This one's for Harold Ramis.
A ★★★★½ review of Ghostbusters (1984)
We rewatched this film last night in honor of the late Harold Ramis. So what can I say about a movie that’s a comedy classic? That I’ve seen so many times I can recite the dialog along with the actors? That has so many tag lines and quotables that have entered everyone’s daily vocabulary (well, mine, at least)? It’s almost impossible to say anything that’s not colored by familiarity — except to say that it’s not just nostalgia, as the movie stil…
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This movie never worked for me as a comedy. It succeeded admirably as a sci-fi adventure, though.
Murray's con man, Aykroyd and Ramis' (distinctly different) science nerds, Moranis' nerdiness, and a cast that plays off all of them — it's comedy gold to me.