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Also he didn’t have sound on his pack. Lmao.
"Oh this is a lovely storyOHGODDAMMIT."
Aside from having to drill out the ear tip through the barrel for wiring it was smooth sailing, and the feel of heaving a nice solid wand in hand can't be uh, beat.
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I still have a Benofkent wand kit I need to build, or just sell as is, but we will see. Meant to build em both simultaneously but didn't have it in me.
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You know, "The Way Of The Flying Hen". Cluck-jutso.
It’s the username of the guy who makes and sells a proton pack wand kit on the big ghostbusters fans forum.
Also how long till I can get a spinny cyclotron mechanism? I’d think that would generate a neat pack hum too.
Los Angeles Ladder 23 firehouse is the now-closed shooting location for the interior shots of the Ghostbusters Headquarters (and several other films such as The Mask, and Big Trouble in Little China). Tribeca's Hook & Ladder 8 only stood in for exterior shots.
This is a double-spoiler for how the location might be used in the film.
What does this mean? We don't know. The workers are wearing masks so we know this was done sometime after 2019 when most of the filming was done and mostly editing remained.
My money is heavily on the credit stinger theory to tease a "going back into business" sequel with the now-more-grown-up cast.
It's possible that it could also be part of a flashback, but the dilapidated and rusty Afterlife Ecto-1 places it later in the timeline than the trailer suggests the original business shuttered.
Up until now, fans have been making due with music files pieced-together and skimmed off the DVDs.
http://www.ghostbustershq.net/home/2021/8/13/ghostbusters-ii-score-album-notes-and-analysis
https://open.spotify.com/album/6kfyN7TaRRdRe31limpKXH
Composer Randy Edelman is more known for comedies than his predecessor Elmer Bernstein, and the score has a little less gravitas than the original. Regardless it's always good to have media previously considered effectively lost. It's a fun soundtrack with a different vibe than Berstein's score for the first film.
There's a vinyl out on October 15th.
No, and that would be on the soundtrack. This is purely the orchestral score.
The original score had Howard Huntsberry's cover of "Higher and Higher" but not Jackie Wilson's original.
Fun coincidence, when I bought a house 2ish years ago now, it turned out a former resident's name was Jackie Wilson. I still get mail for her.
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This is certainly the most-thorough look at Firehouse 23 I've seen thus-far.
Did you know that the top floor with the bay windows was used as the apartment interior for the Ghostbusters 2 birthday party scene? Word is that most of the set dressing was still up there before it was cleaned out a bunch of years back when the place had aminly turned into a condemned squat.
Edit: Oh my god, those tin roofs!
Did they ever explain why Bernstein didn't return?
He has several conducting credits over 1988 through the early 90s, so my guess would be that he was not available.
There's also a possibility of a lack of interest in doing sequel work, or the studio not meeting his asking price. I've never heard an account of why.
There's a very deep analysis of his work from the original though through the Soundtrack Show podcast if you're interested:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-soundtrack-show-29021108/episode/ghostbusters-the-music-part-i-29976084/
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-the-soundtrack-show-29021108/episode/ghostbusters-the-music-part-ii-30015876/
I was like "that's weird I didn't think they worked like that." but didn't have any time to think about it because I had to continue crawling through airducts to find a surgeon to replace my poisoned vocal chords so I could sing again
So earlier some people were talking about there being a lack of humor in the trailer for Afterlife and I just wanted to put this thought out there: That could be a great thing.
I love the first movie and really like the second (First movie I ever picked to go see in a theatre) and I think the first movie is a classic that has these basic through lines that are all really well done.
1.) The situation is absurd
2.) While there is humor that arises from ghosts, they are as a whole angry - each of them is some expression of rage/regret or excess - which makes them menacing
3.) None of the Ghostbusters are comic relief - they're all the straight man. The humor in the movie flows fairly organically from how each of their characters would react in this absurd situation. Venkmans a wry cynic, Egons an eccentric (whom you hear of doing crazy things but all you really see is him being right), Rays a putz/naive/true believer and Winston is the outsider/everyman who wonders what he's gotten himself into (also underused).
Hopefully this latest attempt at a sequel has the same idea: A paranormal hell mouth opening in the Midwest is insane, let normal characters play off that insanity instead of zany characters trying to outshine it.
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It's like they want a really dumb comedy when that's not what the originals were at all. The comedy was always a bit dry in that Harold Ramis sensibility and the couple times it isn't are the parts that aged the worst.
The film has endured where other 80s comedies haven't BECAUSE of the unique approach to the humor where the situation is ridiculous and yet played straight, even to the point of legit horror and yet the characters' personalities kind of lampshade it all.
Thankfully, my worries about pubic opinion have been relaxed a bit after doing our first outing yesterday. Everyone who can't up to our table wanted to talk about how excited they were for Afterlife and I didn't even have to field any exhausting Answer the Call criticism.
One of the guys brought his big fire rescue generator truck (he's apparently collector) for the parade, but it didn't have a geeky theme and so he asked if we could slap my door magnets on it.
I of course said yes.
Thank you!
A basic flightsuit with patches is super easy. Packs and other equipment vary. I just had the suit for years before putting the rest together. It was still great to roam around in around Halloween or conventions or whatnot.
The fact that they mainly operate out of a firehouse and this is the first time the thought has ever crossed my mind frankly amazes me.
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Nobody said this, jesus. Please don't make the thread toxic for people who also actually like ghostbusters! You're not the only fan here!
It was all over Twitter, not in this thread. Seemed to be contained to purely the day the trailer dropped though, haven't seen it since.
It bugged me because there were several people I like and follow espousing that, hence why I was venting some of the anxiety here where folks seem to be on a similar level to where I'm at and I can share these feelings without being derided or pounced on by folks that would put words in my mouth.
I'm being obtuse, but yeah I'm FINE without the laughs in the immediate trailers and it def looks like it's leaning away from being a comedy film, but the tone also seems to be chasing that Stranger Things, Spielbergian vibe which is weird being so far removed now from Stranger Things big cultural moment. If anything it seems to be more akin to that "old Force Awakens trailer, with the same music swells and everything as main character finds iconic rickety-ass vehicle and takes it spin (as well as the whole "Who are you?" of it all). More concerned with riding on that nostalgia wave than trying to show off the story beats or comedic moments.
ANYWAY, here's the cool old equipment I built and completed because nostalgia is the most toxic of impulse and even I am not immune!
I still have to sew the patches onto my new tan flight suit but everything is coming together!
i mean i been quiet because it's not worth getting mad over a movie, but you are absolutely putting words into other people's mouths with a lot of bad faith interpretations of people's reaction to the trailer tho. like it's actually got to the point where it feels like a direct attack on people who don't share the exact same view on a franchise as you, someone admittedly much deeper into it than the majority and feels really exclusionary/gatekeeping-adjacent