Atari has signed on to host the meet-and-greet reception at this year’s MCV awards in London. The evening is being dedicated to promoting the Ghostbusters video game and Atari is promising an interactive evening, with “a few surprises.” Hopefully we’ll get to see some pics or video from the press afterwards.
Ghostbusters 7th best Liberal movie ever?
While one can’t help but frown at the use of nuclear power, there’s a lot to like about Ghostbusters, the tale of how strict scientists (“Every ancient religion has its own myth about the end of the world.”) take it upon themselves to save the world after losing their jobs to stodgy, rigid-in-their-beliefs, administrators. The non-discriminating team pursues a humane agenda of trapping and incarcerating pesky spirits, instead of vaporizing them, and when confronted with the extra-powerful being Gozer, the boys in gray attempt to open up a dialogue before having to resort to the non-capital punishment of trapping Gozer in its own dimension, saving the day. And hey, when you think about it, four 1000 year nuclear power sources are better than thousands of industrial batteries year after year, right? -Russell Jones
Ghostbusters custom Mighty Muggs (if only they were real)
Given that I live in an office that is slowly filling up with Mighty Muggs, I whole-heartedly approve of someone creating their own, custom Peter Venkman Mugg. Cheers, Ego, for the link.
MegaCon Ghostbusters afterlife-party tomorrow!
You in Florida? Going to MegaCon? Actually, you might not need to be going to MegaCon, just be in the area.
The Tampa Ghostbusters are throwing an AfterLife Party!
Go, if only because I cannot.
Ghostbusters 10th best Conservative film ever?
When someone decided Ghostbusters was a Libertarian film, it was only a matter of time before someone declared it a Conservative film – Overzealous government (Walter Peck of the EPA) interferes with small business.
This comedy might not get Russell Kirk’s endorsement as a worthy treatment of the supernatural, but you have to like a movie in which the bad guy (William Atherton at his loathsome best) is a regulation-happy buffoon from the EPA, and the solution to a public menace comes from the private sector. This last fact is the other reason to love Ghostbusters: When Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) gets kicked out of the university lab and ponders pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities, a nervous Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) replies: “I don’t know about that. I’ve worked in the private sector. They expect results!”
Frankly, if you watch Ghostbusters and THAT’S what you walk away with, I’m betting you walk funny. Because of the stick. And where the stick is. If you know what I mean.
And I think you do. Thanks to Mr. Hough for the link.