Ghostbusters ( * * * * * )
"We're ready to believe you."
The Acting: Take a bunch of SNL and SCTV actors, the chick from Alien, and the great William Atherton who always plays a mondo asshole, and stir. Genuinely brilliant.
The Story: It's a business start-up comedy crossed with an epic special effects adventure...in other words, the defining movie of the 1980's. (Yeah, that's right, you heard me, Wall Street.) A skyscraper apartment building is designed to end the world and now it seems it may actually happen...luckily three paranormal scientists recently expelled from their college digs and one regular working stiff are ready to stand against the unleashed Gozer the Gozerian, no matter the form--J. Edgar Hoover, Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, they don't care. They've got the tools, they've got the talent.
The Direction: Ivan Reitman did a brilliant job realizing Ackroyd and Ramis's script.
Overall: There's never been a memorable one-liner generator like Ghostbusters: "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown." "He slimed me" "...Cats and dogs, living together--mass hysteria!" "Okay...she's a dog" "What about the twinkie?" and my personal favorite, which I can't help but blurt out through clenched teeth every time I see the mayor play Tony Soprano's lawyer, "Get me the Ghostbusters!"
Tredekka Rules:
The Acting: Take a bunch of SNL and SCTV actors, the chick from Alien, and the great William Atherton who always plays a mondo asshole, and stir. Genuinely brilliant.
The Story: It's a business start-up comedy crossed with an epic special effects adventure...in other words, the defining movie of the 1980's. (Yeah, that's right, you heard me, Wall Street.) A skyscraper apartment building is designed to end the world and now it seems it may actually happen...luckily three paranormal scientists recently expelled from their college digs and one regular working stiff are ready to stand against the unleashed Gozer the Gozerian, no matter the form--J. Edgar Hoover, Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, they don't care. They've got the tools, they've got the talent.
The Direction: Ivan Reitman did a brilliant job realizing Ackroyd and Ramis's script.
Overall: There's never been a memorable one-liner generator like Ghostbusters: "Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown." "He slimed me" "...Cats and dogs, living together--mass hysteria!" "Okay...she's a dog" "What about the twinkie?" and my personal favorite, which I can't help but blurt out through clenched teeth every time I see the mayor play Tony Soprano's lawyer, "Get me the Ghostbusters!"
Tredekka Rules:
- Rule 1: No Movie Can Get More Than 5 Stars, Not Even Deadfall. Or Ghostbusters.
- Rule 6: Over The Top Acting Award--Bill Murray gets +2 stars for making damn near every single line he says delightfully funny.
- Rule 13: Spawned A Shitty TV Series Penalty--it's own "The Real Ghostbusters" wasn't that bad, but it did inspire that other "Ghostbusters" cartoon to come out, too. -1 star.
- Rule 14: Cool Gun Award, +1 point. "Whoa-whoa-whoa nice shootin' Tex!"
- Rule 22: The Greatest Entrance Award--Mr. Stay Puft, I salute you with a one-time-only +5 stars for Greatest Movie Entrance and the resulting line, "I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought."
Tredekka Score: ( * * * * * )
posted by Tredekka at 10:18 AM
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"Get me the Ghostbusters" is from Ghostbusters 2.
"Get me the Ghostbusters" is from Ghostbusters 2. But it still cracked me up every time you said it during the Sopranos.
Whoops, my bad! I was trying to block that whole sequence out because of the gratuitous Bobby Brown cameo. I forgot anything good came from GB2, but hey, can you blame me?
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