bengraven
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Be happy Murray showed up!
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Be happy Murray showed up!
BassForever
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Continues to look horribly unfunny, the few action scenes they showed made me cringe too.
Guy has been on paycheck mode for the better part of a decade. Don't think he has shown any passion to any product he's been attached to during that time.
starchild excalibur
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Cast (new, old, and Ray Parker Jr.) on Kimmel tonight
Man, that looks like a genuine smile from all of them (Murray's especially). Regardless of how this film does / is, it seems like everyone's very passionate about it.
Will try to catch that interview. Ghostbusters is honestly one of the only films I'm really intrigued with this summer.
He seems to be happy working with Wes Anderson.
Probably not worth a new thread, here's the Jimmy Kimmel clip...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0YexsRCPc
The Oprah joke... man... I don't even
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0YexsRCPc
The Oprah joke... man... I don't even
Snkfanatic
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Cast (new, old, and Ray Parker Jr.) on Kimmel tonight
Aww love this pic.
Yeah I thought that was a pretty bad joke.
I did really like Kate Mckinnon's joke about thinking of uses for a cadaver though. That felt like the type of joke you might hear out of Egon and probably felt the most like Ghostbusters style humor that I've seen so far from this movie.
SneakersSO
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Holy SHIT. That is a complete scene from the film? That was AWFUL. I actually cringed during that entire thing.
cr0w
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I recommend checking out St. Vincent, if you haven't already.
Seeing them all united is pretty cool.Cast (new, old, and Ray Parker Jr.) on Kimmel tonight
Still a bit weird that they won't reprise their old roles but play random cameos.
CelticKnight
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But it still doesn't seem that funny...
Reboot, innit. The previous movies never happened in this universe, despite the numerous references to them muddying the waters.
Reboot, innit. The previous movies never happened in this universe, despite the numerous references to them muddying the waters.
QuantumZebra
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Here's the new poster:
That looks awesome - can't wait!!
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Was gonna say this. Wes Anderson he loves to work with plus St. Vincent wasn't to bad. Murray was probably forced to be in this. At least this is what the sony leak said.
The more I see of the film the more I'm happy to have it exist as a "cover version" and am getting pretty interested to go see it. I love the original film, I was never really against the idea of this one other than in a "why do people keep remaking good films?" sort of way - certainly didn't have any issue with the cast as I really enjoyed Bridesmaids and Kristen Wiig is hilarious. I think i was just a little ambivalent about it all to begin with but now I've got more used to the idea that this is actually a thing and has a character of it's own and I'm more than happy to go see their spin on it. Why not? Nothing about the trailers has put me off and good comedies are always better than trailers make them out to be. The only thing I don't like is the look of the ghosts - too bright for my liking, makes them stand out too much. They're all like neon signs, it's crazy.
If it turns out to be crappy then the original is still there kicking ass (and the sequel is still there being mostly disappointing) so what do I have to lose by them making another with a new spin on it? It's not like something like Avatar The Last Airbender where someone makes a shitty film and ruins the chances of a decent film being made - there's already one good film and I love Ghostbusters stuff, I'm happy for more Ghostbusters stuff to happen.
If it turns out to be crappy then the original is still there kicking ass (and the sequel is still there being mostly disappointing) so what do I have to lose by them making another with a new spin on it? It's not like something like Avatar The Last Airbender where someone makes a shitty film and ruins the chances of a decent film being made - there's already one good film and I love Ghostbusters stuff, I'm happy for more Ghostbusters stuff to happen.
cr0w
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I'm pretty sure McKinnon is going to steal the show.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Here's the new poster:
Can't help but notice that every promo shot I've seen of them this whole time is always that "tough" pose, liked lined up and looking sternly at the camera. I dunno, but that alone gives me an off feeling about what kind of flick it is. Like how about a promo shot of them bustin ghosts?
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Yeah, I feel like a shot like that would make a great poster. That "we're tough" thing just seems weird to me.
Yeah, they could do a mix of different poses. I think they're trying to avoid people dismissing it as just another Paul Feig comedy and give it a bit of an edge. The early marketing for this film hasn't been great though. Especially stuff like this:
brandonh83
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I can dig it enough.
Limiting myself to movies from the last 10 years where Murray was great (and there are some I'm leaving out, such as Zombieland and The Limits of Control, which were fun but didn't require him to do all that much):
- The Darjeeling Limited (extremely small part though)
- Fantastic Mr Fox
- Get Low
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Hyde Park on Hudson
- The Monuments Men
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- St. Vincent
- Rock the Kasbah
- A Very Murray Christmas (I know a lot of people here hated it but I honestly thought it was brilliant - poking fun at his own fame and the over the top legend building that happens around him online)
That's a lot of good work. He also tends to mostly limit himself (Garfield notwithstanding) to smaller movies that aren't necessarily aiming for larger audiences. If he was truly just working for a paycheck he would have done Ghostbusters years ago, or he'd have shown up as some silly sidecharacter in a dumb Marvel movie or whatever (you know they'd take him in a heartbeat).
Seems like he just chooses scripts that interest him the most, as opposed to trying to find easy jobs for lots of cash. There are a lot of jobs he could take if he wanted to do that. Even if you don't like any of the movies I listed, you can't describe that CV as 'paycheck mode'.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, they could do a mix of different poses. I think they're trying to avoid people dismissing it as just another Paul Feig comedy and give it a bit of an edge. The early marketing for this film hasn't been great though. Especially stuff like this:
That is fucking terrible.
That is "Who Da Man? YODAMAN" levels of bad.
brandonh83
Banned
Forgot about Yodaman lol
Prince of Space
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"I don't know how you got that; I thought I burned both copies..."
"It's on Amazon."
"What?!"
"It's on books-on-tape, too. Only I know how to read."
#REKT
The marketing in general has been pretty terrible, but that's Sony Pictures for ya.
brandonh83
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He's absolutely stealing some of the thunder.
Octavianus
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Yikes, this continues to look terrible in every way.
The poster is whatever, but I'm puzzled who thought it was a good idea to make their backpacks bright orange. It looks like a preschooler's backpack.
That, and the cartoonishly huge yellow light on the car.
WordAssassin
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The irony of Paul Feig saying "You can't do Ghostbusters without the Ecto-1" when one of the things that pissed me off the MOST when this movie was announced was him saying the exact opposite, and how there wouldn't be an Ecto-1 or Slimer or any of that.
I wonder if we'll ever hear the full story of what happened with this movie. While I'm sure I'll enjoy it there's not a fucking chance the movie we see in July is the movie Paul Feig set out to make when this was announced.
I wonder if we'll ever hear the full story of what happened with this movie. While I'm sure I'll enjoy it there's not a fucking chance the movie we see in July is the movie Paul Feig set out to make when this was announced.
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Deleted member 10571
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I like everything I saw /shrug
Ahahaha this is great. Love McKinnon and Hems
yup totally with you here.
Here's the new poster:
Ahahaha this is great. Love McKinnon and Hems
yup totally with you here.
Razgriz-Specter
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Its not really the same though even if the years are the same.
In the 80's something of that year and style was 1 in hundreds, it was just so out of style it had that wow factor.
However cars of nearly that age or style you still see all the time, on top of the fact that model of hearse has hardly changed in 30 years like a Jeep Cherokee and such.
It ends up just looking old and cheap with no sense of style.
To me i'd either go for the exact original or something 100% different.
Heck something like a 70's or 80's Station Wagon in Ecto-1's scheme could work really well to make it pop more while similar in age, function and such.
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