Steve Justice Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 This year sucks for deaths. Â Story here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 24, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Quick, someone copy and paste his Wikipedia biography and slightly reword it before pat does. Â Rubbish news, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted February 24, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Fucking shit news, Groundhog Day is my favorite of his work. Â ...also fuck off anyone who makes the obvious Bill Murray/Ghostbusters III reference/shit joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted February 24, 2014 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 24, 2014 Oh no! This is really sad news. Ghostbusters is one of my favourite films and the Egon character was such a major part of that. And when you've written Animal House AND Caddyshack AND Groundhog Day in addition to being a Ghostbuster, you really have a major comedic legacy. Â I even quite liked Year One... Â RIP Harold Ramis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted February 24, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Oh my God, fuck no! Honestly, this is horrendous news. Absolutely love him and his froggy voice. Even to this day I say "I'm not gay, but I am willing to learn" when the opportunity to crowbar that gag into everyday conversation arises. What a shame. As far as Ghostbusters III goes, if it was ever going to happen it would have been really shit and involved putting people over in some way. Russell Brand as Peter or some shite, so his death isn't going to affect that. I'm just sad he's died. Â Thanks for Ghostbusters, Stripes, Groundhog Day and Multiplicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Well, that's pants! Â Always liked Caddyshack Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters and Stripes. He has a neat cameo in Airheads too, as a smarmy record exec. Â Looking through some of the tributes, I never realised he'd been so ill recent nor had upped sticks in the mid 1990's away from LA to go to Chicago to get away from 'The Rat Race' Â Fascinating man. Sad times RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Justice Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 Woy just shared this image on Twitter. I think it's amazing and very touching. Â https://twitter.com/paodlcastillo/status/43...8/photo/1/large Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIDDUM_N_STYLE Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Damn it, this year is really sucking for deaths and we aren't even 3 months into the year yet. Loved Ghostbusters 1 & 2 when I was younger and still do, guess the third film rumor will finally be put to bed now which is a shame. R.I.P Egon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted February 24, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted February 24, 2014 Nah, it'll probably make it easier for them to do a third one now Egon's dead. All they want is to reboot the franchise and make some money at the box office. Its why Bill Murray hates the second one. He feels there was nothing funny about it and it was made solely to get on board the popular cartoons success. Now they dont need to pester Bill Murray. Dan Akyroid did a Blues Brothers sequel, so he's bound to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarTheSlouch Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Didnt realise until a minute ago hed directed this classic: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 25, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted February 25, 2014 Very sad. Caddyshack and Vacation are two of my all time favourite movies and I frequently listen to the Audio Commentary for Vacation when in bed as it helps me nod off due to his jolly fatherlike approach to everything. Even in the Rodney Dangerfield documentary, he just comes off as the nicest man. Shit shit news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted February 25, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted February 25, 2014 That's shit news, like so many people Ghostbusters and National Lampoon's vacation were staples of my childhood and caddyshack and Groundhog day were great too. He seemed like a content jolly guy so I trust he had a great life with few regrets RIP. Â ...also fuck off anyone who makes the obvious Bill Murray/Ghostbusters III reference/shit joke. Â Sorry for bringing negativity to this thread but I hate it in a case like this when someone rushes to say "I hope no one says this" it's really not that different to actually saying it yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spotlightmagnet1 Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Got to be honest, my favourite thought of him is when they did one of those 'Top 50 Comedy Films' things and they brought up Ghostbusters and he said one of the best things was when his friends ring him up with there kids scared of ghosts, and he puts on the Egon voice and tells them he scanned there area and it's clear of ecoplasmic activity. Â Awesome man, RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted February 27, 2014 Awards Moderator Share Posted February 27, 2014 Ghostbusters III still going ahead, apparently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted February 27, 2014 Paid Members Share Posted February 27, 2014 Of course it is. Perfect excuse to cash in now two of the originals aren't in it. I imagine it'll be like Extreme Ghostbusters where one of the originals is in it, and a bunch of blokes pissing around trying zap CGI ghosts. I dont know how anyone could possibly care about Ghostbusters III. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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