Ghostbusters, now without question this is a iconic movie deeply ingrained in almost everyone's head, if only for the iconic soundtrack. And as a movie, it's still entertaining to this day. But I guess I'm just late to the party, because I didn't really fall in love with it as much as I'd hoped.
First off as far as the concept goes, the production design and all the stuff behind it it's fantastic. It's props, the world, all great. The casting just as good with a perfect set of characters and actors put in place to fulfill a nice spectrum of comedic moments with each character and their unique traits. And as far as funny, this movie has some chuckle moments for sure. But I'm nowhere near crying of laughter, all subjective though. What this movie mostly has is some smart writing, and doesn't rely on too many gags. Making it age fairly well.
Directing, imo, visually nothing too spectacular, excluding VFX, which obviously show their age, especially the dogs, the beams still look great to this day though. But as for directing I don't find it paced all that well nor anything special. It doesn't get very creative even though the script has a lot of opportunity for it.
As a sidenote, funnily enough going into this movie I was expecting all these scenes where they build/design their car or equipment, but to my surprise there's none of that. It's just made off screen and that's that.
Acting, mostly great, Murray shines as the headliner in a now familiar type of role and character, everyone else does their role as well but no-one is giving top of their career performances here.
Music, the main soundtrack, obviously great. Everything else around it, pretty average.
Not much else to say really. I didn't do all too much for me sadly.
First off as far as the concept goes, the production design and all the stuff behind it it's fantastic. It's props, the world, all great. The casting just as good with a perfect set of characters and actors put in place to fulfill a nice spectrum of comedic moments with each character and their unique traits. And as far as funny, this movie has some chuckle moments for sure. But I'm nowhere near crying of laughter, all subjective though. What this movie mostly has is some smart writing, and doesn't rely on too many gags. Making it age fairly well.
Directing, imo, visually nothing too spectacular, excluding VFX, which obviously show their age, especially the dogs, the beams still look great to this day though. But as for directing I don't find it paced all that well nor anything special. It doesn't get very creative even though the script has a lot of opportunity for it.
As a sidenote, funnily enough going into this movie I was expecting all these scenes where they build/design their car or equipment, but to my surprise there's none of that. It's just made off screen and that's that.
Acting, mostly great, Murray shines as the headliner in a now familiar type of role and character, everyone else does their role as well but no-one is giving top of their career performances here.
Music, the main soundtrack, obviously great. Everything else around it, pretty average.
Not much else to say really. I didn't do all too much for me sadly.