Ghostbusters 2016: Talk about the movie(s).
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Yes. And the image of the Statue of Liberty walking through the city controlled by a Nintendo controller. And Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" - which I'll admit isn't as much fun as the Ray Parker Jr. (or is it Huey Lewis?
) theme for the first movie, but is still pretty darned catchy. And "not as much fun as the first time" is actually SPOT ON, thematically, no? 
It's just a beat-for-beat remake of the original.
Edit: I mean, seriously. Both films begin with the guys down and out (getting fired by the university / being out of business). Then they start investigating something while everyone around them is skeptical, then they have their first big "bust," Venkman makes a triumphant pronouncement, ~MONTAGE~, more investigation goes on while Venkman romances Dana, they ultimately get arrested after shit gets wild (and there's another ~MONTAGE~, this time of ghosts wrecking shit), they get to see the mayor who is initially
Edit: Shit, even Ghostbusters II is one minute longer than the original, at 108 minutes to the original's 107.
It wasn't until the talk here about the sequel / reboot / whatever, that I relised what a big deal this film is to some people.
I always thought Spaceballs was a steaming puddle of runny crap, and that seems quite popular too...
To further elaborate Timby's point, "producer" or "executive producer" are titles that are so elastic that they can be used in any sense while everyone else like other producers and directors do all the hard work.
Case in point: Stan Lee does almost zero work on any Marvel film, but he still gets producer credit because he helped make the characters (or in some cases, didn't do that, either!).
For some reason, I was reading up the Naked Gun movie series wiki page, and while the first movie had 3 producers (ZAZ), the other two movies had only 1 of those producers actually working on them, but the other 2 were still credited because of their work on the first movie and Police Squad.
So Ivan Reitman helped create the core concepts and the franchise, and that's "all" (as if it were minor) he had to do to get producer credit here.
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Yes. And the image of the Statue of Liberty walking through the city controlled by a Nintendo controller. And Bobby Brown's "On Our Own" - which I'll admit isn't as much fun as the Ray Parker Jr. (or is it Huey Lewis?
I loved the whole Statue of Liberty scene, with Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher" playing, along with one of my favorite lines in the whole film coming from Venkman: "Keep kicking, Libby! You make this work, we'll pop for a weekend in Vegas with the Jolly Green Giant!"
"Everything you're doing is bad. I want you to know dis."
While the movie itself is nowhere near as good as the original, it is still watchable and highly quotable. And Peter MacNicol is funnier than the rest of the cast combined.
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"Everything you're doing is bad. I want you to know dis."
While the movie itself is nowhere near as good as the original, it is still watchable and highly quotable. And Peter MacNicol is funnier than the rest of the cast combined.
"You know, Dana, there are many perks to being the mother of a living god."
Wow. Those are some pretty hideous and unflattering outfits. Even the actresses don't look very thrilled.
It also looks like they traded in the ambulance for a hearse, which could be appropriate, but then they go through all the trouble to make it up to look like an ambulance anyway.
It also looks like they traded in the ambulance for a hearse, which could be appropriate, but then they go through all the trouble to make it up to look like an ambulance anyway.
They look very functional. I don't see an issue here.
And the original Ghostbusters outfits were flattering?
I fail to see your point.
They look just as functional as the original outfits.
Shouldn't the costumes be tight, skimpy, or both? That's what Star Trek taught me, anyway.
It'd look a bit weird if they drove around in an unaltered hearse.
Contrary, my friend, I think the outfits are very flattering to who is wearing them. It's the actresses that appear hideous, but that's just me. I'm not thrilled.
Actually, that's mostly a joke, hideous is not the word I'd use. I won't use the word I'd use but I don't watch or not watch because of beauty/ugliness.
It looks like they are making a good go of it and might be a good movie.
I just wonder if after everything it's going to be positive but also pointless like that Robocop remake. That was competent for the most part but the original was still better. I see this in the same category, good but the original is better and if you're choosing what disc to pop in, I'm betting it's the original.
So, do you guys comment like this on the appearances of all women, or just the ones cast in movies?
I'm also still trying to figure out why anyone is supposed to look sexy while fighting the supernatural.
Are you perplexed when women in other jobs wear baggy, bulky clothes that are meant to be functional/protective rather than sexually enticing?
The original Ghostbusters outfits were so crazy flattering and dashing that they turned the already amazing-looking Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd into global sex symbols.
That didn't happen by the way.
I wonder if any of the people commenting on the looks ever thought "Meh, Bill isn't hot enough" when watching the original movie.
Isn't the appeal of movies like that in part that the people look like regular guys/gals people can easily identify with? You know, the unlikely heroes.
That didn't happen by the way.
I wonder if any of the people commenting on the looks ever thought "Meh, Bill isn't hot enough" when watching the original movie.
Isn't the appeal of movies like that in part that the people look like regular guys/gals people can easily identify with? You know, the unlikely heroes.
I think Kate McKinnon looks fantastic in that photo up there, to be quite honest. Like she's ready to get down to business.
This thread is really odd: there are photos of skimpy/sexy female Ghostbusters costumes scattered around to ridicule the idea of an all-women team, and now there's disappointment that the costumes aren't skimpy/sexy to begin with (as if, y'know, they were regular tradespeople working a job nobody else wants to do).
This thread is really odd: there are photos of skimpy/sexy female Ghostbusters costumes scattered around to ridicule the idea of an all-women team, and now there's disappointment that the costumes aren't skimpy/sexy to begin with (as if, y'know, they were regular tradespeople working a job nobody else wants to do).
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