Ghostbusters!
 

So just got home and Ghostbusters (original) is on. Forgot just how funny this movie really was. Spit my bite of pizza out when Murray investigates Sigourney Weaver's apartment. Great stuff.

"Egon: Don’t cross the streams.
Peter: Why?
Egon: It would be bad.
Peter: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean “bad”?
Egon: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Raymond: Total protonic reversal.
Peter: That’s bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip, thanks Egon."

Yeah. When he realizes she’s possessed it is hilarious.

"Okay. My girlfriend's a dog."

Somebody on this forum listed Ghostbusters as a movie that didn't hold up. Some thread about movies you loved as a kid and then rewatched as an adult and didn't like it. Which in my opinion is nuts. Movie is great even after seeing it 100 times over 35 years.

Agree. There are lots of 80s movies that don’t hold up. This isn’t one of them.

Watching the original, it never gets old and totally holds up. Even the special effects, which are not as CGI Awesome as they are nowadays, does not deflect from the awesomeness of the movie. Anyone who says it doesn't hold up is thinking about that aspect I would suspect.

Also, the 2016 abominable remake is a lesson in how not to mess with something that's perfect.

Tremendous movie that I enjoy each and every time I watch it.

FYI... it's on AMC right meow.

Best alley-oop and dunk of the film.

And one of the best in movie history.

I won't disagree with that.

You know after watching it again as an adult and as big of a prick as Walter Peck was, he was kinda right. He's an EPA agent doing his job, trying to get a peak at this clearly dangerous weird machine these guys have in the middle of Manhattan. Right off the bat when he introduces himself, Venkman intentionally slimes his hand and his suit jacket and acted like an arrogant prick. Wouldn't let him see the containment unit without "saying please" and then when he says please Venkman still refuses. Peck then says well I guess I'll have to come back with a court order and Venkman explodes and yells at him, threatening to sue his ass if he does. The only reason we were on his side is because it's Bill Murray and we like that he's an arrogant prick. Plus the actor playing Peck was good at being smarmy and unlikeable.

Whose side are you on, man!!???!!

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Did somebody get new insurance?

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LMAO

Is Stripes an 80's movie? My mom made me watch it the other day. Wasn't really even funny. Yet I love Ghostbusters and almost any other John Candy & Bill Murray movies.

All of those commercials are so hilarious.

He's fantastic at it in Die Hard

You see it, right?

William Atherton.

He basically played the same role in Ghostbusters, Die Hard and Real Genius. But he was so damn good at it.

I'm on Slimer's side damn it! He didn't do nothin wrong. He just wants some hot dogs and shit.

this is like the argument that Indiana Jones was really un-needed and in the end did nothing to affect the outcome of Raiders of the Lost Ark...maybe it's true but SO WHAT??
:D

That is a hilarious observation that is simultaneously irrelevant and so telling about our entertainment blinders.

There's a whole discussion out there about it, but for those not familiar, if you take an objective look at Raiders, Indy didn't do a single thing of consequence for the storyline. He showed up late to all the important discoveries. He watched all tied up while it was carted around. All the 'wrong hands' he was supposed to save it from were destroyed by the Ark itself, and it ended up in a random warehouse. He had as much impact as we did in the movie theater.

Only the first half of Stripes is any good. Once they go off to Germany, the movie falls off a cliff.

Well, except that there's no movie if he's not in it . . .

Prob one of the most re-watchable movies of all time.

As a kid, I did NOT see this as a comedy, but as an Adult I still think it's funny.
Such a great script.

I actually like Ghostbusters 2 a lot too. I know a lot of people hate it and for obvious reasons, but I remember being 8 years old and nearly pissing myself with excitement when my dad told me he got tickets for us to see it at the theater.

If Indy never travels to the Middle East, then the Germans likely never find the Gold Medallion. They were digging in the wrong spot.

Unless they kill Marion in the bar and find it.

I concur.I always thought of Stripes as a classic,but i don't really like the second half either.Speaking of Ghostbusters,i liked Louis as an underrated character,he cracks me up.

The 2nd movie is great. Different, but great. I get why a lot of people might not like it but I love it.

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I met the Peck dude in RL at a bar in L.A. Actually pretty cool guy, must suck that every person who watched movies back in the 80's thought he was a douche bag

forgot how much this line slayed me as a kid.


Listen!!! . . . You smell something?

Please see post from Frazod above...

The move was full of awesomeness like that too. Iconic scenes and lines...so awesome the shit will turn you white!

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Yes. They did it. YES.

And you know Bill Murray's ghost is showing up at the end.

****ING IN!

It really is a ****ing genious concept.

Your audience was kids when they saw the OG Ghostbusters.

Make a movie about kids discovering the OG Ghostbusters.

Grown up audience collectively and vicariously re-experiences their childhood through concept.

**** yes.

Shoot you know I'm in. Can't wait to see when/if/how Slimer shows up!

And it's never too late to hope for a baby Vigo the Carpathian? Nvm I guess that's just a....baby.

Like the Baskin & Robbins Easter egg at the beginning of the trailer.

Dan Akroyd's delivery of the line "it's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man" - the look on his face - is one of the classic scenes of all time IMO.

I'm looking forward. After the forgettable reboot of 2016, anything should be better...I hope.

Shandor Mining Company...Shiiiiiit...

Yes it's true...this man has no dick...

Das a biiig twinkie...

So many great lines in that damn movie...

No SJW/feminist fueled woman cast?

Sign me up!

HELL YES

I SAW SLIMER IN THAT CLIP!!!!!

"Yes, it's true. This man has no dick."

"Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say...YES!"

Well, he did save Marion from torture at the hands of Toht.

Dana: This is the bedroom, but nothing ever happens in there

Ray: what a crime...

Bill Murray’s performance is an all timer in this.

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When is this ****er coming out??

It’s gotten bumped around a lot, but now looks like November

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I didn’t see much comedy in that trailer.

They’ve gone the hybrid action/stranger things route.

It's November now? Christ I thought this was coming out in August.

Whatever they have done, it makes me want to go see this. Earlier trailers did nothing for me.

It does kind of have that look/feel but, with Paul Rudd in it I’d be surprised I f there aren’t plenty of laughs. And that sure sounded like Bill Murray answering the phone at the end. I think the humor will be there.

It was Dan Akroyd.

Not saying your wrong but, I don’t hear it, even after now re-listening to it with him in mind. :shrug:

It's akroyd.

IMDB says Murray, Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver and Ernie Hudson are all in it. And they show Annie Potts in the trailer.

BS. It's Ernie Hudson. I can tell.

Ok, I’m just mishearing something then.

Finally saw enough shit to turn him white?

No it's not. It's Rick Moranis.

Just watched it again. It's clearly William Atherton.

That said, would be a phenomenal cameo if Rick kicked back off his acting career in this.

Definitely Fred Garvin picking up the phone at the end.


Yep. Looks like a kids movie to me.


There was an actor from the late 80s named Gavan O'Herlihy who I constantly confused with Atherton.

It at least looks like a major improvement over the cringe worthy feminazi version of the Ghostbusters.

The trailer has me intrigued enough especially the very end of it. Paul Rudd is usually really reliable and I wasn't aware that Carrie Coon is in this too (she was great in The Leftovers on HBO).
Hoping this is entertaining.

I've got hopes that this will be fun and nostalgic. Definitely some feels on that trailer.

Definitely Akroyd.

Also, at 1:41, a female voice says, "Oh my God." Pretty sure that's Weaver.

Sounds like Aykroyd using his serious voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91XUyg9iWM

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40+ years later and the "ignorant slut" comeback is still funny.

Will come as no surprise given my avatar that I'm going to see the new Ghostbusters tomorrow night.

Excited but also nervous. That 2016 version sucked and I'm hoping this is at least entertaining and funny.

Paul Rudd.

It's going to be good.