Open Bar #89 - Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, The War For Gaming, Acolyte Season 2 Cancelled?
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This week we share our thoughts on Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, the ongoing war between games journalists and normal people who just want entertainment, and rumours that The Acolyte has already been cancelled before it even releases. Join me, MauLer, GeorgeTheGiantSlayer, Geeks+Gamers and Endymion at the bar!
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Mauler's occasional rage is a thing of beauty and rarity, like a total eclipse or a sober Scotsman.
@AscendantStoic
Ай бұрын
He is such a GOW simp it's kinda sad XD
@archstanton9073
Ай бұрын
@@AscendantStoic Agree.
@2ndlegend125
Ай бұрын
It's ptsd from bad arguments
@Cyb3rHusky
Ай бұрын
@@2ndlegend125Likely from synthetic men
@2ndlegend125
Ай бұрын
@Cyb3rHusky that's what I was referring to, yeah.
Ten years ago I’d have waited hours in line to see Deadpool and Wolverine; but now I honestly can’t be bothered to care.
@JoshuaKevinPerry
Ай бұрын
Deadpool 2 was bad. literally just the same jokes rehashed
@schaddenkorp6977
Ай бұрын
10 years ago I couldn’t have been bothered to care about those movies either. To me cinema became a joke when Michael Bay figured out how to deliver a good punchline.
@oldmandan7057
Ай бұрын
Yes I quite frankly can not see the hype surrounding the movie. It's a re-tread of the same jokes from the first two.
@hidden6ix742
Ай бұрын
# metoo
@ShadowWallaceyt
Ай бұрын
After the Domino race swap and casting an old and slow dude to play Cable. I stopped caring about live action Deadpool. Plus I never liked Hugh Jackman's casting as Wolverine. So that's another nail in the coffin for me not caring. Plus I stopped going to the annoying theater years ago. The last 2 movies I seen in theaters was 2Fast 2Furious and the Matrix: Revolutions. If I wanna watch a movie in peace and as many times as I want to. I just do it at home.
Ernie Hudson must be a vampire. No way that dude is pushing 80. Amazing.
@deseansdurag
Ай бұрын
I’m guessing TRT
@jonbaxter2254
Ай бұрын
Black don't crack
@ManHamAlsume
Ай бұрын
Black don’t crack
@krisj827
Ай бұрын
Black dont crack.
@JohnDoe-sr1dd
Ай бұрын
If it makes you look like that at 78, sign me up. @@deseansdurag
I'm born 33 years after WW2 in a country that was not even in it and as a kid the hatred of the older adults against germans in parts of the country that bordered the conflict was palpable.
@chillpengeru
Ай бұрын
What county?
@calebhein2788
Ай бұрын
Let me guess. Switzerland. Edit: also, spain.
@AdurianJ
Ай бұрын
@@calebhein2788 You had like two choices and got that wrong !
@calebhein2788
Ай бұрын
@AdurianJ well damn. Worth a shot.
@AdurianJ
Ай бұрын
@@calebhein2788 One more guess got the right first letter though.
Acolyte is incredible, in that it seems to be created purely out of spite. No motivation, or inspiration, or a story that needed being told. Just spiteful people hating anyone left on the Star Wars ship.
Vital clarification: Brandon Sanderson’s video about whether or not Gandalf is a “Mary Sue” is not at all what the super chat made it sound like. Sanderson is trying to make a point that the whole discussion around Mary Sues has gone too far, missed the point, and undermined more important questions. He goes into depth that a character’s role in a story, and how well they fulfill that role, is far more important than whether the character has similarities to a somewhat artificial and dismissive label. Essentially, he argues that Gandalf is a great character who fills his role extremely well, and thus the question of whether or not he resembles a Mary Sue is irrelevant. He jokingly goes through an old Mary Sue quiz, having fun with ways in which the questions *might* apply to Gandalf, purely to debunk the Mary Sue idea as far less useful than people think. A character can be extremely wise, powerful, charismatic, and virtuous, they can come back from the dead, and they can eventually achieve all their goals, and if it’s good for the story, that’s all that matters.
@bring-out
Ай бұрын
Yes, one critical element of the concept of Mary Sue many seem to miss is how rooted the talents and successes of the character are in the story. A Mary Sue character succeeds at everything and is liked by everyone without any real explanation. Gandalf's character is deeply rooted in the lore of Tolkien and his talents are readily explained by it.
FYI: anyone who wants the closest watch of what was supposed to be the 3rd movie as written and intended by Ackryoid & Ramis, needs to play or watch a walk thru of Ghostbusters The Video Game, remastered preferably. The core story used for that game was penned by the duo to be the plot for Ghostbusters 3. Ramis freely admitted this in a making of behind the scenes video for the game, as all of the original voice actors of the 1st film, came back to reprise the digital early 90's versions of their characters; with Murray even arranging a role for his brother to voice the mayor. CHEERS!!
@archstanton9073
Ай бұрын
Murray also famously didn't finish his lines and they had to write around that. He left the recording booth one day saying he was going to get some lunch and then never came back.
@anthonyagureyev307
Ай бұрын
@@archstanton9073What the hell is Murray's problem?
@archstanton9073
Ай бұрын
@@anthonyagureyev307 He's a jerk but an extremely funny jerk who has excellent comedic timing.
@WayStedYou
Ай бұрын
@@anthonyagureyev307everything
@ManHamAlsume
Ай бұрын
@@anthonyagureyev307 Much like Harrison Ford, Bill Murray came out of the womb a grumpy old man
Pausing at 1:50:43 to disagree. Humans looooove sugar. The process of refining sugar did not oversaturate the market, it just heightened the desire for more. It takes serious effort, in fact, to turn your back on sugar. But what happens when you start injecting a bit of salt into it? Then, you start injecting more salt, and then even more? Now, are you going to actually sit there and proclaim, loudly to the masses, that the phenomenon we are witnessing of people turning away from sugar is due to sugar fatigue? People are not buying sugar anymore because of market saturation? Give me a break. If Marvel’s shows were all Netflix Daredevil quality, NOBODY would be calling these shows ‘D+ homework shows’. Nobody.
@Goro_Maj1ma
Ай бұрын
Disagree, you can easily get sick of sugar.
I saw Bill Murray on the 1 train in NYC. He’s still pretty sharp and kind of taller than I thought. Also a polite human as he let me off the train first.
@FireRising86
Ай бұрын
Too bad he ruined my favorite franchise by being a constant ass
@Strugen.
Ай бұрын
@@FireRising86 Bill knows that Ghostbusters shouldn't have been a franchise and I respect him for that. It has one great movie and complete mediocrity or utter garbage that followed it.
@JohnP-go6wf
Ай бұрын
Nevermind all that, him doing “groundhog day” was all we needed from him.
Is Acolyte subverting expectations when they make the space police the bad guys, or is that just what we’d expect from the message? “Down with rigid, law and order! We need Season 2!”
@ephraimwinslow
Ай бұрын
Their idea of subverting expectations is upsetting the sensibilities of people who've been deceased for at least 30 years minimum, while boring & annoying everyone who's still alive.
@ramigilneas9274
Ай бұрын
At this point every project that stays true to the source material is subverting my expectations.
@Sentinel82
Ай бұрын
Subverting expectations, but not the expectations of Commies or the people who are on to these types...So really no expectations are subverted after all...
@edz1624
Ай бұрын
Mauler is specifically blind to the incrementalism that's the woke's weapon of choice. If they can not bludgeon their way into your game through narrative(s) like Suicide Squad. They will get their pound of flesh by at least inserting a minority identity/skin color character and just call it a day.
Watchmen by Snyder was great. Mostly due to story, but stylistically it was a great fit.
@trequor
Ай бұрын
Watchmen is so-so
Extreme Ghostbusters, a cartoon from 1997, did the "passing of the torch" really well.
@Daynnikes
Ай бұрын
I loved that show so much
@FireRising86
Ай бұрын
That show deserves more love
Welcome to the open bar with Drinker and Endymion.
@DeAngryDan
Ай бұрын
Jesus he can't stop 😂
@mattg5791
Ай бұрын
I keep skipping ahead, and he is STILL GOING!
@jhnshep
Ай бұрын
@@DeAngryDan thinking back on my comment perhaps I got it it wrong it should be 'open bar with Endymion and drinker' even drinker was second fiddle on his own show and couldn't get a word in.
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
Don’t forget The Struggle of George and his ongoing efforts to squeeze in a word of irrelevancy.
@FireRising86
Ай бұрын
Better than Chris Gore. I legit cannot stand his voice
I have to agree with Red Letter Media's assessment that the overall approach Sony has with insisting on Ghostbusters as a movie franchise/cinematic universe has been a failure and continues to be. Afterlife kind of felt like a setup to a TV series, and Frozen Empire feels more like of a set of vignettes than a cohesive story in and of itself. It should have been a 6-8 part limited series, not a movie. After nearly half a dozen attempts, the most relevant Ghostbusters related thing after the original movie is still the TV cartoon. Episodic day-in-the-life adventures chasing ghosts is the perfect format for this franchise. Constantly trying to beat it into shape as a movie series just isn't working.
@legoman2313
Ай бұрын
The video game was also the best expansion since the tv show arguably
@poop_____dust
Ай бұрын
I could definitely see a Ghostbusters streaming series built like X-files or Supernatural where you have the monster of the week and a big bad overarching story
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
I’ve had fun with these last two movies. Even as a kid I never enjoyed the cartoon series.
@FireRising86
Ай бұрын
Real Ghostbusters was the best!
@SirBlackReeds
Ай бұрын
No, let's be honest. There was no point in continuing the story of the OGs through movies with Harold Ramis dead.
At 47 minutes speaking of Budgets, Keep in mind that the 1977 20 million budget for Star Wars would be nearly 120 million today just from Inflation. Of course that makes Minus One even more of a Miracle, maybe ALL movies should be filmed in Japan with a Strict Rice & Fish diet for Everyone!!
@Deniryer
Ай бұрын
Technology and means of mass production/fabrication progressed so much that a lot of those cost would be cut at least in half. Bear in mind some of the things they've used they have to either made from scratch or pioneer, like a lot of tech used to produce, grade and/or film LOTR. Also you don't need really a giant filming crew anymore, so Star Wars from 1977 made with today's tech, knowledge etc would cost less, if they didn't decide to hire unnecessary bloat like current day studios does.
@BootySweat4491
Ай бұрын
I like rice and fish.
The Titanic showed up in New York harbor! People forgot about that?
@archstanton9073
Ай бұрын
And Cheech Marin even said "Better late than never".
@zacharymcmillan2788
Ай бұрын
Pepperidge Farms remembers. 🤨👍
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
…if only two people witnessed it.
The worst part about TLoU2 was Fuckman trying to make a sympathetic villain by forcing the player to control her for half of the game. Meanwhile I just wanted to be tall grass gremlin Ellie raptoring the shit out of people.
@schaddenkorp6977
Ай бұрын
Grass gremlin Ellie xD
@SirBlackReeds
Ай бұрын
It's just a video game. Get over it and move on. Stewing in your own hatred is going to leave you bitter and lonely.
Endymion's open bar everyone 🤣🤣🤣
@jonsnowight9510
Ай бұрын
He goes on monlogues, doesn't he? It's pretty annoying.
@salmark9080
Ай бұрын
@@jonsnowight9510I don’t think he’s used to this type of platform
@trequor
Ай бұрын
He's just American. Brits take about 2.8 seconds longer to respond
@Crunch_Buttsteak
Ай бұрын
@@trequorhe's Canadian
@trequor
Ай бұрын
@@Crunch_Buttsteak I doubt it
Mauler's postcoital scream @57:42!
@blueblazer9991
Ай бұрын
of course that was gonna be the Jeremy take
@S.MR.R
Ай бұрын
@blueblazer9991 Jeremy probably never played new Gow and his take probably is from melonie mac who also never played it 😂😂😂 poor mauler😅😅
@BootySweat4491
Ай бұрын
I mean, the guy is allowed to prefer the first three games. He didn’t say the new ones were crap or anything.
@S.MR.R
Ай бұрын
@@BootySweat4491 ofcourse i like Jeremy it's funny cuz mauler is very passionate about the game and he probably knows that jeremy himself never played the game.
@FireRising86
Ай бұрын
Mauler needs to get over it. It’s got Sweet Baby Stink all over it
I remember the War of the Worlds TV series in the 80s where everyone had FORGOTTEN THE ALIEN INVASION OF EARTH in the 50's. It was canon with the 50s movie.
@ikenosis8160
Ай бұрын
30 years ago from today is 1994. Imagine if there was a global alien invasion in 1994 where New York was destroyed and millions of people were killed and people today just didn't remember? Hahahha!
@rafterscott
Ай бұрын
@@ikenosis8160 Living outside New York City they only think about September 11th on September 11th every year. I wouldn't put it past them forgetting.
@BootySweat4491
Ай бұрын
@@rafterscottI don’t think about 9/11 very often, but that doesn’t mean I forgot that it happened.
@itbesilly4544
Ай бұрын
Easy tactic to create a sequel without having to account for the revelations in the previous story. In reality, events that confirmed the existence of the afterlife are not something that would ever be forgotten. You would have endless debates over which religions afterlife was correct and governments attempting to weaponize the existence of spirits to spy on their enemies. It would be the renaissance for spiritualism and shysters, selling peer reviewed studies on the disproportionate ethnicity of supernatural entities.
@AdurianJ
Ай бұрын
@@BootySweat4491 Also us older people who remember travel pre 9/11 get's reminded constantly whenever we go on a ship or a plane because of all the annoyances.
I'm sittin here listening to Mauler complain about how unbelievable it was that no one remembers the Ghostbusters or thinks ghosts are real even though the first two Ghostbusters proved to the world that ghosts were, in fact, real knowing that half my Gen Z classroom thinks 9/11 wasn't real/didn't happen 🙃
@taloutezero
Ай бұрын
9/11 was one attack on a city. Ghosts being revealed to be real is on par of discovering human life changing news/ideas for the first time. Their world knows for a fact that the afterlife is real. Religion is the largest form of beliefs we have on our planet and all of them help people consider the afterlife. To learn that it is real and what sorts of consequences there are would change the course of human history forever. Comparing that to one attack doesn't work because there are probably a lot of places in the world that don't know about 9/11 especially since its not talked about on a constant basis. Dying and afterlife are a key mystery to humans that we ponder every day. There's no chance that the ghost being real would become a myth, literally impossible.
"I don't even know if its worth the effort to roast the Acolyte" Oh that reminds me, I wonder if Little Platoon is ever going to finish Assoka
@tommymarco
Ай бұрын
I wonder too, sad to see it was never complete as his reviews were good!
On a subject of a Ghostbusters TV show..... they were already 2 of them made. Despite both being animated, the first expanded the world into a whole mythos with some absolute standout ghost concepts like the Boggieman's domain, the Grundle, Loch Hound, Ghash, and Ghosts R Us; a rival ghostbusting Franchise run by actual ghosts. And I dare bring up the childhood trauma of the were-chicken and zombie rooster. Following that was Extreme Ghostbusters that tried to do the generational hand down, keeping Egon as the mentor. It suffered from that turn of the century "make it edgy" reimagining of an existing cartoon show; but the characters were thought out, and the writers at least had some idea of what to do with them. It wasn't a bad show, it just couldn't live up to its predecessor. And its not like it can't be done. Batman Beyond is from that same time period, and has almost all the same problems. It took two seasons to thread this needle; but it was a massive narrative success by simultaneously fleshing out more of Bruce's character, while setting up Terry to be the best version of Bruce's intent with Batman. To make a world that wouldn't create another Batman; only find that someone is still willing to be Batman in spite of it. More people need to be made aware of this show. Even though it took years before people would look back and appreciate what it does, it shows how you can play with the format without having to disrespect what its continuing off of.
@sztallone415
Ай бұрын
And that Ghostbusters tv show had actual diversity too, not just women: the 4 was made up of a (goth) girl, a black guy, a latino and a guy in a wheelchair. We kinda go full circle with this crap, where older works are better even in the realm of diversity. The Men in Black cartoon had agent K have a love affair with an alien showing a different kind of couple and it was done so maturely it's insane.
The Lore of Ghosbusters was well explored in the animated series, I loved that show! It was freaky as a kid, scared the crap out of me with that one non-ghost monster they had to fight, I think he was haunting Egon as a kid? That was really creepy to watch as a kid, but I loved it!
This has convinced me to avoid Endymion
@chillpengeru
Ай бұрын
"I'm just being honest!" After he says essentially nothing/anything.
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
Someone on the panel actually made George less an irritant to me. Thats never happened before.
Ghost busters 3 will always be the video game, it respects the series has all the voice actors and does passing the torch pretty well, also written by Dan and Harold
Not gonna lie this is the first open bar that I am unfortunately not going to be able to finish due to a guest. I’m sure he means well but Endymion holding the mic hostage and not only talking too long, but over others as well got really old really fast. Maybe talk to him off air about how to behave on a panel like this.
@chernobog9
Ай бұрын
It might be ok if it wasn’t always a monologue repeating talking points we’ve heard from the rest of the panel many times. He never has anything new or interesting to add.
Ghostbusters should have opened with the "new" team struggling with a creatively designed ghost and getting their asses kicked, until the big guns, the veterans come in and save the day. Should have been focused on thre original guys passing the torch. Hollywood is fucking bereft of creativity.
@garysmith9823
Ай бұрын
Spot on. You just described the movie I've wanted to see since the turn of the century. It will never happen, and that pains me.
@dilloncrain9111
Ай бұрын
They'll make that movie in five years with all the kids turning it over to a group of toddlers.
@kurtshastany1945
Ай бұрын
That's basically what Afterlife is
@Sentinel82
Ай бұрын
@@kurtshastany1945 No. Afterlife is simply a bad copy of the first movie that has the veterans turning up at the last 5 min of the movie to say "Hi, remember us?" 😂
@josephkerrigan733
Ай бұрын
@@kurtshastany1945 You can't say Afterlife is the OG ghostbusters passing the torch when they only show up in the last 10 minutes and don't actually teach the kids anything.
They should’ve just used the plot line from the Video Game. Where they have the elderly team of Ghostbusters training the next generation to hunt ghost. Lol
Regarding if the movies was good and they still pumped out as much as they have done, I agree with Drinker, I think people would have eventually gotten bored. I'm an old fart, born 1965, when I was young we had to wait at least a year for the next movie to come out, at least a week to get the next episode of a series, and that made us exited about it. We longed to get the next Star Wars movie, it was an event, everybody was hyped. When you finally went to the movie theater it was huge, everyone was buzzing, talking about it, speculating about what we were gonna see. And after the movie we talked about it for weeks after. Now you can binge, there is tons of channels showing everything all at once, there is no hype anymore, not like back when I was a kid.
Endymion tv sure loves to hear himself talk
@mattg5791
Ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more. I enjoy his takes, but he has a tendency to ramble, going on and on.
@desireless4092
Ай бұрын
he's annoying grfiter. I am not sure why Drinker invites him. Would love to trade him for Reaper or Echo Chamberlain. Hear that Drinker?
@lastexile6924
Ай бұрын
@@desireless4092 Hi invites him so you can cry about it XD
@desireless4092
Ай бұрын
@@lastexile6924 rather weak response
@Spaciousfoot
Ай бұрын
@@desireless4092it’s funny because they mocked him the other day, saying that KZreadrs who just put woke in every video are scum basically
Critical Drinker should raise money and buy the Duke Nukem franchise and make the opposite of a Sweet Baby Inc. game.
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
Sour Adult Inc., brought to you by The Critical Drinker?
Mankind is not evolving. Our technology is evolving. We are devolving. 😂
@vespenegas261
27 күн бұрын
"F*ck the first fish that crawled out of the sea"
Endymion is a rough listen
The original evil dead WAS a serious horror movie. Evil dead 2 and army of darkness created the camp masterpiece. I'm glad evil dead remake didn't try to replace Bruce Campbell, the world's greatest b class actor. It would be horrible to use modern humour
MauLer's Equip list: Ares Armor set Perk's: "Receive full Rage Burst when God or War Ragnarok writing is compared to God of War 3" X12
I've always hated how the sequels do the "oh, people forgot about the ghosts that were terrorizing New York on two separate occasions, as well as when a giant marshmallow man and the State of Liberty had walked across the city for millions to see". I remember Linkara trying to defend it, but it still doesn't make sense because it's so one-sided. If there are people who reject it, no matter the evidence available, then there should be people who do believe it, which is never shown. It's a dumb way to keep to the status quo of the first film. Speaking of Afterlife, that movie would have been better if it was completely original and had zero connections to the Ghostbusters franchise. Imagine if the villain was original and the story was about siblings going to live with their uncle (preferably played by Paul Rudd) in a small town after the death of their parents and discover that he is a ghosthunter, and work alongside him in hunting down bad ghosts to keep the small town safe. Add in father-figure moments with the uncle and the kids, some comedy, and advertise it as "The Ghostbusters meets The Goonies".
@captaintoyota3171
Ай бұрын
Yeah but thatd require a writer with vision not execs prpducers hiring 6 writers. Thats the thing the ppl with $$ make worst decisions
Tom Hardy's voice for Bane was inspired by a gypsy accent he heard. There's an interview somewhere
@samuel5591
Ай бұрын
Now if only that voice he heard was Brad Pitt's from Snatch... what a fantastic Bane we could have had!
In FFVII skin color is not mentioned even once. It doesnt exist. Barret is a friend and father figure to the rest of the cast. It is his choices that push the entire story forward. He is also brilliantly performed by John Bentley. To see him as one dimensional is the most racist egotistism that I've ever heard of.
Regarding Snider, my fav is still Watchmen.
Nolan batman trilogy always feels like real life batman. Not comic book or animated batman but still pretty great. Affleck was way closer to the animated ones.
just watching the first 40 mins of this now and the discussion of all these movies... jurpark.. ghostbusters etc you know what i watched the other night? The Great Escape with Steve McQueen... and MY GODS IT WAS SO GOOD! 3 hours... moved slowly but carefully... and i could not take my eyes off the screen. Absolutely fantastic fun and made me want to go right back to the much older forgotten movies.
@tommymarco
Ай бұрын
I saw they talked about 1985 Legend in the end, going to check it out this evening. Being watching the old films 70s and early as they are so darn good compared with with current releases
Regarding the original Ghostbusters, you have to remember back in the 80's these guys was on fire, they came from SNL and exploded on to the movie scene. They where the coolest comedy guys of that time, there is nobody that can fill those shoes now, nobody, so any new Ghostbuster movie will not be anything but pale imitations.
As much as I loved the first Ghostbusters and liked the second one, I'm so glad I didn't join the nice folks who joined the fan groups and organized their lives around the franchise.
I haven't seen the last 3 ghostbuster movies and I'm good with that
Bummer. I always look forward to the Open Bar, but anything featuring a grifter like Endymion is guaranteed to kill brain cells. Oh well. Next time!
@BusesAreFatCars
Ай бұрын
Can you define "Grifter" ? Most people's definition of the word would apply to literally every person on this livestream.
@darthc3rb3rus22
Ай бұрын
@BusesAreFatCars Well, everyone except Will, at least he's a publicised novelist.
@BusesAreFatCars
Ай бұрын
@@darthc3rb3rus22 So, having a second job means one cannot be classed as a grifter? Interesting.
@darthc3rb3rus22
Ай бұрын
@@BusesAreFatCars yeah the guy makes movies and interviews Russel Crowe and other famous people but point well made. You really put me in my place.
Regarding Spider Man, to me Peter was, is, will always be my Spider Man.
Ghostbusters was good because of it's unique story, but it's real nostalgic power came from how it penetrated kid's culture in the 1980s. As kids we enjoyed the movie that wasn't made for kids, but we loved the animated series, music video, the Commodore 64 game, and other cultural references.
Hudson is a huge part of what makes the original Crow great. The new one will bomb.
"You're not obliged to swallow anything you despise." Sleeping Lessons, The Shins.
One example of how bad Frozen Empire is: the stupid horns. What was the point of the horns? The plot made a big deal about the horns and then nothing ever came of it.
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
The horns were its source of power is what I understood. Without them, it wouldn’t have been able to use its freezing abilities.
@Wuffman
Ай бұрын
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden Yes, but from a story point of view what was the point of the horns? If the horns had been left out would it have changed the story in any way? If the Ghostbusters had seen their importance and tried to keep them from him in some way, that would have been something.
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
@@Wuffman Doesn’t seem to me like he could have done anything without his horns.
@Wuffman
Ай бұрын
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden He could do whatever the writers decided he could do, such as freeze a whole room full of men or take control of ghosts whether he had them or not. They contributed nothing to the narrative.
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
@@Wuffman You questioned the point of the horns. I told you the point of the horns. Quit moving the goal post.
2:03:02... YES! Infinity WAR wasn't a War (in the movie) cuz it was just the Length of the Movie with some off screen stuff. Kinda like Dune 2 that should have had a 3, should have had the Infinity War Trilogy with the Fallout in End Game being all of a part 2, & End Game would be part 3. Oh well.
Regarding Ghostbusters, It was a thing in that time, brilliant, dry humor, with great comedians. The two movies is a stamp in that time period and we never needed any more of them. Sure maybe, as Drinker says, you could have done one in the 90's, but why? We don't need it, the two first once are enough.
New open bar. Lets go!
The law doesn't apply to Hollwood, I refer you to the opening scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Female character leaves the sheriffs office after admitting to shrinking their vehicle.
When I hear someone say "he Vaderd", it doesn't sound catchy but more disgusting. Something to describe when Darth Vader uses the force to take dump
11.10 I'm not gonna defend this movie, but this particular bit struck a nerve with me. I'm twice as old as any of you (I think) and recently I've found that old age changes you as far as keeping in touch goes. Time contracts; years pass the way months used to; and suddenly your once best friend has died without you ever reconnecting. It's shitty, but it seems to be true for so many people. I understood this bit, even if it came too close to reality for a movie in the Ghostbusters franchise.
They really should have combined Frozen Empire and Afterlife. Ghostbusters should have been a national thing, with Winston being the CEO and Ray and Egon being the heads of R&D. Ray and Egon go to Summerville to explore the origins of the Shandor building because they need a new way to dispose of ghosts due to the containment units at the various HQs across America being too full. The idea is to just send the ghosts to the Netherworld by building a portal similar to the Gozer Temple. Egon gets killed due to the experiment failing. Garakka seizes on the opening between the Netherworld and ours. The remaining OGBs and new team members get together to stop the threat.
The Endymion dude constantly interrupting everyone is beyond annoying. I wish he’d stfu and let Drinker and Mauler talk more. Plz don’t bring him back for a while.
@mvc9178
Ай бұрын
“Me personally “ Lol
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
…or at all.
@samuel5591
Ай бұрын
To be fair, he's like the Chris Gore element for gaming - he has a specific interest to contribute on and enjoys chatting a bit too much. Chris does the same with movies and you just kind of have to accept it'll happen or you'll ruin the stream for yourself.
@FireRising86
Ай бұрын
@@samuel5591I can’t stand Chris Gore. His voice is like a cheese grater
@SumDumGy_formerly_Tim_Walden
Ай бұрын
@@samuel5591 …or he’s ruining it for them.
When you skip the 20-minute discussion on video games that are shit it's actually a fairly interesting podcast. Pity they didn't let Mauler say more on Ghostbusters
@jonsnowight9510
Ай бұрын
Endymion wouldn't shut up long enough
My bad life choices and erratic schedule thank you for the content, fellas
Insomniac's Wolverine will likely have SBI influence. As per a 2021 Sept 11 tweet from Evan Narcisse, him and Kim Belair are working on the Wolverine story as consultants. Not sure what has happened over time with regards to the story, but I imagine there will be a big fiasco surrounding that game when it comes out and I imagine they will be doing their best to cover up any SBI involvement. (BTW, Evan Narcisse was credited as a consultant on Spiderman 2, so I think he's someone who's pushing the same narrative.)
“Me personally” Got me every time Nerdcrew4eva
Don't forget films like Zemeckis' The Frighteners,Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow and The Others(in which Nicole Kidman is a tour de force),all of them excellent ghost stories in their own right. 😱
@davidyeates1440
Ай бұрын
More accurate to say The Frighteners was a film by Peter Jackson who directed, produced, and co-wrote it. Zemeckis was only executive producer on it.
i could feel the darkness grab hold of mauler when Ragnorok came up
The eighties were a good decade too 😢😂
"I don't like Jurassic Park: The Lost World, but I like Jurassic Park III." ... You're a monster.
@colummccrudden101
Ай бұрын
Thank christ I wasnt the only one who heard this nonsense
Speaking of Andor. I find it ironic, that they had a gay couple in it, and nobody batted an eyelid because the story was well written.
@tommymarco
Ай бұрын
oh yeah. forgot, story was sooo good !
@fffx2
Ай бұрын
Not really ironic
@Sliider36
Ай бұрын
exactly. hope we're still getting a second season. its the only star wars that isnt a steaming puddle of cat piss since rogue one. no surprise they were both written by the same guy, tony gilroy.
20:30 "once in a moon" 🤣🤣 So very often then? 🤣 I personally love using idioms, metaphors and analogies to help explain or describe things. So I'll always find it either hilarious or infuriating when someone butchers or incorrectly uses one of the sayings.
@AdrienMitchell69
Ай бұрын
Well, you should make like a tree and get out of here then.
@nicholaskinkaid
Ай бұрын
@@AdrienMitchell69 🤣
@tach5884
Ай бұрын
"One time at band camp..."
Ironically, if the "modern audience" does exist, they're failing to strike a cord with them to 🤔
@tommymarco
Ай бұрын
lol !!! truth!
Unpopular opinion probably but I preferred the old intro
Maybe Metroid Dread was so good because Samus Aran already female so SBI had no foothold to come in and ruin.
@Aria-un9iy
Ай бұрын
Thankfully Nintendo doesn’t seem interested in ruining their games with this forced diversity bullshit.
@Sentinel82
Ай бұрын
Nah. They'd want to make her fat and ugly.
@BootySweat4491
Ай бұрын
I saw a post on Reddit with thousands of upvotes saying Samus is trans… they can figure out a way.
@DanLovesBooks
Ай бұрын
Reddit is an echo chamber for people who think they’re too smart for echo chambers. I’m relieved by the idea that my lesbian friend who works in the DEI office of a nearby university is furious with the idea that if she were a young lesbian today they’d be telling her she’s a boy, and in fact she is very happy to be a woman. Absolute insanity. The best lack conviction, the worst full of passion.
@KuroNoTenno
Ай бұрын
@@Aria-un9iy Pokemon and Fire Emblem are already on ESG, though.
It's not as if there's no good original content out there. All modern Sci- Fi Fiction is inclusive and provides intriguing stories, including serial tales. Anything by Ben Bova. And Martha Wells MurderBot Diaries is absolutely fantastic and diverse. I'd be excited to see any or all of the MurderBot stories, regardless of how deeply they DEI it, so long as they tell the story well.
Was mauler even in this one he didn’t say anything for over an hour
@mattg5791
Ай бұрын
All aboard! Emdymion train is departing shortly...
Bro your intro is a banger 🤘 gets me lit up every time
Superman would work better as a period piece. Superman in the 1930’s would hit harder.
I’m here for the conversation but I don’t watch Star Wars anymore - the franchise I grew up on after seeing SW in 1977 - Disney can’t produce its way out of a wet paper bag
Tifs and Aerith background 11/10. Well done lads.
40:50 good idea overall, but even as a horror fan, human faced velociraptors. eughhhh
Did Endymyon ever even pause for breath?😂
ahh the 90s... The internet was BORN in 95... So it was an interesting decade. One gripe with this bar though.. EndymionTv.. He just PREACHES.. Keeps "explaining" and sounding so MUCH like the other side that it's irritating. Think I'll be SKIPPING any bars he's on from here on out.
@boobah5643
Ай бұрын
If by 'BORN' you mean 'the September that never ended,' sure.
@LoneWolf-gz9mr
Ай бұрын
@@boobah5643 No, I meant historical facts that the internet went commercial in 1995 with the advent and proliferation of windows 95'... And it was BORN in 95'.. It's really NOT that old.
@boobah5643
Ай бұрын
@LoneWolf-gz9mr Well, no. Win95 had nothing to do with it. The masses hit the interwebs when CompuServe, Prodigy, and AOL stopped being walled gardens and let their subscribers infest the internet. The result was the September That Never Ended, because people who were ignorant of the existing mores of the net kept disrupting everywhere, a phenomenon previously restricted to Septembers, when a new class of college students would be introduced to the net.
Nolan said he purposely made the fight scenes crap because he didnt want to make action film but instead a drama
Watching Eric July playing Pal World cussing everyone else and running around like drunken weetardid mascots is surprisingly hilarious.
muppet adaptations of: The Trial, Heart of Darkness, Naked Lunch, Roadside Picnic
The list of game developers/publishers who’s games I won’t buy anymore is steadily growing
Mauler stroked out after that GoW comment 🤣😭
Lockwood and co is the best modern Ghostbusters show.
I think that is a great idea. What if since we are all so apathetic, no one says anything about the Acolyte.
Another franchise bites the dust.
@ephraimwinslow
Ай бұрын
Most of them bit the dust a while ago, everyone just tried to Weekend at Burnie's their mortal remains for far longer than healthy.
@Tatian4191
Ай бұрын
@@ephraimwinslowDefinitely, trying to keep these 80s franchises relevant 40+ years later is not going to grip any younger viewers if the quality isn’t good. They’re milking nostalgia, but at the same time kicking the nostalgic viewers in the shins. How is a Zoomer or Gen Alpha supposed to react to Harold Ramis’s ghost? They don’t know who that is by and large.
@ephraimwinslow
Ай бұрын
@@Tatian4191 Well said. The end product of the current model for mass market entertainment is hilariously pointless. The people involved have neither the willingness, the ability, or even the desire to capture and hold the attention of a broad audience. They just know how to bore young people while annoying older people.
The fact Balder was a redhead with a rough exterior and demeanor are arguably minor inaccuracies in GOW 2018, but the fact he WANTED to fight enough to coax Kratos into initiating it was, to me, the biggest character assassination of the series.
@nikmar77
Ай бұрын
Well, no god in the GOW series is accurate to the real mythology
@TheREALSimagination
Ай бұрын
@@nikmar77 No, but I feel like Balder, considering half his thing is being a pacifist who'd rather die than raise arms against another creature, even a hostile invader, I think is going a bit too far in changing him to what GOW '18 did. If the answer is, "we had to let him die SOMEHOW to let Ragnarok happen", as that's his OTHER thing in mthology, that's a dumb excuse. There are a billion ways he could die and keep his character intact. I mean, even in the story he doesn't die in war nor by the hands of an enemy. They could easily enact the same training session with Atreius, mistletoe and all, and he could be struggling with the accidental murder for the rest of the game and the fact he caused Ragnarok.
Ghostbusters 1&2 felt made much more for adults and as a child they were pretty scary. The effects worked much better and now they are just mostly cute cgi stuff for kids
Well, I am certainly glad I skipped this one at the time. I saw _'Ghostbuaters: Frozen Empire'_ last night before it left the local theater. I thought it was an excellent film, a good passing-of-the-torch and I will be getting the Blu-ray so it can be on my shelf with the 3 other GB films.
Tom Hardy explained he was trying to impersonate Bartley Gorman when he came up with Bane's voice.
The O.G. Ghostbusters and O.G. Star Wars are at their core both movies about unique characters- with ample amounts of quirkiness and romance and humor. Turning these films over to hacks is ridiculous. I would hand these films over to Hamill and Murray and let them figure it out because nobody on these productions knows anything.
I didn't even know they were trying to make another Ghostbusters until like a week ago.
@tommymarco
Ай бұрын
Same here as well
If you want to see Ghostbusters 3, play the 360/PS3 era videogame. It's legit good with a decent story and the member berries are done fairly well.
How dare Jeremy like the old God of War games more than the new ones..
Should have just been a third film with Egon's granddaughter filling in for her grandad and the old cast. Didn't see any point in Paul Rudd or the mother and brother.
21:15 He says with an FFVII Rebirth background.
I would love an EFAP on Mathewmattosis's video on GOW 2018; he actually makes good points on how the potentials of that game were wasted, as oppossed to just saying "it's woke bruh." A position which i totally understand by the way.
@NewCanada
Ай бұрын
I really hate the slow ass combat. I prefer the original trilogy's fast paced combat.
@makhmal1776
Ай бұрын
@@NewCanada yes, most people are so focused on proving the game is woke that they forget how boring it is
@BootySweat4491
Ай бұрын
@@makhmal1776True. I can recognize they’re well made, but they’re not my cup of tea. I find it really boring and the gameplay not that engaging. It’s okay to not like things that are considered good, and vice versa.