Greatest Movie Of 1984

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2002)

(SPOILERS THROUGHOUT)
Ghostbusters was the best movie of 1984 bar none. It had a great cast, a great director and it was full of 80's humour.
The Ghostbusters were scientists who went around trapping ghosts (for some reason New York had suffered an influx of hauntings)and they did it in style. The movie was funny throughout.
Bill Murray played the sarcastic Peter Venkman who was sort of the leader of the team. He didn't take his work seriously and he was more interested in getting passionate with Dana Barrett played by Sigourney Weaver. The best scenes in this film were the ones where Venkman clashed with the bureaucratic Walter Peck (played by William Atherton) who was from the Environmental Protection Agency. Peck believed the Ghostbusters were a menace to the environment and Venkman really laid into him verbally.
Dan Aykroyd played Ray Stantz who was certainly more serious in his work than Venkman. Stantz was probably more of a leader than Venkman.
Harold Ramis played Egon Spengler who was the most scientific out of the lot-he was the one responsible for providing analysis during dangerous situations even when the team didn't need it.
Ernie Hudson played Winston Zeddmore who wasn't a scientist. He had joined the Ghostbusters and been taken aback by the sights he had saw.
The rest of the cast were great too such as Annie Potts who played Janine Melnitz and the ever dependable Rick Moranis.
The scenes are truly great. There was the beginning scene in the library where the ghostbusters (before they actually became the ghostbusters)tried to catch a ghost with their bare hands. Then we saw them struck off from the university where they worked. There was the scene where they trapped a disgusting green ghost in a hotel. And who can forget the end scene where a giant marshmellow man nearly destroys the Ghostbusters? Amazing.
I also loved the Ghostbusters car which was called Ecto-1. In fact I actually thought about painting my car in the same colours?
That was a joke...I think.
Seriously, Ghostbusters was the best film of 1984 and it was followed by an equally good sequel in 1989.