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Shiroc posted:In Ghostbusters, the guy who becomes the Keymaster locks himself out of his apartment every single time he's shown exiting it. Venkman calling back to the librarian ghost when he says "well go get her Ray" when Gozer arrives. It has a dense onion of clever little jokes like those to go with the more surface level stuff. Also Egon's hand signals to Venkman while he's negotiating the fee with the hotel manager. And the Twinkie scene is a personal favorite of mine.
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I learned that Dan Ackroyd is autistic and it explains a surprising amount.
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Oct 12, 2022 04:58
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"I feel like the floor of a taxicab" is still something I say to this very day.
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Dan Aykroyd is a 100% is a true believer in ghosts and the occult. Ghostbusters was basically a dramatization of possible events for him.
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Oct 12, 2022 05:28
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That’s a good thing and makes him awesome
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CelticPredator posted:That’s a good thing and makes him awesome His history of hitting on the age-inappropriate doesn't though
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Oct 12, 2022 05:56
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What are you even talking about
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Oct 12, 2022 05:59
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Dan Aykroyd's personal life which anyone from his local circle will tell you about
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Oct 12, 2022 06:03
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Ok let me ask the people in his inner circle which I obviously have access too
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Is knowing people in Dan Aykroyd's local circle a thing you're supposed to know? Like how to do your taxes?
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Sorry I'm running a hit piece on a #metoo victim over here
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO2c_TZ5Ics look at your hero now
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oh ok, so nonsense lmao
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the holy poopacy posted:In general, the part that gets me the worst about Ghostbusters these days is not Venkman (who's a creep, but never actually does anything physically even when presented with the opportunity) so much as it is the whole sex-demon-possession-rape thing that just sort of gets glossed over. It's really gross and over-the-top, and seems especially gratuitous since the other demon dog is presented as being completely alien and incomprehensible and is off babbling about Torbs and Sloars while the "female" one is just obsessed with getting its human host hosed. The sex stuff of the GateKeeper and Keymaster demons that possess Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis is all to do with Bill Murray's character being a creep. When he first runs into possessed Sigourney, all she cares about is if he is the GateKeeper. Then when he blags his way into the apartment, she is all ready to do some sort of weirdo ghost ritual to bring on Gozer. But Bill Murray wants none of that, and, (if I remember rightly she says something like "You desire this body?"), is reeking of sexual desire. So the demon that has possessed Sigourney just assumes that the ritual is sex based. Moranis's demon doesn't get that memo at first. So is wandering around mumbling his weirdo mumbles, till he finds her. And he probably was up for whatever the ritual was supposed to be. But she has it in her mind that it means sex, so she grabs him and fucks him. To which he is baffled, but figures out pretty quickly that this is the ritual.
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Oct 12, 2022 06:09
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The demon that possesses Moranis is an even bigger dork than he is.
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Oct 12, 2022 06:14
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Imagine a being named Vinz Clortho not being the biggest dork in his entire dimension
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I would like to see demons that change their behaviours with the times, like they started out doing sex rituals when it was all there was thousands of years ago, but eventually got bored of it and started doing other things. A pair of demons in 2022 summoning a demigod by beating a videogame coop, or playing a board game against one another. As long as there's an interplay between them, it doesn't matter what kind, it still works so they mix it up sometimes.
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BioEnchanted posted:I would like to see demons that change their behaviours with the times, like they started out doing sex rituals when it was all there was thousands of years ago, but eventually got bored of it and started doing other things. A pair of demons in 2022 summoning a demigod by beating a videogame coop, or playing a board game against one another. As long as there's an interplay between them, it doesn't matter what kind, it still works so they mix it up sometimes. Azriphale and Crowley in Good Omens really blurred some lines about what it means to be a demon or an angel. Using the M25 to evoke a general feeling of loathing in humans and then forgetting about the mission.
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Jedit posted:Right, so you're a Bugsy Malone denier then. Occasionally I'll remember that movie actually exists and isn't just some weird fever dream from my childhood and just wonder "How".
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BioEnchanted posted:I would like to see demons that change their behaviours with the times, like they started out doing sex rituals when it was all there was thousands of years ago, but eventually got bored of it and started doing other things. A pair of demons in 2022 summoning a demigod by beating a videogame coop, or playing a board game against one another. As long as there's an interplay between them, it doesn't matter what kind, it still works so they mix it up sometimes. I really like John Dies at the End's take on demons. It talks about the kind of kid who'll stomp on a frog just because they can, and then you imagine that kind of raw, stupid hate being built on for literally millenia. There's no real grand plan, evil is just ugly and petty for the sake of it. Of course, this being a book from the early-mid 00s this manifests as demons changing all the songs on the radio to include racial slurs. Probably for the best that he edited that out of the later editions.
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Shiroc posted:Imagine a being named Vinz Clortho not being the biggest dork in his entire dimension
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Sadly he could never be the throat Goat without a throat buddy, he's all throat
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I really like John Dies at the End's take on demons. I remember enjoying the first book well enough when I read it years ago. Does it hold up and are the sequels any good?
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Do we get any more canon on Slimer's origin? I've always thought of him as distinct from phantasmic ghosts, being instead an ectoplasmic entity. Phantasmic ghosts are incorporeal and leave ectoplasmic residue during interaction with corporeal objects (i.e. passing through walls). Enough of this residue will act to form an ectoplasmic "biofilm" of sorts, which in turn spawns ectoplasmic entities such as Slimer. Ectoplasmic entities, being born wholly from ectoplasm, are not the souls of the dead, are not attached to a haunting place (but favor their spawning ground) and cannot be banished by conventional religious rites. Again, this is all my own personal canon from observing the events of the films. I welcome any feedback.
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Brawnfire posted:Do we get any more canon on Slimer's origin? I've always thought of him as distinct from phantasmic ghosts, being instead an ectoplasmic entity. Phantasmic ghosts are incorporeal and leave ectoplasmic residue during interaction with corporeal objects (i.e. passing through walls). Enough of this residue will act to form an ectoplasmic "biofilm" of sorts, which in turn spawns ectoplasmic entities such as Slimer. Ectoplasmic entities, being born wholly from ectoplasm, are not the souls of the dead, are not attached to a haunting place (but favor their spawning ground) and cannot be banished by conventional religious rites. It's the Ghost of John Belushi, op
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jjack229 posted:I remember enjoying the first book well enough when I read it years ago. Does it hold up and are the sequels any good? It's been years since I read the original. Or at least, the less edge-lordy version that got properly published. The Dave is secretly a barely functioning psychopath twist is still pretty great, your enjoyment of the rest of it will depend on your tolerance for dick jokes and stuff. The later books are much less good. This Book is Full of Spiders is very TvTropes-y in its way of saying "this is what would actually happen if zombies attacked" and takes a bit too much joy in dumb nerds getting eaten alive. And What the Hell Did I Just Read is a really boring and disorganised mystery that ocasionally slams to a halt so we can have TV-Special level discussions about how Dave is depressed and its okay to reach out for help. And neither of them reach the heights of John "triple-kicking" a guy and then pistol-whipping him with a gun so hard that the batteries fly out.
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Brawnfire posted:Do we get any more canon on Slimer's origin? I've always thought of him as distinct from phantasmic ghosts, being instead an ectoplasmic entity. Phantasmic ghosts are incorporeal and leave ectoplasmic residue during interaction with corporeal objects (i.e. passing through walls). Enough of this residue will act to form an ectoplasmic "biofilm" of sorts, which in turn spawns ectoplasmic entities such as Slimer. Ectoplasmic entities, being born wholly from ectoplasm, are not the souls of the dead, are not attached to a haunting place (but favor their spawning ground) and cannot be banished by conventional religious rites. There's some concept art suggesting that most ghosts start out as human and become more abstract over time as they forget their origins. Also the IDW series has the Ghostbusters in-universe theorise over Slimer's origins, suggesting that one of them might be correct. (Interestingly, they do meet the cartoon Ghostbusters, whose Slimer is a lot friendlier than the movie/IDW timeline one. They also meet the IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and get along pretty well.)
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IshmaelZarkov posted:All this Mel Gibson talk means I am obliged to post this video. It is twenty minutes of your life you will not regret losing. It may be my favourite video on YouTube, and I've seen like eight or nine YouTube videos. This is so beautiful. This might be the first video on YouTube I've ever seen all the way through.
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I saw the cartoon first and I remember that I was horrible disappointed the first time I saw the movie, since they were all old and ugly (to 8 year old me).
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People that did not age well: All of the Ghostbusters except Ernie Hudson
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Shiroc posted:People that did not age well: All of the Ghostbusters except Ernie Hudson Hey now, Rick Moranis suited up in the second one
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Phy posted:Hey now, Rick Moranis suited up in the second one Moranis seems like a good person most notably for leaving the industry to be a full-time parent.
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I meant more literally that Ernie Hudson still looks really good. Not at all looking old or ugly.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Moranis seems like a good person most notably for leaving the industry to be a full-time parent. Yeah, he made bank and left. And honestly? It means if I see a movie with Rick Moranis in it, chances are that it's hilarious.
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sweet geek swag posted:Yeah, he made bank and left. And honestly? It means if I see a movie with Rick Moranis in it, chances are that it's hilarious. Ehh I don’t know. He was in Ghostbusters which is quite problematic today
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I can only imagine how annoying a demon dimension in your fridge must be. Just opening the door and being all "I know I bought some sausages earlier... ZUUL! The gently caress did I tell you about stealing my meats? And Gozer! You had better have bought that beer from another dimension and not have grabbed it from MY shelf!! At least Vinz leaves a note and some money to replenish what he took."
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Oct 12, 2022 22:48
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Yes, it's true. This industry has no Rick.
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oldpainless posted:Ehh I don’t know. He was in Ghostbusters which is quite problematic today Erase Sigourney Now
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BioEnchanted posted:I can only imagine how annoying a demon dimension in your fridge must be. Just opening the door and being all "I know I bought some sausages earlier... ZUUL! The gently caress did I tell you about stealing my meats? And Gozer! You had better have bought that beer from another dimension and not have grabbed it from MY shelf!! At least Vinz leaves a note and some money to replenish what he took." Well, if you don't clean your fridge out once in a while it's bound to happen eventually.
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Shiroc posted:I meant more literally that Ernie Hudson still looks really good. Not at all looking old or ugly. He’s 77! He looks incredible.
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