Ghostbusters 2016: Talk about the movie(s).
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It's brilliant because it's a hearse.
I kind of like the car. The original Ecto-1 was just a piece of crap that Ray managed to put back together. The whole design of the movie feels like they're trying to honor the past the original by not going in a drastic new direction. They just look like something that a few crazy genius scientists put together to catch ghosts in the 1980s vs 2010s.
That also would have been a great reference to the 1984 Ghostbusters video game where one of the four vehicle choices was a Beetle.
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Why does everyone call the original Ecto-1 a hearse? As far as I'm aware hearses don't have sirens and emergency lighting on them (as the car had when Ray first arrived with it.) It was supposed to be a hearse in the original script(s) but in the movie it ended up being an ambulance. Now, granted, that model of Cadillac station wagon was purposed as hearses as well as ambulances, so same-difference, I suppose. But in the movie itself the vehicle was clearly an ambulance. (Again, sirens and emergency lights. As well as the thing they stored the proton-packs on was the built-in gurney in the back of the vehicle.)
This new vehicle seems much more to be a hearse since it has the windowless cargo section with the decorative trim piece. (Something else the original didn't have, it had a windowed rear section, something hearses don't normally have.)
This new vehicle seems much more to be a hearse since it has the windowless cargo section with the decorative trim piece. (Something else the original didn't have, it had a windowed rear section, something hearses don't normally have.)
That Ecto-1 is pretty lame, although its still not as bad as the horrible proton packs. Still, thinking about it, the bad props fit a Melissa mcCarthy movie perfectly. Cheap, lazy, and poor quality is the mission statement of every movie Melissa McCarthy has ever been in, so its not surprising that this movie is following the trend.
I can't wait until we see the trap for the first time, and its just an unpainted toaster
Or, maybe the containment system will be an old NES system painted red.
I can't wait until we see the trap for the first time, and its just an unpainted toaster
Or, maybe the containment system will be an old NES system painted red.
That's what I was thinking.
It's less showy than the original, which makes sense considering the other production decisions so far.
Yeah, much like the packs having the industrial, cobbled / welded-together look and what we've seen of their other gear being makeshift, it makes sense that all these Ghostbusters could afford is an '84 Fleetwood hearse.
That hood ornament is great.
I like it. It's interesting they kept the Ghostbusters logo as iconic but changed the proton packs, uniforms, and Ecto-1.
There was no way in hell that logo was going anywhere, just from a branding and marketing perspective. Beyond that, Sony's already facing enough skepticism from the "NOT MAH GHOST BUSTAS" crowd (as evidenced in this thread); if they ditched the logo the screaming would have been insane.
I like their Ecto-1, looks sufficiently low-budget (in-universe). However, there's two things that are bugging me. Why did they put a red trim line right above the chrome trim line (looks weird), and the HUGE yellow bubble light (I'd prefer a light bar). The hood ornament looks cool, though!
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That is absolutely horrible.
Yeah, I really don't like the giant siren-light. A light bar would have looked a lot nicer.
A light bar wouldn't look as low-tech as everything else does.
All of this stuff screams "ghostbusting on a shoestring budget."
All of this stuff screams "ghostbusting on a shoestring budget."
The siren light was also on the 1981 - 1984 S&S hearse, which forms the chassis of this Ecto-1:
