Blog Archives
Star Wars Isn’t the Only Movie in the Universe – Here are the New Ghostbusters!
A couple weeks ago, during the big Star Wars hoopla, the new Ghostbuster movie dropped a few awesome, official character posters on the yearning public. I forgot all about them for awhile, but wanted to share them anyway, because they are badass.
There’s Abby Yates, played by Melissa McCarthy; Patty Tolan, played by Leslie Jones; Jillian Holtzmann, played by Kate McKinnon; and Erin Gilbert, played by Kristen Wiig.
I definitely like the look, and I’m looking forward to this movie.
—————
Here’s What the New Ghostbusters Will Look Like
Production is already underway on the new Ghostbusters remake, and director Paul Feig has tweeted the first pics of the new Ghostbuster uniforms and proton packs. Neither one is going to be nearly as iconic as the originals, but hey, at least they’re trying.
Personally, I’m fairly confident that nothing in this movie is going to be nearly as iconic or as amazing as the original. When do remakes ever work? But hey, whatever, I’m not in charge of Hollywood. This is the all-female remake starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.
It’s also starring Chris Hemsworth as the new receptionist, and there’s something kind of funny I’d like to point out to you all about that. In researching this little post, I scoped out the film’s IMDB page and found something rather perplexing. This is film is making waves for being an all-women remake, and Chris Hemsworth is only playing the receptionist, not a Ghostbuster. Yet Hemsworth is listed first among the actors. I realize he’s Chris Hemsworth…but should he really be listed as the star of this movie? Doesn’t that kind of defeat the point? Just sayin’…
—————
The Internet Will Continue to Do What It Does Best
Here are the Ghostbusters re-imagined as a 1980s anime, because that’s the sort of thing the Internet does.
Or more specifically, the team at Nacho Punch put it together. They did a great job! This is the sort of funny little thing the Internet churns out at a solid pace.
————–
There Was A Surprising Amount of Smoking in Ghostbusters
Did I ever tell you that I met Ernie Hudson once? Winston was my favorite Ghostbuster as a kid, and Ernie Hudson made a guest appearance last year at Scare-a-Con, a horror convention that’s held near me every year. I was in line to meet him, even though I didn’t have any money on me to actually pay for any of his stuff.
Well he was about to go do a live Q&A session at another part of the con, and everybody who had been waiting in line was pretty much just going to be screwed, because he was leaving, and nobody had bothered to cut off the line in advance. Well I overhear that the family in front of me is going to be the last group to see Ernie Hudson, so when it’s their turn, I artfully walk up with them, as if I was part of this random family. They went through the whole deal of chatting with Ernie and getting pictures taken and getting his autograph, while I stood off to the side, just kind of enjoying being there.
Before he left, I simply stepped up and got to shake his hand. And that’s how I met my favorite Ghostbuster.
LEGO Ghostbusters Video was an Inevitability
The LEGO Ecto-1 is out there, for sale, taunting me with its expensive availability. I guess until I’m rich, I’ll have to make due with awesome videos like this one.
Thank you to MonsieurCaron for having this kind of stop-motion fun. My hat is off you to, master builder.
Henchman-4-Hire 