reminiscent of the 1980s

Rating: 6/10 (13 February 2011)

It was from today's newspaper that I first heard of Ghostbusters, where it was defined as a classic.
Luckily enough, our lib gets one copy with Available status, so I took the chance to give it a watch. From its cover I saw it was made in 1984, and features two big stars of that time: Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver.
To say what impressed me most, I would definitely name the erotic performance of Sigourney in this film, as my mindset always associated her with her roles in the Aliens series, where she starred as an iron-fist captain Ellen Ripley and fought with those violent unpredictable dangerous creatures on-and-off and was deemed as a a symbol of feminism rising in a new age.
Back to Ghostbusters, I should say there's classic flavor in it, say the hippie music, the exaggerated comic scenes, and of course, the cars and clothes people were wearing at that time. Even all the faces inside gave audience a feeling of nostalgia and classic. I liked the opening scene featuring a screaming librarian and completely went nut when the three heroes went down from their fastfood fete to an emergency calling through a golden pool.
This is not a thriller, but a downright comedy, with three psycho doctors and one black-skin Jesus believer running here and there in the NYC to exterminate all kinds of ghosts released from a refrigerator at the kitchen of Dana, the heroine. When it is time to meet the boss and the team was asked to choose in which form Gozer, the commander of all ghosts, shall destroy the city, one of the ghostbusters, Ray, thought of Mr. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. I cannot help laughing and meanwhile adore the director's imagination and creativity.
Even though there's barely substance Ghostbusters, I will give credit to the time it was made. It is highly likely that it is the movie that inspired so many ghost-themed science fictions afterwords. Yet, I wouldn't watch it again unless I am reminiscent of films in the 1980s.