A misanthrope posted:

with one simple change they could have made hateful white men even ANGRIER

Tumble posted:

Does Ghostbusters actually have lore and extended universe stuff? I've never met a Ghostbuster fan who knew anything about Ghostbusters other than that it was a super fun movie and Egon may have hosed a toaster.

Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans... when somebody is a huge fan of those things they have encyclopedic knowledge of how esoteric poo poo functions and the history behind it.

My friend was a "huge Ghostbusters fan" and that just meant she watched the movies a bunch whenever it rained, and occasionally dressed up like Venkman.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I've been reading a few GB articles and just learned all about this crazy bitch of a musical instrument:


That's an Ondes Martenot, one of the earliest electronic musical instruments invented by Maurice Martenot in 1928. GB composer Elmer Bernstein used one of them to get the spooky theremin-like noises for the score in the opening library scene.

Here's one in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0aflcF0-ys

Applewhite posted:

What's another movie that was remade with female leads?

Lasher posted:

They're re-making Aliens with a dude in the role of Ripley.

Applewhite posted:

Groundhog's Day.

Mange Mite posted:

Didnt they already remake that with a woman

Junior Jr. posted:

So now we're not getting one, but six reboots with female leads? Is there a slang for that now? I don't know...'fe-boot' maybe?

Funky See Funky Do posted:

No, really. Do they have trailers for trailers now? Like "Coming this March! The trailer for the new movie coming out in December!"

JediTalentAgent posted:

Pixels probably flopped despite making some money but it also seemed like it was on the 'worst of 2015' movie lists of last year, too.

JediTalentAgent posted:

Supernatural/Sci-fi Comedies seem to be very difficult to pull off successfully on both fronts trying to do the formula of 'team gets put together, fights menace, saves world'.

Tato posted:

I'm the girl in the back trying to escape this misery

The Tao Jones posted:

I like Kristen Wiig's facial expression. Look at her. She knows.

steinrokkan posted:

Why are these clowns visiting 40 year olds in hospital for christs sake

Microwaves Mom posted:

I'd argue that the one who plays female eegon knows too. Look at that poo poo eating grin.

Bacon Terrorist posted:

Yeah, this and the dance sequence are what concern me a lot.

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Why isn't it red?

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

why aren't those regulation safety orange??????????

Professor Shark posted:

I read an article that was in response to the hospital visit PR stunt, which generated so much bad press that the hospital had to plead with Twitter to please be nice, that accused anyone who thought the PR stunt was bad of just hating women and could not get over the fact that the movie is an all female cast

Solice Kirsk posted:

Well, in the end they still need to make a movie, and if it was left up to women it would be 6 hours long, include a huge ice cream budget, and would be all about their periods or shoes or whatever else women talk about all the damned time.

Ahundredbux posted:

i wonder if they've gotten some secret hate mail or backlash or something because I sure as gently caress haven't seen anyone have a problem with the cast being all women

Ahundredbux posted:

that looks like a total of like a thousand people at most lol

RoosterChief posted:

Which one is classed as "shegon"?

Applewhite posted:

I'm gonna go ahead and take the side that when a kid dying in the hospital asks to meet the Ghostbusters, he's talking about Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson because that's the movie he saw and the characters he identified with. To bring him four women from a film he's never seen and tell him "here are the Ghostbusters!" seems like a cruel bait and switch.

A misanthrope posted:

well yeah that's what all these hospital visits are -- photo ops

except for johhny depp, who i guess is always going to hospitals and schools dressed as captain jack out of the goodness of his own heart

Applewhite posted:

The sad thing is, Robocop actually could have benefitted from a remake. The original was low budget as poo poo. The scene where he's seeing through the wall with his infra red vision doesn't even use an infra red camera effect. If you watch the scene it's actually a man in a suit painted with the infra red colors.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Someone must have caused them to miss. We must have been stabbed in the back, by an intruder.

TheWeepingHorse posted:

I have a friend who worked on the Robocop remake. It was hilarious to hear how obviously terrible the finished product was going to be. The director began as an overconfident artiste, but as the production progressed, and as it became clear that it wasn't coming together, he would shut himself more and more away to micromanage smaller and smaller aspects of the movie. He delegated larger and larger chunks of the actual moviemaking to underlings.

reallivedinosaur posted:

I think the Super Mario Bros movie is loving fantastic.

Mange Mite posted:

The costume designer for this should be shot

Gammatron 64 posted:

Ghostbusters and Back to the Future are probably my favorite movies ever. I don't think there should be any remakes or sequels to them period.

Gonzo the Eggman posted:

The difference between this:



And this:



Is that Captain America is more likely to be recognised, regardless of who's playing it, than, say, a bunch of women dressed in jumpsuits.

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Chris Pratt seems genuinely nice and cool

504 posted:

Assuming this movie follows the same basic ideas as the original, why would a group of highly educated scientists hire a complete fucken idiot to run the paperwork side of their company?

Is it because he's hot? So it's funny?

Professor Shark posted:

Yeah, "Built-in Audience" is an actual thing and it just means that studios can spend less money and talent while expecting a larger return because people already love the novel, the toys, the series, whatever

Applewhite posted:

I could go visit random kids in the hospital and justify it the same way.

"What, are you saying I shouldn't visit sick kids and try to cheer them up?"

Solice Kirsk posted:

edit:
To take it even further, the kids don't care that Chris Pratt or Chris Evans was visiting them either, they cared that the Captain America or Star Lord they know from movies was visiting them.

A misanthrope posted:

#notmyghostbusters

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Some nerds (gently caress, most nerds) have made a safe little pillow fort in their psyche built out of nostalgia for the cartoons and TV shows and films they watched as kids and will strenuously oppose anything which might make them reassess those happy memories, even by accident. Bitching about a new adaptation is pretty much a defensive reflex action at this point.

Edit: the original meaning of 'nostalgia' was ‘acute homesickness’, etymologically from the Greek nostos ‘return home’ + algos ‘pain’.

The Cameo posted:

It's part of the confirmation bias that has become more and more apparent as social networks have consumed more of how people interact with the internet on a daily basis. It's much easier now, more than ever, to avoid opinions you don't like through "muting" and blocking them from reaching your eyes/ears, leading to circular thinking and eventually concluding with nigh-militant opinions on completely pointless things like the success/importance of media franchises, especially ones people centered their childhoods around.

It also arguably has led to a sense of ownership of the property itself from the fanbase, instead of ownership of the feelings said franchises brought up inside of them. The sheer vigorous hatred of Lucas for not recreating the sensations of the original Star Wars trilogy for the hardcore base of consumers that had a part in making him rich is an early and prime example of this. Further examples can be found in the otaku subculture in Japan, particularly in regard to the idol industry, as Satoshi Kon detailed all the way back in 1997 with Perfect Blue (which even touches on this aspect of the internet much earlier than almost any other work). Yet another, more awful extreme is how a Steven Universe fanartist was very probably driven to attempt suicide by hardcore members of the fandom on Tumblr, all because she had the gall to draw the characters as she saw them rather than by the strict parameters they viewed them under. Then there's the film critics who received death threats for giving a Batman movie a middling or bad review. It goes on and on.

You cloister together with a mental/emotional tribe enough, eventually all others not in the tribe are The Other and are to be destroyed lest your way of viewing the world be "corrupted".

Human nature is an ugly thing.

A misanthrope posted:

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lol this is beautiful

VectorSigma posted:

get this

ghostbusters... but they're all ducks

Smash it Smash hit posted:

anyone notice how the ghostbusters visiting the hospital are all at least 2 arms length away from any of the paitents they are seeing?

JediTalentAgent posted:

What would be worse though: GB2016 cast showing up in costume or (cityname) Ghostbusters fanclub showing up in costume?

At least the Cityname Ghostbusters would probably put on a full show of it: They'd have their decorated Oldsmobile Stationwagon outside, act like all their equipment was dangerous, illegally tap into the powergrid (aka charge their phones in a wall outlet).