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Hey since you mentioned how seeing this changes your opinion of the remake PLEASE watch the original the Crow before they release the abomination of a remake.
It took me a lifetime to realize the subtle irony of Rick Moranis being constantly locked out until he becomes the key master, at which point he effortlessly opens Dana's door.
The green lumpy ghost known as "Slimer" is supposed to represent John Belushi, friend and partner of Dan Akroyd, who died shortly before the script was written.
Dan wrote Venkman's part for John Belushi and as much as we love Murray you can easily imagine Belushi playing Venkman, but no one else other than Murray and Belushi.
Murray's "Peter Venkman" is an interesting character psychologically. Some people pretend to be decent, but are actually bastards. Venkman is the opposite; on the surface he is a total cynic and a$$hole who just wants to use the "paranormal" stuff to get into the pants of women. He has probably convinced himself that he really is that sort of person. But when the stakes are raised, we can occasionally glimpse a somewhat more decent core to his personality. He does not, for instance, take advantage of Dana when she is possessed and actually throwing herself at him, since he knows she is not in control of herself. Nor does he pull out and desert the others when the Ghostbusters go to face Gozer, even though the confrontation will plainly be as mortally dangerous as any horror-comedy will allow for.
And he's the first one to fire his beam when they were all convinced that crossing the streams will destroy them all, showing that he's willing to self-sacrifice to save everyone else.
True. He's not really an asshole, he just has a playful, cynical, witty sense of humour, and clearly tends to greet most things in jest, but otherwise he's harmless at heart, even if he's being a typical guy trying to score lol. My favourite character in Ghostbusters for sure.
Great comment. I've seen a few reactors clutching pearls over Venkman's behaviour, but he just represents the kind of complex character you rarely see in movies these days.
I love this analysis of Peter - never thought of him this way. He's like a reluctant hero, but probably feels some responsibility for deactivating the containment unit and indirectly opening the portal for Gozer.
Oh. My. God. I’ve seen this movie I don’t know how many times, and I never noticed that. Now, it’s the funniest thing to me. That’s the kind of subtle humor Ghostbusters is known for!
Die Hard was a literal summit of 70's and 80's movie heavies. Forget about Hans Gruber, you've got the bad guy from Ghostbusters, the bad guy from Breakfast Club, the bag guy from The Goonies, the bad guy from Midway, and the bad guy from The Money Pit to get though first.
I was a big big Ghostbuster fan after watching this film back in 84. I still have the Original Soundtrack on vinyl. 12 inch glow in the dark picture disc on vinyl. I love your reactions to Ghostbusters. Groundhog Day was directed by Harold Ramis who playerd Egon.
Janine, the receptionist, is played by Annie Potts. She's been in a lot of stuff (Toy Story movies, Designing Women), but she's currently on Young Sheldon.
Dan Aykroyd was the one fixing the car because in real life, he was a renowned motorhead. He loved working on cars and could do anything with them. Having him working on this car was a tribute to him. There actually is a legend here in western New York State about a spectral locomotive. People claimed to seen a ghostly train coming down the tracks and hitting a car that was crossing the tracks. The real accident had happened early in the 20th century, but people continue to claim they have seen it happening.
Dan Aykroyd actually believes in ghosts and paranormal stuff in real life. So, yeah, can totally believe that the ghost train story would actually be a genuine New York legend.
Kinda funny they didn't get the euphemisms of "Gate-keeper" and "Key-master". lol😁 Suggestion: "Stripes" starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. Hilarious!
Yep, there was a cartoon, The Real Ghostbusters (it was called that because there was another cartoon with the same name, but it was different. One of the main characters in that one is a gorilla) and it was a great cartoon. There's even an episode that takes place after this movie and it also explained how Slimer (the green ghost who likes to eat) became one of their team mates. There are a few Ghostbusters comics, there's especially one that is a comic adaptation of the 2nd movie but it's drawn in the same style as The Real Ghostbusters cartoon. And Abby, that's Annie Potts, she was also in Pretty in Pink and voiced Bo-Peep in the Toy Story movies. And no, Harold Ramis (Egon) directed Groundhog Day.
@@parallaxnick637Joseph, not John. He's a great craftsman when it comes to writing TV, comic books and movies. I've read his Art Of Scriptwriting book.
@JW666 The "other show" was actually first, caused a bit of a legal dust-up and was live-action. It starred Forest Tucker and Larry Storch, who had previously appeared together in _'F Troop'_ and later it was done in cartoon form.
I read about the whole affair surrounding the "Ghostbusters" name. It's wild. Imagine if we got a live-action "Ghostbusters" movie starring a guy in a gorilla suit.
Green Mucinex ghost is named "Slimer". When the Ghostbusters Saturday morning cartoon aired in 1986, Slimer was portrayed as being mischievous but had good intentions. He served as the Ghostbusters' mascot, eventually becoming a supporting team member. This is why in Ghostbusters II (1989), Slimer is shown as less of an antagonist and more of a silly prankster.
45:40 -- Dana's apartment building is at 55 Central Park West.. And yes, there really IS a church next door... Course, the top of the building doesn't look like that though.. It was a matte painting to give the building more height and to complete the temple on top.
The opening scene with the 'ESP experiment' is a good one to show to psych classes to point out how many procedural and ethics violations there are :) Makes you wonder where the hell he got his PhDs from. At least Ray and Egon are competent. Nice you mentioned the cartoon. The first two seasons of Real Ghostbusters were terrific (before they changed to make it more kid friendly). It was a way better followup than the sequel.
In that scene Dr. Venkman proves his theory on the impact of negative reinforcement on people psychic ability. He continues to provide negative reinforcement until the subject actually displays genuine psychic abilities. He basically proves a world-altering theory that would have landed him a Nobel prize had he not been sidetracked by all those ghosts.
@@therunemeisterHe still shocked him for the correct answer. Plus the subject left after that, so something tells me he was more focused on trying to woo the girl, and not actual scientific studies.
The reason Slimer and the library ghost looked different is because they're different types of ghosts. The Gray Lady, the actual name of the Library ghost, is the spirit of someone who was alive, while Slimer is more like a manifestation of gluttony and sloth. If your wondering, The Gray Lady is a Class 4, and Slimer is a Class 5. Also, fun fact: the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is canonically exactly 112.5 feet tall.
I love when something looks like a crazy supernatural thing but is just being done with a simple practical effect. People frequently wonder about how they did that thing at the start where all of the cards in the card catalog are flying out of the box one by one. It's a pipe in the back of the drawer with a jet of compressed air.
The Ecto 1 is a Cadillac Miller Meteor Sentinel, which is a combination utility vehicle. They could be configured to swap between the roles of a hearse or an ambulance with relatively minimal time and effort.
@@oneearrabbit and this one rolls in with a gumball emergency light on the roof - clearly it was an ambulance but I guess younger viewers don't know ambulances were once like that.
2:07 They did that by having a prop catalogue drawer on the set. The drawer was pushed open from the back, and the cards were blown out via copper piping. N.B. The commentary on the DVD states that it was copper piping and not an air hose as some sources may tell you.
I worked a summer in a movie theater and between shows we put on leaf blowers that we joked looked like those proton packs. We blew the popcorn and trash to the bottom then scooped it up to turn it around in 10 minutes.
The fire house in frozen empire was built specifically for the movie on a set in London. The exterior of the fire house in the original 2 movies is in New York while the interior shots were done at a fire house in Los Angeles. The interior firehouse was also used in the mask with Jim carry.
17:50 actually all 4 kids from stranger things wear ghostbuster's costumes, and one of them - actor Finn Wolfhard also has a role in the new Ghostbusters movies.
@@parallaxview2143 Hey, if you don't like 'em, fine, but they can't be any worse than the reboot. That movie was an abomination. Shouldn't have even been a thing.
@@EntertainmentFan11 well quite! I'm in full agreement. We only needed one Ghostbusters movie. The rest is frivolity and cynicism. The 'Real Ghostbusters' being the notable exception.
It is believed by some in the parapsychological field of study that menstruation and the hormonal emotional interaction it makes it easier for psychic phenomena and abilities to manifest during that time. Much along the lines of how it is believed teenagers going through puberty manifest poltergeist activity.
Rick Moranis is a National Treasure and gave us so many classic memories. I will never blame him for leaving the industry to be with his family, he owed us nothing. I never noticed the clever irony of the key master constantly locking himself out as a kid, hilarious. I'm not entirely convinced that Bill Murray, just as Jeff Goldlbum are actors, they're being themselves with a camera in the room!
He's gonna be coming back. He and Josh Gad are planning a "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" legacy sequel. No further word has come out about it, but I guess it's still in early development stages.
"Slimer" the green hungry ghost was so popular that they made him the Ghostbusters sidekick in the cartoon series that was based on the films. There was actually a second cartoon series based loosely on the films later too. Apparantly, Dan Ackroyd chose the Ecto One car for the film as he's a big car buff and thought, rightly, that it would look cool. Dan (Ray) also cowrote the script with Harold Ramis (Egon) and Rick Moranis (Tully). Ivan Reitman directed this film, but Harold Ramis later directed Bill Murray in Groundhog day. (And had a brief cameo as the Doctor that Bill's character goes to to get checked out part way through.)
Part 3, released in 2021, was fantastic. It's never a good idea to watch a Part 3 released 40 years later before the 2 originals. If you watched the ladies' reboot, that's definitely a movie to forget forever. Looking forward to you rewatching Part 3 after Part 2 as Part 4 is released 1 week from today. Also, it was ALL the Stranger Things boys dressed as Ghostbusters and it was Season TWO of Stranger Things. And, now MIKE is a REAL Ghostbuster.
This movie is so fun to watch. The music video related to the movie is fun also. Looking forward to when you watch part 2 & Afterlife. Yes, you are correct. There was a cartoon series & I grew up watching it.
They ejected the card catalog with guys behind the wall pushing out the drawers and they had air hoses blowing the cards out. Then the ghost jizzed all over it.
Last week the Japanese girls known as Atarashii Gakko released their new Ghostbusters music video on RUclips, looks like they're on the soundtrack of the new Ghostbusters coming out this month! There was a big, popular cartoon that came out of this movie, and it really played up the little green ghost, Slimer. He became the team's mascot. I'm pretty sure they sold a ton of Slimer toys back in the day.
A commenter above mentioned it had a "gumball emergency light" on the top when it first appeared, which would suggest it was last used as an ambulance when Ray got it.
Total protonic reversal would not only been very painful it would also last an extremely long time for the one experiencing it. It’s all about relativity. As matter moves faster and approaches the speed of light, time for that matter slows down. Now imagine every molecule of yours exploding at the speed of light. It would only last an instant for anyone who witnesses it but would last an infinitely long period for the one it happens to because time for them has for all intents and purposes stopped.
This movie has been stuck with me since age 4, still is. Love the 2nd film as well, use to own the toys, nintendo games, I miss my childhood. Afterlife is great. I'm seeing Frozen Empire next week.
The university scene was filmed on the Columbia University campus. The scene at Tavern On the Green Restaurant (located in Central Park) is a joke about New Yorkers being indifferent while crazy things are going on in front of them. The Ghostbusters headquarters is an actual working FDNY firehouse located in Tribeca (several blocks north of World Trade Centre).
First off, you’ve got to watch the official music video of Ray Parker, Jr., singing the theme song with all the cameos. It’s 80s priceless. Looking for some good movies of the stars. Bill Murray early on did Meatballs and Stripes, also starring Harold Ramis. Dan Akroyd should be seen in My Girl and a small part in a movie called Evolution. Rick Moranis is great in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Parenthood. Ernie Hudson plays an empathetic cop in The Crow. And, just for a recommendation, I think you two should take a shot at a movie called The Relic (1997). As always, loved the reaction.
Awesome reaction cheers from Sweden i remember when i first saw this back in late 80's i was like sold. I was convinced i wanted to move to USA and catch ghosts lol. Love your commentaries you are so natural and i think can joke about anything :). We need more like you in the world.
Fun fact: Walter Peck, the EPA lawyer in the 1984 film Ghostbusters, is so disliked by audiences that the actor who plays him, William Atherton, has said that his life was ruined by playing such a loathsome character.
It's due to the many people who hated on the actor himself, them not realizing that he's not like that in real life. If I were to meet him, I'd shake his hand and ask him if he has any fun memories from working on Ghostbusters.
You still do, the online crap is wrong about something more often than not. Even google's fact checkers admitted they are wrong 80% of the time by their own audit.
@@charlesmaurer6214 In fairness, when doing research, you should never "single source" anything. You should review multiple sources, note the points of agreement and disagreement, in order to build a statistical consensus. The larger the sample size, the more representative the distribution. Bell curves and such. Do they teach kids nothing these days?
I'm a simple man. I see someone watching my favorite movie for the first time, I leave a comment welcoming them to the awesomeness that is Ghostbusters.
The scene where Zuul comes trough the couch with his claws scared the cr*p outta me when I was a kid. I couldn't sit comfortably on any couch for months.😂
good Dan Aykroyd comedies: "Sneakers" (1992) "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997) "Coneheads" (1993) "Evolution" (2001) "Dragnet" (1987) "The Blues Brothers" (1980)
A NYC High Rise apartment...on a Cellist salary, yeah...right. 😂 Even in the '80's, you need to keep on dreaming to have a High Rise apartment in NYC. 😂
Annie Potts is the receptionist. She starred with Molly Ringwald in "Pretty in Pink," "Toy Story," TV series "Designing Women," "Any Day Now," "Young Sheldon" and many more TV shows and films.
I've seen a dozen or more reactions to "Ghostbusters," but this is by far the funniest and most insightful. Hannah and Abbey noticed so many details and themes that a lot of people don't tend to latch onto right away ... like the fact that Venkman's deal is that he doesn't believe in any of it, and IS the one who views the whole thing as "a dodge, or hustle" as the Dean said. I'm still waiting though for some reactor to mention that while Peck is a jerk, and in over his head, he's not entirely wrong to wonder A) whether maybe the Ghostbusters are just scam artists, and B) if what they are doing might ACTUALLY be dangerous and toxic.
THe actress that plays their secretary, Jenine is Annie Potts. She was noted to be on the series Designing Women as Mary Jo and recently, if you have watched "Young Sheldon" she is Sheldon's Grand Ma.
Two things. First, the eggs popping out of their shells was achieved with purely practical effects, given how expensive CGI was back then. Second, I've seen this movie more times than I can count, and still see things I missed previously. For example, we have some serious foreshadowing in the egg popping scene with the bag of marshmallows sitting right next to the eggs.
12:20 actually it is an OLD ambulance: The Ecto-1 is a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Sentinel limo-style endloader combination car (ambulance conversion).
Correct. Easy enough to confuse the two, so I don't get upset about it, but it surprises me how few people recognize that it's an ambulance and not a hearse.
@@anonygent Someone above mentioned that the emergency light it has at the start marks it as an ambulance before Ray got it, which makes sense. I don't imagine many hearses use those. Though it does kinda become a hearse after the Ghostbusters get it, considering what they use it for.
Love this movie. Saw it in the theater as a teenager. They had to pay big money to get Sigourney Weaver as she was huge at the time but she wanted to do it. The lady that played Janene the secretary is a well known actress too. Her name is Annie Potts. For years she played Mary Jo on the hit TV series Designing Woman and most recently played Sheldon's grandmother on young Sheldon
So I've watched this movie countless times since i was a kid in the 80s. It wasnt until a few years ago that I noticed that after they catch the first ghost when Peter is talking about the price Egon is holding up fingers so Peter knows how much they should charge.
I loved your reaction you two. This is what we got in 80s when you get the best comedians and actors and actresses to do a film. From Signory, Annie Potts, Dan, Bill, Ernie, Harold, Rick. They made this movie. Yes, I like that you caught this was comedy, but it had a great story and lore. This is why we love it. Plus, this was different type of hero movie. Comedy and men of science becoming heroes and willing to do anything to save their city. Neat tid bit of information. Slimer actually helps the Ghostbusters in the cartoon. :)
I watched this movie with the St. Louis orchestra playing the score. It was guest conducted by the son of Elmer Bernstein who wrote the score. The cool thing about it though, was his son actually conducted the original studio recording of the score.
They had Ray working on the car because he was the Mechanical Engineer of the group. Egon handled the theoretical end of how their tech worked, then Ray built his ideas into reality.
This is an iconic movie, even though its success wasn't expected at all. No one anticipated it to blow up the box office the way it did, but they created an incredible franchise with two sequels and third coming out this Friday(we will NOT speak of the 2016 all female movie that doesn't exist). RIP Harold Ramis(co-writer, co-producer, and star[Egon]). Also, I love how nobody in the restaraunt gave a single f*ck that a guy was being attacked outside LMAO 😂🤣😂🤣
My friends and I nerded out so hard over this movie when it came out. Not quite as much as the kids on Stranger Things, but we didn’t have their budget.
Suggestion: "King Ralph". The Royal Family gets wiped out in a disaster so they have to find an heir to become the new King of England. And they do: a lounge singer in Vegas played by John Goodman. It's hysterical!
Bravo on being the first reactors that I've seen who spotted the Terror Dog head on the monitor. Another major easter egg is the Stay Puft Mashmallows - a package of them next to the cooking eggs and an advertisement sign next to Ghostbusters Headquarters.
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What is your favorite Bill Murray film?
Ghostbusters. He played that role for 40 years now.
Caddyshack, Kingpin and The Life Aquatic.
Caddyshack is my favorite Bill Murray movie, Stripes and Groundhog Day are close seconds.
Hey since you mentioned how seeing this changes your opinion of the remake PLEASE watch the original the Crow before they release the abomination of a remake.
Please watch the original The Crow before they release the remake.
It took me a lifetime to realize the subtle irony of Rick Moranis being constantly locked out until he becomes the key master, at which point he effortlessly opens Dana's door.
......And i didnt realize that until i read your comment.
oh wow...
locked out of both his own apartment and also Dana's heart, then "he effortlessly opens Dana's 'door'"
wink, wink, nudge, nudge
wow....that metaphor was totally lost on me too....till now.
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"Listen... Do you smell something?" - Best quote from the film.
Harold Ramis (Egon) is the one who directed Groundhog Day.
RIP to him
The green lumpy ghost known as "Slimer" is supposed to represent John Belushi, friend and partner of Dan Akroyd, who died shortly before the script was written.
But we still have his unfunny brother!
@@diarrheagondola You should check out "Real Men", he's hilarious in that.
In the original pre-production designs the ghost is referred to as "Onionhead"
@@MrBigPicture835The Man With One Red Shoe, as well. But Carrie Fisher kind of, well, carried him.
Dan wrote Venkman's part for John Belushi and as much as we love Murray you can easily imagine Belushi playing Venkman, but no one else other than Murray and Belushi.
Murray's "Peter Venkman" is an interesting character psychologically. Some people pretend to be decent, but are actually bastards. Venkman is the opposite; on the surface he is a total cynic and a$$hole who just wants to use the "paranormal" stuff to get into the pants of women. He has probably convinced himself that he really is that sort of person. But when the stakes are raised, we can occasionally glimpse a somewhat more decent core to his personality. He does not, for instance, take advantage of Dana when she is possessed and actually throwing herself at him, since he knows she is not in control of herself. Nor does he pull out and desert the others when the Ghostbusters go to face Gozer, even though the confrontation will plainly be as mortally dangerous as any horror-comedy will allow for.
And he's the first one to fire his beam when they were all convinced that crossing the streams will destroy them all, showing that he's willing to self-sacrifice to save everyone else.
True. He's not really an asshole, he just has a playful, cynical, witty sense of humour, and clearly tends to greet most things in jest, but otherwise he's harmless at heart, even if he's being a typical guy trying to score lol. My favourite character in Ghostbusters for sure.
Never thought of it that way. Thanks for pointing this out.
Great comment. I've seen a few reactors clutching pearls over Venkman's behaviour, but he just represents the kind of complex character you rarely see in movies these days.
I love this analysis of Peter - never thought of him this way. He's like a reluctant hero, but probably feels some responsibility for deactivating the containment unit and indirectly opening the portal for Gozer.
It's funny how the future Keymaster keeps locking himself out of his apartment. ;)
That's the joke.
Oh. My. God. I’ve seen this movie I don’t know how many times, and I never noticed that. Now, it’s the funniest thing to me. That’s the kind of subtle humor Ghostbusters is known for!
He needed “The Gatekeeper.”
William Atherton who played the EPA inspector was also in Die Hard and Real Genius. He played a smug d-bag in all three and did it very well too.
Dogs and cats, living together!
Pair this movie with Die Hard, and you easily dislike any character played by William Atherton.
Don't forget Real Genius.
Die Hard was a literal summit of 70's and 80's movie heavies. Forget about Hans Gruber, you've got the bad guy from Ghostbusters, the bad guy from Breakfast Club, the bag guy from The Goonies, the bad guy from Midway, and the bad guy from The Money Pit to get though first.
Doja Cat’s living together 🤭
he is also a bank manager in Oscar with Silvester Stalone, another unplesent character
@@feldegastThat movie is one of my favorites. It's never gotten enough play.
I was a big big Ghostbuster fan after watching this film back in 84. I still have the Original Soundtrack on vinyl. 12 inch glow in the dark picture disc on vinyl. I love your reactions to Ghostbusters. Groundhog Day was directed by Harold Ramis who playerd Egon.
Never realized Ray Finkles mom, from Ace Ventura, was the librarian at the beginning. No wonder she’s nuts later.
Laces out, Dan.
laces out.
The engine’s running but theirs nobody behind the wheel
"Your gun is sticking into my hip" 🤣
What a sports nut, huh?
Janine, the receptionist, is played by Annie Potts. She's been in a lot of stuff (Toy Story movies, Designing Women), but she's currently on Young Sheldon.
She's great. Annie's also in "Corvette Summer" with Mark Hamill. She earned an Golden Globe nomination for that.
I LOVED HER IN PRETTY IN PINK
@@Madbandit77 Luv Corvette Summer...... I think that was her first movie.....
@@CoastalNomad It was.
@@Madbandit77 Nice to know my Memory ain't totally scrambled..... LoL
As a 6 year old in 1984, this was the highlight of the summer.
Edit: Ron Jeremy was an extra in this movie.
Dan Aykroyd was the one fixing the car because in real life, he was a renowned motorhead. He loved working on cars and could do anything with them. Having him working on this car was a tribute to him.
There actually is a legend here in western New York State about a spectral locomotive. People claimed to seen a ghostly train coming down the tracks and hitting a car that was crossing the tracks. The real accident had happened early in the 20th century, but people continue to claim they have seen it happening.
Dan Aykroyd actually believes in ghosts and paranormal stuff in real life.
So, yeah, can totally believe that the ghost train story would actually be a genuine New York legend.
Kinda funny they didn't get the euphemisms of "Gate-keeper" and "Key-master". lol😁
Suggestion: "Stripes" starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. Hilarious!
Whenever I read the channels name the first that comes to mind is "You can run with us! We got everything you need. Run with us! We are free."🎵🤣
Yep, there was a cartoon, The Real Ghostbusters (it was called that because there was another cartoon with the same name, but it was different. One of the main characters in that one is a gorilla) and it was a great cartoon. There's even an episode that takes place after this movie and it also explained how Slimer (the green ghost who likes to eat) became one of their team mates.
There are a few Ghostbusters comics, there's especially one that is a comic adaptation of the 2nd movie but it's drawn in the same style as The Real Ghostbusters cartoon.
And Abby, that's Annie Potts, she was also in Pretty in Pink and voiced Bo-Peep in the Toy Story movies. And no, Harold Ramis (Egon) directed Groundhog Day.
Some of the best Real Ghostbusters episodes were written by John Michael "Babylon 5" Strazynski.
@@parallaxnick637Joseph, not John. He's a great craftsman when it comes to writing TV, comic books and movies. I've read his Art Of Scriptwriting book.
@JW666 The "other show" was actually first, caused a bit of a legal dust-up and was live-action. It starred Forest Tucker and Larry Storch, who had previously appeared together in _'F Troop'_ and later it was done in cartoon form.
I read about the whole affair surrounding the "Ghostbusters" name. It's wild. Imagine if we got a live-action "Ghostbusters" movie starring a guy in a gorilla suit.
The funny thing is, the real ghostbusters was the original idea for the film, but they were talked out of it (luckily).
Green Mucinex ghost is named "Slimer". When the Ghostbusters Saturday morning cartoon aired in 1986, Slimer was portrayed as being mischievous but had good intentions. He served as the Ghostbusters' mascot, eventually becoming a supporting team member. This is why in Ghostbusters II (1989), Slimer is shown as less of an antagonist and more of a silly prankster.
45:40 -- Dana's apartment building is at 55 Central Park West.. And yes, there really IS a church next door... Course, the top of the building doesn't look like that though.. It was a matte painting to give the building more height and to complete the temple on top.
The opening scene with the 'ESP experiment' is a good one to show to psych classes to point out how many procedural and ethics violations there are :) Makes you wonder where the hell he got his PhDs from. At least Ray and Egon are competent.
Nice you mentioned the cartoon. The first two seasons of Real Ghostbusters were terrific (before they changed to make it more kid friendly). It was a way better followup than the sequel.
In that scene Dr. Venkman proves his theory on the impact of negative reinforcement on people psychic ability. He continues to provide negative reinforcement until the subject actually displays genuine psychic abilities. He basically proves a world-altering theory that would have landed him a Nobel prize had he not been sidetracked by all those ghosts.
@@therunemeisterHe still shocked him for the correct answer. Plus the subject left after that, so something tells me he was more focused on trying to woo the girl, and not actual scientific studies.
@@richardkirkland6805 He actually didn't get the right answer. He said "a couple of wavy lines". There are three... 🤣🤣 😈😈
The reason Slimer and the library ghost looked different is because they're different types of ghosts. The Gray Lady, the actual name of the Library ghost, is the spirit of someone who was alive, while Slimer is more like a manifestation of gluttony and sloth. If your wondering, The Gray Lady is a Class 4, and Slimer is a Class 5.
Also, fun fact: the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is canonically exactly 112.5 feet tall.
Luis Tully looking for a door to the restaurant is like me when I am in DIRE need to pee pee and there's no available bathroom stalls. 😂
I love when something looks like a crazy supernatural thing but is just being done with a simple practical effect. People frequently wonder about how they did that thing at the start where all of the cards in the card catalog are flying out of the box one by one. It's a pipe in the back of the drawer with a jet of compressed air.
"Take the stairs"
Lol. To hell with that, I won't make it 5 floors before that thing catches me.
The Ghostbusters mobile is not a Hearst, it's a late 50's Ambulance.
Which were also hearses. “As late as 1966, Simpson writes, about one half of the country’s ambulance services were provided by morticians.”
The Ecto 1 is a Cadillac Miller Meteor Sentinel, which is a combination utility vehicle. They could be configured to swap between the roles of a hearse or an ambulance with relatively minimal time and effort.
@@oneearrabbit and this one rolls in with a gumball emergency light on the roof - clearly it was an ambulance but I guess younger viewers don't know ambulances were once like that.
2:07 They did that by having a prop catalogue drawer on the set. The drawer was pushed open from the back, and the cards were blown out via copper piping.
N.B. The commentary on the DVD states that it was copper piping and not an air hose as some sources may tell you.
The woman who answers the phone is Annie Potts. She's plays Young Sheldon's grandmother on the TV show, _"Young Sheldon."_
The outside of the firehouse is a real building in NYC, but the interior of the Firehouse was a set built in LA.
The interior of the firehouse Is a real decommission firehouse in l.A and there's now being transformed into a museum of sorts.
@@notuptome I heard it was going to made into a local youth center.
It's the same interior as Egg Chen's place in Big Trouble in Little China.
The L.A. firehouse even shows up in the Jim Carrey comedy THE MASK. It doubled as a car repair shop in that film.❤
This was the first VHS my family ever rented for my birthday party as a teenager. Lol
This was a childhood favorite movie in our house and the other was Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. The best of the 80s
I worked a summer in a movie theater and between shows we put on leaf blowers that we joked looked like those proton packs. We blew the popcorn and trash to the bottom then scooped it up to turn it around in 10 minutes.
The fire house in frozen empire was built specifically for the movie on a set in London. The exterior of the fire house in the original 2 movies is in New York while the interior shots were done at a fire house in Los Angeles. The interior firehouse was also used in the mask with Jim carry.
"My favorite part about my period is the hallucinations." I laughed out loud hahaha hilarious.
17:50 actually all 4 kids from stranger things wear ghostbuster's costumes, and one of them - actor Finn Wolfhard also has a role in the new Ghostbusters movies.
Please don't mention those egregious nostalgia farming atrocities Sony calls 'movies'.
@@parallaxview2143 Hey, if you don't like 'em, fine, but they can't be any worse than the reboot. That movie was an abomination. Shouldn't have even been a thing.
@@EntertainmentFan11 well quite! I'm in full agreement. We only needed one Ghostbusters movie. The rest is frivolity and cynicism. The 'Real Ghostbusters' being the notable exception.
Bill Murray once walked up to me in a restaurant, took a French fry off my plate and winked at me and said no one would ever believe me.
... BEST CELEBRITY SIGHTING STORY ... EVER!!!
Did the same to me but he was with Dan Aykroyd at the time.... and he said nobody would ever believe it..
And he was right.
I'm about 50/50... this sounds like it could really happen, but then why would it?
@@anonygent I, for one, think it fits perfectly w Murray's slightly quirky sense of humor!
It is believed by some in the parapsychological field of study that menstruation and the hormonal emotional interaction it makes it easier for psychic phenomena and abilities to manifest during that time. Much along the lines of how it is believed teenagers going through puberty manifest poltergeist activity.
I love your comment because it sounds like it comes straight out the mouth of Egon! Excellent!
AKA how the plot of _The Howling_ came to be
best line ever...."Listen...do you smell something?
Lol I always loved that one too
Rick Moranis is a National Treasure and gave us so many classic memories. I will never blame him for leaving the industry to be with his family, he owed us nothing. I never noticed the clever irony of the key master constantly locking himself out as a kid, hilarious. I'm not entirely convinced that Bill Murray, just as Jeff Goldlbum are actors, they're being themselves with a camera in the room!
He's gonna be coming back. He and Josh Gad are planning a "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" legacy sequel. No further word has come out about it, but I guess it's still in early development stages.
"Slimer" the green hungry ghost was so popular that they made him the Ghostbusters sidekick in the cartoon series that was based on the films. There was actually a second cartoon series based loosely on the films later too. Apparantly, Dan Ackroyd chose the Ecto One car for the film as he's a big car buff and thought, rightly, that it would look cool. Dan (Ray) also cowrote the script with Harold Ramis (Egon) and Rick Moranis (Tully). Ivan Reitman directed this film, but Harold Ramis later directed Bill Murray in Groundhog day. (And had a brief cameo as the Doctor that Bill's character goes to to get checked out part way through.)
Always loved the fact that Ecto-1 is originally both a '50's hearse and an ambulance; life and death are inherent in their vehicle...
Part 3, released in 2021, was fantastic. It's never a good idea to watch a Part 3 released 40 years later before the 2 originals. If you watched the ladies' reboot, that's definitely a movie to forget forever.
Looking forward to you rewatching Part 3 after Part 2 as Part 4 is released 1 week from today. Also, it was ALL the Stranger Things boys dressed as Ghostbusters and it was Season TWO of Stranger Things. And, now MIKE is a REAL Ghostbuster.
In case this has no comment: Harold Ramis, the fun-guy, directed _Ground Hog Day_ where he played the Doctor looking at the x-rays.
This movie is so fun to watch. The music video related to the movie is fun also. Looking forward to when you watch part 2 & Afterlife. Yes, you are correct. There was a cartoon series & I grew up watching it.
"Take me, sub-creature" is still my most successful pickup line.
It works well on employees of Subway restaurants.
@@daerdevvyl4314 lol.
Probably beats my success rate with, "I'm going to put my evil inside of you." or "Do these walls look soundproof to you?"
After the "Don't stare at me, you've got the bug eyes" neg, of course.
We never talk anymore.
They ejected the card catalog with guys behind the wall pushing out the drawers and they had air hoses blowing the cards out. Then the ghost jizzed all over it.
When I was little. watching the Ghostbusters, the Terror Dogs made me hide as a way of being frightened by the terror dogs.
Egon may be the brains, but Ray is the heart of the Ghosbusters!
Peter keeps it cool. Winston is the sexy one.
The "mucinex" ghost was the ghost busters mascot in the cartoon. He lived in the firehouse and his name was Slimer.
I’m a Philly guy and I’ve been enjoying this journey you ladies are on. 🖖 go birds
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The Ghostbusters' receptionist is Young Sheldon's grandmother... what a small world.
Last week the Japanese girls known as Atarashii Gakko released their new Ghostbusters music video on RUclips, looks like they're on the soundtrack of the new Ghostbusters coming out this month!
There was a big, popular cartoon that came out of this movie, and it really played up the little green ghost, Slimer. He became the team's mascot. I'm pretty sure they sold a ton of Slimer toys back in the day.
They did? How did that get by me? I’m a fan of AG and a huge Ghostbusters fan
The Keymaster keeps locking himself out.
I thought the car was an old ambulance.
1959 cadillac that would be used as a hearse or an ambulance
it is
A commenter above mentioned it had a "gumball emergency light" on the top when it first appeared, which would suggest it was last used as an ambulance when Ray got it.
Total protonic reversal would not only been very painful it would also last an extremely long time for the one experiencing it. It’s all about relativity. As matter moves faster and approaches the speed of light, time for that matter slows down. Now imagine every molecule of yours exploding at the speed of light. It would only last an instant for anyone who witnesses it but would last an infinitely long period for the one it happens to because time for them has for all intents and purposes
stopped.
I appreciate your nerd cred, with an accurate appraisal of the ramifications of General Relativity.
Keep up the good work.
This movie has been stuck with me since age 4, still is. Love the 2nd film as well, use to own the toys, nintendo games, I miss my childhood. Afterlife is great. I'm seeing Frozen Empire next week.
5:14 OMG that period talk is hilarious 😂😂😂 (NGL I thought they were serious at first, was like "wait, what?" 🤦♂)
It's meant based on moods. Not imagining things based on periods 😒
There's also a whole thing in parapsychology that menstruating women are more susceptible to the paranormal and supernatural.
8:58 I brought that exact bottle of liquor to day drink by myself at Ghostbusters day last summer. Core memory
The university scene was filmed on the Columbia University campus.
The scene at Tavern On the Green Restaurant (located in Central Park) is a joke about New Yorkers being indifferent while crazy things are going on in front of them.
The Ghostbusters headquarters is an actual working FDNY firehouse located in Tribeca (several blocks north of World Trade Centre).
First off, you’ve got to watch the official music video of Ray Parker, Jr., singing the theme song with all the cameos. It’s 80s priceless. Looking for some good movies of the stars. Bill Murray early on did Meatballs and Stripes, also starring Harold Ramis. Dan Akroyd should be seen in My Girl and a small part in a movie called Evolution. Rick Moranis is great in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Parenthood. Ernie Hudson plays an empathetic cop in The Crow. And, just for a recommendation, I think you two should take a shot at a movie called The Relic (1997). As always, loved the reaction.
Awesome reaction cheers from Sweden i remember when i first saw this back in late 80's i was like sold. I was convinced i wanted to move to USA and catch ghosts lol. Love your commentaries you are so natural and i think can joke about anything :). We need more like you in the world.
thanks so much for your kind words!!!
Fun fact: Walter Peck, the EPA lawyer in the 1984 film Ghostbusters, is so disliked by audiences that the actor who plays him, William Atherton, has said that his life was ruined by playing such a loathsome character.
It's due to the many people who hated on the actor himself, them not realizing that he's not like that in real life. If I were to meet him, I'd shake his hand and ask him if he has any fun memories from working on Ghostbusters.
Back in the day when you actually had to research things in books. Lol
You still do, the online crap is wrong about something more often than not. Even google's fact checkers admitted they are wrong 80% of the time by their own audit.
@@charlesmaurer6214 That's true. But research was a much more involved process.....I remember using microfiche to research news articles.
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And 95% of statistics you read online are made up on the spot.
@@charlesmaurer6214 In fairness, when doing research, you should never "single source" anything. You should review multiple sources, note the points of agreement and disagreement, in order to build a statistical consensus.
The larger the sample size, the more representative the distribution. Bell curves and such. Do they teach kids nothing these days?
I'm a simple man. I see someone watching my favorite movie for the first time, I leave a comment welcoming them to the awesomeness that is Ghostbusters.
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I'm impressed your cat stayed in place for the entire movie despite you moving around constantly lol xD
Winston: "Tell him about the Twinkie..."
Peter: "What about the Twinkie??" 😂
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I think I went to school with your cat. When there is something strange in my neighborhood, I usually call Fred Flintstone.
The scene where Zuul comes trough the couch with his claws scared the cr*p outta me when I was a kid. I couldn't sit comfortably on any couch for months.😂
The most frequently-rented videotape where I grew up. The fad cooled down only because it became impossible to find a tape still in good quality.
good Dan Aykroyd comedies:
"Sneakers" (1992)
"Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997)
"Coneheads" (1993)
"Evolution" (2001)
"Dragnet" (1987)
"The Blues Brothers" (1980)
A NYC High Rise apartment...on a Cellist salary, yeah...right. 😂 Even in the '80's, you need to keep on dreaming to have a High Rise apartment in NYC. 😂
She works at the Met in 2, so maybe she does in this movie as well?
Annie Potts is the receptionist. She starred with Molly Ringwald in "Pretty in Pink," "Toy Story," TV series "Designing Women," "Any Day Now," "Young Sheldon" and many more TV shows and films.
Dan Aykroyd paid $4800 for a car in 1984. So that means the car was probably at best worth under a hundred dollars.
I ran it through an inflation calculator - $4,800 in 1984 is equivalent to $14,600 today.
I've seen a dozen or more reactions to "Ghostbusters," but this is by far the funniest and most insightful. Hannah and Abbey noticed so many details and themes that a lot of people don't tend to latch onto right away ... like the fact that Venkman's deal is that he doesn't believe in any of it, and IS the one who views the whole thing as "a dodge, or hustle" as the Dean said.
I'm still waiting though for some reactor to mention that while Peck is a jerk, and in over his head, he's not entirely wrong to wonder A) whether maybe the Ghostbusters are just scam artists, and B) if what they are doing might ACTUALLY be dangerous and toxic.
Same here, the more times I see this, the more I come down on Peck's side for most things.
THe actress that plays their secretary, Jenine is Annie Potts. She was noted to be on the series Designing Women as Mary Jo and recently, if you have watched "Young Sheldon" she is Sheldon's Grand Ma.
Two things. First, the eggs popping out of their shells was achieved with purely practical effects, given how expensive CGI was back then. Second, I've seen this movie more times than I can count, and still see things I missed previously. For example, we have some serious foreshadowing in the egg popping scene with the bag of marshmallows sitting right next to the eggs.
well he said that his parents left him the house and he now put already 3 morgages on it xD so he house came free xD
12:20 actually it is an OLD ambulance: The Ecto-1 is a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor Sentinel limo-style endloader combination car (ambulance conversion).
Correct. Easy enough to confuse the two, so I don't get upset about it, but it surprises me how few people recognize that it's an ambulance and not a hearse.
@@anonygent I used to think it was a hearse, then I got curious about the siren!
@@anonygent Someone above mentioned that the emergency light it has at the start marks it as an ambulance before Ray got it, which makes sense. I don't imagine many hearses use those.
Though it does kinda become a hearse after the Ghostbusters get it, considering what they use it for.
Love this movie. Saw it in the theater as a teenager. They had to pay big money to get Sigourney Weaver as she was huge at the time but she wanted to do it. The lady that played Janene the secretary is a well known actress too. Her name is Annie Potts. For years she played Mary Jo on the hit TV series Designing Woman and most recently played Sheldon's grandmother on young Sheldon
Thanks for inspiring me to go look up a video about the special effects, especially the library effects. Practical effects are so cool.
The Green ghost was made to be John Belushi's ghost, since John Belushi had died, or else he was going to be one of the Ghost busters.
He was right, I don't believe you.
This Movie Came Out The Year I Was Born, Hard To Believe it will be 40 Years Since This Movie Came Out,Times Goes By,Nice Reaction Ladies
The receptionist is Annie Potts, who was also in “Pretty in Pink” and is also in Young Sheldon as Meemaw
So I've watched this movie countless times since i was a kid in the 80s. It wasnt until a few years ago that I noticed that after they catch the first ghost when Peter is talking about the price Egon is holding up fingers so Peter knows how much they should charge.
"Upstairs. going to town" a.k.a. knockin' paranormal boots!
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The fact that the Keymaster keeps locking himself out of his apt makes me laugh every time.
I loved your reaction you two. This is what we got in 80s when you get the best comedians and actors and actresses to do a film. From Signory, Annie Potts, Dan, Bill, Ernie, Harold, Rick. They made this movie. Yes, I like that you caught this was comedy, but it had a great story and lore. This is why we love it. Plus, this was different type of hero movie. Comedy and men of science becoming heroes and willing to do anything to save their city. Neat tid bit of information. Slimer actually helps the Ghostbusters in the cartoon. :)
I watched this movie with the St. Louis orchestra playing the score. It was guest conducted by the son of Elmer Bernstein who wrote the score. The cool thing about it though, was his son actually conducted the original studio recording of the score.
That spiel that Rick Moranis did at the party was done in one take.
They had Ray working on the car because he was the Mechanical Engineer of the group. Egon handled the theoretical end of how their tech worked, then Ray built his ideas into reality.
The kid at the card experiment was also a member of Buddy Repperton's gang in "Christine"
'...ever since that meme kinda popped off.' And the hilarity continues..
This is an iconic movie, even though its success wasn't expected at all. No one anticipated it to blow up the box office the way it did, but they created an incredible franchise with two sequels and third coming out this Friday(we will NOT speak of the 2016 all female movie that doesn't exist). RIP Harold Ramis(co-writer, co-producer, and star[Egon]). Also, I love how nobody in the restaraunt gave a single f*ck that a guy was being attacked outside LMAO 😂🤣😂🤣
I actually think this is my favorite comedy film of the 1980s. And that's a tall order, considering all the great comedies in that decade!
Dan Aykroyd wrote this movie with Harold Ramis. Harold Ramis (Egon) wrote and directed Groundhog Day.
My friends and I nerded out so hard over this movie when it came out. Not quite as much as the kids on Stranger Things, but we didn’t have their budget.
Suggestion: "King Ralph". The Royal Family gets wiped out in a disaster so they have to find an heir to become the new King of England. And they do: a lounge singer in Vegas played by John Goodman. It's hysterical!
And for the gazillionth time the Keymaster locks himself out.
Rest in peace Harold Ramis.
Bravo on being the first reactors that I've seen who spotted the Terror Dog head on the monitor.
Another major easter egg is the Stay Puft Mashmallows - a package of them next to the cooking eggs and an advertisement sign next to Ghostbusters Headquarters.
40:31 OMG that never occurred to me 😳 Abby is a brilliant! 😍😂