This was literally one of the best movies ever. It has everything, action, intrigue, treasure hunting, fighting nazis, and one of the best team ups in history. Ford and connery were perfect together.
Walter Peck's confrontation with Venkman is thought-provoking. Peck is doing the right job, in the worst possible way. Someone should be concerned with the environmental effects of an unlicenced ghost hunting business. That someone does not need to be so interested in the academic credentials of the company's CEO. A small man with a big title, Peck is not able to keep his act together. He is pursuing a grand goal of protecting the environment, and gets stuck in petty bickering over academic degrees. As a man with no personal authority, no gift of negotiation and no powers of persuasion, Peck can only keep reminding the Ghostbusters that the rules are on his side, no matter what he does, because he has a position in the bureaucratic hierarchy and the Ghostbusters are nothing in that hierarchy. That he must do at the top of his lungs. The ability to confuse things and to turn the big into small and the small into big are essential traits of a modern bureaucracy. They are its very heart and soul. Such deep portrayals of a modern bureaucrat are seldom seen in movies.
Palpatine is just so evil he is not really that interesting and is very cliched. The really interesting characters in star wars are those that are battle grounds between good and evil - that is Darth Vader and Kylo Ren.
The original script for this film never intended for Palpatine to return, and the movie was partly shot with Matt Smith as a villian call The Acolyte. From what I've read this entire film was a giant clusterf*ck of Disney meddling with JJ Abrams - who supposedly lost his calm a couple of times during meetings with Lucasfilm. Appareantly making this film(trilogy) was his biggest wish as a director, to be part of his favourite films. It must have been devastating to watch it all crash and burn.
this scene is so perfect, so SW, shame they made it to the last movie and didnt build it up for more time period... well this suxs but still is nice to watch :D
Alien will always be one of the best films ever made. The scariest scene where the facehugger clamps on Kane melting through his helmet. Alien now turns 45! It feels like this movie was made in the 80's rather than in the 70's. Alien is one of my personal favorites.
For what it's worth, Palpatine's side of the dialogue here is fantastic. "I have been every voice you have ever heard inside your head" with the voices of Snoke and Vader was a nice touch
Disney's trilogy is absolute trashfire garbage. But seeing and listening to Ian play Palpatine, one of my all time favorite movie characters, is always a treat. Even if its completely nonsensical..
“Our situation has not improved” That’s an incredibly chill line considering the amount of danger they are in; but then again, not surprising since he’s 007 and has been through it all
Who who else liked the way she grabbed the sugar (which she hates) from the desk and slams it in the trash. Pretty incredible the amount of symbolism, undertones, and double entendres throughout this movie. She sees his “sweetness” for what it is, a wolf in sheep’s clothing. A grown up boy who is taking liberties and infiltrating the young boys because he is in a position of power. She uses her position to instruct, protect, and discipline. It’s never popular, just like someone who rejects sugar, and he comes in wanting to be mister popular with long fingernails and wanting to secularize the church.
