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Old 06-23-15 | 12:38 AM
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

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Well, many movies are actually shot in Toronto and made out to be New York, etc. Shooting a film in Boston and pretending it is New York is a bit weird. I know they did a few shots for Cloverfield in New York and filmed the rest in and around Los Angeles.
99% of Cloverfield was shot on sound stages.
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I thought that most of it was shot on green screens.
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

We already had a Ghostbusters 3...

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That game really needed to stop reusing the fucking music so much. But it was fun as hell.
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

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I still don't understand why Lorne hired this gorilla.
Wow.

Maybe he shares Leslie's tastes in Bananas...
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Yeah I don't care what she looks like - she's just a horrible comedian, her material is awful, she's trainwreck-awful on SNL (and if you stand out for being horrible on SNL these days, that's saying something).
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Based on her comedy, she's loud black woman being loud in making her point. A stereotype.... yay. The material in of itself isn't good.
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If they wanted diversity I think Uzo Aduba would have been an interesting choice, she is hilarious on Orange is the New Black.
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Old 06-23-15 | 06:18 PM
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

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If they wanted diversity I think Uzo Aduba would have been an interesting choice, she is hilarious on Orange is the New Black.
Inspired, but this is Feig. We aren't that lucky.
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This POS-to-be is really happening.
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

I'm not going to wish death on Feig because that's just mean... but maybe he could be stricken with polio or fall into an unexplainable coma for the next few years?
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Old 06-29-15 | 07:26 PM
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now that fuck is just rubbing it in our faces.
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The outfits look like something a garbage person would wear.
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

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The outfits look like something a garbage person would wear.
So what you're saying is they're accurate to the originals?
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Old 06-29-15 | 09:37 PM
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The extras casting was on Sunday in Boston. I...did not go. I also missed out on Evan Almighty in Charlottesville a few years ago. These unwanted comedy sequels keep following me around.
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Ugh...

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Old 06-30-15 | 10:23 AM
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Honestly, aside from the shin guards, the uniforms and proton packs look great. I really don't even know what people are complaining about anymore.
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

Leslie Jones is terrible because she keeps flubbing her lines (which I guess won't be an issue for a movie), but worse, her comic timing is WAY off, as in she has absolutely zero concept of timing. Which I guess can be fixed in a movie as well - but then, why hire her at all?
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Old 06-30-15 | 10:31 AM
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

I'm still not a fan of the all female cast but the costumes look fine to me. The new jumpsuits are fairly close to what the original cast wore other than the stripes and the shin guards. The proton pack is a bit different but still looks okay to me.
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

Originally Posted by slop101
Leslie Jones is terrible because she keeps flubbing her lines (which I guess won't be an issue for a movie), but worse, her comic timing is WAY off, as in she has absolutely zero concept of timing. Which I guess can be fixed in a movie as well - but then, why hire her at all?
Also, she is not remotely funny. Yelling your lines while making bug eyes on SNL is not comedy. % chance in the film she says with bug eyes "oh shit! dat's a ghost!"? 98%?
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Old 06-30-15 | 11:01 AM
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I saw two comments on reddit yesterday that really stuck with me regarding this movie:

The best that happens? We get a great movie. The worst that happens? I forget it exists and watch the 1984 movie that will continue to exist no matter what.
"I have a healthy relationship with media and separate my adult life from my childhood."
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Re: Ghostbusters - Female reboot (D: Feig, S: McCarthy, Wiig, Jones, McKinnon)

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Honestly, aside from the shin guards, the uniforms and proton packs look great. I really don't even know what people are complaining about anymore.
It's the internet and there are girls instead of boys involved. A lot of boys don't like that and complain about things like the look of the uniforms that look almost exactly like the uniforms from the first movie.
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Old 06-30-15 | 11:36 AM
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I don't see anything wrong with the uniforms or proton packs, they look fine to me. Not going to make the cast look any better though.
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The uniforms and equipment look great, it's unfortunate they'll be latched to a bunch of marginally talented actresses.
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