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It was $60 for the lot of 2, plus $50 shipping.
Someone ID'd them on Facebook first, there were also two on eBay in the UK that got snaffled straightaway.
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You aren’t sure where I get the idea that Kevin Harts career is suffering? He hasn’t been in a big movie in about 5 years.Again, I really do think given how the celebrity ecosystem is changing these days, I honestly think that his agents believe the streaming stuff he's pumping out constitutes "big movies" and that they would probably argue that he's one of the biggest stars in the world. And he does have Borderlands coming out. Does this make sense to me, personally? No. I think the streaming stuff is vaporware. But I would be really surprised if you asked Kevin Hart himself if he thought his movie career could use a jumpstart and he said yes.
And as for the leaks, I mean, they had top filmmakers like Lord/Miller and the Russo’s banging at their door.Lord and Miller turned down Ghostbusters. The studio asked them, not them asking the studio.
Another thing I’d consider is making it R Rated. Really put something on the line, change it up.Blech. Why? For one, that limits the audience further. If you're talking about making a massive $200m blockbuster that needs $600m to be in the black, R-rated is not the way to go. Secondly, Ghostbusters is generally thought of as a four-quadrant, family-acceptable (not quite family-friendly, but something that can skate by depending on the family, like an MCU movie) movie. I remember some people I saw commenting online (regular moviegoers) were upset that they put the one f-bomb in the 2016 movie because they felt it was unnecessary.
Statistics: Posted by tylergfoster — March 28th, 2024, 12:03 pm
There might be something to your point about critics having less patience with franchise/IP movies (in general) that capitalise on their built-in audience, but I return to my original argument: it's because they have a deeper insight into how the "sausage" is made, like the example I mentioned above.Worth reiterating here that I'm pro-critic. I was a critic. I'm on your side with the idea that we don't need to come up with a whole conspiracy theory as to why they don't like the movie, and the stuff I'm describing about a grudge is meant to sound like a normal reaction to seeing something trotted out too many times, not an elaborate vendetta. I'm sure many people rolled their eyes when Terminator: Dark Fate popped up, on the heels of Genisys, Salvation, and Rise of the Machines, and there will probably be some who are still groaning if Terminator goes away for ten years but then comes back in yet another iteration.
A critic will see the library ghost in FE, sneer, and think it was a completely meaningless and cynical choice that added nothing to the overall narrative, while a hardcore GB fan is likely to cheer at the moment because they got that nostalgia hit. That doesn't mean critics have any sort of agenda.
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If their last name is Spengler then that makes the whole thing even worse. It would mean Egon married and no. Just…no.Not necessarily. It just means the mom, who Callie has never mentioned, must have been less present than Egon. Maybe she died in childbirth, which is the only explanation that immediately comes to mind where she'd be mad at Egon for being absent but not the mysterious mother.
Would those people go anywhere near this franchise? It depends. It’s not nearly as simple as you make it out to be. Gosling seems to do what he wants & doesn’t care much about perception. Kevin Hart has had a stalling career for a few years. He’s do it for sure for the right $. Stephen Merchant isn’t busy. He isn’t ungettable. He did Logan. I think if you asked them “Do you want to do a Ghostbusters movie” they’d probably say no. But with a great script and a talented director? Anything’s possible. And oh yeah. Money. That never hurts.Yeah, well, money's the big thing, and I think the bigger hurdle is that if Sony proceeds with more Ghostbusters content, they're going to want to spend less, not more. Doubly so given that one of their biggest and most successful 2023 releases was a $25m rom-com (and they had another buzzy, albeit less successful one earlier in the year, which coincidentally was by the guys who almost wrote Ghostbusters 3).
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Would those people go anywhere near this franchise? It depends. It’s not nearly as simple as you make it out to be. Gosling seems to do what he wants & doesn’t care much about perception. Kevin Hart has had a stalling career for a few years. He’s do it for sure for the right $. Stephen Merchant isn’t busy. He isn’t ungettable. He did Logan. I think if you asked them “Do you want to do a Ghostbusters movie” they’d probably say no. But with a great script and a talented director? Anything’s possible. And oh yeah. Money. That never hurts.Yeah, well, money's the big thing, and I think the bigger hurdle is that if Sony proceeds with more Ghostbusters content, they're going to want to spend less, not more. Doubly so given that one of their biggest and most successful 2023 releases was a $25m rom-com (and they had another buzzy, albeit less successful one earlier in the year, which coincidentally was by the guys who almost wrote Ghostbusters 3).
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Is it alright if I ask if you welded the aluminum yourself? Sorry I asked.Gotta love the fandom sometimes, right?
Yeah, we've been building this thing for ten years. I think that we can say with some confidence that we crawled so that others could run.
Is it alright if I ask if your gear is built or bought?
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It was $60 for the lot of 2, plus $50 shipping.Someone ID'd them on Facebook first, there were also two on eBay in the UK that got snaffled straightaway.
It appears that some time today someone who saw this thread made a cheeky purchase. https://www.ebay.com/itm/291127056121
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Someone ID'd them on Facebook first, there were also two on eBay in the UK that got snaffled straightaway.got a link?It appears that some time today someone who saw this thread made a cheeky purchase. https://www.ebay.com/itm/291127056121
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Also. Did I miss something? Why are they calling themselves the Spenglers? They abandoned their original last name for the last name of this person they don’t know?Is it actually in the movie anywhere that they've ever called themselves anything else?
Anyways. Here’s a reason why we need to cut ties to this and start anew. Money.I know you say at the end that this stuff "will never happen," but I guess the question is, you understand it's because none of those people would want to do it, right? Most of them have better things to do than be in the third contemporary go at a franchise that appears to be floundering even with the original characters back and a significantly reduced budget. They're playing to the fans already and it doesn't seem to be working. I think pretty much everyone you named would look at jumping on board an expensive Ghostbusters movie as a sign of desperation on both their part and the studio's.If their last name is Spengler then that makes the whole thing even worse. It would mean Egon married and no. Just…no. I can buy the man procreating. But would never marry. But maybe you’re right. Maybe it was Spengler all along.
This second weekend drop will be above 60% me thinks. The Sunday to Monday drop was huge. This will probably end up as the lowest grossing GB film.
You do what I just said, with the cast I just named, that’s interesting. That’s something I think people will see and go “Ryan Gosling as a Ghostbuster? Ken? I’m there”.
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Anyways. Here’s a reason why we need to cut ties to this and start anew. Money.I know you say at the end that this stuff "will never happen," but I guess the question is, you understand it's because none of those people would want to do it, right? Most of them have better things to do than be in the third contemporary go at a franchise that appears to be floundering even with the original characters back and a significantly reduced budget. They're playing to the fans already and it doesn't seem to be working. I think pretty much everyone you named would look at jumping on board an expensive Ghostbusters movie as a sign of desperation on both their part and the studio's.
This second weekend drop will be above 60% me thinks. The Sunday to Monday drop was huge. This will probably end up as the lowest grossing GB film.
You do what I just said, with the cast I just named, that’s interesting. That’s something I think people will see and go “Ryan Gosling as a Ghostbuster? Ken? I’m there”.
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