Ghostbusters movie by Paul Feig

[KrangPrime]

First set photo's. I bet that plumbing van is the new Ecto-1. I really hope I'm wrong.

http://www.boston.com/entertainment/2015/06/18/exclusive-first-photos-from-the-set-ghostbusters-everett/eCDXjBZees1qPppRHfrxLK/story.html

I wonder how much it would cost in NY, and if Sony makes that back in a day. cheap bastards.

this thing has been through probably two re writes already. first script was probably set up in boston, then fans complained, but they already booked time there and might have cost money to cancel, so they stuck with it.

that's my theory anyway and i'm sticking to it.

I want sony to release the first two movies on the same day. let fans speak with their wallets. as if they don't know how we feel already.

 

[jlee562]

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c...ses-ghostbusters-reboot-hits-the-right-notes/

Spinoff Online: One of your greatest creations, “Ghostbusters,” is being so buzzed about with the new, all-female incarnation on the way.
Dan Aykroyd: Yeah, it’s going to be hot! The new one’s going to be big! The interplay, and with each of them, their individual voices are so well defined. They’re just such different characters, and there’s a friction. There’s a dynamic there. I’m not going to spoil it for people, but it’s going to be big, big!
Is there a second revival coming as well, with a group of fellas?
The thing is, you’ve got creators all around Hollywood who saw the thing at the original time and are going, ‘Wow, I think I’ve got a take on that. I think I could do something under that umbrella.” And so we’ve had brilliant creators walk in, from Paul Feig to many others. And we loved the concepts they’re coming up with. And this one with the four girls is going to be massive. Oh, man, it’s funny. It’s intelligent. It hits the right notes, and I’m really excited about it.
It refers to the first two in a really neat, classy way, but this is all going to introduce them to a whole new generation of girls that are going to want to be Ghostbusters. We always needed them.

 

[dbalschi]

Hmm lets's take an annoying comedian and put glasses one her. Glasses = Smart

 

[Westies14]

first script was probably set up in boston, then fans complained, but they already booked time there and might have cost money to cancel, so they stuck with it.

that's my theory anyway and i'm sticking to it.

The financial district location shooting is already being described by production as a stand in for Manhattan, and the school in Everett where they were yesterday has a "BRONX" sign up, with a NY Plumbing van and a NYC taxi out front. It's a NY story, just without the authenticity!

Dan Ackroyd is suddenly all over this thing. He's on set and apparently involved now. He was mostly disgruntled and critical throughout pre-production, and it seems the about-face is at Sony's behest with the implicit threat/promise related to his chances of ever getting to do a version that he's more genuinely interested in producing: a sequel tied narratively to the original films. Maybe he's had a change of heart and genuinely thinks this is a hilarious, smart, and necessary script too, but take that for what it's worth coming from a post-1980s Dan Ackroyd.

 

[Riceball]

The financial district location shooting is already being described by production as a stand in for Manhattan, and the school in Everett where they were yesterday has a "BRONX" sign up, with a NY Plumbing van and a NYC taxi out front. It's a NY story, just without the authenticity!

Dan Ackroyd is suddenly all over this thing. He's on set and apparently involved now. He was mostly disgruntled and critical throughout pre-production, and it seems the about-face is at Sony's behest with the implicit threat/promise related to his chances of ever getting to do a version that he's more genuinely interested in producing: a sequel tied narratively to the original films. Maybe he's had a change of heart and genuinely thinks this is a hilarious, smart, and necessary script too, but take that for what it's worth coming from a post-1980s Dan Ackroyd.

Two words, executive producer. They probably offered him an executive producers credit with a nice paycheck to go along with it.

 

[DakGibralter]

The amount of cynicism in this thread is shocking to me. I don't have much love for reboots in general, but besides potentially being an unnecessary film I don't see all that much reason to hate on it so much. Feig has a great track record and so does the cast.

 

[KrangPrime]

alot of people seem to hate mellisa mccarthy movies.....that kind of review tends to follow you no matter what movie you work on.

the reason for all the hate has been described ad nausea in this thread. but to put it down to basics. 20 years to see the boys reunite for a third and final outing. and we get this.
hence...hate.

 

[DakGibralter]

alot of people seem to hate mellisa mccarthy movies.....that kind of review tends to follow you no matter what movie you work on.

the reason for all the hate has been described ad nausea in this thread. but to put it down to basics. 20 years to see the boys reunite for a third and final outing. and we get this.
hence...hate.

Honestly, and maybe this is my own cynicism coming out, I think there's no way a sequel would ever have lived up to anyone's expectations, especially with Ramis gone and Murray refusing to do it.

Put it this way - if the new Star Wars trilogy didn't have any original cast members in it because Harrison Ford had passed away and Hamill refused to be a part of it on principal, I wouldn't hate it sight unseen. I'd just be glad they didn't try to force something that was never going to happen.

This might not be the Ghostbusters we wanted, but at least it's not the Ghostbusters the Ghostbusters didn't want.

 

[KrangPrime]

star wars is different. it's had LOADS of books without the main core characters and all FELT like Star Wars. especially set in the s ame universe

And, The Video game basically WAS ghostbusters 3 after a 20 year wait and people LOVED that. even if Murray did just phone in his performance.

 

[Westies14]

And again, I'd be miles more enthusiastic about Feig and his team (of any gender) if they were living in a world where the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man had stepped on a church 30 years ago, or if the only reason for the break in continuity wasn't because a director who wasn't interested in the original franchise wouldn't sign on quickly enough.

I don't need to see the old guys. I want their work to have started the whole thing...

 

[cboath]

Honestly, and maybe this is my own cynicism coming out, I think there's no way a sequel would ever have lived up to anyone's expectations, especially with Ramis gone and Murray refusing to do it.

Put it this way - if the new Star Wars trilogy didn't have any original cast members in it because Harrison Ford had passed away and Hamill refused to be a part of it on principal, I wouldn't hate it sight unseen. I'd just be glad they didn't try to force something that was never going to happen.

This might not be the Ghostbusters we wanted, but at least it's not the Ghostbusters the Ghostbusters didn't want.

You'd probably not like the new SW if the makers had an avowed dis-interest in the original and were interested in redoing the OT from scratch and basically dumping everything that's already happened.

This isn't adding to the GB world/universe or whatever you want to call it. It's creating a new one for the sake of creating a new one.

I'll admit to not liking MM movies, but that's because I loved her in Gilmore girls and in Mike and Molly - where she shows lots of talent and ability and pretty much all her movies she's been the overweight, dumb, slob. for nothing but laughs.

Part of my fear of this is Bridesmaids. I kept hearing how great it was and when I watched it, I turned it off after about 40 minutes. Thought it was terrible and extremely not-funny. It's supremely rare I turn off a movie.

 

[DakGibralter]

You'd probably not like the new SW if the makers had an avowed dis-interest in the original and were interested in redoing the OT from scratch and basically dumping everything that's already happened.

This isn't adding to the GB world/universe or whatever you want to call it. It's creating a new one for the sake of creating a new one.

I'll admit to not liking MM movies, but that's because I loved her in Gilmore girls and in Mike and Molly - where she shows lots of talent and ability and pretty much all her movies she's been the overweight, dumb, slob. for nothing but laughs.

Part of my fear of this is Bridesmaids. I kept hearing how great it was and when I watched it, I turned it off after about 40 minutes. Thought it was terrible and extremely not-funny. It's supremely rare I turn off a movie.

Fair points all.

 

[Solo4114]

You'd probably not like the new SW if the makers had an avowed dis-interest in the original and were interested in redoing the OT from scratch and basically dumping everything that's already happened.

This isn't adding to the GB world/universe or whatever you want to call it. It's creating a new one for the sake of creating a new one.

I'll admit to not liking MM movies, but that's because I loved her in Gilmore girls and in Mike and Molly - where she shows lots of talent and ability and pretty much all her movies she's been the overweight, dumb, slob. for nothing but laughs.

Part of my fear of this is Bridesmaids. I kept hearing how great it was and when I watched it, I turned it off after about 40 minutes. Thought it was terrible and extremely not-funny. It's supremely rare I turn off a movie.

I'd just like to say that this is one of the best ways I've seen this position expressed.

Not only is it starting from scratch to start from scratch. It's starting from scratch just because you have a brand that you can affix to the end product.

 

[Rylo]

I find everything about Mellisa Mccarthy insufferable. I honestly believe she attempts to channel an odd mix of Curly from the stooges with a dash of Chris Farley's (Van by the river guy) peppered with every routine (rapping white guy, preacher, etc) Robbin Williams beat to death. I can't scramble for the remote fast enough when she pops up on my television.

Aside from that, Westies14 summed it all up nicely.

 

[Wes R]

Mellisa is as obnoxious as her cousin, Jenny, and even less funny. Apparently the McCarthy DNA excludes comedy talent. This movie is a giant turd. Ramis and company already had things set up for a sequel with a new cast when they wrote the video game, it kind of was the entire point, and even the comic books followed that storyline. This is just a money grab. This is going to a PG13 version of bridesmaids with more toilet humor than anything else and i bet the ghosts look halfassed.

 

[AJTaliesen]

Feig has a great track record and so does the cast.

We can agree to disagree about that.

 

[Rylo]

Forgot about Jenny. Ugh...you're right!

Mellisa is as obnoxious as her cousin, Jenny, and even less funny. Apparently the McCarthy DNA excludes comedy talent. This movie is a giant turd. Ramis and company already had things set up for a sequel with a new cast when they wrote the video game, it kind of was the entire point, and even the comic books followed that storyline. This is just a money grab. This is going to a PG13 version of bridesmaids with more toilet humor than anything else and i bet the ghosts look halfassed.

 

[Halliwax]

I'd rather watch Jenny then mellisa any day though....

 

[Feraud]

Mellisa is as obnoxious as her cousin, Jenny, and even less funny. Apparently the McCarthy DNA excludes comedy talent. This movie is a giant turd. Ramis and company already had things set up for a sequel with a new cast when they wrote the video game, it kind of was the entire point, and even the comic books followed that storyline. This is just a money grab. This is going to a PG13 version of bridesmaids with more toilet humor than anything else and i bet the ghosts look halfassed.

I absolutely agree. I heard about the film and simply said, "why?". To have An All Female Cast? Big deal! Women are funny. We know that. Give women good original content and let's get on with it already.

I'll admit to not liking MM movies, but that's because I loved her in Gilmore girls and in Mike and Molly - where she shows lots of talent and ability and pretty much all her movies she's been the overweight, dumb, slob. for nothing but laughs.

Part of my fear of this is Bridesmaids. I kept hearing how great it was and when I watched it, I turned it off after about 40 minutes. Thought it was terrible and extremely not-funny. It's supremely rare I turn off a movie.

I agree with your assessment of Melissa's films. For all of Hollywood's patting itself on the back about how progressively Liberal they are, they repeatedly cast her as a fat boor. It's insulting.

 

[jlee562]

We can agree to disagree about that.

One can agree to disagree on subjective opinion, but not on objective fact.

If one doesn't find Bridesmaids funny, fair enough.

90% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with a slightly lesser score of 76% Audience score.

Spy fared even better, 95% Fresh, 85% Audience score.

It's all well and good if you don't like these movies and don't think they're funny. But it's a whole other thing to say Feig, et al, haven't made movies that were critically and/or financially successful.

I don't like Tim Burton; but, I'm not going to sit here and say that his films don't have a cult following. I haven't seen a Tarantino film that I truly enjoyed; but, I'm likewise not going to pretend like he is not critically and financially successful because his works don't resonate with me.