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Why, cuz I haven't seen those movies? Mostly it's just laziness on my part - I SHOULD see them, I'm sure. All of them. Ghostbusters included.
Anyway, actually looked at the AFI list. Do recognize most of the quotes, though not all of them, and some of them I actually had no idea what movie they were from. Why is "Use the force, Luke" in the top 100 but "No. I am your father!" isn't, I wonder? The second one seems so much more powerful to me.
My new favorite is paraphrasing Jayne, "When'd that get fun?"
You've never seen those movies?! Although I was late to a lot of them...and in the intervening years the GB ones I remember have dwindled to Zool and the dogs and cats.
See, I am the "right" age for Ghostbusters, and I didn't even recognize that the "dogs and cats" was from Ghostbusters. Which I guess means that it is a quote that has trancended the movie.
I saw Ghostbusters when I was seven years old, in the theatre, with two siblings and a passel of neighbor children, and I thought I had seen the heights of cinema artistry.
And it's a pleasant surprise to go back, 20+ years later, and realize it is still a good movie. Not the heights of cinema artistry, but, it's pretty damn funny, and not in a way that sacrifices the scary/exciting.
Also, marshmallow man the size of the Chrysler Building. What's not to love?
it's a pleasant surprise to go back, 20+ years later, and realize it is still a good movie.
I agree, it holds up pretty well. Co-written by Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Rick Moranis, it has that Second City/SNL sensibility and the dialogue remains very snappy, which is why people remember it so fondly, I suppose.
And their delivery was golden. Aykroyd's "It's the Stay-puff marshmallow man," had just the right note of being resigned to the absurd horror of it all.
I just checked, and my place of employ has Ghostbusters on DVD! Go Team Weekend Fun!
mr. flea has gotten really good at making popcorn in a pan. After many years of microwave popcorn, I had forgotten how much better pan-popped is.
Yummmm, pan-popped popcorn! My mom had gotten rid of the old popcorn maker when I was in college, so she started using the dutch oven pan for popping it on the stove, which is where I got my taste for that way of cooking it. Microwave has nothing on pan-popped popcorn.
I just wish it was easier to clean the oil out of the pan later. No matter how much I soak it right away, it still keeps that yucky slickness.
Why, cuz I haven't seen those movies?
Because when I was in grade school, you couldn't escape Ghostbusters.
Do you know where I was pretty much exactly 21 years ago today? At Lewis and Clark Theatre, with a bunch of my classmates, my hair in freaking curlers under a cap because my sister was getting married later in the day and I was to have ringlets, watching Ghostbusters. For the second time.