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Starting point is 00:01:46 Let's go. Gang. His last name is Beckman. All these Kevin headshots. All right, guys. We just watch Ghostbusters answer the call. year of our lord 2016 you made it to this point in the video

Starting point is 00:02:04 thank you I want to shout out the folks over at prepper for chopping this down doing perhaps more editing than was involved in the actual picture actually no they edited like a half hour out of this at least either way

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Starting point is 00:02:47 Yeah How are you feeling in this moment? Are you energized Are you going to answer the call? Are you excited to get the call? Are you going to be keeping your phone on with the ringer and like no do not disturbs or nothing so you definitely don't miss the call no i could screen this call

Starting point is 00:03:08 i'll screen it and maybe send to voicemail we'll get back to it in a bit okay yeah i mean you're just going to have it on just really loud ringer sure yeah yeah i love that i love that for you i have multiple phones i love it if i can answer the call wow yeah i don't live in the back when they had switchboards I'll just live there you're like operator just just give it to me right here hell yeah

Starting point is 00:03:34 hell yeah I feel okay yeah I'm like I didn't like I came in here feeling fine maybe I'm a little tired today but I for some reason this

Starting point is 00:03:51 film I could feel the pacing more than I wanted to It wasn't, like, at the beginning, it started to pick up pace. I mentioned it, but it was later in the movie. For some reason, I didn't feel like it was as fun as what I felt in the original Ghostbusters. Like, there was some sort of, like, wonder and excitement that was attached to it. And in this one, yeah, there's a bunch of comedic actors in this. And they're all really funny.

Starting point is 00:04:24 There are some actual, really funny parts that made me laugh out loud. but there's uh i don't know like i i said during the reaction i was like i feels like a disney tv movie and it just still does because it for some reason i don't think that the script and the moments were elevated enough except for some of the comedic jokes and some of the callbacks for it to be like hell yeah let's rewatch this film i would be like no i'm good like it was somewhat fun i wanted it to be more fun. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:00 That's where I'm at with it. That's my honest opinion. It kind of feels like watching an improv show when you feel like the performers are kind of trying, I guess, or like the show isn't like fully clicking. So we're like really trying to throw a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks. Yeah. Like there is, when this came out, this was a, this movie almost broke me at the time because like just the discourse in culture was so. ugly and nasty. Oh, really?

Starting point is 00:05:30 Yeah, yeah. For Harold Ramos. That's cute. Got a little bust. He appeared as a statuette up at the top of the movie. Yeah, this really riled people up because partly because it was an all-female ensemble

Starting point is 00:05:44 and also that like that broke people's brains. And then I think just the type of movie that it became didn't help that discourse at all. Yeah. So it's fun to watch this with some level of removal because, um oh there we go you knew this was coming Pete I called the nutcracker

Starting point is 00:06:03 oh because it crushes the ghost no it's for walnuts what is it did you get something what do we got I heard something really weird what's Zool oh no Zool he's coming back

Starting point is 00:06:19 Zool's coming back uh oh oh and we got Dana back sort of it a little bit. Dude. Well, all right. We got there. Zool's coming when the eventual sequel gets made. Don't worry. We'll get far enough on this timeline

Starting point is 00:06:33 that someone comes back and goes, no, no, no, no. This is only a sequel to Ghostbusters 2016. All the other Ghostbusters are non-canonical now. Yeah, when this came out, it was definitely like a really big, 134 minutes. This was a two hour and 15 minute extended

Starting point is 00:06:51 cut. That's insane. It's pretty bonkers. Yeah, when this came out, this is very divisive. And I remember at the time having you know a decent amount of fun with it. I had a decent amount of fun this time but it is very apparent kind of what could be

Starting point is 00:07:07 more fluid. It just needs to be more cohesive I think because like so much of the humor this is also kind of I think when the bubble of apatot wave banter based comedies was starting to burst a little bit because so many of the scenes are reliant on

Starting point is 00:07:23 the sort of like we're going to banter and bicker about some kind of you know minute detail in a social interaction or something like that and you know we're going to pause for a bit here instead of moving the story along and you know i'm not necessarily like an all-plot all the time kind of viewer but uh it is the type of thing where after i'll i started to notice like oh man we are like stopping for we're stopping the movie for bits and uh i feel like if somebody had helped to streamline. I don't know. It's weird. Like, there's an Occam's Razor, I think,

Starting point is 00:07:59 that can exist with comedy especially, and I think this movie is a good example of that. Like, a lot of the funniest stuff to me was the sharper things, the more, the less wordy things, the things that are like, oh, here's a sly one liner here, or a goofy sight gag, or like

Starting point is 00:08:15 an absurd bit of context, rather than listening to her argue back and forth about, like, wantons and stuff. Yeah. Like, which can be funny when there's something to contrast it against. But that's just kind of how all the characters are for kind of the whole movie and everyone kind of has the same vibes.

Starting point is 00:08:34 Like Patty and Holtzman are kind of different from everybody else who shows up. But I feel like a lot of the characters are all kind of, you know, crack and wise and insulting each other and, you know, really drawing out the sort of like, I'm the straight man and everything's weird around me kind of humor. And yeah, I think if they had tempered, especially the four of them. in a way where they were all different distinctly. Because you had that in the first one, I feel like, you know, and I felt like the Kristen Wigg and Melissa McCarthy characters

Starting point is 00:09:05 were kind of aimed in the same direction, whereas, you know, you have Kristen Wigg who wants to be more legitimate and, you know, a real scientist who I guess in this Ghostbuster scenario is a little more of a Dan Aykroyd in terms of like his investment in the spirit realm, and then you would think that maybe I don't know there's no real good proxy for like a Bill Murray character

Starting point is 00:09:29 because nobody here has the like I don't care abandon of it all and they try to do the whole drama thing of like oh we grew up together and I saw this ghost and I was ostracized because I saw the ghost and then we made this book

Starting point is 00:09:41 and now the book's out and I'm mad about the book and I'm not a legitimate professor and it's like it took the whole thing about it took the whole thing where they worked for a college science department and like really zeroed in

Starting point is 00:09:53 on that shit and made it a drama dramatic conflict. Which it didn't need to be. Yeah, I don't know. I think they bogged themselves down with, like, trying to make it, like, more dramatically credible than it needed to be or something like that. But I'm sure we'll figure out more as our questions come in.

Starting point is 00:10:12 And I do, I guess, I like some of the imagination of the ghosts. I did start thinking of Haunted Mansion, the movies, glimpses I've seen of those. I do miss some of the movie magic of the previous Ghostbusters stuff. in that you'd have some level of like, oh, this is a Compton puppet or something like that or, you know, an in-camera effect. Not that that's like, if everything else is working, I wouldn't be so concerned with that.

Starting point is 00:10:37 But it is an element that, yeah, along with other things, is kind of missing from this. But, uh, but, uh, but yeah, let's hop into some questions and see what other opinions and ideas are formed as we go here.

Starting point is 00:10:48 Uh, we'll start with Maurice Gray Jr. Usually in a movie these days, they will gender or race swap one major character. How did gender swapping the whole main cast land for you, Tara, card-carrying woman? It was fine. I would have really liked it if I had liked the movie and the plot and the writing more. You know, like, that would have been great.

Starting point is 00:11:13 I just didn't. I'm not. I, yeah, that's it. Don't love the movie. Still had fun. Nobody needs to freak out. But I think it was a great idea. there's just something about it that was that was missing for me yeah yeah i think they're there

Starting point is 00:11:28 the casting is fine i don't think it's an issue of the casting whatsoever i think it's about the approach they took to the movie the approach paul figg must have really champion for um i mean it's definitely a bold thing to do like sadly in our culture i know why people took notice of it i don't as much understand why it became such a huge deal and such a huge controversy granted i understand that like you know just doing every familiar thing over again but make it women is not like the most creative way to go about right you know creating equity in entertainment uh but it's freaking ghostbusters there hadn't been one a long time making them all girls yeah it doesn't matter at all like cool like cool this yeah like you said as long as the rest of the movie and stuff is on point

Starting point is 00:12:15 then it shouldn't matter and i think that's the the the bummer part about the rest of the movie having some clear ways it could have been tightened up and made better because then, you know, the four of them are going to take a lot of crap that they don't deserve. So, yeah, I think it's a fine choice honestly. Andrew Nickerson. Hey, John and Tara.

Starting point is 00:12:35 Hey, Tay, you. Love you guys. We love you as well. In fact, we were just talking about it beforehand. We were sessing over you. I made a bubblegum sculpture of you. Although I love the ladies, I found Chris Hemsworth to have the most interesting part. Do you think Chris should play against type more often, or do you think

Starting point is 00:12:51 this is proof that he shouldn't. This definitely worked for him, and I know that when the movie came out, you know, he certainly walked away pretty clean. Everyone liked his involvement seemed agreeable, which again, given the context, is a bit of a bummer, but at the same time, context removed.

Starting point is 00:13:10 It's really funny. And I think his character was such that it really was set up to work because thankfully he is a character that I think they know you have to use in specific. specific doses and there's a game happening here because he's playing against type and there is just a real charm that he brings in his charisma and there's like a silly physicality that comes along with him when you're watching a character like him or like holtsman especially I started to feel like I was more in an actual movie unless in a room with people bantering in front of a camera yeah so yeah I think this worked really well for him anyway I think he should definitely play against his type more often I thought it was really funny grounded good any of his moves like you know fingers through the glasses because his ears hurt

Starting point is 00:13:57 stupid stuff like that and him playing like yeah like just dumb just just dumb but uh i believed it and i didn't think he was like that i was like oh you know when you see somebody and they're trying to be funny maybe i've just seen it in like auditions and the role calls for just someone you're just you've got to just have it or you don't i think he does yeah yeah yeah 100% I'm sad I'm glad we got to see him dance

Starting point is 00:14:23 in the credits I'm sad we missed it in the full movie but yeah he should do more comedy he should be he looked like

Starting point is 00:14:30 he had dance moves and yeah it was actually like a nifty plot device to have him first as comic relief and a subversion

Starting point is 00:14:39 of what kind of secretary we're going to get but then also yeah as a vessel for what's his name to wear

Starting point is 00:14:44 around for at least a couple minutes it's kind of like oh no Kevin I love Kevin no don't you know a plus

Starting point is 00:14:51 Hems Chris Worth Rudy Rogers Hi Terran John Hi yourself I'm so glad you all decided To give this one a go To answer the call It got a lot of hate

Starting point is 00:15:02 Undeserved in my opinion And I'm thinking I'm in the vast minority of people Who prefer it to the original The Chemistry and Human Between these scientists Ladies appeals to my love Of the power of friendship

Starting point is 00:15:11 Even my love for the power of friendship Even if it's not your favorite Where would y'all rank it Amongst the rest in the franchise Sending lots of love and appreciation Well, we haven't watched the whole franchise. I mean, there's so many more.

Starting point is 00:15:26 I would currently rank at last in the three that we've watched. Because I really like, I really like this. Yeah, I think I liked one and two, right? No, wait. Have we? Is this this? Yeah, we watched two. And I remember two. Did I like it?

Starting point is 00:15:45 Two had still some neat, you know, given the time in place, like some neat production values. but two I remember being sort of like definitely not as dynamic and like less effortlessly fun. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Maybe, you know what I'll give you, Rudy, is that I might go original this one and then too. We all know my memory is it's bad.

Starting point is 00:16:11 It's terrible. I definitely didn't hate this. I do agree with you, the humor between them, the power of friendship all of that I loved that story plot I just think it still needed more work on it to really make it like a home run yeah I would agree I mean I'm yeah

Starting point is 00:16:31 I don't have any ill will towards this movie and there's a lot of stuff that I think is fun and charming about it and I'm glad like honestly I'm glad that there are people out there who love this version too like having a new version should enable that opportunity if there's one good thing

Starting point is 00:16:46 that any reboot or reimagining can bring maybe it's somebody's favorite and that's a cool you know thing to have happen yeah um yeah it's weird this is kind of a wash with ghostbusters too for me because you know ghostbusters i think yeah i would put ghostbusters one at the top because watching it again i i was really and watching it again at a time where i had become very sort of like because of the response to this movie actually in real time and living through that i'd become very sort of like i don't want to think about ghostbusters

Starting point is 00:17:14 anymore this is why we can't have nice things blah blah blah um but But that said, coming back to this now, yeah, the original one, I would say, is at the top just because it has a lovely blend of movie magic in terms of the physical effects that are going on and the innovations and visual, CGI, stuff like that that are happening there. Just more for you if you are into that tradition in the original movie. But, yeah, this kind of washes with Ghostbusters 2 to me, because Ghostbusters 2, it's like you bring everybody back, which is cool. but it's not as magic and dynamic and you know there's sort of like a bummer that they couldn't capture that lightning in the bottle twice and then this version for me I'm like cool

Starting point is 00:17:58 new take a fresh bunch of people sort of a fresh set of comedic voices and I just wish this had a stronger collaboration between the improv and the actual script writing because I don't know where which one begins or ends but it really felt like improv overtook this and kind of created a lot of chaff in between me and the actual characters and the actual story.

Starting point is 00:18:24 And again, not that this has to be super deep. And I do like, yeah, what you're pointing at here. Like, I like that in contrast to the original, you know, you have these four guys together who are just kind of trying to like get by and make a business and like, you know, one of them really believes, but then you've got Bill Murray,

Starting point is 00:18:39 who's just there to make fun of everything, who's the one improvised character, you know, and then everybody else is very sort of task. And so, you know, I thought that having this be more about these characters who are passionate about this and who have been, yeah, cast out in a meaningful way because of their research on it, their belief in it, and centering around this friendship between Kristen Wigg and Elizabeth Carthy. I think it's really fun. I think it's a nice idea. I just wish that if they wanted to bring some heartwarming drama, that they'd gone with a little bit more heart and a little less

Starting point is 00:19:15 banter or something a little less I don't know there's a lot of stuff that I felt like if you had done some precise dialogue you could have made some of the friendship stuff shine more and the formation of the ensemble feel a little bit more rewarding or like it you know gives you this influx of that heart you know so yeah I don't know I guess it's kind of grappling

Starting point is 00:19:39 with Ghostbusters 2 in terms of like you know Ghostbusters 2 yeah loses a bit of the sum of its parts and this, you know, brings a fresh and interesting take together with some new ideas that I like a lot. I just wish that, yeah, the movie had

Starting point is 00:19:54 I don't know. Proceeded with a slightly more unified vision of itself or something. Yeah. But I'm really glad you get something out of it and I really hope that people in the comments of this video are chill about it because I'm done being angry over Ghostbusters.

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Starting point is 00:21:49 that is a really great question um i think it's because people to your second question i would say i think it's because people have grown up and there's a especially like red letter media i know they've talked about this a lot like the original ghostbusters is like an irreverent comedy of sorts uh and like it's an actual movie it's not just like joke a second but like it is yeah uh it's an actual irreverent comedy. And because people love it so much and so many people discovered it as kids, there has grown this reverence for Ghostbusters and this placement of it upon some type of pedestal. And so I think that is why, especially after this, I know they pivoted into the next couple that have like Paul Rudd. And yeah, those are more family friendly. They're more sort of precious

Starting point is 00:22:37 and reverent with the motifs and the lore and they feel more like amblin than I associate with Ghostbusters. So I think that's, yeah, I think it's, yeah, it's people's kind of collective love of the original movie or something that's caused that. But I'm not sure.

Starting point is 00:22:55 I guess we'll have to brainstorm a cast. I know, right? Well, that's why I just went, I don't know. I'm looking up like a good, a good cat. Oh, you know who I would love Francis McDormann, I think she's a brilliant actress. I know that you're like, she's old. Shut up.

Starting point is 00:23:13 She's so good. And, oh, Ryan Gosling, he's cute. Maybe throw him in there. And then who else? I looked up the top 100 actors and actresses right now of like 2025. So I'm just going through the list and I'll give you two more names. I'll take it. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:33 Okay, so we'll put Ryan Gosling as. And Francis McDormand. Bill Murray will put Francis McDormand as Egon, as the Egon character maybe. Yeah. See her as like very intelligent scientists, but who also, yeah, is like very direct and blunt. Yeah. And then I think we got to add in Woody Harrison and Nicole Kidman. Okay, sure.

Starting point is 00:23:56 Hell yeah. You know, that's a good mix there that I gave you. Yeah. You know, too, I forget the name of who asked the question. Keanu. Diana, I got a good, I got a good, good cast there for you. Okay, off the dome, let's see. I'm going to go, I think that Jack Black would get cast as Dan Aykroyd.

Starting point is 00:24:19 Yeah. I think that, I don't know who would get cast as Bill Murray at the moment. I almost feel like you should go with a slightly more dramatic actor and make them do the comedic abandon of that. I don't know. maybe an Oscar Isaac or an Adam driver or something. Yeah. Let's get Shremel Tillman in there as as Winston

Starting point is 00:24:41 as Winston Zedamore and let's see for your Egon Oh yeah I don't know This is so hard I always yeah He's like you I always need a list like this Who's an interesting pick? I need the choices oh you know who else I would have chosen

Starting point is 00:25:00 Carrie Russell because I'm watching the diplomat right now guys If you're not watching that on Netflix, it's so freaking good. Hell, yeah. Okay. So good. Diplomat. All right, I'll add that to my list. Let's go.

Starting point is 00:25:12 Octavia Spencer is on the team. How about it? Hell yeah. She's so good. She can be freaking... Whoever I've been cast yet. Egon. She can be Egon.

Starting point is 00:25:22 Love that. You're not going to get the best casting out of me at the moment. Or no, wait. Let's throw Kate Blanchett in there. Let's do a Kate Blanchett Egon. Cape Blanchet's my Egon. I like that one. that let's do that thing and then uh you know we'll get somebody fun to play the secretary again

Starting point is 00:25:40 love it uh hell yeah pick one of terra's actors her her casting's better yeah sonya arif we went in to watch ghostbusters because the other movie we wanted to see was full last day and was pleasantly surprised and had a great time watching any movies you guys had a similar experience with oh my golly that's a great question what movie would i have seen because something else wasn't available. Yeah. Crap. That's a hard one because I haven't been in the theaters in a long time.

Starting point is 00:26:10 So that's a tough one for me. Yeah. Well, and it's been such a long time, yeah, since we went to something and couldn't buy anything in advance. I mean, I remember, this isn't the exact same thing. I remember there was a day I wanted to go to the movies of my dad and we were just looking at what's playing. And I just saw, as I recall, the School of Rock poster in the paper.

Starting point is 00:26:31 and it was for one of it was like before it was one of those rare times where they're just like we're screening this slightly early and you could just pay as a normal person to go see it I love that okay yeah and so I was just like I don't know what this is but that kid with the drumsticks looks cool I didn't even know who Jack Black was at the time I was just like I like rock I love and yeah we decided to go to that and that's become one of my favorite movies so that's definitely an instance of that I'll try and pick you know I went to the the Grove very recently because my friends got me a ticket i am i like taylor swift i'm not a swifty but it was a ticket to see the album that was released on that like last month they had one weekend where she was like here's behind the scenes of the new album and i really liked it i was like this is fun as hell and love the new album so let's go dude you're a swifty now yeah you're an honorary official swifty yeah man holy crap yeah man well thank you keanu i appreciate that or no sonya thank you sonya appreciate you and if I think of any more I'll let you know we got some fun surface level inquiries here as well Jay Rushden thank you Jay for chiming in one of our most consistent commenters question

Starting point is 00:27:44 was this movie awful also National Cat Day is October 29th here love it that's exciting all my two black kitties oh yeah I was going to say it's black cat season now yeah let's go let's go so yeah what do you think is this a horrible awful I didn't think it was awful but I think you could see that it wasn't my most enjoyable uh of movies that I have watched here on the channel I there are some very fun fun and funny moments but altogether's a film it needed more work I don't think it's awful I just give it like yeah it's a film

Starting point is 00:28:24 yeah I don't think it's awful I get how if it's not working for you it's going to be a long experience yeah uh and yeah i don't think this is awful i think there are some very apparent ways it could be better like i said before i wish there was a better balance between actual scripted stuff and improv i wish that there was a little bit more movie magic to do with the ghosts and uh yeah i i just wish that they had not uh yeah i don't know it all comes back to that i just wish they hadn't rested the entire movie on improv right because yeah the cast is pretty good. I like all the four of the main Ghostbusters. I like a lot of the supporting cast.

Starting point is 00:29:02 A lot of fun comedians show up. A lot of fun actors show up. I thought they nicely worked in each of the original cast members. Totally. I thought that the... Yeah. And I mean, this... Like, I like the array of gadgets and stuff, and I feel like they pulled in some of

Starting point is 00:29:18 that real Ghostbusters cartoon inspiration there. Certainly Kate McKinnon felt like she was ripped out of the cartoon. And... uh i think it's interesting what type of movie they tried to make because it's like they want to have this very again banter driven joke based everyone's a straight man wisecracker kind of comedy but they also want to have like this story about these two friends but we also want to have a story

Starting point is 00:29:47 about four friends coming together but we also want to make this like more of a comedy but then we're also at the end getting to the point where it's like pretty much an action movie finale like an action fantasy where they're like so many things where they all of a sudden are now badass which like it's cool but it's like where did it like I think we're trying to bump it up to make it more fun yeah it doesn't fit in with what we were what we were trying to establish it's weird because the first Ghostbusters does end on again like a big set piece it's a big citywide thing that's happening although in a way it looks a bit more less difficult to orchestrate when you really think about the nuts and bolts of it but yeah it's like once you get to the

Starting point is 00:30:28 the last part. I don't begrudge them having these moments where they look all cool and they're posing and shit, but it just kind of comes out of nowhere narratively speaking. And and so you get to then this point where there's like a sky vortex and they're shooting at this giant ghost which again, appropriate

Starting point is 00:30:44 for a ghostbuster, but then you've got all these army guys and without the dance number it feels kind of random and then there's... It feels like, yeah, you jump for a moment and do a different flavor of a movie. Like this movie feels really stitched together. Yes. And I don't think the editor could save

Starting point is 00:31:00 the movie and I feel bad because again this is cut down at least a half an hour from the other cut and this movie also already feels like it doesn't have much of an editor on hand Yeah, it already feels like I did feel like it was dragging Yeah, it drags in a number

Starting point is 00:31:18 of places, it just bogs itself down and it's fun in the moment but yeah, there were a lot of times where half the time I would feel like you said like I'm watching a TV show and then other moments and shots and character yeah cut to cut to a close up on kate mckenon and i feel like i'm in a movie all of a sudden and then cut back to like some of these more flat like i i don't know it's not like there's no visual style but it would have been nice too in some of the especially the banter base scenes have a little bit more visual something or other to like help that but i just wanted it to have more heart be more grounded and and um write more about the relationships and less about the PKE and we have this and this moves here and this is a nuclear thing and I'm like I get it but I want to care about the characters yeah and the whole like you know this guy's an

Starting point is 00:32:11 in-cell you know outcast of society like it's fine like it's a fair piece of commentary for the moment that this exists in certainly that kind of guy really crawled out of the woodworks to you know make the release of this movie an ugly ugly experience but in isolation. Like, I like the idea, fine. And, you know, I think you could have done a little bit more with that. I don't know. This is a movie where I feel like they had so many of the right ideas and ingredients.

Starting point is 00:32:41 Yeah, it just wasn't all mixed together the best. Yeah, yeah. And for a large budget movie, I argue that it probably should be. Yeah, totally. Jackson, Ryan. If you both could pitch a new Ghostbusters idea to Sony, where would you take it where would it take place in the world and what combination of actors would you use well you already know my combo of actors as I said it earlier when I looked it up um so I'm still going to stick

Starting point is 00:33:11 to them I think I said nope yes Ryan Gosling Nicole Kinman Woody Harrelson and there was one other one that I can't remember anyway uh where would it take place in the world I don't know maybe name your world place let me think on that where would it take place in the world it would be a good place for a ghostbusters to take place right I almost wish that someone would do like on an island that would be funny that'd be fun I'll pick an island how about this we go to like New Zealand right oh yeah do the what we do in the shadows version of a ghostbuster that's what no do the exit like where we do yeah we're busting ghosts yeah we're out here we got our proton

Starting point is 00:33:56 picks it's so good don't cross the streams which i guess wasn't very much a rule in this movie actually honestly that would be great john if you do do ghostbusters but but yeah take that template of like they're documenting their own journey yes and you get a few yeah offbeat comedic personalities oh my god and you make some kind of yeah found footagey ghostbuster thing maybe you don't have to do the whole thing like that make a docu style ghostbusters where yeah you got a crew in here they're documenting the Ghostbusters we get a lot of their funny in between moments

Starting point is 00:34:32 but then we also get the more credible like these things have been happening for such a long time and now finally a documentary crew because so much of what they do is like people forget about the ghosts or they want to cover it up yeah so yeah this is the documentary

Starting point is 00:34:45 that's going to bring it to the world or whatever that's fun that's what I would do I'm not great at casting these things just off the dome I'm like I guess in this context Matt Barry has to be involved Maybe Jemaine Clement has to be involved

Starting point is 00:34:59 Frigin, the gal who plays Naja should be involved just because, like, you know, I love that. We can get your cast and my concept, and then there you go, green light, that shit. Love it. Let's freaking go. See, these questions burn my brain because part of me now is like the clock is ticking and in my head.

Starting point is 00:35:18 I'm like, I need to sit down and do this homework. And do it. Come up with a list of actors I can put my name on and feel good about Versus not because I think the key to casso got Ghostbusters now is you don't just cast comedians or you don't have to. I feel like you should cast people who will take it seriously enough to bring that a little extra drama, but who have the comedy. But who have it because the funniest people are actually the ones that are like the most grounded and honestly say a thing and you're like, oh, God. John Hamm is in my Ghostbusters. He's somewhere in my Ghostbusters.

Starting point is 00:35:51 All right. Next one up. Alan Smithy. Hi, Tara and John. Hi, yourself. Who was your favorite Ghostbuster from the new movie? Mine is Holtzman. She's hilarious.

Starting point is 00:36:03 Thanks. Yeah, I mean, pound for pound, she's easily the most sort of, I think, properly pitched to the rest of the movie for her specific character. I don't think everyone should be on her level or be her. No. But I thought, like, the team needs one of these guys who's having a lot of fun and who is, you know, kooky and inventing stuff and I do think that in terms of the potential versus execution

Starting point is 00:36:30 I think she is my favorite followed kind of by Leslie Jones in a way they could have done a better job of finessing the idea that oh she knows the city and she knows the history and stuff like that like that is a really cool detail for her

Starting point is 00:36:48 I like them all in general but I feel like yeah Holtzman easily pops off the screen the most Yeah, I mean, he wasn't really, I'm just going to go with Hemsworth because I thought he did a great job. And he is a ghostbuster. He's a ghostbuster now. I would want to pick one of the females, but to be honest with you, I do think Hemsworth role to me stood out and it felt good. It didn't feel like it was inserted in points where it felt like it dragged.

Starting point is 00:37:19 So I think that's why I'm drawn to it. Because to me, it was like, this is nice, feels good. Great. Yeah. Versus like, you know, with the other ladies, even though they're very funny, I don't think that production, direction, editing help them out a lot or really at all in regards to the character and the script and what was delivered to us. Yeah, I would agree with that. It's like the script and execution of the movie flatters Chris Hemsworth the most. For sure.

Starting point is 00:37:51 And his inclusion feels more dynamic and perfect. proportional and yeah it's never really bogged down it's like it's always appropriate and it's not bogged down by additional banter or you know beats that go on too long or whatever else yeah so i mean pound for bound i probably would have to agree with you and then you know in terms of the main four i think the same kind of applies to kate mckinnan because yeah it's like there's maybe a bit more stretching of the limit when it comes to her because she's one of the main ensemble but yeah i think she's the best pitched of them Yeah. And a couple of trivia questions to close us out. Do you, Keanu, Chanel, do you believe in ghosts and have you ever had a spooky experience where you wanted to call the Ghostbusters? And would you ever go ghost hunting and actually, you know, they're separated up. But yeah, that's good.

Starting point is 00:38:44 Okay. Those are all the questions. Those are all of them. Okay. You know what, Keanna, I would say, I'm going to find it for you a ghost video that I made with my friend Erica like three years ago and it went kind of viral and we loved it. People thought it was like real

Starting point is 00:39:02 and they were like, dude, I see the ghost in this like corner and this is why they're so scared. So I would definitely go ghost hunting but we made a movie because we thought not a movie, a little like sketch because we thought that ghost hunting was just, it just freaking, it was so fun

Starting point is 00:39:20 and I would definitely go ghost hunting. And people believed it. so we were very proud i would be i would be you know like a little superstitious but i would you know accept that opportunity if there was a good opportunity right i used to love a good ghost hunting show and uh you know oftentimes just being in a place like that alone some spooky old place yeah creepy as hell like the queen mary i've never been but i know that they do the haunted tours and stuff that i'm like that's probably spooky even just being inside like the halloween mazes that are on the ship like you know they're set dressing and whatever but you see the bones and you're like

Starting point is 00:39:58 this place has history yeah no thank you and there are certain rooms where they don't even have to do much you know you walk through the hall and you're just like oh my god this place is huge oh i don't like it i would go ghost hunting um do i believe in ghosts i feel like you know the possibility i think it's more fun if you admit the possibility life is more fun i think so too yeah i don't know if we're all enchanted by 21 grams of some weird and inexplicable, you know, spiritual juju. I got to imagine that that, you know, floats around the ether somehow. So even if it's not exactly like, oh, there's a spooky Victorian lady in my kitchen, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's got to be some kind of spiritual energy out there.

Starting point is 00:40:40 There's got to be. And a spooky experience. I don't know if I've ever, like, seen a ghost bad enough to want to call it ghost busters, but I did have a sleep paralysis once. Oh, scary. I woke up in the middle of the night. I was visiting my grandparents across the country

Starting point is 00:40:55 and I was yeah I woke up in the middle of the night and I remember I had gone to bed with the door closed and I think I had even locked it and so I opened my eyes I couldn't move my body and I couldn't hardly breathe

Starting point is 00:41:10 and I was like looking around in the dark and all of a sudden I caught the doorway and the door was open and there was like a little girl in like an old timey dress just like standing there in the doorway and you know you're laying there and you're like i can't move i can't breathe so then you're sort of like trying to do anything

Starting point is 00:41:26 to kind of like flip your body over to a get your lungs to expand and be like you know be able to grab the the lamp and uh you know a few moments later my lungs reinflated and then i was back in the room and the door was closed oh my god that's so scary it was it was like i think i knew about sleep paralysis experiences at the time enough to be like okay that's probably what happened but uh but it It was pretty freaking spooky. Oh, God. Thank God I've never had that. You all know I would like die.

Starting point is 00:41:55 You would die, miss Tara. I would die immediately. You would be deceased. Just no, thank you. Just absolutely not. Gang, leave us your thoughts. Would you go ghost hunting? Have you had a supernatural ghost experience in your life?

Starting point is 00:42:12 Golly. We did it, Tara. We did it. Do you have any other thoughts on the film before we, uh, get out onto the open road hunt ghosts i don't it still is a fun one even though i wasn't like loving it all the way through um you know it's still still still a good time still funny parts happy to laugh absolutely that's what i got to say i do uh you know appreciate a good laugh and uh we had some laughs today this was a this is a fun movie experiment to behold in the moment

Starting point is 00:42:47 and I'm glad we did it and I hope people are chill about it because there's no reason to get to lose your mind over Ghostbusters 3 I know it had been a long time and I know everybody wanted a Ghostbster 3 for so long and they tried to do it and all that stuff

Starting point is 00:43:01 victims of circumstance but yeah this is a fun time I'm glad we checked it out and if you love it out there I'm glad for you too because you should be totally allowed to do so because there is fun to be had here and there is some imagination on display RIP, Zach Woods's pants and yeah we'll catch you on the next one be well out there much love and uh yeah till uh till the

Starting point is 00:43:23 afterlife for the frozen empire or whatever we'll see you then we'll next time

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