I had a fun interaction with an assistant to an exec on that project. We were chatting about something, don’t remember what, and he mentioned a GB3 draft we just got where Venkman was a ghost. The idea was that IF Murray didn’t want to be on set he wouldn’t have to be, they could do voice-over or mo-cap or something…

I am really, REALLY curious how someone else wearing a mask affects him.

Anyone that is that insistent that they aren’t drunk is absolutely drunk. In other news, what an utter child. 

It seems like these avant garde performance art style comedians always take things way too far in the name of comedy (see also Andy Kaufman). There may be pushback, but I kind of doubt it, seems like with Borat firmly in the rearview mirror there’s not so much love for SBC. 

I did not know that!

I remember being really excited when I heard about the remake, aside from McCarthy, I was a big fan of just about everyone involved. Then I saw the trailer, and if they couldn’t cobble together a trailer that made the movie seem entertaining, I decided to skip it. Still haven’t seen it, but just because it doesn’t…

The concept was OK, but instead of rebooting the original (sort of), they should have given them their own unique story. Like the original happened, then years later, they take over the business and do something completely new. Something like that.

Vera said that...?

Bill Murray voiced Venkman in the 2009 Ghostbusters game, which could speak to already fading recalcitrance. 

Seriously. The franchise didn’t need more than the 80s Saturday morning cartoon, The Real Cries and Whispers. I guess something is sacred.

Ummm, so when did Ernie Hudson become a buff Dilf????  Dayum!!

Shhhh. You’re interfering with the narrative.

The several women in Frozen Empire that bust ghosts might disagree with your final paragraph there. 

The original Road House riff is a classic!  I may watch it this weekend!

So MacGregor is stilted shit in it? Perfect! He’s well on his way down the “worst part of a bad action movie -> striking visual character in a Star Wars project -> oops all transphobia -> making three dollar cowboy movies for Ben Shapiro” pipeline.

The original has one fantastic line. Some generic 80s bad guy, about to fight Swayze, barks out:

Who’s taking the Sam Elliot role?

i think we really lost something when we stopped giving low-level villains monster truck fleets (see also: tango and cash)

Part of the charm of the original was how much suspension of disbelief it took that all that nonsense could even happen. Yeah the big bad might get away with bribing some town sheriff into looking the other way for a while but you can’t go around blowing buildings up, driving monster trucks through car dealerships and…

My guess is they were hoping he would be the Terry Funk of this version.