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

or comically not understanding that his girlfriend wanted to have sex

back upthread if y'all wanna go deeper into the cheesy movie tie-in rabbit hole, I created another thread last night: the compendium of cheesy movie tie-in soundtrack tunes

somehow forgot not only that there was a rap movie tie-in poll from 4 years ago, but that I started it :/

The thing is, I find it hard to take Ryan Reynolds seriously after two Deadpool, Hobbes & Shaw, those video game ads, and Free Guy, so that's going to be bothering me about 6 Underground

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2m-08cOAbc

the assassins bodyguard was not good or anything but every now and again it delivered a chuckle

I’ve never taken Ryan Reynolds seriously: I guess I first knew him from Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place.

trust me when I say that Ryan Reynolds is the least that will be bothering you about six underground

also why are we talking about it in the ghostbusters thread?

It's ILE. We are lucky we don't run out in traffic when we see a rubber ball

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).