Ghostbusters (1984)

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Wikidata Q108745, film, IMDb tt0087332, TMDB 620: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Harold Ramis as actor (Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber); 7 more episodes agree.

The shows' “Ghostbusters” is more than one work, told apart episode by episode: this one in 22 episodes; Ghostbusters (2016) in 2 episodes.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check — Patreon

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Michael Ovitz: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. industry (super-packaging precedent): Michael Ovitz ⇒ Ghostbusters (the host's read). Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Jason Reitman: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. people (people): Ghostbusters ⇒ Jason Reitman (the host's read). Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Pixels: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. unmapped (tonal model): Ghostbusters ⇒ Pixels (the host's read). Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Connected to

Ghostbusters: Afterlife: 7 lines lineage ×2 verdict ×2 contrast ×1 industry ×1 people ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod.
    “This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Bill Murray: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Bill Murray → Ghostbusters. Murray refused a third Ghostbusters for 25 years and then came back for Afterlife.
    “Bill Murray for 25 years has declined to participate in a 3rd Ghostbusters film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Dave: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Dave → Ghostbusters. Dave and Ghostbusters share director Ivan Reitman.
    “Speaking of Ivan Reitman.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:38:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Dune: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Dune → Ghostbusters. Dune was dropped into a summer and year of pure-pleasure blockbusters like Ghostbusters.
    “Set it aside and I'm like, dad, take me to go see Ghostbusters, which came out that summer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:23:09 · John Hodgman (0.80 sure it was them)

Edge of Tomorrow: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Ghostbusters. The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams.
    “The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Jason Reitman: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters. Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Laszlo Kovacs: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Laszlo Kovacs → Ghostbusters. The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it.
    “It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Michael Ovitz: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (super-packaging precedent): Michael Ovitz → Ghostbusters. Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Pixels: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (tonal model): Pixels → Ghostbusters. Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi → Ghostbusters. Terry Windell, who made Palpatine's lightning, did the proton streams for Ghostbusters the next year.
    “He also, the following year, did the proton streams for Star Wars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:58:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Matrix: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): The Matrix → Ghostbusters. The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix.
    “We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

What About Bob?: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career benchmark): What About Bob? → Ghostbusters. Ebert called it Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984.
    “Said it was Bill Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:25:50 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

William Atherton: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (typecast jerk): William Atherton → Ghostbusters. Atherton went from Sugarland Express star to 80s shit heel in Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
    “he spent the 80s just being an absolute shit heel and like Ghostbusters and Diehards.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:20 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career benchmark): What About Bob? → Ghostbusters. Ebert called it Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984.
    “Said it was Bill Murray's best movie since Ghostbusters in 1984.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:25:50 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Bill Murray → Ghostbusters. Murray refused a third Ghostbusters for 25 years and then came back for Afterlife.
    “Bill Murray for 25 years has declined to participate in a 3rd Ghostbusters film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. The original aspired upward for kids; Afterlife makes grown-ups into kids.
    “it made young kids want to be older and cool.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:05:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Laszlo Kovacs → Ghostbusters. The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it.
    “It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Edge of Tomorrow → Ghostbusters. The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams.
    “The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (3)

  1. industry (super-packaging precedent): Michael Ovitz → Ghostbusters. Ovitz's famous packaging example: assembling the cast, director and effects on paper and forcing studios to bid, as with Ghostbusters.
    “His famous example of this is that he puts together like Ghostbusters and goes to all of the studios and is like, like, it's on everyone's table, you know, like, start bidding.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Color of Money with Chris Ryan · 0:57:34 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Dune → Ghostbusters. Dune was dropped into a summer and year of pure-pleasure blockbusters like Ghostbusters.
    “Set it aside and I'm like, dad, take me to go see Ghostbusters, which came out that summer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 0:23:09 · John Hodgman (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Walmart product placement for marshmallow men sells toys to children.
    “that scene was the real low point because that is definitely takes place in a product placement Walmart ad”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod.
    “This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (typecast jerk): William Atherton → Ghostbusters. Atherton went from Sugarland Express star to 80s shit heel in Ghostbusters and Die Hard.
    “he spent the 80s just being an absolute shit heel and like Ghostbusters and Diehards.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:20 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Speaker liked the 2016 film defensively and because Hemsworth was funny.
    “I thought the Chris Hemsworth character was just like very funny and they should let Chris Hemsworth just be a comedian more often.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:09:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters. Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Dave → Ghostbusters. Dave and Ghostbusters share director Ivan Reitman.
    “Speaking of Ivan Reitman.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:38:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi → Ghostbusters. Terry Windell, who made Palpatine's lightning, did the proton streams for Ghostbusters the next year.
    “He also, the following year, did the proton streams for Star Wars.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:58:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): The Matrix → Ghostbusters. The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix.
    “We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut with Jourdain Searles (Ad-Free) · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (tonal model): Pixels → Ghostbusters. Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus.
    “Hixels is Ghostbusters.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Afterlife strips out the art and humor of the original.
    “all of the art and the humor that you and I associate with the original Ghostbusters is like totally missing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:07:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Ghostbusters → Ghostbusters. The first movie is a perfect piece of 80s pop entertainment, and smart: the villains are bureaucrats.
    “the 1st movie is a diamond.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Original Ghostbusters showing up at 70 feel flat and unexcited, a bummer.
    “they showed up and it was just very flat and they don't seem excited to be there.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:17:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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Who the speakers said made it

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