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@fearsomesymmetry replied to your post: “I decided to be bold and included a picture of My Face in my about...”:

nice! where did you get a traffic photo cam of yourself???

They mail them to you so you'll know there's no way you can pretend it wasn't you driving the car.

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yeah murray did get all the good lines in it didn't he

Yeah. He’s why they had to wait almost thirty years to get another movie made. Bill Murray didn’t like any of the scripts for a third Ghostbusters movie and there’s no way they would have been able to have that same team carry a movie without him.

That’s another reason why I think it’s good they went with women--they -sort of- have the Venkman and the Ray and the Spengler and the Zeddemore, but not really. They’re very much their own characters, and you can’t just measure them against the original Ghostbusters apples to apples. 

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@pinalinet replied to your post: “@cleareyesfullheartscantlosee reblogged your post:If you call ‘meh’...”:

I... watched both yesterday (new and original) and... I liked the new one better. I'm shocked but I genuinely think it was a better movie. A lot of it boils down to "personal taste" and I never watched the original as a kid but doesn't that just mean my tastes aren't being clouded by nostalgia? Isn't that a good thing? idk

That's the thing! This new movie isn't perfect but it isn't desecrating some infallible holy relic. People get nostalgia goggles because Ghostbusters came out when blockbusters were still relatively new and that level of spectacle in a comedy was definitely fresh (and I do really love those puppets) but it's flawed too! Bill Murray gets all the good lines, the regular people keeping the Ghostbusters down are just frustratingly, unbelievably unreasonable, and there was already a very mediocre follow up movie. But somehow it became a sacred cow of 80s childhood.

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@doctor-lucky replied to your post: “trailers are like a first impression. it can be an accurate judge off...”:

My favorite movie trailer of all time has to be the trailer for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the one that's the Guide's entry on movie trailers. Absolutely brilliant.

Yes, really a fantastic trailer.

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trailers are like a first impression. it can be an accurate judge off the bat or it could fail to portray what a movie will actually be like

Exactly, it could go either way. That’s why I try to pay attention to movie reviews and word of mouth instead of marketing materials.

At best a good trailer inspires cautious optimism in me. At worst a bad trailer lowers my expectations.

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@castleintheskye replied to your post: “I saw Ghostbusters ~Twenty Sixteen~ and it is silly and spooky and...”:

was there a lot of awkward and/or gross-out humor? I want to support it but I didn't like Bridesmaids (also congrats!!)

Naw, grossest thing in the movie is ectoplasm. It's pretty wholesome.

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@ladychraelix replied to your photo: “Netflix, why do you mock me. WHy do you tease a thing that can never...”:

this was the reason fanfiction was created. soothe the hurt with fix-it fic

I dunno I dunno. I always get a little weirded out looking into fandoms for things that are decades old. Like, “dang, you are still really into this thing that hasn’t been relevant in years. You must have like, nobody to talk to.”

Pull back camera to reveal I am speaking into a mirror.

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i'm just laughing at the thought of the teletubies reaction to the speech

They might be startled, but they have certainly been normalized to stranger things.