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Wank posted:When they bust Slimer and Peter is telling how much the Hotel owes them and he has no idea what it costs and the look of Egon showing him: "...we are having a special this week on proton charging and storage of the beast." The best part of this -- and one that I only noticed a few years ago despite watching the movie about once a month -- is that while Peter is doing his schtick, Egon is holding up his fingers to signal to Venkman how much money each item should cost. I lost my poo poo when I finally saw it.
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^^^ Edit: GET HER  Matlock posted:the second film is still enjoyable to me if you ignore the fact it's pretty well a cash-in sequel. The problem with Ghostbusters II is that it's so much more slick than the original. Elmer Bernstein's oddball score was replaced by Randy Edelman noodling around on his synths, the cinematography is ridiculously clean, etc. It looks and feels like a standard Hollywood franchise entry, as opposed to the uniqueness of the original, which doesn't follow any "traditional" rules.
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Paradox86 posted:Also, when he runs and leaps over the divider from "his office" when Dana arrives at the firehouse you hear the tip of his toe kick the wood. That always cracks me up and conjures images for me of Bill Murray completely nosediving into the floor if he hadn't cleared that divider. Ivan Reitman mentions on the DVD commentary that he nearly had a heart attack when Murray just barely cleared the swinging door. I imagine it would have been a very different movie had Murray needed reconstructive facial surgery.
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MokBa posted:I just re-watched this movie today because of this topic. (Thank you Netflix streaming.) It's still absolutely fantastic. I can't believe how much it frightened me as a kid, principally the ending, compared to now, where I see it as more of a comedy. That's the beauty of it. When you're a kid, it's a fantastical adventure about four guys, with the most awesome backpacks ever, who save the world. When you revisit it even as a teenager, you start to see that the fantasy elements are there as a backdrop for the comedy. I was born three weeks after this movie came out in theaters, I know it was the first VHS I ever owned and the day my dad bought a DVD player, we went out and bought the disc. My next step is to now get a Blu-ray player, only because I must own the Blu-ray of this film. I also need to get my hands on Don Shay's book, "Making Ghostbusters," although it's ridiculously hard to find nowadays.  (Pretty sure even used copies go for around a hundred bucks on Half.com and eBay.)
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The Cameo posted:I'm pretty sure the 2005 hi-def remaster that the last DVD and the Blu-ray were based off of was overseen by László Kovács. If that's how he wanted it to look, that's how he wanted it to look. He would have been 72 and already in declining health at that point. Even if he did oversee the remastering, there's a decent possibility that he wasn't really up to the task. (And I refuse to think that Kovács would have agreed to some of the changes shown in those comparison shots, like the amorphous green blob superimposed over Slimer and the proton streams.)
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ChickenMedium posted:Even after all these years, I'll periodically scan Amazon to see if they carry the Speight's Catalog or Tobin's Spirit Guide.  Spade's
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A Winner is Jew posted:Ray : I remember Revelations 7:12 I always get taken out of the movie a little bit at this part, because he's actually paraphrasing Revelation 6:12.
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Aug 12, 2009 20:35
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Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, The Elephant Man, Out of Africa, Platoon, Rain Man, The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, The Color Purple, The Right Stuff, Kramer vs. Kramer, Gandhi, Das Boot, The Killing Fields and motherfucking Amadeus.
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penismightier posted:1970s. Fine. Argue against the rest of my poo poo.
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Jay Dub posted:Edit: There are probably hundreds of lovely GB fan films out there, but this one is exceedingly well-made. Yeah, but it's still lovely. One of the producers of it came to SA a year or two ago to shill for the movie (I think he claimed it was "at least as good as the original films") and wound up getting spanked by, well, everyone. It was pretty funny.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
One of the guys moving the Ghostbusters' equipment off the university campus is listening to it. You can hear it through his headphones. And I could swear it's "Spade's Catalog." Edit: And it is "eleven-five a year."
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It actually sounded like "Space Catalog" when I was younger. And I've always wanted to read Tobin's Sprit guide. Is that in the game? One of the gameplay mechanics involves using the PKE Meter to scan ghosts, supernatural objects / substances, haunted artifacts, etc., not entirely unlike Metroid Prime. By scanning a ghost, you can also find out its weaknesses. The compendium of everything you've scanned so far in the game is Tobin's Spirit Guide.
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Ema Nymton posted:This is fantastic, and I'm not being sarcastic. It works best when you imagine Aykroyd looking at Ernie Hudson, and saying "You're black!" with an excited face, in the same tone as he did about the pole in the firehouse at the beginning.
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Deadpool posted:Seeing as how the cheapest I've seen that novel around is $50 I would be insanely thankful if you transcribed it. Because it's the transcription of an entire copyrighted work, wouldn't this be classified as  ?
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Aug 16, 2009 21:54
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The worst part of the new video game is the absolutely horrible generic instrumental rip-off of "Cleanin' Up the Town" that features in a few cut-scenes.
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^^^ None of the stars allowed the use of their likenesses in the cartoon, so certain ... creative liberties had to be taken.StarSiren posted:I think he's incredibly hilarious during the whole movie. He's really quite great throughout, and is the source of most of the movie's actual humor (as opposed to the "exposing ourselves" line talked about earlier). There's something great about his confused look as he says "The Upper Vest Side" when Venkman asks him where in the hell he's from. Timby fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Aug 19, 2009 |
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Hockles posted:Just the Egon part of this, with clever text, would be a badass avatar. 
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The Cameo posted:"I'm gonna take out some petty cash and take her to dinner. We don't want to lose her." Um, this magnificent feast here
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Awesome Andy posted:The other day I was watching my eight year old niece when she came up to me and asked in a sweet little girl voice, "Uncle Awesome Andy, are you a god?" Your niece is the best niece.
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He does have Ph.D.s in parapsychology and psychology.
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I just found out that my local independent movie theater (in Dubuque, Iowa, of all places) is doing a Halloween double-feature of The Lost Boys ... and Ghostbusters.  I was born a few weeks after the movie came out in theaters, and I've never had a chance to see it on the big screen.
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BulletRiddled posted:I saw it on the big screen a few months ago, and it was magical. The entire audience sang along to the theme song, and there was a standing ovation when they crossed the streams at the end. I just found out that they're not getting a 35mm print. They're just showing the regular old DVD and projecting it.
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ChickenMedium posted:It's not so bad, at least with Ghostbusters. Wally Wick
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YourEvilTw1n posted:I thought the foam packs were only used for stunts, the regular were wood and metal? I'm pretty sure that on the first one, they didn't even have stunt packs, and all they had were the fully loaded props (fiberglass shells, filled with electronics, attached to an aluminum plate and then to the ALICE frame), which weighed in the neighborhood of about 40 pounds. On the second one, that's when they started making the lightweight models (I think they made a cast out of one of the "hero" packs from the first, integrating a lot of the add-on pieces to the cast mold, and just put the electronics in the lightweight version). I think they still used the 40-pounders for close-ups, though.
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Jay Dub posted:To me it always sounded like Ray admitting defeat after trying to think of something completely harmless and then failing miserably. Yeah, it's more like Ray saying, "Man, I really hosed up -- we're going to get killed by a loving marshmallow man."
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Quasipox posted:I'm very much pleased with my avatar. I suggest you do the same. Now we just need a Winston. Would have worked better if you had removed the white background and made it a transparent image (like mine), but very nice. 
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Adrianics posted:"The next time someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'yes'!" "Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'yes!'" But I do agree that "I have seen poo poo that'll turn you white" is the best choice for a Winston avatar. For Venkman: "That was your whole plan, huh? 'Get her.' Very scientific." Edit: Or, "You're not going to lose the house. Everyone has three mortgages nowadays." VVVVVV 
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17643 That's a 180 from about 10 years ago, when Ramis told a magazine (Entertainment Weekly?) that the plan -- which was when they were still developing the absolutely terrible Hellbent as the script -- was for him and Aykroyd to write and produce it, and Ramis to direct. At that point, Reitman had become so unhappy with the direction of the script that he wished everyone well and backed out.
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Yep, and Moranis declined because (as I think has been said a few times in this thread) after his wife died, he went into semi-permanent retirement to raise his kids, and eventually realized he didn't miss acting all that much.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Didn't they put the song in GH5? Negative.
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Hockles posted:Another gem that I forgot about. As Ray, Egon, and Peter are at Dana's apartment investigating things with her and the baby: I'm always bothered by that little sequence, because Ramis botches his line reading and says "gynelogical," instead of "gynecological."
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egon_beeblebrox posted:Ghostbusters 3 tidbit in reply to Sigourney's comment: The 'Venkman is a Ghost' thing has been floating around since at least 1999. I hope to God they don't use it. It's stupid. Earlier than that, actually, as soon as Aykroyd wrote the script for Hellbent. It was part of Murray's demands in order to return. At least in the Hellbent script, anyway -- Venkman died on something like page 11 in the film's opening ghost battle, and then returned at the end to save the day in the battle against Satan.
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Yoshifan823 posted:I dunno, maybe I just haven't watched the right movies, but he's just really good at playing complete pricks, which, really, none of the Ghostbusters are. He was pretty good at playing the "sane man in an insane world" in the short-lived Kitchen Confidential.
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YourEvilTw1n posted:I'm so glad they didn't push it out in 1999. It would have been like Blues Brothers 2000, rehashes of old jokes with newer, not dead, cast members. Aykroyd had totally lost the plot by then, and was insisting that the Hellbent script be produced with no alterations whatsoever. Ivan Reitman thought it was poo poo and said so, and he wound up telling Akyroyd, "I'm out of this; if you want to make it, go right ahead, good luck." At that point, Ramis was going to direct. Indications are that Reitman is back on the project, so I have to assume that at least the story pitch from the Office guys was decent.
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Mortanis posted:Though, out of the cast, he's the only one that really sounds like he just phoned it in. As I recall, he almost literally did just that. The story goes that Terminal Reality had to send a sound crew out to meet Murray on a golf course to record his dialogue, because he wasn't going to travel to the studio.
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My wife got me the complete run of The Real Ghostbusters on DVD for Christmas. Hell yeah.
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CaptAwesome posted:I believe the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is one of the few holdovers from Aykroyd's original script (which involved time travel and lots of large monsters), which makes me think that he was always intended to be in the movie in some form or another. Yep, the Ghostbusters fought the Marshmallow Man within the first twenty pages of the original script -- and I don't believe it incorporated time-travel, but rather inter-dimensional travel. Yeah, it was pretty out-there.
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Pretty sure that I just read that Aronofsky's RoboCop has been put on hold, because the very, very broke MGM wants him to make it in 3D (and probably PG-13, knowing studio morons), and he has no intention of doing so. Edit: Yep. Timby fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Jan 8, 2010 |
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