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To be fair the bounty hunters did seem basically designed to be interesting and evocative, and it seemed almost random that Boba Fett was the plot-relevant one in the movie. In most other franchises, when you see a lineup of diverse badasses like that you generally expect a boss rush at least.
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He had the most screen time and fewest lines, allowing the costume and prop designers to do their very good work without George's very bad work getting in the way. He tried his best to ruin the character in the next movie, but the lack of damage was already done
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Hey, remember when that one Stormtrooper was running around with an ice cream machine and hit his head on a door?
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*Gestures vaguely at everything* Dude we are in the middle of a pandemic and people are literally forgetting we have mass graves being used and the equivalent of a 9/11 every day, because it's just mildly inconveniencing to stay home and do nothing. The only star wars... not reboot but explanation? I guess, that makes a weird amount of sense and was actually kinda awesome is why Vader told Boba Fett "No disintegrations". They finally showed in The Mandalorian what that big loving rifle does and the sheer nothing it leaves behind on a hit. Stupid_Sexy_Flander has a new favorite as of 16:38 on May 11, 2020 |
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May 11, 2020 16:35
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:*Gestures vaguely at everything* Uh...what? And if you're trying to make me feel bad, I live in Brooklyn and have literally witnessed body bags being tossed into refrigerator trucks, so kindly gently caress the gently caress off. Like, holy poo poo, I'm talking about a movie made in 1989 and you're somehow comparing it to the end of times here in 2020.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Uh...what? No, I'm talking about how people in general will just forget and ignore poo poo if it doesn't fit their worldview. Kinda how in politics it literally doesn't matter what YOUR guy did because THAT OTHER GUY did something and that's what we need to focus on. Sorry if you took that the wrong way.
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The gist of it is people will be willfully ignorant of danger if it means not having to believe something they don't want to, even if proof of it is everywhere around them.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:No, I'm talking about how people in general will just forget and ignore poo poo if it doesn't fit their worldview. Kinda how in politics it literally doesn't matter what YOUR guy did because THAT OTHER GUY did something and that's what we need to focus on. Sorry if you took that the wrong way. Okay, thank you. It seemed like a wild non-sequitur "Why are you complaining about movies when people are dying?!" thing.
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really needed an explanatory clause in that paragraph. remember that youre posting in the dumbest thread of the dumbest subforum
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May 11, 2020 16:46
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:*Gestures vaguely at everything* Yeah but if those corona deaths turned into ghosts and were walking around, and one of them was 1000 feet tall and a marshmallow, I bet we'd loving remember in a couple of months.
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May 11, 2020 16:51
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The real stretch is gonna be when Ghostbusters III rolls around and somehow society at large will have relegated the Statue of Liberty descending from its pedestal, walking the streets of Manhattan and smashing in the roof of the art museum to the realm of myth and urban legend.
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Sand Monster posted:There was a thread on these forums 10+ years ago which went deep into the rabbit hole of all the absurdly specific details for every little extraneous part of the original films which culminated in a parody site where people submitted fictional entries written in the same style and it was just as believable (and also hilarious). Wait, is this the origin of the Bigger Luke Theory??
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I somehow retroactively had less overall lifetime sex after reading that.
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Torquemada posted:I somehow retroactively had less overall lifetime sex after reading that. So negative sex?
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oldpainless posted:So negative sex? Reading that would put Wilt Chamberlain at negative sex.
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MariusLecter posted:No idea how to make a joke about it but here's SOLO 1996 Holy poo poo,i watched this movie as a kid but the name eluded me for so long! I just remember the scene where he handstand-backflips away from perfectly timed explosions and the camera is directly side on. Hilarious.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Hey, remember when that one Stormtrooper was running around with an ice cream machine and hit his head on a door? I'm just picturing the Shockmaster.
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah but if those corona deaths turned into ghosts and were walking around, and one of them was 1000 feet tall and a marshmallow, I bet we'd loving remember in a couple of months. Hmm. No, sounds like fake news.
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Also if we somehow had an incredible pandemic-busting team that leapt into action and shut down the virus with minimal loss of life, then people would only remember that the virus wasn't really a big deal and we probably don't even need a special team to handle that sort of thing.
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So basically, Venkmann should have let Gozer step on the church. Then blown it up.
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My Lovely Horse posted:The real stretch is gonna be when Ghostbusters III rolls around and somehow society at large will have relegated the Statue of Liberty descending from its pedestal, walking the streets of Manhattan and smashing in the roof of the art museum to the realm of myth and urban legend. Yeah, isn't there a scene in the trailer where Paul Rudd is all "You've never heard of the Ghostbusters?" like what the gently caress? I'm pretty sure people in Kansas or wherever the hell they're supposed to be would've heard about a one hundred foot marshmallow man and the Statue of Liberty marching through the middle of New York City within five years of one another. Which makes me wonder if they have bumper stickers with the Stay Puft hat laying at the foot of the rebuilt church with "Never Forget" in the Ghostbusters universe.
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May 13, 2020 12:45
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Speng' fuel can't melt evil peeps
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Yeah, isn't there a scene in the trailer where Paul Rudd is all "You've never heard of the Ghostbusters?" like what the gently caress? I'm pretty sure people in Kansas or wherever the hell they're supposed to be would've heard about a one hundred foot marshmallow man and the Statue of Liberty marching through the middle of New York City within five years of one another. Note that the kid in question is the grandchild of Egon and it sounds like her mother was estranged from him for a few decades and deliberately hid all info about the Ghostbusters from her or downplayed it as a hoax, but I guess the other kids don't have that excuse. Also don't forget that the company's spokesmen were Peter Venkman (an inherently untrustworthy shyster and bullshit merchant) and Ray Stantz (a gullible but well-meaning chump who 100% buys into every supernatural conspiracy story ever and will rant about them to anyone who will listen) so people would naturally assume that their explanations for what happened was just some dumb bullshit to cover up a hoax so they'd happily accept any other explanation. Burt Gummer in the Tremors movies is in a similar position - in the real world he'd just be another insane prepper idiot obsessed with conspiracies and guns but in the Tremors world he's your last best hope.
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Dan Aykroyd is his Ghostbusters character in real life. No one would or should trust him with anything important. It's not entirely unreasonable to look at Ray and Peter and disbelieve everything they say, even if all evidence points to the contrary. I have a bottle of Crystal Skull vodka signed by him and it is the worst tasting vodka I have ever drank. I've had vodka that was cloudy that tasted better than his 'strained through mystic crystals' swill. I'm still not even sure HOW it tastes bad. It's vodka. It has no taste. But it did not taste good.
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Gonna laugh pretty hard when the full scene is Paul Rudd incredulously asking the kids if they've never heard of Ray Stantz and they're all "what the gently caress like banned-from-twitter-Ray-Stantz, the one who runs GhostWars?"
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There's a lot of contaminants in vodka that are colorless and odorless that can give certain tastes. I've had a vodka that tasted like aluminum oxide smells. Cause it was kept in a unlined aluminum container.
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I'm pretty sure something like the Titanic arriving after eighty years or a giant pink monster in Washington Square Park or the sky filling up with green poo poo would've made the newspapers.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I'm pretty sure something like the Titanic arriving after eighty years or a giant pink monster in Washington Square Park or the sky filling up with green poo poo would've made the newspapers. Fake News. #BusterGate
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The US government confirmed the existence of UFO's last month and it barely made the front page, under the fold. It's unrealistic to think everyone would forget ghosts were real, but not as unrealistic as we'd like to believe. In retrospect, a police precinct being so haunted that the walls were literally bleeding implies a level of abuse and tragedy that a 12 year old me couldn't comprehend.
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Gonna be funny if ghosts are hand-waved away by the media because something worse is happening to the world... ...Like aliens invading the planet.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Gonna be funny if ghosts are hand-waved away by the media because something worse is happening to the world... Ghostbusters/Evolution shared cinematic universe confirmed?
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I'm okay with this. Evolution definitely had some Ghostbusters DNA in it.
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Android Apocalypse posted:I'm okay with this. A little more than some, it was directed by Ivan Reitman and Aykroyd even had a minor role in it  The spinoff cartoon series was nowhere near as popular as Real Ghostbusters, however https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y61h1mOQvhc
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Hah I completely forgot about that connection. I never saw the Evolution: Alienators Continues cartoon but I liked Extreme Ghostbusters, mainly because it was a sequel to The Real Ghostbusters. Unrelated, I thought the Men in Black cartoon was pretty good. Man, Fox Kids lineup was pretty dope.
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Alienators had a neat gimmick where every episode the aliens would take new forms and evolve differently but the final form always came back to the lifeform Scopes, like they were a hivemind working to form him, and each path made him look slightly different, like if it was insects he'd be a giant insect or an episode with a farm animal invasion resulting in Bull Scopes. I thought that that was interesting.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Hah I completely forgot about that connection. Evolution and Men In Black were by the same people iirc, who also did Godzilla: The Series, the spinoff to the 90s Godzilla that was actually really good.
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Samovar posted:It's not a movie, per say, but the following screenshot of a scene from the Poochie episode from the Simpsons: Another subtle thing - notice how per se is also spelled incorrectly.
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Don't call me Percy.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The US government confirmed the existence of UFO's last month and it barely made the front page, under the fold. It's not like the US government proclaimed that "yes, aliens do exists!"
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Android Apocalypse posted:Gonna be funny if ghosts are hand-waved away by the media because something worse is happening to the world... Snowglobe of Doom posted:Ghostbusters/Evolution shared cinematic universe confirmed? Sorry, but it's actually the Ghostbusters/Searching shared cinematic universe.
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