My Favorite Film Of All Time

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2020)

The stand out definition of an actual "timeless" film. There is NO...WAY I can or could say enough about this film - cuz it IS that, a "film", not a "movie". "Film" stands the test of time & is the label given to a movie that is just more, & Ghostbusters is.
If you haven't seen this film you've apparently been under a rock for the past 35+ years!ðŸ˜‚ This film kinda wrongly gets labeled as a "comedy". While it does have its share of comedy, it was always 1st & foremost a scary/seriously taken film which is where the comedy comes from & makes the comedy work. The fact that the whole movie has a serious tone. Off topic for a second, this is why the main reason the 2016 movie didn't work...AT...ALL. Their frame of mind was it IS a comedy. Every single actor in that movie that had even the smallest role always tried to be funnier than the other person. There was pretty much ZER0 seriousness in the entire movie! Which is why the comedy '&' movie itself floped.
Back on topic, enough things happened just right to make this whole film work & make it the pop culture phenomenon. Whether it was thankfully that John Candy just couldn't understand & wrap his head around the role of Louis Tully, therefore Rick Moranis getting the part. Or in a kinda messed up way, the death of Jim Bellushi made it possible that Bill Murray filled that spot, originally made for Bellushi. Everything that had to happen happened to make it what it is.
I'm sorry & know this was supposed to be a review & part of this wasn't.