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LanceHunter posted:So apparently the latest Ghostbusters made just over $45 million last weekend, which is being hailed as a triumph (since it was expected to make about $38 million or so). So we can look forward to the adventures of Paul Rudd's hairpiece in rejected episodes of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon for years to come! Probably you can attribute its success to what they call "The Boys Boost" where they get the black void hitb out on saturday. We haven't seen this phenomenon in a while but it's worth the big bucks it seems
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LanceHunter posted:So apparently the latest Ghostbusters made just over $45 million last weekend, which is being hailed as a triumph (since it was expected to make about $38 million or so). So we can look forward to the adventures of Paul Rudd's hairpiece in rejected episodes of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon for years to come! All these zoom in of the empty theater charts in the RLM review couldn't stop the Juggernaut.
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Presto posted:Walter Peck in 1984: (literally gets a load of marshmallow goo dropped on him after seeing a gigantic marshmallow man walk down the streets of New York City) Now I want to watch the gritty prequel series where Walter Peck snaps after being proven wrong and goes out to murder everyone we see in the final scenes of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2. LanceHunter posted:So apparently the latest Ghostbusters made just over $45 million last weekend, which is being hailed as a triumph (since it was expected to make about $38 million or so). So we can look forward to the adventures of Paul Rudd's hairpiece in rejected episodes of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon for years to come! I honestly wonder from the reviews if the whole point was the lower the bar so each sequel wasn't being measured as generational movie and instead just a convenient action comedy template. They've now sanded the edges of it off enough to make it superheroes with backpacks and get a consistent stream of revenue until it loses money.
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stephenthinkpad posted:All these zoom in of the empty theater charts in the RLM review couldn't stop the Juggernaut. It does appear as though theater chains are gonna be hosed for the foreseeable future. They built out in an environment where there would be blockbusters with >$100 million opening weekends happening every month or so. If the big tentpoles are only gonna be pulling in <$50 million opening weekend, there are gonna be a bunch of half-empty screenings.
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I really don't get the Ghostbusters nostalgia. It was a fine comedy but there has to be a dozen from the same era that are equally good that don't have the bizarro nostalgic attachments.
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Jose Oquendo posted:You always have to be worried about a show when most of the pre-release hype has been "we used real poo poo this time." its real poo poo alright
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Improbable Lobster posted:there has to be a dozen from the same era that are equally good There isn't.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I really don't get the Ghostbusters nostalgia. It was a fine comedy but there has to be a dozen from the same era that are equally good that don't have the bizarro nostalgic attachments. There is an alternate universe where the boys are complaining about how hosed up the CGI Rodney Dangerfield is in Caddyshack 5
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Improbable Lobster posted:I really don't get the Ghostbusters nostalgia. It was a fine comedy but there has to be a dozen from the same era that are equally good that don't have the bizarro nostalgic attachments. From looking at the GB thread in CD, I think it's more about being the right age when the cartoon was a thing.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I really don't get the Ghostbusters nostalgia. It was a fine comedy but there has to be a dozen from the same era that are equally good that don't have the bizarro nostalgic attachments. Nostalgia doesn't have to make sense. Think back to a few years ago when everyone was getting weepy and sentimental over "the floor is lava".
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Improbable Lobster posted:I really don't get the Ghostbusters nostalgia. It was a fine comedy but there has to be a dozen from the same era that are equally good that don't have the bizarro nostalgic attachments. I blame it on Stranger Things. Discarding the Melissa Mccarthy film (which is more in line with the bad remakes of Total Recall, Robocop, etc), the Stranger Things "show something that was popular in the 80s" nostalgia bombing seems to have rewired the brains of popular consensus into thinking Ghostbusters was always this family friendly classic and not a sarcastic blue collar comedy with a high concept.
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Everyone loves the song
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did you guys not love ghostbusters when you were kids? they had big laser guns and shot ghosts with them, it's not that deep I loved the cartoon. I loved the ghostbusters parody episodes of rocko's modern life and dexter's lab, because they were like ghostbusters. I loved golly ghost and ghost hunter at the arcade in the mall. I had action figures, we drank ecto cooler. we did not do that with caddyshack
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The success of Ghostfrozen will fulfill Konami's prophecy:
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Ghostbusters had killer marketing. I was well aware of it as a kid and never saw either the movie (until the 2010's) or the show. Everyone knew the crossed-out ghost emblem and the theme song.
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Well we weren't allowed to watch the first one more than once bc it gave my youngest brother nightmares. We loved Ghost busters though and watch it very often. Liked the cartoon too. Still ain't every paying or going out of my way to watch a new one just because it says Ghostbusters on it. I feel like nostalgia grabs are supposed to wear off in your thirties and you just see them as the cynical naked artless cash grabs they are and it stops working.
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not only was there a ghostbusters cartoon, there were two cartoons. and toys, and videogames. that poo poo's ingrained.
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I liked the real ghostbusters cartoon almost as much as the MIB one, they had a gorilla and it was steampunk. I have bad taste.
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Cubone posted:did you guys not love ghostbusters when you were kids? I enjoyed it but not moreso than other shows or movies from the time  I was never into ghosts as a kid though, maybe that's it. I'm more into aliens and cryptids than ghouls and ghosts
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Cubone posted:did you guys not love ghostbusters when you were kids? Of course I did, everyone did. I'm talking about how the new films like Afterlife indulge in this level of shmaltz and manufactured wholesomeness that was never really part of the Ghostbusters' style.
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I'm rewatching the Attack of the Clones Plinkett review. I just got to the part where he list a porn star's requirements for the perfect man. I got to "he needs to be good with kids but not too good with kids, like in a creepy clown way" and burst out laughing.
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Ghostbusters is a legitimately great film don't let all this nostalgia baiting poo poo make you lose sight of that.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Ghostbusters is a legitimately great film don't let all this nostalgia baiting poo poo make you lose sight of that. Yeah, tight script, great cast, good effects, good tunes.. it’s really solid. Has just enough creepy stuff without being genuinely scary.
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I didn’t see Ghostbusters until like 2014; it’s fine I guess.
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I think Sony is just desperate for any franchise property and one great thing about GB is you don't need to rely on one big actor and keep raising the salary. You can swap them around like those 20-people Japanese idol band. How much is Sony paying Marvel to rent the Spiderman property?
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Pretty sure marvel is still renting Spider man back FROM Sony at this point. Probably the only thing keeping Amy Pascal in cocaine.
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I watched some RLM clips from some years ago and I forgot how much Mike has just actually become Mr. Plinkett at this point. He was a sharp minded handsome man back in the day, now he's bringing a barely coherent purple hands energy to every video. I love every mike era and I hope he's living his best life.
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Yeah, I think the sony/spooder man deal is still the same one that was inked pre-boom when marvel was gonna go bankrupt and fire sold movie rights to anyone willing to buy. I assume they have it for 100 years or whatever
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I'm pretty sure they have one of those deals where they keep the rights as long as they fart out a movie every 3-5 years. I can't wait to see kraven, hobgoblin, and tombstone make their big screen debuts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_in_film according to this thing, sony bought the rights in 1999 for seven raspberries, and that included more than 900 characters in perpetuity so long as they release a new movie at least once every 5.75 years the deal they cut with marvel allowed spider-man to appear in mcu films, with marvel getting merchandising rights plus 5% of the initial theatrical cut of the spider-man solo films set in the same universe (honestly kind of a sweetheart deal for sony, who are famously bad at making movies) when that deal ran out, marvel wanted a bigger cut, right down the middle 50/50 financing and returns, and sony balked, but, no way marvel was going to go back to 5% theatrical, so the deals fell through. but fans were upset, tom holland was upset, so they cut a new deal, and in that one marvel keeps the merchandising and gets 25% of the profits from one more spidey mcu flick, plus help from kevin feige feige and amy pascal have said there's another trilogy in the works with tom holland but the specifics are not clear and I think the mcu's future plans are kind of nebulous in general for like a lot of reasons
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Groovelord Neato posted:Ghostbusters is a legitimately great film don't let all this nostalgia baiting poo poo make you lose sight of that. It and BttF really are just fantastic movies all around. And I didn't see either of them until I was in my 20s, so it's not just nostalgia talking.
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Do they ever do spider man in college stories or is he always sort of either high schooler/working adult guy. Because I feel like 27 year old and counting tom holland is in a little awkward spot, maybe better to rest him out of being a little baby man a bit
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Mordja posted:It and BttF really are just fantastic movies all around. And I didn't see either of them until I was in my 20s, so it's not just nostalgia talking. I watched both movies an ungodly number of times as a kid and while I know I watched and enjoyed the cartoon show I definitely watched the movies far more. But as I got older I liked the original for far different reasons and realized 2 was a middling at best rehash of the original. I have so little nostalgia for Ghostbusters the only things I remember about the cartoon are what the boogeyman looked like and that one episode was a Citizen Kane reference. Like with Star Wars the people making the new Ghostbusters are the kind of fan that never grew out of that first phase.
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No Mods No Masters posted:Do they ever do spider man in college stories or is he always sort of either high schooler/working adult guy. Because I feel like 27 year old and counting tom holland is in a little awkward spot, maybe better to rest him out of being a little baby man a bit A large portion of the Spider-Man comics took place while he was in college. In fact, more of the run happened when he was in college (and afterwards) than took place when he was still a high school student. For some reason, though, the folks at Marvel need Peter Parker to be a high school kid so badly that they're willing to ruin the entire franchise to keep him there.
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