Ghostbusters: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.

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tetrapyloctomy: Feb 18, 2003; Okay -- you talk WAY too fast.; Nap Ghost

MrJacobs posted:

More important: If they won't have to original characters are they gonna keep the car?

I don't think any struggling academics starting a new business could AFFORD a '59 Cadillac Eldorado, even if they were restoring it. I'm not even sure what an equivalent car would be today. Twenty five year-old wagons just don't have the same appeal anymore.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 02:56

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 00:02

Kevyn: Mar 5, 2003; I just want to smile. Just once. I'd like to just, one time, go to Disney World and smile like the other boys and girls.

80's era Ford Country Squire. Something with wood paneling.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 03:08

Mantis42: Jul 26, 2010

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Outrage is understandable when you take into account that the libertarian original is being 'given to' minorities who haven't 'earned it.'

I'm totally down with an all female Ghostbusters, I just wanted the Lego Movie guys to do it, not the Bridesmaid guy.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 03:12

MyLightyear: Jul 2, 2006; A blindness that touches perfection,
But hurts just like anything else.

Kevyn posted:

I'd like to see David Margulies be the only returning actor from the original movies, inexplicably still the mayor of New York thirty years later.

Lenny!

# ? Oct 12, 2014 03:13

banned from Starbucks: Jul 18, 2004

Get the real life people who voice the women on Archer to do it as the characters from the show

# ? Oct 12, 2014 03:23

Adeline Weishaupt: Oct 16, 2013; by Lowtax

I want this to be Kristen Schaal, Chelsea Peretti, Maria Bamford, and Judy Greer all being crazy on screen for two hours possibly screaming about ghosts.

I am serious.

I am betting that Sony is going to force Charlie Day into the movie, possibly being 'the Janine', as everybody hasn't gotten tired of him yet.

Adeline Weishaupt fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Oct 12, 2014

# ? Oct 12, 2014 04:47

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

umalt posted:

I want this to be Kristen Schaal, Chelsea Peretti, Maria Bamford, and Judy Greer all being crazy on screen for two hours possibly screaming about ghosts.

I am serious.

I'll buy a ticket to that.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 04:57

egon_beeblebrox: Mar 1, 2008; WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

umalt posted:

I want this to be Kristen Schaal, Chelsea Peretti, Maria Bamford, and Judy Greer all being crazy on screen for two hours possibly screaming about ghosts.

I am serious.

I am betting that Sony is going to force Charlie Day into the movie, possibly being 'the Janine', as everybody hasn't gotten tired of him yet.

I'm fine with all of this. Possibly replacing Charlie Day with John Hodgman, who sold me on his appearing in a Ghostbusters movie back when "The Best Show on WFMU" was still broadcasting.

Charlie was pretty good in Pacific Rim, in a role that reminded me of Louis Tully a lot.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 06:31

Alan_Shore: Dec 2, 2004

You cannot do a GB film without proton packs, the firehouse or the car. You just can't. It would be like Star Trek without the Enterprise. For that reason it should be a sequel, or set it in the 80s why not.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 16:53

Mooseontheloose: May 13, 2003

the male lead has to be someone who can be convincingly competent though. Like, the great thing about Sigourney Weaver was that she was a strong confident woman who gave it back to Vankeman.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 17:04

computer parts: Nov 18, 2010; PLEASE CLAP

Alan_Shore posted:

You cannot do a GB film without proton packs, the firehouse or the car. You just can't. It would be like Star Trek without the Enterprise.

So, Deep Space 9?

# ? Oct 12, 2014 17:41

Icon-Cat: Aug 18, 2005; Meow!

My dream cast, in rather poorly-Photoshopped visual form.

This is not the nerdiest thing I ever did in the name of GB, but it's the nerdiest thing I've done RECENTLY.

"Hey, Icon-Cat," you tell me, "you do realize that men and women's bodies look different, right?" Yeah, I know, but if I fixed that, I'd also have to fix the fact that Ms. Page probably isn't six feet tall.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 17:43

Alan_Shore: Dec 2, 2004

computer parts posted:

So, Deep Space 9?

The Enterprise was in the first episode of DS9! Because it was an important bridge between the two series...

Why even call it Ghostbusters without the car or firehouse, the most iconic things from the movies? Because it has ghosts in it?

EDIT: that's a good cast above!

# ? Oct 12, 2014 17:45

Vargo: Dec 27, 2008; 'Cuz it's KILLIN' ME!

Have they said what age range they're going for with this cast? Because I don't know if I'd rather see an Aubrey Plaza-Jenny Slate style group or the very obvious Fey-Poehler-Wiig route.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 18:57

berserker: Aug 17, 2003; My love for you
is ticking clock

Kevyn posted:

Scarface
Batman Begins
Oceans 11
The Departed

Comedy remakes are universally awful though.

I thought the Bedazzled remake was pretty damned funny.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 21:17

banned from Starbucks: Jul 18, 2004

I hope its
Whitney Cummings
Kristen Stewart
Rosie Perez
Tara Reid
and Lindsey Lohan as Dana Barrett

# ? Oct 13, 2014 01:32

I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

Allison Brie does some pretty good face business and physical stuff. I think she'd be good for a young Akroyd type earnest goofball if we're limited to the familiar character palate. I say mix up the generations.

# ? Oct 13, 2014 01:43

Ensign_Ricky: Jan 4, 2008; Daddy Warlord
of the
Children of the Corn

_{or something...}

zVxTeflon posted:

I hope its
Whitney Cummings
Kristen Stewart
Rosie Perez
Tara Reid
and Lindsey Lohan as Dana Barrett

I will loving end you. :argh:

# ? Oct 13, 2014 02:49

Parlett316: Dec 6, 2002; Jon Snow is viciously stabbed by his friends in the night's watch for wanting to rescue Mance Rayder from Ramsay Bolton

Get Amanda Bynes in there as the only person who believes them.

# ? Oct 13, 2014 11:20

Dapper Dan: Dec 16, 2004; Can't post for 3 years!

Thinking on it some more, I guess the other thing that I am worried about is that they might drop the fun pseudo-science/science angle from it. It really was one of the main inspirations for me as a kid to go into the scientific field. With an all-female cast, Sony might want to drop that aspect from it. This is at a time when there are precious few good fictional portrayals of female scientists and could inspire more girls to go into that field.

Even Venkman was a scientist and while he was more down to earth than Spengler or Stanz, he was still embroiled in that world. Zeddemore was the 'everyman' that the audience could relate to. If they could keep that aspect of 3 scientists + 1 every(wo)man, that'd open me up a bit more. But who the gently caress knows at this point. I just wish we had a minor inkling of what the story would be instead of just the gender.

# ? Oct 13, 2014 22:48

Jimbot: Jul 22, 2008

If they make this movie and there are cameos I hope Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd do this scene again. Word for word, not changing a thing. It will be memorable because it'll be so out of place and everyone won't even know what the gently caress they're talking about.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 03:20

MrJacobs: Sep 15, 2008

Dapper Dan posted:

Thinking on it some more, I guess the other thing that I am worried about is that they might drop the fun pseudo-science/science angle from it. It really was one of the main inspirations for me as a kid to go into the scientific field. With an all-female cast, Sony might want to drop that aspect from it. This is at a time when there are precious few good fictional portrayals of female scientists and could inspire more girls to go into that field.

Even Venkman was a scientist and while he was more down to earth than Spengler or Stanz, he was still embroiled in that world. Zeddemore was the 'everyman' that the audience could relate to. If they could keep that aspect of 3 scientists + 1 every(wo)man, that'd open me up a bit more. But who the gently caress knows at this point. I just wish we had a minor inkling of what the story would be instead of just the gender.

Venkman was a con-man who used his degrees as a front for his goals and Stanz and Spengler are literal mad scientists who make poo poo with no thoughts to the consequences that they can end all life on earth. If they keep that kind of dynamic it won't be positive at all.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 03:35

Ensign_Ricky: Jan 4, 2008; Daddy Warlord
of the
Children of the Corn

_{or something...}

Jimbot posted:

If they make this movie and there are cameos I hope Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd do this scene again. Word for word, not changing a thing. It will be memorable because it'll be so out of place and everyone won't even know what the gently caress they're talking about.

I didn't even need to click the link to know exactly what scene you're talking about.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 09:39

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Gillian Anderson wants to be in it. I'm totally ok with this.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 11:05

egon_beeblebrox: Mar 1, 2008; WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING IN LIFE.

Ensign_Ricky posted:

I didn't even need to click the link to know exactly what scene you're talking about.

Yeah, I knew exactly what it was gonna be. I'd be down with that being their cameos. Let Ernie Hudson be The Mayor. And there we go, cameos done.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 12:29

Dapper Dan: Dec 16, 2004; Can't post for 3 years!

The_Doctor posted:

Gillian Anderson wants to be in it. I'm totally ok with this.

Same here. Just give her the straight-man role. That'd be awesome.

# ? Oct 14, 2014 20:31

NarkyBark: Dec 7, 2003; one funky chicken

Make it a sequel. Have Sigourney Weaver back but this time she's a grizzled veteran ghostbuster who takes no poo poo. Also have Annie Potts on the team and she's a voracious cougar. They've both seen it all and are jaded. Weaver's character is retiring, new young character introduced and is the audience's point of view. Some big trouble poo poo goes down, team is needed, blah blah, older characters are mentors, pass the torch, etc.

This has been my edition of "how I would do it" written in 30 seconds.

# ? Oct 15, 2014 00:24

cams: Mar 28, 2003

I hope it has as little to do with the original as possible and its only connection is that there are ghosts who get busted.

# ? Oct 15, 2014 21:13

SuperMechagodzilla: Jun 9, 2007; NEWT REBORN

cams posted:

I hope it has as little to do with the original as possible and its only connection is that there are ghosts who get busted.

I hope it's a cyberpunk thriller of the year 2083, where teams of economic assassins known as Ghosts use cybertech not to steal, or to kill, but to disrupt the finances of semi-sentient Goliath Corporations in exchange for kicks and a few hours' pay....

# ? Oct 16, 2014 00:52

Yoshifan823: Feb 19, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

I state again, the ladies of Parks and Rec are already perfect together, just plop them in this movie and let me watch Leslie Knope Busts Some Ghosts for a couple hours.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 01:07

cams: Mar 28, 2003

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

I hope it's a cyberpunk thriller of the year 2083, where teams of economic assassins known as Ghosts use cybertech not to steal, or to kill, but to disrupt the finances of semi-sentient Goliath Corporations in exchange for kicks and a few hours' pay....

This is the plot of "Ghost in the Shell", right?

# ? Oct 16, 2014 01:37

SuperMechagodzilla: Jun 9, 2007; NEWT REBORN

cams posted:

This is the plot of "Ghost in the Shell", right?

Nah I'm thinking a combination of Hackers and Shadow Of The Colossus.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 01:58

Mantis42: Jul 26, 2010

I hope the movie is deadly serious except whenever they bust a ghost they say "You didn't have a ghost of chance!". Every time.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 04:07

Adeline Weishaupt: Oct 16, 2013; by Lowtax

McCarthy: [crying] STOP, THAT'S MY MOM'S GHOST!
Wiig: Sandra, she's going to destroy the world if we don't do this!
McCarthy: BUT I NEVER SAID GOODBYE!

Ghost caught]

Polher: [forelorn] Well, I just gotta say...

[Dramatic Pan across POLHER, MCCARTHY, WIIG, and TYLER]

Polher: [dryly] ...you guys never had a ghost of a chance. [beat] Of reconciling, I mean.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 05:05

SuperMechagodzilla: Jun 9, 2007; NEWT REBORN

I hope it's set in the mid-1930s, where organized crime has capitalized on the nationwide prohibition of spirits by establishing countless illegal 'spookeasies'. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover presents authentic cases of police exorcism, performed by his crack team of G-Priests.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 08:21

Gaz2k21: Sep 1, 2006; MEGALA---WHO??!!??

I hope it's found footage...

# ? Oct 16, 2014 11:56

H13: Nov 30, 2005; Fun Shoe

I hope Michael Bay directs it

# ? Oct 16, 2014 13:46

Acer Pilot: Feb 17, 2007; put the 'the' in therapist

Better be a musical.

# ? Oct 16, 2014 13:52

Slugworth: Feb 18, 2001; If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!