I watch a LOT of movies. Always have. When I was a kid with a VCR, I would sit and watch movies over and over again, so entertained that I didn't realize I was cultivating the mind of a master of Movie Line Trivia. Some of those movies I saw so many times that I think it may have
Today's movie is brought to you by one of the funniest movies I saw as a child. I say as a child, because this movie originally hit theaters in 1984. Now, being born in 1979 I would not have been old enough to see this at that time, but the ensuing popularity of the recently crowned winner of Format War I allowed me to check it out on VHS a couple years later.
Today's Movie That Made Us Cool is Ghostbusters. I was around six years old when I first saw it, and thanks in large part to my brother's twisted sense of humor, I was able to appreciate the grown-up comedy even then. Course, when I was six if someone said "SHIT!" on TV I laughed for hours. The line I still use most? Anytime someone points out an eminent catastrophic bad thing: "Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon."
I have many fond memories of Brandon and I watching that movie until we nearly wore the tape out. Hell, we probably did. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if he or my parents still had the VHS copy floating around somewhere.
Funny, this one. It just came out a couple weeks ago on Blu-Ray. I never did buy it or the sequel on DVD. I bought it on Blu-Ray, though, and I've watched it with my six-year-old daughter three times already. Looks like this Movie That Made Us Cool may make her cool, too:)
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3 comments:
The three impressionable young minds in my house love them some Ghostbusters.
"You can't park that here!"
Yep It was one of the first sci fi comedies with some decent special effects. I loved the part where they fought the staypuff marshmallow man.
Ahhhh...haven't seen that one in YEARS.
But I do fondly recall wearing out not one, but two, VHS copies of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" as a young'un. Good times.
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