Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver
Fired from their university research jobs, Drs. Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler promptly set up shop as parapsychologists specializing in psychic phenomena and soon they're ridding Manhattan of bizarre ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 29, 1999
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October 10, 2006Where would we be without "Ghostbusters"? It's a comedy classic on so many levels.
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November 3, 2009I grew up with this classic, it was huge on release and I loved it (it scared me too haha) the effects still hold up today and make modern movies look poor..stil.
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August 31, 2009Among many things that are bad after revisiting them, this is not one of them. Still one of my all time favorites.
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August 29, 2009Is there any moviegoer in this day and age who HASN'T heard of Ghostbusters? It's so well loved, it's one of the rare franchises to gain wide acceptance based on just two films (well, alright, there are a couple of cartoons but they don't appear to be in the same continuity as th...( read more)
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November 20, 2009There's something great coming into the neighborhood, and we're ready to believe in ghosts. When the University downsizes the parapsychology department, doctors Venkman, Stantz, and Spengler are fired from their jobs but then set up shop as parapsychologists specializing in psych...( read more)
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November 16, 2009Probably one of the best comedies ever. You've got Bill Murray, whom no one can deny and also thrown in are Dan Akroyd and crazy Rick Moranis. Then you've got Sigourney Weaver, enough said. But what makes this movie so great is the fact that everyone is so enthusiastic in the tea...( read more)
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November 14, 2009Was funny in the time period that it was made, not so sure today's young people would care for it.
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October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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July 5, 2009I actually heard that this movie, originally, was to star John Belushi in the role of Dr. Peter Venkman and that it was Mr Belushi's untimely demise that caused them to put a halt to the film, to give them time to find a replacement for him in that role, where they then could resume preproduction, which occurs before filming. This was in an interview with Harold Ramis and he went into some detail about how the script itself had to be rewritten to fit the actor to replace him, which was Bill Murray. The script, based on how it had to be rewritten to fit Bill Murray, inevitably would have been quite different if John Belushi had succeeded in playing the role of Dr. Venkman makes me wonder what this movie would have been like.
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January 11, 2008"Nobody steps on a church in my town!"
"Yes, have some."
"Tell him about the Twinkie." -
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March 29, 2007"I'm studying the effects of negative reinforcement on esp ability"
"The effect? I'll tell you what the effect is, it's pissing me off!"
"Well then maybe my theory is correct Mister!" -
January 6, 2007"If someone asks if you are a God.. You say yes!"
"So who wants to play Parcheesy? OK, who brought the Dog?"
"Mother-puss-bucket!"
"Yes, it's true... This man has no dick"
We Came. We saw. We kicked its ass!
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