(07-21-2016, 08:25 AM)Gors Wrote: I never watched anything related to Ghostbusters but for some reason this film had a lot of game tie-ins, even on the C64 of all things


At least the chiptune version of the movie theme is very cool

(07-21-2016, 08:30 AM)Kosheh Wrote: i mean where's my ferris bueller's day off pachinko game????

(07-21-2016, 12:47 PM)Uncle Drew Wrote:

(07-21-2016, 08:30 AM)Kosheh Wrote: i mean where's my ferris bueller's day off pachinko game????

ExCUSE me Don't you JiNx my FAVORite movie I dun Want 2 See it get Shat on.


(I actually have never seen this movie btw.)

(07-21-2016, 08:30 AM)Kosheh Wrote:

(07-21-2016, 08:25 AM)Gors Wrote: I never watched anything related to Ghostbusters but for some reason this film had a lot of game tie-ins, even on the C64 of all things


At least the chiptune version of the movie theme is very cool

the true downer about Ghostbusters is that it's like Garfield or the Ninja Turtles: it's like this accidental classic of the 80's that the big companies bought and pretty much just milked the shit out of its licensing afterwards.

i mean where's my ferris bueller's day off pachinko game????

Some thoughts about what clips I saw. So spoilers ahead.

The Bill Murray cameo had to be most insulting thing to any fan of the originals. He even looked like he didn't want to be there.
Doesn't help that he and the other original cast members were only doing cameos because they would get sued if they didn't.

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man's cameo felt like an insult as well. Here he is a parade balloon and gets popped by Kritsen Wiig with a knife.

Slimer looks way too animated to look convincing. And why the eff does he have a girlfriend that's just him with a wig & makeup?!
Poor dude, felt like a waste of a good character.

All Kate Mckinnin's character did was make annoying voices, pop culture references and cringeworthy one-liners.
Even explaining a pun at one point. Explaining a joke just wrecks the humor.

They were killing the ghosts rather than actually busting them in the climax. It also sucks how they're all just generic human ghosts.
If you saw anything Ghostbusters before. Ghosts could take forms of eldritch proportions. Yes, even in the first two movies.

The fact the main villain pulls a "which form do you choose?" thing out of his ass with no explanation just makes you facepalm.
When he turns into the logo, he's a 2D animated ghost. But quickly turns into a CGI kaiju that raises even further questions.
Man, what a waste of perfectly good 2D animation as it looked well done.

It was also dumb how the Ecto-Shitbox (This film's more inferior car) ended up as the overly cliche "Chekhov's gun" or macguffin type thing.

The way they treat Keven looked like they were dealing with someone mentally disabled, rather than someone cartoonishly stupid.
Bad enough that, as every negative review pointed out, every male character was either an idiot or an asshole.

(07-30-2016, 08:31 AM)Goemar Wrote:

(07-21-2016, 08:30 AM)Kosheh Wrote:

(07-21-2016, 08:25 AM)Gors Wrote: I never watched anything related to Ghostbusters but for some reason this film had a lot of game tie-ins, even on the C64 of all things


At least the chiptune version of the movie theme is very cool

the true downer about Ghostbusters is that it's like Garfield or the Ninja Turtles: it's like this accidental classic of the 80's that the big companies bought and pretty much just milked the shit out of its licensing afterwards.

i mean where's my ferris bueller's day off pachinko game????

The Turtles most people know and love was the milk, the original comics were a success but the 'classic of the 80s' was a 5 part TV show made to sell action figures. When people say "I liked the original Turtles" they are normally talking about the cartoon.

Not to mention that the old cartoons are awesome (upto a point) 3/4 of the 'old' films were good, the fox kids (was it fox kids?) cartoon was good (again upto a point) the Nicktoons one is good and the new comic series is good. Sometimes, man, milk away. Sure we got space hockey Rapheal and the new films but it's a small price to pay for continued existence of a still promising franchise.

(07-30-2016, 07:01 PM)Dolphman Wrote: With Ghostbusters right now. It has, unsurprisingly, underperformed at the box office. Doesn't help with what else is out at the same time.
Another reason for it was the fact the cast and crew insulted their audience in everything they were on, alienating them even more.
They also ignored the fact there ARE women who are fans of the franchise and hated it just as much. Such as Comicbookgirl19.
...
Like James Rolfe, she had the same opinion about it, but she wasn't attacked like him either. All because she wasn't a man.

-sniping most of this just because there's alot of other stuff in this post that I already knew about or bears no relevance to the point that I'd wish to make.-

(07-30-2016, 10:03 PM)Kosheh Wrote:

(07-30-2016, 08:31 AM)Goemar Wrote:

(07-21-2016, 08:30 AM)Kosheh Wrote: the true downer about Ghostbusters is that it's like Garfield or the Ninja Turtles: it's like this accidental classic of the 80's that the big companies bought and pretty much just milked the shit out of its licensing afterwards.

i mean where's my ferris bueller's day off pachinko game????

The Turtles most people know and love was the milk, the original comics were a success but the 'classic of the 80s' was a 5 part TV show made to sell action figures. When people say "I liked the original Turtles" they are normally talking about the cartoon.

Not to mention that the old cartoons are awesome (upto a point) 3/4 of the 'old' films were good, the fox kids (was it fox kids?) cartoon was good (again upto a point) the Nicktoons one is good and the new comic series is good. Sometimes, man, milk away. Sure we got space hockey Rapheal and the new films but it's a small price to pay for continued existence of a still promising franchise.

d-did you just explain the Turtles franchise to someone who already knew the Turtles franchise? lol I know the comic book was an underground indie hit that CBS said "we can turn your hundreds into BILLIONS" - and when people talk about the original Turtles - yes, it's the '87 cartoon (which you guys got rebranded as "Hero Turtles"), but in actuality that was probably the weakest in the series; since they managed to squeeze out 188 more episodes to push the sales of Playmates action figures. Remember, that's the era of the Turtles that spawned the Pizza Hut "Coming Out of Our Shells" tour collaboration
(also, I'm kinda holding 2016 standards to a show from 1987. What made the Turtles then was how fitting it was of the period - sorta like Ghostbusters, actually)

The '87 series actually got pretty terrible at like the start of season 2 - the show had little direction with one-off plots and some of them were downright absurd (though to be fair, part of it was probably done as to not alienate kids [or concerned parents] of the 90's) I've actually heard from other Turtle nerds that their favorite series was the Fox Kids one due to how close it was to the Mirage comics.
The new show and comic though is pretty dang good. I guess that franchise milking was worth it if it led to them to getting some of the best names in the industry to work on the series. x)

Quote:unpopular opinion: the original ghostbusters really wasnt all that great