The egos, age, money and cynicism thwarting any reasonable hope for Ghostbusters 3 clearly have a lot of people down. Just look at the sullen group of New York Public Library visitors in the video after the jump. What they need -- what we all need, really -- is a little reassurance that our appreciation isn't misplaced. And as if on cue, it seemed to walk right through the front door.
Leave it to the impromptu-musical-staging, pantsless-subway-riding troublemakers at Improv Everywhere to manage a Ghostbusters semi-reenactment inside one of the city's more hallowed monuments to quietude and intellectual discipline. The NYPL was in on it to an extent (the stunt was mounted as a fund-raiser for the library, which this year faces an unprecedented $37 million in budget cuts), but the visitors themselves most definitely were not.
Also: It hardly seems to matter that a substantial portion of the young people caught off-guard weren't even born when Ghostbusters was released. After all, a man in a sheet reading a dictionary or studying the Web for clues to the afterlife yields its own rewards. And that's well before the ectoplasm-combating quartet arrive on the scene. Ugh, I've already said too much. Just watch -- it's funny. (As is the behind-the-scenes background at IE's Web site).
[via NYT]