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Saw it over the weekend, liked it a lot. Yeah it leaned extremely heavily on nostalgia and fan pandering but I was okay with all of it. Definitely buying it on 4K when it comes out. I’m not a huge die hard Ghostbusters fanboy but I liked the 2 original movies and really enjoyed the 2009 videogame, I’m getting GB1 in 4K in the mail today and I’m planning to watch it tonight or tomorrow and see how much I still like it. A coworker also let me borrow the 2016 GB remake today (which I’ve never seen), he says it’s worth a watch and I’m willing to give it a whirl so who knows!
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roffels posted:I want one of these, but like, once I have it, what do I do with it? 
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I haven’t tried the remaster yet but I loved the original, the gameplay felt great and busting definitely felt good.
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sigher posted:My only experience is with the remaster, which according to Steam reviews barely has any extra polish and just a ton of bugs. It really sucks, I wanted to experience the whole thing. Maybe it's a PC thing, though I don't know if it got a release on other platforms.
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I just watched Ghostbusters 2016 for the first time and I... didn't hate it? I think it helped that I set my expectations at the basement rock bottom bare minimum, I guess? Like it's nowhere near as good as any of the originals and a lot of the dialogue felt ad-libbed into the ground, but I thought the ghosts looked visually cool and interesting, the whole "break the frame" thing with ghost and proton stream stuff was really novel and eye-catching, it had some neat visuals (Rowan's ghosts trapped in the mirrors looking like old-school 3D holograms for example), and the scene where Holtzmann went nuts with the dual proton pistols ruled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqbT6RVRNsE
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Alan_Shore posted:He can't direct action,
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Alan_Shore posted:That is a cool shot but it's literally just a slow motion shot. It's not an action sequence. https://youtu.be/UqbT6RVRNsE
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Counterpoint: it was in fact cool and good
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CelticPredator posted:I’m not a fan of it on its own. It’s something in the movie because there’s nothing really that interesting happening besides bad quips and dodgy green screen stuff and so when that drops, it’s something kind of okay with a really cool track blaring behind it. Well except for that mini wood chipper thing, I dunno about that. Yeah permanently killing a ghost is kind of wack, the more I think about it. I’m going to live with my head-canon that they’re just “banishing” them. I’d say that’s even more humane than trapping them and locking them up in a containment unit with who knows what kind of conditions on the inside. Yeah, that’s what I’m going to tell myself I think. I liked how the ghosts and proton streams looked in the movie; I don’t care that it’s all CGI green screen added in post, I thought the ghost effects looked rad, the way they glowed and flowed looked more interesting to me than, say, Muncher in Afterlife who was just kind of a translucent blue blob. Also since I have too much money and not enough common sense, I bought those retro re-release Real Ghostbusters from Walmart. I used to have a lot of Ghostbusters stuff as a kid and my parents got rid of it or whatever, so getting those again (especially the ghost toilet, holy poo poo) is fun. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Dec 2, 2021 |
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CelticPredator posted:Especially egons For every time you don’t watch Afterlife, I’m going to watch it twice. Doubly so for that action figure two-pack. 
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CelticPredator posted:Not gonna bother me haha. I mean you do you. I just don’t know what you’re gonna do with an army of undead cgi ghouls lol Turn you into a spore, mold, or fungus (your choice)
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Ghostbusters knock-off competitors loving things up and making problems worse (or even the converse, developing new tech and being actual competition) are both fantastic ideas for a sequel hook. I think part of the “problem” with the very premise in the movies is that ghost activity only happens when there’s a larger threat that causes it (Ivo Shandor’s high rise channeling spirits and bringing Gozer, Vigo in the second movie, Shandor’s Gozer shrine in the third, even Shandor’s mandala in the video game) that it makes the Ghostbusters premise as depicted in the movies essentially unsustainable without constant Big Bad Guys causing ghost activity as a byproduct. Afterlife even says there had been no ghost activity for 30 years (because the Ghostbusters stopped the root cause), and that business flat out dried up because of it. Like the first movie kind of threw it in the audience’s face that there’s a *reason* why all of a sudden there are actual honest to god corporeal ghosts for serious showing up all over specifically New York and nowhere else, when there hadn’t been before. I don’t know how RGB addressed this, but the movies kind of wrote themselves into a corner. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Basebf555 posted:I think the way it's presented in the movies, the big bads like Gozer and Vigo can stir things up to such a degree that you get these massive build-ups of ghost energy that leads to an entire city being overrun with ghosts, but that doesn't mean there's literally NO ghosts when those guys aren't around, just maybe not enough to sustain the type of booming business we saw in the first movie. Like I agree that future movies or whatever should move away from that, and it’s not hard to retcon, but it is the pattern the movies showed. For those that have read them, are the comics any good?
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Basebf555 posted:I feel like "no ghosts" just means there haven't been any high profile publicly known situations ala a giant marshmallow man walking through downtown NY or a jello mold engulfing a museum or the ghost Titanic showing up to port. It doesn't mean there aren't people out there being spooked by random isolated ghost encounters. All of this is making me want to rewatch GB2. I rewatched the first one very recently after seeing Afterlife because I bought the 4K of the first movie, but it’s been ages since I watched the sequel.
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Not even as trade paperbacks? Who has the license now?
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Ghostbusters International, get Chris Hemsworth. As I write that sentence, even I can’t tell if I’m joking or not.
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You know you’d watch it. Bah Humbug.
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So ‘The Frighteners’ meets Spider-Man: Far From Home’? I can dig it.
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CelticPredator posted:I hated International. And I didn’t like Chris hemsworth in 2016. I’m not saying it should be MIB International But Ghostbusters (I didn’t see MIB International and I’m not in a hurry to), but Chris Hemsworth has good comedic timing when given the right material and putting him in a foreign “franchised” GB team (or poo poo, even a rival “knock off” team) isn’t a bad idea, and bonus points for instantly getting people riled up for the immediate comparisons to both MIB International and GB2016 right out of the gate before the movie even comes out.
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CelticPredator posted:I don’t know why you think watching it more is a slight against me at all lol. I don’t really have any problem with you watching and loving it. I’m joking  deoju posted:Get Tessa Thompson instead. poo poo, why not both!
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Lastdancer posted:Ghostbusters vs. Beetlejuice https://youtu.be/wfYlTtA7-ks Skip to 7:15 for the relevant bit (although the whole video is really well done and worth a watch).
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Literally nothing about that video was what I expected. Pretty pro-click here. Part 1: https://youtu.be/5aF94oZlph8 BATHROOM SPINOFF: https://youtu.be/ZjtjORHViMs Slasher movie mash-up: https://youtu.be/wzOGdOEtvD8 His stuff is really creative and really well done. When I think of the concept of “let’s mash together every movie ever in one big crossover”, I never expected anything as coherent and clean as these. There’s a ton of Easter eggs in the backgrounds, both audio and visual. He put a ton of work into these.
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The_Doctor posted:
Goddamnit I'm really tempted to back it at the buzzer. Someone talk me into/out of doing it. Edit-- I did it. 
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The_Doctor posted:One of us, one of us. Between the proton pack and then the neutrona wand (because it doesn’t make sense to get one without the other) I’m telling myself it’s a ready-to-go cosplay kit right out of the box that’s higher quality and cheaper than anything I’d be able to do myself, with no effort involved. I also got a substantial Christmas bonus so it’s not like I can’t afford it.
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Open Marriage Night posted:If it helps you feel better about your purchase, you can always see if your area has a local Ghostbusters chapter that you can do charity events with. I'll definitely be getting a lot of use out of that thing. I’m looking into the Phoenix Ghostbusters, they’ve got a website and a Facebook page and stuff. Granted I can’t do a whole lot until next year when the pack shows up. Well I can still volunteer, but I don’t get to bust ghosts. 
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Everyone posted:Honestly the least believable plot point to me was the idea that at some point Egon had sex with a female human and got her pregnant.
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I noticed they had a link that Entertainmrnt Earth is getting a restock on the Hasbro proton wand in like April, while Hasbro Pulse (the official storefront of Hasbro, the actual manufacturer) isn’t getting a restock until December. Get your poo poo together, Hasbro. I *want* to order direct from you, but when other retailers get your products before you do, it makes it real drat difficult. Edit-- Honey found a $15-off coupon for Entertainment Earth, making it *cheaper* than Hasbro, loving hilarious. Xenomrph fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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I’m turbo-biased because I worked for Blockbuster Video for the better part of a decade and amassed a huge collection of physical media, but I can’t imagine me not having a blu-ray player. Like I “get” it because streaming and digital media is so ubiquitous nowadays, but popping a disc in the player feels “right” to me when I want to watch a movie.
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Alan_Shore posted:Streaming is good but you cant beat Blu Ray for quality Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Also, they won't suddenly decide to re-color grade or re-edit my copy, or just say "you don't own this anymore" and vanish it. If so, have any of the corrections been for the better? Like, a poo poo physical release got fixed by a corrected digital release?
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gregday posted:So apparently Sony announced a box set including GB1, GB2, and GB:A and Paul Feig is salty about his movie not being included.
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My neutrona wand I bought online was supposed to ship in December and instead shipped early and is arriving today, I’m pretty stoked  
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Push El Burrito posted:I hope the next movie is about Vigo showing up and then they have to use a dualsense controller to pilot the Statue of Liberty and break into Freedom Tower. This: Shop Ghostbusters Plasma Series Spengler’s Neutrona Wand Premium Collectible Ghostbusters: Afterlife at Hasbro Pulse. https://hasbropulse.com/products/ghostbusters-plasma-series-spengler-s-neutrona-wand-premium-collectible-ghostbusters-afterlife
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The_Doctor posted:I hope the orange tip is easily removed. Even if it’s not, I’m confident I can use my miniature paints and paint right over it. I’m also not sure how much of a “running change” the orange tip will be and if mine will have it, my wand was supposed to ship in like December and instead it shipped this week, so I dunno what batch mine is from.
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Push El Burrito posted:I hope Muncher and Slimer get together. I’ve got the Haslab proton pack on order, I’m definitely looking forward to it.
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text me a vag pic posted:Heck yeah. And it's got the tube. And look at you scrubs with the orange tip. Real OGBs got the silver head. I just opened mine up and it DOES NOT have an orange tip. I win!
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gregday posted:I have a Matty Wand in box if anyone is interested in buying it. You of all people claiming to have a movie prop is just something I can’t take seriously
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Disco Pope posted:I'm okay with a new Ghostbusters film, but its a 3 1/2hr docudrama about the ghost that sucks your dick when you sleep in a museum. I want a ghostbusters movie where the general public has an existential crisis over the fact that, in death, there is a very real chance that you turn into something like Slimer or Muncher for all eternity.
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