The streetwise one is often the difference between the mission success and the mission failure.
So I don’t see where’s the problem.
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You know, it said in the trailers “4 scientists”, but Winston was presented as an everyman in the films.
I guess originally he was supposed to be the most qualified, and even makes reference to getting a doctorate in one of the other projects. But that sort of goes completely against how he was shown in the film, where he came across some guy just looking for a job. I can’t imagine it paid well, so if you had all these degrees you would only take this low paying job because you had genuine interest in the paranormal. But he didn’t.
Janine Melnitz:
Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP,
clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance
mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddemore:
Ah, if there’s a steady paycheck in it, I’ll believe anything you say.
He did utter my favorite line in the film, though.
Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say “YES”!
And I love Ernie Hudson as an actor. I hope he gets at least a cameo. Loved him in the Crow and Oz, though he is one of those guys who has done a ton of work through the years. That No Small Parts guy on youtube should do a show on him.
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Current Head canon is the original team is why the mayan apocolypse didn’t happen… at the cost of Egon’s life and Ray’s sanity.
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Spot on - I mean this is just taking the same premise, plot, and characters right down to the blue-collar black character. (What, can’t have more than one minority character in the lineup, who’s also a scientist?)
It’s just a shameless reboot that has no reason to exist other than hoovering up money from people too young to have seen the original.
Like almost all reboot/prequel movies that exist on such a thin premise, it’ll be better VFX, and higher budgets, but lifeless and fetid…
So at least it’ll have something in common with the subject matter.
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My other favorite line from him is the last line… “I LOVE NEW YORK CITY!!”
That’s always cracked me up. It’s as if he’s exulting about having just blown up an inter dimensional diety shaped like a big marshmallow man after confronting the hounds of Satan, and thinking “Woohoo! That kinda thing NEVER happens in Chicago!!”
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Yea according to Shadowrun Chicago had like… the worst bug infestation ever, as in interdimentional posessing people turning them into meat puppet husks bug infestation.
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OMG! Quick Change is one of the funniest films virtually nobody has seen.
There are just so many good bits in it. Plus you can’t go wrong with a cast which includes not only Bill Murray, but Jason Robards, and Kurtwood Smith.
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When the plan is to cross the streams he also says “This job is definitely not worth eleven-five a year!” That cracks me up because I assume even in 1984 that was a pitifully small paycheck, especially in New York.
You and @nungesser have made me realize that the best lines in the finale are all his.
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I love the heist scene. The rest of the film…not so much. Although it’s still good.
OMG Shadowrun. I only played one major campaign, but it was the most fun I ever had gaming.
I accidentally blew up one of the large hotels in Seattle and it became canon in several gaming groups in the area.
Chicago was a good time in Vampire, the Masquerade, though.
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Did you see the link posted by @Missy_Pants about how they changed his character from a scientist to an every man?
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Missed it. Marked for reading.
it sounds like he’s still proud to have been a part of it, but was deeply disappointed in the changes they made to the script which made him a much less central character in the overall plot.
I kind of understand the rationale for making one of the characters an everyman so there would be a reason for Dan Akroyd’s character to explain the basic processes of ghost trapping and all that stuff. But it’s a shame that said character “just happened” to be the one minority figure.
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A fan-made re-cut of the trailer, via Reddit:
A bazillion-times better.
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The bicycle jousting scene was one of those background silly “WTF did I just see” moments.
Actually my concern is exactly that they won’t hold anything back. Melissa McCarthy’s whole sthick is to grunt, grimace, and stick her butt in your face. She’s got zero nuance whatsoever. The whole point of having a character like Egon is that he’s the calmer force that contrasts with the zanier guys (Will Farrell on Celebrity Jeopardy). If everyone’s a loon, they’re all just out-sillying each other and then you get Bridesmaids.
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Someone didn’t see Spy.
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I haven’t - I’ve heard it’s good. I also don’t get the impression that she’s drawing from it for this.
No, but it certainly showed she has a much deeper range than Bridesmaids. I wasn’t a fan of her work in Bridesmaids but Spy I thought she was great in.
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