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They should include an Abby Yates and/or Jillian Holtzmann cameo in Frozen Empire and watch the entire fandom melt down. Bonus points for a Patty cameo, but none for including Gilbert.
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AndyElusive posted:They should include an Abby Yates and/or Jillian Holtzmann cameo in Frozen Empire and watch the entire fandom melt down. Who?
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Nov 10, 2023 05:34
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8one6 posted:Who? Kristen Wiig's character in GB2016 was Dr. Erin Gilbert.
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Nov 10, 2023 16:12
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Kumail Nanjiani just confirmed on twitter that the writers/director were essentially aiming to create a feature-length, live action movie that felt like an episode of The Real Ghostbusters. https://x.com/straczynski/status/1722729369658106157?s=46&t=AO94-Nyeqyc_3nMDXCDtuA Womp womp.
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Nov 10, 2023 16:41
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Oh boo hoo, someone mentioned RGB and JMS wasn’t instantly invited.
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Nov 10, 2023 16:53
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Straczynski is an old school writer in the sense that he wants to write his stuff that you hired him to write and then have it actually be used, not workshopped to death by a hundred corporate stooges. Can't have that sort of presence in a modern blockbuster production.
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The_Doctor posted:Oh boo hoo, someone mentioned RGB and JMS wasn’t instantly invited. Hey I mean even a 3-second cameo might have been kinda cute, if they’re leaning into the Real GB thing. Kinda like how Afterlife had a cameo from one of the RGB toys (although if the new movie doesn’t feature Fearsome Flush I will be loving furious).
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Nov 10, 2023 16:57
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"We want to make a movie that's like The Real Ghostbusters! It'll be great!" "Should we hire one of the writers of The Real Ghostbusters, then? Or maybe talk to them for ideas--" "NO you absolute MORON!" *hits a red button, a 1000 Diablo Cody's swarm in like Agent Smith*
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Nov 10, 2023 16:59
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I just want a Ghostbusters that isn't either retreading existing ground in a desperate appeal to nostalgia or based around the rapidly decaying corpses of the surviving cast members. Is that so much to ask?
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Nov 10, 2023 17:02
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After watching the teaser... do they know Ghostbusters is supposed to be funny?
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Nov 10, 2023 17:23
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I will say this: DON'T trust trailers. They're outsourced to companies who basically follow a template. They are worthless. That's why I usually don't watch them, all they do is spoil the big moments.
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Nov 10, 2023 17:33
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Yeah but I also saw Afterlife and have the same question
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Timby posted:"Egon Spengler can burn in hell" is the moment I finally turned on Afterlife; there is no way Ray Stantz would say that. Especially after the follow-up exposition scene in which Ray just says that Egon got paranoid and eventually took the equipment and hosed off to Oklahoma because he had found something big. I didn't hate Afterlife that much, but I had the same reaction to that moment. For a movie to be so overly reverent to the original in so many superficial ways but cock up the characters that much really felt bad. Do anything else with that scene. Have Ray say no one knows where Egon went, have him say Egon went insane Lovecraft-style, have him say Egon told everyone else to leave him alone, just don't have Ray the human Golden Retriever say he hopes Egon is burning in hell. It's "Leia ignores Chewbacca after Han dies" levels of not getting the characters.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Kumail Nanjiani just confirmed on twitter that the writers/director were essentially aiming to create a feature-length, live action movie that felt like an episode of The Real Ghostbusters. It’s super evident from the trailer
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ALFbrot posted:Yeah but I also saw Afterlife and have the same question True Afterlife wasn't very funny, but I think the vibe they're going for with this is that everyone's back together and we're back in business so it's not so sentimental and we can have more jokes now
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh man I'm just not feeling that trailer. I guess a lot of that is because the first minute is just the scene with the storm cloud rolling in on the beach and everything about the Ghostbusters is crammed into the rest of the trailer, and most of that is just characters reacting to something off screen. I've made my thoughts on how much I despised Afterlife and the Funkopopification of the (ugh) franchise, but I felt the trailer course-corrected a bit - maybe it's the 80s music or the bustling, grimy NY setting, but it felt to "get" Ghostbusters a bit more. But... Rupert Buttermilk posted:Kumail Nanjiani just confirmed on twitter that the writers/director were essentially aiming to create a feature-length, live action movie that felt like an episode of The Real Ghostbusters. Yeah, I liked that show as a kid, but like the original foe different reasons as an adult, and arguing that that's not really Ghostbusters is like arguing about how Fall Out Boy isn't real emo compared to Rites of Spring or whatever at this point. It's not wrong, but most people will think you're a dickhead. Ah well.
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Afterlife is ghostbusters force awakens so now that its out of their system and not committed to a trilogy maybe we can get a good movie
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Alan_Shore posted:"NO you absolute MORON!" *hits a red button, a 1000 Diablo Cody's swarm in like Agent Smith*
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weekly font posted:Afterlife is ghostbusters force awakens so now that its out of their system and not committed to a trilogy maybe we can get a good movie wonder which dead actor they digitized this time
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zer0spunk posted:wonder which dead actor they digitized this time Bill Murray isn't dead yet but it was suspicious that he wasn't sitting down in the trailer shots.
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Disco Pope posted:I've made my thoughts on how much I despised Afterlife and the Funkopopification of the (ugh) franchise, but I felt the trailer course-corrected a bit - maybe it's the 80s music or the bustling, grimy NY setting, but it felt to "get" Ghostbusters a bit more. But... I guess to be fair it wasn't an actual trailer but only a teaser, I'll put aside my initial reactions for now and wait for a proper trailer
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I guess to be fair it wasn't an actual trailer but only a teaser, I'll put aside my initial reactions for now and wait for a proper trailer I thought it was a trailer? Aren't teasers like one image and a bit of text (usually the title and date)? Why don't you consider the two minute video a trailer?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I thought it was a trailer? Aren't teasers like one image and a bit of text (usually the title and date)? Why don't you consider the two minute video a trailer? The title of the video on the official Sony youtube channel is "GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)"
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The title of the video on the official Sony youtube channel is "GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE - Official Teaser Trailer (HD)" Ah, so Sony themselves are loving it up. Fair enough. I don't know why they'd call it that, though; that was an almost textbook trailer.
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I think Ghostbusters is a lot like Star Wars. The premise for both is so open-ended and universal, that you must be able to tell loads of great stories in these universes. But then it turns out no, you can't. They were only classics because the movies had the right people at the right time and place. When you try to remake it (2016), it's awful. When you take it in a completely fresh direction (Afterlife), it's... fine. I don't need to tell you that Ghostbusters isn't about proton packs and the Ecto 1, in the same way Stars Wars isn't just light sabers. I think the only way you could "update" Ghostbusters would be to try and mirror the dynamic of the original but maybe age it up a bit. They should have made a more comedic version with Seth Rogan, Danny McBride etc while keeping the horror. We need schlubby guys waddling around. I think they could have made a funny film, and at the end of the day, for any Ghostbusters remake, funny is all we can really ask for.
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Shadows of the Empire but for Ghostbusters
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Alan_Shore posted:I think Ghostbusters is a lot like Star Wars. 2016 wasn't a remake. It was in fact exactly what you were asking for, a bunch of comedians making a comedic movie. You can say they didn't do it right but it isn't like they didn't have the idea in place.
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It was a "reimagining," which is the shittiest kind of remake.
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Alan_Shore posted:I think Ghostbusters is a lot like Star Wars. Something both Real and Extreme Ghostbusters (and the IDW comics) did very well. The failure on the parts of the movies to tell a good story is a separate problem of their own making.
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moths posted:It was a "reimagining," which is the shittiest kind of remake. Nah. Reimaginings can own. Without them you don't get The Fly or The Thing. The_Doctor posted:Something both Real and Extreme Ghostbusters (and the IDW comics) did very well. The failure on the parts of the movies to tell a good story is a separate problem of their own making. To be fair to Real, it basically did that by changing all the characters pretty wildly aside from the absolute broadest strokes. (Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure like 45% of my like of Ghostbusters is due to The Real Ghostbusters. 50% is due to the original Ghostbusters and 5% is due to the lawyer scene in Ghostbusters 2.) ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Nov 11, 2023 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I thought it was a trailer? Aren't teasers like one image and a bit of text (usually the title and date)? Why don't you consider the two minute video a trailer? Teasers haven’t been like this in decades
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Apropos of nothing, Lorenzo Seasons> Coulier Seasons.
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Beachcomber posted:Apropos of nothing, Lorenzo Seasons> Coulier Seasons. This should be argued by no one. A complete given.
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Mods change my name to Lorenzo Seasons
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The problem with Ghostbusters 2016 is that its a bad movie that tries to be a self parody If they just made a new ghostbusters film in the original universe and played it straight it would have been fine and there wouldnt have been anywhere near the backlash.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Mods change my name to Lorenzo Seasons Someone else should be called Coulier Seasons, and they'd be your posting enemy.
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90sgamer posted:The problem with Ghostbusters 2016 is that its a bad movie that tries to be a self parody I honestly am not sure of how it is more of a self parody than Ghostbusters 2 TBH.
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Ghostbusters is a perfect movie, but I like GBII. I like Vigo, and Janosz, and the river of slime, and the fur coat with the cute minks, and the Scoleri bros, and the puppy, and especially Winston. There's just a whole lot there to like.
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