The Reel Rejects - GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) IS AN ABSOLUTE BLAST!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: October 25, 2025

WHO YA GONNA CALL?!? Ghostbusters Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Go to https://www.HelloFresh.com/REJECTS10FM now to Get 10 Free Meals + a Free Item per box for Life with active subscription! With the franchise popular as ever + a new Animated Series in development from Sony Animation, John & Tara TEAM UP to give thier Ghostbusters Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Breakdown, & Spoiler Review! Tara Erickson & John Humphrey dive into Ghostbusters (1984), the legendary supernatural horror-comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (Stripes, Kindergarten Cop). This genre-defining classic combines laugh-out-loud humor, groundbreaking visual effects, and unforgettable performances from one of the most iconic ensembles in film history. The story follows a group of eccentric scientists in New York City who start a ghost-catching business after losing their university jobs. Bill Murray (Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation) stars as the dryly hilarious Dr. Peter Venkman, Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers, Trading Places) as the optimistic Dr. Ray Stantz, and Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Analyze This) as the deadpan Dr. Egon Spengler. Together, they form the original Ghostbusters, later joined by Ernie Hudson (The Crow, Congo) as the grounded and dependable Winston Zeddemore. The film also features Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Avatar) as Dana Barrett, whose apartment becomes the gateway to another dimension, Rick Moranis (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs) as the lovable nerd Louis Tully, and Annie Potts (Designing Women, Toy Story) as the sharp-tongued receptionist Janine Melnitz. Iconic and highly searched moments include the Slimer hotel encounter, the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man rampage, Dana’s possession scene, and the climactic rooftop battle with Gozer. With its instantly recognizable theme song by Ray Parker Jr., sharp writing, and perfect blend of scares and laughs, Ghostbusters became a cultural phenomenon and remains one of the most beloved films of the 1980s. Equal parts spooky and hilarious, Ghostbusters stands as a timeless reminder that when there’s something strange in your neighborhood… you know who to call! Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We fought the ghosts. We busted them up. We put them in containment chambers, and we threw them in the safe, and then the EPA made us shut it down. And then we did the sky beam, and we fought the marshmallow guy, and we vanquished Zool. And it's all thanks to the folks over at Prepper for chopping these highlights down. Appreciate them very much for getting this visible on the YouTube. Also, if you found yourself at this point in the video, thank you for your enormous. attention span leave a like if you could that helps us out a lot also subscribe hit that

notification bell so you can be notified at any time one of these types of films comes your way if we do any more ghost busting that's how you're going to know about it also if you happen to be listening this as a podcast on uh any of the prevalent podcast networks get it leave us a rating if you could be so kinned yeah i'm gonna just speed through these creds for a mo oh i thought you're going to the questions got it Oh, we're going to go to the questions. Don't even trip, dog. Don't even trip on it.

Do you think there's a post credit? I don't know, man. It was the 80s. Anything that happened. Everything was fueled by cocaine back then. You never know, Tara. There'll be a whole movie afterwards. What are you going to do about it?

Not watch it? That's not a very good way to thank the Columbia Pictures people. And Black Rhino and Bernie Brilstein and Ivan Reitman at all. that's it there's nothing after the credits no ferris bueller telling us to go home we made it we made it oh before we hop into these questions just just a general vibe how you vibe in right now t i i really love this movie this movie was a lot of fun and i think what got me mostly excited about this is all the practical effects that they used yeah practical gargoyle when the road ripped up like oh my god that stuff is my favorite and i feel like i haven't seen

practical effects like that in a minute and it was it was a lot of fun obviously the script very funny awesome acting great no problems with the practical stuff golden loved it absolutely can't get enough this was really choice uh yeah i was so dazzled in revisiting because again it has been such a long time for me so there was a lot of really fun rediscovery especially because like you know in hindsight and because of culture, like, you know, you remember the image of slimer or the image of the stafuff marshmallow man

or even, you know, Zool to a degree. Or not Zool, the, you know, gozer. But, yeah, this was like such a joy to go back to and just kind of absorb the filmmaking, the tone, the flavors. And, yeah, like all of the different kinds of effects they had to marry together because there are optical visual effects,

tons of practical creatures and puppets. Yeah. Animatronics, I assume. miniatures and you know cutting edge editing technology and things like that and i know there is one at least one corridor crew video where they like show you that i think it's the buffet scene like the way that they did some of those effects with the ghosts was like pretty groundbreaking uh so yeah like there's a absolutely see why this has withstood the test of time it's funny because like i feel like ghost busters the classic original movie is is great everyone knows it

Yeah. And that's like the one agreeable installment that like the it's not like Ghostbusters exists as a franchise that has like a bunch of bangers. Right, right. And yeah, you watch this movie and you're like, yeah, we should always have Ghostbusters around. Hell yeah. Like we should always have some Ghostbusters stuff.

But yeah, like such a great ensemble, really fun vibes. And, uh, and yeah, like the filmmaking. They don't make them like this. They don't make them like these anymore. They don't, they don't, Tara. What is the world coming to? I'll tell you what it's coming to. It's coming to a patron Q&A.

Yeah, baby. Got our questions right here. I'm going to pull up the actual post, too, just to make sure we don't miss any stragglers here. This is a question heavy day. Yes. Hot diggedy the day of the week we are shooting this on. Oh, my, so many steps, Tara.

It's the future. We can't be hacking into our own Patreon page. We can't. We can't. We messed up. We can't. Let's start off with Randy Cruz. Enjoy Ghostbusters, one of my old-time favorites.

Oh, we did, Randy. Appreciate, though. As people that are seeing it for the first time, or possibly first time in a long time, so you got one of each. Do you think it deserves the praise it has garnered over the past 40 plus years, Tara? 110%.

I can't believe I've lived this long and have not seen this movie. I can't believe that either. clips or like you know it's just I don't know I don't know what happened to me but I am so glad and it still holds up old as hell

and I adore this movie great absolutely yeah yeah this is terrific and like I said up top I have been in a state the past several years where I've been very kind of apathetic about the concept of Ghostbusters and kind of again repelled

by some aspect but not all aspects but some aspects of the cultural just vibes surrounding Ghostbusters and so coming into this experience after not having thought about it in any capacity

for a long time was really cool because this reunited me with what I used to love as a kid about Ghostbusters and gave me greater perspective on it because now you know as a kid

there's going to be stuff in a movie like this that you enjoy more than other stuff namely you're going to like it when they're dressed up in their Ghostbuster suits and they're doing

Ghostbuster things and so yeah Getting to see this now and just appreciate, yeah, the ensemble and the filmmaking and the pacing and the effects. Like this is a classic of the 80s and it deserves that mantle, but it's also just like a classic of cinema and it's one of those, I think, examples of something that really is unique and that has so many cool physical elements, but like is also just like the kind of spooky comedy genre piece, the likes of which you don't often see nowadays. and the fact that, yeah, like, this is a comedy, but it's also an effective, like, supernatural. Like, it's not always, like, scary, but there are parts that are chilling and spooky

and the make you jump a little bit. And, like, it does ascend to the heights of a different genre of movie than we associate with comedy nowadays. And so, like, yeah, it was a really special thing to behold. And we live in a time where often people are discussing, like, oh, you could make this or that now. And I'm like, it's a rarer thing to see something like this made now, actually because again the amount of craftsmanship people don't lay down the the i assume this must have

cost a bit of money and uh they don't really lay that seeing this and the blues brothers two 80s comedies with dan agroyd have really illuminated like wow we did really take a lot more crazy swings so yeah i think this absolutely deserves its flowers yeah holds up real well and especially again an hd which does not always flatter things and even when you can see stuff jittering actually we'll we'll save that because the next question pertains to this. Brandy Davis. First, love you guys. Love you back.

We love you back. And thoughts on the practical effects. Do they stand the test of time 41 years later? That's your bag, Tara. Yes. It's like I couldn't stop talking about it while we were watching it. So yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. It's stuff that I said that we're not, we're not, we don't see that much nowadays.

Because we can just do CGI. and they did such a great job. There's just so many things in this that look great. And for the time that I'm like, I feel like people now, they don't know how to do that. Like they're not, you're like, we'll fix it in post, right? And we'll put it on a green screen. And this will be virtual special effects versus I love the practical,

the road coming up and the car going down. Solid, like my favorite, my favorite. And that's one of those ones where you, like, because a lot of times when people, like, break through a door or something. You can kind of see, like, oh, it's a breakaway door. It's thin. But, like, the street thing, yeah, you're just sort of like, I, like, I know that, yeah. Yeah, some of these close-ups are probably concealing the edges to stuff, but it's still convincingly looks like, yeah, like the street, thick material is, yeah, being ripped up and it looks heavy and. Totally.

Yeah. Yeah, this is beautiful. And, and, yeah, the, especially the practical, you know, hell dogs. I forget what exactly they're called. those look really great and two the stop motion stuff I would count as practical effects too because the dogs often would be comped in you know stop motion effects and there were some things that like it's always fun to me to go back to these movies and see the problem solving on display because there's that one sequence where the dog is like bursting through the walls and chasing them down the building and then bursts out of the door and I remember there's a one shot where they pan across the street and the dog is running running I'm literally Like you had to shoot both of those or do the, you know, stop motion and then shoot this plate and then splice them together. And, you know, that's the kind of thing we do with just, you know, take this plate and then throw some CG on top of it. And like, yeah, to see the movie magic on display, like props to the practical, absolutely, because the makeup, the puppets, the miniatures, especially some of those wide shots of the city and the way they would manipulate that stuff.

Like, there's way more than the obvious. and even some of like slimer I feel like is a physical element that they also I don't know if they peppers ghosted it in or something but yeah like there's so many cool instances of movie magic yeah in here great yeah and and props too because as much as I like I love practical effects and and I you know all the stuff is great when it's used right and this is also a great example of how to blend practical effects with you know what was at the time, you know, probably cutting edge editing and

VizEFex technology. So very, very cool. Very, very cool. Resonances Z. One of my favorite horror comedies of all time. Silly question. Silly answer. Which ghost in the movie was your favorite? I'm sure

most would say the stay puffed marshmallow man or slimer, but I remember seeing this movie as a weak kid and being absolutely terrified. As a library lady. Yeah. So my vote is for her. for haunting my childhood library lady is iconic she is she reminded you know what she reminded me of is um the haunted mansion in Disneyland totally yeah and I like I like that a lot yeah and like you know like library lady I think is who first came to my mind when you when I was reading this and I think like that's such a great scene because yeah you have just like the tension of I don't know how's this gonna go and then she does the transformation which is really cool one thing I had forgotten all about and doesn't get clipped as much because it's just a brief moment,

but there's that scene where the ghost flies out of the subway entrance and it's like a creaturey little arms and stuff. Yeah. And even the way they do the the sexy dream ghost

with her flowy, floaty, like yeah, all the ghost effects. Oh, and the taxi one. The taxi one was very practical and freaking amazing. I loved that. Yeah.

That was awesome. Juicy and icky and gooey and gooey looking. Yeah, gnarly. Love the taxi cab ghost. but yeah comment all your favorites below I think there aren't we probably have named them all I think

but yeah we missed one comment it because it might be your favorite Jaden Rhodes I love this movie I love you everything about this movie holds up after 41 years Rick Moranis is always a joy to watch on screen here here Rick Moranis I consider this to be one of the best Bill Murray movies along with Caddyshack which I can definitely do

with seeing for the first time since I was like a wee child. Yeah. But what's y'all's favorite Bill Murray movie? You know what? I'm going to be honest with you because you know the, what's the one where with the gopher and it's he goes back in time a bunch? I like that movie. You know, the go. It's not Caddyshack, isn't it? No, no. Groundhog Day. Because the gop for, oh, Pugs of Tani Pee's.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a gopher thing in Groundhog, in Caddyshack. Yes, Groundhog Day is absolutely. Is, is great. But you know what? I really thought Bill Murray in this movie was so funny. This might be a prime Murray. I believe so because he's so deadpaned. Yeah.

Like it's just his delivery and his tone and his just pacing is so unlike what most comedians would do, I think, with his lines. I mean, we get it as Bill Murray. He has his own style. But very specifically in this, I love that he's just a deadpan kind of a guy. And almost every time he spoke,

I was like, this is ridiculous and I love it. Yeah. I think it's definitely got to be Garfield. Oh, look at you go. Or Charlie's. I've actually never seen the Charlie's Angels movie in which he plays Bosley. My favorite movie is Ed Wood,

and he's really lovely in that movie. Oh, Scrooge is really good. Scrooge. I would love to watch again because I think I've only seen that. I've only seen it once like a long time ago, but I do remember liking it. I know a lot of people who love What About Bob? It's come up a lot in conversation lately.

As of recording this, again, we just watched Little Shop of Horrors, and Bill Murray has an absolutely unhinged cameo in that movie. So, or, you know, a brief appearance scene, et cetera. So shouts out to that. But honest answer, yeah, it would be Edward for me, or I am a big fan of the Life Aquatic

Steve Zisu, and I know a lot of people don't count that as one of the better Wes Anderson's generally, but I think he's really great and he's the lead of that movie. He is Steve Zisu. I've always wanted a pair of team Zisu sneakers, but leave yours down in the comments below. Tell us

why it's Osmosis Jones or Space Jam for you. Also good picks. Yeah. But yeah, favorite Murray's leave them for us. And I absolutely agree with you. This movie holds the F-Up and Rick Moranis two. Flowers to that guy. He's not been around. on screen a lot in a while

I believe he's appearing more again but yeah it's been such a joy seeing some of his stuff lately too because watching a little shop than this he's so good at playing yeah these these sad sack guys and he has a lot of other tools

in his repertoire like if you watch SCTV or you know some of the other movies you know he can play more than that character but it is always a joy to see him on screen I think the shining part of the movie is so fun So I wonder this is not for this movie This is for Ready Player 1 I know what you're talking about

It's okay Sanrak We'll move on But it's shouts out to you anyway Just for being here All right Awesome Joe Sorry everyone got the special clap But now I feel bad if you don't

If they were to reboot the Ghostbusters franchise With the new cast to play the main four characters, what actors would you like to play them? And why are they Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wigg, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones? No, for me, I would have loved to see the cast from the Hangover series or maybe even seeing wrestler turned actors like Dwayne Johnson, John Cena, Dave Patista, Steve Austin. That's funny. Theemed casting would be fantastic.

That's a great question. Yeah, it's a good question. Okay. So you have to fill, I guess, the easiest way to attack this is like you got to fill the types yeah it's like you need one rye sarcastic guy and then you need is with with like some charm you need like the sort of affable semi clumsy but like really true believer guy you need the science whiz and you need the like you know hip average you know average joe eyeline guy uh that's a tricky one man i was i mean i wasn't even

thinking character wise but i was like miles teller for some reason came to my brain of like i don't think he's comedic enough but i think he could play the one that's like not that funny but he's there i forget his name uh you know what i mean you mean uh uh uh egon yeah the the sci harold ram his character maybe i just like miles teller i i love i like him i think he's great i can see um comedy i could kind of see adam driver as that's good a gun character i think when he does really straight forward like you know those characters who who can be funny but they're always just like dead straight and serious you know i feel like adam driver could do that i got a look on my phone like top i'm just gonna look at top 100 actors right

now jack black is uh is stance that's a good one although you know i feel like people would people would People would contest that just because of his Jack blackness. The question is, yeah, who would be the Bill Murray? Who would be the Dan Aykroyd? Or no, we got Dan Aykroyd. Who would be Winston? We got Tremel Tillman is really popular right now. He could be a fun Winston.

I do love me some Johnny Depp. David Johnson. He could be a little weird. He's definitely weird. Definitely weird. I know. I'm like, that's such a hard question. don't have all the actors that I like in my

brain. The hardest one to figure out is who should take over for Bill Murray. I know, right? Yeah. God. Bill Murray, like who fills that sarcastic mold now? I bet people are shouting at their screens now. You know who's funny, like

Peacemaker? John Cena. He's like, can do comedy, dude. He can do comedy. And like, I'm fitting it in with what that guy said because he said wrestler oh yeah definitely you know what I mean I was gonna say we keep it with the themes right and

it'd be cool to see like Hugh Jackman and Denzel Washington get a really like you know dramatic yeah you would Denisville Nouve's Ghostbusters you would Tom Hardy could be good oh my I'm loving this

he's kind of good at like comedy obviously okay I'm going Liam Neeson Dude, after the naked gun, you're like, 100%. Ryan Reynolds, duh. Ryan Reynolds would be the Vankman.

He would definitely be the Vankman. Dund. We decided. Maybe give me a Will Forte, perhaps, as one of the guys. I'm with you on that. Maybe a Jason Segel could work. Woody Harrison. Woody would be a good Ghostbuster.

I would love a Woody Ghostbuster. Oh, my God. Good Ghostbuster. That would be good. I mean, we just. basically made this movie. Yeah, we're greenlighting. You're welcome. Every Ghostbuster

is Matt Berry. Michael Keaton is the last one I'll throw in. Michael Keaton. I like it. It'll be a good choice. Yeah. Give me a John Leguizamo Ghostbuster. Totally. I'm with you on that. He could do that. He's great. Yeah, I want to hear you guys fancasts because there's infinite possibilities of what you could

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your rewatch of this show is what got me not oh this is also not for the question the movie at hand nope it's not but I'm glad the rewatch of this show is going well this is a strange thing's question I'm not sure.

I don't know. Captain Fernandez. I know he was annoying and obnoxious. But was Walter Peck right to be concerned about the dangers posed by the Buster's tech like the ghost containment unit? I actually do have thoughts about it. I actually think that he had a point. I mean, you do have a bunch of like ghosts and gooey stuff. I don't know what they're pooping and pooping out under there.

Yeah, what's the overhead and the maintenance and what my product? is he getting through the basement into the into the sewer in the ground are we in an Aaron Brockovich meets ghost situation he had a point I think that he had yeah like if he wasn't such an

insufferable asshole yeah I think that's his problem like if you just came in and was like hey we're concerned I would be like well of course we're using nuclear tech experimental tech we need a lot of power as has been established in the script yeah this is definitely something that would at least you want to check out the environmental implications of and i feel like

somebody like egon at the very least would probably be concerned about that too yeah uh so yeah i think he just didn't help himself out any by being insufferably horrible prick right at the top yeah just cannot i mean good props to that actor because he does a good job being a dac but uh but yes uh yeah if you're going to be concerned about that just just you know get people on board bored with you by being a little bit personal. That's all you got to do. Be personable. Jay Rushden.

Like, which Ghostbuster character you most like, Tara? Maybe the secretary? Janine? I was going to actually, honestly, like, yeah. She's funny. You would be the sassy, like, what do you want? What are you on? Ghostbusters, what do you want?

That's me. I'm up that alley. And then, you know, you would probably have a good bullshit detector for that, too. I can imagine just hearing down the hall. like being down the Ghostbusters Hall and just hearing a fuck off slam and then yeah like absolutely oh my god

I think I am probably most similar to either Ray I'm probably most like Ray yeah with like maybe a seasoning of Egon everybody wants to feel like they would be Vankman but it's a

very special few people oh good Winston's out there in this life but I feel like I would be probably Ray is a good choice for you. Yeah. And Janine, I mean, heck yeah. Maybe in the Sikh, I think I saw Ghostbusters, too, but I have like zero recollection of that.

So maybe she becomes one. Who knows? That's something I would root for in a sequel. Well, well, wow, well. Kev B. For Bussin, would you rather be stuck cleaning sticky marshmallow goo after the Staypuff rampage or chasing that slimy little troublemaker slimer through a hotel? Duh.

chasing the slimer through our hotel. That's a good time. It seems more fun. Yeah, it does. More thrilling. Yeah. Cooler scenery. Although I do really like cleaning.

It's like therapy for me. Bringing order where chaos is. Yeah. Like if my house doesn't look clean like no one lives in it, I can't really do work as well. I mean, that's like legitimate. I am affected by spaces constantly. Like clutter and stuff, then you're like, I can't do. Do it.

The more cleaner. It's weird. I struggle to keep my own space organized, and yet I know in my brain, I'm like a clean, organized, sleek space will facilitate way more productivity than anything else. Yeah. So, uh, but yeah. I mean, plus you get to, when you get busy and then you don't have time. Yeah. But then, yeah.

I get it. Plus, I guess the upside, too, is if you're cleaning up the marshmallows, like, you know, you could probably eat some of that. Delicious. You know. Sold. Yeah. done he's probably impossible to go wrong so i'll take the library and you take the the the puff sounds good kev b again kev b's got a little bit of trivia for us uh oh let's see here we'll save

the trivia for the very end that's fun we'll do the questions first and then we'll do a little trivia because i i do want to get to it though i love i love the trivia that you guys send us that's not bailey that's not us oh my goodness to Andrew. Andrew Nickerson. Who you gonna call? Ray Parker Jr., of course. That's not my actual question.

You fooled me. All right. Louis Tully, Rick Moranis, Louis, mingles with his party guests, commenting on the price of the salmon and so on. The scene is one continuous shot and almost entirely improvised. Bill Murray improvised most of his lines as well.

Do you think this movie would have been as successful as it was without all the improvisation? Wow. That is so fun. I mean, my instinct is, like anything could happen, but my instinct is to say probably not, because, like, it's so much lightning that you're catching in the bottle. And I feel like so much of what's iconic, especially with, not Jim Carrey, Bill Murray, same syllables, especially Bill Murray, like, he, his vibe is just so synonymous with a lot of this movie. So, and it makes sense.

like his anarchic spirit as a character I didn't guess that it was all or a lot of it was largely improvised but like hearing that on my ad totally tracks everybody else in the scene has a script and you or or has a more firm script than you I'm sure everybody got to do some amount of improv

but yeah I think that's definitely and I want to go back and look at that shot with Lewis because it's so smooth and there's so many things happening and so kind of rich with detail that it almost didn't fully register are like oh damn this is like one long shot yeah and one big piece of business

and choreography and you know a bunch of moving parts all at once right like like that's the thing is like I feel like in these movies people used to arrange like tricky shot compositions or like things that you really have to like think about instead of like the feel like the more nowadays you would imagine the approach to a comedy is more like pop the camera down and we don't need to do any like crazy shot composition. Right.

It's like something like this, I feel like really benefits from that. And then on the flip side, it's like there's so much composition on the filmmaking end, but then you have all this loose improv in the acting and on screen. And I think like the two of those things probably mold together to make the juju

that exists here. Because there are so many movies obviously now and you know, for the past 10 or 15 years when the Judd-Apato boom really hit Apatau, were like very loosely edited, clearly edited, clearly

improv based comedy became huge and I like that this is something that's clearly hugely based on improv but that has a lot

of structure too you know right you know it seems like it's the best of both worlds yeah I agree

I think that when you when you get a long shot together and you add improv from the actors what you're seeing is kind of like

a play it's more like live and in the moment and I mean I can tell you any of the commercials that I've done it's always an

improv line that like ends up on air because it just seems more natural and like more instead of like the written thing if it feels rehearsed. And so there's like I also wonder if him wiping all the goo on the books was improvised. Like I'm sure there was a bunch more to that. But it gives it this realistic feeling when you're doing a long shot and there's some improv in there because it makes it feel like like you're right there. Like you're kind of in the room. which I love. It almost feels like the job they gave them what were Bill Murray specifically was like just play off of riff on interact with everything. Just kind of like make fun of everything

around you while everybody else takes stuff seriously. Right. I think that bleeds over into yeah physical moments like that where he's just yeah like smearing all the books or you know whatever else. Like yeah he just seems like he's like ribbing the whole movie. And for a thing, about Ghostbusters, like, it is really neat and fun that they chose to have, like, a clear skeptic on the team. You know, and someone who's going to, like,

really, it almost like adds credibility because he's like the last person who would be inclined to believe this stuff and he's like a cynical shistery kind of guy anyway. So, yeah, I think there's a lot of magic. Love that. It comes from that.

Yeah. Maurice Gray Jr., why do you think this movie became so iconic. Oh, God. So many reasons, man. Well, number one, I really do love the props and the costume

design. Like, when you see them walk in in that iconic three shot, when they're walking through the building that they're like, we're going to start our own business. And they come in the jumpsuits with the ghost logo. And they have these huge things on their back and there's like wiring. And you're like, what is going on? And then they're like,

don't cross streams. And you see these cool, like, practical mix with special effects and then you're like well we how is this going to work and then they lock it in a box and you go to the freaking the fire station and they put it in what was like old

school like when you go to the bank you put a check in and you have to put in like the tube it reminded me of that and I think just all of these little things made it feel like a video game and made it feel fun but also like real like you're like wait

if you did catch a ghost you probably probably would have to put it in this thing. You got to hold it. There's fog coming out. It's epic. And they're like, but where are we going to keep it? And they're like, well, we slam it up here, keep it in the basement. There's always slime around. I think just everything about it is very iconic and new and something that nobody, that people in 1984 had never seen before.

It's a fresh new, brand new idea that's like, you think about it. You're like, this is going to be dumb. We're going to like trap ghosts. And then it's a really well-written script, and I think it wouldn't be the same without the actors who are obviously really good at comedic timing and pacing. And obviously Bill Murray with the improv, but I think a lot of them probably did a lot of other improv. But the casting on this, epic. All of the acting just really, really great. I think they knew what they were doing.

And I think when he wrote this, since both of them are in it, the writers are also. some of the stars. They probably also had a poll with Rick Moranis and Bill Murray, probably Sigourney Weaver getting her in here. And I think it's epic for just really every reason. And the practical effects, too. I don't know how many amazing practical effects that you would see in 1984 that are as cool as what they gave you here. So, I mean, there's so many reasons. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it's all. the things really it's that it's yeah i don't think you can really point to any one specific thing with this it's everything you just said it's this special blend into i feel like not that horror comedy

wouldn't have existed before then because even in the black and white days you had you know the abing costello meat insert monster here and all that stuff but i feel like there this is a unique moment for the collision of genres in that you have this ensemble of like well-known comedic actors and something that, yeah, like is, again, it has the visual language and the effects, you know, of an actual supernatural horror movie. But, you know, it's got this edge on it and, you know, it's got these very specific personalities behind it.

And like you said, it's got all these unique and interesting props. And even its version of New York has this sort of, it's tangible, but it's still a little bit heightened. and the way the ghosts look and the fact that the dogs move like stop motion like there's a slight element of cartoonishness that makes it feel like a fun endearing world that you might want to jump into

but it's not too scary it's not too sarcastic it's not too silly it's not too much of anything and you know it's kind of a unique sense of how its plot moves and stuff like that because you know the stuff with Sigourney Weaver almost feels like it's happening

off to the side until it really becomes the main plot by the end. And, yeah, it's just really creative and really inspired. And, yeah, it's just, it's one of those concepts that feels like kind of perfect, you know? And I get why they keep trying to do it, even though it's not something that they've been easily able to live up to fully over all this time. It's like Terminator or one of those things where it's like the concept is just too good. Like it's all that. It's the high concept. It's, yeah, all the flourishes with the, you know, effects and the personalities and the humor and all that good stuff. It's, yeah, it's the whole soup. Hard to recreate. Most definitely. We got a couple of stragglers on here. One of these we've already pretty much answered, but I do want to give a quick little shout out to RC Flores. I know Tara is all about the practical effects. How would you rate the mixed use of

practical and early special effects. Oh, we did answer that earlier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's, I mean, I love it. I've obviously, I talked all about it when we were watching it. And I'm like, it's so freaking good. Like, oh, it was. Oh, different.

We've had questions about the effects, but R.C. wasn't in here. This is specifically about practical and, you know, special effects. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, like, mixed with the practical, but even the early special effects, like the old school electricity coming out and the lightning like I didn't mind it because of the world that we have set up and I still think it looked

really good for 1984 like it has a vibe like when it shoots out it's orange but it's also intertwined with green and mixed with them actually using those practical props it just looks it looks great like there's there's really no

issues especially even when Yosa shows up or whatever she's got great makeup on the fog behind her when she's talking is awesome they found a really great way to build up the environment to make it exciting and mix with like ghost busters which i think is great it's got so much and and then to the previous question too i think part of the iconic nature of the movie and what is exemplified by what you're asking here is the movie magic there's like a timeless to me sense of movie magic about this because again it's not that you can't tell effects are there is

is you can tell the ingenuity of the ones that you can see, and then you're just dazzled by the ones that you can't see the seams on. And, like, even when, like, you can tell they had to shoot two things and smush them together somehow. And that makes everything feel just so much more, again, clever and crafted.

And, yeah, like, these are effects that hold up, they hold the test of time. And I wonder if seeing it, then, you would know that, because this had to have been so dazzling. And it's like a Jurassic Park. You know, it's like in 1993 or whatever. and yet that still holds up that movie magic is still palpable and it's just you know complex and and top tier problem solving and it's really dazzling and it's art and it's fun and

it's beautiful so yeah it's something really special for sure near in the end crab man asks did you uh did the crab man asks did you all catch the any uh any subtle references that were set up throughout the movie my favorite was that Rick Moran was constantly locked out of his apartment and ended up being called the keymaster. Oh, I love that. I was really funny. I caught a couple of things. Like, I didn't realize the marshmallows were on the counter.

Oh, right. There are a couple of things that I know are going to elude me now in hindsight, but that watching it, I was like, oh, snap. Like, yeah, like this character thread is already set up. God, there's some line. There are certain character traits, yeah, of all of them that link to iconic moments that then watching this now i was like oh snap like this is a subtle illusion to or a foreshadowing of so yeah i mean i would i would certainly need to go back and fine tooth it now just off the

yeah there's something comes to me i'll shout it out but yeah i don't really have anything i thought of the marshmallows i thought the opposite of references i didn't see coming was sigourney weaver turning into a sexy ghost yeah didn't didn't see that one coming oh my god too the whole thing in the fridge yeah which only happens like once but like Like, that's such a cool effect. So awesome. Oh, my God. So awesome.

And, yeah, I don't know. I feel like there's more, but it's going to cook my brain too much. If I try too hard to rack it. I believe we have one more plus Kev B's bit of trivia. So here, let's go to Kev B. Slimer trivia was originally nicknamed, quote, onion head during production because his puppet reeked so badly that nobody wanted to be near it on set. The smell was so bad that even the crew had to take breaks outside. Oh, my God.

I am fascinated to know why. Ew, why? Make, what? What were you doing when you made the puppet? I'm like, if it's made a foam. Where's the puppet been? Oh, no. I don't want to.

Oh, no. Because, like, is a person in there? Because I could see that getting real sweaty. Yeah. But if it's not a person in there, maybe it's just all that icky food that's like, you know, smushed into its face over and over. over again. Maybe it just

smells like the buffet, the midnight buffet. Oh my God. This is so gross. You know what it hit me is to the previous question.

When he does a little on the piano can use they hate this. That like sting is in the I think it's it's the same idea is like in the score at times when ghosts are coming around.

Oh, there's a little little yeah. So yeah that was that was a thing I noticed you know additionally. I like that. But yeah, stinky slimer.

I guess that fits, though. You know, got to, you know, live up to the vibe of the character. That's just the puppet being in, you know, fully immersed. Right. Immersion into the method. Gross. And we respect on your head for that. Of course.

Probably why. Bailey Anderson, closing us out. Two of my favorite cast-related trivia facts about Ghostbusters is that Rick Moranus character was originally supposed to be. played by John Candy, and they weren't sure whether Bill Murray was going to show up on day one of filming. Oh, my God. Because he had only committed to Dan Aykroyd verbally and hadn't signed the contract yet. Obviously, that would have completely changed this movie.

As much as Murray's character was improvised, you should watch movies that made us on Netflix. Clearly, this movie has one of the best cast ensembles, especially amongst the main three. How do you think the chemistry contributed to the longevity of the series, namely one and two in pop culture? I mean I have to imagine again and not having much of any recollection of part two I'm still unsure if I've seen it all the way through or not I think yeah that probably got made and probably has any love that it must have

to any lesser extent because of the cast the ensemble I mean they're just so perfect here and they're not like uber pronounced even but they just make sense together as this rag tag bunch of fringe scientists and like the amount of time you spend at the university is kind of perfect like you're only in there for like a scene or two it's mostly nonsense and then they're out on their ass right and so uh i mean yeah i remember thinking like the three of them are great and then when you get Winston in there

i'm just like all right sick like this is a them plus jean is like the perfect little ensemble and they're all like they're somehow cool together when they're all together they are cool and then the rest of the time i always thought like Winston's the cool guy and then the other three are you know bill murray's funny and the other two are science guys yeah you know but uh yeah they just have great types to play and play off of each other with yeah i think when you have a great great um casting great chemistry along with a lot of you know improv that's thrown in there that makes it really funny there's a reason why i'm like oh in season one of stranger things they dress up as ghostbusters and there's also gates in there and obviously i'm rewatching it on the

channel but my point being yes is that is that a lot of that inspiration came from this because it's just so original and i think the reason the originality that could have been very corny and could have been like this sucks yeah what is this is because of the cast and because of the chemistry and like the thing that made me laugh the like it's so good is when they end up in the elevator And he's saying something like, I don't think I figured that out. And then the one guy goes like, yeah, that's my bad. And he's like, oh, yeah, I also miss that. I was, those are not the lines.

But I realized in that moment that we were in for a really good ride with this cast. My mistake. Agreed. Exactly. Yeah, where he passes the buck off to Egon after he blames himself. Totally. I just, I love it. I love that.

And I'm assuming that maybe part of that was written and the rest of it is just when. you're doing sketch comedy or improv with someone all it takes is one line and chemistry between you two to know like i know how to respond here and i feel like that's what they had and they all have like a good physical presence without being too hammy like there is a good amount of physical comedy as well as character based banter based comedy so many of those little moments where like bill murray is playing off of people and like you know you know bringing the confidence in one breath and then immediately after like, you know, lightning claps and he's like, you guys want to go for it?

Yeah. Yeah, they just, uh, there's something about the way they're all playing off of the movie itself that's really fun. And I think too, there's something about the fact that again, the movie has a lot of fantastical elements. There is a sense of wonder in the soup, but like the characters aren't very reverent of any of this stuff. And they're just like a few guys who are just like trying to make it buy with this fringe science business essentially. Yeah. And, uh, yeah. And there's just like so many great counterweights to all these different faculties and yeah like the cast is certainly uh you know a huge part of the driving force of the legacy that is ghost busters there's a reason they

won't let them not come back each time they try to reboot one of these right so uh yeah this is a joy this is a real good like i love it i want to be a ghostbuster for all we know yeah they'd be so old school. It's reignited my love, my appreciation, and I hope we can watch Ghostbusters 2. I know it doesn't have the same beloved status as Ghostbusters 1, but there's got to be something to appreciate in them, their hills.

So, uh, gang, appreciate y'all chiming in, bringing your enthusiasm to our conversation here. Tadda! Have us to that any thoughts? You want to bestow upon the people before we leave? No, I just, this movie was a lot of fun. I'm glad I got to watch it

for the first time on this channel. It's, uh, it, uh, in me being on the stranger things and this relating to this so hardcore i just love it that much more and uh stokes us if we see more absolutely we'll do the whole franchise terra it's all uphill from here thank you for joining us if you join us i've been the gatekeeper she's been the keymaster and uh stay busting busting busting busting busting busting busting busting busting busting Hi, I'm Gene Chatsky, long time today show financial editor, author of Women with Money and host of the Her Money podcast. If you are 10 years or less from retirement and you're

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