Ghostbusters promotional film for Showest 1984 - Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman [FTD-0047] 

or was he ?

Yeah no kidding lol. But Ghostbusters did a good job setting itself up for success. Some of its marketing methods were downright avant-garde for the time. In the early-mid 80's my dad took the subway to work in Boston. His office was in the Prudential Building so M-F he took the Green Line to Huntington Station. One day he got off the subway and right next to the escalator was a poster glue rolled to the wall. It had a big ghost with a red line through it and the phrase "Guess Who's Coming to Save the World?" He knew it was a movie poster, a pretty cool one too. But with absolutely no context provided it was basically a WTF? But everyday he'd look at the damn thing and wonder what it was supposed to mean. But there was something about it that made him seeing Ghostbusters a forgone conclusion. Those posters were up over a month before he even knew the name of the movie.

@@BULL.173 Gabbo. GABBO. *GABBO*

He actually thought it was a flop from the start.

:) Totally. As it sounds like you may know, Bill verrry rarely "breaks," but Dan could make it happen. Forgive me if you already know this, but apparently, when they were shooting the famous scene "...until the power grid was shut off by dickless here," Dan gave a bunch of different options during the takes like "by wee willy winky here" and so on, and Dan did crack Bill up during one of those, according to the book MAKING GHOSTBUSTERS.

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@@jesusisgod2953 take your blabber elsewhere

@Yeah Right nah. Religious nuts

It's on here... Found it awhile back. . looking again

It sounds like Paul Weller, I may be wrong but it's definitely his style.

Hearing Ray Stantz drop the F bomb was amazing 😆

@@benphillips9973 ‘hum

Agreed LOVED IT

You're talking about a season 1 SNL member. That was back when they actually did controversial stuff.

You can see that Bill sure cracked up.

Same goes for Star Wars. Everyone thought it would flop.

@@handsomeDRAC Even actors tough it would be some cheesy B space movie..... I get that from their perspective before film reels leaving the editorIal room it looked terrible

u remember when murray was thrown out a window?

true, but that's a pretty low bar....

@@ededd3175 Yep, and it was awful.

I mean the comedy was WAYYYYY better!

@@timfoote6919 at least the 2016 was a comedy lol the 2021 was a tear jerker? lol

but because you tasted the sweet sweet nectar of 1984 you found yourself having to deal with the bitter reality 2022 all over again. your feeble fantasy crumbling all around you as the walls of present day come crashing in.

Art was just better back then.

@@TheBigBigSean Amen

et amo amor peter

i completely understand the feeling, thanks for putting it in words i couldn’t describe it.

Haha. Shoutout to the National Film Board of Canada.

Its shocking to see something like this and then realise what a puritanical age we are now living in - good god i miss the 80s too

@@tachikomakusanagi3744 BuT dO yoU ConDeMn KHAMAS!?!?!

It was a different time…

However it still probably is the best science fiction comedy of all time. Or at least it contends the position with Galaxy Quest.

I think the original hocus pocus movie does give this & the sequel a decent run for its money

We’re can we hear it?

I would PAY to hear the whole song. It's not great compared to the Ray Parker Song, but it's something good. Something decent. Something pure.

All honesty, to me it sounds like what they maybe coulda used for The Real Ghostbusters-it just has *that sound* to it.

@@fever_spike I totally could see that, it's got a Saturday morning type vibe doesn't it

@@TURK_182 Eh, only if Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch were singing it. ;)

Is there for us all in the car Doc? We'd like to leave 2020's

It was a big hit. Everybody knew it would be good because of who was in it. They were very famous from SNL. It wasn’t like it was some kind of surprise sleeper. The ghost thing was unusual, but everybody knew it would be funny.

@@vaportrails7943 yeah especially that the film have a lot of big named actors involved with the film

When ?

He did also in The Blues Brothers a couple times when he and John Belushi kept on getting hit by the penguin,that movie with Melissa McCarthy were Susan Sarandon was her grandmother (I forget the name),Loose Canons and that movie where Micheal Douglas was Liberace.

@@russellj.s.257 Tammy. Dan has cursed in "Grosse Point Blank" and "War, Inc.".

@@Madbandit77 cool thank you

Oh he definitely dropped the F-Bomb in the Blues Brothers when the Penguin clipped him on the ear with her ruler. Then he dropped one again when the Penguin picked up her long cane and he ran for the door leaving Jake stuck in his chair.

Greetings from another 1974 born. :D

@@diymicha2 greetings from Rio de Janeiro! 😊🇧🇷

I was 9 in England. Have known the film word for word for quite a while now.

Well he also stole that song and was sued (and lost) for copyright infringement. Hewey Lewis wrote it better when it was I want a new drug

@@SweetBlu Hey, it happens. The Verve Pipe got sued by The Rolling Stones for plagiarizing the song The Last Time. Bittersweet Symphony still exists, but all royalties go to the Stones. I like Huey Lewis and the News, I Want a New Drug is a good song. But Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters is also good. The movies wouldn't be the same without it.

@@Elfrunner meh. This song doenst make or break the movie for me. Honestly the song in this video probably could have caught on. The deal/problem I have with this was that literally the studio went to HLaTN and said ‘we like I want a new drug and want a song like that for our movie. And he said no. So they went to RPjr and he wrote that song for them lol.

@@SweetBlu Not everyone wants to be typecasted as "the soundtrack guy." I get where Huey was coming from. The same thing almost happened to Lindsay Buckingham after National Lampoon's Vacation.

Looking For the name of it's on here somewhere ( looking right now )

It's all most likely from the upcoming UHD disc.

@@LennyNero2019 Almost all of it is. But many are crappy VHS rips.

A terrible placeholder. Ray Parker Jr. didn't finish the theme song until the very last minute. (I don't think they gave him very much time, either.)

@@Swiftbow Then godbless Ray Parker Jr. his theme alone can be one of the reasons the movie was so successuful.

I heard enough of the place holder track to never want to hear it again.

Nope. It hasn't aged at all. It will always rock

“Hey, language.”

@@EthanAnania Hey pg is basically considered R back then.

@@krtlkid not really,it wasn't until after Ghostbusters,Gremlins and Temple of doom is when they came up with the PG 13 rating so that way families could still bring the kids and also make merch for the kids to have as well,I mean Star Wars,Empire and Jedi(Return of the Jedi) of course,not The Last Jedi. Yeah,it sucks that we have to do that now,lol.

@@krtlkid There was no PG-13 or NC-17 yet. Its was G, PG, R and X.

@@russellj.s.257 If not Poltergeist remember the face ripping scene.

Can I ride shotgun?

I’m in the trunk of that car I don’t care

BUT IF YOU DO THAT YOU WON'T HAVE ANY NON-BINARIES TO DEAL WITH!

Way ahead of ya!

in that E.T. blew everything before it out of the water

Bill said 2 films that are 2 pop culture iconic films, he saw that ghostbusters would be on the same level.

He was calling Raiders sh*t

Yup, I was confused about that too …

legend for this info!

Is it uncut

@@kascnef yes. Unfortunately, it’s been six months and it’s been taken down due to copyright. Sorry

@@TexasFilmCriticsomeone uploaded the intro on RU-vid from the 35mm cut print. Did u see frozen empire it was awesome

@@kascnef not yet tomorrow I will. Today I’m going rewatch Afterlife, which I love and then get ready for Frozen Empire.

Even on the 2019 Blu-ray

Barely an inconvenience

Aged well huh

Wow wow wow. Wow.