I was thinking about this last week. Went to see Spy, which was very, very good. Said before I enjoyed The Heat, so it's looking good for Ghostbusters. Feig, in a lot of ways, reminds me of Ivan Reitman - both did genre movies as comedies, and Feig's films so far come across as modern equivalents of the likes of Stripes and Meatballs. Just as long as he stops before he he gets to Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot he'll be fine...
Here's set pics of 3 of the new female Ghostbusters. Heh, Kate McKinnon looks like she stepped out of "Extreme Ghostbusters". http://www.superherohype.com/news/344075-set-photos-reveal-the-new-ghostbusters
Jesus, everything is a cheap knock off of the original. This really is a case of of a gimmick movie rather than a a creatively inspired reboot.
It takes place in New York, but they are actually doing all the location shots in Boston, which looks just enough like Paris London New York to stand in. Anyway, one of the locations is a block from my office. It's a scene taking place in Chinatown, and that is indeed the location for the shoot. But the building they selected actually houses a Japanese restaurant. So they took it over, tore everything down, and turned it in to a Chinese restaurant. Why bother to even be in Chinatown if you are just going to window dress the shit out of it?
Just stepped out for a coffee, and overheard some detail cops saying today was the shooting day. I may try to get some pictures later on, hopefully with some activity rather than just equipment sitting in place.
Doesn't it just need turn signals (or your arm) and mirrors to be street legal? I think that's the way it was in VT.
They are street legal in Massachusetts, and are actually legally in the same category as a pedaled bicycle. So they can go in bike lanes, sidewalks in non business districts, but can also go right in the middle of the lane like a real motorcycle. Anyway, tried to get those pictures yesterday, but it was a complete madhouse. I've seen a lot of movie crews around Boston, and nothing ever quite like this. There were hundreds of people working the scene, including a lot of assholes charged with crowd control. I was told (not asked) to move along by some intern while I was standing at a crosswalk across the street from the activity. Yeah, fuck you, so I moved along, right to where they were trying to keep the street closed. Five more dipshits converged on me to say that the street was closed and I wasn't allowed to be there. I responded that it is a public street, one that I walk down everyday, and who the hell were they to tell me that I couldn't be there. They then changed lines to some bullshit about public safety. So I decided to start taking pictures, which brought some more NAZIs along, all telling me that it was illegal to take pictures. Response: "you have no expectation of privacy in a public location." Unfortunately, the pictures were mostly shit, nothing interesting to see at all.
Did a bit better today, as they were actively shooting when I walked through the harass the public zone. Actual ghost busting!
This looks like from the same day you snapped your pics. So, now we know gul was way off to the left in this pic. WF's brush with cinema history!
No, I'm standing to the right. The ghostbusters are standing right behind the spot where the car is parked in my picture (check the transition between the brick and concrete buildings). The picture from Thursday, with them standing in about the same pose was taken from the right hand corner of the Chinese restaurant, right before being chased off.
We've seen the gals, the guns, the suits, the car, now for the last little detail....who's gonna do the soundtrack?
