Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy = new Ghostbusters

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201008/bill-murray-dan-fierman-gq-interview?currentPage=1

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."

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.

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.

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.

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"

ivan reitman's previous movies were meatballs and stripes too

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

anyone who's really indignant should just finance their own reboot of this show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(1986_TV_series)

Watched that a lot as a kid. Didn't realize it was a reboot itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdPfUYgY6nw

bill was just joshing around with that garfield by the coen bros story, right

https://twitter.com/ghostsplaining

I can't even

No problems with the female cast, just with the total intellectual bankruptcy of the remake itself

Joel Cohen should team up with this guy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Cohen

http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/article/853/853701/senor-spielbergo-20080220055603144.jpg

I'm looking forward to it, even though Identity Thief is more depressing than any Dardenne movie.

No problems with the female cast, just with the total intellectual bankruptcy of the remake itself

What are you talking about, this is the perfect opportunity to get all the things right that the original got wrong.

What were Murray's movies before Ghostbusters? Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Stripes?

Plus Tootsie and Where The Buffalo Roam basically.

@NickPinkerton · Jan 28
Ghostbusters is a pile of shit, and the success of its blockbuster, big $$$ SFX comedy formula did inestimable damage to American movies.

Yeah, that unstoppable glut of big $$$ SFX comedies is still plaguing us to this day.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=bydate&release=theatrical&date=1984-06-08&p=.htm

idiotic opinion

the summer before ghostbusters, people were going to see films like superman iii, staying alive and octopussy. today....*shakes head*

@NickPinkerton · Jan 28
Ghostbusters 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, January 29, 2015 7:35 PM (47 minutes ago)

no it isn't, and no it didn't

looking forward to wiig snapping gozer's neck after destroying new york

"inestimable". Can one estimate the damage wrought by Ghostbusters? No, one cannot.

yeah ck the repeat business from this board alone for Guardians of the Galaxy

and Octopussy is perhaps the best 007 film of the last 40 years

that's not saying much considering p much every 007 film is awful

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.

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.

http://roadhouseinteractive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Watch-Movie.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Monstersquadposter.jpg/220px-Monstersquadposter.jpg

though considering how those movies did, i'm not arguing that we're overcome with the shit

Great tagline

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

vampire looks like the future islands bro w/fangs

Some have said The Frighteners was heavily influenced by Ghostbusters but aside from visual effects for the ghosts, I don't see it much.

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

there have been three Night at the Museums, you clowns

one franchise in 40 years doesn't seem like much

yeah you get another guess if you think im going to name the other dozen

I believe you just won the Olympics gold in mental gymnastics for blaming Night At The Museum on Ghostbusters, there, Morbs.

plus the failed ones

leaving the fx aside, the blandification of comedy

xp

I can't remember if you ever actually watched Ghostbusters or not

the week it came out.

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.

i've always said it had help from John Landis, Nora Ephron and then Ap*t*w beat the dead horse

If you want to argue for the blandishment of popular comedy films, I can back that horse a little more easily.