My Thoughts On Ghostbusters

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2003)

This was the first video I ever received. Bill Murray said in 1989 he'd only want to make one Ghostbusters movie every 5 years so we'd be up to Production on number 5 by now. Thanks Bill! Ivan Reitman said he didn't think it was a good movie when he made it. He said he thought "Junior" was a better movie How many times do directors say that about a film that becomes a big hit. Eddie Murphy was originally cast as Winston and later in "Multiplicity". The joke there is it's twice he's rejected working with Harold Ramis. He chose to do "The Golden Child" in 1984 instead. Interestingly, his friend Arsenio Hall did the voice of Winston for a few years on the cartoon show.
It's a great funny movie that I've probably seen 50 times in my life and memorized all the one-line jokes of. The supernatural mumbo jumbo that Egon shoots out there is as funny as any joke by Peter Venkman. Ernie Hudson gets to play Winston as such an outsider to the other three that it made him an instant crowd favorite. I wish they'd make another but Bill Murray doesn't want to because he's afraid of being typecast. Memo to Bill Murray: Your last big movie was in 1993. Stop playing golf with your brothers on Comedy Central and make another one, pronto!