigo had a pretty messed up life, full of boxing and crazy family problems, died in 2008 of cancer at a friend's house in Mexico because he was basically dirt poor and homeless....  Jeeze.
(I also just discovered he was also in Die Hard, and never knew it.  Although I admit I'm not that big a fan of Die Hard so haven't watched it all that much but anyway)

One of the twins who played Oscar killed himself in 2017 b/c he was suffering from severe schizophrenia.  That's terrible.

The woman who played Gozer didn't seem to be able to forge much of a career since GB.  According to a friend who frequents Comic Cons said she always looks miserable and hasn't aged well.  And yeah maybe there's a reason there's no photos of her on IMDB.  I found in a very quick search one or two photos of her from a Con / posing with a fan, and yeah....She's miserable.  (unless she's playing that up for all I know) 

Ramis died

Apparently two of the producers for Afterlife died during production.  Yikes.

Murray was "done" after GB2 and held a grudge for decades.

Moranis had his wife die and left the profession for years, and the rumor-mills made it out he had a "nervous breakdown" that he has been unable to stop or get past

Ackroyd has had trouble transcending his character, but did sort of embrace the whole "ghosts & spirits" thing since.  

Seems like others have managed to get past it and forged ahead in their careers

So, quite a terrible legacy.

(and the revisioned female-GB movie wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either.  But I still scratch my head / shrug and move on from the insane buttburt crying I hear about it.  For all the talk about "fan service", these morons seem to forget that GB2 was a whole sequel of fan service, and I would dare to say, one of the movies that defined that "let's make a followup sequel because mad profit and merchandizing!" genre and ever-slipping movie quality and formula we've been experiencing for 40 years