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Popcorn posted:Always troubled me what they did with them afterwards though. What, they're just supposed to stay cooped up in that big safe forever? It's interesting how Ghostbusters doesn't really care about resolving the ghosts' conflict and sending them onto the afterlife, or exorcising them, or whatever. thatsthejoke.jpg The theme of not caring even a little about untested equipment, severe structural damage inflicted upon clients, and the hiring of indifferent, unqualified people is central to what makes the movie so funny. GB2 was lacking in this department, but it was nice to have lines like "We'll keep the power of your pack to 50% to minimize burning and tissue damage" in the video game.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 01:33 |
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With how many pages this thread has I don't remember if I said it already, but I just watched it again tonight after getting the new 4K Blu-Ray and people harp on the various demon dog effects work but the shots that actually irk me in the film are the ones near the end just outside of Dana's building and on top of it when things start quaking. The actors shake but the camera is deathly still, when everyone and their grandma knows that when there's some kind of violent disturbance to the ground you shake the camera so it doesn't look like the characters all simultaneously suffered seizures. Did Reitman not watch Star Trek when he was a young man? Or am I just not knowledgeable about film and that kind of thing only happened on Star Trek back then?Scroto Baggins posted:That voice! That bone-chilling voice! Double-checked to make sure, and yep, Frank Welker. It was basically a spookier Megatron.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 04:56 |
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The best part of The Real Ghostbusters is that they had the rights to the theme song(maybe not the lyrics). For most of the show the soundtrack is really low-key and creepy, but every episode at exactly the right moment, when the poo poo hits the fan, the music would kick in. Honestly I think that show is more responsible for me dressing as a Ghostbuster for multiple Halloweens than the actual movie, there were a lot of cool toys out around that time too.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 15:17 |
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That's really cool. I had no idea they thought out the containment unit. I always thought that the containment limbo was just a RGB thing. I just thought the inside of the ghost traps just stacked like bricks within the wall, never thought beyond that. Also, I love how the script uses everyone's last names, except Winston. Basebf555 posted:The best part of The Real Ghostbusters is that they had the rights to the theme song(maybe not the lyrics). For most of the show the soundtrack is really low-key and creepy, but every episode at exactly the right moment, when the poo poo hits the fan, the music would kick in. Honestly I think that show is more responsible for me dressing as a Ghostbuster for multiple Halloweens than the actual movie, there were a lot of cool toys out around that time too. I think I found this on some Ghostbusters forum while researching a Halloween costume, but I have a .Rar with the RGB soundtrack on it. Or, rather, someone's attempt at stripping the sound of the cartoon to isolate the soundtrack. Some of the songs still have talking in the background. If anyone is interested, I could upload this somewhere?
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 18:14 |
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Scroto Baggins posted:That's really cool. I had no idea they thought out the containment unit. I always thought that the containment limbo was just a RGB thing. I just thought the inside of the ghost traps just stacked like bricks within the wall, never thought beyond that. Also, I love how the script uses everyone's last names, except Winston. On the note of what they'd do in terms of ghosts, there's an episode of the cartoon where Ray's aunt hires a fake medium to get rid of ghosts in her house. When the ghosts get pissed and start to tear the place apart, the best that the Ghostbusters do is start faking a seance by chanting random nonsense until things calm down, then epically (for a cartoon) suiting up at the Ecto-1 and blowing the ghosts to pieces. Fun fact about the episode: Egon actually chants the Pythagorean Theorem. And who said that cartoons couldn't teach you things?
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 19:11 |
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Boomerjinks posted:thatsthejoke.jpg Echoplex posted:had they dealt with it it would have almost certainly been the right wing masterpiece SMG cites this to be, worryingly) Another thing that stuck out to me along these lines, when I rewatched it last night, is how completely reasonable the environmental protection agency is, really. Well, I mean, Peck as characterised as an unreasonable rear end in a top hat with unreasonable demands, but the Ghostbusters have developed this crazy unholy technology that traps spirits using nuclear accelerators or something, and yeah, shouldn't we kind of be concerned about that, wouldn't we kind of want to regulate it? But the film is like, "No way, they should be allowed to do this in the great spirit of American invention and entrepreneurship, gently caress the bureaucracy!" It's definitely part of what makes the movie funny and charming, but it's also what makes Top Gear funny and charming, and as we all know, Top Gear is also kind of frightening and horrible.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 19:21 |
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Peck is a foil but it's obvious how much of the fiasco was due to Peter being a completely uncooperative tool. He saw another Dean Yeager sitting across from him and thought he could stand up for himself this time.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 20:09 |
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The apocalyptic scenario presented in Ghostbusters is what happens when Top Gear goes too far.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 20:09 |
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Lobok posted:Peck is a foil but it's obvious how much of the fiasco was due to Peter being a completely uncooperative tool. He saw another Dean Yeager sitting across from him and thought he could stand up for himself this time. I never actually looked at it like that. That's perfect.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 20:17 |
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It's kind of... cute actually. At the start we see Yeager dress him down and Peter barely mutters anything more than "Ok." He knows he's been a fraud and well, someone eventually would have found him out. As a Ghostbuster though he's legit - these things are real, Egon and Ray have developed amazing tech and systems, and they're working hard all day every day to actually do a good job. Not to mention the fame that goes to his head. So when Peck starts questioning and challenging him and his friends, he's not going to take it lightly this time.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 20:24 |
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I'd like to think that the business really was in gross violation of the Environmental Protection Act. Great Onion article from 2008.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 20:28 |
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Boomerjinks posted:I'd like to think that the business really was in gross violation of the Environmental Protection Act. Of course it was! They're using unlicensed nuclear accelerators around the five boroughs! Three Mile Island was '79, Chernobyl happened in '86. Nuclear power running free and being let loose like fire hoses can in no way be safe. I'd wager none of the GBs can have children.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 20:42 |
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The_Doctor posted:Of course it was! They're using unlicensed nuclear accelerators around the five boroughs! Three Mile Island was '79, Chernobyl happened in '86. Nuclear power running free and being let loose like fire hoses can in no way be safe. I'd wager none of the GBs can have children. Mueller's Novelization, which is actually a fun read since Mueller went on to work on RGB and the two kinda feel the same tone wise, has a good bit about the packs being turned for the first time in the elevator. Egon goes first, Ray's fillings start to heat up and Peter's hair stands on end till they each turn on their packs and create a protonic field of their own, canceling out the negative effects of the other accelerators. They're all most definitely unable to produce children.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 22:29 |
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Soulwrangler posted:Mueller's Novelization, which is actually a fun read since Mueller went on to work on RGB and the two kinda feel the same tone wise, has a good bit about the packs being turned for the first time in the elevator. Egon goes first, Ray's fillings start to heat up and Peter's hair stands on end till they each turn on their packs and create a protonic field of their own, canceling out the negative effects of the other accelerators. A proton pack is not a toy.
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# ? Dec 31, 2013 23:07 |
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I watched the movie tonight with my roommate who hasn't seen it since he was 7 years old and interestingly he brought up what Hell the containment unit must be, which I'd never thought about before it came up here the the other day.
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 03:36 |
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Watching Ghostbusters II as it's my official New Year's Eve movie. Man, I sincerely hope we get to see the deleted scenes someday.
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 08:08 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Watching Ghostbusters II as it's my official New Year's Eve movie. Man, I sincerely hope we get to see the deleted scenes someday. My wife and I are watching it right now, too. During the psych ward scene, she says, "That guy looks like an old fat Bill Murray." And of course it's his older, fatter brother. Oh, Brian Doyle.
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 08:16 |
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Haha, I'm at that scene right now. You know, one of the things that has always bothered me about this movie is the part where phantom granny janosz comes and gets Oscar. If I could redo that scene, I'd have Janosz actually show up at the apartment, and do that blue breath thing that Vigo does to the guys near the end, and have him just take oscar while Dana, Janine, and Louis lie there helplessly. He leaves, it wears off for them, and then Louis calls his cousin Sherman, who gets the guys out of the psych ward. Edit: Weird... Lenny calls for the ghostbusters, says that he spent time last night talking to LaGuardia, who's been dead for forty years. But... Wouldn't that have been the night before he had the meeting with the ghostbusters? If so, you'd think he'd be more receptive to what they had to say. Unless that meeting he has with his staff is the next morning? Edit 2: Also, why does the slime have about 3 or 4 consistencies? There's the multicoloured river, the red/orange stuff in the jar, the bathtub ooze, and then the chicken-snot being sprayed in the Statue of Liberty. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 08:58 on Jan 1, 2014 |
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echoplex posted:Cut from the shooting script: God, this sounds so so so very good and yet you're right, it really can't be in the film. Just reading it made me stare sadly at the ground for a few moments. Really wonderful moment though.
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 09:27 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Edit 2: Also, why does the slime have about 3 or 4 consistencies? There's the multicoloured river, the red/orange stuff in the jar, the bathtub ooze, and then the chicken-snot being sprayed in the Statue of Liberty. The river is pure, concentrated slime, the stuff in the jar was filtered and purified, the bathtub stuff is just as viscous as the river and the slime guns are aerating the slime as it's being shot, kinda like blowing spit bubbles.
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# ? Jan 1, 2014 13:29 |
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If someone wonders how much damage the guys did in the first movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6mIp68KhBQ Also I've decided to share those that I made a long time ago:
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# ? Jan 10, 2014 23:55 |
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Captain Quack posted:If someone wonders how much damage the guys did in the first movie:
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 01:37 |
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Captain Quack posted:If someone wonders how much damage the guys did in the first movie: Nice! Was that all in Photoshop? I think I shared these with this thread, but I can't remember, so there ya go. I made 2 posters just for the heck of it last year:
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 02:08 |
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Scroto Baggins posted:Nice! Was that all in Photoshop? I think I shared these with this thread, but I can't remember, so there ya go. I made 2 posters just for the heck of it last year: Thank you! Yes, they were all done in Photoshop... ... ...it's been a long time that I didn't do anything in it, I should start painting again...
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 02:47 |
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How are you supposed to estimate the cost of not only the specific destruction of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man (something conjured out of thin air, practically), but the Tower of Gozer? Other than that, I enjoyed it.
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 02:49 |
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:How are you supposed to estimate the cost of not only the specific destruction of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man (something conjured out of thin air, practically), but the Tower of Gozer? Other than that, I enjoyed it. They may have been making up for drastically underestimating the amount of ghost-caused damage & havok in the city. As well as unseen damage caused by the Stay-Puft Man or within the high-class apartment building. Edit: I mean only 1 million for the church?
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 04:30 |
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Scroto Baggins posted:Nice! Was that all in Photoshop? I think I shared these with this thread, but I can't remember, so there ya go. I made 2 posters just for the heck of it last year: Holy poo poo!
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 04:38 |
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They seem to over- and under-estimate a lot of stuff. One Central Park west apartment, $2 million, sure, but only $2.4 million for the rooftop and several floors of the same building?
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 12:09 |
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I want a four-foot tall version of this for my living room.
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 19:26 |
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The_Doctor posted:They seem to over- and under-estimate a lot of stuff. One Central Park west apartment, $2 million, sure, but only $2.4 million for the rooftop and several floors of the same building? MyUpperWest blog posted:If you’re prone to envy or jealousy, you should just stop reading right now. Fuuuuuuuuuuck. I'm gonna go throw up now. Boomerjinks fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Captain Quack posted:Thank you! Yes, they were all done in Photoshop... I'm mostly an Illustrator man myself, so I wasn't sure if those were all some sneaky vector work. I dig the style!
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# ? Jan 11, 2014 20:10 |
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Dont know if this was posted but its p cool http://imgur.com/a/OdtlD?gallery
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# ? Jan 19, 2014 00:07 |
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zVxTeflon posted:Dont know if this was posted but its p cool I need to see more of this. Is it from a book?
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# ? Jan 19, 2014 01:57 |
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Making Ghostbusters, which is depressingly expensive these days. The book is mostly script, though, that covers most of the best bits. I'd scan mine more often but I don't want it to crumble.
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# ? Jan 19, 2014 02:26 |
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echoplex posted:Making Ghostbusters, which is depressingly expensive these days. The book is mostly script, though, that covers most of the best bits. I'd scan mine more often but I don't want it to crumble. Scan it! Then, it shall live forever!
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# ? Jan 19, 2014 02:31 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:Scan it! Then, it shall live forever! I would, but it's the only nice thing I have left from the film! I sold a Steve Johnson pre-production Slimer maquette when I was in uni. Regrets.
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# ? Jan 19, 2014 02:35 |
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Basebf555 posted:There's a pretty good episode of The Real Ghostbusters where Slimer ends up accidentally inside the containment unit and they have to figure out a way to find him and get him out. Its interesting because the Ghostbusters clearly realize its not a fun place to be for a ghost, but the only ghost they give a poo poo about is Slimer. Well yeah, and why not? All the ghosts but Slimer were rear end in a top hat villains. Why would they give a poo poo about any of them except the comedy relief?
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# ? Jan 23, 2014 14:22 |
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So I bought the Mattycollector Neutrino Wand. I can't believe the splurging I've done on those props, but I think they're great. I'm going to add it to my old Venkman costume and wear it tonight at a costume party.
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# ? Jan 23, 2014 22:54 |
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SocketWrench posted:Well yeah, and why not? All the ghosts but Slimer were rear end in a top hat villains. Why would they give a poo poo about any of them except the comedy relief? Drool the Dog Faced Goblin was pretty cool. That was a sad ending.
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Didnt stay puft let inner city kids play and climb on him or something?
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