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xezton posted:"It's Always Ghosty in New York City".... that does sound pretty appealing. They would have to be on-point with the cast and writers though. On-point as gently caress. Yeah, the fart, lowest common denominator comedy of the new ghostbusters totally reminds me of the satire of the outsider comedy IASIP.
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I actually wonder if Feig and Dippold were given access to the cutscenes that were axed from The Video Game, because there was an entire level cut from the game that featured the Ghostbusters fighting possessed Thanksgiving Day Parade floats. (As I recall, it was removed because Terminal Reality couldn't get the crowd AI and the float physics working properly in time for release. But all the dialogue was recorded and the CG cutscenes were animated.)
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Jul 22, 2016 21:36
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Timby posted:I actually wonder if Feig and Dippold were given access to the cutscenes that were axed from The Video Game, because there was an entire level cut from the game that featured the Ghostbusters fighting possessed Thanksgiving Day Parade floats. (As I recall, it was removed because Terminal Reality couldn't get the crowd AI and the float physics working properly in time for release. But all the dialogue was recorded and the CG cutscenes were animated.) I actually thought about the video game too. Shame we will never get a sequel or game that plays like it.
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Jul 22, 2016 21:42
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The Dave posted:Mighty No. 9 also got way too caught up in all the platforms they decided to support. Ghostbusters 2016 is the not very good movie of movies that shouldn't have been made and are mediocre.
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Jul 22, 2016 21:43
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what about this one
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Jul 22, 2016 21:45
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Timby posted:I actually wonder if Feig and Dippold were given access to the cutscenes that were axed from The Video Game, because there was an entire level cut from the game that featured the Ghostbusters fighting possessed Thanksgiving Day Parade floats. (As I recall, it was removed because Terminal Reality couldn't get the crowd AI and the float physics working properly in time for release. But all the dialogue was recorded and the CG cutscenes were animated.) im sure the video game that nobody ever heard of was a key factor in this $200M+ project
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Jul 22, 2016 21:52
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Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime is a video game nobody ever heard of. Ghostbusters: The Video Game however featured the likeness, voices and a script by the original cast members, two decades after Ghostbusters II. A key factor for this movie? Of course not. Did it play a key role in the eventual formation of Ghost Corps? Very, very likely.
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Jul 22, 2016 22:03
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steinrokkan posted:im sure the video game that nobody ever heard of was a key factor in this $200M+ project You mean the video game written by Akroyd and Ramis, that made more money on release than the new movie did?
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Jul 22, 2016 22:05
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:You mean the video game written by Akroyd and Ramis, that made more money on release than the new movie did? It's really sad if it did because I hadn't heard about it before today!
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Jul 22, 2016 22:21
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Anyway, I've noticed lots of people are hoping that international revenue would save the new film from being a flop. Aside from the usual argument of "they are missing out on the sweet China buck", I'd argue that Ghostbusters isn't nearly as popular abroad as people like to imagine. It's pretty much an American cultural artefact with a very limited potential for grossing money outside North America - I mean, I'm a non-English European, and Ghostbusters are literally a cultural non-entity, the name just has no pull at all.
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Jul 22, 2016 22:25
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:You mean the video game written by Akroyd and Ramis, that made more money on release than the new movie did? That's certainly not true but it sold well for a B-tier release in 2009. Somehow multiplayer on Xbox is still going. steinrokkan posted:It's really sad if it did because I hadn't heard about it before today! I think it's still on Steam. If you care about Ghostbusters you should check it out because it's pretty much the true Ghostbusters 3. There are lots of callbacks and fan service like fighting the Giant Sloar mentioned by Vinz Clortho. The gameplay is basically Dead Space right down to your pack being the UI so they at least copied the formula of a good game despite all the technical issues.
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Jul 22, 2016 22:29
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steinrokkan posted:Yeah, the fart, lowest common denominator comedy of the new ghostbusters totally reminds me of the satire of the outsider comedy IASIP. You've got it backwards. That's why I said they'd have to nail the cast and writing, because neither the new nor the old movies' comedic styles would work in a series, in my opinion. I just pulled IASIP's title reference out of my rear end. Kind of like a fart.
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Jul 22, 2016 22:40
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xezton posted:You've got it backwards. That's why I said they'd have to nail the cast and writing, because neither the new nor the old movies' comedic styles would work in a Netflix series, in my opinion. I just pulled IASIP's title reference out of my rear end. Kind of like a fart. Obviously. The problem is that the original movie is known for being smart in a subtle way, the Sunny show is known for being smart in a positively unsubtle way, and the Ghostbuster reboot is just devoid of any wit whatsoever, so there's no obvious connection to be made.
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steinrokkan posted:It's really sad if it did because I hadn't heard about it before today! Have you heard of these fictional characters called The Ghostbusters? Seriously though, I always thought the game was a pretty big deal. I even still have my recording of Dan Aykroyd's message he left for me when my copy was ready.  https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/69648/AykroydGamestop.mp3 steinrokkan posted:Obviously. The problem is that the original movie is known for being smart in a subtle way, the Sunny show is known for being smart in a positively unsubtle way, and the Ghostbuster reboot is just devoid of any wit whatsoever, so there's no obvious connection to be made. The "connection" is that I'd love to see a GB series if it was written to the same standards of a good comedy series. xezton fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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Jul 22, 2016 22:44
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xezton posted:Have you heard of these fictional characters called The Ghostbusters? Strangely the movie is somewhat better known than its video game adaptation.
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xezton posted:The "connection" is that I'd love to see a GB series if it was written to the same standards of a good comedy series. Oh, I see, well, I'd like to see a TV show based on Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill that would live up to the comedy of Annie Hall.
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steinrokkan posted:Oh, I see, well, I'd like to see a TV show based on Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill that would live up to the comedy of Annie Hall. I think we are both hosed then.  Although I can't say I've heard about this Annie Hall thing before today! xezton fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Jul 22, 2016 |
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Jul 22, 2016 22:50
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This film is edited horribly. Probably a three hour director cut coming out. Also, a lot of the shot composition is so poor, leaving frames unnaturally open and wide to capture whatever spontaneous acts of improvisation, results in some amateurish directing and framing.
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Jul 23, 2016 02:06
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Death By The Blues posted:This film is edited horribly. Probably a three hour director cut coming out. Also, a lot of the shot composition is so poor, leaving frames unnaturally open and wide to capture whatever spontaneous acts of improvisation, results in some amateurish directing and framing. Yeah. I wouldn't mind a sequel with the same cast, but hopefully they replace Feig or he steps up his game considerably
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Jul 23, 2016 02:09
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Applewhite posted:Ghostbusters 2016 is the Mighty No. 9 of films. Yep, checks out.
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Jul 23, 2016 02:41
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This movie was pedestrian comedy at best. There's some fleeting hilarity , but that doesn't redeem the reboot. $150m mediocre mess. Based on the box office results so far, I don't think we'll need to worry about a sequel.
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moolchaba posted:$150m mediocre mess. Based on the box office results so far, I don't think we'll need to worry about a sequel. It's going to have a really lackluster box office gross (it will make way way less money than the 1984 film, even without adjusting for inflation) but it's still on track to becoming Sony's second biggest film of the year behind Angry Birds. Also they not only sunk $150m into the film's production and $100m+ into the film's promotion but they've also sunk a chunk of cash into setting up the Ghost Corps production company and they've already announced an animated movie and an animated TV series.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Sony's second biggest film of the year behind Angry Birds christ
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And "The mermaid" which was pretty much only released in China. There's also "5th wave" and "Money monsters" which are slightly ahead, but only for a few more days, and given how bad the rest of Sony's releases for 2016 are looking, it's very likely Ghostbusters will end up as Sony's 3rd highest grossing film of the year.
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xezton posted:I saw GB2016 last week and can say I'm happy with it. Same here, I hate Bill Murray. Guy's a no-talent.
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Retarded_Clown_ posted:Same here, I hate Bill Murray. Guy's a no-talent. Yeah but the Dalai Lama told him that on his deathbed he'll receive total consciousness so he's got that going for him, which is nice.
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Jul 23, 2016 13:55
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Saw it last night, it did have some pacing issues to some degree but overall I enjoyed it.
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OK sure, I'll post some words. Ghostbusters is my favourite film. It is flawless. A masterpiece. Perfect. I will fight you if you say otherwise. I knew I was going to watch this, so I avoided all trailers, news and stupid political BS going in (people judging films on trailers really don't know how the industry works and all trailers are awful). So, in my opinion... I enjoyed it. I mean I wanted to enjoy it, it made me laugh, I had fun. Though weirdly enough I do agree with everything RLM said in their review. Feig is a pretty talentless director if this was his best shot. Very bland. What's super interesting to me is to compare 1984 (aka the best year) to 2016, and nothing encapsulates this more than the opening scene, which is of course, and really had to be, the same as in the original. The set up. The reveal of the ghost. Now, the original is understated, it's haunting, it's quick, it's SUBTLE. The 2016 version is a loving episode of Goosebumps in comparison. There's chairs being thrown, stairs collapsing, slime everywhere, muttering to oneself, it goes on and on... What was all the slime there for? What was it doing? Did it all disappear? How did that guy get out? Didn't he die in the slime? WHAT IS HAPPENING Another major complaint is how they treat the ghosts. The first time we see the librarian ghost in the original is a great moment. It's spooky, it's a big deal, and it reveals a lot about their characters. Egon is scared and tries to deal with it with science. Peter, the motor mouth, is stunned into silence. Ray is in awe. In this movie they eat loving Pringles and talk talk TALK. The ghosts are not a big deal. They are not scary (apart from to Patty, who is the only one that I can say hands down that has a character). I mean yes, it's badly edited (seriously, the way the song just fades out at the beginning is like a university student's first year film), and the jokes rely on talking over the punchlines about the punchlines, improv city, but I had a pretty good time and think they could do really well next time with a better director.
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On the subject of Feig, The movie didn't make me dislike of the cast, but good lord those interviews with Paul Feig make him come across as insufferable. They depict a guy who just learned about comedy for the first time.
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Jul 23, 2016 15:40
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Alan_Shore posted:
GB84 is a super good movie but are you sure you aren't just remembering it as more serious and scary because you were a little kid when you first saw it? Look at the actual scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kj2bF8dDNs It's a super goofy ghost and the music and sound effects is straight out of a cartoon.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:You mean the video game written by Akroyd and Ramis They didn't write it.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:GB84 is a super good movie but are you sure you aren't just remembering it as more serious and scary because you were a little kid when you first saw it? That's not the opening scene, which features the librarian getting scared.
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Jonas Albrecht posted:On the subject of Feig, They also depict him as somone who seems to think that only now will little girls finally dress as Ghostbusters, when they've been doing it for 30 years. source: i was once a little girl
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:GB84 is a super good movie but are you sure you aren't just remembering it as more serious and scary because you were a little kid when you first saw it? It is a super good movie, but that scene is not the the first scene... But compare that scene to when they see their first ghost in 2016. In the original the movie just kinda stops. The music is otherworldly. The movie treats the ghost with absolute seriousness. Not only that, the Ghostbusters RUN AWAY in terror (and lots of kids looked away from the screen at THAT moment, I can tell you). *cuts to everyone eating pringles, then getting slimed "Oh god this is soooo gross! Gross! Just like so gross!" * PS I thought that lady ghost design in 2016 was cool and unnerving and they do nothing with it
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Isn't Egon randomly eating cheezits when they deal with Dana for the first time?
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WAR FOOT posted:Isn't Egon randomly eating cheezits when they deal with Dana for the first time? Egon is almost always snacking.
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You try saying no to those salty parabolas.
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The pringles complaint just seems odd in contrast. I wasn't a fan of the movie, but it seems nitpicky.
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Alan_Shore posted:
I mean, it really really doesn't. I think you may have just seen the movie when you were young and stuff like that was scary inherently. Ghostbusters was a comedy movie and the ghosts were all very goofy looking with lots of cartoon sound effects and music. For god's sake the last boss ghost was a big marshmallow in a sailor suit. It was a very silly movie.
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Similar to my qualms with how ghostbusting is portrayed in the film, I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that Sony's big plans for Ghostbusters are under the label "Ghost Corps.". It gives me the same unease as when the new Star Trek films made Starfleet more militaristic than intellectual, but unlike Abrams I don't feel like Feig or Sony execs. have the sort of understanding to recognize this change. For the record, since it seems like some people might have gotten the wrong idea from the earlier quarrel, I was mostly fine with the actresses (although the editing did a horrible job of making them mesh well, like RLM said Holtzmann felt like a post-production "new character makes wacky faces at old footage" thing with how bad the editing was), my issue was entirely with how ghostbusters are portrayed in the new film.
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