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I kinda liked the 90s Casper movie. The Ghostbusters cameo is probably canon.
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But why the gently caress did Ray have a mustache in that cameo? Did Aykroyd just show up on set with that and refuse to shave it off? Or was it a fig leaf to avoid a lawsuit?
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Jan 20, 2023 13:01
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AceOfFlames posted:But why the gently caress did Ray have a mustache in that cameo? Did Aykroyd just show up on set with that and refuse to shave it off? Or was it a fig leaf to avoid a lawsuit? Maybe Ray was jealous of Winston's?
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Jan 20, 2023 13:34
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I'm pretty sure a dude can grow a mustache even if it is Dan Aykroyd
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grittyreboot posted:I love how I Heart Radio will beg people to buy ad spots by claiming tens of millions of millennials and zoomers actually do listen to the radio. Immediately after the classic rock station will do some stupid station ID with a confused boomer joke about pronouns. You can buy an ad for just 1 dime down
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Jan 20, 2023 13:53
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And it's even likely a single Ghostbuster without backup fails badly against three smarter than usual ghosts. And I bet Casper tried to encourage him, and didn't help.
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Jan 20, 2023 14:03
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And it's even likely a single Ghostbuster without backup fails badly against three smarter than usual ghosts. And I bet Casper tried to encourage him, and didn't help. We don't even know if the three uncles are smarter than average, or the Ghostbusters are just bad at what they do. Three of them got their asses handed to them by a librarian, and they had to use a trap to catch a jogger. I will admit the three uncles are probably much more sadistic than your average ghost though, so that probably counts for a lot.
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Jan 20, 2023 14:32
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I AM GRANDO posted:Eli Roth wrote and directed Knock Knock, which presents itself as a self-aware pastiche of this kind of movie, where dangerous teenagers seduce a family man into loving them, and one of the teenagers is played by Eli Roth’s wife, who is 20 years younger than him. Knock-Knock has my second favorite Keanu Reeves monologue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLgGT18KUzE IT WAS FREE PIZZA FREE FUCKIN PIZZA
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Jan 20, 2023 14:38
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Randalor posted:We don't even know if the three uncles are smarter than average, or the Ghostbusters are just bad at what they do. Three of them got their asses handed to them by a librarian, and they had to use a trap to catch a jogger. They use the trap on all the ghosts. It's how you catch a ghost.
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Jan 20, 2023 16:51
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Gargamel Gibson posted:They use the trap on all the ghosts. It's how you catch a ghost. Not only that, using the trap on the jogger was the smartest bust they made because they got the ghost to run into the trap. Normally they had to force it in with containment beams from the proton packs.
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Jan 20, 2023 17:01
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Gargamel Gibson posted:They use the trap on all the ghosts. It's how you catch a ghost. Trap in the sense of "Wait for the ghost to run into the predetermined spot and use the device", not trap in the sense of "small box that sucks in ghosts". It was smart, but it's not like the guy was actually hurting anyone, he was just... jogging. Has any Ghostbusters media done anything with the ghosts doing a class-acrion lawsuit against the Ghostbusters/city for discrimination against the non-corporeal?
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Randalor posted:
It's possible, there were a lot of episodes of "The Real Ghostbusters" and the sort of continuation/sequel series "Slimer! And The Real Ghostbusters." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Real_Ghostbusters_episodes Looks like 140 regualr episodes total. I know that in The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, the Containment Unit was basically another dimension. Almost like The Phantom Zone, but for ghosts. Honestly, seemed like a good time, just get to party it up 24/7 with your ghost pals. And, in true "the enemy of the original piece of media is now our friend/mascot" fashion, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man sort-of becomes a good guy? In one or two episodes, they somehow let him out of the containment unit so he can just sort of walk around in a parade, or something? I distinctly remember one episode where a different, "evil", ghost hitches a ride with Stay-Puft when he gets pulled out of containment so he can wreck havoc again. Even though the intro still has The Ghostbusters busting Stay-Puft as he makes an angry face. Fake edit: Read a lot of episodes descriptions and found the one I was remembering: "Sticky Business" quote:The Ghostbusters release the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the containment unit to shoot a commercial in exchange for getting $50,000 for a children's hospital. During the process of letting Stay Puft out, a vicious manta ray-like phantom escapes in order to seek revenge against the Ghostbusters.
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That's weird as Stay Puft wasn't a ghost and was never captured. He was a god walking the streets of New York with the mind to destroy it because that was his job as Gozer the Destroyer's physical form. He wasn't the Stay Puft Marshallow Man, he just inhabited that mascot's body.
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Jan 20, 2023 17:49
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I AM GRANDO posted:Eli Roth wrote and directed Knock Knock, which presents itself as a self-aware pastiche of this kind of movie, where dangerous teenagers seduce a family man into loving them, and one of the teenagers is played by Eli Roth’s wife, who is 20 years younger than him. i don't get the ending. like the implication is that the family is going to think he was cheating, right? and not tortured and raped? but they'll also find him bloodied and beaten and buried in the garden, sooo...
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Jan 20, 2023 18:05
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Yeah and he got blown up at the end! I wonder how much of that marshmallow that got everywhere was pre-toasted. Seems kinda delicious.
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Crespolini posted:i don't get the ending. like the implication is that the family is going to think he was cheating, right? and not tortured and raped? but they'll also find him bloodied and beaten and buried in the garden, sooo... HopperUK posted:Yeah and he got blown up at the end! I wonder how much of that marshmallow that got everywhere was pre-toasted. Seems kinda delicious. Wow this movie sounds nuts
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Jan 20, 2023 18:11
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Paper Tiger posted:Wow this movie sounds nuts I thought about editing and then I decided I liked it better as it was
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Crespolini posted:i don't get the ending. like the implication is that the family is going to think he was cheating, right? and not tortured and raped? but they'll also find him bloodied and beaten and buried in the garden, sooo... They framed him for murdering his wife's assistant by implying he got caught cheating, yeah. The original Death Game has a wilder ending.
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Jan 20, 2023 18:23
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What did you do, Ray?
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Toshimo posted:They framed him for murdering his wife's assistant by implying he got caught cheating, yeah. The original Death Game has a wilder ending. so the idea is he kills the assistant, then ties himself up and buries himself? i'm just not clear on this at all
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Crespolini posted:so the idea is he kills the assistant, then ties himself up and buries himself? i'm just not clear on this at all It's a badly written ending, but the short version is: It doesn't matter. They posted the video of him cheating on his wife to social media. Between that and the murder, it doesn't really matter what the facts are, his life is ruined.
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yeah i guess
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Toshimo posted:It's a badly written ending, but the short version is: It doesn't matter. They posted the video of him cheating on his wife to social media. Between that and the murder, it doesn't really matter what the facts are, his life is ruined. I think he’ll be fine
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AceOfFlames posted:But why the gently caress did Ray have a mustache in that cameo? Did Aykroyd just show up on set with that and refuse to shave it off? Or was it a fig leaf to avoid a lawsuit? Based on the timing alone, I think he was probably filming Exit to Eden around the same time, where his character has a moustache.
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Phylodox posted:Based on the timing alone, I think he was probably filming Exit to Eden around the same time, where his character has a moustache. Wait, they didn't have CGI de-mustaching technology in 1995? Concerning
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Should have just painted over it, like Cesar Romero.
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Randalor posted:Has any Ghostbusters media done anything with the ghosts doing a class-acrion lawsuit against the Ghostbusters/city for discrimination against the non-corporeal? Maybe a church would sue them for preventing their captured spirits from entering the afterlife
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Push El Burrito posted:What did you do, Ray? "I tried to think of something that could never, ever destroy us." and Keanu Reeves' dick marches around the corner
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Keanu's family watches the video and all they see is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzolJjO_1Bs
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Jan 21, 2023 02:47
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WTF there was a murder in Knock-Knock?! I totally thought they were just loving with him just to gently caress with him. I totally missed an actual motive.
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the girls did the murder or at least contributed by stealing the inhalor i think, that was all part of the loving
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I keep hearing that Keanu is really chill, yet his car valets and dog sitters are scared witless of screwing up.
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BioEnchanted posted:I still like Mouse Hunt, it's got great comedic timing. I love the context behind the line "Now you know, this house will last FOREVER!" It's a really solid modern-day Laurel & Hardy type thing. Not much depth to it, but it works in a kind of timeless way.
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Doing a re-read of the Sherlock Holmes books and in A Study in Scarlet Holmes is in the study he shares with Watson, pondering a case. He goes "these innocuous-seeming pills from the crime scene are actually poison!" and proves it by feeding it to Watson's pet terrier, killing it.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Doing a re-read of the Sherlock Holmes books and in A Study in Scarlet Holmes goes "these innocuous-seeming pills are actually poison!" and proves it by feeding it to Watson's pet terrier, killing it. I don't know how he had space to describe pet murder with that long digression into anti-Mormon propaganda.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I don't know how he had space to describe pet murder with that long digression into anti-Mormon propaganda. And yet ACD only got hate mail for calling out the KKK as evil
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Jan 23, 2023 02:56
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a study in scarlet was published in 1887 and the book of mormon was printed in 1830 so the book of mormon was actually younger than dianetics is now at the time neat
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Doing a re-read of the Sherlock Holmes books and in A Study in Scarlet Holmes is in the study he shares with Watson, pondering a case. He goes "these innocuous-seeming pills from the crime scene are actually poison!" and proves it by feeding it to Watson's pet terrier, killing it. Speaking of reading Holmes today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5QVo6Rio-Q
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Words taking on new meanings can produce interesting results. Here are two from Agatha Christie. Miss Marple is often described as a "pussy" or sometimes an "old pussy". Just look at this line by her Scotland Yard nephew - the guy who usually invites her to take part in police investigations. “it’s my own particular, one and only, four-starred Pussy. The super Pussy of all old Pussies.” From A Murder is Announced. In Three Act Tragedy, Poirot is talking to a young woman about her plans to marry a middle aged man. When he asks her what she thinks of the man's reputation as a womanizer she replies with something like "I like a man to have had affairs, it shows he's not queer." This one got updated to "it shows he's properly red-blooded" in the latest tv adaption so it no longer sounds like the most sympathetic character in the story suddenly goes out of her way to inform Poirot she's homophobic.
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BioEnchanted posted:That's weird as Stay Puft wasn't a ghost and was never captured. He was a god walking the streets of New York with the mind to destroy it because that was his job as Gozer the Destroyer's physical form. He wasn't the Stay Puft Marshallow Man, he just inhabited that mascot's body. The cartoon is a separate continuity from the movie. (which is implied to exist in-universe in one episode) They also had a couple of comics spinoffs/continuations, the IDW one in particular had the Ghostbusters meet their cartoon counterparts. And also the Ninja Turtles. Supposedly the Containment Unit is indeed actually a very pleasant place for ghosts, supposedly a lot like a Pharaoh's tomb or similar prestigious resting place. Funny thing is that the cartoon mostly implies this when they go to a bizarro universe where ghosts are scared of humans and the Peoplebusters catch them, and the containment unit the Ghostbusters ends up in is an idyllic meadow.
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