wait that link is fucked up - where's the entire interview?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
A Cohen Bros. Garfield movie sounds incredible
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201008/bill-murray-dan-fierman-gq-interview?currentPage=1
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
And the pieces fall into place.[shakes head sadly] At least they had what's-her-name. The mind reader, pretty girl, really curvy girl, body's one in a million? What's her name? Help me. You know who I mean.Jennifer Love Hewitt?Right! At least they had her in good-looking clothes. Best thing about the movie. But that's all ugly. That's inappropriate. That's just… [laughs] That's why, when they say, "Any regrets?" at the end of Zombieland, I say, "Well, maybe Garfield."
[shakes head sadly] At least they had what's-her-name. The mind reader, pretty girl, really curvy girl, body's one in a million? What's her name? Help me. You know who I mean.
Jennifer Love Hewitt?
Right! At least they had her in good-looking clothes. Best thing about the movie. But that's all ugly. That's inappropriate. That's just… [laughs] That's why, when they say, "Any regrets?" at the end of Zombieland, I say, "Well, maybe Garfield."
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
It's interesting that the same guy voices Bill Murray's character in the Real Ghostbusters cartoon AND Garfield's voice in the Garfield & Friends cartoon. He's a pro Bill Murray impersonator.
― everything, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
It's a tangled web
LAMARCHE: They asked me not to do Harold Ramis and I still did it. Because I didn’t know anything else to do with the character. So everything at that point that I’d done was derivative and I had absolutely no original thoughts or voices. So the only thing I could do was Ramis. So I did it, and for some reason it was the only voice that sounded like the original voice from the movie. They decided they could let that slide and Egon was such a specific character they really had to honor Harold Ramis’ unique take on that character. After 65 episodes, apparently legend has it Bill Murray finally came forward and said, “How come Harold’s guy sounds just like him and my guy sounds like Garfield?” And they said, “Well, Bill, that’s because the guy who does the voice of Garfield is doing your character.” Now, Bill’s not asking him to be fired or anything. But this one comment from Bill Murray, and with them having Ghostbusters 2 in the works, somebody in the machine said, “You know what? Bill’s unhappy. We got to get a guy who sounds like him.” And so Dave Coulier took over the part after 65 episodes and Lorenzo Music lost the part, and it was a very strange transition because I loved them both, and thought both they did a great job with the character. But the irony - the huge irony - of it is that now with the Garfield movie, Bill Murray has taken over the part originally voiced by Lorenzo Music.
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
What were Murray's movies before Ghostbusters? Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Stripes? He was a well-meaning weirdo slob, basically. As McCarthy has been in the couple of movies I've seen her in. So why couldn't she do Venkman? Murray had to stretch a bit in the role compared to his previous movies. I am way more worried about the issue latebloomer brought up, which is that part of what makes the original so awesome is Dan Aykroyd's affectionate and considered approach to the supernatural. Feig has zero chance of doing that, as far as I can tell.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
the heat was kind of thin, but i think feig's work is relatively affectionate and considered. i don't think its beyond him to have the ghost hunters be earnest and to end the movie going "new york yay"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
ivan reitman's previous movies were meatballs and stripes too
― da croupier, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
Someone writing at Jezebel as "A Hysterical Man" mockingly rounds up exactly the kinds of reactions you'd expect from very stupid people on this topic. http://jezebel.com/new-all-feminist-ghostbusters-is-a-punch-in-the-dick-to-1682292125
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
anyone who's really indignant should just finance their own reboot of this show:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(1986_TV_series)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Watched that a lot as a kid. Didn't realize it was a reboot itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPfUYgY6nw
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
bill was just joshing around with that garfield by the coen bros story, right
― slam dunk, Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ghostsplaining
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
I can't even
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Thursday, 29 January 2015 03:36 (nine years ago) link
No problems with the female cast, just with the total intellectual bankruptcy of the remake itself
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 29 January 2015 05:00 (nine years ago) link
Joel Cohen should team up with this guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Cohen
― Number None, Thursday, 29 January 2015 08:59 (nine years ago) link
http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/853/853701/senor-spielbergo-20080220055603144.jpg
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 29 January 2015 09:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm looking forward to it, even though Identity Thief is more depressing than any Dardenne movie.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 11:57 (nine years ago) link
What are you talking about, this is the perfect opportunity to get all the things right that the original got wrong.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 January 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
What were Murray's movies before Ghostbusters? Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Stripes?
Plus Tootsie and Where The Buffalo Roam basically.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 January 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
@NickPinkerton · Jan 28Ghostbusters is a pile of shit, and the success of its blockbuster, big $$$ SFX comedy formula did inestimable damage to American movies.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, that unstoppable glut of big $$$ SFX comedies is still plaguing us to this day.
― He Thew A Hamburder At My Shirt And Now It Has A Hamburder Stane (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=bydate&release=theatrical&date=1984-06-08&p=.htm
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
idiotic opinion
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
the summer before ghostbusters, people were going to see films like superman iii, staying alive and octopussy. today....*shakes head*
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:35 PM (47 minutes ago)
no it isn't, and no it didn't
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to wiig snapping gozer's neck after destroying new york
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
"inestimable". Can one estimate the damage wrought by Ghostbusters? No, one cannot.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah ck the repeat business from this board alone for Guardians of the Galaxy
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
and Octopussy is perhaps the best 007 film of the last 40 years
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
that's not saying much considering p much every 007 film is awful
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
What, exactly, is the nature of this inestimable damage that Ghostbusters has wrought? If anything, it had far less influence on American movies than I personally might have preferred.
― He Thew A Hamburder At My Shirt And Now It Has A Hamburder Stane (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
I can't think of any movie that tried to copy the "formula" of Ghostbusters - ie an effects-driven ensemble comedy. unless we count the Avengers.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
http://roadhouseinteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Watch-Movie.jpg
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Monstersquadposter.jpg/220px-Monstersquadposter.jpg
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
though considering how those movies did, i'm not arguing that we're overcome with the shit
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Great tagline
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 29 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
i'm sure pinkerton was just trying to bitch that ghostbusters sucks and is part of the sucky suckage that's been sucking in hollywood for years, and if anything gave the film too much credit
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
vampire looks like the future islands bro w/fangs
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Some have said The Frighteners was heavily influenced by Ghostbusters but aside from visual effects for the ghosts, I don't see it much.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
if you really wanted to throw something at ghostbusters' feet you could argue it was the fullest flower of the defanging of boomer subversive comedy - snl grads now protecting the system in a PG movie rather than attempting to destroy it in an R, with its true villain an EPA bureaucrat
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
there have been three Night at the Museums, you clowns
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
one franchise in 40 years doesn't seem like much
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah you get another guess if you think im going to name the other dozen
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I believe you just won the Olympics gold in mental gymnastics for blaming Night At The Museum on Ghostbusters, there, Morbs.
― He Thew A Hamburder At My Shirt And Now It Has A Hamburder Stane (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
plus the failed ones
leaving the fx aside, the blandification of comedy
xp
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
I can't remember if you ever actually watched Ghostbusters or not
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
the week it came out.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
It's okay to just say "I did not like this movie" without trying to reconstruct the history of American film and/or comedy around it.
― He Thew A Hamburder At My Shirt And Now It Has A Hamburder Stane (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link