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Anybody interested in Ghostbusters-like movies should check out Peter Jackson's Frighteners and Ivan Reitman's Evolution. The latter has aliens instead of ghosts, but there's spiritual overlap.
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Evolution is underrated imo, but there are some gags they absolutely run into the ground
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Mar 28, 2024 21:11
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Yeah the similarity has been discussed beforeSnowglobe of Doom posted:Their character arcs occur externally and not internally, like any good power fantasy movie. Peter Venkman's "arc" is almost exactly the same as John McClane's arc in Die Hard: Snowglobe of Doom posted:On a hunch I went and checked through Reitman's 2001 film Evolution and it almost exactly fits this meter except the "smart & successful woman [who] he'd been horndogging after the entire time finally realises that he's actually perfect exactly as he is and she totally wants to bone him now" has straight hair, not frizzy hair.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:17
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Not to mention Walter Peck, Vigo, and the jail cop (CARL!) are all in Die Hard. I feel like there's another incidental crossover, but I can't place it. Before I saw Die Hard, I just thought it was weird that both Jack Hardemeyer and the psychic ward doctor were both in Wayne's World.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:25
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That doctor is Bryan Doyle Murray, one of Bill's brothers. He's also in Caddy Shack.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:52
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deoju posted:That doctor is Bryan Doyle Murray, one of Bill's brothers. He's also in Caddy Shack. And Groundhog Day. He's not in Scrooged but Joel Murray and John Murray are, where weirdly only one of them plays Bill's brother.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:39
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Oh, yeah. He also voices the mayor in the Ghostbusters video game now that I think about it.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:43
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roffels posted:Another movie with working-class anxieties. I like this idea. gently caress, can you imagine if we had an actually woke Ghostbusters though? That said, Joker has some class consciousness and chuds loved it. And it's important to note that Ghostbusters was very libertarian. If this franchise continues, I think all the pieces are in place for a quieter, more confident and hopefully funny sequel with the torch well and truly passed. I don't think we'll get that though, instead we'll get a retread of GB2 where the statue of liberty literally offers its torch to the new team and everyone cheers.
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Mar 28, 2024 23:00
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RLM are right though: kids suck. As much as I like Pheobe I don't need to see kids holding Proton packs, it's very close to Wesley Crusher syndrome (thank goodness the smart child saved us! Wait why does everyone hate the child now?). Basically all the movies this thread wants won't happen because GB is literally now a family movie. Everything must be about the family. Also I rewatched The Frighteners a few years ago and it was very disappointing! I remember nothing about it which is so a bad sign
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Mar 28, 2024 23:05
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having also felt alienated from the last couple of films, I'd gladly go for following some completely new character and their struggles to organize a Ghostbusters' Union while also dealing with their paranatural day-to-day
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Mar 28, 2024 23:09
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Guy A. Person posted:And I've said this before but I'm like 90% certain they used improv takes in spots of the 2016 movie where it either derails or supplants actual plot beats. Like the extended riffing on Patrick Swayze movies happens right around the mid-point and at a high tension moment where it seems like they may have cut out a subplot where Erin has a falling out and leaves the team (they have an emotional reunion prior to the climax that doesn't seem connected to anything, like she went home for the day then comes back and they all embrace). The extended cut on Blu-ray covers this. Erin gets into a fight with Abby and leaves the team.
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Mar 28, 2024 23:21
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I feel like if there was a Ghostbusters Union it would inevitably lead to that scene from Anchorman...
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Mar 28, 2024 23:22
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:Tarantino should do Ghostbusters. "Choose the form of your destructor!" *Giant disembodied foot appears* "Ray, what did you do?"
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Gnome de plume posted:"Choose the form of your destructor!" "Nobody steps on a church in my town without also stepping on me!"
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deoju posted:That doctor is Bryan Doyle Murray, one of Bill's brothers. He's also in Caddy Shack. Yeah, I know. I was just referring to them all as their characters. "He's Mr Shirley, and if I had a rubber hose, mister, I would beat him-... "
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Guy A. Person posted:And I've said this before but I'm like 90% certain they used improv takes in spots of the 2016 movie where it either derails or supplants actual plot beats. Like the extended riffing on Patrick Swayze movies happens right around the mid-point and at a high tension moment where it seems like they may have cut out a subplot where Erin has a falling out and leaves the team (they have an emotional reunion prior to the climax that doesn't seem connected to anything, like she went home for the day then comes back and they all embrace). Plenty of time for multiple wonton soup jokes though! Gotta keep those in the picture.
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Mar 29, 2024 04:27
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this is the second movie kumail uses firearms without weapons
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Mar 29, 2024 12:28
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Ragnar Gunvald posted:Tarantino should do Ghostbusters. after everything said in Quiet on Set and you still think this
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Mar 29, 2024 12:31
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What does that have to do with Dan Schneider
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I'm actually at a loss who I'd ask if we were fan-casting directors. Definitely not Tarantino. Honestly, I think it might be done. One pivotal pop-cultural touchstone that became a reference point for both comedy and horror for decades and four films that range from bad to okay. Some good cartoons and comics and a couple of better than they should have been video games.
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Mar 29, 2024 14:12
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Humour and some horror? I'm going Raimi, easy.
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Mar 29, 2024 14:45
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Lobok posted:Humour and some horror? I'm going Raimi, easy. Oh gently caress a Sam Raimi Ghostbusters? Holy poo poo that would be amazing!
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Mar 29, 2024 15:29
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I thought about Raimi. I loving love him, but I don't think his slapstick sensibility is quite right for Ghostbusters, even if there is some physical comedy in there. I laugh every time that cigarette sticks to Ray's lip. Also, he's done his share of relatively toned down franchise work at Disney and Marvel, so there's no guarantee he'd bring his A-Game. The Ecto-1 would become a yellow Oldsmobile, which I would have mixed feelings about. I'll take Bruce Campbell as a disgruntled client though! At one point, I might have said Edgar Wright, but he might be a little precious and referential.
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Mar 29, 2024 16:17
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If the next Ghostbusters needs Bill Murray, then find someone he can't say 'no' to. That's right, Ghostbusters directed by Wes Anderson.
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Mar 29, 2024 16:24
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Lobok posted:Humour and some horror? I'm going Raimi, easy. Too earnest. Honestly couldn’t happen now but James Gunn could’ve done it. He can do the cynical bent well enough. Or Jody Hill. Seth Rogan directing could also work as well.
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The Merkinman posted:If the next Ghostbusters needs Bill Murray, then find someone he can't say 'no' to. That's right, Ghostbusters directed by Wes Anderson. The Coen Brothers.
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Mar 29, 2024 16:29
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Joe Dante
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Burying the Ex is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen so no. I can’t agree with that.
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Mar 29, 2024 17:12
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Even Spielberg made 1942 Alternatively, I’d love to see a Guillermo Del Toro take on Ghostbusters
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Yeah but Spielberg made that a long time ago. That was Joe Dante’s last movie. I think his days are done. Honestly you know who I want to make the next GB movie? ackroyd. Idgaf what nonsense he wants to do. I’d rather have that than this new series
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Disco Pope posted:I thought about Raimi. I loving love him, but I don't think his slapstick sensibility is quite right for Ghostbusters, even if there is some physical comedy in there. I laugh every time that cigarette sticks to Ray's lip. Also, he's done his share of relatively toned down franchise work at Disney and Marvel, so there's no guarantee he'd bring his A-Game. The Ecto-1 would become a yellow Oldsmobile, which I would have mixed feelings about. I'll take Bruce Campbell as a disgruntled client though! I don't think with any pick we're getting another '84 but he's the one I'd most like to see a GB attempt from. CelticPredator posted:Honestly you know who I want to make the next GB movie? ackroyd. Idgaf what nonsense he wants to do. I’d rather have that than this new series Do an animated anthology series with the basic premise that the Ghostbusters have been franchised out and so there's different locales and eras, and base the episodes around stuff from an unbridled Aykroyd as "idea guy." Lobok fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Mar 29, 2024 |
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Yea I do think that it would be interesting to see what would happen if Aykroyd was given carte blanche to make a Ghostbusters movie. Things could go completely off the rails but that would probably be entertaining in itself. He's only ever directed one movie though and it was over 30 years ago.
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Basebf555 posted:Yea I do think that it would be interesting to see what would happen if Aykroyd was given carte blanche to make a Ghostbusters movie. Things could go completely off the rails but that would probably be entertaining in itself. He's only ever directed one movie though and it was over 30 years ago. that one was Nothing But Trouble, right? That inclines me further to let him cook, frankly
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Nothing But Trouble owns.
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The wikipedia page for Nothing But Trouble says that it was "largely panned, with criticism directed at its humor, screenplay, tone and direction. The tone was compared by critics to films such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series and The Rocky Horror Picture Show". So.... it was panned because it was similar to a bunch of iconic classics?
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Mar 29, 2024 19:07
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Nothing But Trouble is not good at all.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:41
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The_Doctor posted:Nothing But Trouble is not good at all. No it's not but it is fascinatingly bizarre.
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Timby posted:The extended cut on Blu-ray covers this. Erin gets into a fight with Abby and leaves the team. The extended cut wildly swung my opinion on the 2016 movie from what I originally saw in theatres. Things made at least a little more sense when character motivation and story beats actually existed.
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TealShark posted:The extended cut wildly swung my opinion on the 2016 movie from what I originally saw in theatres. Things made at least a little more sense when character motivation and story beats actually existed. Yeah, the cut on Blu-ray is about 20 minutes longer and restores some badly needed story to the movie.
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8one6 posted:No it's not but it is fascinatingly bizarre. Yeah which is more than these new ghostbusters movies can even say. Let the man fuckin cook.
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