Bingowings

moviefreakedmind said:

This is not the thread for altered images of webzone avatars.

There is no Dana only Zuul

SilverWook said:

Bingowings said:

Ghostbusters (1984)
I haven’t watched this for a while and it was surprising how little I enjoyed it this time. The characters (Egon, Janine and Tully would have been a better focus for me) are rather bland. The effects go from brilliant (like the devil dog puppets) and the awful (like the devil dog stop motion). The dialogue is the best bit. The few sight gags are beautifully mounted by wit.
Sigourney is so much more fun as Zuul then Dana where she just delivers her default Sigourney performance.
When I was a kid Peter Venkman seemed cool. Now he seems kind of creepy. The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
37 Balls.

You’re knocking some of the FX because they’re thirty years old? I don’t know of any other way they could have made the Terror Dogs run convincingly back then.

The tv and radio personalities helped root the movie in the real world. (As do the magazine and newspapers.) Larry King is secretly a immortal supernatural being, and would have figured prominently in GB 2, but his agent wanted more money. 😉

I hated the stop motion devil dogs when I was 14. The vintage isn’t the issue. The quality is. Willis O’Brien’s work still looks interesting, Ray Harryhausen rarely had a bad shot. This is a year after the last great stop motion gig in Hollywood (Jedi used go-motion but it’s basically stop motion). The problem is mostly the compositing. The rod puppet in Alien 3 is let down to similar effect. While it’s kind of cool to have the voice of Shaggy in a goofy ghost comedy it does reduce a large chunk of the film to a clip show. I never noticed how creepy Bill Murray is in this film. Predatory, the sort of person who brings large doses of sedative to a date. Sure he resists temptation when Zuul is in Dana but it’s still weird. As is Tully and Dana being raped by demons inside each others bodies. I guess I’m really getting old to notice these things. As for my use of the balls system any long term reader of my reviews on here will note I rarely state what the score is out of, the balls are often replaced by even more bizarre counters, it’s just a number it’s not meant to make sense.

Wazzles said:

Piett19bby said:

Where can I download this version of The Empire Strikes Back?

I wouldn’t if I were you. There are much better options available today.

Harmy’s versions are more accurate to the original experience but I still love this version. The colours may be different but they lend a freshness to the image. The reverse effect to uniform cyan tint on the 2004SE or the magenta fade in the GOUT. It plays perfectly well on my by modern standards small telly. It’s still the one I watch most because my stupid media player would constantly go out of sync playing Harmy’s disc images.Something I can’t fix in the settings. So I’ve only seen his versions a couple of times on my even smaller computer monitor.

you assume too much

Being taught by him probably helped.

Ghostbusters (1984)
I haven’t watched this for a while and it was surprising how little I enjoyed it this time. The characters (Egon, Janine and Tully would have been a better focus for me) are rather bland. The effects go from brilliant (like the devil dog puppets) and the awful (like the devil dog stop motion). The dialogue is the best bit. The few sight gags are beautifully mounted by wit.
Sigourney is so much more fun as Zuul then Dana where she just delivers her default Sigourney performance.
When I was a kid Peter Venkman seemed cool. Now he seems kind of creepy. The most impressive thing about the film for me is how despite wasting much of the movie with shots of religious stereotypes excitedly jumping up and down and celebrity journalist cameos they get some interesting world building in there. I’m tempted to watch Ghostbusters 2 now just to see if it’s anywhere near as bad as I remember.
37 Balls.

“Wait. Oh my! What have you done. I’m backwards. You flea-bitten furball! Only an overgrown mop-head like you would be stupid enough to…”

Sport in general leaves me bored and Olympic Games particularly so (even the paraOlympics) but this story is tangentially on topic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/37387678
Han shot his dad.

It’s not easy if your beliefs or nature don’t chime with those of your family. But they brought you into the world they should support your uniqueness. If they don’t now they may come around to it later.

Thanks for all the congratulations fellas. It’s a shame we can’t have a like button for posts (like on Faceboot).

Only with less believable sexual tension.

TV’s Frink said:

Possessed said:

Here, here!

Where, where?

He does have a point.
Though ROTJ has a very good Mark Hamill performance and the Threepio actually does something.

Warbler said:

Bingowings said:

A couple of weeks ago I had probably my most nerve racking Monday.
I went for an interview for my dream job. It’s working for the Mental Health Foundation.
It’s an organisation I respect, The hours are great, the pay is good and I was utterly terrified.
I start on Monday.

Congratulations!

Thanks Warb, I will be thinking about you on my first day. Nothing quite prepares one for what you are experiencing. I hope fortune shines brighter on your family soon.

^THIS

A couple of weeks ago I had probably my most nerve racking Monday.
I went for an interview for my dream job. It’s working for the Mental Health Foundation.
It’s an organisation I respect, The hours are great, the pay is good and I was utterly terrified.
I start on Monday.

I was in your mid-twenties too.

Maybe Ady can reuse the ice monster on Dagobah… then it would be a Swampathing.

I think Bingowings is a sock… I don’t like him. He smells funny.

Wasn’t that a prequel character?

^That tooo

Terrible news Warb.
I too was numbed by my dad’s passing. The reactions you expect will come in time but you may just find yourself not registering. It’s a perfectly natural response. There will be lots to arrange. You are a very responsible chap so I can imagine you helping your mum and the other family and friends of your dad but be kind to yourself. Try and think of people you can talk to if you need them so you know where to go if the need arises.

I saw Q2’s extended cut of Fire Walk With Me it’s a wonderfull thing. It’s very long.
It might have worked better if broken up into episodes as a mini-series.
The only bag I had was the burned in subtitles.
When I saw it in the cinema there were no subs at all and I have to switch them on on my official release so the scene in the Pink Room is kind of spoiled for me.
I thought the whole point of the scene is to try and figure out what people are saying over the load music (just like being in a real nightclub).
I’d have preferred the subs to be optional.
It’s still an amazing experience to have all this long lost footage finally slotted into the right position. It also makes me wish all the people we have lost could come back for the new season of the show. I love Jack Nance. I just can’t believe he is dead, well I know he is but it doesn’t feel real.

DuracellEnergizer said:

“The entire galaxy’s one big galaxy!”

FTFY 😄

Wow… it’s the Norse God of Thunder.