Moviephile

Well, last night was a further fail in the “get all the Hammer movies watched by Halloween” goal: in spite of the fact that we have The Curse of Frankenstein waiting on our shelf to be watched, we re-watched the movie Ghostbusters .

I don’t know very many people who haven’t seen the movie Ghostbusters yet. In fact, I can only think of one - and she was fictional: Mia Farrow’s character in the movie Be Kind Rewind (which featured many Ghostbusters references, by the way).

However, if you are one of the few actual, real, non-fictional people who haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend it. I’m tremendously biased, of course, since I’ve been watching that movie since childhood and have loved it the whole time… It’s a great concept with great performances and some great lines. In the DVD commentary, they said something to the effect of, “This movie has the most t-shirt lines ever…” And (with the possible exception of Napoleon Dynamite) it’s true! I can think of so many great one-off lines from Ghostbusters…  in fact, at this point, many of them have been done-to-death, as it were (”He slimed me.” “Back off, man. I’m a scientist.”), but that doesn’t lessen their original beauty.

So, for Halloween viewing, I definitely recommend Ghostbusters. However, I do not recommend Ghostbusters II , which was not a good movie. I prefer to pretend that one doesn’t exist.

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