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Timby posted:Blues Brothers 2000 and motherfucking Year One should have been more than enough to disabuse anyone of the notion that Aykroyd and Ramis' senses of humor were still intact. That's a huge reason why I'm interested to see what Feig and Dippold come up with, rather than the sad nostalgia trip that Aykroyd had been trying to do for more than a decade. Bridesmaids was funny but not nearly as much to me as it was to my ex. I don't think that's on feig unless he wrote it... The scenes were well done I thought. Heat was not great but not terrible. Also not that funny. I'm not optimistic about him doing ghost busters but here's hoping the stars are helping with the jokes and not just the delivery. hhhat fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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hhhat posted:Bridesmaids was funny but not nearly as much to me as it was to my ex. I don't think that's on feig unless he wrote it... The scenes were well done I thought. Heat was not great but not terrible. Also not that funny. I'm not optimistic about him doing ghost busters but here's hoping the stars are helping with the jokes and not just the delivery. Feig also created Freaks and Geeks and directed some of the best episodes of Arrested Development and The Office. I think he's proven he has legitimate comedy chops.
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computer parts posted:Egon was the only understated one. Is grounded a better word? The problem is that I can see a writer or director telling McCarthy just be as WACY AND SLAPSTICKY as possible and that's not quite what happens in GB1. Not saying it's Shakespeare here (or the ghost of Sherlock Homles) but the movie is actually really more grounded or downplayed. Also: YOUR MOTHER!
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I'd say it was all fairly understated. The film goes to great lengths to be permanently deadpan, no-one can say anything grand/impressive without it being quietly shot down in the next line. The back-and-forth of the dialogue is what makes that film work, very few of the lines are great in isolation.Boomerjinks posted:This. The worst thing about this announcement is not the news itself, but watching people who I thought had things together have the ugliest meltdowns imaginable. I'm sure there's some interesting people from forums past whos opinions would be catnip to me but I'm not going back to the bad place and you can't make me ComposerGuy posted:Is it bad if the only thing I really want is for them to use the same sound effects for the particle stream? Hearing that in the cinema is awesome. So much bass. echoplex fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jan 29, 2015 |
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I've posted about all the GB1/GB2 similarities load but I've only just twigged that Janosz is another strange, physically tiny goofy guy in love with Dana and emasculated by Venkman. SO LAZY
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Yea I definitely have confidence that Wiig can do deadpan, McCarthy not so much.
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Basebf555 posted:Yea I definitely have confidence that Wiig can do deadpan, McCarthy not so much. McCarthy plays the subdued, almost straight man role opposite Bill Murray in St. Vincent, and she was really solid in that.
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Timby posted:McCarthy plays the subdued, almost straight man role opposite Bill Murray in St. Vincent, and she was really solid in that. I'll have to check that out, I like her in general so I'm definitely willing to keep an open mind.
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Basebf555 posted:I'll have to check that out, I like her in general so I'm definitely willing to keep an open mind. Bring tissue papers - its a tear jerker.  If they can make sure McCarthy isnt wackadoodle-girlversionofgalifianakis it should be ok with Wiig and her holding the reins.
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Vintersorg posted:Leslie Jones is terribly unfunny based on the poo poo I saw on SNL this year. But the rest are great and hopefully something good comes from this. I'm gonna guess that she is playing Egon so she doesn't have to be funny.
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Vintersorg posted:Bring tissue papers - its a tear jerker. Exactly! The characters are real (in Venkmans case awful) if weird people.
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Louis Tully is the only character in the movie who seems too wacky to be a real person, although it's hilarious anyway.
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Kevyn posted:Louis Tully is the only character in the movie who seems too wacky to be a real person You obviously don't hang out with software developers.
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Timby posted:You obviously don't hang out with software developers. I'm giving this whole party as a promotional expense. That's why I invited clients instead of friends. Why don't you have some brie? It's room temperature...
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hhhat posted:I'm giving this whole party as a promotional expense. That's why I invited clients instead of friends. Why don't you have some brie? It's room temperature... Yeah, Moranis really nails the part of a guy who has no concept of social mores. A bunch of the guys in our Seattle office at my last company were just like him.
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Timby posted:Yeah, Moranis really nails the part of a guy who has no concept of social mores. A bunch of the guys in our Seattle office at my last company were just like him. Did they ever invite you to lunch by abruptly asking "DO YOU WANNA HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT WITH ME?"? Maybe after, you guys could play Boggle or Super Mario Bros.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Did they ever invite you to lunch by abruptly asking "DO YOU WANNA HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT WITH ME?"? I think motherhood is very natural. I want to try it myself.
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Basebf555 posted:Yea I definitely have confidence that Wiig can do deadpan, McCarthy not so much. This was also my concern, because I was only exposed to those sorts of roles for her. But my girlfriend's been rewatching Gilmore Girls, where she plays an excitable and naive dork who's actually not that dissimilar from Ray Stanz. Assuming they use her in that way, she might be great. There's literally no need for a Ghostbusters 3, so honestly the worst thing they could do is make the *same* movie in 2015. "Ghostbusters starring Seth Rogen and James Franco," is the alternative...is this people's wish? (I still wanted to see Aubrey Plaza or Nasim Pedrad in the mix. Or Alia Shawkat. Or Aisha Tyler.)
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Timby posted:Feig also created Freaks and Geeks and directed some of the best episodes of Arrested Development and The Office. I think he's proven he has legitimate comedy chops. List of shows I never got into.
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He's looking really good these days. Probably the best preserved of the bunch (counting Ramis is cheating) by at least a decade.
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Jack Gladney posted:He's looking really good these days. Probably the best preserved of the bunch (counting Ramis is cheating) by at least a decade. too soon
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GB2 is on Bravo now so just catching it. It's probably been 20 years since I last saw it. I've had a solid 3 or 4 laughs so far in the scene where Dana is talking to Egon about the stroller moving. And I never got this before, but Venkman looks right at the camera as the woman's talking about an alien abduction that was probably a date rape. That's a lot darker than I expected and certainly never got when I was younger. Maybe this movie isn't as bad as I used to kinda think it was. e. and now having seen sophie's choice since then, It's really funny how odd Peter MacNichol is. e2. "I think they're more interested in my epididymous." -Egon Awesome Pander fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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hhhat posted:Look who is also Hitler ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
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Ensign_Ricky posted:ONE OF US! ONE OF US! There are many perks... Free parking, nice apartment...
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Boomerjinks posted:This. The worst thing about this announcement is not the news itself, but watching people who I thought had things together have the ugliest meltdowns imaginable. The way I see it, regardless of the quality of the actual movie it's already a success because the sheer impotent rage at the casting at the clouds of  that it's generated has already brought me more entertainment than I ever expected to get from a new Ghostbusters film.Jack Gladney posted:He's looking really good these days. Probably the best preserved of the bunch (counting Ramis is cheating) by at least a decade. He also kicked rear end in the video game, he was the only one who didn't sound like he was sleepwalking through the recording session and they gave him plenty of room to breathe in the script.
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hhhat posted:There are many perks... Free parking, nice apartment... Oh Johnny, did you back the wrong horse..
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Pander posted:GB2 is on Bravo now so just catching it. It's probably been 20 years since I last saw it. I've had a solid 3 or 4 laughs so far in the scene where Dana is talking to Egon about the stroller moving. And I never got this before, but Venkman looks right at the camera as the woman's talking about an alien abduction that was probably a date rape. That's a lot darker than I expected and certainly never got when I was younger. Maybe this movie isn't as bad as I used to kinda think it was. World of the Psychic is great. That stuff all flew over my head until I was in high school. That and the fact that the guy was kinda right about when the world would end. Next week: Hairless pets. Weird. Also, Bassmasters.
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AlliedBiscuit posted:World of the Psychic is great. That stuff all flew over my head until I was in high school. That and the fact that the guy was kinda right about when the world would end. And according to the woman, it's going to end on Valentine's Day of next year. Someone should organize one of those Ghostbusters conventions on that date at the Holiday Inn in Paramus. Kevyn fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Jan 31, 2015 |
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Xealot posted:(I still wanted to see Aubrey Plaza or Nasim Pedrad in the mix. Or Alia Shawkat. Or Aisha Tyler.) oh man you opened the fan-casting floodgates: Aubrey Plaza - "Egon" Amy Schumer - "Peter" Yvette Nicole Brown - "Ray" "Winston" - no idea
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Yeah I'm cool with the all female cast. I like a lot of the actresses they picked. I think there could be real comedy here. The only thing that will ruin this movie is if the comedy/plot is decided by committee. If they have a checklist of references that "must take place in the movie" being written BEFORE the script is written, much like the new Terminator. That is why this movie is going to fail. It's not the the star power and comedy potential of the cast, its the horrific top down approach to script writing that will ruin this movie (much like the new Terminator). This right here is going to ruin this movie: YOU are the Peter Venkmen character, except you are a girl! I want you to act just like him! You are literally the same character!!!!! Do exactly what he did.... except with a vagina!!! The following MUST be included in the scrip: 1) A green slimer ghost! 2) The phrase "he slimed me" 3) "Are you a god?"
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Yeah, I know Bassmasters, sure.
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GuyDudeBroMan posted:The following MUST be included in the scrip:
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I hope the movie turns out to be the original Ghostbusters exists in the new film universe as the 80s movie, its sequel, a video game and a few cartoons series and comics. Then, the entire film is everyone commenting on their every action, choice and personality and judging it by the standards of what happened in the original film. Aykroyd and Sony and Filmation lawyers replace Peck as the main red-tape antagonist, showing up and telling them to shut it down, shut it all down, due to unapproved use of the names and trademarks owned jointly by those groups.
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^ I like this They should also call their business The Real Ghostbusters
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One of the things that really killed my enthusiasm was watching this vid about Edgar Wright. It's just a little video examining Edgar Wrights visual style but he takes Feig (among others) to task for shooting comedy in the most boring manner possible. Maybe you could make the same argument about Reitman but off the top of my head you have that great tracking shot on Murray as he's getting slimed, the cut straight to the Library exterior after 'get her' and generally just how well he fused horror and comedy. The staircase was a pretty good visual gag too. Meanwhile the script is being penned by a guy who hasn't written anything worthwhile since 1999 and one of the writers of The Heat. I was a fan of Bridesmaids and if Wiig was writing this I'd have some reason to be optimistic but Feig spent years in TV directing hell. Maybe it was for good reason. freethought fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Feb 1, 2015 |
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