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Summary: Restoring a treasure
Review: When I had bought Ghostbusters, I thought I may regret it because I had seen it not too long ago. But when I popped it in the player, I was amazed. The color was bright, the sound was clear, and it has an extrodinary menu that is both pleasing to the eyes as it is fun to activate. The producers of the movie made a great effort to restore the film and its quality is probably better than it was originally. This is a must buy.
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Summary: Who you gonna call?
Review: I have to admit that I wasn't so fond of this film the first time I saw it, but over the years I grew to like it more and more. The principal characters work so well together. The story of three parapsychologists who decide to go into business, helping people who have a problem with ghosts or the unusual may not sound like the basis for a good comedy film but it works.There are features galore on this DVD - commentary tracks, storyboards, deleted scenes but I think its worth it just for the film alone. The transfer is excellent, great picture quality (anamorphic) and excellent sound. Complaints - come on guys, give us Ghostbusters 3!
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Summary: A Classic Comedy With A Great Cast And Funny Props Too
Review: I am not very fond of many of the movies today brought to us by former members of the cast of Saturday Night Live.(Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider in particular) I don't appreciate movies that are basically Saturday Night Live extended in minutes only with a price charged for the viewing. I don't like 90 minute(or longer) sketch fests. Why pay for what you can get for almost free on television?(The Waterboy, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Austin Powers: 1 and 2) While "Ghostbusters" stars former cast members of sketch comedy television shows(Rick Moranis in a show in Canada(I don't know the name) and Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd on SNL in America) this movie strays very far from that and has a very well defined hilarious plot. Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Harold Ramis play a group of university professors that are fired because of their crackpot theories that are referred to by the dean of the school as the worst kind of popular tripe.(Whatever that is) They decide to go into business for themselves as professional paranormal investigators.(They catch ghosts for a living) It's hilarity all the way when the Environmental Protection Agency attempts to shut down their operation and they are accused of faking their busts. The characters are unforgettable. You have Peter Venkman(Bill Murray), the pyschologist that never studied, Ray Stanz(Dan Aykroyd), the serious scientist who did study, Dr. Spengler(Harold Ramis), the eccentric crackpot theorist/scientist who might have drilled a hole in his head if Dr. Venkman hadn't stopped him, Winston Zeddemore(Ernie Hudson), the guy that just works there(The four gostbusters) then you have Dana Barrett(Sigourney Weaver) the first customer who is in need of busting(she has a ghost problem in her fridge), Jean(Annie Potts) the disgruntled secretary who says she had quit better jobs than the one she had with the Ghostbusters, and my personal favorite Lewis Tully(Rick Moranis), the obsessive compulsive accountant/neighbor in Dana Barrett's apartment building who seems hell bent on describing every little event in his life with absolute detail even spouting the price of the food he got for his client instead of friends party. Walter Peck, (I can't remember the actors name)the EPA representative is also a hilarious send up of the perception of just how ravenous the EPA can be at times when they feel strongly about an issue. Buy, watch, and enjoy a classic comedy of biblical proportions. Well, pretty damn close anyway.
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Summary: Criterion would have put this on two disks
Review: While I count myself among the many who consider Criterion's special editions the best available, I have to say I highly doubt they could have done this movie as well as this. The movie speaks for itself -- it is my all-time favorite, and still the most successful comedy out there. But this DVD may very well be the best one available, ESPECIALLY considering it was all done on a single disk (and comes at a single-disk price). I have not seen a better picture transfer, or a better 5.1 remix of an old soundtrack. That alone warrants high marks, but then come all the extra features. The menus themselves are some of the best you'll see, with three dimensional movement and fantastic sounds. It's one of the few which features moving scene selections. The number of deleted scenes is incomparable, as well as all the behind-the-scenes looks, including several featurettes, hundreds of photos, dozens of drawings, and trivia bits. The audio commentary is one of the best and most infomrative, and the silhouette feature allows the commentators to point to things on the screen. There is also a running trivia subtitle, explaining bits of scenes as the movie runs. I thought I knew and had noticed everything there is to know about this movie, but I was wrong. I spent several hours with the extras before I got around to watching the movie. Fans of the movie will wonder how they ever got along with the VHS version. Fans of DVD will certainly be blown away by what the DVD achieves. A must-have.
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Summary: Hilarious Box Office Smash!
Review: 'Big Budget' and 'Funny' rarely go together, but 'Ghostbusters' is the exception. With a screenplay written by, among others, SNL veteran Dan Aykroyd and featuring a droll performance by another SNL star Bill Murray. Add a little special effects to the mix, and you've got a cultural phenomenon from the 80's that's also one of the funniest films of recent times. While all the cast is funny, there is no doubt that Bill Murray gets the best jokes, Rick Moranis is also very funny as Weaver's bumbling neighbor. Filled with many elements that have now become screen cliches; green ooze called 'slime', the green blob called 'slimer' (who was supposedly modeled after John Belushi), and who could forget the attack of the giant marshmallow man. Very funny, filled with both low-brow and high-brow humor. From a scale of 1-10 I give this film a 7!
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Summary: Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters...
Review: Bill Murry, Dan Aykroid, Sigourney Weaver, And Harold Ramis Are Terrific In This Amusingly Funny And Often Frightening Comedy-Horror About A Special Orginization That Fights Off Evil Spirits...The Best Way To Describe It Is To Say It's The "Exorcist" Meets "Saturday Night Live"...That's Pretty Close, But It's Better...Starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, Rick Moranis...
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Summary: Best DVD I have seen!
Review: It looks amazing and has more extras then you can shake a proton pack at. You can not whatch the movie on TV after this, you start to notice how annoing the pan and scan and the blurrieness.
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Summary: SPECIAL FEATURES! SPECIAL FEATURES!
Review: This movie is a great example of why DVD was created. The commentary and special features of this movie are out of this world. Plus it is a fantasticlly funny movie. THis has become one of my favorite DVD's. You can watch this movie with commentary by Ivan Reichman and have sub-titled production notes from the film at the same time. Eveything you ever wanted to know aobut busting ghosts!
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Summary: Ghostbusters DVD Review: One of the best DVD's out there!
Review: I remember when I first watched this movie, I loved it and in fact, I actually built a Ghostbusters contraption backpack using a vacuum cleaner, a match and a can of Lysol. I don't recommend children doing this but the point I'm getting at is that this movie is magical and many people at that time loved it. I can't believe how old this movie is...makes me feel old but here I am with the DVD. I wondered how the DVD release would be and now that I have it in my hands, this is out how I felt: Good news DVD fans, Columbia Pictures did a great job in delivering this movie on DVD and jam packed it with a whole lot of extras. The movie is digitally remastered and watching it doesn't make you feel you are watching a movie over 15 years old. The audio is good but I can't put into words of how happy I am with this DVD because it's packed with so much that it will take me a long time to go through all of it. You get the video commentary of Ivan Reitman and Harold Ramis which is awesome. Storyboards, split-screen compare (which is very cool!), production notes, conceptual drawings, deleted scenes, featurettes from 1999 and from 1984, another documentary by the SFX team, before and after multi-angle (which is very cool), trailers of not just this movie but other Murray and Ramis films, subtitled production notes, I can go on and on....this DVD is awesome! The movie was definitely a good SFX movie during it's time and I remember being amazed as a kid on how they made this movie then. It was eye-candy but also with a cool storyline. Also, an interesting part of the film is the "Mystery Science 3000" shadows during the commentary. Pretty cool! What you have here is one of the best made DVD's available at this time. Columbia/Tristar did a wonderful job and everyone involved with the Ghostbuster project should be commended. They talk about how to make DVD's more purchasable than just for rent, if Columbia continues with making DVD's like these, I'm buying all of them because this is purely one of the best, complete package DVD's out there. Also, the box set which includes both movies is priced very well and I highly recommend buying the box set.
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Summary: Spores, moulds and fungus.
Review: Extremely well-remembered sci-fi/horror/comedy blockbuster from the mid-80's, almost uniquely combining a big budget, some great actors, broad-but-likeable characterisation and deadpan humour, as well as a terrific period soundtrack. It spawned a forgettable sequel (a kind of 'Ghosbusters : The Dark Knights Return') and an all-time classic computer game, famous for its ultra-beepy rendition of the title theme tune, in its entirety. 'He slimed me!' indeed. The effects still work nowadays, and even if they didn't it doesn't matter, as the film lives and dies with the writing, which is excellent. Dan Ackroyd has much less to do than the others, Harold Ramis has a few good lines (and an 'Eraserhead' haircut), but it's Bill Murray who takes the film, being the only 'normal' male character. Rick Moranis is effective, too, as a love-struck dweed, and Sigourney Weaver seems to enjoy playing an evilly-possessed enti-Ripley vamp. The portrayal of research students is spot-on, too. There are tonnes of extra stuff on the DVD as well - even in Region 2, so if you haven't already got this on video you should snap it up.
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