Review of Ghostbusters (1984) by Tyrant719 — 06 Jun 2021

Another one of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Action movies that came out in the 80s and benefits from being released around the same time modern movie criticism was also burgeoning, so they’ve all had a few decades to go over the script that explains why their favorite movies are the best movies of all time; unquestionably.

Well, I’m sorry to tell you guys, but your favorite movies are no less repetitive and self-indulgent than the modern ones you seem to hate. Yes, some movies were good in the past. A lot of them also CREATED the same tropes you complain about in modern movies.

You just grandfathered them in because they were the ones YOU liked. This movie is filled with horrible motivations for characters (the same people who are “appalled” by the behavior of men in Hollywood seem to love ALL of Bill Murray’s roles that play that exact archetype) and characters that talk a lot and really manage to say nothing of importance.

Egon at one point proceeds to explain how, if their current amount of ghosts were a Twinkie, his “ new data” (never explained) shows that they would have a 35 foot long, 600 pound Twinkie on their hands.

..so in a round about way he said they have a lot more ghosts to worry about...but he said it with a metaphor that had science words so it sounded like he said something smart...seriously, this movie is just made by a bunch of coke head actors, yet you all treat it like some “scientific” take on ghosts.

Saying things that you heard in your high school science class doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about...or that you’re saying anything that correlates to actual fact. If you like a movie, GREAT, enjoy it! Don’t pass yourself off as an objective critic, though, because you **** keep convincing me to watch these overrated 80s movies simply because you were all in elementary when they came out.

Or that’s when you first saw them, at least.