Ghostbusters
POSTED BY: RIPWash
UPDATED: Friday, June 19, 2009 16:37
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Hallo . . . . My name is Inigo Montoya . . . 
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"It's okay! I'm a leaf on the wind!!!"
"What does that mean?!?!?!"
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Quote:I believe there are three great storytellers of my time.
Originally posted by Kwicko:
It *IS* a rather difficult movie for the uninitiated.
And parts of it are just horrible. Honestly, who the hell ever thought Sting could be an actor? "I *will* kill him!"
Joss Whedon - in the medium of TV
Neil Gaiman - in the medium of graphics
(The Late) Frank Herbert - in the medium of novels
This puts me in a biased position to have a conversation about Dune but I can absoutely agree that the 1984 film was corrupted in several places. Heartplugs. Killing people with sound. Sting's presence. The more recient Sci-Fi channel effort fixed many of those issues...but then created a whole new freakshow: Idiotic costumes, changed plotlines (Irulan seducing Feyd), ect. Watched together however, the full image of the tale's glory is almost all there. And Children of Dune throws a near bullseye, since sci-fi was hammered with emails from people like me upset over the stupid Bulls**t present in the orginal effort.
I guess I cannot think of another 80's effort that you might have liked. I really can't wrap my mind around why anyone who likes Firefly wouldn't be at least amused by Ghostbusters.
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Quote:But...but...they mugged a dude in Heaven in the second one...how can you top THAT???
Originally posted by Kwicko:
What if I were to say that Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was the better movie of the two?
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:Some dudes are repulsed by hype... I have a friend that would NOT go to see 48HRS when it came out, just because it got great reviews & fantastic word of mouth recommendations.
Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:
I really can't wrap my mind around why anyone who likes Firefly wouldn't be at least amused by Ghostbusters.
It boggled my mind back then, but it really has an effect on some peeps.
The laughing Chrisisall
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RIPWash's list of great 80's flick . . . in his opinion, that is 
16 Candles
A Christmas Story
A Fish Called Wanda
The Abyss
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Airplane
All of Me
Amadeus
Always
Back to the Future (1 & 2)
Batman
Beetlejuice
Big
Big Trouble in Little China
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blues Brothers
Caddyshack
Can't Buy Me Love
Clue
Conan the Barbarian
Die Hard
E.T.
Electric Dreams
Escape from NY
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Flash Gordon
Fletch
Good Morning, Vietnam
Goonies
The Golden Child
Gremlins
Innerspace
Johnny Dangerously
Karate Kid flicks
Krull
Labyrinth
Ladyhawke
The Last Dragon
The Last Starfighter
Lethal Weapon
Little Shop of Horrors
Man With Two Brains
My Bodyguard
Naked Gun
National Lampoon's Vacation
One Crazy Summer
Overboard
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Police Academy
Poltergeist
Pretty in Pink
Princess Bride
Predator
Rain Man
Indiana Jones flicks
Real Genius
Red Dawn
Remo Williams
Revenge of the Nerds
Robocop
Road House
Roxanne
Romancing the Stone
Running Man
Running Scared
Say Anything
Scrooged
She's Having a Baby'
Short Circuit
Some Kind of Wonderful
Spaceballs
Splash
Strange Brew
Stripes
The Thing
This is Spinal Tap
Tootsie
Top Gun
Top Secret
Trading Places
Tron
UHF
Uncle Buck
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Willow
Young Einstein
Young Guns
Young Sherlock Holmes
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Quote:My neighbor who I converted to Firefly handed me this DVD with a smirk. I'm still not sure what the hell I saw. Have you seen this one Chris? What a bizarre unrealistic wackadoodle movie.
Originally posted by RIPWash:
The Last Dragon
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It's a little odd, but surely memorable.
Sho'Nuff!
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Ripper, I assume you've never seen "Creator" starring Peter O'Toole. If you had, it would be among your favorite 80s movies.
Mike
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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OOOOF!!! Forgot that one!
*EDIT* There were plenty more, but these were among the "Best of" while the others were good, just not quite as good, and horror was never a genre I got into.
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Quote:Classic weird, from the writer of Big Trouble In Little China!
Originally posted by RIPWash:
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
Quote:Shiny.
Back to the Future (1 & 2)
Quote:Carpenter & Russel's best.
Big Trouble in Little China
Quote:One of my faves.
Gremlins
Quote:Love it- wish it were anamorphic (& had a better musical score at the beginning).
Ladyhawke
Quote:Little-known, but absolutely CLASSIC!!!!
One Crazy Summer
I would add
Aliens
Blood Of Heroes
Cherry 2000
Blue Thunder
Somewhere In Time
Legend (whichever cut)
Firestarter
Sharkey's Machine
The laughing Chrisisall
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