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

since it's a Feig movie we'll probably get a scene with a ghost having diarrhea, so there's....that

you guys seemed to have formed your opinions of Feig exclusively in the last couple years. which is sort of weird.

cos most of us have drawn the (correct) conclusion that he isn't making movies like Zombie High anymore?

Freaks & Geeks through Bridesmaids his work is p solid

otoh he made one bad movie w Melissa McCarthy and a second that's yet to come out yeah fuck that guy

the diarrhea comment was based on Bridesmaids!!!!

that was p obvious

My only issue with the remake is that it probably won't have that batshit true-believer paranormal mythology element that Aykroyd provided. All that weird gozer/interdimensional demon dog stuff=pure Aykroyd.

just looked up that upcoming Feig and the title & cast got me excited but then the poster dashed my hopes

another micro-emotional rollercoaster here on ilxor.com

best part about OG 'ghostbusters' was ramis and aykroyd just name-dropping these books and sources and moving on without joking about it, letting the audience take it all at face value, and how the ghost thing was simply a normal thing in this world. kinda like all the old testament shit in 'raiders of the lost ark'.

god i need to rewatch aykroyd's bits on the dvd's making-of doc, they were so much more oliver stone-y than i ever could have dreamed

the ghostbusters, whatevs

there's no replacing sigourney weaver/rick moranis/william atherton tho

they should continue the gender flip and have jon hamm and charlene yi possessed by demon dogs

god i need to rewatch aykroyd's bits on the dvd's making-of doc, they were so much more oliver stone-y than i ever could have dreamed

― da croupier, Wednesday, January 28, 2015 12:30 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh I recall an otherwise innocuous interview around the time Coneheads came out where he was going on about the threat that real aliens posed to humanity

omg he is the best

chris gethard as their cynical receptionist

it's a shame aykroyd won't get to make the deadly serious, astronomically-minded commentary track a movie like my stepmother is an alien deserves

As much as I still love the original Ghostbusters, FX comedies have generally been pretty bad

http://www.casafrancoli.it/site/148-thickbox_default/crystal-head-vodka.jpg

Ghostbusters was Aykroyd's last gasp, wasn't it? Was there anything he was in after 1984 that wasn't at least slightly cringeworthy to one degree or another?

(He was great in the Liberace thing, though.)

Gross Pointe Blank

...and I probably alone here in liking Tommy Boy.

He contributed his presence to the Academy Award winning film Driving Miss Daisy, thereby proving something about his post-Ghostbuster career that I can't quite put my finger on.

Grosse Point Blank OTM, at the time it felt like "omg Aykroyd is back?" but now you look at it and go "why did he choose to be so alive and funny in this role but only as a weird oasis in his career?"

like Eddie Murphy in Bowfinger

I have an undying love for The Great Outdoors which I can't really justify, and I really liked Aykroyd in that, but yeah...it's not bizarre hilarious Aykroyd.

McCarthy should play venkman though

Great Outdoors had a few great memorable scenes in it, particularly the end

never saw Blues Brothers 2000 is that any good?

I actually saw BB2000 in the theatre, and no, it's not good.

it's really really not good

https://hardtickettohomevideo.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/dan-aykroyd-nothing-but-trouble.png

man, owen wilson is really ageing badly

He contributed his presence to the Academy Award winning film Driving Miss Daisy, thereby proving something about his post-Ghostbuster career that I can't quite put my finger on.

― Aimless, Tuesday, January 27, 2015 10:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He even got an Oscar nomination for this!

The 'dragnet' remake w/tom hanks is great imo

But not its music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_QRKfv8H4

i love kate mckinnon and i'm excited for leslie jones, but i have mixed feelings about melissa mccarthy and her "token fat person grossout humor" thing. i'd like to see her playing real roles, and this is not a real role.

― no fucks given or implied (get bent), Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair, we have no idea who her character in this movie is or if Ghostbusters inherently lends itself to this type of humor -- it's not like the original movie had an extended "yeah, eat that twinkie, fatass Aykroyd!" sequence

i'm a little suspicious sometimes about the "Melissa McCarthy is just doing self-deprecating fat jokes" thing. granted, i've only watched Bridesmaids and The Heat once or twice each, so maybe i'm forgetting something especially guilty of that accusation, but i think of her as doing a lot of wacky stuff that wouldn't completely lose its comedic quality or mean something totally different if she was a hundred pounds lighter. and yet if Kristen Wiig was a hundred pounds heavier, every odd physical comedy thing she does would be responded to with "oh, it's funny because she's fat, right?"

OTM. It's pretty gross to attribute McCarthy's comedy to her size above all else.

Aykroyd was good in Terence Davies' "House of Mirth," iirc.

Doesn't or didn't McCarthy star in some sitcom about an overweight couple? And I saw some preview for some POS last year that starred her as some fast food robber, with ample fat jokes in the trailer. She's not exactly proceeding as if her weight were not a factor, however understandable her choices may be. Certainly if Hollywood is going to offer Meryl Streep four witch roles over the course of a couple of years (which they reportedly did), then they're going to give McCarthy movies that hinge at least in part on her physicality.

BTW, I forget where it was, but I once read a really scary explanation for Hollywood's obsession with weight, particularly their female leads. It revealed (or underscored) that any time an actress shows up even a hair overweight (or I suppose underweight), then they have to redo a whole ton of wardrobe to fit, which of course means word of the weight change spreads instantly and exponentially, and usually follows you to your next gig as well. It's a fucking shame, really, but that's that silly business for you.

McCarthy said she wanted her bridesmaids character to look like guy fieri but fieg pulled her back -she clearly would like to go further down the "superficially grotesque person who just don't give a fuuuck" road and you can't say weight doesn't play a part in America's enthusiasm for her. And while I enjoy her at her best, its not unfair if someone wishes the highest profile actress of her size wasn't someone who'd thrill to roll around in dogshit, even if she's a pro when it comes to that.

i haven't watched Mike & Molly since the first season, so it may have gone way off the rails, but it started out as a pretty earnest love story about two people who meet at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting and the other characters may occasionally crack wise about their weight/eating but it seemed like a pretty human and sympathetic handling of the subject matter for a CBS laughtrack comedy.

"Mike and Molly" started with a billion fat jokes/second but recent episodes I've seen have capitalized on McCarthy's skyrocket into fame and have made the show much more about her doing extended comedy bits while the rest of the cast orbits around her.

Yeah I'm not saying gross out is all she does - assuming her st Vincent performance is pretty grounded - but it's dubious to claim her enthusiasm for gross out didn't play a part in her quick rise to fame

It's like ken jeong - I think he's a great comedian, but when someone grumbles about his relative success in terms of cultural representation, I'm not gonna deny he's shrill naked dude swearing in a foreign tongue to a large portion of America

yeah i dunno. it's a fine line. marginalized groups are often fighting to be both a) represented in popular culture and b) not be the butt of jokes. but when someone from a marginalized group becomes a comedy star, how are they supposed to do A/B at the same time? obviously there's some humor that is very clearly, undeniably stereotype-driven. but there's a lot more stuff that is more ambiguous, or can be argued as a satire/rebuttal to stereotypes.

like, there's a ton of stuff Will Ferrell does that is funny as is, but if an imaginary female or black or 400-pound Will Ferrell did it, the dialogue would completely shift to "it's funny because he/she's _____."

Rebel Wilson seems to be swooping in as America's fat sweetheart. She's as funny as McCarthy (from what I've seen), but she's both much younger and has a much younger fan base. Plus, she seems to be owning the fat thing, at least for now. The way they deal with her weight in "Pitch Perfect" allowed her to remain the butt of jokes, as needed, but not exclusively, or at least no more so than her co-stars, pretty and skinny or no.

Like this exchange:

Aubrey: What's your name?
Fat Amy: Fat Amy.
Aubrey: You call yourself Fat Amy?
Fat Amy: Yeah, so twig bitches like you don't do it behind my back.

Anyway, per the thread, as long as they don't have her panting and sweating in the back of the line, or shoving Twinkies in her face as she fights ghosts, it's likely weight won't be an issue. Everyone looks fat in a Ghostbusters jumpsuit. BTW, anyone see Zach G. lately?

http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/streams/2015/January/150126/2D274907703614-today-zach-galifianakis-150126-01.blocks_desktop_large.jpg

whoa

I would have agreed with you before super fun night tanked - compared to McCarthy Wilson has proven pretty one-note. When riffing in pitch perfect she just calls out who has red hair, etc

Xpost

sad thing is, she wasn't like that in Super Fun Night at all!

I re-watched all three Ghostbusters while wrapping presents this weekend.

1. The end credits of Ghostbusters 2 actually feature three songs in succession: the original theme, the Bobby Brown song, then the Run DMC one
2. The reboot makes me laugh a bunch, Sigourney Weaver has the best cameo
3. I still have a huge crush on Janine, Ghostbusters 2 version
4. The music in the original is really, really good

Lol neanderthal

Holy shit, not only did I forget this existed, but I didn't even notice that the rebooted reboot never even came out, and apparently has been bumped to March 2021.

i've got bad news for you about every new movie

Except Tenet!

Yeah, but those other movies that got moved I knew they got moved. This one (like the Wiig one), I forgot it even existed. Had it never come out at all I never would have realized it, I don't think.

I liked GHOSTBUSTERS (2016).

I ended up watching the 2016 one last year and I had problems with it for sure, but probably equally as many as I had with Ghostbusters ✌️

The biggest problem I had with it, iirc, was that it wasn't funny, which is a pretty big problem for a comedy. But what can you do?

saw this recently; fair take but I still think the jokes could have been better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOL5BHzBvIA&t=0s

one more try
https://youtu.be/EOL5BHzBvIA

I imagine the old cast will show up as ghosts, including ghost Harold Ramis. And the old ghosts will fight the new ghost baddie. That seems like the most obvious, tacky prediction.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, December 9, 2019 4:54 PM (one year ago)

AVClub review:

... bespectacled, deadpan-voiced, poofy-haired scientist and erstwhile ghostbuster Egon Spengler, brought memorably to life by the late Harold Ramis, whose specter haunts the new movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife in more ways than one.

Looking back in this thread, and lol Free Guy ended up being on of the biggest hits of this year so far.

Ghostbusters people really acting like the wiig version doesn’t exist

Phoebe’s new pal, self-nicknamed Podcast (Logan Kim)

what

I guess that's like calling yourself "Data."

"Podcast, meet Medium-Sized Sedan..."

Podcast meet fanduel

Accidentally got the new one as one of my final Netflix DVDs.

Watching now.

It starts like Fuckin' Transformers movie.

You have to accept young Egon smashed someone who wasn't first flick Janine, and Carrie Coon was a he result.

You have to accept this small-town drive-in diner has an Otis Rush on Cobra 45 on the juke.

Do I detect a faint influence of Murphy's Romance?

In the future, there will be a Cheers reboot/reimagining, and McKenna Grace will play Lilith.

FUNKADELIC

Fracking Subplot!

Old Man Aykroyd = Bob Dole

It's <Uncanny>

...and we got product placement!

TS: Baby Stay-Puft vs. Baby Yoda

https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8x8ulicCj1qewm9xo1_1280.png

He's really aged into that role

"Mike Hat" still the best joke of any Ghostbusters movie

FUCK, this finally turned into a remake of the original... except it's in Oklahoma.

Are you watching the extended six hour cut

I took a break.

It's a little over two hours.

Wow, this is really shameless.

Okay, WTF AI HAROLD RAMIS

have not worked up the gumption to watch this yet, have read that annie potts is involved, exciting, but is it just a cameo?

agree it is super weird to invent a mysterious fling/baby mama for AI Egon of all people, why

wish someone had just given aykroyd a blank check to do whatever wild nonsense he had in mind, star wars episode 1 style

it's not too late hollywood

It is barely a cameo.

I thought it was more interested in being a horror movie than the film in the title, but it's also unavoidably a prostate-tickling exercise for anti-fans of that film "you called Leslie Jones some unprintable names, here's your reward"

Can confirm that Afterlife is pretty poor, at least from the mini-pufts onwards (although the two main kids are good).

It is barely a cameo.

Still more substantial than Weaver's appearances in either of the reboots.

I bet a lot of people missed her mid-credits appearance and Netflix forces you to try and get back to the credits if you want to see Winston's (I failed to press buttons in time so didn't bother).