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MoeFOH's Movie of the Week 🎥

Each week we're going to spotlight a movie... be it a classic, new release, hidden gem, or outright turd... and open it for discussion: i.e. post up your favourite quotes, clips, memories... or dive deeper and give us a critique on why you think it's great, overrated, or a complete train wreck... And finally score it for us... :looking: 

All contributors go into a monthly prize draw for a 3-cigar sampler! :cigar:

PM me with suggestions if there's a movie you want to nominate for next week's discussion. :thumbsup:

 

Week #30: Ghostbusters

Moe says: Genuine comedy classic! Ramis and Ackroyd creative gold. Murray at the top of his game... Top 5 contender. :D

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Ernie Hudson in supporting roles.

Based on his own fascination with spirituality, Aykroyd conceived Ghostbusters as a project starring himself and John Belushi, in which they would venture through time and space battling supernatural threats. Following Belushi's death in 1982, and with Aykroyd's concept deemed financially impractical, Ramis was hired to help rewrite the script to set it in New York City and make it more realistic. It was the first comedy film to employ expensive special effects, and Columbia Pictures, concerned about its relatively high $25–30 million budget, had little faith in its box office potential. Filming took place from October 1983 to January 1984, in New York City and Los Angeles. Due to competition for special effects studios among various films in development at the time, Richard Edlund used part of the budget to found Boss Film Studios, which employed a combination of practical effects, miniatures, and puppets to deliver the ghoulish visuals.

Ghostbusters was released on June 8, 1984, to critical acclaim and became a cultural phenomenon. It was well received for its blend of comedy, action, and horror, and Murray's performance was often singled out for praise. It earned $282.2 million during its initial theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1984 in the United States and Canada, and the then-highest-grossing comedy ever. It was the number-one film in theaters for seven consecutive weeks and one of only four films to gross more than $100 million that year. Further theatrical releases have increased the total gross to around $295.2 million, making it one of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s. In 2015, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Its theme song, "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr., was also a number-one hit.

Over to you...

How do you rate it? Favourite scenes?

Best moments?... etc, and so on... post 'em up!!

Give us your score out of 10!

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Absolutely love this movie. Acting,  directing,  writing,  soundtrack. Easy 9/10.

'Get im Ray'!

I showed my kids the classic  'cheeseburger cheeseburger 'SNL clip a couple weeks ago ahead of my trip to Chi town (and the Billy Goat) and she was pissed that I was going somewhere that half the Ghostbusters were without them.

Special effects are grossly outdated but it still seems to age well. Unfortunately the franchise has gone downhill. Oh well.

Thanks for another great pick!

Cheers

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I love how Venkman's experiment is actually working, as the guy not only gets closer to the right answer and finally does guess the shape, but Venkman is too distracted by the girl to care.

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One of the great comedies of, what is to me, that golden age of comedy movies. This, of course, is 100% pure nostalgia. As a kid this was so visually appealing. From the uniforms with all the attributes, to the Ectomobile. Good, (mostly) clean fun for the whole family. As a kid it’s just funny, then the movie seems to evolve with you as you get older and start getting the more subtle plays. Still love it and watch it about once a year.

9/10

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The new one was better…. 🤣 j/k.

A favorite after being removed from the theatre by a friend’s mom in the middle of Sigourney’s possession scene. Never mind the movie is a classic of it’s time, that memory will land a 10/10. every. time. 👍 

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Gotta love how a fairly large piece of stone/masonry falls all the way down from the top... and bounces off a wooden police barricade. :rotfl:

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"Yuppy larva". A bit too silly for me but for what it is it’s very good.

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Ghostbusters is a 10/10. And there's some great YT videos comparing why the original is so good versus the new remake. Ghostbusters sticks to the most important rule of filmmaking which is show, don't tell.

 

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Great pick! This is in annual rotation every time Halloween comes around and we do weekly outdoor movie nights! Fantastic movie and full of fun! 10/10 

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15 hours ago, Chas.Alpha said:

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