Alan Ford, New York actor and comedian, is starting a new column at SideSpliter.com, in which he watches iconic comedies that he somehow missed, starting with (inconceivably) Ghostbusters. It’s refreshing to read a smart review of the quarter-century old film, compared to the depressing string of tween Twitter comments like; “I just watched Ghostbusters and didn’t laugh once.” or “Ghostbusters wasn’t scary at all.” Sigh.
Anyhow, please do check out Alan’s first column – I’m looking forward to the rest, as they are posted.
So, Ghostbusters. I should mention that I have technically seen this movie, but not since the fall of the Soviet Union, when my review would probably have been written in D’Nealian, so I figured it was time. It’s considered by many to be the seminal comedy film of the 1980s. But is it funny to someone with no loyalty to it? In a word: definitely.
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i hate kid’s like this. i am 17 years old and my favorite movie of all time is ghostbusters. and i have to go thru so much crap everyday at school for it. i make it quite obvius that i love this movie. everyday i have to explain why it’s so great and they always say stuff like this
That was a good read. I liked the GB/BttF contrast.
It’s kind of interesting how people have different tastes and what not. I had a group of friends who had never seen the movie and being a huge ghost head I was like, “What, NOOO that that’s not possible!”
I always seem to forget that being 20 years old, I actually wasn’t even born when the first movie came out, and in turn it sort of makes sense that kids my age wouldn’t remember it. But I digress.
So me and some friends were having a sleep over and I put it in and of course after me hyping it up for years they all watched it and because it was late I’m sort of ashamed to say I fell asleep.
So the next morning I get up after everyone else and walk into the kitchen. We sort of get talking I mention the movie and everyone says “Meh it’s okay.”
So then a friend is carrying a carton of eggs and slipped and two of the eggs fall on his chest and crack, and and as he gets up and start wiping it off he says “Erg it slimed me.”
Then he looks at us realizing what he said and we all just lost it. I’m glad to say since then my friends have admitted it’s a good movie although not “The best movie ever made” as I often preach it is.
Only 1 slight issue came from that showing, a friend of mine is a tiny bit OCD, so he bought the movies recently afterwords, and watched them who knows how many times and for the next month he would throw out random Ghostbusters lines and I had to tell him who said them or what scene they came from, and sometimes finish them.
I’m a huge fan of the movies as I stated above, but anyone can admit that while at school and such something like that would be annoying. I mean I was glad my friend enjoyed the movies but still… You come into the lunch table worried about the science paper or economics paper you have to write and someone says, “Why worry each of us is just wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on out backs.”, or “Friends of yours?”
It would get a bit old to even the biggest GB fan or I think so at least…
((By the way I know the answers to the above, the elevator in the hotel Sedgewick, and the next line of “The Scoleri brother, tried them for murder, gave them the chair.” but those were examples.))
i dont know weather to say congrats for watching it… finally or give him the biggest finger of shame for leaving it so long, if a movie is that good you at least watch it 2-3 times in the space of 2 years minimum lol
or in my case Ghostbusters nearly 6-7 months appart! still the best movie ever!
Nice reading, thanks for sharing!