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Who's that? The person who did the monster designs? Cuz those owned.
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deoju posted:Who's that? The person who did the monster designs? Cuz those owned. J. Michael Straczynski He wrote a few episodes
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May 10, 2023 05:36
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Those episodes are some of the strongest in the run and they still hold up
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JMS has a knack for writing really, really good and compelling (and weird) RGB episodes. Ragnarok and Roll is maybe not the best RGB episode, but it's the one that goes the hardest, holy gently caress. Edit: oh man, he wrote The Grundel, too. Yeah, JMS is top-tier. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 13:16 on May 10, 2023 |
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May 10, 2023 13:14
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I was gonna say that a GB TV show wouldn't be that scary because the Ghostbusters wouldn't really be in much danger (and they always seemed a bit nonplussed about all the freaky poo poo going on), but I bet if you got the Ash vs Evil Dead team on it you'd have something truly special. gently caress I want this now! It's so obvious!
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May 10, 2023 13:38
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Make it a Chicago franchise of GB, all new cast, anyone can go at any time. Get Ernie to make the occasional cameo or phone call, and it’s perfect. He’s currently appearing in the new Quantum Leap, and somehow I thought he was just in his 60s. Man is 77. 
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The_Doctor posted:He’s currently appearing in the new Quantum Leap, and somehow I thought he was just in his 60s. Man is 77. Black don't crack. Also, unlike his co-stars, he's lived a pretty clean life. Doesn't do drugs, doesn't drink.
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May 10, 2023 18:07
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Timby posted:Black don't crack. He does go to Horny Sandals
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There is also his son, Ernie Hudson Jr, who is 59, and looks about 30
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The_Doctor posted:There is also his son, Ernie Hudson Jr, who is 59, and looks about 30 Wow. Edit: holy gently caress, I JUST NOW learned that he played Hamid Khan in Oz. The whole reason I got into Oz was from seeing his dad as Leo Glynn, the warden, while I was flipping through the channels one night. Turns out, I had caught like the 3rd or 4th episode as it was first airing, and I watched that show day and date until the end. Had no idea his son was in it too. Nice. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 23:48 on May 10, 2023 |
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May 10, 2023 23:45
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Leslie Jones was 49 when Ghostbusters 2016 came out. I'd have guessed she was 15-20 years younger than that.
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The_Doctor posted:There is also his son, Ernie Hudson Jr, who is 59, and looks about 30 Google search says that picture is from 2000...
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Google search says that picture is from 2000... Oh my bad, here’s one from this year:
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The_Doctor posted:Oh my bad, here’s one from this year: 
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The_Doctor posted:Oh my bad, here’s one from this year: loving  
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Dawgstar posted:Worst thing about Extreme was their animation budget was seemingly the change in the couch cushions. It carried on the fine tradition of also being a horror primer, with Clive Barker and the great episode "Deadliners" off the top of my head. Now, I've not seen it since I was fifteen, so I was right in that space where I was too old *and* too young to be watching it, but I remember it being really loving solid.
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They’re currently filming Ecto-1 driving around New York streets 
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Blow it up so they can do something new with franchise
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Dan was interviewed on British tv yesterday, and mentioned James Acaster’s role. https://twitter.com/doktorwatson/status/1665110821314109443
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CelticPredator posted:Blow it up so they can do something new with franchise The car is not what's keeping originality at the gate.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The car is not what's keeping originality at the gate. It shouldn't loving be a franchise.
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Timby posted:It shouldn't loving be a franchise. That ship sailed in 86 when the cartoon came out.
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CelticPredator posted:Blow it up so they can do something new with franchise I'm interested to see if they can do something more cynical than Harold Ramis ghost. Seems impossible but I'll be impressed if they manage to outdo it.
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Timby posted:It shouldn't loving be a franchise. Um, the franchise rights alone will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams
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Groovelord Neato posted:I'm interested to see if they can do something more cynical than Harold Ramis ghost. Seems impossible but I'll be impressed if they manage to outdo it. I didn't get cynicism from it. They went too far into it but I believe it really came from a place of love and respect
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Alan_Shore posted:I didn't get cynicism from it. They went too far into it but I believe it really came from a place of love and respect His daughter, who arguably knew him best, gave her blessing. I think if she found it offensive or in bad taste, she would've refused  If his family is good with it, who are we to argue, other than "I personally didn't like it"? I'm sure Jason Reitman knew him pretty well, too. I definitely would've preferred the 'invisible' Egon continue to help out, but ehhh.
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I’d rather watch gb2016 then afterlife. At least it had attempts at jokes in the comedy film franchise
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2016 had a lot of problems but at least felt like an actual attempt at a movie as opposed to Afterlife lacking even the smallest iota of soul.
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2016 was a guy setting up a camera and asking the actors to riff until something funny happened (it never did). It's soulless and dumb. It's a long SNL sketch (but I repeat myself).
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Yeah but they remembered ghostbusters was a comedy at least
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Is it a comedy if no one is laughing? Venkman in Afterlife got a bigger laugh for me than all of 2016 combined
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Ghostbusters is its own genre. The humor seems to flow effortlessly, like a gentle stream. 2016 stopped every few minutes to say 'Hey! Look at this joke here!' It felt like they were trying too hard
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CelticPredator posted:It was funny how horrifically old he was Very ageist imo Beachcomber posted:Ghostbusters is its own genre. The humor seems to flow effortlessly, like a gentle stream. Spot on
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Beachcomber posted:Ghostbusters is its own genre. The humor seems to flow effortlessly, like a gentle stream. Not everyone can be the Venkman. but also, there are way lower depths than Afterlife. How about Pete Davidson, Bert Kreischer, and the Paul Brother as ghostbusters. But I dunno, going into New York City telling us how all these woke ghosts are ruining the once great New York with crypto ads everywhere.
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Ghostbusters is one of those films where the main characters (plus Louis) are living in a comedy but everyone else is in a dead serious disaster film, a large percentage of the funny moments happen when these normal sensible people have to deal with the GBs' bizarre nonsense. And that works amazingly well and is an absolute classic recipe for a hilarious movie ....... but if you make a sequel where the hook is that all those zany characters are missing for almost the entire runtime and a bunch of regular folk have to piece together the mystery and hold out long enough for the joke patrol to finally turn up then that's going to hit really differently. I'd even argue that Winston wasn't a comedic character for the most part, he mostly acted as a straightman to contrast the other GBs' antics if no one else was around to do it. If you looked at the lives of Janine or Dana or Winston or Walter Peck or the manager at the Sedgewick Hotel before the movie started it'd just be a regular slice of life drama, they live in a non-comedic world. Egon's estranged family were in the same boat.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Ghostbusters is one of those films where the main characters (plus Louis) are living in a comedy but everyone else is in a dead serious disaster film, a large percentage of the funny moments happen when these normal sensible people have to deal with the GBs' bizarre nonsense. And that works amazingly well and is an absolute classic recipe for a hilarious movie ....... but if you make a sequel where the hook is that all those zany characters are missing for almost the entire runtime and a bunch of regular folk have to piece together the mystery and hold out long enough for the joke patrol to finally turn up then that's going to hit really differently. That's a great analysis that I've never heard before but sums up GB quite nicely! This is why I'm hoping, HOPING, that the next film has way more of the OG crew. Now maybe Murray just doesn't want to do it, then that's a shame. But if it's because "oh they're old, people only like the car, plus Stranger Things" then they can get hosed. Murray, Ackroyd and Hudson can still carry a movie.
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