It's funny when you are finally able to fulfill a childhood desire after you grow up, even the (in the grand scheme of things) small ones. As a child, my favorite-ist movie in the whole world was Ghostbusters. It's still one of my favorites, actually, and when I heard that it was back in theatres for Labor Day weekend I nearly had a heart attack. Of course I went and saw it.
And you know what?
It's still awesome. In some ways even more so. You'd think that seeing a movie hundreds of times on home video ever since you were a kid would lessen the impact of subsequently watching that movie on the big screen but nope. On the big screen the film has an even bigger impact - I can understand now how some film snobs would consider home viewing a dumbing down of cinema as an art form... although I doubt that film snobs would consider Ghostbusters art. Although I would hope that they would agree that it is awesome (in both the literal and slang senses of the word).
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| Speaking of awesome: I just wish my dates went like this... |
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| ...never mind, no I don't. |
I was even surprised while watching this Lovecraftian Comedy Classic on the silver screen how it still holds up in the special effects 30 years later. In fact, it holds up more than later CGI-filled blockbusters. Hell, I enjoyed Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings movies but the FX always felt too fake to me - I could tell that it was all a computer image programmed by an army of nerds. The old movie effects to me look real - real physical objects constructed by an army of nerds.
Also, I like the fact that cinematography in Ghostbusters isn't ADD like modern blockbusters. It doesn't feel as self-consciously slick as modern blockbusters either (although the decade it was made in was responsible for starting that trend).
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| Another artifact from this decade: everyone smokes! |
Well, it's in theatres until Thursday. Then you'll probably have to wait another 20 or 30 years for it to hit the cineplexes again - assuming we are still watching movies by then.
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| And hopefully not in 3-D, although this would make for a *wicked* 3-D shot. |
