![]() And not just lose-your-popcorn moments like the fridge from Hell, but also scenes of quiet, thoughtful chill, like Egon's retelling of how the possessed apartment building came into being, or Winston recalling the Book of Revelation. Not only is Ghostbusters funny, it manages to include some truly scary scenes. I laugh every time I observe a gag or a quip that I somehow missed the other 20 times I viewed a scene "Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head, remember that?" "That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me", or, to the driver of a van from a loony bin, "Dropping off or picking up?" Brilliant. So? She's a dog," "When someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!") are not its funniest or wittiest lines, which often are missed on first or even second viewing. Most of the lines people remember("He slimed me," "OK. Precicely because it was so over-hyped and made so much money, there has been a stigma attached to this film identifying it as a childish FX piece, when it is nothing of the sort. What's that you say? Ghostbusters, one of the most financially successful and over-hyped comedies of the eighties, underrated? Yes.
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