he UK’s CHANNEL 4 sat down with Sigourney Weaver to discuss her current role in James Cameron’s AVATAR and got what is either the biggest GHOSTBUSTERS 3 scoop so far – or just a HUGE piece of bait to throw eager ‘BUSTERS fans off the proper trail.
See the video below for an excerpt from their interview, but beware to those who wish to stay “Spoiler Free”. If true, these hints at the new movie could be MAJOR plot points, especially in regards to Bill Murray’s involvement and the fate of Oscar, Weaver’s on-screen son last seen in GHOSTBUSTERS II.
In reference to the last post by FZR, Ramis defiantly has a more down to Earth tone on Ghostbusters 3. If it happens, it happens. That video was posted up on Makingof.com July 08, 2009. So, this is damn recent. He also comments on how Dan (Akroyd) has always ‘kept the fire alive’. I think what that means is, “Dan is like an eager kid”. I mean that in a good way. It does makes sense. Think about it, every time us sleepy folk have gotten excited about a third movie, it’s because of something Dan Akroyd has said. All of the original cast is proud of the legacy of Ghostbusters, but Akroyd is like a kid on Christmas Eve. Can’t wait to get under the tree, ya know? In fairness to Dan, most of this is internet hear say, meaning it’s not the most credible story ever. But it seem like every last rumor on GB3 is along the lines of, “Dan Akroyd said they’ll start filming in the winter.” When, if you watch the video Frank posted, it’s clear that the script is still in development, first draft to be precise. Also the studio has obligations to other scripts that come first. So if they even approve the script, it might not get to pre production til next fucking year! In short, we all need to sit back and chill. Even you, Dan Akroyd, you eager beaver you
Now, how about a movie review? Time for a Ronin’s look at Inglourious Basterds!
Now, you should all know that I’m do not worship Quentin Tarantino has a directing god, has soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many people do. That’s not to say I hate his films! No no no! They’re merely OK. Got that? Not bad, not great. He’s ok. How was Pulp Fiction? Alright. Reservoir Dogs? Ok. Jackie Brown? Never seen it. Kill Bill 1-2? I liked em. Death Proof? Sucked ass. On a whole I think the guy is overrated. Not terrible by any means! Just overrated. Not a directing god, that honor goes to James Cameron. Now that you know my thoughts on the man, what did I think of Inglourious Basterds? Not nearly as bad has I though it would be. Still, I don’t like the ‘bait and switch’ advertising of the movie. My sisters husband thought from the trailers that the movie would be a fun killing Nazi’s action flick. No no. Boy, he sure was surprised when he found out it nothing like that. The trailers give Brad Pitt top billing. You know, that whole “Killiin Nazis” speech with the heavy accent? Truth is, this movie has surprising little ‘Killin’ Nazis’ at all! Pitt has maybe, 30, 40 minutes tops in this 2 hour and 40 minute movie! The Basterds themselves don’t really get any screen time til the end and pretty much no character development. Talk about a bait and switch. We’re lead to believe this film will be a fun romp around Nazi Paris with the Basterds ‘Killin’ Nazis’. There’s a little bit of that…the shit in the trailer. If that’s what you wanted from the movie, then watch the trailer and call it a day. This would normally lead to me shouting and ranting about how much I hate this movie, but I won’t. Why, I didn’t hate it. Sure it sucks that in a movie called ‘Inglourious Basterds’, the ‘Basterds’ get shafted. But the movie manages to good despite this. You see, this film is more about a Jewish girl named Shoshanna, and her revenge against the Third Reich. She also gets one hell of a bad guy to run and hide from. In the form of Colonel Hans Landa. This guy goes right up there with the best em in terms of villains. I mean, this dude knows how to work the whole ‘Jew Hunter’ thing. And the scene with him and the double agent in the theater! Man that was a great scene. Enough to sell the movie. One more selling point about the guy is his linguistic chops! He acts in four languages fluidly; English, German, French and Italian! Oh yeah, if you weren’t really for it, this movie is maybe 80% subtitles. I don’t think it’s that much a issue considering how many people loved Pan’s Labyrinth. I’m just throwing that out there.
All and all, this movie is alright. What really hurt it for me was the bait and switch the ads pulled on us. The film is simply not what they’re selling us. But like pretty much all of his films, it’s not bad either. I dare say, it could have been better without the ‘Basterds’ at all. Think about that if you’ve already seen it.
Somewhere along the lines I came across this,this was put on in July I’m not sure if they have gotten any further at this point with the game doing so well. At one point I heard and I think even posted on this site that shooting started this winter. Could be b.s. but with the way he talks its well on its way to being a movie. On a side note I love how he talks about film. Its a great watch
Ronin here, back from the dead and FINALLY burned out on the Ghostbusters game. So how do I get back in the spirits of reviewing fucked and strange videos after alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll that ghost bustin’ goodness? Oh, I can think of something
Was there ever a doubt in yo mind cracker? I’m talking bout the one hit wonder that is Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters. This is a phenomenal song! Without a doubt one of the greastest, catchiest, easy to remember theme songs ever. I’d go so far has to say that it’s part of the reason the movie has endured so long. But unfortunately, it came out in the 80′s….that’s right. We’re still stuck in the fuckin’ 80′s! I can’t seem to get away from it, but has the quote goes: “It snowed alot in the 80s”.
So this video starts off harmless enough, with some nameless broad going into a typically 80s style neon light house. Really, what is up with these people? Most cheesy videos of the time had these things. Why? I don’t get it. You didn’t see Michael Jackson using them in Thriller or Smooth Criminal. So you can do good ones without the damn things. Musta been the drugs. Look even the chick in the video seems to be bothered by the fuckin’ things…and those two kids that just pop up from behind the couch. Why? Are you really going to ask that this early in the video? Well, to add to the strange factor, ghost Ray Parker jives in, queuing up more children to chant ghostbusters. Right on. He starts using the magical crouch grabbing powers to move the phone, mystifying the bitch-ARGH GOD WHAT THE FUCK! Who’s this random white dude popping up? Looks like a nerd of some sorts. The nameless chick proceeds to watch some Ghostbusters clips (right on), and decided to take a nap while ghost Parker looms in the shadows joined by, what the fuck?!? Chevy Chase!?! I didn’t know you were a peeping tom too?! Sweet! Parker is about to pull the sheets off the bed Chevy, this well be awesome! The video goes on has some other random celebrity pops up to say ‘ghostbusters’, not really sure who she is. I think that Ray is chasing the bitch through some neon hallways, not quite sure. But oh man, things get real crazy when fuckin’ John Candy joins the party in yet another celebrity cameo. I do enjoy the scene where the nameless wench thinks she’s gotten away from the ghost rape orgy that is no doubt a coming by hiding on the neon stairs, when Parker Jr arises from the the stairs like Jesus himself! Owww, let the raping being! Sadly if any happens, we miss it has they go back to more celebs popping in to say ‘Ghostbusters!‘. You know, because they weren’t cool enough to be in the movie. Back to the plot of the video, Ray seems to have the upper hand, has soon the raping will being! But, uh! It seems like the chica has grown a pair, and learns that she too has to power to summon random people to say ghostbusters! in windows. Ray responses by showing her his awesome Ghostbusters shirt. What happens next is one of the coolest moments in 80′s music videos; we see Ray Parker, has well as all the Ghostbusters (even Ernie Hudson!) in full costume dancing down Time Square. A scene so awesome, it was used for the closing of the Ghostbusters cartoon show. We get some more celebs popping in, but by this point the video has just about used all its tricks on us, and now is just a catchy song. You can tell, because Ray, the nameless chick, and apparently Al Franken go off to have hot non rape sex without the rest of us. Lame. We do get more Time Square action, which never stops being cool. The video is just about over-OH MY GOD!!! THIS IS TO AWESOME!!! QUICK, PUT THE VIDEO TO 3:58! Bill fuckin’ Murray break dancing, in Time Square, with the rest of the Ghostbusters in tow! To make it even better, the ‘no ghost’ logo appears over Time Square. Sure this video is weird and fucked up! But god damn bustin’ make me feel good!
You guys know me by now. You’ve either heard me on Sleepy Cast talking about Ghostbusters or you’ve seen videos of me talking about Ghostbusters. In short, I fuckin’ love Ghostbusters. And it is my great love of this franchise that makes my review so credible; no one will be harder on a Ghostbusters game then a true Ghostbusters fan. That’s this guy right here. To be honest, when I first heard about a Ghostbusters game, I was pretty sure this game was gonna suck the big hard one, if you feel me. And all it’s trouble during development didn’t make me feel any better. I was hoping for, at the very least, an ‘Ok’ game; something passable, with a few cute lines here and there. What did we get? We got a really good game that made me smile the whole way through.
Dan Aykroyd has stated on many occasions that this is Ghostbusters 3…which is funny, because now they are making Ghostbusters 3. Anyway, this is a fully thought out story happening two years after Ghostbusters 2 and was written Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It’s not some cheap attempt to make money off the fans, a lot of love when into this game. The story follows the Busters’ and the new recruit (your character) as those pesky Gozerians are at it again. As I mentioned, you’re playing has the new rookie who is never given a name. In the beginning I thought this was kind of lame, but in the end it works quite nicely. I don’t wanna hear this new guy talking and ruining the flow of Ghostbusters chi! By playing as the silent observer, you become a part of the story without interfering with it. It was a brilliant decision and the story actually has a better Ghostbusters feeling then GB2 had.
The story is all well and good, but it ultimately it all boils down to the important question- is this game fun? And it is. Handling the proton pack feels just like you always thought it would. Ghost bustin’ is a three step process: zap em’, cap em’, and trap em’. You begin by sustaining a burst of concentrated proton against the negatively charged ectoplasmic entities. Once you’ve whittled the ghost health down, the game prompts you to fire off the capture stream which allows you to wrangle the ghost towards the trap. Once there, nature takes its course and the ghost is captured and ready to be taken to your custom made storage facility. One of my fears was that this would be all you’d do in the game, which would get old really fast. But there are several enemy types beyond ghosts that don’t have to be captured in the trap. Lesser spirits, demons, even ghoulish zombies! The Ghostbusters fight slime zombies in a fuckin’ grave yard! How bad ass is that? And aside from the proton packs basic proton beam, Terminal Reality took a few liberties and created new streams for the pack to fire, like the Boson Dart- a concentrated proton blast. Most of the other streams run the typical shooter genera weapons. You have the shotgun-like Shock Blast, the rapid fire Overload Pulse, and the Slime Blower…Hey, not all of it is genera based. While some enemy types are weaker to certain streams, admittedly you can pretty much just stick with the proton stream.
Another key piece of Ghostbusters equipment is your Paragoggles and PKE Meter. Equipping these puts you into a first person mode which let you see more paranormal activity in the area, such has the ectoplasmic residue the ghost leave behind, which you’ll intern use to track down the wrascally ghost. They’re all the games way of keeping you on the path you should be going on. You bring up the goggles and use the read out to get back on the proper path. It also shows any cursed artifacts and gives you a heads up on the enemy spook, via Tobin’s Spirit Guide. It’s such a small thing that goes a long way, and again shows a lot of time went into the presentation of game. The PKE Meter is meant to be your navigator, while the Proton Pack serves as a HUD showing health, and your streams overheat level. It all goes into making a more immersive experience.
This isn’t to say the game is flawless. The in game animated sequences vary from very good looking, to almost robotic in their movements. And the lip sync quite often doesn’t sync. It’s rarely perfect in any game, but it can get mighty bad in Ghostbusters. There are also audio problems where two characters lines will over lap each other. And remember when I said how the PKE acts as a navigator and the pack is your HUD? Yeah…that doesn’t always work in your favor. It works well most of the time, but there were enough points where I wished a fuckin’ red arrow or something would pop up on the screen to give me a hand. And the two little bars that represent your health are quite little and hard to see. I didn’t die that much, (Authors Note: As I write this, I have not yet gone through the game on its hardest setting) but I can see how it could quickly cause a controller to be thrown. Oh yeah, the final boss is lame as hell! Now let’s talk about the multiplayer. I’ll come out and say that there is NO co-op campaign mode. Yes, this sucks hard. I can understand why they didn’t make the campaign co-op, they wanted a deeper story mode. But the fact that there are four Ghostbusters and no co-op campaign of any kind hurts the replay value. It does have 6 multiplayer modes though. Most of them revolve around the same idea of catching ghosts with some constriction added. Personally my favorite is the Slime Dunk mode where you have to dunk more Slimers in the trap then the other players. It’s fun and all, but damn…no co-op just plain fucking sucks.
This is a Ghostbusters fans dream come true! A Busters’ game that doesn’t suck! There’s a lot of fan service here, everything from the Proton Packs to the PKE just looks and feels right. If you’re an uber fan, it’s a must own. However, the casual fan of Ghostbusters may feel a bit cheated by the only average multiplayer options. Perhaps a sequel of some sort could fix this, but for now, we’ll just have to settle. Now if you’ll excuse me, there are ghosts that need bustin’. And bustin’ makes me feel good.
Alright, I’m sure you guys are wondering where the new episode of Sleepy Cast is. Well, Memphis got rocked by a nasty storm Friday. A nice chunk of the city had the power knocked out (though it’s not has bad as Hurricane Elvis was back in 03). I feel pretty lucky that I got power back Saturday. FZR on the other hand; has I write this has not gotten power back, and is hiding out in an undisclosed hotel where Miley Cyrus’s lawyers can’t find him. That slick pimp. We’re hoping to record Ep. 81 Sunday, so look forward to it then. But while you wait for that, I figure I’ll help wet your appetite by filling you in on some of projects we’re working on:
Site redesign. The layout is pretty good has it is, but FZR and I think we can too better.
Some videos. Us sleepy folk have been wanting to do more videos. Thing is we have tons of ideas and it’s hard to sort them all out. But more of those are coming. And I’m also working on my own ranting vlog.
Ghostbusters the Game. By the time you read this, it’ll be out in stores. And you can bet your ass hair that FZR and Ronin are gonna be all over it like an Allie Sin video. So, like it or not here that comes.
Ep. 100 and our 2 year anniversary. Ohhh yeah. Sadly, Ep. 100 and the 2yr anniversary won’t be on the same day, but lets face it; it was seer luck that we got that lucky by having the 1 year mark and Ep. 50 on the same day. We’ve got something special planned for Episode.100, but we’re pretty clueless about the 2 yr anniversary Ep. So Sleepy Faithful, be sure to send in your comments and messages here on the site, or at Sleepycast1@yahoo.com.
Now that you know my thoughts on the man, what did I think of Inglourious Basterds? Not nearly as bad has I though it would be. Still, I don’t like the ‘bait and switch’ advertising of the movie. My sisters husband thought from the trailers that the movie would be a fun killing Nazi’s action flick. No no. Boy, he sure was surprised when he found out it nothing like that. The trailers give Brad Pitt top billing. You know, that whole “Killiin Nazis” speech with the heavy accent? Truth is, this movie has surprising little ‘Killin’ Nazis’ at all! Pitt has maybe, 30, 40 minutes tops in this 2 hour and 40 minute movie! The Basterds themselves don’t really get any screen time til the end and pretty much no character development. Talk about a bait and switch. We’re lead to believe this film will be a fun romp around Nazi Paris with the Basterds ‘Killin’ Nazis’. There’s a little bit of that…the shit in the trailer. If that’s what you wanted from the movie, then watch the trailer and call it a day. This would normally lead to me shouting and ranting about how much I hate this movie, but I won’t. Why, I didn’t hate it. Sure it sucks that in a movie called ‘Inglourious Basterds’, the ‘Basterds’ get shafted. But the movie manages to good despite this. You see, this film is more about a Jewish girl named Shoshanna, and her revenge against the Third Reich. She also gets one hell of a bad guy to run and hide from. In the form of Colonel Hans Landa. This guy goes right up there with the best em in terms of villains. I mean, this dude knows how to work the whole ‘Jew Hunter’ thing. And the scene with him and the double agent in the theater! Man that was a great scene. Enough to sell the movie. One more selling point about the guy is his linguistic chops! He acts in four languages fluidly; English, German, French and Italian! Oh yeah, if you weren’t really for it, this movie is maybe 80% subtitles. I don’t think it’s that much a issue considering how many people loved Pan’s Labyrinth. I’m just throwing that out there.
You guys know me by now. You’ve either heard me on Sleepy Cast talking about Ghostbusters or you’ve seen videos of me talking about Ghostbusters. In short, I fuckin’ love Ghostbusters. And it is my great love of this franchise that makes my review so credible; no one will be harder on a Ghostbusters game then a true Ghostbusters fan. That’s this guy right here. To be honest, when I first heard about a Ghostbusters game, I was pretty sure this game was gonna suck the big hard one, if you feel me. And all it’s trouble during development didn’t make me feel any better. I was hoping for, at the very least, an ‘Ok’ game; something passable, with a few cute lines here and there. What did we get? We got a really good game that made me smile the whole way through.