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Roylicious
Feb 21, 2012

Braver than the cops
ain't afraid of no chaps
If they steppin up on me
I just start bustin some caps

Lodin posted:

:eng101: Sony actually threatened to sue Bill Murray if he didn't take the role.

On what grounds? Just curious.

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Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
the leaked emails didn't mention the grounds just the threat

Snatch Duster
Feb 20, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
They really don't need any grounds because just the possibility of a long drawn out bullshit lawsuit that would tie up Murray's money, lawyer, and time is enough of a reason to capitulate.

Whats easier, spending 2 years winning a crap lawsuit or being on set for 3 hours and getting paid?

Smoking_Dragon
Dec 12, 2001

WOE UNTO THEE
Pillbug
They charge per hour and then a fee based on how much space in the vault the ghosts they catch take up in the vault!

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

gannyGrabber posted:

And anyways they get paid by the city this was in the movie

Nah it's pretty explicitly paid for by their clients. Unless of course you mean getting paid for the Gozer job which logically would be paid by the city.

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug
$700 per ghost.

As per the ****OFFICIAL**** 1984 Commodore 64 game.

I'm glad I could help!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1jKHHeufS0

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax

Gutcruncher posted:

Nah it's pretty explicitly paid for by their clients. Unless of course you mean getting paid for the Gozer job which logically would be paid by the city.

Oh i meant the new movie. who cares about the old ones? poo poo got rebooted.

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax

Lodin posted:

:eng101: Sony actually threatened to sue Bill Murray if he didn't take the role.

Haha owned hard.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
I wonder if the storage fee is one time or like a subscription because no way could they find a specific ghost to release.

ArtIsResistance
May 19, 2007

QUEEN OF FRANCE, SAVIOR OF LOWTAX
i read the first few posts which brutally shook the foundation of this thread and I guess now we're here in this husk

naem
May 29, 2011

Why bother looking for new ghosts to bust? They could just threaten to release ghosts unless you pay them

Ehud
Sep 19, 2003

football.

The real injustice is the ghostbusters only paying Winston $11,500 a year

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Umm guys, so in those Xmen movies, how did the xmen get their powers? Do they go to a geneticist and buy certain powers and get them spliced into their genes or something? And how did that bum "wolverine" afford a whole new skeleton and healing powers as well? Probably a trust fund baby lol

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Pawn 17 posted:

... And how did that bum "wolverine" afford a whole new skeleton and healing powers as well? Probably a trust fund baby lol

Worse, loving government hand outs!

epsilon
Oct 31, 2001


Germstore posted:

I wonder if the storage fee is one time or like a subscription because no way could they find a specific ghost to release.

This is addressed specifically in the new 2016 Ghostbusters, its presented as a subscription model by character Erin Gilbert, "Just like YouTube Red!"

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Germstore posted:

Worse, loving government hand outs!

My tax dollars!!!

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

epsilon posted:

This is addressed specifically in the new 2016 Ghostbusters, its presented as a subscription model by character Erin Gilbert, "Just like YouTube Red!"

Youtube Red is a really bad name. I pretty much expect Youtube Red to be full of porn.

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


So did Ray lose the house when they got sued after the movie, or had they paid off the mortgage with all the income? That was his family home, he was born there :ohdear:

Berious
Nov 13, 2005
They had to close shop because of Obamacare

naem
May 29, 2011

poisonpill posted:

So did Ray lose the house when they got sued after the movie, or had they paid off the mortgage with all the income? That was his family home, he was born there :ohdear:

He'd already sold the house to start his hot new business venture Crystal Skull Vodka©®™

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

poisonpill posted:

So did Ray lose the house when they got sued after the movie, or had they paid off the mortgage with all the income? That was his family home, he was born there :ohdear:

ray seemed to land on his feet since he was the only one still running a business in the private sector when the sequel happens

tho he might've hadda let go of the house and just live in his occult bookstore in the east village since he still hadda work those lovely birthday parties

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



Ehud posted:

The real injustice is the ghostbusters only paying Winston $11,500 a year

Yeah really that's like what $26k in today's money? Disgraceful.

Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010

Pawn 17 posted:

And how did that bum "wolverine" afford a whole new skeleton and healing powers as well? Probably a trust fund baby lol

Wolverine is loving loaded from repeatedly selling his organs on the black market.

Fallows
Jan 20, 2005

If he waits long enough he can use his accrued interest from his savings to bring his negative checking balance back into the black.

Quote-Unquote posted:

They took out a third mortgage on Ray's family home and then they charged $5000 for busting the ghost at the hotel this is in the goddamn movie pay attention you fuckman

Half a million dollar home that he grew up in that was not paid off yet.... Sounds like his parents were not too good with money

Dave Stieb
Apr 15, 2010
I ain't afraid of no female

gleebster
Dec 16, 2006

Only a howler
Pillbug

Ehud posted:

The real injustice is the ghostbusters only paying Winston $11,500 a year

He was salaried? He should take them to court, get big $ on unpaid overtime.

Speleothing
May 6, 2008

Spare batteries are pretty key.

Fallows posted:

Half a million dollar home that he grew up in that was not paid off yet.... Sounds like his parents were not too good with money

No no no. The house was paid off. Bill Murray convinced him to get three new mortgages on it

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

gannyGrabber posted:

New ghostbusters was good, better than old ghostbusters, that is my opinion.

Best part is when bill murray who is a ghost debunker gets tossed out a window by a ghost and dies. It is a metaphor for his career. He did it anyway because he is a whore and needs the $$$

lol that's pretty impresive in terms of being transparently insulting to him

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


Also, why didn't Murray even bargain with the guy? His one skill was being a con man, so he should've been able to get a good rate on the mortgage or something. I assume they paid off the house right away, but we'll never know for sure... :ghost::ghost::ghost:

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

poisonpill posted:

Also, why didn't Murray even bargain with the guy? His one skill was being a con man, so he should've been able to get a good rate on the mortgage or something. I assume they paid off the house right away, but we'll never know for sure... :ghost::ghost::ghost:

lol @ 17% interest on a mortgage just imagine how much better the economy was back then that regular people could afford rates of 10% and up

reallivedinosaur
Jun 13, 2012

Ogdober subrise! XDDD
someone tried to tell me once the occult shop in ghostbusters 2 is the mortgaged property from the first movie

i called him a racist

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!

poisonpill posted:

Also, why didn't Murray even bargain with the guy? His one skill was being a con man, so he should've been able to get a good rate on the mortgage or something. I assume they paid off the house right away, but we'll never know for sure... :ghost::ghost::ghost:

Cuz it's not his money so why negotiate

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!

Quote-Unquote posted:

Yeah really that's like what $26k in today's money? Disgraceful.

But didn't they all live in the firehouse? What's that worth in NYC rent money in the mid-80s?

naem
May 29, 2011

The firehouse was condemned they were squatting

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Frankenstyle posted:

I like Millennials. It makes me smile thinking about them slowly dying in the hellish wasteland we've left them, staring at a sandstorm on the horizon and thinking "When will mom come back with my apocalypse participation trophy?"

the worst part about boomers is you fucks didn't have the balls to get the missiles flying and pre-empt all this at the height of the cold war

gutless to the end


Johnny Aztec posted:

Youtube Red is a really bad name. I pretty much expect Youtube Red to be full of porn.

55% of its subs are people who thought that then forgot about the charge when they found out it was just minecraft LPers getting into wacky hijinx, 35% shitheads who have welded their ego to Google and unironically describe themselves as "part of the Google ecosystem", and the rest is just churn of normals taking a look and getting the gently caress out

Bluemillion
Aug 18, 2008

I got your dispensers
right here
I'm not gonna see the new one, no matter how many times paid posters remind me of this franchise.

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

Mange Mite posted:

And how the busting made them feel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE

Ruggan
Feb 20, 2007
WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!


Probably government subsidized. Our tax money at work and all that.

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


if ghosts were real, i'd feel a lot better about paying 10% sales tax to know someone was going around capturing them and keeping them from destroying the city instead of building high school football stadiums that fall apart in three years

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Moon Atari
Dec 26, 2010

If ghosts were real the ghostbusters would provide a very controversial service, because ghosts would be the original occupants of the properties they were being removed from. It would be like the treatment of native americans, but with an even smaller containment unit.

Unrelated to that thought, if ghosts were real I would try to have sex with them.

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