Monday, December 16, 2013

NOKW - Ghostbusters 2

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Ghostbusters 2

Basic Plot:  Our favorite ghost busting team is back and this time they fight some evil dude who lives in a painting.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that the kids in the opening birthday party scene wanted He-Man and not the Ninja Turtles.  The fact that those two ghosts from the courthouse scene didn't just leave the courthouse and reek havoc on the public and instead stayed and got caught.  The fact that Winston might have been the only competent member of the team despite being the only one without a medical degree.  The fact that there is a river of slime flowing underneath New York City and no one noticed until the ghostbusters stumbled upon it.  The fact that the only reason they included slime in this movie was to obviously sell it to kids.  The fact that Winston was hit by a ghost train which proves that ghosts might not be all that dangerous.  The fact that the Statue of Liberty doesn't just fall apart when the ghostbusters walk it across New York.  The fact that I wish they would finally get around and make a third movie in this series.  The fact that Vigo the Carpathian is not a god but apparently has all sorts of supernatural powers including being able to set fire to the ghostbusters' photo room.  The fact that I miss Rick Moranis and I wish he would start making movies again.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that the mayor's aide questions the 'busters about there being ghosts even though they have proven themselves over and over.  If you are socially inept and haven't seen this great movie, then you should know that the title heroes are thrown in the loony bin after the mayor's aide says they are trying to screw up the mayor's shot at governor with all of their "ghost" nonsense.  Um, why would the mayor ever agree to this when he knows for a fact that ghosts exist and that the ghostbusters are the only reason that Gozer and a giant marshmallow man didn't take over the city a couple years earlier.  Hell, they even saved a courthouse from two ghosts earlier in the movie and this wasn't factored into the mayor's decision?  Sure, a disaster might have hurt his shot at governor, but aren't the ghostbusters the exact guys he would need to avert said disaster?  You're damn right they are.  But instead of listening to them, he agrees with his aide and locks them up until shit really hits the fan.  I am not okay with that.

"The fact that you know none of these guys have ever seen the inside of a gym and that painting is very inaccurate."

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