If you haven’t commented here before, your first comment will be held for MaryAnn’s approval. This is an anti-spam, anti-troll, anti-abuse measure. If your comment is not spam, trollish, or abusive, it will be approved, and all your future comments will post immediately. (Further comments may still be deleted if spammy, trollish, or abusive, and continued such behavior will get your account deleted and banned.)
If you’re logged in here to comment via Facebook and you’re having problems, please see this post.
PLEASE NOTE: The many many Disqus comments that were missing have mostly been restored! I continue to work with Disqus to resolve the lingering issues and will update you asap.
subscribe
notify of
8 Comments
oldest
newest most voted
Inline Feedbacks
view all comments
JoshDM
JoshDM
Tue, Aug 04, 2009 5:05pm

Haven’t seen it, but that’s the Ghost Busters with the gorilla, right?

Back when Ghostbusters (1984) was being made, “Ghostbusters” was bandied around as the name of the movie, but when they had the crowds outside shouting “GHOSTBUSTERS GHOSTBUSTERS GHOSTBUSTERS” when they were done taking down Gozer (SPOILER!), Reitman called up the execs in charge of licensing and said “you really need to make sure we don’t have any copyright issues; we can’t go back at this point; need to use the Ghostbusters name,” and held the phone out to the shouting crowd.

All that paraphrased from the commentary on the DVD.

When the cartoon series came out, the one based on the movie was called “The Real Ghostbusters”, because the license holders of “Ghost Busters” came out of the closet with a somewhat lousy competing cartoon called “Ghostbusters”, based on the ye olde material, with two schlubs, a talking flying car, and a gorilla.

Anyway, this.

0
JoshDM
JoshDM
Tue, Aug 04, 2009 5:08pm

OK, forget it. The post I wrote above is factual, but irrelevant to the video at hand, which is a modern mash-up of 1950’s era cinema and The Ghostbusters, to awesome win.

0
stephanie b
stephanie b
Tue, Aug 04, 2009 5:18pm

Terrific mash-up.

But I just watched Ghostbusters for the first time the other day, and I have to say that I *hated* it.

0
Newbs
Newbs
Tue, Aug 04, 2009 6:21pm

stephanie b (Tue Aug 04 09, 5:18PM):

Terrific mash-up.

But I just watched Ghostbusters for the first time the other day, and I have to say that I *hated* it.

This doesn’t make sense… I think you misspelled a word in there.

0
bronxbee
bronxbee
Wed, Aug 05, 2009 10:57am

@stephanie: yes, i agree with Newsb; that’s the wrong word. it should be “loved”… i’m sure that’s what you meant. because otherwise, that would be, well… just sad. and wrong. and… sad.

0
Trabajo
Trabajo
Wed, Aug 05, 2009 12:33pm

mashup trailer very creative.

0
Tonio Kruger
Tonio Kruger
Wed, Aug 05, 2009 1:09pm

What? No Paulette Goddard?

Now I am disappointed.

And for what it’s worth, some members of my family actually thought that Ghostbusters wasn’t all that great when it first came out.

They liked it well enough when I taped it off cable but they didn’t necessarily love it.

So much for the notion that people didn’t complain about overrated movies in the days before the dang ol’ Internet…

yes, i agree with Newsb; that’s the wrong word. it should be “loved”… i’m sure that’s what you meant. because otherwise, that would be, well… just sad. and wrong. and… sad.

I’m thinking of a brick wall.

I’m thinking of a brick wall.

I’m thinking of a brick wall.;-)

0
stephanie b
stephanie b
Wed, Aug 05, 2009 6:48pm

No, I *hated* it. I thought it was sexist, badly acted, and not that funny.

I also have personal issues with films that involve a lot of destruction, so that was also a turn-off. The road in front of the apartment building breaking up was pretty cool though, I must admit.

0
wpdiscuz   wpDiscuz