Ghostbusters
Added 2022-01-01 05:00:07 +0000 UTC3…2…1…BUSTIN’ MAKES ME FEEL GOOD!
BC:SF is kicking off 2022 with a new Ghostbusters commentary series starting with the 1984 original. Topics include: everyone’s personal history with the franchise, the Tribeca firehouse, the landmark special effects, Bill Murray’s career, and more!
Movie starts at…29:17
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Bill Fitzmaurice
2025-03-10 05:23:05 +0000 UTCAs someone who saw this in the theater in 1984 (I was 16), trust me, for the big laugh lines (“He slimed me”; “This man has no dick”), the theater exploded. People were screaming. They were LEVITATING.
Eric Celeste
2024-10-18 22:54:04 +0000 UTCI love Scrooged not on a curve, great movie
Adam Brown
2024-07-31 18:20:39 +0000 UTCI’ve listened to this commentary like 3 times but I’m watching the movie along with it for the first time. I can’t imagine bothering to finish this whole movie any other way 😅
Savannah
2024-05-22 00:23:45 +0000 UTCChello?
Josh Harvey
2024-03-17 04:36:34 +0000 UTCSurely David, who spent many years in England, knows what calling Ben a “rent boy” means over there? 😅
Tony Jennaway
2022-02-23 23:32:26 +0000 UTCGreat ep. I rented (made my parents rent) this move 13 times from Alice in Videoland when i was a kid. I've probably watched it 30ish times overall, so, count me in the category of people for whom it was really impactful. When everyone suddenly stops and takes a breath when Sigourney / Gozer answers the door... like, that's the energy of all of us who saw it either slightly before or around puberty. And so many moments, both serious and comedic, that established our relationship to film... absolutely awesome sound effects & score, everyone's reactions to everything, the poor ConEd guy, the many, many quotable lines ("Yes, have some.", "It's true, this man has no dick." "I feel so funky", "We came, we saw, we kicked it's ass!", "So be good for goodness sake... whoooaoh"). The way "kids" movies in the 80s had drinking and smoking and sex... I'm not sad that times have evolved, but, i dunno, I grew up in it, so it resonates in a big way. I really identify with the idea that movies now, especially ones that are inheriting a franchise, are overwritten... trying too hard to capture the lightning in a bottle rather than letting it be it's own thing. (And I was a Donatello stan too, just like most science nerds... with you Ben and David :)). Also "This is a summer we never get over as a culture." oof. Big true.
Kerry Benton
2022-01-17 02:45:41 +0000 UTCHaven't heard david pat himself on the back this hard for not liking a movie since Santa clause 3
Jack o Diamonds
2022-01-08 23:42:12 +0000 UTChearing Ben's favourite Turtle is Donatello rather than Raph is gonna be my Joker origin story
Jon Ryves
2022-01-08 16:30:19 +0000 UTCYall haven't seen stranger things? Damn
Sean Kennedy
2022-01-07 20:38:09 +0000 UTCThat’s how I feel about Star Wars.
Matt Grossman
2022-01-07 13:49:26 +0000 UTCI’m with David - I did see this as a kid but I have NO idea why this is a franchise that needs to continue to exist. It was fine then & then I moved on??
KED
2022-01-06 14:29:43 +0000 UTCAw bummer. I’m looking forward to this commentary but genuinely loved Afterlife (especially the new elements).
Matt Grossman
2022-01-04 15:12:46 +0000 UTCAlso, no mention of Ron Jeremey's cameo?
John Blood
2022-01-03 20:01:53 +0000 UTCWhy does Venkman bring all that thorazin to her apartment? Why does he have it in the first place?
John Blood
2022-01-03 18:02:40 +0000 UTCLate Christmas present for me from the two friends !
John Harter
2022-01-03 12:36:55 +0000 UTCMy wife had the pleasure of watching Ghostbusters for the first time with this commentary. We had a real good time.
Ian Strong
2022-01-03 03:58:42 +0000 UTCLove that The Dog is off the leash in this one. Fun ep!
Michael Hashizume
2022-01-02 19:32:14 +0000 UTCMy firehouse was the Jurassic Park Command Compound
Boochie M Fartland
2022-01-02 14:05:56 +0000 UTCThe secret to Ghostbusters is that it’s the most successful Canadian blockbuster of all time, because it combines two unique Canadian elements into one thing: the rural small town Canadian artistic sensibility of treating something seemingly ridiculous and way out there with complete unambiguous sincerity (Aykroyd) with the Canadian big city vibe of treating anything serious or earnest as silly with a yearning need to poke fun at it (Reitman). Any attempt to recreate this without that particular chemistry is doomed to fail. Find another super weird Canadian sketch comedy actor who comes from a rural Canadian town who achieves massive international success to the point that they can pitch whatever they want, hope that person pitches something so insane you can’t believe someone actually has that rolling around in their heads (like some microverse shit where microscopic people are waging war against us Giant Gods, but this person needs to actually truly believe in this and has researched it for years) and THEN have that project fall into the hands of a DIFFERENT super international successful Canadian artist but this one being a big city boy raised to never take anything seriously ever no matter how serious it should probably actually be taken, and have these two people be so successful that this project gets a blank check to be made however they want, only it has to be done so fast no one can second guess their instincts and whatever gets made just gets made in real time. Find that ultra specific formula and you MIGHT get another Ghostbusters, (and even then probably not because the pipeline Aykroyd took to fame with SNL just starting and Belushi, and then not having Belushi was so insanely unique it’s basically impossible to replicate).
Jonathan Popalis
2022-01-02 13:07:58 +0000 UTC1. I went and saw this movie with my Dad and I was 6, and I was so scared at the scene where Peck turns off the power grid and all the ghosts come out that my Dad had to take me home. I had never thought of ghosts as a scary thing before but that night I could not sleep for fear. It then went on to become one of my faves. 2. LOVED the preamble discussion on this one. 3. I went into seeing Afterlife very skeptical with an eye out for egregious fan service based on Griffin and David's vibe on the movie before it even came out, and it was an empty showing on a Weds a few weeks after it came out... and I loved it. I was skeptical for the first 10 min, didn't love the opening scene, but as I relaxed into the movie, I really got sucked into the performances and the look of the movie and yes, the jokes, and the fan service stuff ended up being a non issue either way, and I mean... loved the kids, loved the Stranger Things-y ness of it.I've only seen it once. But I honestly don't look forward to listening to the commentary on it, because methinks G&D protest too much about that movie, and that was my one major critique of this episode, the Afterlife Hate became tiresome after awhile.
Nikki Lev
2022-01-02 10:52:50 +0000 UTCI am maybe the one person watching this movie for the first time w your commentary! I've seen a bit of it before but I didn't grow up with it and have always been perplexed by how important it seems to be to men of a certain age
Lucy
2022-01-02 08:25:35 +0000 UTCDavid's relative unfamiliarity with the movie was fun, because there's points where his laughter makes clear that he's genuinely surprised by how certain moments in the film hit.
Douglas Wykstra
2022-01-02 07:33:01 +0000 UTCI dunno, Moranis in STREETS OF FIRE is a little dorky, but he's also high-status, the band manager and current boyfriend of Diane Lane's character before Michael Pare comes into the picture. He's closer to a Baxter/asshole-boyfriend archetype in that film than he is to a nerd.
Douglas Wykstra
2022-01-02 07:28:42 +0000 UTCHumblebrag
Michael Hashizume
2022-01-02 03:16:41 +0000 UTCJust saw STREETS OF FIRE. And Rick Moranis plays a nerd in that with glasses as well. He’s definitely dorky in that as well. And I think that came out in 1984 as well.
Ian Smart
2022-01-02 01:09:52 +0000 UTCGhostbusters is first and foremost about guys bein’ dudes
Gwen “Zootown” Nicholson
2022-01-01 23:04:51 +0000 UTCI made a trailer reel for this one too a little while ago. Enjoy! https://www.dropbox.com/s/hf0b5kcl7crsuwx/1984%20supernatural%20comedy%20trailer%20reel.mp4?dl=0
Robert Denby
2022-01-01 22:16:11 +0000 UTCI saw this film the week it came out. (The same day, at the same theater, I also saw "Gremlins" and "The Natural." Damn, I'm old.) Anyway, it was a packed summer matinee showing, a young, enthusiastic audience, and what especially sticks in my mind is how, by the end of the movie, people were singing along to the theme song (which I don't recall getting airplay until AFTER the movie was released.)
Monique Dee
2022-01-01 22:07:50 +0000 UTCHappy New Year to me!!
Christina Lohr
2022-01-01 19:45:56 +0000 UTCOk listening to this episode and loving it but the funniest part is hearing you guys order pizza by the slice. That is NOT a thing where I live. In my part of Texas, in for a penny, in for the whole damn pie!!!! 🍕🍕🍕
Cheryl
2022-01-01 18:25:14 +0000 UTC"Thora Birch was there" +20 Comedy Points to David!
Micah
2022-01-01 16:21:33 +0000 UTC“He looks like a stick that you put up your ass.” - Ben on William Atherton 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Manish Agarwal
2022-01-01 16:18:12 +0000 UTCFrom Season 2 on of "The Real Ghostbusters" cartoon they speed up the Theme song. It's wild. If you watch it on streaming you'll hear the difference between the seasons. YAY CAPITALISM!
Micah
2022-01-01 16:13:51 +0000 UTCI’m about to throw hands Ray was my favorite as a kid and now!
Morgan
2022-01-01 16:07:20 +0000 UTCI am here for all of David's off topic jokes in this episode. Yes indie flick Ghost World, yes RIP Barb in Stranger Things, yes to all of it!
Nicole Journal
2022-01-01 16:03:21 +0000 UTComgggggg!!!!!!!!
Kyle Gibson
2022-01-01 14:28:47 +0000 UTCDavid making incorrect assumptions about Baby Boom is a subtle thread on the show. It's a good movie with a few great moments, so it's not like it's dying for justice. Anyway, Ramis is just in the first 10 minutes -- having short, unspectacular sex with Diane Keaton, then stupidly trying to feed a baby some Italian food, then abandoning them by literally taking a train away from the plot. Sam Shepard is the male lead.
Mike Ostrov
2022-01-01 12:49:34 +0000 UTCI wanted to be Ray 😬
Tom Matuszewski
2022-01-01 11:21:06 +0000 UTCGroundhog's Day! Come on! That is so sincere. The depth of his sadness is incredible in that.
Jon Whooley
2022-01-01 10:42:22 +0000 UTCCan we have a bonus episode that’s just watching “Bustin” by Neil Cicierega? I think it’s 4 minutes we’ll worth it
Krista
2022-01-01 09:50:10 +0000 UTCBlankin' makes me feel good.
Holden Martinson
2022-01-01 08:15:55 +0000 UTCAm I alone in loving/sensing a very post matrix sequel joy-vibe from David?
Jamesdillenbeck
2022-01-01 07:57:05 +0000 UTC“STOP THAT!”
Joe Martin
2022-01-01 07:14:58 +0000 UTCI'm not at all surprised that there's about half hour of preamble before the movie even starts! So much to cover...
Zef Wagner
2022-01-01 06:06:17 +0000 UTCI always had to be Winston when we played ghostbusters and then I was in a movie with Ernie Hudson
Kevin Fennell
2022-01-01 06:03:18 +0000 UTCThey do that every 10 days and it just so happens today is new years. It's 9 here in Oregon.
Ray
2022-01-01 05:22:07 +0000 UTC“If someone asks if you’re a god, you say yes!”
Jessica B
2022-01-01 05:12:52 +0000 UTC“Drop everything, Venkman. We got one.”
Joanna Patterson
2022-01-01 05:11:03 +0000 UTCRight at midnight holy shit
Immostlynick
2022-01-01 05:05:35 +0000 UTCThe timing..happy new year!!
Dominick Brien
2022-01-01 05:04:58 +0000 UTCrip bill murray
LukeTheNerd
2022-01-01 05:01:31 +0000 UTC
