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[TVB]

That and Dune Part 2, although funny enough Dune Part 2 outperforming GFE is hilarious.

I'm not even surprised by that, and honestly I called it. It's also very funny to me

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

Half In the Bag: Ghostbusters Frozen Empire

That was a quick followup

 

[Tepes Thot]

This is the first time I’ve really felt how old they are. They always joke about it, and seem pretty secure in aging, so I’ve always treated it like a joke. From the (interesting) point Mike brought up, to the YT landscape commentary, and even how tired they look.

They just feel old. I don’t care about Ghostbusters so that’s all I got from this.

 

[TVB]

Half In the Bag: Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8pgmrrrupu4That was a quick followup

Huh, I guess I was wrong. They are in fact talking about it. Well, my joke of them not talking about it on HitB aged horribly like having Max Landis as BotW guest

 

[Bobbobson]

Can't believe Jay cut his hair. Not only he's trooning out but also he's trying to be a bull dyke.

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

Really enjoyable review. Were the googly eyes in the thumbnail a reference to something I didn't get?

 

[Nikes_JustDoIt]

I can not wait for the creative reset of the Mr Plinkett reviews as Youtube shorts

 

[augment]

Really enjoyable review. Were the googly eyes in the thumbnail a reference to something I didn't get?

For about a year or so every nerdrotic update about the new dr Who series had a photo caption with the googly eyes. He wasn't the only one doing it, it was part of the general thumbnail game at the time.

 

[RX-78]

Half In the Bag: Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8pgmrrrupu4That was a quick followup

The impression I got from this one is that they have moved on to the acceptance phase of death with Ghostbusters, where as Afterlife was anger. The commentary on how retarded the zoomers and zoomer-minded are with movies transitioning to a tiktok format is sobering as hell.

 

[Smashing Young Man]

Mike's always dominated the discussions, but he's either doing it more or I'm just becoming more sensitive to it. Either way, I wish he'd allow Jay and Rich more time to talk beyond the few quick comments they manage to squeeze into his monologuing.

 

[mandatorylurk]

I almost expected a Neil Breen/Partners/Star Wars Christmas part 1 to occur when Mike talked about film school since none of the three seemed to care about the movie.

Hooray for Jay cutting his hair.

 

[eatler]

Hooray for Jay cutting his hair.

The kiwi farms bully’s another man into cutting his hair, nice job team

 

[Flexo]

Really enjoyable review. Were the googly eyes in the thumbnail a reference to something I didn't get?

Pitch Meeting does it as their style for some reason.


I wonder if it's a joke at him.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Really sounds like Nu Ghostbusters' basic problem is that the drama is not rooted in a family franchise business and the minutia of having to run a franchise while getting whacky orders from corporate as to how everything is supposed to operate. What if, instead of the old Ghostbusters are still doing Ghostbusting duties, they were Corporate concerned with profit and stock manipulation (perhaps because Ray still hasn't paid off that third mortgage) and were intentionally seeding already captured ghosts in Upstate New York to artificially maintain demand.* Meanwhile, the family's got to figure out how to clean up the messes Corporate have made while shouldering the financial burden of having the Ghostbusters logo while also given new "environmentally friendly" proton accelerators that have weaker output and leave less alpha particles floating in the air. They could even get a class action lawsuit for spreading said nuclear waste like with Round Up.

And I already know there's video games of people running mundane businesses, so that's not an excuse.

*You can literally film Bill Murray at a golf course and it would be considered an in-universe networking scene.

 

[Flexo]

Really sounds like Nu Ghostbusters' basic problem is that the drama is not rooted in a family franchise business and the minutia of having to run a franchise while getting whacky orders from corporate as to how everything is supposed to operate. What if, instead of the old Ghostbusters are still doing Ghostbusting duties, they were Corporate concerned with profit and stock manipulation (perhaps because Ray still hasn't paid off that third mortgage) and were intentionally seeding already captured ghosts in Upstate New York to artificially maintain demand.* Meanwhile, the family's got to figure out how to clean up the messes Corporate have made while shouldering the financial burden of having the Ghostbusters logo while also given new "environmentally friendly" proton accelerators that have weaker output and leave less alpha particles floating in the air. They could even get a class action lawsuit for spreading said nuclear waste like with Round Up.

And I already know there's video games of people running mundane businesses, so that's not an excuse.

*You can literally film Bill Murray at a golf course and it would be considered an in-universe networking scene.

That's actually a pretty decent idea.

Problem is a lot of writers nowadays seem to have no idea how businesses are actually run and would be incapable of doing a halfway decent script. (It's a running gag of how many "corporations" in movies will do evil things in the name of "profits" when it would be much more profitable to be even just a little less evil.)

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

That's actually a pretty decent idea.

Problem is a lot of writers nowadays seem to have no idea how businesses are actually run and would be incapable of doing a halfway decent script. (It's a running gag of how many "corporations" in movies will do evil things in the name of "profits" when it would be much more profitable to be even just a little less evil.)

Oh, and one of the humiliating jobs the kids can do is dress up in a Slimer costume spinning signs pointing to the building. The possibilities really are endless, but as you point out, these people are busy ordering lattes instead of serving them. We call baristas dumb, but they do know a bit about how their little shop is run.

 

[Armageddon]

Pretty boring review, had to stop watching halfway through. Just can't stand listening to them being such blatant corporate shills.

Good on Jay for cutting his hair and looking like a normal human again. Still a faggot though.

 

[Kit Marz]

I had no idea that there was a new Ghostbusters movie coming out, it was a genuine surprise seeing this as a review. When I saw it, I thought it might have been like their Star Trek: Galaxy video. Just them talking about a concept they have for a Ghostbusters movie.

I really loved Mike's story about the slut lesbians. I wouldn't have been able to stop laughing either.

 

[eatler]

What if, instead of the old Ghostbusters are still doing Ghostbusting duties, they were Corporate concerned with profit and stock manipulation

Sounds pretty close to what mike was talking about in one of the reboot videos. I really like the idea that Bill Murray is just a complete corporate Scrooge that could actually care less about people. How you could properly nostalgia bate is maybe having bill discover a box of old photos or they all grab Chinese food at a restaurant and talk about old times. It would be super cheesy but still better than what the modern films are doing.

It’s a pretty 80s plot for a modern film about a film from the 80s you know?

I had no idea that there was a new Ghostbusters movie coming out, it was a genuine surprise seeing this as a review.

I kid you not I have not seen too many commercials for the film. I saw one last week maybe but they really farted out this film.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Sounds pretty close to what mike was talking about in one of the reboot videos. I really like the idea that Bill Murray is just a complete corporate Scrooge that could actually care less about people.

I have to disagree. I don't want to see them become jaded and bitter. That would be a betrayal of their characters even Murray because, yeah he was a slacker who always took the easy way out when he could, but he would still help and still saved NYC twice.