Checked out the GB1 Dailies out of curiosity and was happy to see those 2 mystery deleted scenes. So Egon was falling asleep working on the equipment and Janine brought coffee. The end bit with him sleeping against the microscope was cute. Makes sense the other half of the scene was the one they showed at Fan Fest with Ray pressing those buttons on the console. It was a hilarious surprise there was more to the end of the Sedgewick bust with Mrs. Van Hoffman and her party going to the ballroom and screaming over the state of the ballroom.
Did I miss this? Where is this particular scene located?
GB2 Deleted Scenes. I’m not going to tell you which one so you have to watch them all! :angryvigo: I agree with the Clucking Chicken on this one. :love:
I loved the firehouse material! Hopefully Sony mines that raw footage well for all it’s worth (looking at you GB2).
I’ve only glimpsed the alternate cut…and man is it something else. I am floored by all the little moments we’ve never seen before. Can’t wait to watch it all.
To anyone who has emailed sony about receiving the wrong disks. How long did it take to get a response?
Has anyone worked out how to remove the light up section from the box? If it can be done at all? Or are the batteries destined to die one day.
They’ve just emailed. I had reported a tear in the box (quite a nasty one, half of its length) and they’ve replied asking to see a photo of the discs…
Agreed. I haven’t gotten to the workprint yet so I don’t know if it’s in it but it was a minor bummer they didn’t have the Detmerring scene where Ray and Winston talk to the park ranger. Still cool to see the ones from the previous release that I missed out on.
EDIT: Ah ok, so they were at 2 different points of the 1st montage. Floored there were brief bits of Egon fixing the roof rack or them checking under hood while they were out on a call. Or after the Tai Hong bust, Egon was right there on the right side of the screen eating Chinese food the whole time! Or one of the times they run out of their sleeping quarters, there’s the blonde chick standing inside. Amazing what a difference an extra 9 minutes, alternate takes, and no score does to the movie! (I’m about 1 hr in)
So today’s the day I got my Ultimate Edition from amazon Germany-delivered on official release, right on. I have no idea why this was the cheapest edition compared to US and UK, as the content and the packaging is the same as the UK. All my discs were correct, no duplicates. Sure we got German editions of the three main movies but the Special Features are all the same, no differences. “Making Ghostbusters” is the English print-I had expected it to be, but you never know. It’s neat the trap doors are magnetic. To summarise: no green lights, no slip covers, no digital codes but all the discs and features of the UK edition. And it cost me 85€.
First thing I watched were the GB2 deleted scenes. The alternate WotP is really something-wow! I can’t believe we still didn’t get the full slime shell footage. The Parkview scene was great, I wish they had kept that in. Even with all those new additions it’s incredible how much GB2 footage is still out there that’s not been released. Next up: GB1 dailies and the preview cut-that’ll be my weekend entertainment.
I audibly yelped several times during the montage!
It sounds to me like there was definitely a song present. I’m dying to know what it was.
The montage was the bit that blew my mind the most - I’ve been looking forward to hearing everyone’s reaction to it!
It was funny to see how scenes transitioned into the deleted scenes. Like the light bulb above my head goes off. The what an ■■■■■■■ transitions right into Louis and the prostitute. Getting to see the full extent of the Zombie Taxi Driver scene, we saw that brief motorcycle stunt driver snippet on Twitter years ago and now the full context of it. Ecto-1 driving by a bicyclist. The solo bit of when Ray comes out an apartment with the Trap and there’s Peter and Egon waiting up on the sidewalk for him.
Peter telling the hotel manager they’re only charging because Slimer was nasty. lol. Or they’re accused of doing drugs then Egon yells Your Mother! Or Mike reacting “Biblical?”
Or I second guess myself and go watch the ending to see if Winston has Peter’s pack the whole time and I never put 2 and 2 together.
Oh, just beautiful stuff. Bring on the work prints for the other movies! 
I had gotten mine the Saturday before it was supposed to release. But I can’t do anything with it until my Birthday late March The only exception I made was to check it to see if it contained the correct discs & not a double of a films 4K. Or a missing slip or digital copies I heard happen.
On another site forum I go to apparently the TV cuts are not original 80’s cuts. I think they said something from the theatrical release instead of the tv replacements is still in the supposed to be all tv cut. Not sure if that is true and someone just not remembering the TV cut scenes right.
They wouldn’t have to pay GM to show the Ecto 1 or 1A in deleted scenes. That is only for new stuff like toys replica diecast cars & such. Not only that I doubt they would have had the cop giving Ecto a ticket showing parts of the car if that had to do with it. Because there is enough recognizable GM design in the scene to have to pay for it. Also, the Fort scene from the steelbook had the Ecto 1 in it. So probably not a reason they didn’t have Ray possessed driving Ecto 1A scene.
The montage is amazing. So many wonderful little moments we’ve never seen. Something about new shots of the three of them in full uniform, the Ecto 1 in its prime running around NYC…it’s amazing and I am so glad this stuff is seeing the light of day.
Can we talk about the impromptu press conference? To me, maybe the best bit of uncovered footage. Aykroyd’s performance is impossible not to smile at, and I love Murray’s energy in the scene as well.
The GB1 preview cut. Oh my Gozer. I cannot comprehend it. Like watching GB1 for the first time again. It’s so similar and different-all at the same time! Mind-blown.
[spoiler]Holy heck, that montage is awesome!!! I never thought I’d see the Sedgewick aftermath as a scene, then it’s there all of a sudden. The build-up of the guys getting called out of their beds was hilarious. And Peter had some sexy-time company from the female student he didn’t shock!! Egon falling asleep on the microscope! Chinese food snacking Egon! Ecto-1 all over the place! I can’t believe what we got. I gasped so many times.
Then so many alternate takes and lines, and bits and pieces here and there that got cut-the aftermath of the ECU explosion for example. Wow. Just wow. I need to see this at least 10 times more to fully take it all in. [/spoiler]
Watch the preview cut guys. Pray we get one for GB2 in the future. This was beyond awesome!
The Sedgewick aftermath press conference was amazing too see didnt expect that straight away. As other have said the original montage is incredible and i really liked seeing the full scenes from so many parts during film which were cut down in the final edit. It gives a whole new perspective on the movie and its worth paying the price just for the preview cut and the dallies etc The original World Of The Psychic imo is better then the one in the final edit of GB2.
What i didnt like about some of the GB2 deleted “new scenes” were they were just alternate takes and not that interesting Janosz making the noise a good example, while the other takes from outside the museum and the Parkview scenes were good new additions. So much potential awesome footage we have not yet seen from GB2 and not just generic short alt takes which were cobbled together for this release
Yeah, I’m curious if there’s more of the conference. Like did they film the bit where the 3 of them sing an ad hoc jingle or Egon answering the Superman question.
The WoTP was a interesting one. Definitely resembles the older drafts when Lane Walker goes to Peter for help. Speaking of, wonder where the audition tapes for Lane Walker are or who the frontrunner was before Sigourney Weaver signed on to reprise Dana.
Yeah, I was hoping there’d be both Sherman Tully scenes but we got one that’s enough for now. What else is there like Loui’s Chicken trap, possessed Ray driving, more of the montage (i.e. sign coming down, running around NYC etc), Egon and Ray in the skull caps testing slime, more of the Vigo 101 (them talking to Rudy, more in Restorations room), Subway frog, 2nd Sherman scene, and the Liberty Island ceremony? Or if they filmed anything else from the old drafts like them checking out the basement in ruins then Slimer shows up.
Louis’s chicken trap is available online on YouTube. It’s weird they didn’t include it in the actual release.
Also: This set is selling like hotcakes.
Ghostbusters owned the # 1 AND 2 top blu ray sales of the week. Ghostbusters Afterlife was number 1 and the Ultimate Set was number 2. Which is crazy considering A) the price and B) how many times the first two movies have been released already. That’s pretty amazing.
I think someone was asking about the TV versions. Definitely not the originals. Paul Rudoff figured it out.
For the GB1 TV version, that is not the September 1987 one but a late 90s TV edit. He says you can tell by
-First, the word “ass” is left in two times, instead of being cut out (“you guys have been running your ass off meeting and greeting”) or replaced (with “knockabout of pure fun”). “Ass” was fine to use in the late 1990s, but definitely not in 1987. -The artificial camera pans are done digitally. They are unnaturally smooth compared to the way they would have been done in 1987.
-The mid-to-late 1990s Columbia TriStar Television Distribution logo appears at the end. That didn’t exist in 1987.
-The end credits are in letterbox. In 1987, they would have been squeezed into 4:3 fullscreen. By the late 1990s, they didn’t bother doing that and just cut from the 4:3 pan-and-scan version of the movie to 4:3 letterboxed end credits
Then for the GB2 TV version, he says that’s the TV syndicated version and not the 1992 ABC broadcast version.
-If it were from 1992, the runtime should be a lot closer to 1 hour and 48 minutes (theatrical cut).
The lack of special features on Afterlife came as a disappointment. Mostly fluff. My guess is they’re holding back for the 2024 inevitable release of the 40th anniversary.