Ghostbusters

This thread is most for conversations on Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. Ghostbusters (2016) have its own thread. I was considering launching this thread under the name of "Ghostbusters (1984 film)", but I have soft spot for simplicity.

I decided to launch a thread for these two movies simply because while there is a thread for the reboot (at least, that's the term used in its Wikipedia entry), there is no thread for them. If that thread was about the franchise as a whole, this thread would be completely meaningless, but here we are.

I watched the first movie when I was very young, so I didn't remember a single line of the movie. Before I watched it again, I only remembered two things: Peter Venkeman (back then, though, all four of them were interchangeable in my tiny brain) getting slimed and the giant marshmallow man, because seriously, one simply does not forget things like that.

Upon my second watching, I was actually surprised by how good the CG was considering its time period. Not quite the groundbreaking level of, say, Terminator 2: Judgment Day or Jurassic Park, but in my opinion the effect still holds up. I should look up on how they did the special effects on that movie.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely planning to watch the sequel, because I haven't yet. I heard bad things about it, but come on, 80s and 90s had tons of bad sequels to good movies, and there are a lot of people who say it's not even that bad at all.

EDIT: Misspelled Judgment.

edited 21st Aug '16 1:54:58 AM by dRoy

I don't think Ghostbusters used any actual CG, all of that was conventional effects like Stop Motion and miniatures or optical effects like the streams. Even slimer was a guy in a suit on a black background and those books were literally on wires.

T2 was 7 years after Ghostbusters though and Ghostbusters was only 2 years after the first CG use in movies, which was Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan in 82.

edited 21st Aug '16 6:36:52 AM by Memers