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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:don't like ghosts, don't watch my movies. don't like ghosts, don't watch my movies. What's the matter, too many ghosts for you? I'm a Ghostbuster, it's my job to challenge the afterlife!
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Kevyn posted:Reginald VelJohnson for mayor. A man born to play civil servants his entire career.
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Hasbro have subtly announced a 1984 neutrona wand. https://hasbropulse.com/products/ghostbusters-plasma-series-neutrona-wand-1984
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The_Doctor posted:Hasbro have subtly announced a 1984 neutrona wand. I can't say I'm shocked, it seemed like a logical way to double-dip on a majority of tooling for this mold. I have the original Spengler wand from many years ago and I'll probably grab this one as well as it's my preferred design (minus the orange cap). That said, the Spengler wand is good and I've grown fond of the faux wood and faux tape grips.
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Wow that does look pretty nice. Maybe I should get one....
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I'm so torn on this trailer - everything involving the ice demon looks really cool, I'm hyped to see New York again (even if modern New York doesn't have the romance of grungy New York), but every lazy callback makes me fizz with rage. I'm going to see this, aren't I?
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Disco Pope posted:I'm so torn on this trailer - everything involving the ice demon looks really cool, I'm hyped to see New York again (even if modern New York doesn't have the romance of grungy New York), but every lazy callback makes me fizz with rage. I'm going to see this, aren't I? Repeatedly, yes.
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Disco Pope posted:I'm so torn on this trailer - everything involving the ice demon looks really cool, I'm hyped to see New York again (even if modern New York doesn't have the romance of grungy New York), but every lazy callback makes me fizz with rage. I'm going to see this, aren't I? You don’t have too.
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I'll probably watch it once, then go back to just watching the original and the cartoons occasionally.
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Call backs can be done well and they can be enjoyable, I think it's a mistake to put them in a trailer though. It comes off as desperate, sends a bad message that the movie you made is dependent on them. Sell fans on the new story, then let them be surprised by the call backs when they actually watch the movie.
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Basebf555 posted:Call backs can be done well and they can be enjoyable, I think it's a mistake to put them in a trailer though. It comes off as desperate, sends a bad message that the movie you made is dependent on them. Sell fans on the new story, then let them be surprised by the call backs when they actually watch the movie. There was a massive backlash when the 2016 film didn't pander to people's nostalgia sufficiently and they've been massively overcorrecting ever since
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Ok, so I watched the trailer a few times and where's Podcast? According to IMDB he's in it
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Ok, so I watched the trailer a few times and where's Podcast? According to IMDB he's in it He's in it for like half a second
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Basebf555 posted:He's in it for like half a second Thank god. Edit: Oh you meant the trailer, not the movie. Dammit
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It's around 50 secs, then he also appears in the background later in the trailer but he's all blurry.
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Lobok posted:Thank god. The Empire preview article says that Ray's primary role in the movie--beyond delivering the monster lore--is being a mentor to Podcast.
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The thing that feels off to me about the trailer is the part where the frozen person crumbles to bits like the T1000. Original GB and GB2 (and probably Afterlife for that matter, I don't really remember) had the ghosts be very menacing and brought a sense of 'peril', but I don't think anyone actually died in any one of those? (EDIT: except Egon in Afterlife, I guess. but that was kind of the point)
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OldSenileGuy posted:The thing that feels off to me about the trailer is the part where the frozen person crumbles to bits like the T1000. Original GB and GB2 (and probably Afterlife for that matter, I don't really remember) had the ghosts be very menacing and brought a sense of 'peril', but I don't think anyone actually died in any one of those? (EDIT: except Egon in Afterlife, I guess. but that was kind of the point) Yeah, and like... There's no way that everyone makes it off the beach and, I don't know, out of the ferris wheel, before being frozen, likely to death. I'm guessing that they'll do it but then there'll be a way to reverse the damage done and anyone who died comes back to life. Also, Gozer ripped Ivo Shandor in half within 3 seconds of meeting him.
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Surely that ghoul cab driver in the first movie caused some accidents and killed folks. Otherwise people would have known immediately he wasn't a cab driver.
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Yeah but Shandor was already some kind of half zombie undead abomination anyway so that doesn't count.
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I honestly wish they’d expanded on Shandor being alive in Afterlife. He’s there for 30 seconds, and then done.
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The_Doctor posted:I honestly wish they’d expanded on Shandor being alive in Afterlife. He’s there for 30 seconds, and then done. Especially since they cast fucken JK Simmons as Shandor.
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Did the Shandor part get cut down to just a cameo?
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Timby posted:Especially since they cast fucken JK Simmons as Shandor. I always enjoy a gag like that though, where they cast a known actor and then off them within minutes.
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Casting JK makes sense because he worked with him in Juno It’s Olivia Wilde was Gozer that is crazy to me lmao
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HJE-Cobra posted:Wow that does look pretty nice. Maybe I should get one.... The Spengler wand was totally worth the $125, and I’m double dipping for this one. It’s fun to fiddle with, but the best thing is showing someone else how to use it. The way their eyes light up when it starts humming is great. Had AEW wrestlers Sammy Guevara and Tay Conti come to our booth at a con, and got to show them how the wands work. Sammy was giddy, and I don’t think Tay ever saw Ghostbusters.
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CelticPredator posted:Casting JK makes sense because he worked with him in Juno And Shohreh Aghdashloo for the voice, which was extremely on point.
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Open Marriage Night posted:The Spengler wand was totally worth the $125, and I’m double dipping for this one. It’s fun to fiddle with, but the best thing is showing someone else how to use it. The way their eyes light up when it starts humming is great. Isn't it?  When something works exactly how it does in a movie, their inner child comes out, and it's so wonderful to see. 
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The_Doctor posted:Isn't it? I got to show off my wand and proton pack at work on Halloween and I blew so many coworkers’ minds, it was fantastic. Handling the wand is just such a fun tactile experience. I have the Spengler wand and I love it, I’m not in a rush to get the 84 wand though.
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One thing about the trailers for GB:FE I forgot to mention is that the line "We might be looking at a second ice age!" really irks me because the most recent ice age (the Quaternary glaciation) is still ongoing, we're just in the Holocene interglacial where the ice sheets have mostly receded to the Antarctic and Greenland. If there's ice sheets then we're in an ice age, that's the definition of the term. But on the other hand there's a whole lot of conspiracy crackpots who have a poor understanding of glaciology and climate science who love to throw around lines like that so I guess it's also completely on brand for Ray to say it.  Phoebe better fuckin' call him on that, Egon would never have stood for it.  E: 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:One thing about the trailers for GB:FE I forgot to mention is that the line "We might be looking at a second ice age!" really irks me because the most recent ice age (the Quaternary glaciation) is still ongoing, we're just in the Holocene interglacial where the ice sheets have mostly receded to the Antarctic and Greenland. If there's ice sheets then we're in an ice age, that's the definition of the term. Never has a username been so... oddly apt for a goonsay post. And I'm not even trying to say you're wrong, I don't know poo poo about gently caress.
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Basebf555 posted:I always enjoy a gag like that though, where they cast a known actor and then off them within minutes. It also worked with Shandor thinking he was going to achieve godhood too, what a worthless speck a warlock to a god.
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The_Doctor posted:Isn't it? My pack had a wire come loose at an event that I still need to fix, so I wish it worked a little better for the price tag. I did get my ‘84 wand today though. Was not expecting to get it so quick. Just a little paint for the orange tip, and it’ll be ready to replace my Spengler one.
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Basebf555 posted:Call backs can be done well and they can be enjoyable, I think it's a mistake to put them in a trailer though. It comes off as desperate, sends a bad message that the movie you made is dependent on them. Sell fans on the new story, then let them be surprised by the call backs when they actually watch the movie. Yeah, that's it exactly. Even when watching RGB as a kid, it was like "what hosed up poo poo are they going to encounter this week" or the toy line was like "a football player that turns into some kind of John Carpenter alligator?! Okay". Even Ghostbusters 2 was like "gently caress it. Phantom jogger and here's a living coat", so when the monster zoo is reduced to 'memberberries it a real loss. But maybe Ray will get that blow job for real this time.
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Season 1 of RGB is truly great. Punched way above its weight as far as Saturday morning cartoons went in the '80s. JMS took the writing assignment seriously.
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almost any episode with the full original voice cast i.e. Lorenzo Music as Peter, Arsenio Hall as Winston and Laura Summer as Janine is worth watching. Yes, even the JMS episode where the guy makes a pact with a demon to rid the world of chickens which to be fair has an amazing title ("Chicken, He Clucked")
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Ragnarok and Roll is about a disfigured guy with an Igor-like manservant who's so heartbroken about getting dumped that he played a flute that violently flooded the city. Like it's assumed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, died. He was able to reverse it, but  at that whole premise.Edit: oh right, he was possessed. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 01:53 on Feb 5, 2024 |
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There was definitely an A team and B team for the animation (or at least a good animation house and an ok one). Some RGB eps are stunning to look at, like Venkman’s Ghost Repellers or the afore-mentioned Ragnarok’n’Roll.
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There was definitely an A studio, Tokyo Movie Shinsa worked on several episodes - particularly the pilot and the specials - among other shows that they worked on like the first seasons and openings of Ducktales and Rescue Rangers, Gargoyles, Tiny Toons (in fact the ninety minute special How I Spent My Vacation is 100% TMS), and so on. You might also know Tokyo Movie Shinsa for their most famous work   AKIRA. Believe it or not, production on this movie was worked on side by side with Ducktales and Gummi Bears episodes
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