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There wouldn't be such a big deal about this if Ghostbusters wasn't so crazy overrated.
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Aphrodite posted:There wouldn't be such a big deal about this if Ghostbusters wasn't so crazy overrated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssVAzlGdmnw
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Jul 21, 2016 17:42
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As far as movies written by Dan Aykroyd go I certainly like The Blues Brothers better (in fact it is my favourite movie).
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Jul 21, 2016 17:43
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There were people in CineD who sincerely said Ghostbusters II is a better movie, and it's just like, gently caress you. I have my special love for it, but let's get real.
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Jul 21, 2016 17:44
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CineD is a competition to see who can say the stupidest poo poo about popular movies.
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Jul 21, 2016 17:45
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Aphrodite posted:There wouldn't be such a big deal about this if Ghostbusters wasn't so crazy overrated. And yeah, it's middling comedy that's massively over-rated.
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Jul 21, 2016 17:46
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In 50 years people will be citing BvS rather than Citizen Kane.
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Jul 21, 2016 17:48
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It's only the NO GIRLS club that made it a big deal. Without them it'd be treated with a shrug like all the other remakes have been (Robocop, Total Recall, etc). What I mean is it's both. If they made like... Three Women and a Baby, nobody would care.
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Jul 21, 2016 17:53
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They're remaking Magnificent Seven and nobody seems to care, although it could be because it's been ripped off so many times (and is itself a remake) that it doesn't matter.
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Jul 21, 2016 17:56
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If it weren't an all-woman cast nobody would care. The only reason I even care is that the talent is really good and it's only a remake instead of a sequel because Bill Murray has some kinda hate-on for the franchise.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:00
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He's probably tired of being asked if he's afraid of ghosts, and who he's going to call.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:02
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Aphrodite posted:He's probably tired of being asked if he's afraid of ghosts, and who he's going to call. Bit of a Groundhog Day situation for him, you might say.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:06
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One time Bill Murray met a fan who told him his favorite Bill Murray movie is Rushmore. They talked for quite a while about the movie, Bill clearly excited because he rarely gets to talk about anything but Ghostbusters. As the conversation ended, the fan leaned in real close and whispered "Nobody will ever believe you" and then was on his way.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:14
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I wonder how Ghostbusters might have been different if John Belushi had played Venkman.
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Jul 21, 2016 18:15
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Wheat Loaf posted:Bit of a Groundhog Day situation for him, you might say. That joke is a Royal Tenen-BOMB!
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Jul 21, 2016 18:19
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Wheat Loaf posted:I wonder how Ghostbusters might have been different if John Belushi had played Venkman. Time traveling Ghostbusters in hell
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Jul 21, 2016 18:19
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Aphrodite posted:One time Bill Murray met a fan who told him his favorite Bill Murray movie is Rushmore. They talked for quite a while about the movie, Bill clearly excited because he rarely gets to talk about anything but Ghostbusters. As the conversation ended, the fan leaned in real close and whispered "Nobody will ever believe you" and then was on his way. Deep cut
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Jul 21, 2016 18:49
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Doctor Spaceman posted:They're remaking Magnificent Seven and nobody seems to care, although it could be because it's been ripped off so many times (and is itself a remake) that it doesn't matter. I'd watch an all-women remake of Magnificent Seven.
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Jul 21, 2016 20:09
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Super Dan posted:I'd watch an all-women remake of Magnificent Seven. I'm surprised this isn't an Asylum movie called the Magnificent Fourteen.
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Jul 21, 2016 20:27
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Codependent Poster posted:I'm surprised this isn't an Asylum movie called the Magnificent Fourteen. The awesome baker's half dozen.
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Jul 21, 2016 20:29
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Marvel right now on their SDCC stream is showing close ups of the Dr Strange costumes. Lots of cool detail in then, and Mordon has the Wand of Watoom, which is pretty cool.
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Jul 21, 2016 21:48
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Doctor Spaceman posted:They're remaking Magnificent Seven and nobody seems to care, although it could be because it's been ripped off so many times (and is itself a remake) that it doesn't matter. Nobody actually cares about remakes, the apathy is something Sony tried to combat with the all female cast. However since they lost out to the second week of a talking pet movie I'd say even internet breaking controversy can not shake the collective "I'll catch it on netflix" shrug of the general public towards 99.9% of remakes. But Brand Recognition™ totally works guys.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:26
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SirDan3k posted:Nobody actually cares about remakes, the apathy is something Sony tried to combat with the all female cast. However since they lost out to the second week of a talking pet movie I'd say even internet breaking controversy can not shake the collective "I'll catch it on netflix" shrug of the general public towards 99.9% of remakes. You completely captured my thoughts on this whole thing better than I've ever been able to put into words. Thank you for this post.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:30
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Can someone point me towards an SNL sketch, a talk show appearance, any performance really, where Leslie Jones is actually funny? Admittedly, I've only seen a handful of SNL sketches she was in (certainly no more than ten or so) and she was aggressively unfunny. I'm willing to bet that she's got comedic talent seeing as how she's in the middle of a pretty solid run in her career right now, and maybe I have just coincidentally been exposed to her lesser performances. Her scenes in the trailer were absolutely loving awful, and it leaves me baffled as to how she has a career in comedy.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:44
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Even people who hated the movie said she was the best of the central cast, and that the trailer does her serious disservice.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:46
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Lurdiak posted:Even people who hated the movie said she was the best of the central cast, and that the trailer does her serious disservice. Yeah, I saw the Half in the Bag review and they hated the movie but said that, oddly enough, she was better than the other cast members. For the record, I hope the movie is hilarious and succeeds because 1. better comedy = more laffos and 2. gently caress MRAs forever. But I could go the rest of my life without ever hearing another sassy overweight black lady in a movie holler "AW HELL NAW"
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Jul 21, 2016 22:52
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Yeah I mean I don't really ever hope a movie is bad. If BvS had been incredibly awesome to the point of redeeming Man of Steel I would've been stoked.
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Jul 21, 2016 22:53
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Happy Hippo posted:Can someone point me towards an SNL sketch, a talk show appearance, any performance really, where Leslie Jones is actually funny? Admittedly, I've only seen a handful of SNL sketches she was in (certainly no more than ten or so) and she was aggressively unfunny. I'm willing to bet that she's got comedic talent seeing as how she's in the middle of a pretty solid run in her career right now, and maybe I have just coincidentally been exposed to her lesser performances. Her scenes in the trailer were absolutely loving awful, and it leaves me baffled as to how she has a career in comedy. http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/leslie-jones-15496 She's usually really good on Weekend Update in particular.
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Jul 21, 2016 23:06
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Happy Hippo posted:Can someone point me towards an SNL sketch, a talk show appearance, any performance really, where Leslie Jones is actually funny? Admittedly, I've only seen a handful of SNL sketches she was in (certainly no more than ten or so) and she was aggressively unfunny. I'm willing to bet that she's got comedic talent seeing as how she's in the middle of a pretty solid run in her career right now, and maybe I have just coincidentally been exposed to her lesser performances. Her scenes in the trailer were absolutely loving awful, and it leaves me baffled as to how she has a career in comedy. I do not have a link to any Youtube video that is capable of significantly altering your brain chemistry.
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Jul 21, 2016 23:07
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I actually really don't like Leslie Jones on SNL but liked her in Ghostbusters. I think the thing is SNL is about playing a character and she's not really good at that. She's good at playing herself. She's naturally funny.
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Jul 22, 2016 00:38
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Wheat Loaf posted:As far as movies written by Dan Aykroyd go I certainly like The Blues Brothers better
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Jul 22, 2016 01:53
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Super Dan posted:I'd watch an all-women remake of Magnificent Seven.  Someone did a stage read of an all-female Glengarry Glen Ross, which would have been fascinating.
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Jul 22, 2016 02:10
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Blues Brothers 2000 is really, really bad, though. There's one bit at the end where all the musical guests are on stage playing "New Orleans" and it's like one of those jams they get aging stars to do at the Grammys every year. It looked really, really crappy. I've seen music videos that were made for about £1000 in 1979 that looked more professional.
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Jul 22, 2016 02:24
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Wheat Loaf posted:Blues Brothers 2000 is really, really bad, though. There's one bit at the end where all the musical guests are on stage playing "New Orleans" and it's like one of those jams they get aging stars to do at the Grammys every year. It looked really, really crappy. I've seen music videos that were made for about £1000 in 1979 that looked more professional. I really wanted BB2000 to be good even though I knew it wouldn't.
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Jul 22, 2016 02:26
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The way all the numbers are set makes it come off a lot like a pre-Oklahoma! musical, of all things. Like, in the first one, there's a token effort to justify the songs in the context of movie. You know, even stuff like Aretha Franklin breaking into song to admonish her husband or all the people outside Ray Charles's music store all dancing work according to the internal logic of the Blues Brothers universe, if that makes sense. But in the sequel, it's got stuff like John Popper going and gushing over Elwood and saying he'll go and get his band so they can play for him, then it cuts to Blues Traveler essentially doing a music video, if you get what I mean. At this point the most siginificant legacy of the Blues Brothers is probably the House of Blues restaurant chain, because that basically created an entire circuit of small and mid-sized venues overnight just in time for the alternative bands that were breaking through in the early 1990s to capitalise on them.
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Jul 22, 2016 02:38
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Bb2k is objectively a bad movie but i still think it's a lot of fun to watch. Helps that i actually like some of the numbers they do.
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Jul 22, 2016 02:43
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Sure, the song choices and performances are fine.
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Jul 22, 2016 03:15
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BB2K was on TV ALL THE TIME when I was a kid so I've seen it way more than the first one. To this day when someone brings up the Blues Brothers I pretend l only know 2000 and will ask questions like "Who's your favorite? Mine's John.... (Goodman)."
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I'm also a big fan of The Commitments. In fact now I think about it, it might be slightly better.
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