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The Cameo posted:*gets jolted, spits gum out* All good, you were definitely close enough for it to be declared "miller time".
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I rewatched Answer the Call today and didn't hate it. I mean, I never hated it, but I tried really hard to separate it from the originals, which helped. I still like the Mike Hat bit.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I rewatched Answer the Call today and didn't hate it. I mean, I never hated it, but I tried really hard to separate it from the originals, which helped. it is totally a movie to be played on airplanes
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text me a vag pic posted:it is totally a movie to be played on airplanes Yes, absolutely.
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Now I'm having flashbacks to having repatedly seen The Pacifier, Bride and Prejudice, and Big Momma's House 2. One of the main reasons besides the smell I don't catch Stateliner buses anymore.
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So the original was on TV the other night, as it often is. When I was a kid, the terror dogs were the scariest thing in the world. And I thought Xenomorphs were cool as hell. My parents had cable and weren't very attentive to what I was watching. Anyways, those things scared the hell out of me. And to this day, I'm pushing 40 and the scene of the gargoyles starting to fall apart just fills me with dread, starting as cold in the pit of my stomach. It's amusing to me that the movie STILL has an effect on me, and I've seen it dozens of times.
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I'm getting a 4k player soon and I can finally watch the movie in 4k, just like Dan Aykroyd intended.
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You’re going to be disappointed, it’s incredibly grainy.
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The_Doctor posted:You’re going to be disappointed, it’s incredibly grainy. I'm going to be disappointed because they "fixed" the post color processing. But that is OK, I have the original 2000s-ish DVD release too.
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SolarFire2 posted:So the original was on TV the other night, as it often is. When I was a kid, the terror dogs were the scariest thing in the world. And I thought Xenomorphs were cool as hell. My parents had cable and weren't very attentive to what I was watching. Same. For whatever reason the dogs terrified me as a child beyond all concept of rational thought - they kind of took the place of the boogeyman in my childhood consciousness where I would associate any dark area or threatening situation with them. And now as an adult, I get that same feeling of nervousness when watching as you do, it's very odd but I think when something scares you at that very early stage it has such a large impact that you can't help remember how you felt as a child. My fear of those dogs had a weirdly specific element though. The copy of Ghostbusters I had as a child was a VHS recorded off UK television and for whatever reason it was heavily cut down, not just for sex references and mild language, but also for things that were considered too frightening. Most close up shots of the dogs had been excised, and in specific the scene where Dana is abducted was quite cleverly cut to remove the hands. This made the scene play out as if Dana is sitting in her chair, and then the chair whips round, the door swings open, and the chair shoots through it. The scene kept all the wide shots but all the close ups of the hands coming out, and one close up of the dog roaring (a wide of the dog sitting up on its haunches as the door opens was still present) were all gone. Still, the scene terrified me. But like all things young Karloff began to get more comfortable with it, and eventually even began to enjoy the film, rather than want to run out the room. That was until I saw a retail VHS copy which of course had the full scene with hands, close-ups and everything and I had a tremendous back slide into being frightened again. It's hard to describe the feeling of it, but I had got so used to being able to stomach the version I had previously seen that suddenly seeing the same scene but with more frightening imagery felt like a weird form of betrayal by the film. Like I had uncovered something demonic within it that made itself meaner and nastier in response to me no longer being afraid of it. Or at least that's how it felt to seven year old me.
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The main issue with the Ghostbusters UHD is that there was a fairly recent standard blu ray that was mastered in 4k so while it was still 1080p, it was still a much better overall presentation than the previous release. The UHD gives you a bit more definition of course, and there are some scenes that get a nice boost from HDR, but it's not the night and day comparison that you get with a lot of other UHDs. And yea, it's an exceptionally grainy film, so that is even more pronounced in the UHD, which is a turn-off for some people.
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The_Doctor posted:You’re going to be disappointed, it’s incredibly grainy. 
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Look, I expected to be able to read the labels on the packs at 4K, not try and make them out through a snowstorm. 
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The_Doctor posted:Look, I expected to be able to read the labels on the packs at 4K, not try and make them out through a snowstorm. You're definitely right, it's probably the grainiest UHD I've seen. I've gone back and forth on whether I prefer the UHD just because the HDR really does give the special effects some extra punch. But it's far from perfect. Anyway I bought both Ghostbusters films on UHD in one set, and the purchase was worth it for Ghostbusters 2 alone, which looks fantastic on UHD.
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Karloff posted:Same. For whatever reason the dogs terrified me as a child beyond all concept of rational thought - they kind of took the place of the boogeyman in my childhood consciousness where I would associate any dark area or threatening situation with them. And now as an adult, I get that same feeling of nervousness when watching as you do, it's very odd but I think when something scares you at that very early stage it has such a large impact that you can't help remember how you felt as a child. Might be a bit of an Uncanny Valley thing, like how in old Doctor Who the Cybermen were considered by some to be scarier than the Daleks. Dogs are familiar and comforting things, seeing them go wrong may hit closer to home.
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“Some moron brought a cougar to a party and it went berserk” is low-key one of my favorite lines.
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Splint Chesthair posted:“Some moron brought a cougar to a party and it went berserk” is low-key one of my favorite lines. There was a recent online trivia game in one of the many FB GB groups, and one of the questions was "what three animals were the terror dogs mis-identified as?" Cougar, as mentioned above. Bear ("what'd he say? A bea'h in his apahtment! ") and???
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Yeah, Louis does ask who brought the dog, and it is a Gozerian demon, technically... edit: also the corner of Spook Central has some strong loving walls, that terror dog splinters the door into a thousand pieces like it was glass but just slams against the wall and falls right down like it’s made of brick. Maybe other people should have copied Ivo Shandor’s construction choices, seems pretty sturdy, a gate to the beyond blows up and it only takes, like, the top four floors off. The Cameo fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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The Cameo posted:Maybe other people should have copied Ivo Shandor’s construction choices, seems pretty sturdy, a gate to the beyond blows up and it only takes, like, the top four floors off. dude, do you have any idea how much that building cost? Did you even think of the materials? WHAT ABOUT THE LABOR
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Dawgstar posted:The only thing that really gets me about GB II is clearly Winston is there in the courtroom but doesn't stick around when the Scoleri brothers show up. Sure, they might have only had three proton packs but you could have had all four as evidence so he could have helped out. Or maybe at least showing him getting everybody out of the courtroom. According to the IDW Comics Ghostbusters Annual 2017, Winston was facing off against the Scolari brothers' mother https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Mama_Scoleri . 
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no mom very hungry posted:According to the IDW Comics Ghostbusters Annual 2017, Winston was facing off against the Scolari brothers' mother https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/Mama_Scoleri . Wow, the ghost of Ma Fratelli.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I rewatched Answer the Call today and didn't hate it. I mean, I never hated it, but I tried really hard to separate it from the originals, which helped. Occasionally I remember the Mike Hat bit and laugh hysterically. It is absolutely the best joke in the film. I like ATC a fair bit more than most, but the jokes don't land ery well. That one LANDS.
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Julius CSAR posted:I guess they just don’t make them like they used to. No! No-one ever made them like this!
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SolarFire2 posted:When I was a kid, the terror dogs were the scariest thing in the world. I loved Ghostbusters as a kid and my dad loved Halloween and was super inventive, so he built a 8 ft long 4 ft tall robotic terror dog that was controlled by remote control. It originally had green skin and then he redid the outer layer with fur. It could push itself up on its front legs, move it’s head around, and roar. On Halloween he would put a big dog bowl in front if it and pour the candy in it. Kids would have to get the candy out of the dog bowl if they were brave enough. Even though I watched (and helped) him build it, it still terrified me. He left me out in the garage with it once while he went to get something and I just knew it would tear itself off the platform it was built on and get me. It made the local news a few times and he was invited to display it at a haunted house a few years. Edit: If I remember right, he would leave the tailgate down while he transported it freak out the people behind him. For some reason I think once he had a buddy riding with him operate it while he drove.
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Violator posted:I loved Ghostbusters as a kid and my dad loved Halloween and was super inventive, so he built a 8 ft long 4 ft tall robotic terror dog that was controlled by remote control. You are hereby required to post some drat photos.
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The_Doctor posted:You are hereby required to post some drat photos. I've actually thought about making a little 15 minute documentary about it all because sometimes it hits me that not everyone's dads did stuff like this. I've collected some old photos (which there aren't enough of), some old VHS videos, etc. I need to see if I can find a way to get the old news reports about it. Before you even got to the monster for the candy, you first had to walk past bushes where hydraulic corpse hands would pop out of the bushes to try to grab you and there were ghosts on motors floating around the perimeter of the roof around the house.  
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In the face of this, all fathers are.
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DeimosRising posted:I’m an inadequate father Holy poo poo, no kidding. gently caress, might as well call cps on me for now falling way too short of the new standard  Kidding aside, wow that's incredible.
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Aw dang that's cool. I wish I could find the pics of my pop's foam Slimer costume from the early 90s.
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:In the face of this, all fathers are. Hell I'm feeling inadequate and I don't even have children
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