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The_Doctor posted:The mysteries work best as external metaphors for internal struggle for Peter/egon, and as pure episodic set pieces Are you really dragging some TVIV feud into here, or am I missing the joke? The looked at the trap line is great, because it not only gives that basic joke of someone immediately doing something they aren't meant to, but also reinforces how out of their depth the Ghostbusters are at this point. Even Egon, who built most of the equipment and is usually calm and logical seems to be flustered.
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Ehud posted:I'm givin' this whole thing as a promotional expense, that's why I invited clients instead of friends.
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If there's one upside to Harold Ramis being dead, it's that he'll never see the last page of this thread.
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Oh gently caress, we all knew this was coming, but still... http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ghostbusters-Looking-Cast-Melissa-McCarthy-Get-Details-69096.html
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Ensign_Ricky posted:Oh gently caress, we all knew this was coming, but still... If they can actually write a decent character for her, it could maybe work? Like, she was funny in Bridesmaids.
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I want to see her be the "smart" one.
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Not keen on Melissa McCarthy but she was actually good in St Vincent so could be decent if not typecast.
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I haven't seen enough Melissa McCarthy to know if she is capable of playing an actual character or if she just always acts like Melissa McCarthy.
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Bring in Rose Byrne
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Parlett316 posted:Bring in Rose Byrne And Cecily Strong. And SOMEHOW Bill Hader. Dude can do no wrong.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
Bill Hader as the put-upon secretary, obviously.
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I guess Boomerjinks might be the person to answer this, but does anyone know if you need a special license or privilege or whatever to actually put revolving lights and a siren on your car?
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I guess Boomerjinks might be the person to answer this, but does anyone know if you need a special license or privilege or whatever to actually put revolving lights and a siren on your car? Varies by state but generally the car needs to have license plates specifically marking it as an emergency vehicle or you need to get a special light permit.
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I've never heard of it depending on your license plates. The general rule of thumb is that looking like an emergency vehicle is illegal everywhere, though you'll find more regulations that establish what an emergency vehicle is required to have than laws barring equipment on personal vehicles. In Colorado it's "no unauthorized vehicle may be equipped with a device that is capable of or designed to display a red, green, or blue light to the front of the vehicle." In California it's something like "unauthorized vehicles shall not be equipped with blue/red lights or any facsimilie thereof. Having the equipment does not equal "police impersonation" which has waaaaay worse consequences, but is of course connected to a lot of people that try to pull over and harass victims. That said, I've driven the Magnum through 30 states and I've never been cited. We passed a bunch of CHiPs biker cops near San Diego that threw up the horns. NYPD pulled us over for photos and then gave us a police escort into Times Square. Denver PD came to one of our car shows and ask if I would let them take the car to perform a traffic stop. Gave a quick ride to an officer in Seattle that wouldn't stop shouting at people through the PA and laughed his rear end off when we played "Bad Boys" out the roof speakers. We did get pulled over by White House police when we got too close to the Ellipse, but Secret Service seemed to think it was funny and worth taking a few photos in front of. When I do the haunted house tours in October I usually turn everything on a few blocks from the haunts, one of which is adjacent to a police station, and no fucks are given. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnnaY49JdPY
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The answer may depend partially on whether or not you're white.
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Hey folks. It's a new calendar year, and that means it's once again time I humbly ask you to join my campaign to get Ghostbusters into the National Film Registry and thus preserved forever. (They wipe all the votes every year and start fresh.) I am so disappointed it didn't happen last year, I thought it would be an optimal and appropriate time. All the instructions are on this page. Really it's just writing an e-mail, nominating Ghostbusters (1984) — and telling them how you heard about the Registry, if you'd be so kind. http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/nominate/
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Jack Gladney posted:The answer may depend partially on whether or not you're white. *and what kind of poo poo you've seen
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I guess Boomerjinks might be the person to answer this, but does anyone know if you need a special license or privilege or whatever to actually put revolving lights and a siren on your car? I remember reading some geocities website years and years ago on Proton Charging from a guy who owned a legit replica or actual filming version of the Ecto-1A. He was told that as long as the siren was off and he put special light covers on the light bars (not the awesome light up billboards) there was nothing illegal about it.
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Kevyn posted:As a kid, one of my best friends would hide behind a chair for the "get her!" scene EVERY TIME. We literally watched that movie every day and it still scared him on the 300th viewing. He did the same thing during the Thriller video too. Was your best friend me? The first few minutes of ghostbusters always feels newer to me, because I usually hid my eyes because "the lady" scared me so much. And I literally avoided MTV until I was 9 for fear of seeing the Thriller video. Edit: I always found Peck's "have it your way" line a little weird because it sounds like he's about to say something else, but the scene just ends. I would not doubt that the scene played longer originally and was cut for time and pacing. AlliedBiscuit fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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That reminds me of a part that always feels awkward to me. After Peter checks Dana's fridge and finds no monsters and they have the "I don't think you're crazy" exchange, it cuts to them in the living room and they're suddenly in the middle of an argument with her saying he needs to leave. I think the living room scene was originally longer with a build-up to the fight but they cut the beginning.
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I always thought that, too! It's a very strange segue from "I don't think you're crazy" to "all I have in my life is my work". Also, Bill Murray's makeup in that scene is horrible.
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I think the build up works in the Peter/Dana/Apartment scene because he's being dismissive and aloof the entire time they're there together. "One of our little toys" is basically "you wouldn't understand" and such forth. She's genuinely terrified and he's mildly skeptical at best, making it worst by hitting on her at any opportunity. Venkman spends the entire time in the apartment pushing and prodding her, quips to get reactions, so by the time she responds in the negative (after he makes fun of her food selection in the seemingly unhaunted fridge) he's taken it to the next step of trying to make himself look like the victim by the time they're out the kitchen door.
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MrJacobs posted:I remember reading some geocities website years and years ago on Proton Charging from a guy who owned a legit replica or actual filming version of the Ecto-1A. He was told that as long as the siren was off and he put special light covers on the light bars (not the awesome light up billboards) there was nothing illegal about it. No original cars (unless you count the pre-Ecto black/gray bondo ambulance) have ever been in private hands. Going back to geocities, sounds like you may be referring to Dean Newman from Arizona who built this car  It still pops up for sale from time to time, usually for a cool quarter mil. And yeah, an exception to lightbar laws is if cover them up, typically have "Out of Service" printed on them. 
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Boomerjinks posted:No original cars (unless you count the pre-Ecto black/gray bondo ambulance) have ever been in private hands. oof, nostalgia.
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Boomerjinks posted:No original cars (unless you count the pre-Ecto black/gray bondo ambulance) have ever been in private hands. Yep, that's the guy. It was really cool to read how lovely it kind of is to actually own one of those, since a slight breeze fucks with it hard due to the roof being so top heavy, gas mileage sucks donkey balls, and upkeep can be a bitch if you want to bring it to shows. Still, it would totally own so hard to have your very own real Ecto-1.
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Aside from the marquee (well, the specific "We're back!" and the '2' logo), I kind of prefer Ecto-1A 
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Fifthrider, the guy that owns the San Diego '59 Superior Ecto, once estimated that it costs about $150 per outing between fuel, maintenance, and damage done by people stupidly interacting with the car, or the self-loathing the car has for itself. I don't believe the roof rack would make that much of a difference on a procar in wind due to the sheer weight of the vehicle itself, but could definitely help drop the 12-mpg down into the single digits. The joke amongst owners is that putting a no-ghost logo on the side of a car (any car) simply curses it. I didn't have 40k to drop on a restoration, and I wanted to drive the thing cross-country a bunch of times, so I figured a new car would do the trick. Goddamn thing spun a bearing at 20,000 miles in bumfuck Ohio. Another '59 Miller-Meteor Ecto owner out of Pasadena recalled a story about his brakes failing on the 210 (I think) and it taking nearly 20 minutes for his car to coast to a stop. Horrifying. edit: fun fact, Fifthrider's roof rack, while inaccurate, features no less than three sets of linear actuators that collapse the taller gear down into the box so he can store the car in a garage that isn't necessarily RV-height. loving amazing.   And right there with you, Rupert, a 1A with GB1 logos would be the cats knees.
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In Michigan the law is, or it was a few years ago that there's nothing about lights and sirens on your vehicle, you're perfectly ok, When you turn any of them on is when you've broken the law. My old work truck had a blue light bar and a siren/PA system in it, never had issues with the cops and wasn't registered any special way almost forgot, we even have a small club of people around the area that own retired police cars that are fully outrigged with no special permits including one that has the last 80's state trooper Mustang. Even managed to get a new door seal afterwards because the door had been replaced during service, and so I've heard, the state cops issue two logos per vehicle only. If one is damaged or removed it never gets replaced. He had some funny stories about the group going to Canada once and the authorities there went ape poo poo over the police cruisers crossing over. Everything from early 90's Crown Vics all the way back to a couple 50's era Chevys. SocketWrench fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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I would love to be a fly on the wall of the station where the cop who issues a ticket to the loving Ecto-1 for improper emergency lighting hands his duty report in to the captain.
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McSpanky posted:I would love to be a fly on the wall of the station where the cop who issues a ticket to the loving Ecto-1 for improper emergency lighting hands his duty report in to the captain. I think this was actually in the original script, and as the cop puts the ticket underneath the wiper, it evaporates or something.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I think this was actually in the original script, and as the cop puts the ticket underneath the wiper, it evaporates or something. Isn't that from the ol' "Haunted Ecto-1" side plot that was dropped?
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Scroto Baggins posted:Isn't that from the ol' "Haunted Ecto-1" side plot that was dropped? Whoa, what's this now?
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Haha, I was actually talking about real life but that sounds pretty interesting.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Whoa, what's this now? As far as I can remember, there was a subplot dropped from the first movie wherein the Ecto-1 becomes somewhat sentient due to all the PKE it's been exposed to. I think there are a few shots of it left in the movie, mostly used in the montage. There was one scene scripted like the one you described: a cop tickets the Ecto-1 and it uses it's windshield wipers to throw it off, repeat several times for humor. Someone on here probably knows more about this than I do.
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I feel like every few months I learn about a new deleted or unfilmed scene, or weird poo poo from earlier drafts. It really shouldn't have been a good movie-- the filming style sounds so much like the Anchorman movies, where they had enough leftover material to edit together entire alternate films.
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Oh cool. Also New All-Female 'Ghostbusters' Cast Chosen. I wonder what Ghostbuster news we'll have in 2 months? Another cast? New director? Dan Aykroyd flies to the moon? The future will tell. Ave Azaria posted:I feel like every few months I learn about a new deleted or unfilmed scene, or weird poo poo from earlier drafts. It really shouldn't have been a good movie-- the filming style sounds so much like the Anchorman movies, where they had enough leftover material to edit together entire alternate films. I'd still like to see Aykroyd's unfiltered vision for Ghostbusters. Someone cook up some sorta alternate reality device where we can see a reality wherein Jim Belushi died and John Belushi refuses to.
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Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. I am so-so on Wiig but the other three are hilarious. I'm getting excited for this.
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