TS: Stripes or Ghostbusters

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I say Stripes, Mr. Stay Puft notwithstanding.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

movies don't get much more charming, light and watchable than Ghostbusters.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

the video game, NOT SO MUCH
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― Aaron A., Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

stripes is pretty great (well, the first half at least), but nothing beats ghostbusters.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

i mean what comes into your head when you hear they phrase "who you gonna call?" i bet it's not "those super-tank dudes!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

I dunno. Stripes has more wisecracks, less budget, and tits.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)

Stripes is a good half-a-movie (once they go to Germany, the film coasts on auto-pilot). Ghostbusters gets caught up in some needless plot silliness, but is pretty consistent throughout. But, Stripes is funnier.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

Also, Stripes was for adults. Ghostbusters was a "family" movie.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

You're all forgetting one thing: Warren Oates

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

the vg was horrible

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

I'd soonier pit Stripes against CaddyShack.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

Hm. Caddyshack, I think.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 5 March 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Damn right.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

ghostbusters has ghosts

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

ghostbusters II videogame is fuck difficult.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 March 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Ghostbusters. I've seen both films about 20 times each and while I'm still inclined to watch Ghostbusters if it comes up on TV and probably will one day buy the DVD, I'd never do the same for Stripes. The military in general I find to be a poor subject for "zany" comedy, though as a target of satire it's nigh-inexhaustible. Stripes is easily outclassed by its forebears (Gomer Pyle, FFS) while Ghostbusters is completely one-of-a-kind.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

are you a M*A*S*H fan? that's pretty zany!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

ghostbusters was remastered with this godawful herky-jerk computerized pan'n'scan (they filmed it in super wide-screen) for TV and video so its a little tainted by that until I see it again on DVD. I still probably prefer it to Stripes. It's great but the movie really does peter out when they go to europe.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

GET HER!

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

ghostbusters >> the jerk >>> stripes

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

no way, ghostbusters is not better than the jerk. it's good, but not that good.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

ghostbusters is pretty good!!!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

but not better than the jerk!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

PIZZA IN A CUP, for god's sake!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah, PICKING OUT A THERMOS FOR YOU, I'll take the Jerk over either

― Aaron A., Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

TOM -

though as a target of satire it's nigh-inexhaustible. Stripes is easily outclassed by its forebears (Gomer Pyle, FFS) while Ghostbusters is completely one-of-a-kind.

Also: I've never really gotten The Jerk. Am I the only one? I tend to believe so.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

err, the first link is supposed to be this

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

the jerk makes you laugh! with your mouth!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Ghostbusters had Rick Moranis as Lewis. it wins.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

i love the jerk but the ensemble work on ghostbusters might make me pick it. both have weak third acts

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Ghostbusters can't really be compared to other wacky spook movies so much since the ghosts are really just an excuse to do really silly shit that wouldn't be able to be explained AT ALL otherwise. I mean there Scooby Doo was before Ghostbusters and I don't think many people would make a comparison there, even though superficially they're very similar.

Ghostbusters is about a gang of chain smokers driving a ridiculous car, wearing ridiculous jumpsuits, and using ridiculous special effects to set a 300-foot marshmallow version of the Michelin Man on fire. There is no other movie like it.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I didn't mean to be a dick. I just meant to indicate the Bowery Boys stuff as the big influence. The movie's definately an original, though. Have you heard that the Stay Puft culmination of the first movie was only the introduction to the original version of the script, and that the Ghostbusters had a spaceship and traveled to different planets and through time chasing ghosts? The idea was deemed a bit too expensive and scrapped.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Saturday, 5 March 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Animal House and CaddyShack still reign o'er all these.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I'll quibble with Caddyshack (the alleged STAR of the movie is dead weight)but Animal House is a front-runner for best American comedy ever (helps that you can basically count the ones with decent third acts on one hand)

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

enough w.the third act spiel. it's meant to get boring then.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

that's the first time I've heard Chevy Chase in Caddyshack referred to as dead weight!

― Aaron A., Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

oh man, that's so unfair to Chevy. He's great in that movie!

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Chevy's not the lead, ye of little memory. Look to the right.

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/caddyshack/_group_photos/chevy_chase1.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

and yeah, I should have said "lead" not "Star" original. O'Keefe isn't even on the damn box cover. For good reason.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

what, he's good too?!?

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

no!!! he's not!!!

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Caddyshack is far and away the best movie that has been mentioned on this thread. Heck, Trading Places is better than all the movies mentioned on this thread. Except for Caddyshack. Because that's the funniest movie ever.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 5 March 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

except for caddyshack II!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

oh god, Dan Akroyd's character in Caddyshack 2 is downright horrible. and Jackie Mason looks like a man in drag, he's got so much makeup on!

― eman (eman), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

why would anyone watch Caddyshack 2, ever?

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.joannatorrey.com/images/jmason.jpg

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

jackie mason sucks and isn't funny. tho i did see him walking around st. marks with a foxy black chick once. in daylight he looked like lenin's corpse.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

against all prediction, lenin's hair grew thick and curly red after he died

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Are you sure that wasn't his brain coming out like on a Playdough Barber's Shop?

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Fingernails and hair continue to grow after you die. I learned that on the Sopranos.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

i learned that from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I learned it from...oh, I probably shouldn't say on here.

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

*whistles nonchalantly*

― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

having just been reminded that Jackie Mason played the anteater on the pink panther cartoon, I retract my "not funny" statement. Still, he looks like Lenin's corpse.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

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― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

um, I knew it was false. I was being dry, hence the TV show attribution. But thanks anyway.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I'm here to help.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Still it's my favorite optical illusion.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 5 March 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.avclub.com/articles/ghostbusters,35378/

"Ghostbusters": Some ~~nice~~ not very good effects, but actually kind've a crap film.

challops on a cyclopean scale

― fel (latebloomer), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago)

stay puft marshmallow man-sized opinions 4 u

― fel (latebloomer), Monday, 16 November 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

holy shit TLDR, no fucking way am i readibng that come on dude

― freek-a-leekanomics (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 November 2009 18:05 (fifteen years ago)

i dropped this challop a full 18 months ago

― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 16 November 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago)

hopefully you flushed afterwards

― fel (latebloomer), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

Ok I got through the senseless, needless paragraph abt his freaking age, and gave up.

― milliband (Abbott), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago)

If it's a column about how you're watching something for the first time you don't need to spend 15 minutes explaining you haven't seen it!

― milliband (Abbott), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago)

watched stripes for the first time in years recently, forgot how great it is

where you been soldier?
TRAINING SIR
what kind of training?
AAAAAAAARMY TRAINING SIR
where's your commanding officer?
BLOWED UP SIR

― I am a galactic activation portal...enter me (nickalicious), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago)

Jackie Mason wasn't the anteater, btw. It was a dude whose name I can't remember doing a jackie mason. Same guy did the Dean Martin ant voice.

― feed them to the (Linden Ave) lions (will), Monday, 16 November 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago)

Also, Stripes was for adults. Ghostbusters was a "family" movie.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, March 4, 2005

I am very amused by this assertion. It could be considered true, if by "adults" one means boys between the ages of 16 and 22.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago)

That was John Byner. xpost

― Bears Are Alive! (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago)

genevieve koski: you are on my shit list

― max, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

Last time I checked, 22 counted as an adult. Oh so glad you were amused, though.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

me-OW!

― Alf, Lord Melmacsyn (s1ocki), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

alex stripes is like the definition of adolescent comedy hijinks!

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 11 March 2010 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

Was initially tempted to agree w/that AV Club article above blaming not seeing 80s family classics on being an only child, seeing as I'm one and am forever hearing "I can't believe you haven't seen ___!", but given that most of my friends now and then are eldest siblings, I'm guessing it's more down to being a bookish kid whose parents didn't care for movies with explosions in. But "mummy only took me to Disney movies and 20 years later I'm whining about it on the internet" would make an even worse article I guess.

(I saw half of Ghostbusters at a birthday party as a kid - it was all the rage at school, so I knew the theme tune, collected Ghostbusters transfers and mini-comics from cereal boxes, bought the computer game, but it took me until my 20s to see the whole film. It was... OK.)

― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:51 (fifteen years ago)

Also, Stripes was for adults. Ghostbusters was a "family" movie.

I guess the T&A alone makes this true. Still, Ghostbusters has that uncomfortable scene with the ghost blowjob. And the humor is more real and satirically biting than in Stripes. Ghostbusters comments on so many parts of society (struggles in the university system, small business vs. gov't with the EPA guy, the loneliness of 80s New York, aristocracy w the hotel busting, secret societies and absurd scientific jargon) and does it in a funny way. Stripes is nearly Animal House in the Army. I'm not putting it down tho, both are stone cold classics.

― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 11 March 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

strips is real funny at times, but it has its slack moments. and the climax is sort of perfunctory.

and i mean this doesn't matter a ton but the film has no grace or style at all. too many mugging reaction shots lazily cueing us what to think about whatever bill murray is doing at the moment.

bill murray's line readings are often hilarious but a lot of time they don't seem to be part of the same movie as everything else.

― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:30 (fifteen years ago)

Ghostbusters, hands down.

The delivery of the line "What about the Twinkie?" encapsulates everything I love about Murray in this phase of his career.

― The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 March 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

watched Ghostbusters again last night for I guess the third time since it was released. And it really kind of sucks. Murray and Moranis are the only bright spots, but the pacing of all the rest of the dialogue is just weird, jokes don't work, effects were terrible. I guess our expectations were lower in 1984.

― akm, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)

Murray and Moranis are the only bright spots

Murray or Moranis are on-screen about 95% of the time.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:06 (twelve years ago)

just watched this again, too! first time in ... 15 years? maybe longer. i mean, i don't know what i'd think of it if it wasn't a primary part of my childhood, but i still thought a lot of it was funny. murray kills every line, and ramis is pretty great too.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:10 (twelve years ago)

five months pass...

Every generation gets the Room 237 it deserves: http://www.slashfilm.com/watch-the-trailer-for-spook-central-a-documentary-analyzing-ghostbusters/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdueGUDmr0o

― hashtag sizzler (Phil D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 15:21 (twelve years ago)

Watched stripes lately for first time in years, doesnt hold up.

Ghostbusters always delights.

Most everything else mentioned itt, i dont get. They all seem crass, lazy, obvious or some mixture of all three.

― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 17:05 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

Such a run of emotions: http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/11/08/ghostbusters-3-to-begin-filming-in-cleveland-in-2014

On the one hand, WGAF about a Ghostbusters sequel in 2014? On the other hand, maybe I achieve my lifelong dream of meeting Ernie Hudson.

― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 8 November 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago)

T/S on which will defile childhood memories worse: Ghostbusters 3 vs. Beetlejuice 2

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:08 (eleven years ago)

prefer The Razor's Edge to both

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago)

I mean, I laughed a few times ...

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago)

"Let's talk SEAL TALK!" Also, Theresa Russell.

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 November 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago)

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