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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes Pic!
A little known fact: Slimer changed his name early on his career. When he was cast in Ghostbusters his name was Onionhead. Sometime between filming Ghostbusters and starring in The Real Ghostbusters he changed his legal name to Slimer. Little trivia for you.
So here is Mr. Onionhead before all the plastic surgery and name change… in short, before he went all Hollywood on us.
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I always thought the original Slimer from GB1 looked like a real-life Sergio Aragones cartoon.
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Jan 27, 2012 1:55:44 PM CST
Yeah yeah we know about his original Onionhead name and how he changed it to Slimer.
by killik
after all we are geeks.
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Jan 27, 2012 1:56:26 PM CST
I didn't know Jonah Hill was in Ghostbusters
by melgibsoncalledmethenword
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Jan 27, 2012 1:56:56 PM CST
Now cue to the CGI haters and how the practical effects are better.
by killik
Although the vfx in GB1 have not aged well.
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I must admit, it was a lot of fun. And I won 300 bucks!!
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"coming to save the world this summer" The theater was packed when I saw it.
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Unless it was slimer, then CGI would be better. There you go.
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Jan 27, 2012 2:00:16 PM CST
The original "evil" Slimer much better than the cute version
by theyreflockingthisway
Although they did bring this version back in the Ghostbusters game somewhat. I always saw him as the ghost of some dead greedy fat guy rather than just some sort of cute pet creature thing.
He was actually pretty menacing in the original film - especially when he catches Venkman down that hotel corridor. -
The way he drops his arms when he first sees Venkman, guzzling the wine, circling the chandelier -- all hilarious!
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Terrible gameplay. Excellent history.
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ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILMS TOO
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Jan 27, 2012 2:04:05 PM CST
killik there's a BIG difference with what you're talking about
by melgibsoncalledmethenword
If Ghostbusters used CG it would have the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man as a CG character, which is completely unnecessary.
The stop motion dogs were bad, no question, but most of that was poor compositing. You could do those as stop motion and composite them and have it look just as good as CG, though it would be a LOT more time consuming. That's an instance where CG would have been better.
The argument of CG vs practical is when idiots use CG for something that could have been practical. -
The newer on? I thought it was decent. Loved the voicework. A lot better than the NES version, but the Genesis version was fun, too.
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Don't get me wrong, everything - but the gameplay - it's damn fun.
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Jan 27, 2012 2:13:48 PM CST
=If Ghostbusters used CG it would have the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man as a CG character, which is completely unnecessary.=
by killik
For the sequence where he walks in the NY streets,yeah the man in suit practical effect works fine.But on the other hand,the sequence where he climbs the building and the GBs attack him,is as fake as fuck.
You dont need CGI for the ghost librarian or the blowjob ghost either.
But IMHO Slimmer,the demon dogs,the sequence where the Containment Unit explodes and unleashes the ghosts,even the proton beams/ghost-trap, would have been better if they were made with CGI. -
Jan 27, 2012 2:28:24 PM CST
The game is fun with a Wiimote, but they went with the cartoony look
by bah
Which is too bad, because the realistic graphics on the other platforms really sell it as part and parcel with the movies. Plus the comic timing makes a lot more sense with realistic faces. In any case, the story for the game does a good job tying the movies together
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Jan 27, 2012 2:33:42 PM CST
So AICN. Where is your report about Bill Murray finally saying no to GB3 and shredding the script?
by chickenstu
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...it would look like the Money For Nothing video with a rotating teapot in every other scene.
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I echo that!
I'm one of those still hoping GB3 sees light of day.. Who you gonna call? Not He-Man! -
There are just a couple bad rotoscopes, like when Stay Puft's leg goes through the church.. and some of the optical mattes are rough... but aside from that I think Ghostbusters has some of the best effects of the 80s.
Some of the best creature design too... those devil dogs still scare me a bit. -
The effects look great to me. Again, we're talking about how they've aged... I find most high quality optical effects from the 80s have aged better than almost any CG effects from the 90s (save for the really early ones like T2 and JP which seem to have aged better than say Mission: Impossible or lol PHANTOMS/SPHERE etc.).
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Jan 27, 2012 3:07:37 PM CST
I really liked the Ghostbusters game. Played it all the way through and it rocks.
by tikidonkeypunch
Not sure what your complaint is on the gameplay. I felt like I was finally fullfilling my childhood dream of busting ghosts.
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Jan 27, 2012 3:09:57 PM CST
@killik, you reminded me of the son's friends on Rocky 4.
by tikidonkeypunch
The part where he tells them, "That's my dad." And they repyly "We know." "What do you think we are, nerd?" Hahahaha
Oh and I'd like to believe in a world where CGI and practical effects can co exist in harmony with each other. But that universe would be a paradox in todays Hollywood. -
Jan 27, 2012 3:11:10 PM CST
The dog leaping over teh wall and the skeleton taxi driver -- both pretty bad
by bah
But yeah, as a defender of responsible CG, I have to agree that most of the effects are quite good.
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Jan 27, 2012 3:11:46 PM CST
I also loved GB The Video Game and felt like I was a GhostBuster
by autodidact
Bustin' makes me feel good!
It felt like the GB3 we never got... maybe lacking some of the humor of the first one, but I loved all the lore and references to the movies.
Being totally honest I enjoyed GB The Video Game more than Ghostbusters 2. -
Jan 27, 2012 3:11:59 PM CST
Oh, and the awkwardness of Murray standing up as Dana is levitating
by bah
I assume that's to hide some trick, but it's always looked weird.
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Jan 27, 2012 3:13:13 PM CST
Sorry, Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capactity for rational thought
by bah
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Jan 27, 2012 3:29:59 PM CST
One of the first movies I went to and didn't know anything about it.
by banned_of_brothers
Of course, I was seven though. I mean, I am sure I knew it was about people trying to catch ghosts, but I didn't know anything else. Absolutely loved the movie, and remember renting it on VHS many, many times afterwards.
It was one of my first favorite movies.
A few years ago, I got to go to NYC for the first (and so far, only) time. It was magical to see the GB HQ that's still an operational firehouse.
Such a terrific movie. Still holds up well today. Who gives a shit about the special effects. That isn't what the movie is about. Go watch a Michael Bay movie or something. -
He was supposedly intended to be the ghost of John Belushi. Makes sense when you think about it.
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Jan 27, 2012 3:41:45 PM CST
Lets show this prehistoric bitch how we do things down town.
by drstrangerlove
Doooooee, Rayyyyyy, Egon!
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This man has no dick.
Ahh, the 80's, when actors could smoke and swear in a PG-13 movie. -
I'VE SEEN SHIT THAT'LL TURN YOU WHITE! best. Line. Ever.
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`Nuff said. Wait. Not quite: practical effects rule. Suck on that bone, Tom, Bert and Bill.
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Even if it were not intended as such, it felt like such an affirmative-actiony "well, we realized we oughta throw a brother in there somewhere." Never really understood that. It made the movie feel like the script was altered during the course of filming.
If only they knew Peter Jackson would have no such feelings of white guilt after ten films!
By the way, Obama sucks. May he go down to defeat this November.
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Jan 27, 2012 3:55:25 PM CST
Adding a new guy makes sense, showing their growing business, and it was supposed to be Eddie Murphy
by bah
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Jan 27, 2012 3:58:12 PM CST
Yeah they had to add a black guy 'cuz they were successful
by autodidact
I like Ernie Hudson's character and he has one of the funniest lines in the movie: "When someone asks if you're a god you say YES!"
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But Murphy's black, and they probably wanted to keep the "turn you white" line when they had to replace him.
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Murray brings just enough ham. Murphy would have spoiled it.
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Jan 27, 2012 4:00:46 PM CST
To be fair, GB 2 has the most badass line of the franchise.
by redleaderstandingby
Sometimes, shit happens, someone has to deal whit it and who you gonna call?
Aykroyd and Hammis at their prime. -
was because they didn't have a ton of time to complete the movie. At least that's what I remember hearing on the commentary for GB 1. Still the GB movies are some of the greatest of all time. Who you gonna' call? HE-MAN!!!!
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I don't think the point was that he was black, per se. But that he was from a different world than the Columbia/intellectual/phd realm that the other three came from. The difference in his skin color just was a way of visualizing that point.
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Jan 27, 2012 5:03:28 PM CST
@killik, the visual effects in Ghostbuster have aged well, it's better than that cgi shit in Drag Me To Hell
by maxcherry
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Jan 27, 2012 5:10:14 PM CST
Took my kid to see this when it was re-released last year and noticed the rating had been bumped up from a PG to a 12A
by chickenstu
And about five minutes into the movie I realised why! It was so fucking rude! I guess you could get away with a lot more in a PG back in those days...
My kid is 5 and I'm sure she didn't understand a whole lot of the FILTH these guys were coming out with, but I was literally sinking into my seat in the theatre... proper cringeworthy stuff.
The worst for me was when Egon says at the end "I feel like the floor of a taxi-cab". I SERIOUSLY wanted the ground to open up and swallow me I shit you not...
My wife had a good laugh about it when I told her the events of that afternoon though. -
Just no. Boss Effects Studios headed by Richard Edlund created the Slimer in the picture above which is from GB1. He went through a bit of a redesign for GB2 when ILM took over effects work.
You should go chill out under your bridge. -
per dan aykroyd, murray never shredded the script or anything of the like. typical national enquirer hype. bill's not out yet....
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Blew my mind when I was a kid, and as I got older and understood more of the humor it only got better, I still laugh my ass of everytime.
The next time someone asks if you're a god...you...say...YES! -
After the Eddie Murphy casting didn't work out, they decided to keep the idea of an outsider being added to the group. His character was supposed to represent the average man being exposed to this world. Ernie Hudson got the role from a previous working relationship with Reitman, who worked with him on Spacehunter, the year before. Ernie Hudson said this in a old Starlog interview, #98 - 1985.
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I always liked that gargoyle demon dog that gave Rick Moranis such a hard time in the original Ghostbusters.
Oh, and the ghost in the library in the opening sequence scared me silly back in the day when I first saw GB as a wee little shit. -
The 80's man:
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
The Thing
Tron
Star Trek II, III, and IV
Aliens
The Terminator
Robocop
Commando
Predator
Rambo
Die Hard
Indiana Jones trilogy
Star Wars (Empire/Jedi)
Highlander
Poltergeist
ET
Willow
Amazing Stories
Back to the Future
Rocky IV (=I must break you=)
Conan the Barbarian
Excalibur
Escape From New York
Big Trouble In Little China
The Goonies
Good times for movies, the 80's were.
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Viggo Mortensen for Viggo the Carpathian in an origin film!
Just kidding.
Seriously though, doesn't Viggo from GBII kinda remind anyone of the dude from that game The Witcher?
-- Viggo
http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452033569e201116900f9d1970c-800wi
-- The Witcher
http://rebeccastorevik.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/geralt.jpg -
I don't know, I think even for some of the effects in Ghostbusters that could arguably have been accomplished with CGI over the optical method, I still prefer the old school style.
We've got plenty of CGI effects bombarding us these days. Let me have my damn nostalgic Ghostbusters experience in peace! -
Akroyd's It's The...Line at the end. I swear to God some people were laughing for 10 minutes straight.
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Don't forget
Altered States
Innerspace
The Fly all of Cronenberg
Heavy Metal
The Road Warrior
Time Bandits
Brazil
Blade Runner
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
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Jan 28, 2012 5:39:06 AM CST
I have nothing of substance to add to this talkback...
by dr. egon spengler
..other than to say I love slimer, and Ghostbusters is one of my all-time favorite flicks.
It doesn't age for me and the jokes are still fresh on every single new viewing. -
Jan 28, 2012 6:29:37 AM CST
One of the best EVER movie reaction shots: the cigarette hanging from Ray's mouth when he sees Slimer. Genius.
by diamondjoe
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Jan 28, 2012 7:57:35 AM CST
See, I see those 80s lists, and I think "Why aren't there more PG movies?"
by bah
Particularly on this site, everyone wants everything DARK and HARD R. Even remakes -- "Let's have a Hard R Goonies!" Most of the best stuff in the 80s is family friendly adventure stuff, and in place of that we're getting things like Journey 2. Yeah, yeah, despite my defending PG-13 in the Expendables thread, I know that that kind of thing should be R. We had a few this year I guess, but are kids going home and pretending they're Hugo? Are they going to make sure their kids watch it in 20 years? I doubt it.
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Jan 28, 2012 8:49:09 AM CST
Ghostbusters on ps3 is friggin perfect. The ghost trapping mechanic is handled flawlessly.
by ultratron
What's that nonsense I hear you saying about the gameplay? It's perfect ghostbuster action. The story is movie quality too. Even has Brian Doyle Murray as the mayor who should have been mayor in the original movie. All the the original cast including dickless. How could you ask for a better ghostbusters game? How could I make one better with a top studio at my disposal? It's as ghostbusters as can be
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Jan 28, 2012 8:50:01 AM CST
Easily in the top 10 blockbuster epic movies of all time. Up there with Starwars
by ultratron
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Try seeing the elevator scene from drive in a pg13. Imagine a pg13 fight club or goodfellas or scarface or.. My point is YES. I would rather watch any of those movies over some watered down entertainment. Because those movies STICK. You don't forget them. They jam into your cerebral cortex and live there. There are great pg13 movies. Ghost Protocol IMAX was fantastic entertainment. But we just don't get high-end budget R-rated films anymore after Matrix 3. You guys didn't buy enough matrix sequel tickets.
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but it would have been better with Belushi. The scene where Egon is going down the hall sniffing up and down, tell me that wasn't written with Belushi set to play it.
And Ultratron, we didn't buy more Matrix sequel tickets because , well, they kind of sucked. -
Got free tickets to Reloaded through work (free from WB actually) because we were doing a tie-in commercial for the Cadillac CTS. After I sat through that piece of shit there was absolutely no way I was paying to see the third one.
The Wachowskis had final approval on usage of any footage from Reloaded and the wound up saying no to the tie-in commercial.
I saw Ghostbusters -- last year? Two years ago? -- at a midnight screening. Still holds up. The slightly wonky dated fx never really bother me because I'm so invested in the characters and the story, and the story is more important than the fx. Imagine that. -
There was a big hype about this a while back, haven't heard anything as of late.
I'd like to see GB 3 but I get the feeling of ...."Who the fuck really cares anymore" ? -
Jan 28, 2012 9:55:45 AM CST
Many shuvs and zools knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the slor that day I can tell you.
by the_maltese_vulcan
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Jan 28, 2012 10:13:26 AM CST
minds me of the time you tried to drill a hole in your head ...
by westie
That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
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Jan 28, 2012 10:22:38 AM CST
Well you should have bought them tickets. Now you're stuck
by ultratron
with pg13 world. There hasn't been an R-rated movie with a budget anywhere near matrix 2-3 since.
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The whole matrix trilogy. Coulda done without the expository dialogue character added in 2. He distracted first time I saw 2. The audience just saw Neo save everyone from a simi head-on collision- we don't need to see a reaction shot from that guy. How bout that Merlvingian though? A program so advanced he loves pussy as much as the next guy. The matrix trilogy is so fucking awesome.
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He was at Boss Films working in the creature department. I went to LA to visit him in 1984, just after they wrapped the work on Ghostbusters.
He took me to Boss Film and on a Saturday. The place was nearly empty except for Richard Edlund and some of the crew shooting the Leonov model for 2010.
Most of the Ghostbusters stuff was put away in storage or gone, but I saw the subway ghost puppet, the buildings Mr. Staypuft walks past and a half sphere of the spacecraft Discovery for 2010.
And I met Gunnar Ferdinandsen the chief moldmaker. He had just finished making a mold for something and still had Ultracal 30 on his hands when we met and I shook his hand. Nice guy.
He also worked on The Thing, and a dummy made from his lifecast is the dead frozen Norwegian who slit his writsts and throat. -
He was at Boss Films working in the creature department. I went to LA to visit him in 1984, just after they wrapped the work on Ghostbusters.
He took me to Boss Film and on a Saturday. The place was nearly empty except for Richard Edlund and some of the crew shooting the Leonov model for 2010.
Most of the Ghostbusters stuff was put away in storage or gone, but I saw the subway ghost puppet, the buildings Mr. Staypuft walks past and a half sphere of the spacecraft Discovery for 2010.
And I met Gunnar Ferdinandsen the chief moldmaker. He had just finished making a mold for something and still had Ultracal 30 on his hands when we met and I shook his hand. Nice guy.
He also worked on The Thing, and a dummy made from his lifecast is the dead frozen Norwegian who slit his writsts and throat. -
Who gives a fuck about practical vs CGI? Just enjoy the movie.
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That is why he was in the final shot of Ghostbusters and why the Real Ghostbusters were friends with Slimer.
He might be the ghost of an alien, but he is definitely not a normal ghost. -
Jan 28, 2012 3:48:14 PM CST
I thought they explained the origin of Slimer in the Real GB cartoon?
by killik
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Jan 28, 2012 4:45:15 PM CST
ultron, how do those scenes relate to my screed about wanting more good PG movies?
by bah
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