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I bumped up the line-height to 135%. Hope that helps! (I finally learned some basic CSS for this project. None of my Web projects will ever win a prize for visual sophistication but at least it keeps me from cluttering things up with eight million social media buttons.) Reposting the link for the top of the page: "Overthinking Ghostbusters" http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbusters ^ That's right, it's here! Read, enjoy, love, share and write to the National Film Registry! Hooray!
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# ? May 17, 2012 21:07 |
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I'm sorry, man, I can't read this. Your tone is a little too conversational.
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# ? May 18, 2012 00:28 |
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I don't know if there are any Utah goons in this thread, but Salt Lake Film Society will be showing GB (the original) sometime this summer as part of their Summer of 35MM at the Tower. I just checked the website but the schedule isn't up yet. https://www.saltlakefilmsociety.org if you want to keep checking back. Gonna be watching this in the theatre again
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Icon-Cat posted:I bumped up the line-height to 135%. Hope that helps! (I finally learned some basic CSS for this project. None of my Web projects will ever win a prize for visual sophistication but at least it keeps me from cluttering things up with eight million social media buttons.) That much better man. Thanks for taking my advice.
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SubponticatePoster posted:I don't know if there are any Utah goons in this thread, but Salt Lake Film Society will be showing GB (the original) sometime this summer as part of their Summer of 35MM at the Tower. I just checked the website but the schedule isn't up yet. https://www.saltlakefilmsociety.org if you want to keep checking back. Oh snap, I will definitely go to that. I was disappointed by the low-quality DVD version they showed in theaters last fall, and this will more than make up for that!
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# ? May 18, 2012 13:14 |
Diabolik900 posted:"Yes, it's true. This man is some sort of rodent. I'm not sure which." "...until the power grid was shut off." "These men caused an explosion." "Is this true?" "Yes." Peck then lunges at Venkman.
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# ? May 18, 2012 14:48 |
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HTJ posted:I prefer the simple cut: Wow. I've never seen that one. It makes way less sense than even the rodent version.
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# ? May 18, 2012 14:51 |
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Icon-Cat posted:I bumped up the line-height to 135%. Hope that helps! (I finally learned some basic CSS for this project. None of my Web projects will ever win a prize for visual sophistication but at least it keeps me from cluttering things up with eight million social media buttons.) Just finished reading the whole site. I utterly loved it and would definitely have bought the book had you gotten it out in print form. Really insightful look at so many moments that really helped solidify why I regard the film as one of the few 'perfect movies'. Thanks very much for taking the time to make it and more importantly, allow us to read what you'd done.
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Icon-Cat posted:It's here. It's Miller time!
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# ? May 19, 2012 01:20 |
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Icon-Cat posted:I bumped up the line-height to 135%. Hope that helps! (I finally learned some basic CSS for this project. None of my Web projects will ever win a prize for visual sophistication but at least it keeps me from cluttering things up with eight million social media buttons.) This is pretty neat. I've always enjoyed reading a critics analysis of deeper symbolism in a film. I've just finished up the cinematography section, but seeing your picture of the terror dog just made me realize it's reveal in Dana's apartment seems to be a mirror of the Ecto-1's reveal; smoke, back-lighting, glowing eyes/lights, roaring. Instead of leaping out like Ecto-1 one, though it pulls Dana in. Plus in a way the terror dog is the vehicle that brings Gozer into the final battle, much as Ecto-1 is the vehicle that brings our heroes.
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Cross-posting from GBS because it's appropriate, and I'm rather pleased with how it turned out.
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# ? Jun 20, 2012 10:31 |
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Cross-posting from GBS because it's appropriate, and I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. What a lovely start up tone you must have...
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# ? Jun 20, 2012 13:07 |
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So, per Variety, Etan Cohen has been brought in to replace Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky for the GB3 script writing job. not the worst choice (tropic thunder, idiocracy) and has produced for Sony before (MiBIII, despite its faults 600 mil worldwide).
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Soulwrangler posted:So, per Variety, Etan Cohen has been brought in to replace Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky for the GB3 script writing job. not the worst choice (tropic thunder, idiocracy) and has produced for Sony before (MiBIII, despite its faults 600 mil worldwide). Is it a good sign or a bad one? On one hand, they're not chucking any old poo poo out the door. On the other... this never works well. I thought Murray officially bowing out had shitcanned the whole thing.
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 21:16 |
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echoplex posted:Is it a good sign or a bad one? I don't think Murray ever officially opted out though. I keep seeing news reports that say he shredded the script, he never read the script, he'd never shred a script, he's friends with Aykroyd, he doesn't speak to them anymore, he hates the movie, he doesn't think about the movie. It's all over the map. According to this month old story Murray said "We'll try again."
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 21:20 |
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I thought the current status was that Murray's in if "the script is good" and that's one of the reasons for the rewrite. But it's Ghostbusters 3 so who loving knows at this point.
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 21:21 |
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I really want aliens to be real to give Dan something else to do.
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 21:23 |
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echoplex posted:I really want aliens to be real to give Dan something else to do. He sells wines and vodkas. Keeps him busy, but not busy enough, I guess.
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 21:26 |
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echoplex posted:I really want aliens to be real to give Dan something else to do. I want Dan Aykroyd to travel the world in an Ecto-1 just driving slowly down every street with the lights and sirens going.
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 22:00 |
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Considering how much Ghostbusters ruled the world for most of the 80's, I'm amazed this wasn't what every single Ice Cream Truck wound up doing. If you got to have one of those slimer facepops served to you by a guy in a jumpsuit in an Ecto-45678, you'd lose your poo poo as an 8 year-old. Hell I might do that now.
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 23:35 |
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WeX Majors posted:Considering how much Ghostbusters ruled the world for most of the 80's, I'm amazed this wasn't what every single Ice Cream Truck wound up doing. I'm pretty sure there are about a billion reasons that wouldn't be legal, but I'll be damned if that doesn't sound like a great idea.
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# ? Jul 10, 2012 23:39 |
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Unfortunately, I don't think kids know who the Ghostbusters are these days. They'd probably all just start chanting for He-Man.
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# ? Jul 11, 2012 20:13 |
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Zeeman posted:Unfortunately, I don't think kids know who the Ghostbusters are these days. They'd probably all just start chanting for He-Man. You'd be surprised. Two years ago, I went to Salem, MA for the Halloween festivities. In the spirit of Halloween, I dressed up in my Ghostbuster outfit. I had kids younger than 10 come up to me and ask me where my car was and why I wasn't wearing a proton pack.
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Scroto Baggins posted:You'd be surprised. Two years ago, I went to Salem, MA for the Halloween festivities. In the spirit of Halloween, I dressed up in my Ghostbuster outfit. I had kids younger than 10 come up to me and ask me where my car was and why I wasn't wearing a proton pack. Those are both very valid questions
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# ? Jul 11, 2012 22:43 |
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Since this thread's back, I might as well post-mortem my book that ended up as "Overthinking Ghostbusters". I wish I could tell you that it caught fire on the Web and millions of people clicked it and it brought Ghostbusters into new and fantastic critical heights. I wish I could tell you that I proved to the world how great Ghostbusters is and a million people wrote to the National Film Registry etc. etc. etc. Alas. The most love I ever got from the press was a moment in the sun on MetaFilter and a couple of shout-outs in "here's a bunch of links this week you might have missed"-type posts. I realize now why it didn't, and _couldn't_, go viral the way my "Two Gentlemen of Lebowski" did. TGOL may have been long, but people didn't wait to read it and then share it. If you read the first four lines, you knew everything you needed to know to (if you were so inclined) share the link on Facebook etc. etc. etc. This project, people actually would need to spend time with, like a real book. That no doubt drove people away. Even Ghostbusters fans on forums (Ghostbusters sites, not CineD-type sites) and whatnot never took to it. Maybe one day BuzzFeed will come by and summarize all my most important points into "Ten Things You Didn't Know About Ghostbusters". That's what the Web is good for. I guess the publishing industry was right to reject me. Not enough people like reading long serious stuff about movies. What a shame. (Mostly I'm sad as a consumer, as I myself like reading long serious stuff about movies.) That said, I have absolutely no regrets. I am happier to have put it out there for its tiny little audience, than to have sat on it, or to have not written it at all. Tomorrow I am showing my agent an incredibly rough proposal for a brand-new book. A funny book this time, with a lot of pop culture stuff (not just movies). It's so, so rough, this proposal… the sample chapters in particular are a mess. It's nothing submittable yet. It's just an idea. A pile of garbage with, hopefully, a book inside. Print ain't dead yet.
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# ? Jul 12, 2012 01:06 |
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If it's any consolation, the first time I saw the link to your site was when it was shared by the Louisiana Ghostbusters costuming and charity group on Facebook. It had quite a few likes and comments.
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Icon-Cat posted:Even Ghostbusters fans on forums (Ghostbusters sites, not CineD-type sites) and whatnot never took to it. Those people are only interested in playing dress-up and co-opting the characters for themselves; they've no interest in analysis. I love the site, found it very informative and it's a shame it never made print because we are missing a good retrospective book, as so many other films now have. I'd love for the film to be appreciated at a greater depth than it is, but these days it's a Saturday afternoon TV film, and it's resurgence in popularity has to been to sell toys and videogames rather than really appreciate the film.
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# ? Jul 12, 2012 01:24 |
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I really enjoyed what I read. Honestly, I would have been inclined to read more if it were in book (or some tablet reader) form. It was a lot to take in on a single website, but every so often I go back and pick up where I left off. I loved the section where you talk about how all the shots are framed. plainswalker75 posted:Those are both very valid questions The Ecto-1 was in the parking garage and the pack is in the car. Obviously.
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# ? Jul 12, 2012 17:29 |
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Just to make you all jealous, I'm going to see GB next weekend on the big screen from a 35mm print, not a projected video.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Just to make you all jealous, I'm going to see GB next weekend on the big screen from a 35mm print, not a projected video. Are you a fellow Utah goon? I was gearing up for it but I'm going to be in Portland that weekend. drat my poor planning! That DVD-quality release last fall was such a disappointment.
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# ? Jul 12, 2012 19:27 |
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MokBa posted:Are you a fellow Utah goon? I was gearing up for it but I'm going to be in Portland that weekend. drat my poor planning! That DVD-quality release last fall was such a disappointment.
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 00:59 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:Just to make you all jealous, I'm going to see GB next weekend on the big screen from a 35mm print, not a projected video. Everything was fine with my day until this post was made by dickless here.
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 02:53 |
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SubponticatePoster posted:Yep. Bless SLFS. Maybe you can still make Robocop Robocop is good and all, but it's no Ghostbusters. GB was the only one of the 35mm summer films I was really looking forward to seeing. At least there's still Miyazaki coming up.
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 06:12 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Everything was fine with my day until this post was made by dickless here. Is this true?
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 06:13 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:Is this true? Yes, It's true. This man has no dick.
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 06:26 |
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Yes, It's true. This man has no dick. While he's at the showing, I'm gonna send him a nice fruit basket, I'm gonna miss hiiiim.
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 17:22 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:Is this true?
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 17:49 |
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Well that's what I heard!
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# ? Jul 13, 2012 18:18 |
Here's a Ghostbusters thing. http://society6.com/sirdiddymus/Heebie-Jeebie-Busters_Print
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Armyman25 posted:Here's a Ghostbusters thing. I never noticed before, but they use one of the original designs for the No Ghost logo. Does anyone know if AMC is planning on doing any October screenings of Ghostbusters this year? Edit: Setting up my new office: text me a vag pic fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Sep 21, 2012 |
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