Dan Aykroyd came to my house, crapped on my carpet, ground it in, and ran off

[Vigo]

[yotsuya]

I hope Melissa McCarthy does a nude scene.

[Vigo]

That would be about the only thing that would save this movie. I could live with Ghostbusters being rebooted as a softcore porn.

[Le Chuck]

What. The. Actual. ---fudgesicle---.

[jdbailey1206]

Here we go......

Need I remind you we have lived through worse.  ie  The Star Wars Prequels and the Hobbit being made into 3 movies...I think we can survive this.  And if it was a softcore porn we would need Jenny McCarthy.  Not Melissa.   

[Louis Tully]

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[pbj]

This movie will be a frothy pool of liquid ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, just like the new TMNT movie.

Meh, new TMNT movie was mildly entertaining.

[yotsuya]

And if it was a softcore porn we would need Jenny McCarthy.  Not Melissa.

You got your links, bro, and I got mine. 

[jdbailey1206]

You got your links, bro, and I got mine. 

She aint a lady unless shes pushing 280?

[yotsuya]

You got your links, bro, and I got mine. 

She aint a lady unless shes pushing 280?

The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'.

[Le Chuck]

Here we go......

Need I remind you we have lived through worse.  ie  The Star Wars Prequels and the Hobbit being made into 3 movies...I think we can survive this.  And if it was a softcore porn we would need Jenny McCarthy.  Not Melissa.

I enjoyed the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of the new Hobbit films.  Hell, Jackson has my vote to dig into the Silmarillion.  And I hate the prequels as much as the next Fanboi but I walked out of ep1 with a grin and wanting my own pod racer.  Sure, through the lense  of time there are issues but at the cusp I was whole hog. 

[wp34]

Whenever the Star Wars prequels come up as a topic I feel like I'm in that joke where the old dudes have told the same jokes so many times they ended up numbering them and just calling out the number to save time. What more is there possibly to say?   /rant

21 Jumpstreet should have sucked but was hilarious so who knows.  This movie looks like a train wreck but at the same time I find the actresses funny.

That being said the title to this tread made me laugh out loud. 

[yotsuya]

I liked the Prequels and had no issues with them. They is what they is.

[Vigo]

I loved how they did the Hobbit. For those that haven't really read all of Tolkien, most of that "filler" is actually stuff Tolkien wrote but it didn't necessarily take place in the Hobbit. Unfortunately, "The Hobbit, and an Assortment of Related History of Middle Earth's Third Age Prior to the War of the Ring" just doesn't roll off of the tongue. 

And Star Wars Episode 1, check out my sweet tattoo.



Indy and the crystal skulls, that is really the only one that really upset me. They had all the pieces in the right place for an excellent movie. Hrm. Maybe Dan Aykroyd is somehow the reason for that failure as well?

[pbj]

Nobody walked out of Episode 1 saying, "I hated that movie."  Plus it gave us endlessly imitable racist caricatures thinly disguised as space aliens.


I never finished Episode 2 and the only time I saw Episode 3 it was a rough work cut.  Seemed decent but not worth obtaining a better copy.  That Boba Fett nonsense was worse than Jar Jar Binks.

[Nephasth]

Nobody walked out of Episode 1 saying, "I hated that movie."

I did. Only Stars War movie I've seen in theaters.

Disclaimer: I hate all Stars War movies.

[yotsuya]

I saw every Prequel film in the theatre. Twice, three times for Revenge.

[wp34]

Okay despite my rant I'll play.  For the record I saw Phantom Menace 7 times the summer it came out and once again when they did the 3D version.  Episode Two is a pretty good movie if you skip to the next chapter on the DVD every time Anakin and Padme are in a scene together (seriously it works).   I actually like E3 better than Jedi at this point in my life. 

[jdbailey1206]

Okay despite my rant I'll play.  For the record I saw Phantom Menace 7 times the summer it came out and once again when they did the 3D version.  Episode Two is a pretty good movie if you skip to the next chapter on the DVD every time Anakin and Padme are in a scene together (seriously it works).   I actually like E3 better than Jedi at this point in my life.

[Le Chuck]

I really want to see the Topher Grace edit some day

[BorgDog]

For us old guys nothing will ever come close the the amazement we felt after Star Wars first came out.  Back in '77 it was the thing, nothing else like it ever, absolutely amazing (I was 13ish at the time).  And then the wait and debate of is Darth really Lukes father?  wow.  I enjoy the rest of the films, but still remember the excitement of the first.   

[wp34]

Okay despite my rant I'll play.  For the record I saw Phantom Menace 7 times the summer it came out and once again when they did the 3D version.  Episode Two is a pretty good movie if you skip to the next chapter on the DVD every time Anakin and Padme are in a scene together (seriously it works).   I actually like E3 better than Jedi at this point in my life.

Ewoks dude.  Ewoks.

[yotsuya]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - I didn't realize I was supposed to hate the Ewoks at the time. 

[jdbailey1206]

[wp34]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - I didn't realize I was supposed to hate the Ewoks at the time. 

I didn't either.  And I don't hate them now but their presence pushes E3 over the top for me at this point.    They just don't hold up.

If you really want to feel old and out of touch ask someone in their late 20's what they think of Star Wars.  I work with several who honestly prefer the Prequels because they grew up on them.  Same thing with Star Trek the Next Generation over TOS.  My head about exploded the first time someone told me that.

[Vigo]

Ewoks are cool. I didn't mind the first round of special editions until they removed the "yub nub" song.

[Fursphere]

Nobody walked out of Episode 1 saying, "I hated that movie."

I did too.   

I was a Star Wars fan boy until they released Episode 1.   I've been hating on Star Wars ever since.

[danny_galaga]

Melissa Mcarthy and Kirsten Wiig are funny as hell. Movie could be ok.

[SavannahLion]

I must be way out of the loop because Melissa is the only one I recognize....
I happen to like her, far more than most Fatties anyways.

As for Star Wars, go get the FanEdits. They're far better, all the Anakin and Pad scenes are gone. So is a bulk of the Binks scenes and Hans shoots first.... always. Check them out.

[Well Fed Games]

No problems with the cast, its just that Ghostbusters had such a unique "tone," I don't know if they can recapture that. At least Reitman is producing it on some level. It is too bad Hollywood is stuck on reboots and adaptations... no one wants to take the risk on a new creative property, so they just keep mining at nostalgia, comics, fairy tales, etc. So we get needless reboots instead of the next "Ghostbusters" level movie.

Oh man, they are going to have the Black Eyed Peas (or current equivalent) do a version of the theme song that samples the Run DMC version and craps all over it. I think that might bother me more than anything.

[eds1275]

Reboots are lazy. You already have a fan base, and who cares if they hate it, they will spend their money on it just to justify their hate. In my opinion, if it was good, then it was god and doesn't need a remake. If it was bad, well... then it was bad and doesn't need a remake. The only time I think it really makes sense is if it is a remake of a great movie that was made before the available technology could really do it justice. The first Fly movie for example.

[Vigo]

You can get a hilarious cast, but that means nothing here because it will be destroying the formula that made ghostbusters so good. I'm sorry but doing an all female cast and handing the directing keys to director of Bridemaids. It is just pandering to turn this into the next Charlie's angels.

Not to mention the ghost busters group is so orientated to be primarily male. They are in essence university leeches turned firefighters because they can't shake their habit of doing whatever they want. They take on the apocalypse with a cowboy mentality. They have no regard for the damage they do in their wake as they piss on authority as they destroy everything in their path using homemade, nuclear powered weapons. Putting together 4 women that are believably that much modern renaissance cowboys is a very tall order.

[DaOld Man]

Please, someone tell me this whole thread is a joke!

[Vigo]

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/

[yotsuya]

I just hope we get a Will Smith cameo where he shouts "Aw HELL NO!" and then after he uses a proton pack he exclaims "I gotta get me one of these!".

[DaOld Man]

Dan Akroyd wrote it???

Shame on you Dan, you ignorant sl**!!

[Vigo]

Dan Akroyd wrote it???

Shame on you Dan, you ignorant sl**!!

He is the executive producer as well, so he is calling the shots on this one. Bill Murray recently confessed why he never wanted to do GB3, he said it was because the scripts that Aykroyd was writing were all horrible.

[pbj]

Well, considering as the original Ghostbusters script was interdimensional time traveling wizards smashing ghosts in the future.....

[Vigo]

That was Inter-dimensional janitors working for a time traveling wizard. Big Difference.

Aykroyd is a lot like a George Lucas, Has wild, creative ideas, but really needs someone to ---smurfette--- slap it into reality. (Only reason Indiana Jones was good because of a huge Spielburg bitchslap). I read about a lot of the stuff that Landis tanked out of Aykroyd's original Blue Brothers script, otherwise it would have been taking place partly in outer space and underwater as well. For Ghostbusters, Ramis and Reitman did a lot to fix it because it was really, really out there.

[Locke141]

I must be way out of the loop because Melissa is the only one I recognize....
I happen to like her, far more than most Fatties anyways.

As for Star Wars, go get the FanEdits. They're far better, all the Anakin and Pad scenes are gone. So is a bulk of the Binks scenes and Hans shoots first.... always. Check them out.

+1

Episode one had a lot going stuff going for it. The climax fight sequence was partially good.