"Playing pianos filled with flames."

[greygirlbeast]

Here on March 25th, it's a freakishly beautiful late January day, 58˚F and rainy. Buy it's a sorry excuse for spring. I made it through this winter with far less trouble than I've had with the last few, but spring is so much harder. Because spring is the cure for winter. Spring is the warm, green reward for having survived winter. Here, spring is

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[setsuled]

Then, two days ago, I saw the first trailer.

Well, if it's any consolation, even people still excited for the film hate the trailer. Kevin Smith even suggested the person who cut it maybe oughtn't be fired but should be sat down and talked to. There've been several fan cuts of the trailer, this one seems to be the best:

Never mind that the whole film projects a weird squeaky cleanness that is entirely at odds with the grime and grit of the original, there seems not to be one iota of wit to the film's comedy. Yes, Ramis and Aykroyd's film was lowbrow, but it was very, very smart. I know that's a fine line, but it's a crucial oneThat "grit and grime" was so much a part of the original film's comedy, the feeling that these were three eccentric guys from the university doing something very strange and foolhardy with the money from a third mortgage on Ray's house. All the comedy was derived from how these guys are nervously reacting to their own risk and then nervously reacting to real supernatural fear. Bill Murray's sense of peculiar

[greygirlbeast]

Well, it's certainly a better edited trailer, and it leaves out most of the humorless humor. But it gives me no more hope for the film.

The comedy in the new trailer is much more ironic.

And therein lies the problem.

[davesmusictank]

That is a great piece of art. Ghostbusters remake sounds pants.

[sovay]

Last night I dreamt of a sort of underwater museum, where statues of Cretaceous marine reptiles and fishes were mounted at the bottom of a shallow sea. I saw mosasaurs and enormous hybodont sharks.

That sounds lovely. I dreamed of watching movies that don't exist.

[everville340]

Because spring is the cure for winter. Spring is the warm, green reward for having survived winter.

I like to believe "Wrong Number" is The Cure for winter.