Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 444
bowman9991 writes "Dan Aykroyd reveals that all the original cast have now signed on for Ghostbusters 3, including Sigourney Weaver, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson. Apparently Bill Murray, who holds a one-fifth controlling interest, was very reluctant at first, not even willing to read a third draft of Aykroyd's script. Aykroyd would like to see Ivan Reitman or Harold Ramis direct, wants to introduce a 'new generation' of Ghostbusters, and believes they could be filming the new Ghostbuster movie by winter."
First Proton Pack! (Score:2, Funny)
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First Proton Pack!
Oops... I mean post.
It's first ghost.
Stupid zone-dweebie.
Gee (Score:5, Funny)
I hope its as good as Blues Brothers 2000.
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I can't wait to see who they're going to cast as the annoying kid ghostbuster, complete with mini-backpack.
I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?
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DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS.
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I hear Jessica Biel is going to play the kick-ass female ghostbuster who doesn't take crap from nobody - but is she falling for the hunky new ghostbuster (Shia LaBeouf)?
Make it R-rated with Lindsay Lohan falling for the kick-ass female ghostbuster and I'll go see it! Or at least download it from the pirate-bay!
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Actually, Dan Ackroyd likes Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/05/dan-aykroyd-says-ghostbusters-3-may-start-filming-in-winter.html [latimes.com]
Not to be a pedant... (Score:5, Informative)
*sigh*
Okay, I'm totally being a pedant. Sorry.
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Yes. Same-sex romance is intrinsically an adult subject.
Yes, having a stick up your ass is intrinsically an adult subject.
And female same-sex romance is a spectacle for straight men to gawk at.
And stick-up-the-ass romance is a spectacle for everyone to gawk at.
Particularly, bisexual women are actually straight but want attention from men. Remember, female sexuality has no value other than as a spectacle for men.
Particularly, anonymous cowards with a stick up their ass are actually straight but want attention from slashdot readers.
Remember, a stick up yo' ass has no value other than as a spectacle for everybody else.
Also, all children are born straight. Each exposure to the concept of same-sex romance increases the likelihood that they'll turn gay.
Also, all children are born straight. Each exposure to the concept of a stick up their ass increases the likelihood they'll turn gay.
The above is categorically not a self-centred, privileged world view that demeans everybody else in order to make me look cool for a couple of seconds in front of my privileged friends.
Ditto!
It is all objective fact.
It is all self-indulgent right
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Michael [photobucket.com] Chertoff [ruggedelegantliving.com] as The Necromancer [msn.com] would be great...
Watchutalkinbout, Willis... (Score:5, Funny)
SHELLFISHCORE 4 LIFE, NICKNAME!
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I hope its as good as Blues Brothers 2000.
Last night I saw the new Star Trek with my girl friend and as we sat through the movie previews, they showed both the new GI Joe and Transformers 2.
My girlfriend turned to me with a frantic look and said "They're ruining our childhood!!"
Can we (Score:5, Insightful)
Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think. It's just a mis-match of the phases of human life and the plot of the story. Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsiblities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
I think the baby boomers represented the great consumerist generation, and the marketers are trying to squeeze the last dollars out of this demographic.
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You really considered the original ghostbusters movies action adventure flicks?
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I don't know, it ended with some kind of lightning battle with an interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man on the New York skyline... what category does that normally go in?
Acid Trip.
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I don't know, it ended with some kind of lightning battle with an interdimensional god and a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man on the New York skyline...
Damn it man, can't you preface that with a [Spoiler Alert]?!? It's still in my Netflix queue...
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There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.
Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.
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There is (or at least, there should be) a five year limit to how long after a movie comes out it's required to preface spoilers with a warning. That's enough time for the movie to go from theaters to crappy network stations.
Books, on the other hand, shouldn't have that limit. It's hard to go through books as quickly as movies.
Harry killed Gandalf! My God, it's full of stars. The white whale gets away, but gets caught again for Free Moby 2 through 17. The yerks take over the world and have love children with the g'ould. The Pope is actually an alien, and Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are the Illuminati.
That said it was a good book, and you should read it anyway.
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Dude... I was totally going to read Harry RingGate: DaVinci in Black, but you ruined the ending for me! Now what am I going to do?
(Incidentally, it's spelled "goa'uld". If you're going to make nerdy comments, at least check your spelling ;)
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They're going to resurrect him in the sequel. After all, he's the most popular guy in the franchise.
Yeah..The next one takes place in Utah. They have this funny scene at first where some dubious followers are doing the whole "weekend at Bernies" thing, and it's totally not working out for them, but then, surprise! He's back. After that, it's all dick and fart jokes. I wouldn't recommend it.
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Get a better shredder.
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Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think. It's just a mis-match of the phases of human life and the plot of the story. Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsiblities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
I am 43 and I spend more time running around doing crazy shit than I did when I was 20 years younger, mainly because I have the money and time now, and my seven year old son has similar tastes in crazy shit (or is learning too, anyway).
But yeah, Bill Murray wants to move on, maybe the others should as well. Maybe they won't be there in the fourth if it gets made.
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your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back
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your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back
Now they tell me.
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your son is way too young to be running around with an unlicensed nuclear accelerator strapped to his back
I think he was referring to things like strange noises at night, doors opening and closing, food missing from the fridge, symmetrical book stacking, and mysterious puddles of an unidentfiable green substance littering the place.
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I think he was referring to things like strange noises at night, doors opening and closing, food missing from the fridge...
...cats and dogs sleeping together...
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No no no... Dogs and cats, living together... MASS HYSTERIA!
Is this true? (Score:5, Funny)
Send me picts (Score:3, Funny)
Kinky....
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It just occurred to me, we've never had a completely successful test of this equipment.
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Well, if it radiates RF energy, the FCC will want to come inspect it in the middle of the night, or so I have heard. Please leave your porch light on so they know which house is yours.
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Seeing a bunch of guys in their 60s doing action/adventure stuff won't cut it for me, I don't think.
Ghostbusters doesn't really have action sequences though in the same way that Indiana Jones did. The biggest action sequence was probably them running ut of the library.
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The end of the movie was just them walking around, making jokes, holding and aiming props. When I think of Indiana Jones I think of outrunning a massive boulder, fighting Nazies on tanks, etc. Ghostbusters was nothing like that. It was a drama.
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I thought that was the end of Unbreakable.
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My personal fave is Rye Hard, the story of Bruce Willis and his affable side-kick Moisha, a Jewish baker-slash-deli-owner, and their quest to save the world from Islamofascism and the horrors of white bread.
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Burn. In. Hell.
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Dr. Peter Venkman ..... Eddie Murphy ........ Eddie Murphy ..... Eddie Murphy ....... Arsenio Hall
Dr. Ray Stantz
Dr. Egon Spengler
Winston Zedmore
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Who the hell can replace Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd?
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker? Chris tucker distracts Cuthulu with a continuous rant on Cuthulu's personal hygene and Jackie stunt fights thru the reanimated denizens of the Netherworld in a proton accelerated tuxedo.
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If anyone cares to notice, we're all recalling the original Ghostbusters which was great. That's because the Ghostbusters II (which also had the original cast) SUCKED big time!
Unfortunately, I think this may be a case of, "Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"
Sometimes you can't go back. {sigh} But I hope I'm wrong.
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"Hey none of us are getting gigs, let's do a remake!"
Yeah, they are all just desperate for work...
Just take Bill Murray for example. In the past 5 years he's only got 12 projects listed on the Internet Movie Database
Including :
The Darjeeling Limited 67% fresh on Rotton Tomatoes [rottentomatoes.com]
The City of Ember
Get Smart
Broken Flowers 87% fresh [rottentomatoes.com]
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
That's a struggling actor not getting gigs?
Sigourney Weaver? Bah, she only has 18 film projects listed since 2004. And lots of TV gigs. LOTS. That's hardly working in the world of LA actors though, right? Oh.
Harold Ramis? Well, he's sure slowed down in his writing, but he's been acting a little (Knocked Up,Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, etc), a little producing, a little directing (a few episodes of The Office, etc). It looks like he's picking and choosing and having fun, not really struggling for projects.
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The Life Aquatic was a steaming turd.
Bill Murray hasn't been in anything good for years.
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And how much did he get paid for 5 seconds of work?
I never claimed all the stuff was Oscar material, just that none of them are starving for work.
I think they are doing this project, sure for some cash (more is always good), but also because it probably sounds like fun getting together with a bunch of old friends for a few months on a fun project.
Not that that will make it a great movie, but that they've got motivation that's definitely not 'we aren't getting any gigs'.
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Harold Ramis is the most successful of all, and I can only imagine the reason he would particpate is out of charity to Dan Akroyd.
Seth
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You do realize that China has had a thriving film industry for years and years?
In fact it is not unheard of for great Chinese films to be remade in English, like Infernal Affairs [wikipedia.org]. The English language version won an academy award, I think. [wikipedia.org]
I prefer the works of the Shaw Brothers [wikipedia.org] and Tsui Hark [wikipedia.org], myself, but then I'm a traditionalist.
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Maybe the original cast could be the ghosts.
Besides, Ghostbusters isn't really an action film. It's a comedy with some effects.
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Maybe the original cast could be the ghosts.
Besides, Ghostbusters isn't really an action film. It's a comedy with some effects.
ya know, I dont think this is a bad idea, the guys could be in the middle of a struggle to put down some nefarious spirit when one of the backpacks overloads and explodes causing a chain reaction with the rest of the guys. Cue big boom and when the dust settles they are all transparent like at the end of Jedi looking at one another and thinking *fuck*
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60s is middle-aged? What does that make your 40s then? Adolescence 2: Reading Glasses Boogaloo?
Speak for yourself, Sonny (Score:5, Insightful)
Iron Man was great because it gave 40-somethings an action hero *THEY* can relate to.
Not your typical, whiny, prissy-haired Generation-Y superhero who between fighting bad guys (like "Eco Man" and "The Recycler") shops and uses his iPhone to update his Twitter feed: "kckd butt yo lol lawl in4a!"
If GhostBusters 3 gives 60-somethings an action hero they can relate to (Because Indy 4 sure as hell didn't), good for them!
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Running around doing crazy shit is a young person's thing; a story where the cast is middle-aged should have the plot that involves the drama that a middle aged person gets involved in -- kids, grandkids, getting old, missed opportunities, rectifying relationships, taking on responsibilities, coming to terms with your life, etc.
Wow you need to know some different old people. In his 60's my Dad was travelling the world. Malaysia, Australia, The Alps, India... at his funeral (in his 70's) my sister and I found out he had three girlfriends at the time he died (no, that wasn't the cause :). At one point one of them took me aside and told me how while taking a break during sex she had ridden him naked around the living room and patio...
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That last sentence, was just not something I would like to hear at a funeral.
I can understand why you feel you would not want to hear that. The lady (and she was) certainly knew my sister wouldn't be able to handle it but somehow figured out that I would enjoy hearing it. Perhaps it was that I had flown in from several thousand miles away and she knew we would almost certainly never meet again. Perhaps it was because she was in shock - too long a story to explain why but she only found out about his death and funeral the day before the service - and grieving and it helped her cope with that grief to be able to share it.
I think she knew it would help me. My father had grown up in the Great Depression (and anybody who thinks the current situation is anywhere near as bad as that is deluded). His father died before he was 10. He fought on the ground in WWII and saw things he would never discuss with me or anyone else. In action his back was injured and he suffered chronic pain and reduced mobility for the next 30 years. His fighter pilot brother crashed and burned somewhere over Europe during WWII. As a result his mother killed herself. He was in a loveless and painful marriage to my mother and stayed in it until my sister and I were both out of the home. He supported his family by working in a job he literally came to hate long before he could leave it when my sister and I were gone. Mom had worked once my sister and I were in school, and was fully capable of supporting herself, but when he left her he gave up everything - house, furniture, car etc. - and paid Mom support in order to make sure Mom didn't go without - all without a court or lawyer forcing him. Medicine had advanced and he got his back fixed and at age 55 started over with nothing.
A lot of what that means you don't get until you are older and can really start to understand. One of my favorite sayings goes something like "When I was a teenager I was always embarrassed at how completely ignorant and stupid my father was. In my late twenties I was shocked to see how much smarter he had become." Despite all that he lived through Dad was a gentle and scrupulously honest man who thought about right and wrong and tried to live his life by that. Hundreds of people came to his funeral including people he had worked with and mentored 30 years before.
I was really glad to see my Dad able to find some happiness and joy in the latter part of his life. If anyone deserved it he sure did and I had been telling his girlfriend this because she had been worried how the family might react to finding out about her. I think part of why she told me what she did was to let me know what he had found with her. And what's the big deal? They'd had sex. They were naked. He got on his hands and knees to pick something up and spur of the moment she playfully got on his back. They played and they had fun... hearing about that made me happy.
I understand your desire not to hear that and it is certainly your right and nothing wrong with that at all. So none of this is aimed at you but some of the other reactions involving knives and "brain bleach" betray a serious problem - with age, with sex, with parents... I don't know which - maybe all. But the people saying stuff like that really ought to examine why they have such reactions. It's said nobody likes to think of their parents or teachers as having sex. Why? They are, after all, completely human. Even if they are gasp old.
Many people here think nothing of saying things like "put it in retard mode for the senior citizens" and other similar comments. The bigotry aimed at age is no more acceptable than if it was aimed at race. If anything it is worse because those old people have lived and experienced far more than the bigots and they deserve respect. They used to get it in our society and it's ugly that that has, for some reason, changed.
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The reason being that Arnold is a tad occupied with being the Governor of California at the moment,...
A poltergeist stole my dentures (Score:5, Funny)
Ghostbusters 3: Haunted Retirement Community
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Already been done [imdb.com].
Atl east they finally made up their minds. (Score:3, Insightful)
At least they finally made up their minds.
I remember when they first decided to make a new one, then scrapped the movie in favor of a video game... some of us are still haunted by the original ghostbusters games.
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some of us are still haunted by the original ghostbusters games.
I think that was actually the idea that made Bill Murray not want to read the third draft of the script.
Or, they could do like the other franchises... (Score:2, Interesting)
...and reboot the series. Then they could get Clive Barker or John Carpenter to direct.
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Someone's already created a rather good intro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBQi9LHIzbA [youtube.com]
Cocoon? (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, Ghostbusters... (Score:5, Funny)
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"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe in anything you say."
Please, please, do NOT.... (Score:5, Funny)
Please, don't let the 'new generation of Ghostbusters' consist of a goth girl, a hispanic guy, a guy in a wheelchair, and black mechanic.
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This sounds more like a script for an episode of Family Guy or South Park.
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They're referring to the less then brilliant previous cartoon attempt to relaunch Ghost Busters: Ghost Busters: Extreme; which (like the proposed plot) had the old characters (well, Egon) training a new generation...
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Virtual mod points to you for your reference to The State. Let's all get stoked to literally go apeshit on Bastille Day this year!
Does hollywood have any originality left? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Does hollywood have any originality left? (Score:5, Insightful)
C'mon. At least of the 6 major Batman movies, 4 of them were decent or good (I'm sorry, but Batman & Robin and Batman Forever SUCKED!). Did you even SEE The Dark Knight? Hardly slapping on a fresh coat of paint and slapping it up there. And nevermind that Batman Begins WAS basically a "reboot" for the franchise.
And it's not necessarily originality that's lacking in Hollywood. It's the fact that original, high profile, big budget pictures tend to elicit quite a following if they're at least decent, and this causes sequels to be "big" as well simply because people who liked the first (or second, or tenth) will come see the next simply out of curiousity. Repeat ad nauseum.
Re:Does hollywood have any originality left? (Score:4, Insightful)
I hate to break this to you - but Hollywood has been recycling themes and plots since about the time the fourth movie came out of Hollywood. Hell, even Shakespeare recycled plots and themes.
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Not much. "Police Academy 8" is back in development, after being shelved in 2003 and 2006. I think that's the highest sequel number with the same title.
Hollywood is down to mining the more obscure comic books and toys. The Silver Surfer has been done. GI Joe comes out this summer. There's another Transformers movie. Yawn.
Even "Terminator Salvation" is disappointing.
"Angels and Demons" isn't bad, except that it turns into one of those stupid "beat the clock" movies. (Previous "beat the clock" m
I'm putting on my psychic hat (Score:4, Insightful)
It's gonna stink on ice. It's going to feel like Star Trek and Indy IV, actors we love and respect acting like paunchy, 45 yr old high school football stars trying to hit on hot young thangs at the bar. Jesus, you were good twenty years ago but it's over now, show some fucking dignity and let it rest. But no, they won't. Even if I don't see the movie I'll be traumatized just from the sheer weight of hype out there.
You know what the sad thing is? Ghostbusters 2 was an awful movie but, honestly, the first one wasn't very good either. The premise is still great, that holds up all these years later, but the damn thing was just so underwritten. As a first draft it's fine but there needed to be more punch in the dialog, more oomph per minute. I saw it about six months back after not having seen it since it first came out, my strongest memories from the cartoon. (Collect Call of Cthulhu? You guys rawked). While I missed out on all the sexual subtext as a kid (and didn't realize Akroyd was getting a spectral blowjob), I also didn't realize just how creepy Murray came across. He's the skeezy sexual harassment guy.
Ah, well. It's not like common sense or good taste has ever turned Hollywood off from a project.
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Nearly all comedies seem slow when they age. Watched an episode of Seinfeld a couple of months ago after a break of a few years, and it seemed painfully slow. I used to think Seinfeld got along at a cracking pace.
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actors we love and respect acting like paunchy, 45 yr old high school football stars trying to hit on hot young thangs at the bar
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the role Bill Murray plays best?
Pass what? (Score:3, Insightful)
Rick Moranis? (Score:4, Interesting)
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After some quick googling it would appear that Moranis will be returning to acting for this movie.
http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/04/ghostbusters-ii.html [ew.com]
In April of 2009, Entertainment Weekly's website quoted Harold Ramis as saying that Moranis was indeed on board for the third Ghostbusters movie that Sony Pictures was developing.[5]
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What they REALLY need to make another of... (Score:3, Interesting)
is the Buckaroo Banzi films. WITH the original cast....
Still waiting hopefully...
THird best line in the movie: The answer Lithgow gave the general..."It's not my G-D planet, Monkey Boy!".
Followed closely by
"Where are we going to go?
Home (says the Greek chorus...)
When are we going to leave?
Real soon now...."
and the big winner:
"Wherever you go, there you are!"
regards & Cheerfully Off topic...
dave mundt
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Seems so [ew.com]. It's going to be *really* hard for this to live up to the hype it's going to generate.
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I'm just gonna have to say that Justin can be pretty goddamn funny. He may have gotten rich off of the mediocrity machine but he does the absurd well too.
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It would be hard to imagine a Ghostbusters film without the Gatekeeper of Gozer.
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Hurray!
Yes, I'm quite tempted to join in with your such vocal enthusiasm!
Usually I'd be cynical. After all, I saw Ghostbusters II at the cinema and I still have the scars to prove it... yeah, it was THAT bad!
However Bill Murray who has gone on to reasonable success wants in. He's certainly earned enough money so he doesn't HAVE to do it. So maybe, just maybe it'll be decent.
So hell yeah, let's be vocally enthusiastic and optimistic...
Hurray!
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Excellent reasoning...
Just like George Lucas had "reasonable" success. He'd certainly earned enough money that he didn't need to do the Star Wars prequels. So the fact that he did them is part of the reason they were so...hang on...something is wrong with this train of thought
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Are you above making a big fat paycheck?
And the audience for Garfield thought it was great. Its just that the target audience was a lot younger than you. In fact, my son, who is 6, thought the Garfield movie was fantastic and forced me to watch it over, and over, and over, and over, and...
There is a reason why children's movies are aimed at children.
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He ad libbed quite a lot, so he wanted partial writing credit. Or so they say.