Part 2 of my Ghostbusters 2 screening in warm up for GB16
Poured a big ass whiskey, and decided to get through this last hour of WTF.
- I had a weird realization as I watched the courtroom fight. Proton packs are cool as *****, but what do they actually do? They just kind of hold ghosts in place, right? The only real fun with them is when they MISS the ghost and destroy everything the beam hits. They do SO much more destruction than the actual ghosts. In fact, the ghosts in these movies never actually do anything really. They never kill anyone. They just sort of fly around. One of the ghosts they capture was just going for a jog. The ones that arrived on the Titanic just kinda unload and walk down the street in their old timey clothes and luggage. Gozer was a god... the big evil in this movie was some sort of demon like thing... Not a ghost. The things that actually do harm never end up being actual ghosts. Ghosts are just chill!
- So they bust the two cartoon ghosts in the court room and are now going around catching ghosts everywhere. It's just like in the first movie... they're becoming celebrities again, and enjoying the spotlight. The scenes play out exactly the same. But they SHOULD be FREAKING OUT. The last time there were this many ghosts, it was because of the coming of Gozer... They should be panicking that something is coming!
- Oh Slimer's all over this movie... just being Slimer. You liked him in the first right? Here's a bunch more!
- I'm getting pretty drunk now... hard to stay focused. I'm pretty bored/annoyed, so if I'm misunderstanding story points, let me know!
- I can't believe they just insinuated that Egon masturbated with the slime. Weird.
- So Dana shows up in Egon's lab earlier with crazy stories about her baby and weird crap going down, and Egon practically waves her off that it's likely nothing. But now she says "I feel like the painting's eyes are following me" and Venkman has a look like "Oh my god what?"
- Did Dana really announce to her baby that she too was going to take her shirt off and then revealed her bra? That was weird. "Mommy's going to take her shirt off too!" (wolf howls from the theater)
- "3 Ghostbusters and a Baby" - What am I watching?!!?!?
- "You're short. You're belly button sticks out too far, and you're a terrible burden on your mother" END SCENE. Ha ha ha... no "...but you're a good kid." or "...but we got you kid".. nope just "you're a burden" and CUT!
- Every scene in between Venkman and Dana in this movie is BORING... ugh... they were so good in the last flick... what's happening?
- So the guys get covered in slime and start fighting... so they take off their jackets and are fine. Their heads are COMPLETELY COVERED IN SLIME... but that's okay, it's not on their coats, so they're fine. What????
- I still don't get why the focus is on Dana's Baby... is there a reason this baby is singled out?!?! What's happening? Did I zone out and miss something??
- They try using their proton packs on the ooze. I thought proton packs just held the ghosts til they can contain them? I thought the whole point of their science was to "capture a ghost and hold it indefinitely"... but they keep using it like a gun?
- When the Proton pack blasting doesn't affect the ooze, Egon's deduction is that they need good feelings? That's a weird jump from Plan A to Plan B.
- They barely use the proton packs in this flick. And only successfully once (courtroom).
- Oh yay. It's the Slime guns. Amazing. As much as people may not like the GB 16 proton packs, it can't be near as bad as these slime guns. Why did they even go this route? *TOYS* cough *TOYS*
- Wow..they are kinda implying Janine blew Louis before zipping him into the suit. Wait, not kinda... they flat out are implying she blew him.
- Slimer is driving the bus? Okay he may as well have a wife then in the next movie. It's not that big a leap anymore.
- It's kinda weird they would change their logo to a ghost throwing the peace sign. I mean, yes, the ghosts ARE peaceful (they do NOTHING bad) but then why be anti-peaceful ghosts? Or do the Ghostbusters KNOW they are in a sequel? So weird.
- Woah... The people are SINGING to the bad guy? That's how we're beating them? And in ALL of New York you got a small group of 30 out there? There should be more people than that just wandering around the street in New York. New York is as busy a city in this movie as Gotham in Burton's 89 Batman.
- So the Painting guy, Viggy(?), is trying to get into the baby? So is Viggy going to have to grow up as the baby? Like he'll have to wait 18 years to come to any power? What good is it being inside a baby? I must have missed something... I'm drunk.
- Wait so he goes into Ray and they just shoot him anyway? So really, the guy possessing Ray meant nothing. There were no stakes. No one even cared. Ray turned around all possessed and they just blasted him - no concern if their best friend would die?!?!?
- The painting turned into the 4 of them and the baby?!?!?!! What?!?! WHAAAAT??!!? Does this mean their souls are somewhat trapped in there? I would be concerned if I were them.
The was WRITTEN by Akroyd and Ramis?! I was SURE it had to be written by someone else....
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Okay... wow.
Just last week I rewatched all the Indy movies. Crystal Skull was the weakest by far, and a pretty good example of how not to do a sequel. That movie seems brilliant now.
I still don't know if GB 16 will be any good, but come on, it CAN'T be worse than this. This movie was terrible. Everything great about the first movie was absent here. Did they even want to make this?
It will be harder to "point form review" the next movie as I'm not gonna be able to stop it to type... and I can't be drunk :cheers... But I'm gonna attempt to type out the good and the bad as I remember it anyway.
I remember seeing Ghostbusters 2 in the theater and thinking it just sucked. Later that week I watched 89 Batman and became obsessed with all things Batman.. completely forgot about this terrible sequel...
I should have let it remain forgotten.
