Please be gentle – we barely survived the Great Ron Jeremy Digg of 2005.
Please have a look around – there’s lots of good stuff in the archives, but if I had to pick the key pieces of Ghostbusters information right now, they would be the following;
1 – Ghostbusters: The Video Game is set to be released by Atari on June 16th in North America (possibly a couple of days later in Europe) on every system but the PSP… and they’ve never ruled it out entirely. Which is great news all round, as it’s been a long time coming. Watch the trailer.
2 – At the exact same time, Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 will be released on Blu-Ray. No question, this will be the highest level of detail for the film, short of watching it in a theater. There will be a kick-ass collector’s set.
3 – Time-Life put every episode of The Real Ghostbusters out on DVD. All of them. And extras. And it’s inexpensive, all things considered.
4 – They’re not, currently, making Ghostbusters 3 (though two of Harold “Egon” Ramis’ favorite scriptwriters are apparently working on a script – no word if it retains anything of Ramis and Dan Aykroyd’s original GB3 script.) Nobody gets excited about a third movie until someone yells, “roll film!” It protects us from broken hearts.
[update] Oh, and if you dig Saturday morning cartoons, you should check out Cereal Geek. Their RGB love aside, it’s a great magazine. Oh, and props to Geek Monthly for recognizing me as one of them. Now, if I can only get them to make me their god.
Thanks for accommodating us! (I was the one that posted the link!) My previous roommate was a big fan of GB and introduced me to the site. Keep up the good work!
Anybody know if the regular DVDs will be re-released like they were going to this past October? I don’t think I’m ever going to get a Blu-Ray player unless they actually replace DVD players. I would throw out my computer except there’s no other way to do a lot of the stuff I do with my computer…and a Blu-Ray player may be better at providing a more detailed picture, but, at least according to this one person on Amazon, a Blu-Ray player is basically a small-scale computer, which means along with better picture quality, you get all the aches and paisn that go with using a computer! The tradeoff ain’t worth it to me, especially for well over $150…
They are a RIP-OFF!
There. I hope my “all caps” thing got my point across.
Listen. Talking about broken hearts, mine was just broken a little (fractured, maybe?) when you said there is no Ghostbusters 3. Seems like the script is taking a while. This is the Internet Age, where you know what color of phlegm Russell Crowe makes when he sneezes, so why is there virtually no word on how this script is coming along?
Oh, and the Blu-Ray thing. If you have nothing better to spend your money on than this, I’m not saying you are one, but there’s a lot higher percentage chance that you’re a blow hole.
i love my ps3/blu ray player. its not a waste of money if you have an accomidating 1080p lcd. if you do not have a 1080p tv then yes it is a waste of money. best picture ever and it is a drastic change from dvd. all you people saying its a waste or what not…jus have not gotten a chance to experiance it or something
No, I’m just saying, albeit on the wrong platform, that there are people who can’t eat while we buy the same movies over and over again because you can see things a little better.
I don’t think you’re necessarily a blow hole. It’s just that these are scary economic times, and I think more of us should be turning our noses up at these new contraptions that are created to keep us not paying any attention to what’s really going on.
Because I’m too busy right now saving the world on a Ghostbusters site. I can’t do it all, people.
Ok venkmaster, you’re saying that because there are some people who can’t eat, and are poor, that the people who have worked hard and earned enough expendable income that they can treat themselves to toys, that those people are blow holes?
Grow up.
Yes. These economic times suck, and its very hard on people with low incomes. But that doesn’t mean that someone who earns enough money to treat themselves to something nice shouldn’t do so. Its not as if they don’t spend the money on the Blu-Ray that it will be donated to those less fortunate, so get off your high horse and stop trying to put people down for buying something that they’re entitled to.
I just thought it would be nicer than calling them stupid for being duped.
My argument was kind of stupid, too, for that matter, but it was written with the sincerest of hearts on the shitter at work.
I distrust new things, you see, and I’m sorry anyone was offended by the fact that it’s inconvenient to have it pointed out after you’ve spent a lot of money that you could have spend it a lot less stu-….um…pendously.
It’s been demonstrated over and over that just because there’s a new edition, not everyone gets it. There are some who will, and that’s their call. Personally, I’m down for the Blu Ray, but then, my interest in the film is biased. I’m not in a rush to get all my movies in Blu Ray.
I suspect only a fraction of Ghostbuster fans will upgrade from DVD to Blu Ray discs, the minute they come out. I think a lot of the first year purchases will be be the public, who don’t have it on DVD, but have Blu Ray… so why not get it.
I made the comment about clarity not because it matters to all fans, but because it matters to certain fans, myself included. I saw a 25 year old print of the film, in a cinema, just last weekend, and even with all it’s scratches and dust marks, it’s still higher fidelity than the DVDs. And as I’m the kind of guy that likes to tear the movie apart inch by inch to see everything, the move to Blu Ray is important to me.
I’m still not convinced that Blu Ray won’t be the new Laserdisc – the AV fans of the world will adopt it, and it will live hand in hand with DVD, and then something else will trump it, right about the time people are ready to phase out their DVDs, and Blu Ray will fade out. Nobody knows.
But, in the meantime, it’s not a stupid purchase if people aren’t knee-jerk about it.
I’d kind of like to put this aside now, as I can understand Venkmaster’s point, but as everyone else has pointed out, it presumes everyone that buys it is doing it just-because, and I don’t think that’s the case, generally.
The big point is that Sony is looking to make some big noise for June’s 25th anniversary date, and that’s what we should all be excited about.
Cheers to that.
i love my 1080p hd. it makes me happy. end of story lol. the dark knight lookz amazing…cant wait for gb/gb2 bluray and the game in 1080p …droolz….
I cant wait to see what else Sony has coming out for us.. Next month does mark the NY International Toy Fair