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During the “Dana is possessed” scene, Peter is being deliberately evasive and attempting to get a rise out of Dana, basically paying as little attention to Zuul’s spiritual psychobabble as possible. This is because he’s attempting to get Dana to break through and speak to him. This is based on actual parapsychological training when dealing with a presumably possessed person.
Jesus Christ you just blew my mind with what you just said. Literally after years and years of watching this movie on repeat I never once put that together. That’s amazing like WOW.
In the decades since the movie was released, I have encountered maybe 4 or 5 opportunities to use that line when someone asked where some stairs go. Every time, it gets a laugh because just about everyone has seen this movie.
It's interesting Simone & George took that as a laugh line - I always saw it as kind of heroic, like "we have no clue where this goes, but we're going up." Murray says it with determination.
Its baffling that they wouldn't know that. I've lived Canada for about 7 years now, and one thing they all take pride in is knowing every famous Canadian person, and they will let you know what town they are from.
The green ghost named "Slimer", is supposed to represent John Belushi, best friend of Dan Ackroyd, who wrote the script. John had died shortly before Dan Ackroyd started the script.
And Akroyd was most DEFINITELY writing the movie with every intention of his BFF Belushi starring alongside him in it. I heard he was even at his typewriter working on the script when he got the call that Belushi had overdosed on a mix of Heroin and cocaine
@@michellelamar8965 also dan based ray on him as dan is into the paranormal world and believes in it, his grandfather claimed to be psychic and hear ghosts
In-Universe he's the ghost of some rich guy who ate himself to death on the floor he's haunting. €dit: The librarian worked and was murdered in the library in the 1920's.
Harold was with him writing the script after belushi passed. They based slimer on his roll from animal house and rewrote a lot of posters lines and he threw in what he wanted while filming. I'm sure some is still on the cutting room floor till this day.
@@carn9507 they should also watch "Stripes", an earlier collab with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis playing lead roles and directed by Ivan Reitman. This movie came out in 1981.
"Gozer the Traveler wil come in one of the pre-chosen forms. Durring the rectification of the Vuldrenaii, the Traveler came as a very large and moving Torb. Then of course in the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrix Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a gaint Slor! Many Shrubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the he-depths of the Slor that day I can tell you." Vinz Clortho
The "REAL GHOSTBUSTERS" Cartoon Series from the 80s did a good job on expanding on the mythology... in ways the sequels / reboots never thought to touch on, like "What's actually in the containment system" and "What else is in Tobin's Spirit Guide besides Zuul". Also, Stay Puft isn't a real brand.
@@jeffburnham6611 From what I can see, Stay Puft isn't a real brand now, but it gets licenced out to different companies, currently you get CampFire brand StayPuft Marshmallows and a Tiny Rebel StayPuft Beer.
@@jeffburnham6611 eh... it's a movie tie-in brand.. like Bubba Gump Shrimp. I dont count those... they weren't previously in the culture, they exist only as licensing.
The thing about Walter peck is that he's completely overstepping his authority. The epa doesn't deal with nuclear. The nuclear regulatory commission would have a few words with the Ghostbusters, but not the epa
He actually seems to be more interested in proving fraudulent activity and just shutting them down, than in actual environmental damage. Definitely overstepping authority and abusing his position. Makes me wonder if he's not a member of Evo Shandor's cult.
I remember being in the hospital when I was 10 with pneumonia; my Mom rented Ghostbusters and the part with the maid putting the fire out with 409 made me laugh so hard, I had an asthma attack. Good times.
The Green Blob Ghost would go on to be named Slimer. When the Ghostbusters got their own Saturday Morning Cartoon, Slimer became a pet, friend, and ally of the Ghostbusters. As a response to how much kids loved Slimer, he appeared in the sequel in the same role as the cartoon. He hung around the HQ and even helped during the final battle.
In the script he was only known as “Onionhead”, because the prop they used apparently smelled pretty bad. It wasn’t until the cartoon did the name Slimer appear.
Ghostbusters 2 is just as great in my opinion. You should check it out in case afterlife references anything from it and you are not totally lost. Great review!
Eh, I wouldn't go as far as to say it's just as good as this one, but it's definitely not deserving of all the hate it used to and still often gets. It's only that way because the first movie was such a perfect movie that it was always going to be impossible to improve on it.
The transparency of the gargoyle in that scene was due to how the optical printers back then worked when compositing separate images into one frame(usually when matte paintings, miniatures, and live action are combined). Another famous example of something being transparent was prior to the 1997 special editions you could see through the frame of the cockpit of the snows speeders during the battle of Hoth in The Empire Strikes back.
"Zhuul is kinda HOT!" Some things that were true about 40 years ago are STILL true today! So glad you two have FINALLY watched one of the most quotable movies in history!
@@johnplaysgames3120 Ya I saw a reactor that was horrified at the shotgun scene in Scrooged and someone in the comments posted about how that is a common Looney Toons cartoon trope with Elmer Fudd. Ghostbusters, amongst others, was made when Warner Bros. cartoons were ubiquitous and everyone just got it
..... "It's the StayPuff Marshmallow Man." RARRRR!!! That's one of the best reveals in movies. So great in the theaters when you had no idea what to expect. :D
My brothers and I (I'm the youngest of three) had a recorded VHS with Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, and Beetlejuice on it, and we watched it endlessly. This movie is surely integral to my childhood.
The role of Winston was originally written for Eddie Murphy, but he couldn’t do it because of other projects and they shrunk the role. I always wonder what this movie would have been with Eddie in the cast.
@@namelessjedi2242 it wouldn’t of been overshadowed by him. It came out as he was getting popularity so it would of just springboarded him into bigger fame quicker than he was already going. It wouldn’t of been a huge role but he’d of been great.
I remember when this movie came out in the 80s, the theme song was on every radio attached to a speaker. In restaurants, gas stations and grocery stores…it was everywhere.
The cop that lets them out of the cell is also the cop in Die Hard. He also plays a cop in Chuck. Also, an interesting little fact: Louis, the guy who gets possessed by the keymaster, kept getting locked out of his apartment.
Not only did he play a cop in Chuck, he played the same exact character, Al Powell, as he played in Die Hard. He was the cousin of Big Mike, who was the manager of the Buy More (parody of Best Buy) where Chuck worked as part of the Nerd Herd (a parody of Best Buy's Geek Squad). The show Chuck was known for pop culture references and a whose who of top tier celebrity guest spots, from the Sci-Fi, action movie, and spy thriller genres.
23:38 Fun fact: In the days before the elevator was invented, it almost never happened that buildings were made more than five stories tall. Here, we have a key illustration of exactly _why._
This is legit one of my favorite movies ever, so it's always nice to see people giving it some love. Interesting note: Bill Murray's part was originally meant to be played by the late John Belushi, and the green 'slimer' ghost they catch in the hotel was written in as a tribute to him.
One of the best movies ever made, so creative, a kind of parody to all the horror movies at this time. The sequel is good, not so good as the first, but definitely okay to watch.
I liked the second just as much as (maybe even a little better than) the first. I suspect it's because I only watched the 1st one once as a kid and didn't remember much, so I only really experienced both as an adult. People who grew up with a movie and anticipate a sequel are notoriously unlikely to like the sequel (or at least find it inferior). That's why the franchises in which that wasn't the case are so famous for it (Alien and Terminator most notably).
"Who said sorry like that? It was very Canadian." For the record, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis and Ivan Reitman are all Canadian. Also there are 2 sequels - Ghostbusters 2 (which I also love), and the now released Ghostbusters Afterlife, which is pretty much everything Ghostbusters fans have been waiting for since Ghostbusters 2
The producers tried to hire Huey Lewis to write and perform the music for Ghostbusters. The deal fell through, so at the last minute they hired Ray Parker, Jr. In the limited time he had, he came up with the hit that was the theme song for the movie. It was very similar to Huey Lewis's song "I Want a New Drug." Lewis sued for copyright violation and won. If you listen to the two songs you'll hear the similarity. Stay Puft Marshmallows was a fictional brand that was invented for the movie. They're now a real product. You can get them at Walmart, though for some reason they're not available on Amazon. One of my favorite lines: "It sounds like you've got at least two or three people in there already."
As soon as I saw you guys were reviewing Ghostbusters I had to stop & watch because Ghostbusters is probably my favorite movie ever...I just love it so much!!! "Call it fate, call it luck, call it karma...I believe this review happened for a reason..."👻👻👻 Also fun fact, Slimer(the famous green ghost) was inspired by John Belushi which I love 😎
I first saw this movie when I was 2 years old, and my mom freaked when she found out, thinking that I was going to have nightmares for weeks or be scarred from it...instead, it became the most reliable means of getting me to sit down and shut up for a couple of hours for much of my childhood. Even at that young age I thought Bill Murray was the funniest thing around, which should've been a gigantic sign that I'd grow up extremely fluent in sarcasm and dry humor (as I still point out to them to this day). Ghostbusters 2 and Ghostbusters Afterlife are absolutely worth a watch...the 2016 Ghostbusters, not so much, we prefer to act as though that one doesn't exist.
A movie critic called Moviebob did a great retrospective of this film in which he puts into words why this movie is so beloved by children, called “Ghostbusters: Really That Good.”
Stay Puft isn't a real brand, as far as I know. The character's appearance was made as a combination of the Pilsbury Doughboy, the Michelin tire man and Bob's Big Boy. Earlier in the movie, there is a package of Stay Puft marshmallows in Dana's groceries.
A classic masterpiece of horror and comedy! Great reaction! Oh and Dan Akroyd is Canadian. That's why he had the accent, and so is Rick Moranis. This was shot in New York City and some stage work in locations and stage work in LA. Stay Puft is a fictional brand made for this movie, haha. Thanks, guys!
There's even a cameo in Warcraft 3; when you continuously click on a unit, it starts with throwing out voice-overs which often have a lot reference on pop culture (the Human Peasant for example has a lot of phrases from Monty Python's Holy Grail). The Undead Banshee has, among others, 'There's no Banshee, only ZUUL'.
You guys should definitely watch Ghostbusters 2. It's a great movie, that I personally love just as much as the original, just for different reasons. Because the first movie was such a phenomenon, you're always going to have people who will say "well the sequel wasn't as good as the first", but everyone I know who has seen Ghostbusters 2 says that they like it, and I even know a few people who say they like it _more_ than the first one.
Yes, GB2 is worth watching. I saw GB: Afterlife a week or so ago. I know some people don't like it, but I thought it was pretty good. As long as you stop expecting it to be another clone of the first two GB movies and accept it for what it is, it's worth seeing.
I saw this in the theater the summer it was released (1984). It was absolutely amazing then, and looks suprisingly great to this day. It has aged VERY well.
:23 - LOL . Every time anyone says "It's been awhile since ...." , that is exactly what my friend group does. Simone rocks. And George too , of course lol
Fun Fact~When the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man was killed. All that melted marshmallow came down on the Environmental guy. That was actually sour cream...🤢
This is probably the best Ghostbusters reaction I've seen. You guys seemed to really understand the tone and get the humor better than other reactors I've watched.
Dana's apartment is 55 Central Park West.. Course, the top of the building was extended by matte painting into how it appears in the film.. But on top of the REAL building is a rooftop apartment that once belonged to famed designer Calvin Kline..
Ghostbusters 2 is great as well, you should definitely watch that one. The 2021 movie is an entertaining new addition to the series (takes place in the same universe). The 2016 one will leave you feel disappointed about the wasted potential. Could have been a fun movie if it had a decent script and didn't ignore the earlier movies.
Ikr. As much as people want to shout "chauvinist!" if you didn't like that movie, I was actually excited by the idea of a new one with those actors in it. I assumed they were going to be people who purchased a Ghostbusters franchise and were trying to make it work or something. Then the first trailer dropped and immediately indicated it would be a reboot that ignored the previous movies and I started feeling a little iffy about it. Then the rest of the trailer played and I saw that they were leading with barf and fart humor followed up with the exact thing that makes so many SNL skits unbearable: constant shouting taking the place of actual jokes. I still thought I'd give it a chance but, yeah, no. It had moments but just wasn't funny. Also, not to be that guy but why, in 2016, did the three white women get to be super smart scientists and whatnot while the one black woman had to be the "street-wise" non-scientist. As long as you're rebooting anyway, seemed like the perfect chance to go a little more color-blind with the casting rather than sticking to old-ass stereotypes. All in all, that movie didn't die because "men hate women." That movie died because it wasn't good. And it didn't help that the cast and crew just attacked anyone who called it out. Just a bungled mess all around.
That is THREE mortgages at 19%, THREE. That is what makes Egon's line about the amount of the annual payments hammer home...he would have been better off selling the house. Also this movie has one of my favorite, most in character lines of dialogue of all the films I have seen. Dr. Egon Spengler 'Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.' Reginald Van Johnson in addition to Family Matters was John McClaine's LA cop buddy in Die Hard 1 and 2. Ms Weaver's building does have an elevator...with the gate opening and all that jazz apparently the power cut out or the damage to the top of the building put them out of order. Thus the stair scene.
This is still one of my all time favorite movies, and one of my earliest movie theater memories. Seeing that initial library ghost freaked out my 4-5 year old self, but I wound up loving the movie so much that I must have watched it a couple hundred times in the 80s-90s. So glad you guys got to watch it! I wish I could see it again for the first time.
One detail I just noticed. The news anchor mentions a "ghost locomotive" his grandmother used to talk about. In the sequel, that actually makes an appearance.
You should watch Ghostbusters 2, it's almost as good as the first. The 2016 reboot you can skip unless you like SNL humor over the dry humor of the first one. The newest is essentially a spiritual sequal to the first two and ignores the 2016 version.
I watched the 2016 version for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I got my first laugh within five minutes.....and that was it. I reeeaally wanted to like it but just got so bored.
I would ignore everything after Ghostbusters 2. The new one was pretty bad. The first half of the new one is a teen angst movie with the second a retelling of the first movie with added plot holes.
This was amazing! You're both so much fun!! Some random facts you might find interesting: - Eddie Murphy was supposed to be the 4th Ghostbuster, but chose to do Beverly Hills Cop instead. He had just had a hit with Dan Aykroyd (Trading Places) and I don't think they've worked together again since Eddie said no. - Bill Murray's role was written for John Belushi, who died before they could film. He was Dan Aykroyd's best friend. Slimer (the ghost that's binge eating) is supposed to be John. - The earthquake scene is actually filmed in New York City, it's not a set. The moving ground was built directly on the street. My dad was an extra.😜 The sequel lacks the dry humor and fun of this one, sadly. Still, this movie is amazing and your reaction is wonderful. Comedy suits you both.
Eddie Murphy's participation is debatable. His, Dan's and Ivan's stories don't match up. Ivan was involved in the casting process, including casting Moranis and Weaver, and he said Eddie Murphy was never considered.
This movie came out when I was a kid. A bunch of us went to see it shortly after it opened. It was an experience. The Ghostbusters theme and other songs topped the charts for a long time and for years you could see people wearimg Ghostbuster t-shirts, I even had one for a while.
Simone and George: “How’d they break up the street like that? They had to build a whole set right?” New Yorkers who drive in those roads every day: “They could have shattered the roads like a dropper base and not a soul would notice…”
Dan Ackroyd is a Canadian so his Candian-sounding "sorry" shouldn't be too surprising. So is Rick Moranis ("the Keymaster"). Moranis was a member of the Second City comedy troupe from Toronto that went on to create a Canadian television sketch comedy show called SCTV ("Second City Television") that ran between 1976 and 1984. SCTV is where Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas created their iconic, beer-addled, Canadian brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie (who would later be the main characters of the awesome cult movie, "Strange Brew"). Other members of SCTV that you might know from some of the movies you've reacted to would be Harold Ramis (Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters), John Candy, and Catherine O'Hara.
It was so nice seeing a modern audience actually appreciate Bill Murray's humor here. Every time I've seen people on youtube react to this movie, they all seem to get creeped out by Bill. So it was refreshing to see people actually understand that its just supposed to be harmless flirty humor.
William Atherton the actor who played Walter Peck the man from the EPA is also the reporter in Die Hard & Die Hard 2. Also the Cop in the jail was the cop in Die Hard.
9:57 - Annie Potts, AKA Sheldon's Meemaw, Connie. 20:58 - And also a really obscure movie you've probably never heard of, called Die Hard. Back in the 80s, it used to take forever for a film to come to the pay channels (HBO, etc) after it played in theaters. HBO also used to do an unannounced movie at midnight on Christmas eve as a gift to subscribers. One year (probably 1984), they did Ghostbusters, months before its normal cable premiere. I had stayed up to see what movie they were showing, while my parents went to bed. So I got to watch Ghostbusters, alone in our darkened living room way ahead of anyone else. Good times!
Dan Aykroyd's family has a history with ghosts and the occult. His father wrote a book called, "The History of Ghosts" and was a reviewer of psychic acts.
It's not just Dan Aykroyd's father or his family. Dan himself is a self-ascribed 'Spiritualist' and believer in various paranormal, psychic and extraterrestrial theories.
What astounds me about this film, is that, Peter Venkman, is one of my favourite film character of all time, and the fact that the role was written with John Belushi in mind, but Bill Murray plays him so well, I now cannot imagine anyone else in the role. Also, The actress playing Janine Is Annie Potts, who does the voice to Bo Peep in the Toy Story films
I don't think there's anything specifically pointing to ghosts in this movie as being the spirits of the dead, although it would lend a certain 'moral complexity' to what the Ghostbusters were actually doing! Most of them are rather apparitions or phenomena, not exactly associated with ghosts as we originally think of them, except for a few (librarian, cab driver)
“ The flowers, are still standing.” This was the first movie quote that ever burned into my little kid mind. I watched this movie so much in the late 80s
A lot of people skip over this: The reason you're not supposed to look at the traps is that there was the possibility of them pulling your soul out through your eyes. Superstitious belief refer to the eyes as the "doorway to the soul." Dan Aykroyd is neck deep in Occult studies in real life, and strove to be as accurate to those beliefs as possible. Thus the concern for looking at the traps while in use (not to mention the more mundane issue of the bright light emitting from the traps that could be potentially blinding. Also, yes Dan Aykroyd is Canadian, thus his "I'm sorry" sounding Canadian.
First generation National Lampoons and SNL cast members and writers (Ramis and Akroyd) wrote this. Which explains why this was so clean. I actually love Ghostbusters II and it's soundtrack is incredible, I feel it's underrated. Ghostbusters Afterlife filled me with joy. I cried.
I love Ghostbusters. It also holds a special place in my life as it was the very first movie we owned on VHS tape. We got it included with the purchase of our very first VCR player.
I think, tho it is never spelled out, that the effect of the crossing of the streams happens inside the portal, hence destroying THAT dimension instead. It is never said in the movie, never really hinted at, but it would explain why they survive and why the portal is destroyed.
Crazy trivia item: the firehouse/HQ set would later be used in "The Mask" (1994) for the interior shots of Ripley's Auto Finishing. Remember? "Hold onto your lug nuts, it's time for an overhaul"? Same set, a decade later.
Great movie. You should watch the sequel it is good . A great Rick Morrines movie is Honey I shrunk the kids. Also a great fun horror movie is Tremors.Also watch Groundhog day in February 2
10:17 - Since Ecto-1 uses a siren that isn't common to any other emergency vehicle, then technically yes. However, the blue roller lights on the roof would be a no..
Your perception of this movie being efficient is quite correct. It's the genius of the writing behind it. What needed to be said was said, and when things didn't need to be said, actions were used to convey the message, and everything just flows without useless fluff. The 2016 reboot sucked, because it followed none of those things.
Love your reaction videos, you both are great at it. Please check out, if you have not seen it yet, "The Whole Nine Yards". It's a great dark comedy, star-studded cast and was filmed in Canada.
Summer of '84: I was 10 and my family went out to see this masterpiece at the Tivoli theatre. My crush on Sigourney developed from that moment on... Thank you for this one, folks! ;)
You guys need to react to “Black Sails”, a great TV show about a combination of fictional and real life pirates, that is just amazing storytelling… technically a prequel to the novel Treasure Island…
Dear God yes, Black Sails is a masterclass in story telling, it'd be fantastic if George and Simone gave it a chance. A long shot, but it would mess with their hearts and heads in all the best ways 😁
Almost finished with the 1st episode of Black Sails. Thanks to Craig Wood and the others in this thread bringing it to my attention.😁👍 Never heard of it and am really digging it. Makes me want to play Black Flag again!
They used a real hotel ballroom (in LA) but covered the walls with duplicate panels to destroy. The Gozer building street front was also duplicated at the studio with fake erupting road sections.
Thanks for the reaction! It's one of the most interesting ones personally, since I've never really "gotten" Ghostbusters. I still don't, but at least it was fun for me to watch what you guys see in it.
@@Tommieboy2009 It's never done anything for me. No kind of emotional response whatsoever besides boredom. This reaction helped me realize that some folks find it hilarious. So, it's just not my kinda humor.
I gotta admit, when they shoot their proton packs at that maid, that line "We thought you were someone else" ..... I think, that´s the funniest line in the whole god damn film for me.........
The next movie (Ghostbusters 2) is great as well -- it's a little more 'adult' (romantic) , so when it first debuted, some kids didn't enjoy it as much . The 2016 "re-imagining" w/an all female cast is an abomination . And the latest one ... I have not seen it yet, but heard good things .
Ghostbusters was 'Lightning in a bottle'. The movie wasn't intended the way it ended up as and right until the end it wasn't even sure whether or not it was going to be called Ghosbusters. There was another property with another studio that already had the name. But the director did the big crowd scene and had everyone chant 'Ghostbusters' and folks went 'well, now we GOT to use the name'. So, with the cards. Did anyone notice that the guy got more and more cards correct the more he got frutstrated about it? First he started predicting the cards the woman would get and the last one was spot on ;) When discussing the price for capturing 'Slimer' at the hotel, you can see Egon subtly stroke his cheek with a few fingers where Venkman could see them. Giving him a hint to up the price. The commercial is a funny goof kept in as print. Harold Raimis (Egon) wasn't all that used to acting and they taped crosses on the floor for the crew as marks to move for the advert. Harold kept looking down to see where he needed to go. They figured Egon would also have no idea how to do this kind of thing so kept it in as a bit of a character thing. For the final scene they used gallons upon gallons of shaving cream to simulate the marshmallow. The reason Venkman was so clean is that they started to spackle it on the others and Bill just flat out refused. They got to dab a few dollops on for looks but he just refused to be covered in it.
I have to say I'm mystified over the love being shown in the comments for the sequel. Ghostbusters 2 certainly had its moments but, all in all, it seems to me a mere shadow of the original. Ghostbusters - for all it's fantastical/supernatural elements - feels more or less "grounded", if you will, in a real New York City. The sequel...not so much.
I explained this to my guy the same way I explained Gremlins 2. The sequels have waaaaay lower lows, but some very high highs. I also feel that way about Back to the Future 2. So it just depends on how nostalgic you are for Viggo and good ole Yanosh. And how much you can tolerate some strange plot screw screwups and that weird baby.
In 1984 when this movie was released the average mortgage rate was 13.88%. A 5 year CD savings account paid about 12% so a 19% mortgage isn't terrible.
What I'm loving is you keep dropping movie references in that you had no idea of before you started this project. And each movie gives you more and more ammo !
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Good grief! if they think this one flags for child endangerment are we ever going to see part 2?
The sequel to this is also worth watching
The sequel, Ghostbusters 2, is also great. However - the 2016 movie is not really worth watching.
YT's auto-moderator thinks Simone is a kid, she needs Zool's voice modulator
@@snooks5607 George: believe it or not i actually tried this. didnt work at all haha.
I love that Rick was the key master even though hes always getting locked out of his apartment
All these years, and I never noticed that joke. 😆
Right!
Irony can be downright hilarious
haaaa! nice catch!!!
I never thought about that lol
During the “Dana is possessed” scene, Peter is being deliberately evasive and attempting to get a rise out of Dana, basically paying as little attention to Zuul’s spiritual psychobabble as possible. This is because he’s attempting to get Dana to break through and speak to him. This is based on actual parapsychological training when dealing with a presumably possessed person.
Yeah, one of the few scenes that show Venkman's IS well educated.
@@FallenRingbearer and that he’s not a totally sleaze.
Jesus Christ you just blew my mind with what you just said. Literally after years and years of watching this movie on repeat I never once put that together. That’s amazing like WOW.
Shit I had no idea!
Ah, so it's AUTHENTIC baloney.
"Where do these stairs go?"
"They go up."
Still one of my favorite movie lines ever.
In the decades since the movie was released, I have encountered maybe 4 or 5 opportunities to use that line when someone asked where some stairs go. Every time, it gets a laugh because just about everyone has seen this movie.
It's interesting Simone & George took that as a laugh line - I always saw it as kind of heroic, like "we have no clue where this goes, but we're going up." Murray says it with determination.
Fun fact: The denim guy in the background at 13:07 wasn't an extra, he was just some random guy who got into the shot lmao
About Ray Stantz' "Sorry" sounding very Canadian, well, the actor portraying him, Dan Aykroyd, is himself in fact a Canadian.
Its baffling that they wouldn't know that. I've lived Canada for about 7 years now, and one thing they all take pride in is knowing every famous Canadian person, and they will let you know what town they are from.
I believe Rick Moranis is Canadian, too. He played Bob McKenzie, part of the McKenzie brothers comedy duo who hosted The Great White North.
@@davidludwig1492 Yes, he is.
So is the director (Ivan Reitman)
@@davidludwig1492 Yes, Rick Moranis is indeed also Canadian.
When he plays Elwood Blues he adopts his Chicago accent and really amps it up.
The green ghost named "Slimer", is supposed to represent John Belushi, best friend of Dan Ackroyd, who wrote the script. John had died shortly before Dan Ackroyd started the script.
And Akroyd was most DEFINITELY writing the movie with every intention of his BFF Belushi starring alongside him in it. I heard he was even at his typewriter working on the script when he got the call that Belushi had overdosed on a mix of Heroin and cocaine
@@michellelamar8965 also dan based ray on him as dan is into the paranormal world and believes in it, his grandfather claimed to be psychic and hear ghosts
In-Universe he's the ghost of some rich guy who ate himself to death on the floor he's haunting.
€dit: The librarian worked and was murdered in the library in the 1920's.
Harold was with him writing the script after belushi passed. They based slimer on his roll from animal house and rewrote a lot of posters lines and he threw in what he wanted while filming. I'm sure some is still on the cutting room floor till this day.
Onionhead here. He didn't get the name "Slimer" until the cartoon shortly after the film.
Please watch "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray! On February 2nd is the actual "Groundhog Day"!
Oh yeah, one of my desert island top 5 all-time movies. Love Bill in that movie.
This.
@@carn9507 they should also watch "Stripes", an earlier collab with Bill Murray and Harold Ramis playing lead roles and directed by Ivan Reitman. This movie came out in 1981.
I second.
I wonder if it was released on Feb 2nd?? I hope so, now I have to Google it
"Gozer the Traveler wil come in one of the pre-chosen forms. Durring the rectification of the Vuldrenaii, the Traveler came as a very large and moving Torb. Then of course in the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrix Supplicants, they chose a new form for him, that of a gaint Slor! Many Shrubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the he-depths of the Slor that day I can tell you."
Vinz Clortho
The "REAL GHOSTBUSTERS" Cartoon Series from the 80s did a good job on expanding on the mythology... in ways the sequels / reboots never thought to touch on, like "What's actually in the containment system" and "What else is in Tobin's Spirit Guide besides Zuul". Also, Stay Puft isn't a real brand.
@@jeffburnham6611 From what I can see, Stay Puft isn't a real brand now, but it gets licenced out to different companies, currently you get CampFire brand StayPuft Marshmallows and a Tiny Rebel StayPuft Beer.
@@jeffburnham6611 eh... it's a movie tie-in brand.. like Bubba Gump Shrimp. I dont count those... they weren't previously in the culture, they exist only as licensing.
Because I'm sure a brand would be okay with their mascot rampaging through NYC and getting set on fire.
LOL "I'm not sure jumpy people should have this kind of weapon." Canadians are so cute!!
The thing about Walter peck is that he's completely overstepping his authority. The epa doesn't deal with nuclear. The nuclear regulatory commission would have a few words with the Ghostbusters, but not the epa
The containment unit isn’t nuclear, the proton packs are. His interest in it would be akin to investigating a warehouses storage of toxic materials.
Problem is he’s basically “entering the storage” with a flamethrower and all the toxic materials are explosive.
They also don't even have any "nuclear material". A nuclear accelerator has nothing to do with radioactive isotopes.
He actually seems to be more interested in proving fraudulent activity and just shutting them down, than in actual environmental damage. Definitely overstepping authority and abusing his position. Makes me wonder if he's not a member of Evo Shandor's cult.
As a kid we're on the Ghostbusters, side. As adults, we side with Walter Peck... To an extent.
I remember being in the hospital when I was 10 with pneumonia; my Mom rented Ghostbusters and the part with the maid putting the fire out with 409 made me laugh so hard, I had an asthma attack. Good times.
Aye.....shout out to mah boy Asthama.......glad I got rid of that boy 😁
The Green Blob Ghost would go on to be named Slimer. When the Ghostbusters got their own Saturday Morning Cartoon, Slimer became a pet, friend, and ally of the Ghostbusters. As a response to how much kids loved Slimer, he appeared in the sequel in the same role as the cartoon. He hung around the HQ and even helped during the final battle.
He's also may or may not be the ghost of fellow SNL cast member John Belushi
@@TheJabbate1 He is based on John as Dan confirmed this in a interview a few years ago
Also had his own flavor of kids drink during that cartoon era as well. "Hi-C Ecto-Cooler"
He's more of a mascot really, kind of like Orko was in HE-MAN, and Snarf in Thundercats.
And yes, Hi-C Ecto Cooler was the BEST, and I miss it.
In the script he was only known as “Onionhead”, because the prop they used apparently smelled pretty bad. It wasn’t until the cartoon did the name Slimer appear.
The cop from Family Matters was Powell, the cop in Die Hard. “D*ckless” was the jerk reporter in Die Hard. Ghostbusters 2 is worth watching.
Rick Moranis should've played John McClane.
Ghostbusters 2 is just as great in my opinion. You should check it out in case afterlife references anything from it and you are not totally lost. Great review!
"The Titanic has just arrived."
Eh, I wouldn't go as far as to say it's just as good as this one, but it's definitely not deserving of all the hate it used to and still often gets. It's only that way because the first movie was such a perfect movie that it was always going to be impossible to improve on it.
Ya, GB was hard to live up to. But GB2 didnt ruin the story, it continued it the right way. funny and smart
Not just as great, but still pretty great and a worthy addition to Ghostbusters. My own $0.02.
Carpathian Kitten Loss 🐱
Ghostbusters II is a worthy sequel, and so is Afterlife.
Yes, the only Ghostbusters life action movies
Wrong.
@@UncleForHire *spoilers*
epsecially the after life post credit scene where peter gets his karma from conning studing by shocking him by dana lol
You're correct Bob
Afterlife should have stayed in the grave
“Dropping off or picking up?”
Perfection in comic screenwriting and delivery.
“Zuul looks great on her” is pretty damn good too lol
The transparency of the gargoyle in that scene was due to how the optical printers back then worked when compositing separate images into one frame(usually when matte paintings, miniatures, and live action are combined).
Another famous example of something being transparent was prior to the 1997 special editions you could see through the frame of the cockpit of the snows speeders during the battle of Hoth in The Empire Strikes back.
It's also a ghost gargoyle
The "Go get her, Ray!" line is Venkman getting back at Ray for when Rey got Venkman to talk to The Librarian at the film's start.
I use that line all the time regardless of the actual person's name.
Pretty sure it was improvised as well.
"Zhuul is kinda HOT!"
Some things that were true about 40 years ago are STILL true today!
So glad you two have FINALLY watched one of the most quotable movies in history!
My favorite line: ‘dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria.’ (And yes you need to see Groundhog Day.’)
I love that line but it doesn't really make sense, does and cats live together all the time. I myself had a dog and cat when I was little.
@@3DJapan It makes sense if you grew up watching cartoons. Dogs were always chasing cats, cats were always chasing mice. It's a cartoon trope.
@@johnplaysgames3120 Ya I saw a reactor that was horrified at the shotgun scene in Scrooged and someone in the comments posted about how that is a common Looney Toons cartoon trope with Elmer Fudd. Ghostbusters, amongst others, was made when Warner Bros. cartoons were ubiquitous and everyone just got it
What about Bob is better.
..... "It's the StayPuff Marshmallow Man."
RARRRR!!!
That's one of the best reveals in movies. So great in the theaters when you had no idea what to expect. :D
And it was hinted at throughout the film!
My brothers and I (I'm the youngest of three) had a recorded VHS with Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, and Beetlejuice on it, and we watched it endlessly. This movie is surely integral to my childhood.
I’m the oldest of three. Our VHS was Ghostbusters, Batman, and the G.I. Joe animated movie. Good times
Being able to put multiple movies onto a VHS tape is def a "video editing" skill i have on my resume.
@@michaellarnach4161 LOL, me too. That extended play was nearly unwatchable, but your dad wouldn't buy more tapes so you had to use it.
@@stargazer1682 stopping recording and thumb hovering over the record button during tv ad breaks to save even more time
So you’re the one responsible for that stage show at Universal Studios that mixed the two IP’s together
The role of Winston was originally written for Eddie Murphy, but he couldn’t do it because of other projects and they shrunk the role. I always wonder what this movie would have been with Eddie in the cast.
Overshadowed by him quite possibly. He was becoming a superstar.
@@namelessjedi2242 MAYBE overshadowed. John Belushi was supposed to be in it too, so maybe not.
@@namelessjedi2242 it wouldn’t of been overshadowed by him. It came out as he was getting popularity so it would of just springboarded him into bigger fame quicker than he was already going. It wouldn’t of been a huge role but he’d of been great.
Not saying who played him wasn’t. I enjoyed Winston as is
I prefer it without Eddie
Quoting Back to the Future while watching Ghostbusters - new level unlocked
I love that Huey Lewis sued Ray Parker Jr over the song. It's very meta. 😂
I remember when this movie came out in the 80s, the theme song was on every radio attached to a speaker. In restaurants, gas stations and grocery stores…it was everywhere.
Our music teacher would stop class early on Fridays so we could all dance to Ghostbusters.
I loved the cartoon series "The Real Ghostbusters" (1986 - 1991)!
I used to get upset if I missed an episode
1030am Saturday mornings! (For me anyway)
Even with the changes?
The cop that lets them out of the cell is also the cop in Die Hard. He also plays a cop in Chuck.
Also, an interesting little fact: Louis, the guy who gets possessed by the keymaster, kept getting locked out of his apartment.
William Atherton, who plays the EPA agent, was also in "Die Hard" playing the TV reporter who gets punched by Holly at the end of the movie.
And a cop on Family Matters.
According to "internet", Reginald VelJohnson played at least 7 different cop roles.
He was the limo driver in Crocodile Dundee! 😎✌🏼
Not only did he play a cop in Chuck, he played the same exact character, Al Powell, as he played in Die Hard. He was the cousin of Big Mike, who was the manager of the Buy More (parody of Best Buy) where Chuck worked as part of the Nerd Herd (a parody of Best Buy's Geek Squad). The show Chuck was known for pop culture references and a whose who of top tier celebrity guest spots, from the Sci-Fi, action movie, and spy thriller genres.
@@Erfedwe *who's who
23:38 Fun fact: In the days before the elevator was invented, it almost never happened that buildings were made more than five stories tall. Here, we have a key illustration of exactly _why._
1:49, this is the real New York Public Library. The next scene, in the basement, was filmed in the Los Angeles Public Library.
This is legit one of my favorite movies ever, so it's always nice to see people giving it some love.
Interesting note: Bill Murray's part was originally meant to be played by the late John Belushi, and the green 'slimer' ghost they catch in the hotel was written in as a tribute to him.
Also the Winston part was supposed to be bigger and was meant for Eddy Murphy but he turned it down
lightning in a bottle
Also, I'd recommend "The Last Starfighter" (1984). One of my favorites from childhood! 🙂
I second this recommandation! "The Last Starfighter" was so much fun!
Greetings Starfighter! :o)
Yaaaaassssss
BUT
I can’t watch the beta in bed bit scared me for life lol
I’m 43
@@minnesotajones261 You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada!
@@lordmortarius538 Love Robert Preston in that role... Almost like Harold Hill from The Music Man was back, and was an alien too.... ha!
One of the best movies ever made, so creative, a kind of parody to all the horror movies at this time.
The sequel is good, not so good as the first, but definitely okay to watch.
I liked the second just as much as (maybe even a little better than) the first. I suspect it's because I only watched the 1st one once as a kid and didn't remember much, so I only really experienced both as an adult. People who grew up with a movie and anticipate a sequel are notoriously unlikely to like the sequel (or at least find it inferior). That's why the franchises in which that wasn't the case are so famous for it (Alien and Terminator most notably).
"Who said sorry like that? It was very Canadian." For the record, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis and Ivan Reitman are all Canadian.
Also there are 2 sequels - Ghostbusters 2 (which I also love), and the now released Ghostbusters Afterlife, which is pretty much everything Ghostbusters fans have been waiting for since Ghostbusters 2
The producers tried to hire Huey Lewis to write and perform the music for Ghostbusters. The deal fell through, so at the last minute they hired Ray Parker, Jr. In the limited time he had, he came up with the hit that was the theme song for the movie. It was very similar to Huey Lewis's song "I Want a New Drug." Lewis sued for copyright violation and won. If you listen to the two songs you'll hear the similarity.
Stay Puft Marshmallows was a fictional brand that was invented for the movie. They're now a real product. You can get them at Walmart, though for some reason they're not available on Amazon.
One of my favorite lines: "It sounds like you've got at least two or three people in there already."
As soon as I saw you guys were reviewing Ghostbusters I had to stop & watch because Ghostbusters is probably my favorite movie ever...I just love it so much!!! "Call it fate, call it luck, call it karma...I believe this review happened for a reason..."👻👻👻 Also fun fact, Slimer(the famous green ghost) was inspired by John Belushi which I love 😎
John Belushi was originally cast to play Venkman, but sadly he passed away from a drug overdose before he could take the role 😞
I first saw this movie when I was 2 years old, and my mom freaked when she found out, thinking that I was going to have nightmares for weeks or be scarred from it...instead, it became the most reliable means of getting me to sit down and shut up for a couple of hours for much of my childhood. Even at that young age I thought Bill Murray was the funniest thing around, which should've been a gigantic sign that I'd grow up extremely fluent in sarcasm and dry humor (as I still point out to them to this day).
Ghostbusters 2 and Ghostbusters Afterlife are absolutely worth a watch...the 2016 Ghostbusters, not so much, we prefer to act as though that one doesn't exist.
A movie critic called Moviebob did a great retrospective of this film in which he puts into words why this movie is so beloved by children, called “Ghostbusters: Really That Good.”
"The guy from Family Matters?!?!?". It was the guy from Die Hard!
Yeah and family matters too
I know. Surprised they didn't get that.
Stay Puft isn't a real brand, as far as I know. The character's appearance was made as a combination of the Pilsbury Doughboy, the Michelin tire man and Bob's Big Boy.
Earlier in the movie, there is a package of Stay Puft marshmallows in Dana's groceries.
A classic masterpiece of horror and comedy! Great reaction! Oh and Dan Akroyd is Canadian. That's why he had the accent, and so is Rick Moranis. This was shot in New York City and some stage work in locations and stage work in LA. Stay Puft is a fictional brand made for this movie, haha. Thanks, guys!
@@-M0LE Yes, although today they are now made for purchase.
"There is no _____, only Zuul" is still one of my go-to daily jokes.
Same, especially when people call my name
There's even a cameo in Warcraft 3; when you continuously click on a unit, it starts with throwing out voice-overs which often have a lot reference on pop culture (the Human Peasant for example has a lot of phrases from Monty Python's Holy Grail). The Undead Banshee has, among others, 'There's no Banshee, only ZUUL'.
Simone's face is so wonderfully expressive! Watching her is a show in itself! ;-)
I also sing "It's been a while!" by Staind every time someone says those words! And "Making my way..."
The one who said, "I'm soory." In a very Canadian way was Dan Akroyd (Ray) and he IS Canadian.
You guys should definitely watch Ghostbusters 2. It's a great movie, that I personally love just as much as the original, just for different reasons.
Because the first movie was such a phenomenon, you're always going to have people who will say "well the sequel wasn't as good as the first", but everyone I know who has seen Ghostbusters 2 says that they like it, and I even know a few people who say they like it _more_ than the first one.
GB2 is my fave. Also the ecto 1A looks better
I love 2. I love Afterlife. I love the 09 game. I love TRG cartoon
It's OK, don't know why anyone would think it was terrible.
Yes, GB2 is worth watching.
I saw GB: Afterlife a week or so ago. I know some people don't like it, but I thought it was pretty good. As long as you stop expecting it to be another clone of the first two GB movies and accept it for what it is, it's worth seeing.
Afterlife has a 95% user rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Most people like it.
I don't care what critics say, Afterlife was amazing. A "30 years later" sequel done right.
I saw this in the theater the summer it was released (1984). It was absolutely amazing then, and looks suprisingly great to this day. It has aged VERY well.
Harold Ramis tends to write fast paced “efficient” screenplays.
“Army of Darkness” is the same, just “go, go, go”, without any fluff or filler.
:23 - LOL . Every time anyone says "It's been awhile since ...." , that is exactly what my friend group does.
Simone rocks. And George too , of course lol
Fun Fact~When the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man was killed. All that melted marshmallow came down on the Environmental guy. That was actually sour cream...🤢
Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" song is the best recording of 1984! I even have the 45 RPM record! 😁😁
This is probably the best Ghostbusters reaction I've seen. You guys seemed to really understand the tone and get the humor better than other reactors I've watched.
Dana's apartment is 55 Central Park West.. Course, the top of the building was extended by matte painting into how it appears in the film.. But on top of the REAL building is a rooftop apartment that once belonged to famed designer Calvin Kline..
Ghostbusters 2 is great as well, you should definitely watch that one. The 2021 movie is an entertaining new addition to the series (takes place in the same universe). The 2016 one will leave you feel disappointed about the wasted potential. Could have been a fun movie if it had a decent script and didn't ignore the earlier movies.
Ikr. As much as people want to shout "chauvinist!" if you didn't like that movie, I was actually excited by the idea of a new one with those actors in it. I assumed they were going to be people who purchased a Ghostbusters franchise and were trying to make it work or something. Then the first trailer dropped and immediately indicated it would be a reboot that ignored the previous movies and I started feeling a little iffy about it. Then the rest of the trailer played and I saw that they were leading with barf and fart humor followed up with the exact thing that makes so many SNL skits unbearable: constant shouting taking the place of actual jokes. I still thought I'd give it a chance but, yeah, no. It had moments but just wasn't funny.
Also, not to be that guy but why, in 2016, did the three white women get to be super smart scientists and whatnot while the one black woman had to be the "street-wise" non-scientist. As long as you're rebooting anyway, seemed like the perfect chance to go a little more color-blind with the casting rather than sticking to old-ass stereotypes.
All in all, that movie didn't die because "men hate women." That movie died because it wasn't good. And it didn't help that the cast and crew just attacked anyone who called it out. Just a bungled mess all around.
That is THREE mortgages at 19%, THREE. That is what makes Egon's line about the amount of the annual payments hammer home...he would have been better off selling the house. Also this movie has one of my favorite, most in character lines of dialogue of all the films I have seen. Dr. Egon Spengler 'Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.' Reginald Van Johnson in addition to Family Matters was John McClaine's LA cop buddy in Die Hard 1 and 2. Ms Weaver's building does have an elevator...with the gate opening and all that jazz apparently the power cut out or the damage to the top of the building put them out of order. Thus the stair scene.
This is still one of my all time favorite movies, and one of my earliest movie theater memories. Seeing that initial library ghost freaked out my 4-5 year old self, but I wound up loving the movie so much that I must have watched it a couple hundred times in the 80s-90s. So glad you guys got to watch it! I wish I could see it again for the first time.
One detail I just noticed. The news anchor mentions a "ghost locomotive" his grandmother used to talk about. In the sequel, that actually makes an appearance.
You should watch Ghostbusters 2, it's almost as good as the first. The 2016 reboot you can skip unless you like SNL humor over the dry humor of the first one. The newest is essentially a spiritual sequal to the first two and ignores the 2016 version.
The sad thing is at the time this was SNL humor.
I watched the 2016 version for the first time a couple of weeks ago. I got my first laugh within five minutes.....and that was it. I reeeaally wanted to like it but just got so bored.
I can't promote the newest Ghostbuster: Afterlife movie enough. I was certainly surprised at how good it was.
I would ignore everything after Ghostbusters 2. The new one was pretty bad. The first half of the new one is a teen angst movie with the second a retelling of the first movie with added plot holes.
@@wallacewallaby5782 You're in the minority with that opinion. Afterlife is excellent.
Canadians well represented here - Ivan Reitman, Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd. Lots of great comedy talent in Canada in the 80s.
This was amazing! You're both so much fun!! Some random facts you might find interesting:
- Eddie Murphy was supposed to be the 4th Ghostbuster, but chose to do Beverly Hills Cop instead. He had just had a hit with Dan Aykroyd (Trading Places) and I don't think they've worked together again since Eddie said no.
- Bill Murray's role was written for John Belushi, who died before they could film. He was Dan Aykroyd's best friend. Slimer (the ghost that's binge eating) is supposed to be John.
- The earthquake scene is actually filmed in New York City, it's not a set. The moving ground was built directly on the street. My dad was an extra.😜
The sequel lacks the dry humor and fun of this one, sadly. Still, this movie is amazing and your reaction is wonderful. Comedy suits you both.
Eddie Murphy's participation is debatable. His, Dan's and Ivan's stories don't match up. Ivan was involved in the casting process, including casting Moranis and Weaver, and he said Eddie Murphy was never considered.
@@jedijones Dan wrote the script and both he and Eddie say he was the guy they wanted. It might be that Murphy said no before casting started.
This movie came out when I was a kid. A bunch of us went to see it shortly after it opened. It was an experience. The Ghostbusters theme and other songs topped the charts for a long time and for years you could see people wearimg Ghostbuster t-shirts, I even had one for a while.
Simone and George: “How’d they break up the street like that? They had to build a whole set right?”
New Yorkers who drive in those roads every day: “They could have shattered the roads like a dropper base and not a soul would notice…”
Dan Ackroyd is a Canadian so his Candian-sounding "sorry" shouldn't be too surprising. So is Rick Moranis ("the Keymaster"). Moranis was a member of the Second City comedy troupe from Toronto that went on to create a Canadian television sketch comedy show called SCTV ("Second City Television") that ran between 1976 and 1984. SCTV is where Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas created their iconic, beer-addled, Canadian brothers, Bob and Doug McKenzie (who would later be the main characters of the awesome cult movie, "Strange Brew"). Other members of SCTV that you might know from some of the movies you've reacted to would be Harold Ramis (Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters), John Candy, and Catherine O'Hara.
U forgot Eugene Levy! Tho, I suppose they didn't react to any of his movies... American Pie would b a good start 🙂
It was so nice seeing a modern audience actually appreciate Bill Murray's humor here. Every time I've seen people on youtube react to this movie, they all seem to get creeped out by Bill. So it was refreshing to see people actually understand that its just supposed to be harmless flirty humor.
William Atherton the actor who played Walter Peck the man from the EPA is also the reporter in Die Hard & Die Hard 2.
Also the Cop in the jail was the cop in Die Hard.
If you want more Akroyd you should do one of my favourite movies, “The Blues Brothers”. Probably the best Belushi as well.
9:57 - Annie Potts, AKA Sheldon's Meemaw, Connie.
20:58 - And also a really obscure movie you've probably never heard of, called Die Hard.
Back in the 80s, it used to take forever for a film to come to the pay channels (HBO, etc) after it played in theaters. HBO also used to do an unannounced movie at midnight on Christmas eve as a gift to subscribers. One year (probably 1984), they did Ghostbusters, months before its normal cable premiere. I had stayed up to see what movie they were showing, while my parents went to bed. So I got to watch Ghostbusters, alone in our darkened living room way ahead of anyone else. Good times!
Dan Aykroyd's family has a history with ghosts and the occult. His father wrote a book called, "The History of Ghosts" and was a reviewer of psychic acts.
It's not just Dan Aykroyd's father or his family. Dan himself is a self-ascribed 'Spiritualist' and believer in various paranormal, psychic and extraterrestrial theories.
What astounds me about this film, is that, Peter Venkman, is one of my favourite film character of all time, and the fact that the role was written with John Belushi in mind, but Bill Murray plays him so well, I now cannot imagine anyone else in the role.
Also, The actress playing Janine Is Annie Potts, who does the voice to Bo Peep in the Toy Story films
I don't think there's anything specifically pointing to ghosts in this movie as being the spirits of the dead, although it would lend a certain 'moral complexity' to what the Ghostbusters were actually doing! Most of them are rather apparitions or phenomena, not exactly associated with ghosts as we originally think of them, except for a few (librarian, cab driver)
A few in the second film too
“ The flowers, are still standing.”
This was the first movie quote that ever burned into my little kid mind. I watched this movie so much in the late 80s
A lot of people skip over this: The reason you're not supposed to look at the traps is that there was the possibility of them pulling your soul out through your eyes. Superstitious belief refer to the eyes as the "doorway to the soul." Dan Aykroyd is neck deep in Occult studies in real life, and strove to be as accurate to those beliefs as possible. Thus the concern for looking at the traps while in use (not to mention the more mundane issue of the bright light emitting from the traps that could be potentially blinding. Also, yes Dan Aykroyd is Canadian, thus his "I'm sorry" sounding Canadian.
I always thought it was just that the light from the trap was so bright it presented a danger of temporary or permanent blindness.
First generation National Lampoons and SNL cast members and writers (Ramis and Akroyd) wrote this. Which explains why this was so clean. I actually love Ghostbusters II and it's soundtrack is incredible, I feel it's underrated. Ghostbusters Afterlife filled me with joy. I cried.
One of those almost perfect comedies. A blue collar comedy about regular Joes doing an extraordinary job.
Winston's a regular Joe. The other guys have Ph.Ds.
@@Madbandit77 they're exterminators.
@@gallendugall8913 Over qualified exterminators.
I love Ghostbusters. It also holds a special place in my life as it was the very first movie we owned on VHS tape. We got it included with the purchase of our very first VCR player.
I think, tho it is never spelled out, that the effect of the crossing of the streams happens inside the portal, hence destroying THAT dimension instead. It is never said in the movie, never really hinted at, but it would explain why they survive and why the portal is destroyed.
That definitely makes more sense.
@@Rocket1377 Well my point still stands
Crazy trivia item: the firehouse/HQ set would later be used in "The Mask" (1994) for the interior shots of Ripley's Auto Finishing.
Remember? "Hold onto your lug nuts, it's time for an overhaul"? Same set, a decade later.
Great movie. You should watch the sequel it is good . A great Rick Morrines movie is Honey I shrunk the kids. Also a great fun horror movie is Tremors.Also watch Groundhog day in February 2
10:17 - Since Ecto-1 uses a siren that isn't common to any other emergency vehicle, then technically yes. However, the blue roller lights on the roof would be a no..
Your perception of this movie being efficient is quite correct. It's the genius of the writing behind it. What needed to be said was said, and when things didn't need to be said, actions were used to convey the message, and everything just flows without useless fluff. The 2016 reboot sucked, because it followed none of those things.
I love the critter cred all the time, aside from the orphan maker shirt and the other crit role shirts but “its been a while”
Love your reaction videos, you both are great at it. Please check out, if you have not seen it yet, "The Whole Nine Yards". It's a great dark comedy, star-studded cast and was filmed in Canada.
Summer of '84: I was 10 and my family went out to see this masterpiece at the Tivoli theatre. My crush on Sigourney developed from that moment on...
Thank you for this one, folks! ;)
You guys need to react to “Black Sails”, a great TV show about a combination of fictional and real life pirates, that is just amazing storytelling… technically a prequel to the novel Treasure Island…
Totally agree!! One of the most underrated shows ever.
Never heard of it - thanks for the heads up!!😁👍 (Hope it's on a service I have...)
Dear God yes, Black Sails is a masterclass in story telling, it'd be fantastic if George and Simone gave it a chance. A long shot, but it would mess with their hearts and heads in all the best ways 😁
Almost finished with the 1st episode of Black Sails. Thanks to Craig Wood and the others in this thread bringing it to my attention.😁👍 Never heard of it and am really digging it. Makes me want to play Black Flag again!
They used a real hotel ballroom (in LA) but covered the walls with duplicate panels to destroy. The Gozer building street front was also duplicated at the studio with fake erupting road sections.
Man that "I collect spores molds and fungus" line really hits different after the 2020 lockdowns.
Egon was ahead of the curve.
Does it though.
"Now I gotta go find a clip, add it into the video" My man delivered.
Thanks for the reaction! It's one of the most interesting ones personally, since I've never really "gotten" Ghostbusters. I still don't, but at least it was fun for me to watch what you guys see in it.
What exactly did you not "get" from Ghostbusters?
@@Tommieboy2009 It's never done anything for me. No kind of emotional response whatsoever besides boredom. This reaction helped me realize that some folks find it hilarious. So, it's just not my kinda humor.
There are 2 direct sequels now and one that we'd all like to forget. There was also a cartoon back in the 80s.
Hearing George relate with Walter Peck informs of how much ground has been lost with the youth since 1984.
I gotta admit, when they shoot their proton packs at that maid, that line "We thought you were someone else" ..... I think, that´s the funniest line in the whole god damn film for me.........
The next movie (Ghostbusters 2) is great as well -- it's a little more 'adult' (romantic) , so when it first debuted, some kids didn't enjoy it as much .
The 2016 "re-imagining" w/an all female cast is an abomination .
And the latest one ... I have not seen it yet, but heard good things .
Ghostbusters was 'Lightning in a bottle'. The movie wasn't intended the way it ended up as and right until the end it wasn't even sure whether or not it was going to be called Ghosbusters. There was another property with another studio that already had the name. But the director did the big crowd scene and had everyone chant 'Ghostbusters' and folks went 'well, now we GOT to use the name'.
So, with the cards. Did anyone notice that the guy got more and more cards correct the more he got frutstrated about it? First he started predicting the cards the woman would get and the last one was spot on ;)
When discussing the price for capturing 'Slimer' at the hotel, you can see Egon subtly stroke his cheek with a few fingers where Venkman could see them. Giving him a hint to up the price.
The commercial is a funny goof kept in as print. Harold Raimis (Egon) wasn't all that used to acting and they taped crosses on the floor for the crew as marks to move for the advert. Harold kept looking down to see where he needed to go. They figured Egon would also have no idea how to do this kind of thing so kept it in as a bit of a character thing.
For the final scene they used gallons upon gallons of shaving cream to simulate the marshmallow. The reason Venkman was so clean is that they started to spackle it on the others and Bill just flat out refused. They got to dab a few dollops on for looks but he just refused to be covered in it.
The “been a while” riff (and the many D&D references) make me wonder if Simone may be a Critical Role fan… 😁
Wearing an Orphanmaker shirt, I think so :)
@@solarbear26 Ohh I didn’t even notice that’s what the shirt was! Yep, that would confirm it lol
She's been wearing several CR t shirts, so yeah.
*(The green goober looking thing)* the audience members named *SLIMER* & it became a big hit merchandise & all
I have to say I'm mystified over the love being shown in the comments for the sequel. Ghostbusters 2 certainly had its moments but, all in all, it seems to me a mere shadow of the original. Ghostbusters - for all it's fantastical/supernatural elements - feels more or less "grounded", if you will, in a real New York City. The sequel...not so much.
I explained this to my guy the same way I explained Gremlins 2. The sequels have waaaaay lower lows, but some very high highs. I also feel that way about Back to the Future 2.
So it just depends on how nostalgic you are for Viggo and good ole Yanosh. And how much you can tolerate some strange plot screw screwups and that weird baby.
In 1984 when this movie was released the average mortgage rate was 13.88%. A 5 year CD savings account paid about 12% so a 19% mortgage isn't terrible.
Part 2 is great too!
What I'm loving is you keep dropping movie references in that you had no idea of before you started this project. And each movie gives you more and more ammo !