GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

I’m kicking myself right now for also NEVER realising this! Thanks. Seriously.

That... is a genius observation! I'd noticed how the dog thing that possesses him (Vinz Klortho?) is also a bit of a dork and keeps mistiming its jumps, bumping into walls etc. But never this.

@@simongiles9749 @Ben Stephens. You’re both doing God’s work! 😉😉😉

AND after as his door has been destroyed, he doesn’t need a key...

I was today years old when I learned this 🤯

Agreed.

i still love my childhood movies ghost busters back to the future jurrassic park ect

OMG yes 😕

Same!

In two more years, Ghostbusters will be older than Casablanca was when I was born. :'( That's a weird feeling.

I saw it in a theater at 4 and that didn’t seem odd at all at the time,I was certainly fine with it. That was pretty normal back then like you said. 1984 it feels like a hundred years ago😭😜

Can confirm

Exactly. I saw it when I was 4 in 88 (I was born the year this came out lol) and I was absolutely OBSESSED. I had all the toys, including the Ghostbusters Station with the pink slime from GB2 lol.

And it still remains so.

I can clearly recall straight up horror movies being shown on prime time TV as a kid. Poltergeist, Nightmare on Elm St, Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc. They’d say “viewer discretion is advised” and then commence with the horror and gore.

"Take off, Hoser!"

He's also the type of person who brings ketamine on a date. Either that or maybe he just carries it around with him everywhere. Maybe he's just on tranquilizers 24/7?

@@StarkRG It's more plausible that Dana had them in her medicine cabinet.

@@StarkRG 😂

Actually he's using humor to cope with the situation. He's also not taking it seriously, because he doesn't take anything seriously.

@@3Rayfire Well, it can't be both.

I sure did. Then again I was like 9.

@@markiv2942 was gonna say exactly that, like 8 and watched it the first time in a cinema.. Was definitely scary.

Just to follow the progression, I saw it in the cinema when I was 7!

I was five and I was scared. Yet GB became one of my all time favorite movies.

If Cassie gets scared for Ghostbusters. Wait till we get to Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Pulp Fiction, Predator, Aliens. And the list goes on and on.

Except the stop motion on the terror dogs. That never looked all that great.

I'll take these effects over modern effects any day.

@@artofalmost9479 You miss the point, really. The point isn't whether or not the effects are good. It's that by the you get to the terror dogs, you're already invested in the story enough that you don't care whether or not the special affect looks good. You are enjoying the movie too much to care. People don't dislike bad effects. They dislike bad movies.

@@cheezemonkeyeater I wasn't even responding to your comment.

@@artofalmost9479 >.> It alerted me like you were.

😂🤣 He said she put on one hell of a show that couldn’t be topped!

@@ryanbuckley5529 "Sigourney Weaver acted like a dog" , id no idea that Vince McMahon was a prod on this too ;)

Ivan Reitman even provided the demonic "There is no Dana, only Zuul" voiceover.

I would love to see that audition tape, for educational purposes!

Strange Brew, a hilarious movie, eh!

I always love My Blue Heaven, with Steve Martin.

Take off eh!! You're all hosers eh!!

Lol. Just finished this video and now I get this comment...Beauty Aye.

I'm so glad I wasn't drinking anything when she made that comment. Biggest laugh of the reaction by far.

And that's kind of hard to pull off.

It's Bill Murray in a nutshell

That could be the title of Venkman's biography

That's just Bill Murray.

If you're talking about her, okay.

I like how the guy from the EPA was the bad guy.

A movie about a bunch of guys who follow their passion and start their own private business and succeed and become heroes but are tried to be shut down by big government... a movie praising the virtues of capitalism, lol.

I also think that's a subtle reference to Trading Places which was released the year before Ghostbusters.

I also love "Listen...do you smell something?"

It's they expect results, I should know.

Smart kid

Lol, my 5yo son said the same thing.

When someone asks you if you’re a god: you say YES

Gozer: Are you a God? Ray: Women seem to think so That would have been good too

👏👏👏👏👏😁

I always loved how "real" the Cardinal felt, a very limited time on screen but every molecule is NYC Catholic authority "God does weird shit, we just have to figure out how to fix it"

And then in GB2, Ray says to the mayor about the four of them, "... and we'd just like to say that almost 50 percent of us voted for you in the last election." 🤣

great line, but I always crack up at: "Listen!... do you smell something?" lol

@@RraMakutsi that is also a great line. The whole movie is filled with them, which is why the movie is one of the best comedy's ever

@@RraMakutsi THE most under appreciated and overlooked quote from the entire two movies! A level of genius on its own.

He has the shining moment in AS GOOD AS IT GETS when he visits Helen Hunt & Her Mom, talking about Helen's sick son. They cuss out HMO's with a long string of expletives, and Ramis sits at the table calmly and nods, "I think that IS their actual name." The whole crew goes back to the original Sat Nite Live's first few seasons, and before that in 2nd City and Ramis was part of the original SCTV writers as well.

Also cowrote and directed Groundhog Day. One of the nicest people I ever met; sat next to him on a flight and got to hear story after story. Clearly a man who enjoyed making people laugh, both individually and in large groups!

@@scapevelocity i met Gozer , shes nice albeit quiet

A horror comedy!

@@fynnthefox9078 Like Shaun of the Dead!

And for all his cynicism he was sharp as a tack, instantly understanding what was happening, and trying to extract information. It was subtle, but Venkman was a professional under all that smart-ass exterior.

how can he?

That whole scene is genius.

The cartoon was pretty good too.

The cartoon was pretty good too.

I still have Ecto 1, the car, that I got for my kids back then.

I saw the cartoon first, then my dad rented the film on VHS and I remember thinking what an amazing adaptation it was! Wore that video copy out till it was unwatchable!

it was a huge deal back then, just like he man and thundercats...

Same, well those are the top of the list

Most of those films were my teenage years. My childhood was Superman and Star Wars, but there was also Rocky, Star Trek, James Bond, and the original Planet of The Apes.

The 80s were the top and best Cinema decade ever, sometimes i think i was in theatre every week...

I was born WAY after all of these but yeah, still watched ghostbusters at 7 yrs old, Batman 1989, back to the future, teenage mutant ninja turtles movie, goonies, Ferris bueler etc etc

add in Beetlejuice.....

Very true! The reason that I am a film enthusiast now, is because of these films. My mom, believe it or not, took me to see Ghostbusters when I was 8! Nightmare on Elm Street, as well! My mom was the ultimate "cool mom"!

Venkman is like Spider-Man. If he didn't joke around, he'd lose his mind

Same here! What a treasured time in our world. I feel lucky and miss it so.

None of the main characters exhibit any growth. They have no arcs. It's brilliant.

He's a hoser.

You can see one in the game that came out in 2009

That’s what I’ve always thought as well. It is well grounded and balances comedy, action, and lore well.

i agree. well said.

Also, i think GB is one of the true **original storylines** in hollywood. Lots of ghost movies. Lots of entrepreneur movies. But not another movie about CATCHING ghosts as a business. Truly original. Its so original, that if you attempted to steal it or copy it (like Percy movies for Harry Potter or Battlestar Galactica for Star Wars)....it would be INSTANTLY recognizable as a ghostbusters knockoff.

@@AkodoNoEyes Yes - if you drop out the jokes the main story could fit in H. P. Lovecraft's universe of cosmic horror.

@@christophersmith8316 it really could and that’s one of the best things about the franchise.

good job! now keep an eye out on your next watch for the other 'hidden stay-pufft' (there really are at least two 'subliminal' cameos before he makes his big entrance) that is more in the later half of the film :-)

I watched the movie several times before I noticed it

fun fact there's also a stay puft ad painted on a building next to the firehouse that is seen when we get a long shot of the firehouse going up when the containment grid was shut down it's at an angle but it can be seen on the fringes of the foreground on the left front in perspective of the firehouse

I would have missed that the first time but they are right there in the centre of frame.

I have seen this movie loads of times and first watched it in the theater in 84, and that is the first time I noticed that.

I've laughed at that line. But I also think that it might not be wise if you are responding to a god who may be deciding how much of a blast to send your way.

Later in Groundhog Day, Bill Murray had the line "I'm A God.... im not THE God, i think"

@@charlesmills8712 Dunno, if I’m gonna get hit with a blast by a “God Tier”, i might rather get hit with the hardest blast, rather than the one that’s just going to barely push me off the ledge to my death after a nice fall.

Aim for the flattop.

One of the great movie lines of all time.

That must of been so much fun!

As is Ivan Reitman, the Producer/Director.

I loved the fact that she identified Rick Moranis as a fellow Hoser right away!

And a loony. Aykroyd is a certified nutcase.

Well, Aykroyd is very much into the UFO scene.

@@pjftoo7588 his daughter Catherine Reitman made a dramedy called "Working Moms" for Netflix

"Back off, man. I'm a scientist."

It's said that if a director doesn't like someone who improvises -- in Murray's case, constantly -- that director should not cast Bill Murray. In the movie Stripes, Murray cooked up the entire scene in the general's kitchen with the M.P. None of it was in the script. The actress, P.J. Soles, was chosen in part for her ability to improvise and to follow another actor's improvisations.

Sounds great🙂

I prefer to assume that he got the drug store to deliver the tranquilizer. Admittedly I only got that from TvTropes suggesting it, and pointing out that some psychologists are allowed to prescribe medication.

And at the start he's basically a nonce

He had a chance to take advantage of Dana while she was possessed and he refused. You might be reading too much into it.

i always assumed he found the thorazine in Dana's medicine cabinet. It's an anti-depressant, and in the 80s, it was fashionable to have a therapist and be "on something." It seems legit that a successful 80s woman like Dana would have a designer drug in her possession. Vankman may also be slightly familiar with the drug, but not Zuul....so possibly he just gave her 3 or 4 more pills that needed: not enough to killer her by overdose, but enough to sedate her.

Per the IDW comics, that’s actually correct. Dana had the Thorazine prescription to counteract nervous hiccups, because playing in a major metropolitan symphony orchestra must be super stressful.

Kinda reminds me of watching Young Frankenstein as a young kid and not really getting that it wasn’t an actual horror movie with funny elements. I always loved Ghostbusters for the ghosts too but I also loved the humor.

I am in my 40s and I still consider Ghostbusters a sci-fi horror movie with comedy elements. I don't care what others say.

Some of the jokes (particularly the ruder ones) went completely over my head as a child.

@@Trusteft

I was about the same age & reached a similar conclusion

Some-man made some-videos talking about the money it might take to pay for all the things that got destroyed in the 2 movies!!!

hmm, I think Peter Venkman was skeptic, not because of a scientific mind, but because he, himself was a fraud, before becoming a ghostbuster, pretty much like the saying goes "the pot calling the kettle black". The most scientific one was Egon.

@@charlescole645 - Peter Vekman told the guy who was getter the shocks, it was to re-inforce the psycic ability, look at the results! the man who was getting the shocks improved with each shock. Who cares if the cutie was there just for the ride?

@@botwitaprice No improvement at all, watch the scene again, the "experiment" was a lie and Peter was taking advantage of the girl's naiveness, unPC by today's standards. In GB 2, he admits being a fraud.

@@Caseytify That's such a Venkman response. Good work! :D

Slimer Ecto cooler Hi-C was great

On set they just nicknamed him the onionhead ghost. And Dan Aykroyd thought of it as the ghost of John Belushi, who would have had a part in the movie if he hadn’t died.

@@namelessjedi2242 awww 😲 wow!!!

And an animated series.

Slimer is basically the mascot for the all franchise. I read somewhere that the creation of Slimer was sad but a nice homage. John Belushi was going to be in the movie, he was going to play one of the Ghostbusters, but he died. So, they ended on putting him in the movie as a ghost, and so Slimer was born.

Do you remember the green, Hi-C, Ecto Cooler juice boxes? That stuff was my JAM!

@@ReneeOfTheFae yep, I remember them. They were pretty good.

@@Caseytify That and hormone imbalance. It could be the cause in itself. Seeing as he was more of a skeptic because of all the BS he usually pulls, he woulda been more interested in the latter.

GHOSTBUSTERS AFTERLIFE :):)

"VIGGO!!!" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

@@kylereese4822 Can't wait !

Wholeheartedly agree!

Definitely not as good as 1, but still worth a watch. I'm looking forward to Afterlife now...

The director Ivan Reitman is also Canadian.

Spenbro Nice. I forgot that about Reitman. Good call.

I'm saying Canadian comedy is next level and I'm not Canadian, but we have call a spade a spade. The comedic gold that Canadians produce is unprecedented. The names on the list have brought me such joy. I have to bow and give the greater north nuff respect.

I did a quick Google, and, as of this writing, Howie Mandel is still with us. Sadly, John Candy is not. He was a national treasure in at least two countries. :)

Seth rogen and Catherine O'Hara are great Canadians as well

I used to quote this all the time in the 80s

Of course, with putting a 3rd morgedge of a house, buying that care as it was wasn't good for buisness

and the literal hell they go through.

Yeah and they have Environmental Regulator Mr. Peck interfering with their work. Not to say I have anything against people who make sure things are safe for environment but it’s quite a subtle statement

All these years and I've never noticed that, thanks!

It’s REALLY subtle too. Love it!

Until now, I'd never seen anyone call Ghostbusters a horror movie.

Or The Exorcist.

WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU.

@@HawkGTboy AND THOSE SIGHTS WILL TEAR YOUR SOUL APART

Or Candyman

I was kinda scared as a kid but after seeing the Real Ghostbusters cartoon first I knew it was gonna be more comedy\scary movie

He also happens to bring Thorazine to his date with Dana.

To everyone watching. Please don't ask this poor woman to watch the most intense horror movies. lol. I don't want her to be losing sleep just for our entertainment. Cassie, don't watch Scream, Alien, or Nightmare on Elm Street. Unless you are willing to be scared. ;)

@@gordondavis6168 Perhaps the Thorazine was already in Dana's apartment.

Yes, he should be applauded for not assaulting her. I bet you're fun around women! Single much?

Lol! I can see the resemblance.

Not true. Harold Ramos and Dan Ackroyd considered Belushi for the role, but he died before writing even began. The part of Venckman was written specifically for Murray in the end, whom Ackroyd and Ramis were friends with. In fact, many of Venckman's lines were not scripted, they were simply written in the script as 'Venckman Responds' because Ackroyd and Ramis knew Murray well enough to know anything Bill came up with on the spot would be funnier than anything they could write in advance. Slimer being Belushi's ghost, however, was a constant behind the scenes joke among the three that they never confirmed or denied.

@@GuukanKitsune They've already confirmed that artist was asked to make him look like Belushi, but the design was already done. Anyway, when they finally got to see Slimer finished, they were like "Yeah, it looks just like Belushi!". It's in the Ghostbusters episode from "The movies that made us" in Netflix.

Very possible considering how he is very difficult to work with. He probably just refused. Amazing talent. But very primadona.

@@cheeseburger12 Tone down to talking about things you know of.

@@tempsitch5632 Dude, there's been a lot of talk about Murray's behavior from Ghostbusters to Scrooged to Groundhog's day. The later ending the long time friendship of Murray and Ramis until Ramis was dying.

He was just very good at hiding.

It’s just a visual gag.

He's also great in Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

The Flintstones movie as Barney rubble

One sometimes wonder whether the "ghosts" they are facing are the spirits of the dead or just demonic spiritual entities that were never human. If Slimer is the spirit of a person, death really doesn't become you.

“That’s some Twinkie”

It's been 32 years and I still haven't tasted a Twinkie.

@@Kinkoyaburi $2, convenient store, near you, GO!

@@fynnthefox9078 I live in Bulgaria, no Twinkies here.

AJ Clements I don't get people like that, I've been watching movies much older than Ghostbusters since I was in Elementary School people with that kind of mentality are missing out on a lot of great films.

@@justindenney-hall5875 Right? I watched a lot of old movies when I was a toddler. Even some I probably shouldn't have watched.

@@justindenney-hall5875 Hell, one of my favorite films is Metropolis. And it's from the Silent Era!

@@RabbitShirak I've known of that film for several years now, I think I'm long over due to watch it.

@@justindenney-hall5875 I highly recommend it! It looks just beautiful.

As a Canadian, thank you!

Peter Grieder I'm saying this and I'm not Canadian. The comedic gold that my list of Canadians produce (see my other comment). The names on that list have brought me such joy. I have to bow and give the greater north nuff respect.

@@m2c_tave689 We Canadians appreciate the praise. I'll send you one Canadian loonie (dollar)! How much it's worth depends where you live lol!

Peter Grieder I hear that. Canadian dollars accepted at all airports. That loonie would would be a welcome gift.

Peter Grieder You could also send that loonie to my buddy in Vancouver, or my other buddy in Edmonton. I could split it with my cousin in Quebec or my other cousin in Montreal. I have family and friend all over the greater north. Us Caribbean folk make it all over the world.

I got a little scared when I first watched this but I was 8 I think 🤔

6:06 is priceless

You either have to be a kid, a shut-in or just super cowardly.

@@fynnthefox9078 it would be better to avoid being offensive please

Also as Prof. Jerry Hathaway in Real Genius (1985). He excelled at playing smarmy characters.

That was William Atherton, and he was in Die Hard 2 as well.

and he was in Die Hard 2 as well

@@botwitaprice lol

Best Christmas movie ever!

I do think movies that were 30-40 years old when we were kids (80s) seemed older than 30-40 year old movies today. That doesn't mean they weren't good, they just seemed more like they were from "history". In the 80s, movies that old were from the 1940s and 1950s. Only a handful of color movies existed back then. Everything else was black and white. That alone made them seem more removed from us. The types of movies were different in the 40s and 50s as well. Different subject matter. The style of comedy was different too. Of course, the effects weren't great. The sound was mono. The aspect ratios were often different than in the 80s. The style of acting was completely different as well. After Brando in the 50s, it became the norm for actors to use "The Method". The style of dress was completely different (more formal). Even things like men's hairstyles were different. If you see a man with long hair in a movie from the 40s and 50s, he is usually meant to be a wild man or a bum. Strong language and nudity were practically non-existent in movies from the 40s and 50s. When you combine all of that, they really seemed like they came from a completely different era. Movies that are 30-40 years old today are from the 80s and early 90s. They were color. They had the same type of subject matter we have today (fantasy, action/adventure, sci-fi). They were the same aspect ratios we have today. There were blockbusters just like we have today. The style of comedy was very similar to today. They had better effects (though few had CGI). They had surround sound. The style of acting is the same we have today. Since the 80s were after the U.S. cultural revolution of the 60s, the style of dress was more casual, just as it is today. Men commonly had long hair. Strong language and nudity were common in movies as it is today. In the 80s, movies that were 30 years old felt like they were a hundred years old. Today, movies that are 30 years old feel like they are 30 years old. It was a different time, but not as far removed from modern times as the 40/50s felt from the 80s. At the very least, 80/90s movies today provide a clearer look at the past than we had in the 80s.

@@476429 - 40 year old movies don't seem old because they were from my time. 40 years ago, 40 year old movies were from before my time, the 'olden' times.

@@476429 I hear 20-somethings talking about "old", "classic", "retro" when referring to things from their own early childhoods , (2000's). Just saw a guy reacting to a Beastie Boys vid from mid-2000s. He called it "the 70's" and said they would get laughed at if they tried to release something like this today.

People who won't watch "old" movies from before 1970 or so (or even later) are missing out on a whole world of wonderful films. Now that is dumb - when I was a kid I would have killed for the access to older media that people have today. But it is certainly reflected in the limited repertoire of most copycat YT reactors. Same old same old. @Arandor Thinnorion is correct though about the societal change that happened in the late sixties, but not as much about movie technology. Many movies in both B&W and color from the 30s through the 60s look as good or better than something that came out last week. In fact the amazing colors in 3-strip Technicolor films make current stuff look like trash.

@@paintedjaguar They're missing out but dumb is a bit harsh. I've spent a good anount of time exposing people to Blues music. I used to drag friends to shows and to promise pay their cover charges if they didn't like the music... I never had to pay up. Some even became big fans of the music. Sometimes you just need to be pointed in the right direction.

Die Hard - it really is the best Christmas movie of all times.

What a great idea. I have watched a couple reactors watch Beetlejuice and they didn’t quite get it. Understandable, it was Tim Burton and maybe some things are just weird when they’re not in the zeitgeist any longer. I mean Beetlejuice was everything to me as kid, but it was a different time.

@@Psilocybin77 "I'm the ghost with the most, babe."

@@Psilocybin77 Yeah, most of the reactors i've seen usually are just confused or didn't like it. I don't know if you saw his reaction but the channel Brandon Likes Movies did one to Beetlejuice and actually loved it which was nice to see

Back off man... I’m a scientist.

@@nickmanzo8459 nicely played!

"Let's run some red lights" was always my favorite improvised line.

I still use the dogs and cats living together line all the time.

I've always wondered how many funerals will be had after an action shooter movie is over. Oiy!

There's probably a movie franchise to be made about the people that go round clearing up after action heroes have finished smashing everything.

@@simongiles9749 It could be based around the Acme It Never Happened Company, LLC. Best. Leo.

There is no Dana. Only Zuul.

Yep. She started using the name Sigourney after reading The Great Gatsby.

@@jb888888888 What a lovely singing voice you must have!

Take off you hoser!

Only thing missing is *Count Floyd.* lol *"Scary stuff, huh kids?"*

This movie was shot in 3b...three beers and it looks good eh?