Right place, right time. I remember exactly how it felt watching
Ghostbusters on opening night, more specifically, what the crowd reaction was in the theater. It was electric. Probably one of the most animated crowds I've ever been associated with and with good reason. Simply put, the movie kicks ass. Well, it did back then. What I mean by that is, by comparison and the age of the movie, the plot itself is very simple and the Special FX extremly dated by today's standards. Hell, it was dated a couple years after the movie came out. But what makes
Ghostbusters a movie that you can still watch all these years later is the stellar cast that includes
Bill Murray , Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and scene stealer
Rick Moranis.
As great as the cast was, I still to this day think about what could have been had
John Belushi not died and got around to doing this. Would it have been better? Who's to say with the movies eventual success and how everyone looks to
Bill Murray as the star that carries the film. But that doesn't make me not think of some pretty outlandish gags
Belushi would have brought to the table in the same role. I do think that had
Belushi been alive, the story itself and
Dan's role would have been drastically different so that they could play off of each other. Sigh. We will never know....
I highly recommend this as a
Buy. I own the
Collector's Series Edition. I'm sure there are better versions out there now and ones with more Bonus content. So, pick and choose which best fits your needs.
A little off topic....1984 was a great year for me. First
Ghostbusters came out and then later the
Padres made it to their first
World Series, which was an even bigger event for me. When the
Padres were down 0-2 games, the San Diego Fans came up with a rallying cry set to the beat, with lyrics to the song made famous by
Ray Parker Jr. Of course the new song was called appropriately enough....
Cub Busters. Haha.