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
i've always said it had help from John Landis, Nora Ephron and then Ap*t*w beat the dead horse
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
If you want to argue for the blandishment of popular comedy films, I can back that horse a little more easily.
― He Thew A Hamburder At My Shirt And Now It Has A Hamburder Stane (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
wtf else would we be talkin' about
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
The initial tweet read as if Ghostbusters was meant to be the harbinger of all subsequent cinematic blight. You then argued that it was merely the harbinger of bland comedy. I'm just trying to get my bearings since I'm still living in a world where Ghostbusters wasn't really a harbinger of much more than Ghostbusters 2 and a short-lived breakfast cereal.
― He Thew A Hamburder At My Shirt And Now It Has A Hamburder Stane (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
morbs == ghostbusterbuster
― Aimless, Thursday, 29 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
yeah idk I just don't see Ghostbusters as this big turning point or anything
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
it's all a rich tapestry etc
well your comedy standards were formed after.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:04 (nine years ago) link
actually I didn't think ghostbusters was very funny when I rewatched it last year. Maybe I'm damaged and bitter now.
― akm, Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
lol, imagine some dink blowing a gasket about the "inestimable" damage caused by the absent-minded professor
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Problem Child was singlehandedly responsible for the nationwide erosion of childhood innocence.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
If anything Ghostbusters deserves credit for having a fantastic script, unlike any movie that Morbs alludes to as a strawman.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Murray always benefitted greatly from proximity to Ramis.
― Aimless, Thursday, 29 January 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
alternatively, Ramis benefited greatly from proximity to Murray
― Number None, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:00 (nine years ago) link
I've always wondered what age group it was aimed at. It's a PG but there's swearing and some sexual content stronger than that rating would normally have. I don't know if the cartoons and toys were already planned at this point. But I suppose quite a lot of things got turned into a kids franchise that started out as teen and adult films. Like Aliens, Predator and even Freddy Krueger. The Ace Ventura sequel was probably softened because kids liked the first film more than any adult audience.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
Dunno how old you are, but they got away with a lot more in the age before PG-13. Jaws, Airplane ... all sorts of PG stuff would get harsher ratings today. That said, on recent screening Ghostbusters stuff is pretty minor. Minimal profanity, minor innuendo, especially compared to, say, the violence or sex jokes of the aforementioned.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Admittedly, Jaws and Airplane were both '70s, so, maybe never mind, because LOL '70s. But I do know friends who have showed their kids, say, the original Vacation, thinking of the relative innocuousness of the Christmas one, only to regret it. But only slightly, because the first Vacation iirc is R but relatively mild, too.
That said, Poltergeist is PG. Compared to that, Ghostbusters should be G.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
idk if ghost blowjobs are really G-rated
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
aykroyd gets a ghost blowjob in the movie! when i was a kid i was like, "is she stealing his pants? why is he crossing his eyes?"
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 30 January 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
lmao xp
It's pretty subtle and over fast, tbf, compared to Otto pilot.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
i always felt sigourney in her zuul possession flashdance look was underrated compared to how obsessed people still are w/princess leia in her jabba prisoner gear.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 30 January 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
When I was a kid I thought the ghost was trying to harm or humiliate him in some way.
Maybe PG was a lot softer in the late 80s and through the 90s.
It still seems really bizarre these big companies who often throw a panic at the chance that a kid might see something vaguely adult would turn so many of these things into kids franchises. But I suppose the moneymaking potential must have killed those concerns. But still... "Hey kids? Wanna buy the claws of a burnt child molester from a movie you should never see for several years?"
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little),
part of it is was seeing Ripley in an eighties gown licking her chops
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 January 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
sigourney weaver in ghostbusters is underrated in every way
― da croupier, Friday, 30 January 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
I've always wondered what age group it was aimed at. It's a PG but there's swearing and some sexual content stronger than that rating would normally have. I don't know if the cartoons and toys were already planned at this point.
those dry ice line readings ("What about the Twinkie?") were def for the over-20 crowd.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 January 2015 00:59 (nine years ago) link
What a lovely singing voice you have!
We've been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft's okay! He's a sailor, he's in New York; we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble!
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Friday, 30 January 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
yes have some!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 January 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
They hate this.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 January 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
re something discussed earlier in thread
dan ackroyd pops up in a ton of small films (some of them fairly arty or at least high-toned) and he /always/ seems miscast. poor guy doesn't seem to be content to be a pretty damn good comedian and wants to be a /serious/ actor, but just isn't cut out for it IMO.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 30 January 2015 08:35 (nine years ago) link