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High five, CelticPredator! The Evolution score has been a favorite of mine since it was released, I think it was maybe the first thing I ever ordered from Amazon. I've never heard of anyone else who regarded it as memorable, let alone fantastic (which it totally is).
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In high school, I'd have that part in the mall chase as my theme song walking down the halls. I'm weird. But whatever. Score owns.
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Harold Ramis once described himself as a "conservative-slash-libertarian" and confirmed those themes in the movie. There's an anti-academia message as well: "I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results."
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Toady posted:Harold Ramis once described himself as a "conservative-slash-libertarian" and confirmed those themes in the movie. There's an anti-academia message as well: "I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results." Ghostbusters is pretty much the exact film satirized in Michael Bay's Transformers.
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Toady posted:Harold Ramis once described himself as a "conservative-slash-libertarian" and confirmed those themes in the movie. There's an anti-academia message as well: "I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college. You don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results." As someone who has worked in academia for the last decade, that statement is totally true. I would confirm that, but I need to form a committee to delegate the task of creating 3 smaller fact-finding committees, and it's mid-semester so now everyone is taking their pre-summer break vacation, so the meeting will have to be postponed.
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Feb 20, 2016 22:56
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Boomerjinks posted:High five, CelticPredator! I was given a free bottle of shampoo with my ticket, a brand of shampoo I use and trust to this very day.
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Feb 20, 2016 23:50
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Can it really be anti-academia when the dean was totally justified in removing Venkman?
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Can it really be anti-academia when the dean was totally justified in removing Venkman? The kids loved them.
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Feb 21, 2016 06:29
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The kids loved them. Not that one guy.
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Feb 21, 2016 06:33
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Not that one guy. Well, he's the worst kind of popular tripe.
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Feb 21, 2016 06:37
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Jonas Albrecht posted:Not that one guy. Only seventy-five more to go.
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Feb 21, 2016 07:07
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You can keep the five bucks!
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Feb 21, 2016 07:51
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That's gotta be some cockroach.
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I am ghostbusters and I come to bust your ghost. Take charge and live another day, ghosts!
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Feb 21, 2016 10:39
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Scroto Baggins posted:As someone who has worked in academia for the last decade, that statement is totally true. I would confirm that, but I need to form a committee to delegate the task of creating 3 smaller fact-finding committees, and it's mid-semester so now everyone is taking their pre-summer break vacation, so the meeting will have to be postponed. You seem to regard science as some kind of dodge, or hustle.
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Feb 21, 2016 10:54
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I'm working the old nematode switcheroo.
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Feb 21, 2016 14:30
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Kevyn posted:You can keep the five bucks! I love that that joke gets funnier the further away from 1984 we get.
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Feb 21, 2016 14:49
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The_Doctor posted:I love that that joke gets funnier the further away from 1984 we get. Conversely the price of the ambulance gets less funny.
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Feb 21, 2016 19:44
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Transversely, Winston's line about the pay went from funny to nostalgic to just sad.
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Toady posted:Harold Ramis once described himself as a "conservative-slash-libertarian" and confirmed those themes in the movie.  That was Ivan Reitman.
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Jamesman posted:Evolution was good. I realised I hadn't seen Evolution since it came out so I went and watched it again. It's a really good film and Duchovny and Jones are solid but I couldn't help but feel that young Bill Murray and Aykroyd or Ramis would have really elevated those roles. I'd also completely forgotten that Aykroyd and Ethan Suplee had small roles in the film and Sarah Silverman appears as "woman who nearly takes her shirt off". The film also has more Ghostbusters parallels than I'd remembered - the human antagonist is the army major who should have been on top of containing the problem but he doesn't listen to the heroes and when he tries to shut it down he instead creates a much bigger problem, in pretty much the same way that Peck doesn't listen to the Ghostbusters and shuts down the containment field.
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Feb 23, 2016 00:50
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The only bad thing about Evolution is Sean Williams Scott
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zVxTeflon posted:The only bad thing about Evolution is Sean Williams Scott The fact that the film starts with an extended scene of SWS being 'wacky' is a major drawback but this was just after American Pie and Road Trip and Dude, Where's My Car? so I guess he was supposed to be the big drawcard for the younger folks.
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Getting off-topic here, but I'd much rather have a The Rundown 2 than a Ghostbusters 3.
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Boomerjinks posted:Getting off-topic here, but I'd much rather have a The Rundown 2 than a Ghostbusters 3. I saw The Rundown like 4 times in theaters, due to taking multiple dates to the movies in college. I didn't regret it. But why can't we have The Rundown 2 & Ghostbusters 3?
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I don't think I remember one thing about The Rundown. It's the kind of movie that I totally forgot I saw until it's brought up to me.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I don't think I remember one thing about The Rundown. It's the kind of movie that I totally forgot I saw until it's brought up to me. Not even Christopher Walken ranting about the tooth fairy?
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Jamesman posted:Which seems more likely based on that teaser? I'm leaning towards option A, because having a trailer start out all serious and have people call their last resort in desperation and fear gives a good contrast to when the Ghostbusters theme kicks in and they are up to wacky antics. Looking forward to giving this film a chance, but not optimistic simply because the cast is what made the original. The best thing about the original Ghostbusters is that you can actually see where their critics are coming from. You could make most of the film the same (at least up until the finale) with it being the story of Peter Venkman losing his academic position and resorting to enabling and conning his smart but gullible friends out of their savings by persuading them that they are fighting ghosts. And that movie would still be amazing. Senor Tron fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Feb 23, 2016 |
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Right, Egon and Ray probably would have got into MIT or Stanford no problem if they ditched Venkman.
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The Rundown is just like The Rock in that Ill always watch it whenever its on, no matter where in the movie it is.
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I was wondering what the gently caress you guys were talking about, turns out The Rundown was called Welcome to the Jungle in Australia for some unknown reason.
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McSpanky posted:Transversely, Winston's line about the pay went from funny to nostalgic to just sad. Even twenty years ago, it horrified me. I still kinda think I must have misheard it, there's no way a full time, high profile job like that could possibly pay so little, could it? 
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I had a dream last night that I was watching the new trailer... and it was just a handheld video of 4-5 people on stage, wearing various, poorly-made masks made to look like the original Ghostbusters. Yeah, I don't know either.
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Cage posted:The Rundown is just like The Rock in that Ill always watch it whenever its on, no matter where in the movie it is. This was confusing as hell to me until I realized you were talking about the Connery/Cage film, not y'know..the Rock, who stars in The Rundown.
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You know what I would watch a dwayne johnson movie too if it was on, why not?
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Sentinel Red posted:Even twenty years ago, it horrified me. I still kinda think I must have misheard it, there's no way a full time, high profile job like that could possibly pay so little, could it? What does he say? "This is definitely worth another 75 a year"? Something like that?
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The_Doctor posted:What does he say? "This is definitely worth another 75 a year"? Something like that? I thought it was 'eleven-five'?
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Winston Zeddemore posted:This job is definitely not worth eleven-five a year!"
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Well, that's $27,392.59 in 2016 money. Not bad but not great.
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The_Doctor posted:Well, that's $27,392.59 in 2016 money. Not bad but not great. For dealing with nuclear accelerators and world saving, I'd say it's paltry.
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