25th anniversary of Ghostbusters...damnit

[JagFarlane]

-sigh- So AMC is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters...one of my beloved childhood movies. I can recall watching this movie over and over with my brother, playing with proton packs, and all the other merchandise they could slap a label on.
And now....its 25yrs old...crap I feel old...I need a beer...and a shot...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

-sigh- So AMC is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters...one of my beloved childhood movies. I can recall watching this movie over and over with my brother, playing with proton packs, and all the other merchandise they could slap a label on.
And now....its 25yrs old...crap I feel old...I need a beer...and a shot...

And Ghostbusters III is at the studio waiting the green light to begin filming. The original crew wants to start the flick and then hand the 'torch' over to a new crew . . . most of whom, I understand, will be women.

 

[JagFarlane]

And Ghostbusters III is at the studio waiting the green light to begin filming. The original crew wants to start the flick and then hand the 'torch' over to a new crew . . . most of whom, I understand, will be women.

Interesting....very interesting considering the fact that the Ghostbusters video game is due out shortly. And according to Dan Aykroyd, it was supposed to be considered as close to GBIII as would have been.

-looks it up- Erm...shit...lol wonder if my brother knows...he's a huuuuge GB fan.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Interesting....very interesting considering the fact that the Ghostbusters video game is due out shortly. And according to Dan Aykroyd, it was supposed to be considered as close to GBIII as would have been.

-looks it up- Erm...shit...lol wonder if my brother knows...he's a huuuuge GB fan.

It was the video game that got the writers started, especially when Bill Murray agreed to do the 'his' voice for he game. He was the sticking point up to this time. Bill didn't really like GB II very much.

 

[jomar]

Just 25? Seems like forever.

 

[HLD]

Ray, if someone asks if you are a god, you say, "Yes!"

 

[JagFarlane]

Just 25? Seems like forever.

For some of you. Some of my fondest memories are of watching it over and over with my brother. Doesn't seem like that long ago...but then again I grew up with it.

 

[Safe_Bet]

Sigourney Weaver... Mmmmmm....

 

[JagFarlane]

Sigourney Weaver... Mmmmmm....

Who will apparently be in GhostBusters III

 

[cloudy]

I am the Gatekeeper.

 

[JagFarlane]

I am the Gatekeeper.

LMAO I always remember being a kid and wondering why my parents howled at that...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Who will apparently be in GhostBusters III

Oh hot damn! I wanna be the Keymaster . . .

 

[cloudy]

LMAO I always remember being a kid and wondering why my parents howled at that...

I was in marching band in college - I twirled rifles - and one year we did a ghostbusters halftime show. I've never had so much damn fun in band.

We were a HUGE band, nationally ranked at the time, and we stripped on the sidelines down to tights and a leotard, then pulled sheets over us (we already had on makeup, and there were holes for our heads).

Our band director told us we could mess with anyone on one side of the field, and we took their instruments, swapped people around, just created chaos (there's a pic of me in the yearbook for that year holding up a trumpet like I'm playing it, standing right in front of the director).

We borrowed an old white hearse, dressed three guys up like ghostbusters and they came and "captured" all us ghosts. We even got this really huge guy to dress like the sta-puft marshmallow man.

Way fun.

 

[Darkniciad]

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/318894.html

 

[slyc_willie]

At one time, I was able to recite the entirety of Rick Moranis/Stewart Tulley's "shubs and ghuls" speech. Damn, I've lost my touch.

The sequel wasn't too bad, but Peter MacNichol definitely stole the show in that one.

"Why am I drippings wis goo?"

But . . . Ghostbusters 3?

Okay, okay, I had my doubts about the new Star Trek, but it seems to have been received well, so . . . I'll suspend judgment for the time being.

Just as long as they don't interject some overly-muscular alpha male wearing a proton pack into it . . . .

 

[starrkers]

Damn, I feel old! I remember going to the opening night (in our town) of Ghostbusters on a free ticket with a friend as a welcome-back-to-work present when I'd just got over mononucleosis (I had a month off work )

 

[slyc_willie]

Here's more to make you feel old, Jag:

Next year, History of the World Part 1 turns 30, and Wayne's World (according to its first appearance on SNL) turns 20.

Styx and Kansas have both become fixtures on the local "oldies" station around here.

Bon Jovi's first album has now hit the 25-year mark.

It's now been thirty years since Steve Martin was a "Wild and crazy guy!"

Cookie Monster is on a diet.

Just food for thought . . . .

 

[starrkers]

Here's more to make you feel old, Jag:

Next year, History of the World Part 1 turns 30, and Wayne's World (according to its first appearance on SNL) turns 20.

Styx and Kansas have both become fixtures on the local "oldies" station around here.

Bon Jovi's first album has now hit the 25-year mark.

It's now been thirty years since Steve Martin was a "Wild and crazy guy!"

Cookie Monster is on a diet.

Just food for thought . . . .

Dammit, where's me walkin' frame and false choppers?

 

[slyc_willie]

Dammit, where's me walkin' frame and false choppers?

YOU?!

We had a transfer arrive at the restaurant last week. Sweet kid. College student. She's going to graduate next year. She overheard a conversation I and a few others were having about things we remember from our youth in the 70s/80s, and she gives me this funny look.

"How old are you?"

"Older than you think."

"No, seriously. How old are you?"

Sigh. "Thirty-seven."

"Wow. My dad's thirty-eight."

My only consolation is that, according to my doctor, I'm the health equivalent of a thirty-year-old.

 

[starrkers]

My old best friend from school managed to track me down recently. She's a grandmother.

 

[AphroditeReborn]

Here's more to make you feel old, Jag:

Next year, History of the World Part 1 turns 30, and Wayne's World (according to its first appearance on SNL) turns 20.

Styx and Kansas have both become fixtures on the local "oldies" station around here.

Bon Jovi's first album has now hit the 25-year mark.

It's now been thirty years since Steve Martin was a "Wild and crazy guy!"

Cookie Monster is on a diet.

Just food for thought . . . .

Thank you so much slyc just.... thanks

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I really don't like the second Ghostbusters. It has a few good moments in it, but they are few and far between, and what is between them is terrible. I can't stand that movie and don't even try to watch more than five minutes when it is on (like last night). Peter McNicole saying, "He is Vigo!" near the end is the best part of the movie.

The first one on the other hand is one of the greatest movies ever made. It is probably the most original piece of work to ever come out of Hollywood, and it just so happens to be one of the most fun to watch. It is highly quotable, entertaining, funny, I still laugh at the Stay Puft Marshmellow Man's introduction

 

[pleaz_me]

Thanks for the reminders of why my bones creak.

 

[JagFarlane]

Here's more to make you feel old, Jag:

Next year, History of the World Part 1 turns 30, and Wayne's World (according to its first appearance on SNL) turns 20.

Styx and Kansas have both become fixtures on the local "oldies" station around here.

Bon Jovi's first album has now hit the 25-year mark.

It's now been thirty years since Steve Martin was a "Wild and crazy guy!"

Cookie Monster is on a diet.

Just food for thought . . . .

-groans-

WTF cookie monster on a diet!? What has the world come to!? -visions of his brother dancing around singing "Me want cookie, cookie just for me." stuck in my head now-

Heh, though this is like hearing Modern Marvels go on about the VHS/Beta wars....my grandparents had a Beta.
And of course one just has to look at how tiny video cameras are, and recall when they were shoulder mounted behemoths.

 

[trysail]

"I've been slimed."