Overthinking Ghostbusters

Sagrilarus wrote: "Ghostbusters being about New York City" is because it was written by people from New York City that think New York City is the coolest place on Earth and that everyone agrees with them on it.

I don't think that is true, other than Aykroyd and Murray worked at SNL for a handful of years (4 for Aykroyd and Murray for just a couple). Both were much more heavily involved with Second City. Aykroyd is Canadian, while Murray and Ramis are both from Illinois.

I'm going to have to come down on the "not bullshit" side of this one as well. I only read the section on the politics, and though there were spots where he was stretching pretty hard to make certain points, it was a pretty interesting and reasonable analysis.

But notice I stressed the word "reasonable," because a lot of the criticism you read of this type on the internet is total bullshit. It's not intellectual or academic; just some college douche bending over backwards to craft an interpretation that fits his personal biases. I have the same feeling about a lot of "demographic" criticism. For one thing, I have a serious problem with the idea of there being a characteristically black viewpoint, a female one, an LGBT one, or whatever. What's important is rational, logical, reasoned criticism, which should sound the same no matter who's writing it.

Anyway, we're still talking about Ghostbusters. I guess this particular popcorn flick is entrenched enough in the culture that there's something to be gained from scrutinizing it this way, but not so for very many similar works of entertainment.

MattLoter wrote: Well, New York is the greatest city in the world. It's a fact.

Fuck the Yankees though.

Fuck you US assholes who have never traveled out of your own state. The answer is London. Imperial cities are always the best.

If I've lost mjl, I've lost Middle America.

andyinkuwait wrote: Fuck you US assholes who have never traveled out of your own state. The answer is London. Imperial cities are always the best.

London doesn't have benches. How the hell can that happen? Seriously, it's not exactly rocket science!

Bench Lover-->

Edit: Confused about which London we are talking about

andyinkuwait wrote:

MattLoter wrote: Well, New York is the greatest city in the world. It's a fact.

Fuck the Yankees though.

Fuck you US assholes who have never traveled out of your own state. The answer is London. Imperial cities are always the best.

Funny thing- I live 7 hours away from NYC and have never been- I HAVE been to London Town and it was pretty fucking cool...

billyz wrote:

andyinkuwait wrote:

MattLoter wrote: Well, New York is the greatest city in the world. It's a fact.

Fuck the Yankees though.

Fuck you US assholes who have never traveled out of your own state. The answer is London. Imperial cities are always the best.

Funny thing- I live 7 hours away from NYC and have never been- I HAVE been to London Town and it was pretty fucking cool...

You should really remedy that. And don't believe these guys about the Yankees either. They're awesome and everyone knows it.

andyinkuwait wrote:

MattLoter wrote: Well, New York is the greatest city in the world. It's a fact.

Fuck the Yankees though.

Fuck you US assholes who have never traveled out of your own state. The answer is London. Imperial cities are always the best.

I dunno if you noticed over there in the dessert Lawrence of Kuwait, but it's not the 1800s anymore. NYC has been beating London for at least a century.

Billy Z road trip to Brooklyn? Pick me & Josh up on the way!

MattLoter wrote: NYC has been beating London for at least a century.

The Yankees have been beating everybody for about the same.

MattLoter wrote: Billy Z road trip to Brooklyn? Pick me & Josh up on the way!

If you go I'll meet you there. And I'll take you guys to the best Middle East restaurant I have been to that also serves the best hummus I have ever had.

Just not on Fri or Sat as they are closed.