Rarely does a film after 30 years still make you fall backwards laughing with the comedic parts and tear your heart out and completely wring it out to dry . It’s a masterpiece.
@@tmalone2530 the film doesn't just feel timeless, it actually looks timeless. The look of the picture almost cannot be pin pointed in any era. There's a very unique look to the film
The hardest for me in the movie was when he went to heaven in the end .....that made me cry so hard. I'd like to imagine that's what patrick experienced when he passed away
Whoopi got an Oscar for a part they didn’t initially want her for. wow. I did not know that. Her acting of oda mae was a once in a millennium - just brilliant. So funny, so real, so good.
It´s interesting that Patrick has so little time on earth and worked on the two most popular timeless movies - Dirty Dancing and Ghost... Two movies that people will still watch 100 years from now...
In the Summer of 1990, my Girlfriend at the time asked me to go see a movie coming out "This Friday night" a movie about a ghost. I was working 60 to 70 hours a week at the time and I was tired. I cherished my rare time off, so I did the typical guy thing, resisted and then caved in. My Lady told me The movie is staring Partick Swayze who was that "Bouncer guy in Roadhouse". (which she reminded me she went to see on opening night with me about a year earlier) so I was obligated to return the favor. Friday night came along. Friday the 13th and we're going to see a movie about a ghost. Anyway, I will do my best to recreate for you what my girlfriend and I experienced. To this day I will never forget the power of the love and emotion I felt in that jammed packed Theater. I mean the theater was absolutely packed with couples young, middle age, even some folks who were married half a century were in attendance. There were bad thunderstorms that night, and you could hear the rain on the roof of the building, and the claps of thunder, which only pushed the women closer and closer to their men. The popcorn buckets on every lap, and not a sound coming from beepers or pagers, or even the new bag phone or brick phone which wouldn't work in there anyway. *NO ONE TALKING, NOT A WORD* except for the talented actors and actresses on the screen. I am not a man incapable of feeling being alive, and I took notice of those around me. Whoopie Goldberg and her arguments with Patrick Swayze were hilarious. The scene showing the moment Sam Wheat discovered he was dead was not cool, as were the demons who came for Willie Lopez and Carl Bruner. Toward the end of the film, I don't seem to recall a human being in the theater not feeling as if they just went on a journey. As I held my arm around my weeping Girlfriend (both of us 20 years old at the time) I couldn't help but notice the raw emotion around me. Every man in that theater was doing exactly the same thing as me, holding tight as every woman was quietly weeping. It was as if we had all just attended a birth, a comedy show, a wedding, a Wake, a Funeral together as a group of 300+ people. The collective energy in the theater on that night is something which can never be reproduced watching at home with your family, and certainly not alone on a digital download on your phone. This is why we gather together to experience collective soul. Something we have forgotten as a Nation. It is events like the one I just described which have held us together as a human race. The things which bring us together and not that which drives us apart. Those who are capable of remembering events such as these will understand why I spent the time writing about it. Those who are shallow and ignorant will say something stupid. *God Bless the Good* ~ Custos ~ ❤️
I was nine when I first saw this when it was a brand new movie. I've cried every time I've seen the ending and that's well over 200 times. I'm a hopeless romantic. I hope to have this kind of love someday except for the whole, you know, getting murdered thing.
Thank you for your testimony. I have a strong connection with this film for a long time. It was good to know how it felt like when it first came out the year I was born.
Ideas are limitless. Hollywood is running out of creativity, imagination and the desire to take risks. The black numerical figures on the spreadsheet have taken over.
@@edr5364 exactly.... im a big movie head and ive seen most of the movies ever made ....and i still be having a shit load of ideas that run through my head of new movies that can be made with different types of story lines....im just one of the rare people in this world that doesn't let a smart phone hypnotize me and take away my creativity and thought process like its doing to most ppl these days.....i feel like their will be a time where their could be no more new movie ideas left.....but NO this isnt the time....its still a lot movies thats never been made, and that could be made with something different and new......but like you said they lost their creativity and aint thinking hard enough ......these smart phones are really turning ppl into zombies.......
@@carolewilson1311 uh is this a joke? Because it’s not funny. Remakes are nothing but Hollywood trying to recatch lightning which is impossible. They take treasures and turn them into trash.
Just watched it again for maybe the 200th time - first watched it when it hit the cinemas in england. I was only 17 then & went with my college buddies to see it. In my top 5 favourite movies
Ok....so I watched Ghost, didn’t need the whole box of Kleenex just a few, but I’m still crying 😭 😭.... Sam “I love you Molly. I’ve always loved you” Molly “ Ditto” 😭😭.....both says, “See ya.” 😭 Molly “Bye”. 😭😭😭.... on the part that Patrick Swayze was walking towards the light, I hope that he did the same when he passed away. RIP 😢😢
I wished my friend Rick Aviles WAS IN HERE. I saw a scene, his feet on the stairs, I was good friends w/ him frMo LA. just as he came to live in LA. he WAS A GREAT WILLIE LOPEZ.MEMORIES LIVE ON BOTH him & Patrick. MICHELLE IN LA
This movie without Whoopie would have been Vanilla shake without the vanilla. The subject matter was too heavy and she provided the joy to continue watching it. Best movie ever made as far as I am concerned.
11:32 - 11:39/ Ms. Musky, the production designer, must have struck up plenty of conversations with dear old Carl. For those who don't know, she went on to marry Tony Goldwyn after they met while working on GHOST! 30+ years later, they're still happily married....
Over the weekend of February 2nd, 2002, the Oscar statuette "disappeared" from a sealed shipping container. Goldberg, via the Academy, had sent it back to the manufacturer of the statuettes, R.S. Owens Co. of Chicago, for cleaning and replating. Allegedly the statuette was found in a trash bin at Ontario, Calif., airport on Tuesday, 5 February. "Oscar will never leave my house again", Goldberg commented in a statement.
It is rare that a movie portrays the reality of the spiritual side of life. They must have done their research on this one because it is very, very accurate. Sam says at the end "The love inside, it goes with you". That is 100% true. I can't get through this movie without howling my eyes out.
Interesting to know that Tina Turner and Oprah Winfrey were up for the part. I also read that Jackée Harry, Angela Bassett and Patti LaBelle read for it.
It’s strange that “bad guy” Max Cantor “Robbie” died in 1991 of a heroin overdose 4 yrs after Dirty Dancing premiered (1987) & “bad guy” Rick Arviles “Willy” died in 1995 from AIDS (contracted via heroin use) 5 yrs after Ghost premiered (1990).
Guys whatever you got this ideas and format was not just your thoughts but God almighty ideas to show human the actual reality of separation of spirit , soul and body when we die I love it very much because it is very clear a reality.
If they do the remake I'd like to see Mellisa Mcarthy as Oda Mae, I feel she'd play the perfect con artist similar to her character in identity theith & she has would suit the role well in my opinion
