“On a mountain of skulls, in a castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of evil!” -Vigo the Carpathian Just how metal is that?
Until fairly recently I wasn't even aware anyone would have thought Ghostbusters 2 was bad. Ghostbusters 2 was friggin great. I seriously can't understand how anyone would hate it?
Depending on when this whole 2 sucks thing came about might determine why it's being said. If it started after the failure that was the 2016 movie then it may just be a backlash from the fans of that movie on this one...
It's funny that the lyrics they're singing are the notes "Do Re Mi" which are a scale, however, the notes they're actually singing are clearly a chord ("Do Mi So").
@@Scripture-Man Actually, LISTEN AGAIN, because you're WRONG. The sounded interval between "do" and "re" we hear, is actually a PERFECT 4th, so the pitch Ray sang was actually FA.
Ghostbusters 2 is one of my favorite movies. I can't count how many times I've watched it. I could recite the whole movie line by line. There are a LOT of movies especially being made now that are nowhere as good as the original Ghostbusters. Quite frankly, I consider the original to be the perfect movie, so no nothing could be as good or better. I have a nostalgic love for part 2 though, I was 7 when it came out and already a fan of the original and the cartoon. It may not have been "NEEDED" but it certainly is appreciated and loved. I still watch it and prefer it over many other choices.
My favorite line is when Venkman says, "suck in the gut boys. We're the Ghostbusters!", and "why don't you tell them that you don't believe in ghosts!" And my favorite scene is the courtroom.
Ray’s possession was foreshadowed during the scene where the Ghostbusters provoke Vigo’s painting earlier in the film. It didn’t come from nowhere. Even as a kid I understood the foreshadowing.
@ Brandon Page, sadly the scene of Ray driving the Ecto 1A while possessed by Vigo was only partially filmed. They never filmed Winston punching him out inside the car and Ecto 1A hitting a tree. Likely because they only had one version of Ecto 1A for filming and did not want to damage it.
"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of EVIL!" - Vigo the unholy
It fucking still does 😂 Everytime I look at a paintling till today I still get that feeling I had as a kid I will be posessed when looking directly into the eyes too long. 42 btw and still a kid 😂
I loved the Ghostbusters during the time of this sequel.... watched the cartoon every Saturday... had all the toys and the 1st movie on vhs.....I don't don't know if it's nostalgia for me... but I thought GB 2 was dope... not as good as the first but a good sequel for that time......
The only time I ever saw Ray with a mustache....was in the Casper live-action movie, wherein Dan Akroyd makes a cameo appearance as Ghostbuster Ray Stanz.
Huh never heard that lol. Going to have to check that out. The clips got to be on RU-vid that way i don't have to watch the whole movie because I heard caper was terrible!!!
I've always LOVED Ghostbusters 2! In some ways as a kid I even liked it a little more than the original, probably because I loved the cartoon so much too though.
Honestly, I really enjoyed watching the sequel over the original, because I have always been fascinated with the lore of certain characters (Vigo), and what could be possible in a supernatural sense. My all time favorite scenes involved everything that happened as a result of the slime's influence over the population. It really made me want to go into ghost hunting and try to explore the possibilities of life after death.
Fun fact the titanic was gonna to not be at the movie at all the original vision was instead of the titanic it was original gonna to be the Hindenburg blimp we’re the ghost of the blimp and the passengers which were on fire
I was 5 years old in 1989 when this came out in theaters. Ghostbusters 2 and then Batman a week or two later are my earliest movie going experiences and throughout my life have remained two of my all time favorite movie franchises
I love it. Dan aykroyd even said the video game is essentially the third movie. Sadly, not all movie goers play games and wouldn't understand any references made to it if it was included in the movie cannon.
The GBII "Titanic" scene was almost as creepy to me as the scene in *Pee-Wee's Big Adventure* when Pee-Wee was hitchhiking and looked over at the truck driver (Large Marge) and without warning, all of her head orifices suddenly blew out at once toward him. Talk about being scarred for life.. I was only 10 years old when that happened. "Large Marge" clip: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lPMSGTfK4Aw.html
Hell yeah it was, I find myself listening to On Our Own very often. It had that late 80s new Jack swing sound. That was an awesome time for music, too.
You said it. Besides the two Ghostbusters movie, we also had The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Rocky III and IV, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Land Before Time, Gremlins, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Thing, Back to the Future 1 and 2, Child's Play, The Little Mermaid, The Terminator, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Little Shop of Horrors, Beetlejuice, Bad Taste, Little Monsters, the '89 Batman film, Flash Gordon, The NeverEnding Story, The Great Mouse Detective, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Meet the Feebles, Superman II, III, and IV, and Howard the Duck (actually, forget the last two...)
I thought that was how they intended for it to be, kinda like how the Back to the Future game was meant to be seen as sort of a Back to the Future Part IV.
If the game had been a movie, people would have hated it for repeating all the ideas from the first two movies. It is a great game, but as a movie it probably wouldn't work at all.
soulagent79, there is a resurgence of criticism against Ghostbusters II where they now claim IT is nothing but repeating the same plot of the original. And because of these criticisms, people who used to love the movie just fine are no longer enjoying it,... because of things OTHER PEOPLE SAY. That is what I hate the most about a lot of these overly-critical, or "everything wrong with" RU-vid reviews,... they entice people to dislike things they otherwise enjoyed before.
Don't get me wrong, I love GB II, even though people keep telling me it's bad, since I saw it for the first time back in 1989. I think it's original and in some aspects it is even a bit better than the first movie. The video game on the other hand is so great just because it brings back so many characters and places from the movies.
Last year, Hank Deutschendorf, one of the twins whom played baby Oscar committed suicide. According to his brother Will, Hank had been suffering from mental problems. I thought that sad news to hear. Another life gone too soon. Henry "Hank" Deutschendorf 1988 - 2017 RIP
I loved part 2 as well as part one ,did you know 1990's ninja turtles 2 secret of the ooze has the same underground train station as in Ghostbusters 2 so technically the turtles new lair has the ghost train ironically that's where the river of slime passed through 👻
Agreed. "Ghostbusters II" is such an underappreciated movie sequel that deserves more love considering the fact that it features the same actors from the original reprising the roles of the characters we knew and loved, and I think it's cool to know that the plot for the third movie did eventually get made in the form of the video game released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and even the Nintendo Wii.
@ wstine79 I have that comic book in my Ghostbusters collection at home. The reason why it has The Real Ghostbusters is due to the fact that getting the movie actors likeness was too expensive for NOW comics. It is really neat to see how much the script changed from the draft used in the comic book adaptation. Really wish that scene had been filmed and completed, it would have made Vigo even more memorable.
I don't give a damn what anyone says, this movie is just as good as the first one. One of the rare few, to be sure. Also the reason I hate he man. I wish the Ghostbusters would show up at my party. Ungrateful little yuppies larva. But still, great movie. Thanks for the great video.
When I first saw GB2 in the theaters, I thought it was just OK, but when I recently rewatched it after all these years, I found that it held up and was really quite good.
GB 2 is a bit underrated. The only real problem I have with it is having Dana as a plot device. She was the focus in the first movie and they ended up repeating that in 2. The only other issue I have is the ending. It had a significant build-up but then fell flat. They also could have done more with the Slime. Imagine if Vigo could have summoned ghosts from the slime to keep the Busters busy. Louis trying to fight off a ghost outside the museum would have been hilarious!
I also think they could have had Gozer return (they decided to wait until this year to do it and made a better movie out of it) or they could have some other a better ghost/human antagonist. The other way I could have seen it working has been featured in the Fanscription on Channel Awesome. Like Dana and Peter together throughout the movie and Dana's pregnant
The Ladybusters is not really part of the source material universe, more like I view it as an alternate reality One that kinda sucks as the girls have no idea what to do about garnering money for their research
Sargent: Lieutenant, you better talk to this guy. Lieutenant: I'm busy. Sargent: It's the Commander at Lakehurts Navy Base. Lieutenant: The commander? What's the problem? Sargent: He says the Hindenburg's just landed.
Have you ever seen "Plan 9 from outer space" ? It is said to be "The Worst Film of All Time". I bought it on DVD (just to say "I have it on DVD".) But I swear... It's sooo Bad! I haven't been able to say I've finished watching it... Like a train-wreck. (So bad, It killed the star, Bela Lugosi ) Did you finish watching the entire Ghostbusters remake?
@Reginald Andrews i would rather cut my clitbox off and pour freshly squeezed lemon juice in to the open wound left behind than re-watch even 1 minute of the recent ghostbusters reboot. There was even a fanmade ghostbusters movie on youtube from about 8 years ago that was more like a proper cannon Ghostbusters movie than the shit Hollywood spewed out of its fetted festering fadge.
What movie is that then because in my world the only Ghostbusters movies that exist are the original's 1984 and 1989. Depending on what Ghostbusters: Afterlife is like then that will decide on whether that one exists as well.
When I was little I loved to watch Garfield, and one day my mum was watching Ghostbusters. Straight away I recognized Bill Murray's voice and started watching it with her. My mum was hesitant to let me watch it as some scenes were abit scary, so she told me to not watch it. Shed let me watch the goonies and in the scene where sloths face is shown for the first time I'd hide behind the couch coz I thought it was scary. I some how got hold of the Ghostbusters DVD when my mum wasnt at home and put it on the DVD player. I watched it and fell in love, it was the double set so I watched the second one too. I got a little scared when the Scolari brothers came on the screen, but other than that it became my number 1 childhood movie. Still slightly confused as to how I found Ghostbusters less scary...
RIP Ivan Reitman. You made a huge mark on my life. Growing up enjoying your movies is an amazing experience that I share with countless other 80s kids. Thank you & we'll see you on the other side.
Tha Ruthless 1_ AZF But Return to Oz came out 30 years after the original, and the Fly 2 was a sequel of a remake, pretty much the same rehashing we hear about today
I agree, 1989 was a great year for movies. GB 2, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Licence To Kill, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Back To The Future Part II, Batman and more. Ghostbusters II was the first movie I watched more than once in the cinema during its original release and both times it was a blast.
Ace Ventura 1&2 had this problem. Both had a Saturday cartoon in between as the first movies were popular with adults and kids. So since the merchandise sales were in favor of a more kids based movie. Hurt the movies critically but both still had great writing and cast so they worked.
@@bryskyline Yup. Men in Black had the same problem. The existence of the cartoon caused the film to shift their tone to be more kid friendly for a wider audience. MIB 2 sucks though.
I'd always thought that "Ghostbusters 2" was a good movie, even if it wasn't as good as the first Ghostbusters movie In fact, both of these movies are better than that pitiful excuse for a remake that came out in 2016
Did you know that the ghostbusters 2 history arc makes much more sense if you play the playstation 2012 game, they explained why of the slime in the city, and as a funny fact vigo is just tagging along for a ride!!! The game actually works as a 3rd part!!!
actually bro that game released in 2009 not 2012. I got the PC version and it clearly says Copyright for 2009 , and I know it releases on all palttforms at the same time (xbox 360 , PlayStation 3, and PC ) a I think there was a wii version that got released later but I may be wrong on that one.
There was a Wii version and a DS version. The DS version is VERY different in gameplay style. But at least you can drive Ecto-1. But they're talking about removing it from canon.
Well done sir! Just found your channel last week and have already binge watched several. Your commentary on this one was on point. Excellent work. Also excellent soundtrack. I highly recommend you to my friends as an authority on great old films. Kudos to you and long live your channel.
I actually liked it better to, It also scared the living daylights out of me and gave me nightmares as a kid from the demonic voice calling Winston's name
As a 10 year old seeing this at the cinema in 1989 was amazing, the more I view the film the more I like it, you take on its flaws because for a film that seemed to be pressured into making by the studio it's a great film, that courtroom scene is amazing with the scoleri brothers and like the first film it plays to the same beats, the script isn't as funny but like this video explains this was made on the back of The Real Ghostbusters animated series so it was toned down somewhat, saying that I feel it has quite a few creepy scenes, when Janosz first gets possessed in the museum and when he walks away from Dana's apartment and his eyes glow down the darkened corridor, the whole underground abandoned railway scene with Winston and the severed heads on spikes and the intense ending with Vigo really making the baby cry for real is pretty creepy and menacing, in some ways it's more menacing than the first, Vigo wanting to take over the body of a baby and become reborn is all the more disturbing, also the history of Vigo on how he was shot, stabbed, hung drawn and quartered has an eerie air to it, the bathtub scene is pretty creepy but then visually quite tongue in cheek when the bath tub tries to grab Dana and Oscar, Oscar climbing out onto the edge of the window ledge with Janosz appearing from the sky to snatch Oscar is pretty damn scary, it's still a good blend of action, comedy horror and Sci Fi just like the first and it does a great job of finding a realistic way of the guys moving off to do regular jobs after the events of the first film, the opening sequence with Dana's carrage taking off down the street and stopping in front of an incoming bus is still one of my favourite openings to a film that gears you up for the rest of the movie
Same here, I remember seeing this at the cinema when I was 8 or 9 and still remember the experience from that day. I was barely old enough to appreciate the first Ghostbusters and only remembered certain scenes particularly the scene with Mr Stay Puft after only after seeing the movie once or twice around 1987, I wasn't old enough to understand the humor. As am adult I understand why GB1 is the superior movie but GB2 will always be my favourite, partly because of the Nostalgia
Except Ghostbusters 3 will be the surviving actors playing their roles as mentors to the next generation of Ghostbusters. Just like how extreme Ghostbusters had Egon as the mentor which actually is ironic to the franchise going forward.
Bill Murray said he would come back if they killed off his character; thinking they never would. Now that egon has passed away, I predict that the story of the third movie will involve egons death being spoken about invoking some super natural event related to the plot line and the same fate or similar happening to peter during the movie.
@Seven Oceans the trailer wasn't even out when you wrote that comment, you were judging it based on your own pessimistic assumptions, and based on the trailer that is out now I think it actually looks pretty good
@@DJ_Maysonic After seeing the trailer, he doesn't seem that far off. It doesn't look great imo, but will give it a chance. No interest in watching a little kids movie though, which is how it looks atm.
I felt this way as a kid, especially coming from getting into Ghostbusters through the cartoon (which is still fantastic and holds up great) But now, I absolutely prefer the original over 2 for the comedy and the greater subtlety of it all. I still absolutely love both though, and I'll always defend Ghostbusters 2! I feel like it gets a bad rep and is underrated like that just for not being seen as as good as the original, just like Back to the Future part 3 as well.
@@bofo85 For me i think that the Prequel where missing direction, i respect Gorges but hes not a very good director. But he tried the best he can, with the skill he got and envision the movie he wanted to see. From Gorges Lucas mouth, the movie i like to see are usually not the kind of movie people want to see.
I'm pretty sure there are more people who love it than there are who hate it. Honestly, I never heard anything bad about it until recent years. Sure, Bill Murray has something bad to say about all the movies he's made that I enjoy. But it seems like some asshole on the internet was like "Ghostbusters 2 sucks" and people just rolled with it.
Ghostbusters is a Masterpiece and my favorite film from the 80s Ghostbusters 2 is not as good but still Brilliant in my opinion Ghostbusters 3 is Ghostbusters the video game... It's a very good game and I just wish it had been Ghostbusters 3 the movie... I forget Ghostbusters 2016 ever happened, the Trailer was enough for me to know I will never ever see it!!!
The late 80s n the 90s was the best years for movie n tv shows. They could get away with putting rated R or PG13 material in a PG show or movie. Unlike now days ehh
I remember Critters 2 being pg-13, with violence, blood, gore, and naked boobs... nowadays all the blood has to be toned down, or it's cutaway deaths, not gonna see nudity, and then get 1 fuck... times have changed.
Technically there is a Ghostbusters 3 with Bill Murray. The video game. It was written by Dan and Harold, staring the original Ghostbusters cast and is canon and Dan counts it as the third.
Aaaarghh! My favorite Ghost busters! Made my Summer of 89 more memorable! Both the original and sequel make for happy feelings with all that great music and comedic content!
Mr. Bishop, great rundown! From you, I learned about the frog monster; I wish it was kept in the movie. 😊 By the way, the scene where possessed Ray drives the Ecto-1 recklessly is also in the official novelization of _Ghostbusters II_ .
