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ImpAtom posted:GB2 has the Louis as a lawyer scene which is one of the best scenes in the franchise  <points at the thread title>
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I watched GB the other night and tried to imagine John Candy as Louis... what an odd experience that would be, I think it would completely change a lot of the movie.
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Alan_Shore posted:I watched GB the other night and tried to imagine John Candy as Louis... what an odd experience that would be, I think it would completely change a lot of the movie. He wanted to do a German accent as well. It would have been truly bizarre.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:The lesson from Ghostbusters 2 is "Be Nice, until it's time not to Be Nice" 
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The_Doctor posted:He wanted to do a German accent as well. It would have been truly bizarre. And like always wear lederhosen and be followed around by Doberman pinschers or something? That's really more of an SNL character than anything else.
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I like to imagine it's the same cop Al from Die Hard in this scene, making it a shared continuity
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Dawgstar posted:And like always wear lederhosen and be followed around by Doberman pinschers or something? That's really more of an SNL character than anything else. SCTV, but close enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPcdn-e9uIY
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I do actually wonder if it was a convoluted way of saying no to the role.
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Karloff posted:I'd argue Ghostbusters does have many themes. There's a lot going on under the hood. I don't agree with that one video which states it's about nothing which sometimes makes the rounds. What it doesn't have though is a clear controlling idea which all the strands pull toward, but that's not a necessity. It's like Die Hard in that way. Yeah that video points out that the main characters don't have character arcs (Venkman & crew are exactly the same people as they were at the start, it's just that everyone else in the city gets on board with the stuff that they'd been saying right from the start) as if that's some kind of flaw in the film but that happens all the time in movies like Die Hard etc., the difference being that action heroes shoot good and Ghostbusters think good. It's a power fantasy but for nerds.
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Alan_Shore posted:I like to imagine it's the same cop Al from Die Hard in this scene, making it a shared continuity He changed his name to Carl Winslow, moved to Chicago to escape all the weird poo poo in New York, only to get Steve Urkel as a neighbor.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah that video points out that the main characters don't have character arcs (Venkman & crew are exactly the same people as they were at the start, it's just that everyone else in the city gets on board with the stuff that they'd been saying right from the start) as if that's some kind of flaw in the film but that happens all the time in movies like Die Hard etc., the difference being that action heroes shoot good and Ghostbusters think good. It's a power fantasy but for nerds. There's a bit of a character arc in Die Hard with John McClane's bathroom revelation and reconciliation with Holly but yeah, it doesn't coalesce into a central thesis and sits neatly atop the action stuff. As you say the arc of the story in Ghostbusters isn't centralised onto one character but as the group as a whole and their relationship with the city, it doesn't require the characters to change because it's the city that needs to change. After all, the Ghostbusters were right all along. That could be a problem in some films, but Ghostbusters isn't one of them.
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Karloff posted:There's a bit of a character arc in Die Hard with John McClane's bathroom revelation and reconciliation with Holly I'd argue that Holly's reconciliation with John worked along similar lines as Dana falling for Venkman: they realised in the end that the wise-rear end 'hero' was okay exactly as they were. Not so much a character arc as the character standing firm and forcing everything else to arc in and meet them where they were.
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The lesson of Die Hard is that it is okay for police to murder children and keep their job because they might shoot a terrorist some day.
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I’d argue that Venkman at least starts taking poo poo more seriously as he starts falling for Dana and working with the guys. It’s hard to imagine the Venkman at the beginning of the movie (who is conning those college students) selflessly sacrificing himself to destroy Gozer. It’s definitely not as spelled out with a breakthrough scene like you’d get in a modern movie tho
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'd argue that Holly's reconciliation with John worked along similar lines as Dana falling for Venkman: they realised in the end that the wise-rear end 'hero' was okay exactly as they were. Not so much a character arc as the character standing firm and forcing everything else to arc in and meet them where they were. Well also John realizes that there's a difference between being a wise-rear end and being a genuine dick. He realizes that he should've supported Holly when she moved to L.A. and that their relationship problems weren't just about her moving to L.A. it was because he'd been a dick about it.
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Basebf555 posted:Well also John realizes that there's a difference between being a wise-rear end and being a genuine dick. He realizes that he should've supported Holly when she moved to L.A. and that their relationship problems weren't just about her moving to L.A. it was because he'd been a dick about it. 
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roffels posted:He changed his name to Carl Winslow, moved to Chicago to escape all the weird poo poo in New York, only to get Steve Urkel as a neighbor. Urkel’s the kid’s ghost
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ruddiger posted:Urkel’s the kid’s ghost my god, it's all coming together
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Kymberly Herrin, the Fort Detmerring/dream ghost, dies at 65.
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Somewhere, Dan Akroyd's fly unaccountably unzips.
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I have to say that I am not sure I would to be eulogized as "the blowjob ghost"
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I only just found out she was a playmate, I feel like teenage me could have used this information.
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Alan_Shore posted:I like to imagine it's the same cop Al from Die Hard in this scene, making it a shared continuity In the Chuck Season Two episode "Chuck vs. Santa Claus" they actually have Reginald VelJohnson guest star as Sgt. Al Powell.
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Stumbled upon this Ghostbuster parody song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWswGv-ZaPE It starts at 7:00
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quote:Aykroyd also talks about the scene, referring to Herrin’s character as the seduction ghost. Dan Ackroyd is a treasure.
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Supposedly people are getting emails fron Haslab promising imminent shipping of the packs. This has awoken all the crazy people on the facebook groups.
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I got an email saying make sure my address is ready by Jan 1st. What are they saying on the groups?
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To be fair it was only one guy writing an essay about how when your pack turns up damaged don't accept it send it back and demand a new one because he did it with his Haslab barge or something. Some massive assumptions there.
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Another Haslab project has just started recently showing up, Transformers’ Star Saber, and he’s had a ton of quality issues across the board. So it’s not unreasonable to suggest that there may be issues here too.
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Anyone getting a ALICE rig for their Haslab pack?
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I have one already waiting! I bought it years ago as the first part of intending to make a pack, and then life happened, and I never did.
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Supposedly the european Zavvi pack orders have shipped.
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So they’ll get to people about February, gotcha.
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Anyone getting a ALICE rig for their Haslab pack? I've already got an ALICE frame for my modded Spirit pack. I'm just going to repurpose that one.
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Ghostbusters Dublin has posted an unboxing picture, not sure if they were Zavvi order or not. Edit: they ordered from Zavvi. Good old Hasbro serving the third party first.
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My favourite thing there was someone going OMG THOSE HACKS DIDNT GIVE THE PACK AN ION ARM?!, someone replying that it’s in the accessories box, and the first person being ‘oh yeah, fair shout’.
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There is a healthy amount of middle aged men crying about not getting their packs yet balancing out the smug 'it looks like a toy' brigade. You could make the raddest pack ever and smelt the metal yourself, it's still a toy.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:There is a healthy amount of middle aged men crying about not getting their packs yet balancing out the smug 'it looks like a toy' brigade. Exactly. There is ONE person who could get away with building it and it not being a toy, and he already told Bobby Brown as much outside of Gracie Manor.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:my god, it's all coming together "Did i do that?" is his catchphrase because its the last thing he heard Al say after putting 5 rounds into his chest.
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