Bass
Nexus of the World
What's Broken Lizard?
Also, I did not know they tried to get Eddie Murphy. How cool!
Also - I want to give you mega extra props for making Dracula the villain. That's awesome.
Dreamcasting #11 - GHOSTBUSTERS (closes 4th November)
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What's Broken Lizard?
Also, I did not know they tried to get Eddie Murphy. How cool!
Also - I want to give you mega extra props for making Dracula the villain. That's awesome.
Dr.Strangefate
He Sees You When You're Sleeping. He Knows When Yo
Marvelman's cast kicks ten kinds of ***
thx... and also, for the original, rick moranis was a replacement for john candy (believe it or not) and bill murray was a replacement for john belushi (after he died)
never knew about eddie murphy
Langsta
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Broken Lizard is the name of the comedy group, led by Jay Chandrasekhar, that made "Super Troopers" and "Beerfest."
Planet-man
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The problem is that I can only think of a couple picks that I really like and the rest I just don't feel enough to actually put them in the cast.
Here's the one I really like:
Rainn Wilson as Raymond Stanz
I think he'd be really good. Fans of The Office, imagine Dwight getting to go on an actual ghost hunt. Add a bit of humour to that and there you go.
I also think Don Cheadle is an excellent choice for Zed, but only if he played him the same as his character in Ocean's 11, maybe right down to the British accent.
Here's the one I really like:
Rainn Wilson as Raymond Stanz
I think he'd be really good. Fans of The Office, imagine Dwight getting to go on an actual ghost hunt. Add a bit of humour to that and there you go.
I also think Don Cheadle is an excellent choice for Zed, but only if he played him the same as his character in Ocean's 11, maybe right down to the British accent.
The problem is that I can only think of a couple picks that I really like and the rest I just don't feel enough to actually put them in the cast.
Here's the one I really like:
Rainn Wilson as Raymond Stanz
I think he'd be really good. Fans of The Office, imagine Dwight getting to go on an actual ghost hunt. Add a bit of humour to that and there you go.
I also think Don Cheadle is an excellent choice for Zed, but only if he played him the same as his character in Ocean's 11, maybe right down to the British accent.
HOLY CRAP, i was totally going to use rainn! but then i realized i cant ever see myself LOVING him like i did dan aykroyd... hes gotta be a lovable character...
Ultimate Houde
UC's Resident Genetic Recombinator
Well, if we had to cast using personalities form Ultimate Central, I present to you, Ghostbusters, Ultimate Central Style
Egon - Ultimate Houde
Venkman - Victor Von Doom
Ray - Planet Man
Winston - Bass
Egon - Ultimate Houde
Venkman - Victor Von Doom
Ray - Planet Man
Winston - Bass
Random
Didn't **** any of those *****es
maybe we should include this as a bonus to every dreamcasts
Planet-man
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It's because I said Ray should be slow and goofy, isn't it?
You forgot Ourchair as Slimer. Actually, Compound can be Slimer. Ourchair can be the slime.
Ice
Teh Sexy Monkey Queen
I suggest that! Well, I suggested that we should do these dreamcasting with UC members minus the bonus part, but you get what I mean.
Ultimate Houde
UC's Resident Genetic Recombinator
hehehehe
ourchair
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This would be the round in which everyone attempts to Dreamcast Firefly, but nobody participates because nobody wants to replace Nathan Fillion... unless Nathan Fillion promised them hot kinky hetero-man-sex in exchange for not casting him.
Joe Kalicki
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Here's my cast, which won't win because I don't have pictures or links for it even though it's easily the best (story of my Dreamcasting life. . . ).
Winston - Cuba Gooding Jr. He's done comedy, he's done drama, he's won awards. Winston is a guy who's been kind of beat down and gets a job with the Ghostbusters just to make some cash. If depserate cash grabs remind you of anyone, it should be Cuba Gooding Jr. Also, he is kinda black.
Peter - Dane Cook. Peter is the smartass that doesn't take what he's doing seriously and is only interested in girls. I'm pretty sure Dane Cook could do this, because the only role I've ever seen him in, in Dan in Real Life, was not dissimilar.
Ray - Seth Rogen. Ray is a nerd, but less capable and less socially aware than the also-nerdy Egon. Rogen has played nerds and socially inept characters his whole career. I could totally see him getting excited about buying an old hearse.
Egon - Rainn Wilson. This was the hardest role to cast, because it's hard to do nerdy without going overboard. Wilson does go overboard as Dwight in The Office, but he's also played likable down-to-Earth roles, such as in House of 1000 Corpses and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. A little mixture of both and voila.
Yeah, so there's that. You can snub me now.
Also, Slimer should be the ghost of John Candy.
Winston - Cuba Gooding Jr. He's done comedy, he's done drama, he's won awards. Winston is a guy who's been kind of beat down and gets a job with the Ghostbusters just to make some cash. If depserate cash grabs remind you of anyone, it should be Cuba Gooding Jr. Also, he is kinda black.
Peter - Dane Cook. Peter is the smartass that doesn't take what he's doing seriously and is only interested in girls. I'm pretty sure Dane Cook could do this, because the only role I've ever seen him in, in Dan in Real Life, was not dissimilar.
Ray - Seth Rogen. Ray is a nerd, but less capable and less socially aware than the also-nerdy Egon. Rogen has played nerds and socially inept characters his whole career. I could totally see him getting excited about buying an old hearse.
Egon - Rainn Wilson. This was the hardest role to cast, because it's hard to do nerdy without going overboard. Wilson does go overboard as Dwight in The Office, but he's also played likable down-to-Earth roles, such as in House of 1000 Corpses and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. A little mixture of both and voila.
Yeah, so there's that. You can snub me now.
Also, Slimer should be the ghost of John Candy.
Bass
Nexus of the World
Awesome.
Joe, you know i love you, but your cast is (respectively) 25% meh, 25% suck, and 50% thievery. But Slimer = John Candy's ghost is inspired, so I must give you that.
Ultimate Houde
UC's Resident Genetic Recombinator
Peter Venkman is all about Sleaze
Dane Cook may be able to do it
Vince Vaughn and Ryan Reynolds can do it
Everyone else's pick for Venkman can't do it, especially Nathan Fillon. He can not do sleaze
Dane Cook may be able to do it
Vince Vaughn and Ryan Reynolds can do it
Everyone else's pick for Venkman can't do it, especially Nathan Fillon. He can not do sleaze
o come on, have you seen that episode of arrested development where michael has a one night stand with the blind lady? I mean, Jason Bateman has awesomely diverse acting talents! He was the crazy announcer (along with Lumbergh from Office Space) in Dodgeball- I hardly even recognized him! But yeah he can definitely do it (though I agree, Vince Vaughn is also a very good choice).
Love you too buddy :lol:
ourchair
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I figured there is no point trying to 'recreate' the original film by duplicating the EXACT performances of the Men In Gray, so I figured why not just try to reconceptualize the film?
There's no way Martin Lawrence could recreate Zeddemore, and no one else can capture the EXACT smarm that Murray brought to Venkman, so why not just build the actors around the characters and the characters around the actors?
It's been 23 years since the original, and we live in different times. Enter the ULTIMATE GHOSTBUSTERS FTW!!!!1111ONEONE
Of course, no charade can last forever. The dean of Columbia discovers Peter's phony credentials and ends his teaching career. Stantz loses his job too. Peter tries to spin this public humiliation into a story about the close-mindedness of the academe and coerces Stantz into building the two of them up as free thinkers who had been frowned upon for their 'fruitless explorations of parapsychology'. This gets the two of them on the media circuit for a week or so before CNN finds a new headline about South Korea and they run out of talk shows to do, and pretty soon it becomes clear that Stantz and Venkman need to find some way to make a living again.
Just like in the original movies, the Ghostbusters may be appreciated by those who have personally encountered spectral disturbances, but politicians, scientists and the media regard them as hucksters and profiteers. Spengler responds to the negative publicity by saying they're only providing public safety for a minimal fee. Venkman says that congressman should consider making money spent on Ghostbuster fees tax deductible.
So what would this reinvented team of Ghostbusters be fighting?
Why, the very evils of the Internet.
Seriously.
In some kind of pseudoscientific fashion that only Spengler & Stantz could somehow fathom, the Internet has now made it possible for all the world's hate to be exchanged instantaneously through bulletin boards, IMs and MMORPGs.
It is now building up 'hateful' electromagnetic signals affecting residual ectoplasm located near all the exchange points that form the very backbone of the Internet. The Internet needs to be shut down before it's too late to solve the problem in a clean fashion.
So when the Internet goes down, Perpetual Galaxy stays up due to Peck's insistence, via a back-up Internet. As a result, a large world-devouring Cthulhu-like entity is now coming to Earth... and feast upon a planet full of hate.
And now only three misfit 'scientists' and their so-called chief of security can save the world...
There's no way Martin Lawrence could recreate Zeddemore, and no one else can capture the EXACT smarm that Murray brought to Venkman, so why not just build the actors around the characters and the characters around the actors?
It's been 23 years since the original, and we live in different times. Enter the ULTIMATE GHOSTBUSTERS FTW!!!!1111ONEONE
Of course, no charade can last forever. The dean of Columbia discovers Peter's phony credentials and ends his teaching career. Stantz loses his job too. Peter tries to spin this public humiliation into a story about the close-mindedness of the academe and coerces Stantz into building the two of them up as free thinkers who had been frowned upon for their 'fruitless explorations of parapsychology'. This gets the two of them on the media circuit for a week or so before CNN finds a new headline about South Korea and they run out of talk shows to do, and pretty soon it becomes clear that Stantz and Venkman need to find some way to make a living again.
Spengler is tinkering with several engineering ideas for containment and capture and believes in trying to sell the idea to the government as a new arm of public service next to police and firemen. Venkman tells Spengler it's ludicrous that the government would want to spend more tax dollars on protecting the public and instead proposes they develop this as a private enterprise called The Ghostbusters, a name that Venkman has deliberately nicked from an old 60s children's show. They rent out an abandoned fire station and decide to start with a minimal staff, which includes:
Just like in the original movies, the Ghostbusters may be appreciated by those who have personally encountered spectral disturbances, but politicians, scientists and the media regard them as hucksters and profiteers. Spengler responds to the negative publicity by saying they're only providing public safety for a minimal fee. Venkman says that congressman should consider making money spent on Ghostbuster fees tax deductible.
The general plot of the movie would be pretty much a thematic recreation of the kinds of plots that made the original two films. In Ghostbusters, an insane architect designed one hundred story building that was essentially meant to open the door for an evil Sumerian god. In Ghostbusters II, the pure evil of a ages-dead megalomaniacal psychopath was stored inside a painting came to life because of hate-powered ectoplasm fueled by the sheer antipathy of New York's inhabitants.
So what would this reinvented team of Ghostbusters be fighting?
Why, the very evils of the Internet.
Seriously.
In some kind of pseudoscientific fashion that only Spengler & Stantz could somehow fathom, the Internet has now made it possible for all the world's hate to be exchanged instantaneously through bulletin boards, IMs and MMORPGs.
It is now building up 'hateful' electromagnetic signals affecting residual ectoplasm located near all the exchange points that form the very backbone of the Internet. The Internet needs to be shut down before it's too late to solve the problem in a clean fashion.
So when the Internet goes down, Perpetual Galaxy stays up due to Peck's insistence, via a back-up Internet. As a result, a large world-devouring Cthulhu-like entity is now coming to Earth... and feast upon a planet full of hate.
And now only three misfit 'scientists' and their so-called chief of security can save the world...
