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Reply #105 on: July 15, 2015, 08:37:00 PM

Just found out they're filming this in Boston instead of New York yet the movie's supposed to take place in New York.

Fuck that shit.

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Reply #106 on: July 15, 2015, 10:16:18 PM

This will be terrible and do terrible.

But no one will come right out and criticize all the things that made it terrible.

Because feminist hate mobs will end their careers and ability to just live life.

Even if it's just some schlub with a blog 100 people read, they will hammer them and try their best to bring the ruin into that person's real life.

Filming a movie set in NYC in Boston will be the best thing about the movie. You aren't going to want the cooties from this thing to rub off onto your city Surly.

That being said, they should have set it in Philadelphia with the cast of Always Sunny and made it a fucked up two hour crossover thing. That would be funny as hell.

Someone should be throwing money hats at me, my movie ideas are a million times better than the shit getting greenlit.

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Reply #107 on: July 16, 2015, 02:21:01 PM

Maybe this will be great?  I don't know, it seems like we have three or four concurrent threads where everyone is piling on with "this is definitely going to be awful" based on either casting decisions or a few early teasers. 
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Reply #108 on: July 16, 2015, 02:25:27 PM

I'm looking forward to this one, ironically.

I just want more busting of ghosts.  Busting makes me feel good.

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Reply #109 on: July 16, 2015, 02:26:08 PM

Bonus points if they can talk Huey Lewis into covering the Ghostbusters theme song.
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Reply #110 on: July 16, 2015, 02:30:32 PM

I'm looking forward to this one, ironically.

I just want more busting of ghosts.  Busting makes me feel good.

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Reply #111 on: July 16, 2015, 02:31:24 PM

Well, of course.  Even the men wear skirts.

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Reply #112 on: July 16, 2015, 03:21:19 PM

And the ladies have beards and chest hair.

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Reply #113 on: July 16, 2015, 03:35:05 PM

Just found out they're filming this in Boston instead of New York yet the movie's supposed to take place in New York.

Fuck that shit.

The original was shot mostly in LA.

Of all the things to complain about this seems like a very silly one. Downtown Boston looks as much like NY as LA does, and plenty of movies / TV that are supposed to take place in New York are shot in places like Vancouver. (The Strain for example)

I'm kind of looking forward to this. I mean, it's not going to be as good as the original, but that's impossible. I still would have preferred a lineup like Wigg, Tina Fey, Judy Greer and Mccarthy though.

Imagine Judy Greer as an Egon-type - would be amazing.
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Reply #114 on: July 16, 2015, 05:02:01 PM

There was nothing special about the Ghostbuster franchise other than prime Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis (and Rick Moranis too i guess), and even THEY could not pull off a good sequel.  This is going to be horrible.

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Reply #115 on: July 16, 2015, 05:54:18 PM

Most movies set in New York aren't filmed there as it's too goddamned expensive. 

Hell, X-files filmed in Toronto for Washington D.C.

It's as if Hollywood was built on lies and fabrications.

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Reply #116 on: July 16, 2015, 06:23:08 PM

Yea but there's a difference between "looks like anywhere" Vancouver and "older than New York" Boston, especially in Yankee/Red Sox land. It's a minor point though.

I'm not inspired by this version yet. But making any sequel to Ghostbusters would be like making a sequel to Fifth Element. It just can't possibly do the same thing to the same degree of coolness. It has to be different.

My one fear is they retell the original story but with women instead of men doing all the same exact shit. That would be insulting to the women playing the roles. I hope they tell a different story.
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Reply #117 on: July 16, 2015, 09:05:32 PM

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Yea but there's a difference between "looks like anywhere" Vancouver and "older than New York" Boston, especially in Yankee/Red Sox land. It's a minor point though.

This. I'm less concerned about it being filmed in somewhere like Vancouver and saying it's New York. (Decent chunks of Fringe) Or Toronto (Suits). New Yorkers know Boston when we see it. and we don't like it. LA doesn't piss us off as much and LA pisses everyone off.

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Reply #118 on: July 16, 2015, 10:52:13 PM

Yea but there's a difference between "looks like anywhere" Vancouver and "older than New York" Boston, especially in Yankee/Red Sox land. It's a minor point though.

That's what ruined the Matrix for me - set in the US but all I saw was Sydney CBD. Not to mentioon all the RHD cars.

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Reply #119 on: July 17, 2015, 07:54:30 AM

They could have filmed in Atlanta and the entire cast would have been sweaty.

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Reply #120 on: July 17, 2015, 09:29:58 AM

Yea but there's a difference between "looks like anywhere" Vancouver and "older than New York" Boston, especially in Yankee/Red Sox land. It's a minor point though.

That's what ruined the Matrix for me - set in the US but all I saw was Sydney CBD. Not to mentioon all the RHD cars.

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Yea but there's a difference between "looks like anywhere" Vancouver and "older than New York" Boston, especially in Yankee/Red Sox land. It's a minor point though.

This. I'm less concerned about it being filmed in somewhere like Vancouver and saying it's New York. (Decent chunks of Fringe) Or Toronto (Suits). New Yorkers know Boston when we see it. and we don't like it. LA doesn't piss us off as much and LA pisses everyone off.

We've had this discussion before. Specifically about X-files if I remember right When it was last discussed the response was, "Yeah but that's a small fraction of the viewing audience who 1) recognizes and 2) cares. Costs and willingness to suspend disbelief outweigh the over-zealous need for 'authenticity' of a few fringe viewers.

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Reply #121 on: July 17, 2015, 09:53:00 AM

Fringe viewers?  Not many of those, right?

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Reply #122 on: July 17, 2015, 10:20:44 AM

I hear the movie is going to be shot using fake CGI ghosts instead of real ghosts.

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Reply #123 on: July 17, 2015, 10:28:02 AM

Oh.  So no Ramis then ?

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Reply #124 on: July 17, 2015, 02:46:47 PM

Oh.  So no Ramis then ?

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Reply #125 on: July 17, 2015, 03:03:40 PM

Oh.  So no Ramis then ?

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Reply #126 on: July 20, 2015, 10:18:58 AM

So is this actually a reboot or a continuation with this being a new squad? I've seen/heard conflicting things.

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Reply #127 on: July 20, 2015, 10:24:48 AM

The He-Man Woman Hater's Club will definitely hate this movie no matter how objectively good it is, and the Tumblr Warrior Brigade will definitely love this movie no matter how objectively bad it is, for equal and opposite reasons.  For the rest of us:

There was nothing special about the Ghostbuster franchise other than prime Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis (and Rick Moranis too i guess), and even THEY could not pull off a good sequel.  This is going to be horrible.

This, with at least 95% certainty.

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Reply #128 on: July 22, 2015, 08:08:45 AM

I found GB II pretty watchable and enjoyed it, I'll admit I found a few parts of it hilarious, but it was in no way in heck as good as the original.

This basically has "Why?" written all over it. Now if they had a cameo with Ray + Winston running the GB "franchise" and sending these clueless idiots out with a Camera team in tow to do a stupid fake "reality TV show" that blows up in their faces when the women accidentally break the seventh seal, now that MIGHT be good way to tie it in and would actually allow these women to develop new characters, and would at least be an interesting premise with a capacity for good satire. But these women playing the same characters??? Fuck no.

How come I'm able to come up with a better premise than the multi million paid hollywood exects?

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Reply #129 on: July 22, 2015, 08:12:10 AM

How come I'm able to come up with a better premise than the multi million paid hollywood exects?
Because there is no corporate exec team of money men forcing you to narrow your scope in order to avoid potential investment risk.

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Reply #130 on: July 22, 2015, 08:39:26 AM

I don't think this film is going to have anything substantial in common with the first film - a few cameos, if rumors are correct.  Story, characters, continuity - all new for this one.  They seem to be headed for a different feel, modern special effects, and a different underlying message.  I'd say that Bridesmaids will be closer in tone to this movie than Ghostbusters. 

Even if it is a good film, it'll be pissing on the grave of a great film.  However, GB II, the Real Ghostbusters, Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters, Extreme Ghostbusters, etc...  already soiled that sacred ground, even if they had their moments of non-suck.  This cheese must stand alone ... and as a standalone concept: Feig, Wiig, McCarthy, Garcia, Hemsworth... that menagerie could go either way.  I'm not expecting to love it, but I'm waiting for a trailer before I say it is worthless.

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Reply #131 on: July 22, 2015, 09:32:25 AM

Story, characters, continuity - all new for this one. 



Um... I think you might need to revise that opinion because they are clearly going for the same characters, at least as character archtypes.

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Reply #132 on: July 22, 2015, 09:39:26 AM

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The Black One Who Doesn't Know What's Going On
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Reply #133 on: July 22, 2015, 09:58:47 AM

There will obviously be *some* similarities, but if you think that you'll basically get the same 4 to 7 main characters with gender swaps, the information released so far suggests otherwise.  

Of course, if you generalize the archetypes enough, you can get any team there.  I'm betting the ties between the New Ghostbusters and the original ones will be about as close as the ties between the Avengers and the original Ghostbusters.  Anyone have trouble picking the Venkman and Spengler in the Avengers?  

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Reply #134 on: July 22, 2015, 11:28:20 AM

I'm sorry, but this picture doesn't fill me with confidence that this will be a fresh, funny take on the original concept, rather than a bad copy of the superficial aspects:


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Reply #135 on: July 22, 2015, 11:30:58 AM

It depends on the story. If the present-day Ghostbusters are a down and out outfit cause there haven't been any ghosts to deal with for a long time I can see them needing to drive around an old vehicle.
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Reply #136 on: July 22, 2015, 11:42:23 AM

It depends on the story. If the present-day Ghostbusters are a down and out outfit cause there haven't been any ghosts to deal with for a long time I can see them needing to drive around an old vehicle.

Yeah, that would be fine. But where the original GB vehicle was an old 60's model ambulance, this is apparently an old hearse of a design and color scheme that simply never could have existed. Created because it was as close as they could get to the appearance of the original without actually just duplicating it exactly (which would have been better).

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Reply #137 on: July 22, 2015, 11:58:37 AM

Superficial nods are not really that important.  I expect the old car, the backpack proton pack, "don't cross the streams", "I ain't afraid of no ghosts", fire house, Slimer, etc... to all be there.  So what?  That is just a superficial trapping.  Adam West, Michael Keaton and Christian Bale all wore the bat suit, drove the bat mobile and said, "I'm Batman."  All three of them were different characters in different worlds telling different stories.

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Reply #138 on: July 22, 2015, 12:51:12 PM

So basically it'll have all the same stuff as the first movie but be totally original as well.   awesome, for real

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Reply #139 on: July 22, 2015, 01:56:07 PM

So basically it'll have all the same stuff as the first movie but be totally original as well.   awesome, for real
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