Ghostbusters

[Canyon]

Twenty years ago, I really wanted to see this film but my mum didn't take me to see it. Needless to say, I've never forgiven her since. :mad:

It just so happens that one of my local cinemas is having an 80's season of films, the other films being:

The Lost Boys
Back to the Future I, II & III
Ferris Bulliers Day Off


Ghostbusters has always been a favourite of mine as I have always had an interest in the paranormal, and in my opinion, this movie makes for great entertainment.


My favourite lines are:

Peter: "Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. You remember that?"

Egon: "That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me."

Man: "What are you? Some kind of a cosmonaut?"
Peter: "No, were exterminators. Somebody saw a cockroach up on twelve."
Man: "That's gotta be some cockroach!"
Peter: "Bite your head off, man."

Ray: "No sense worrying about it now."
Peter: "Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back."

Peter: "You don't look good."
Ray: "I don't?"
Peter: "You've looked better. You didn't used to look like this."

Ray: "Hey, where do these stairs go?"
Peter: "They go up."

Ray: "Gozer the Gozerian! Good evening! As a duly designated representative of the state, county and city of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension."
Peter: "That ought to do it. Thanks very much, Ray."

Winston: "Ray, when someone asks you if your'e a god, you say yes!"

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[Strider]

I just saw Ghostbusters for the first time only a year or two ago, it's one hell of a good movie! Bill Murrey is hilarious in it! :)

[Ayrun]

Saw it a lot of times.. Both I and II.
Still makes me laugh. :)

[00Kevin]

good thread canyon, can't beleive we've never mentioned this befor. have fun at the showings of those films

indeed a very fun film, I think the ghostbusters song is one that all kids should know :D smashing

[Lon]

Ahhh Ghostbusters, the best comedy ever made. And Indy's main competition during the summer of 1984.

[Kate]

Never seen it, love.

[Tennessee R]

I saw it for the first time about 3 months ago.
Yes, I like Bill Murray in Ghostbusters. Last night saw Groundhog Day (also with Murray). It was so long and boring.

[Kate]

I really like "Groundhog Day," but not everyone does. It's one of those films where either you love it or you hate it. Bill Murray is an awesome actor, really funny without trying to be funny. He was great in "Lost in Translation" (a film that doesn't seem too popular round here).

[Tennessee R]

Yes, well, Groundhog day has some funny parts to it, but, I just got a little tired of the day starting over again and again. I've never seen Lost in Translation. I've also never seen Ghostbusters 2. Should I get it?

[Katarn07]

I love Groundhog day! I like it better than Ghostbusters (which is also a great movie ;))

[westford]

Bill Murray's great. And the StayPuft Marshmallow man - genius! :D

[Fool of Atlantis]

I love Ghost Busters!
My favorite scene was with Egon and Lewis and that women.

Women:Oh, Egon your so kind taking care of this poor man.
Egon:I'm not sure he'es human.

[bungle92]

Great idea to post about Ghostbusters guys.

Later this year, I'm not sure when, they are going to re-release the film on dvd for it's 20th anniversary release, according to Premiere magazine. Sounds cool.

I wish they got around to making a 3rd one since I remember even hearing that they were writing a script for it.

[EvilDevo]

a re release of ghostbusters on dvd eh bungle? might hafta check that out...
i love "the boys in grey"
great movies... great themes... great car!
i wanna buy a white wagon and slap some ghostbuster symbols on the doors... get custom plates (ecto1) toss a couple light racks on the roof and tint the back windows
that would be the coolest car ever
id get all the ladies *cough* well... no... hah hah but itd still be the coolest car ever

[Webley]

Thay should make one more GHOSTBUSTERS should have been a Trilogy

[Strider]

That's a great idea bub! They should have it take place in the country though, since the first two have city settings.

[KDuncan]

Thay should make one more GHOSTBUSTERS should have been a Trilogy

WOW, is this thread old. I don't want to be raising a dead topic, but I really do have something to say--

First of all, I love Ghostbusters. Own both of 'em on VHS and DVD (two of each :p).

For a third movie, Danny Aykroyd actually did write the script. They were going to make it, but Bill Murray turned it down and that killed the project. :(

[Twilightpro101]

Like the Indy and BTTF trilogy, Ghostbusters is one of my most heavily watched movies. I had a HUGE collection of Ghostbusters toys growing up and I still collect the DVD re-releases every now and again.

[Moedred]

never seen Ghostbusters 2. Should I get it?
"Ghostbusters 2: Four Men and Rosemary's Baby" is inferior. It's like Moonraker (James Bond trying to do Star Wars). There's kinder gentler thirtysomething boomer cuddliness where the jokes should be. Adding a baby then putting him in jeapordy is bad writing. They start out broke and notorius. They should have spent half the movie in the pneumatic transit system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit) instead of just a couple of scenes.

"Evolution" is okay, a sci-fi script turned into a quasi-sequel in 2001 by Reitman.

"Ghostbusters 3: Hellbent" or, "Ghostbusters in Hell" has been in development as long as Indy 4. Here's a script review (http://movies.ign.com/articles/366/366119p1.html), and a description (http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/id/3467374) from Ramis:
"What [Aykroyd] had originally conceived was sending us to a special-effects hell--a netherworld full of phenomenal visual environments and boiling pits. But what works so well about the first two (films) is the mundane-ness of it all. So my notion was that hell exists in the same place as our consensus reality, but it's like a film shutter--it's the darkness between the 24 frames. So we create a device to do it, and it's in a warehouse in Brooklyn. When we step out of the chamber, it looks just like New York, but it's hell--everything's grid locked; no cars are moving and all the drivers are swearing at each other in different foreign languages. No two people speak the same language. It's all the worst things about modern urban life, just magnified."
I recall they then had to pass through the Lincoln Tunnel to Jersey, which was heaven.

[ClintonHammond]

"but Bill Murray turned it down"
Ya... it's too bad that he only makes movies that suck now....

[ninepinejones]

Clinton, something has put you in a very bad mood, I dont know you but what you have said about Both Goerge Lucas and Bill Murray make me question your state of well being, ofcourse your entiltled to your opinion but what are you doing on an Indy fansite calling Lucas a hack, if you have chosen yourself as the ultimate shadow of this site you are doing a good job. I hold nothing against you but I think you need to get laid or watch Broken Flowers totally baked!

[ClintonHammond]

I'm in a great mood... I usually am!

Bill Murry hasn't made a funny/entertaining movie since Groundhog Day.....

"on an Indy fansite calling Lucas a hack"
This is an INDY fansite... not a Lucas fansite.... Especially if you look at his track record, Indy seems to have succeeded IN SPITE of George Lucas....

"I think you need to get laid"
You wish you got it HALF as often as I do....

[ninepinejones]

On the getting laid thing, maybe so, If you are getting laid that much than congrats, because getting laid another half of what I do I guess would be pretty good. This would not be a INDY fansite if George were not around.

[ClintonHammond]

"This would not be a INDY fansite if George were not around."

Whatever that means.... If there was never a George Lucas, who'd know, or care? Nobody....

Your point is immaterial, in the extreme

[ninepinejones]

Clinton I just came across this and thought it was damn funny....I looked at the date and realized it being New Years and all, that I was obviously strunken when I was writing those comments. Ha!Ha!..... anyways it was worth a laugh. As you know you are the major minority on this one again when it comes to Lucas. And no, theres nothing wrong with being in the minority,I think you are quite comfortable there. Cheers:hat: