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Because talking about Flip Flops and bad costumes isn't a place for this thread to go, let's talk about yet another little thing I noticed about the movie when I was rewatching it...3 minutes ago. The Three first go look at the firehouse. You see the lovely condition it's in, and the Realtor Lady is clearing trying to pimp the place. Venkman does what he does best: makes a snarky comment, and consults "Speng" to find out the true state of the building. You all know what's coming next: "This place should be condemned" blahblahblah. And I realize how awesome that speech is. See this kind of gets covered up being literally one line away from The Pole Introduction, but this is amazing script work. By setting up the fact that the building is just barely standing as is, we should have known as soon that line was over "this building won't come out of this movie intact." Of course, in the storyline the place exploded because of the obvious Containment Unit shut-down but by putting that little speech into the script and showing just how hosed up that building is, (seriously, go back and write down that list. it's impressively broken-down.) It sets up perfectly the beginning of the Third Act. Movie still produces new things, all these years later.
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The trailer they posted was nice too. I really hope this goes nation-wide. I can't think of a better movie to have re-released in october.
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Sep 13, 2011 22:55
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Good news for people worried about screening locations, My AMC and assumingly all of the NYC area ones have finally announced dates, if not already put tickets on sale. So far it looks like I'll only be getting it for the 13th, which seems weird. If Lion King can get #1 for two loving weeks there's *nothing* preventing a non-3d rerelease from doing the same.
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Oct 4, 2011 00:19
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So partly inspired from how much fun I had rewatching the movie, I decided "gently caress, why have I never gone to *see* the Firehouse?" and decided to take a random trip up to NYC. Course, it turns out that you need to plan this sort of poo poo, as not only was it raining, not only is the firehouse actually located alllll the way down on the south side of the island, but it was also Comic-Con! And Friday! So even getting past the Holland Tunnel took about...three hours? But just when I was about to give up Ta Da!  I'm amazed how little has actually changed. I can't understand why they would want to close the building. Unless of course it's "It's terrible location for a working firehouse" then yea, I can understand that.
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Oct 15, 2011 03:19
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Had my first Thursday off in...well a while, so I don't know how this showing did. I'm thrilled that people are enjoying it, and I'm sorry to hear some people are still having problems with a missing bass channel. *Please*, if you've had that problem in your theatre, contact them tomorrow. Don't be a jerk about it, just ask them if they can check to make sure it's okay. When we don't have eighteen different times for complaints a day, it makes near impossible to know anything is wrong. Just two minor details and I'll shut up 1. I am *so sorry* about the Jack&Jill trailer. It's loving Utterly Mandatory ever since Week 1. It's not our fault, I swear! 2. As of right now, most theatre seem to have schedule One Last Showing. The day is of course: 10/31. You fucks better show up and give this a good send-off!
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Oct 28, 2011 08:35
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Considering how much Ghostbusters ruled the world for most of the 80's, I'm amazed this wasn't what every single Ice Cream Truck wound up doing. If you got to have one of those slimer facepops served to you by a guy in a jumpsuit in an Ecto-45678, you'd lose your poo poo as an 8 year-old. Hell I might do that now.
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Jul 10, 2012 23:35
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The Ecto-Cooler Story As it turns out, Ecto-Cooler went on WAY longer than anyone has ever thought it did, as Minute Maid only cancelled it sometime in 2001. However, by 2003 Nostalgia had firmly grasped the internet and the website X-Entertainment managed to do some Internet Detective work to find out that the flavor "Shoutin Orange Tangergreen" was (for all intents) Ecto Cooler without the branding. If you lived in the right parts of the country, you could simply walk into your local super-market, and pick up a 12-pack of ecto cooler as if it weren't this awesome thing. Unfortunately, Minute Maid decided to cancel that flavor as well, but thanks to some incredible nerds over in Chicago, you can simply make your own Ecto Cooler.
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Oct 9, 2012 20:59
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It's terrible timing with all the Ghostbuster Porn talk, but this trailer came to my attention recently, and I figured you guys needed to witness it as well. If you still don't believe this movie will work with a Female Cast, behold Alt-Universe Bill Murray https://vimeo.com/100250026
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Oct 31, 2014 08:43
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Okay, so I've been meaning to bring this up in here, but I've been holding off cause I kinda wanted to gather my thoughts about this. Then This got posted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-dYS8j7Rbc and I realized that I've kinda always liked Ghostbusters II. The problem (which is a weird way of putting it) is that "Ghostbusters" manages to be a bunch of different things Simultaneously. It's one of the greatest films ever made. It's a potential Universe in the making (one could argue that it's a Reverse Star Wars, with the Extended Universe being far greater than the Actual One.)It's the Eighties in a nutshell. It's cool cars, cool special effects, cool sound effects (Ecto1 Siren = Tie Fighter) For some people, Ghostbusters is Bill and Dan and Harold and Ernie being the funniest motherfuckers on the planet. I'm so fine with this, it's an opinion that's probably A Fact. But I think I'm with the majority of the population that thinks of all of the awesome things that the Ghostbusters films are, and want more. We want Proton Packs and an Ecto...3? and cool looking ghosts being busted by some funny people. I think we're also kinda mad at Harold and Dan and Sony for holding this poo poo up for so long. We recognize the amazing contributions they gave us, but Move Along, let someone else strap on the pack. At least give it a chance. If it sucks, then it sucks. In retrospect, Michael Bay made a Ninja Turtles, and it wasn't The Heat Death Of The Universe. Everyone is so gung-ho to go "This thing is gonna suck balls" and you're all probably right, but somewhere in Hollywood, there's a dude (dudette!) who got into making props for movies when he tried to build a proton pack when s/he was 6. There are a SFX team that saw Slimer chowing down on Hot Dogs and wanted to know how they made him do that. Do you not think these people wouldn't kill to work on this movie? gently caress, don't a single one of you say you wouldn't jump at a chance to be an extra in the big crowd celebration at the end. It is completely within the realm of possibilities that this movie will be What We Wanted. But like, maybe hold back on the hysterics a little? At least til something is actually written for the drat thing.
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Nov 8, 2014 09:20
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Oh see, I knew it was one of the dudes. Okay, fair enough reassign blame to Bill. But why do people still assume that this is gonna be poo poo, therefore, anyone who wants this movie just wants more poo poo? If you look at every single thing that Ghostbusters has ever "churned out" since 1984, can you think of anything that everyone can point to and go "Yea, that's bad." The toys were pretty good, the cartoon was exceptional-adequate for a kids cartoon, the second movie is A Rehash at worst, Xtreme Ghostbusters was at least a neat concept, and the 2009 videogame should be considered a Modern Day Miracle for the NotShit Status it achieved. For fucks sake, we got Ecto-Cooler out of this brand! In fact, I think the only thing that sullies the good reputation of The Ghostbusters As A Brand are the NES Games and the Color Restoration Job for the latest DVDs/Blu Ray. Out of 30 years, I think it's safe to say those are the true Offenses. So why assume such negativity? What if it's *shock* actually good?
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Nov 9, 2014 02:55
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This too. We all know what Ghostbusters 3 could have been. But all of that poo poo is gone. It's done, never have to worry about Ghostbusters In Hell ever again. It's gonna be three-four people, tramping through the streets of Manhattan, because there's no way in gently caressthe New York City government wouldn't want them to be there. Ya know, ten years ago people thought there was no way in gently caress you could ever do an Avengers movie properly.
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Nov 9, 2014 03:50
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I know there's a lot of people in this thread that hate McCarthy and want her so far away from this project she's in a different galaxy arm. But I loving love that cast. But what I keep coming back to is how much I don't want them in a Sexy Ghostbuster Outfit. I'd image search to give examples, but I'd just get furious at the result page displaying all those annoying outfits so you'll all just have to imagine it. I'm also not sure I want them to just be in a regular jumpsuit, because gently caress it this is a movie, and these are movie stars. There ya go, that's a decent angle for the hate on this cast I'll agree with. No one really thought of any of those four dudes as "hot". They were just four regular lookin dudes. Now in comes an all girl cast and the odds of them redesigning the jumpsuit to have frilly skirts shoots up tenfold.
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Dec 13, 2014 06:04
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Wait what, how the gently caress did you get the reverse idea of what I was saying? My point was judging on all the evidence around us, including the fact that this is Hollywood, and this is something Sony is desperate about, they'd do anything to make this film sell well and that includes putting em in a dumb redesigned outfit that looks like one of the things Ghostbusters News apparently posts every day.
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Dec 13, 2014 20:07
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Ensign_Ricky posted:I just don't find her funny. Besides, my dream cast is Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Aisha Tyler, and Isla Fisher. That's actually not that bad.
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Dec 13, 2014 23:49
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I'm fuzzy on the whole "good/bad" thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
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Dec 18, 2014 06:41
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Ya know, much has been said about how Ghostbusters IS New York City, that it's the greatest love letter to NYC in Cinema and all that jazz. That's all very much true. But the idea of a London-Based Ghostbusters with british comedians is really interesting to me. It's loving London. You've got so much history to draw on, the idea that ghosts aren't actually rampaging through the city seems like the more far-fetched idea. I know most of you probably don't like the idea, but maybe it's the best way to get a decent movie out there.
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Dec 19, 2014 06:01
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So did this ever get talked about? Cause I just managed to find the thing, and thought it was a pretty good explanation as to why the sequel always felt weird.
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Nov 14, 2015 00:21
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There was no loving way I got 95% of that movie when I first saw it. It was just dudes shooting lasers at ghosts, which of course are real, cause see, this isn't a cartoon. So yea, I think she'll be fine. The real big thing is that now that shes seen it, she'll probably dig the hell out of the remake.
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I'm more annoyed with the name drop of Egon in that. Sony can't even keep it straight anymore if they want the new ghostbusters to be in its own universe or not.
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