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Ghostbusters

  • 24-10-2006 11:49am
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    saw Ghostbusters II on tv last night. man, what a great movie.

    i honestly think these movies (I & II) are some of the best pieces of family entertainment that hollywood has produced. the cast were brilliant and they are really nicely shot and i just love 'em!
    excellent feel good movies....and what a theme tune!

    "Sometimes **** happens, someone has to deal with it, and Who You Gonna Call?"

    also, anyone remeber this cartoon?:
    RealGhostbusters_promotionalimage.jpg

    ran from 1986 - 1991 (according to wiki )


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 petes
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    Ghostbuters are excellent films. Haven't remembered the cartoon in ages. Cheers. Loved that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 whiskeyman
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    Loved the film, loved the cartoon and loved the toys that ran alongside the original cartoon.
    Then it went to 'Extreme Ghostbusters' and got crap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 monkeyfudge
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    The receptionist was hot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 petes
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    The receptionist was hot.


    Real one or cartoon one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 monkeyfudge
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    petes wrote:
    Real one or cartoon one?
    Either one would suit me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ferdi
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 petes
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    ferdi wrote:

    Excellent. Was one of my favourites growing up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 Ruu_Old
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    The films were good, thought the cartoon was only okay for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,957 trout
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    The receptionist was hot.


    oh yeah! she was hot ... Annie Potts ... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001633/ :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 Charlie
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    It sounds like something the aul fella would say but they just dont make comedic movies like they used to. Comedies from the late 80's I can watch over and over at any given time.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 981 tj-music.com
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    Bill Murray and Rick Moranis are class anyway! I just recently bought Ghostbusters I and II for € 4,99 each at HMV and as the OP said this may well be among the best pieces of family entertainment ever made.

    I particularly like the scene where they cut the elctricity in Ghostbusters II.

    Hilarious


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 377 sonic juice
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    I love Bill Murray they don't make them like that anymore-cool gaze,humour of a snake in-love with a washing machine!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 Pigman II
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    Oh I would definetly do Annie Potts!

    I saw GB1 about 4 times when it was in the cinema but for some reason I never watched 2 and generally ignored its existence until the mid-90's. Now I have changed my view and I think it's a worthy sequel.

    Interestingly enough, Dan Aykroyds movie biog on the Ghostbusters DVD lists him as being in "Ghostbusters 3"!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 iguana
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    Pigman II wrote:
    Interestingly enough, Dan Aykroyds movie biog on the Ghostbusters DVD lists him as being in "Ghostbusters 3"!

    There is a rumoured 3rd movie starring all of the original cast. Don't know if it will happen, but I suspect that it only will if it is truly excellent. I don't think Murray would risk any of his recently reclaimed credibility.


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    iguana wrote:
    reclaimed credibility.

    Which means he'd rather appear in another borefest like Lost in Translation or some more Wes Anderson shíte than do GB3. Pity!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 iguana
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    Seriously, have you ever seen that movie where he treks his dead father's elephant across America to sell it to a circus? Nothing on earth would make me go back to that kind of crap if I was him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 Pigman II
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    Yeah but he did do Kingpin the same year as that elephant movie so he was hardly finished as a silly comedy actor by that point.

    Anyway, I know I'd rather watch him do some more lowbrow comedy like Ghostbusters or Stripes (or even KP, GroundhogDay, Scrooged or What about Bob) than any of his acting choices in the last 10 years or so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,598 ferdi
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    Pigman II wrote:
    Anyway, I know I'd rather watch him do some more lowbrow comedy like Ghostbusters or Stripes (or even KP, GroundhogDay, Scrooged or What about Bob) than any of his acting choices in the last 10 years or so.
    ditto. stripes is pure class.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 admiralofthefleet
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    some of the best films of the 80's.
    there is a ghostbusters 1 & 2 special edition slime boxset on play.com, got one for me and 1 for my brother and i still have ecto1 on my shelf in the parents house.

    if anyone is interested here is the link to play.com
    http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/HP/3-/677727/Ghostbusters_1_2_The_Special_Editions/Product.html#


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 dazberry
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    I remember seeing Ghostbusters in 1984 in town (possibly the Savoy). I was probably about 12 at the time and it was all just crazy.

    Firstly there was such an electric atmosphere - everyone was talking about it - that's literally why I had to go and see it (whine: everyone has seen it and i haven't and I don't want to be left out etc :D).

    Secondly - there was a good laugh thru' the film. It wasn't someone in the corner thinking everything was hilarious - everyone just got behind it. At times a little forced perhaps? but everyone was behind it.

    Finally - anytime a "who ya gonna call" came up - the ceiling nearly came down with all the kids (and I'm sure a few parents too) screaming GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!

    It wouldn't be my favourate film but at the same time I've never gone to the cinema and "seen" a film like it. Magical.

    D.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61 wezzopalooza
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    Yeah it's such a pity there's never an electric atmosphere like that in cinemas anymore. Remember when the audience would clap when the film was over lol!!! Sounds great would have loved to have been around for the Ghostbusters phenomenon the first time around.. Seeing as both movies are on sale for 4.99 each at hmv there's really no excuse for anybody not owning these. They're movies that you'll just always go back to. Here's hoping for part 3, wish they'd make the thing at last!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 monkeyfudge
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    I remember in school everyone seemed to have seen it before me and of course I had to let on that I had seen it too... so when asked by another kid who my favourite ghostbuster was I just blurted out "Ray Parker Jr." He seemed happy enough with that answer.

    I went to see the film the following week and realised that the guy singing the song wasn't actually one of the characters in the movie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 stovelid
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    Doesn't the blond chap's hair look like a swiss roll?


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