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Let me say this, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

Carrey and Daniels seem to really enjoy these characters and give it their all. The road trip / trying to kill them aspect of the original is used again here. It does feel like it is 15 years too late, some of the jokes miss and they miss big while others did make me laugh, I never laughed out loud like the original.

I feel like this is NOT a critics film and fans of the original film have the best chance of liking this one. Everything SC said rings true. A lot of the jokes are telegraphed and seem not funny, the abuse that Turner takes is a little sad, but the addition of the female "dumb" character was a welcomed addition.

but on a good day I'd be inclined to bump it up a little bit.

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Ghostbusters II

Directed by Ivan Reitman
Released in 1989
Starring Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett, Bill Murray as Peter Venkman, Harold Ramis as Egon Spengler, Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz, Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore, Peter MacNicol as Janosz Poha, Rick Moranis as Louis Tully, Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz and Kurt Fuller as Hardemeyer. With Wilhelm von Homburg as Vigo.

A review by Sexy Celebrity on November 22, 2014.



I don't really get all the hate for this movie. I don't even really get all the, "It's just a movie for kids" mutterings. I always felt like Ghostbusters II was better than the first movie and I feel that way right now, although I need to rewatch the first movie again just to be sure. But I had seen that movie more recently before I rewatched Ghostbusters II. I had a great experience rewatching Ghostbusters II again, though -- out now on a stunning new Blu-ray release.

I always preferred Ghostbusters II over the first film when I was a kid. Now, you could say, "Oh, you were a kid, that explains why. It's a movie for kids." But let me remind you that I was no ordinary kid -- I was watching Hellbound: Hellraiser II weekly, okay? I know intense.

The stuff in the first Ghostbusters movie -- where Sigourney Weaver gets possessed, dogs come out of her chair and drag her into a room and next thing you know she's answering her front door all slutty -- THAT was intense, indeed. More intense than anything in Ghostbusters II. I was always oddly scared by the scene where Sigourney Weaver gets dragged into the demon room by her monster dog chair, whatever it was.

Ghostbusters II is not very scary. It's more musical. It has dancing toasters and things. It has the Statue of Liberty rocking out all over town. It has the ghostbusters singing to kids and stuff. Janosz Poha wakes up drippings in goo and even he's singing as he wakes up.

But you know what? Ghostbusters II is very entertaining. It falls flat, I think, near the end of the movie, but it's still got a lot going for it even then. This is a wonderful continuation after the first movie and I think it's good that they never made another sequel. You all may hate this movie, but I think they went out with a bang. For now, at least... until the proposed all-female Ghostbusters movie that may be starring Melissa McCarthy trots its fat ass out in theaters.



If you've got a Blu-ray player, get this movie. It's beautiful. And learn to appreciate the film if you haven't already. I don't know if I can help you understand why I like it so much. Either you understand already or you don't. People like to bitch, "Oh, it's not adult enough." I don't get this. What was so much more adult about the first movie? Oh, a ghost woman rapes Dan Aykroyd while he's trying to sleep. Nothing like that happened in Ghostbusters II. Now, while I don't mind more Dan Aykroyd getting raped in his sleep scenes, big deal if they didn't do anymore. Bill Cosby was off making Ghost Dad. He couldn't play another rapist ghost so soon, anyway.



Sigourney Weaver drives this whole movie. She's basically doing Aliens but she has to act a little more helpless. In Ghostbusters II, she now has a child and the child is constantly being abducted by ghosts. In one spooky scene, Janosz, a creepy '80s foreign character guy from the art museum Sigourney's character works at, dresses up as a ghostly Mary Poppins, complete with a bicycle and basket, and rides his way over to Bill Murray's character's apartment to kidnap Oscar, Sigourney's character's son. You know what makes this an even creepier moment now? Janosz appears to be riding directly from the Twin Towers in New York City. Watch the scene -- that's the direction he's coming from. Ghostbusters II now has a serious 9/11 complex going on with it. In fact, frequently there are frightening moments featuring the Twin Towers. I recommend watching Ghostbusters II next September 11th, or whenever you get a chance on that date.



Now, if you wanna make a case for Ghostbusters II being very racist, I will understand this. Ernie Hudson's ghostbuster character, Winston Zeddemore, is TOTALLY underused. This would not be the case nowadays in Obama's America, but in 1989, racism was still going strong in the Ghostbusters universe, it seems. It might even still be going on because why are they making an all-female Ghostbusters reboot and not an all-black Ghostbusters reboot? Ever think of that?

But watch this movie and look at how often Winston's character is such an afterthought. I know he came into the picture as a ghostbuster late in the first Ghostbusters movie, because they had to hire him first, but WTF?! Is the paperwork still not done or something? Why is Winston hardly around? There's a big court room scene featuring ghosts attacking everybody, and Winston is not even there! The white ghostbusters are there, but not the black one. I swear they should have just shown Winston driving the ghostbusters car around like he's the driver from Driving Miss Daisy. At times, you think he's gonna pop out of a kitchen dressed like Aunt Jemima with an apron and everything, ready to serve the other ghostbusters coffee and food he's been preparing all day. At one point, he does save the day when a room catches on fire -- he bursts in with a fire extinguisher. But then he becomes the main target of the evil Vigo character when they're down in the sewers -- poor Winston gets called out specifically by Vigo ("WINNNNNNNNSTONNNNNNN!") and then Vigo sends a ghost train out to run over him! Why is Winston just there to take all this abuse?! Watch this thing -- there is NO story going on for Winston at all. It's a miracle they didn't go so far as to call him a "spook" and try to trap him in one of those ghost traps the ghostbusters use when they catch ghosts.



Also, it's not a Ghostbusters movie without a sex kitten, and this time Annie Potts' Janine Melnitz character gets to be the slut, replacing the possessed Sigourney Weaver in the first film. Remember this, all-female Ghostbusters reboot: one of those women better be slutty!

This is the only explanation I can come up with for why the Janine character, the ghostbusters' secretary, dolled herself up to look all trendy and alternative and sexier in Ghostbusters II. I mean, she was kind of haggard in the first Ghostbusters movie, and in this one she's had a major '90s talk show kind of makeover. She is very ready for the 1990's, in fact. This movie takes place on New Year's Eve 1989, going into 1990, and Janine is totally ready for the '90s. She has fully prepared herself. She looked 45 in the first movie. In the sequel, she's lookin' like she's 25. But even after all that transformation, she wants to get pregnant with Rick Moranis? And in a city where ghosts are trying to kidnap your baby every two seconds, she wants a kid of her own? What a wild woman. Fearless.

Anyway, enough silliness. Ghostbusters II is a very enjoyable movie. I had a great time revisiting it. You should watch it again yourself. My only problem is the ending falls flat. The evil ghosts in Ghostbusters were better -- Vigo and Janosz are no match for that bubbly, "you need to be a God before I'll speak with you" Gozer. The ending to Ghostbusters II is all very, "okay, we're here. Get the baby. Slime the painting. Slime the foreign '80s guy. Tie up Sigourney Weaver with some kind of thick, black cord that came out of the wall. Let's go celebrate New Year's Eve."

Who ya gonna call?

Hilarious review, Sexy.

The first Ghostbusters has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. I used to watch it all the time. I also regularly watched the cartoon and owned several Ghosbusters action-figures, including the Ghostbusters Mobile. I remember absolutely nothing about the sequel, though. I mean, I know I've seen it, but it must exist in the same part of my brain where I store all my most traumatic memories. It's buried somewhere in my subconscious right alongside that time Bill Cosby touched me inappropriately.

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I hardly remember Ghostbusters II. This review make me want to see it again.

While I prefer Ghostbusters, I like Ghostbusters II too. Funny as hell review Sexy!

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Ive always maintained GB2 is a damn good sequel and that lil fella with glasses is hilarious!

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Ghostbusters II is a fun film. It's more child/family friendly than the first, but the first is also a kids film as far as I'm concerned. It was certainly sold directly to kids over here. Maybe not really young kids, but certainly 10-11 upwards. I remember and I was one of them. I had all these. This was long before the cartoon and toys.



The sequel doesn't feel as serious and its the tone that's the big difference between the two, as I remember it.

SC, did you recognise/remember Bobby Brown as the doorman towards the end of the film? He was such a huge star att and that song was played to death on the radio.

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I didn't mean that they'd matured or were more serious, but that the tone of the sequel is, as I remember it, a lot less serious than the first. Two more films to add to the neverending list of films I should probably rewatch.

This movie blew me away...still have a hard time believing that's Jared Leto under all that padding...what a performance. Between this and The Dalls Buyers Club, Leto has become my favorite movie chamelion.

I've never seen this movie.

Everything you wrote about Dumb And Dumber to I sort of got from the trailer. That gag that opens the film that you hated is in the trailer yanno?. You could of saved your self some time there.

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I will give this a miss thanks for the review anyway

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Never heard of that movie before. Too bad it's no good; with that cast, it should've been fun.

The film is still called Nailed on Netflix.

I couldn't even finish it.

For a second I thought Nailed on Netflix was an actual title lol.

BIG EDEN

Directed by Thomas Bezucha
Released in 2000
Starring Arye Gross as Henry Hart, Eric Schweig as Pike Dexter, Louise Fletcher as Grace Cornwell, Tim DeKay as Dean Stewart, George Coe as Sam Hart and Nan Martin as The Widow Thayer



This film is amazing -- in both good and bad ways. It's a gay movie and it's both one of the best gay movies I've ever seen and one of the worst. It's the story of a socially awkward, closeted homosexual Native American man named Pike who develops a silent, strange crush on a guy who looks like a cross between Kevin Spacey and Pee Wee Herman. This man, whose name is Henry, has come to Montana to be with his grandfather, who has had a stroke. Pike works in the general store. He's a tall, silent Indian type, who happens to be gay. The Widow Thayer, who is this old woman played by Nan Martin -- she was Freddy Krueger's mother, the nun in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Wickedly funny character, this Widow Thayer woman. One of the best things about the movie. Anyway, she starts cooking meals for Henry and his grandpa, but the meals are terrible and Pike the socially awkward Native American doesn't approve of them. In love with Henry, he decides to start learning how to cook gourmet meals, and he does so and passes them off to Henry and his grandpa, pretending they're actually the Widow Thayer's food.



TWO HOURS GO BY. And this is why the movie's bad -- two hours go by and barely anything really happens in those two hours. Two hours go by, full of Fourth of July fireworks and picnics and Thanksgiving dinners and sing-a-longs... every kind of convoluted get-together scene fills this movie. I'm not really bored, though... although, I paused the movie BEFORE THE LAST FIVE MINUTES PLAYED just to play a quick game of Checkers on my phone -- I needed a Checkers fix.



There's a stupid sub-plot (main plot?) about an old friend Henry had growing up. We learn early on that Henry had a "thing" with this friend... and apparently it took years of therapy to get over him... so says his really wacky assistant from back in New York (I think it was New York?), where Henry came from (Henry's a professional artist/painter there). Anyway... so Henry had a thing with this guy... it's NEVER really explained what all happened... but the guy got MARRIED... and had TWO KIDS... but now he's DIVORCED... and hitting on Henry... kissing him... and then backing off saying, "No! No! I can't do this." They share a couple of moments like this together, all while a deadly-looking, silent, tall Indian stares at them from afar when he catches them, murder on his mind.



There's also sort of a sub-plot about Henry's own closeted homosexuality -- he's told nobody back home about himself. Louise Fletcher's character knows. She's a friend of Henry's... how and where they met, don't ask. NOTHING gets explained in this movie. Even the mystery of why Pike the Native American likes Henry at all... a complete mystery. He just does! Anyway, so Henry comes back home as a closeted homosexual. The Widow Thayer (Freddy Krueger's mother) performs espionage, driving to Henry's place with single ladies riding along -- she's the busybody matchmaker type. She eventually realizes he's gay -- so she throws him a party (she calls it a "chess meeting") and invites all sorts of men he could meet. I have NO IDEA if they were all gay because I don't know how she'd know that many gay guys out in the middle of nowhere Montana where they live. Maybe some of them were straight and he'd just have to guess or find out later? Hope one of them was at least gay? One of them was a preacher.

So back to Pike and Henry -- so, Henry's lady assistant, the wacky one, from New York (I think it was) comes to visit at the end of the movie. She's eating tart... and she provides the first clue to Henry that the food isn't actually being prepared by the Widow Thayer. How does she know? Why, she simply exclaims, "THERE IS NO WAY A WOMAN MADE THIS FOOD!" Well, that solves the mystery -- the Widow Thayer couldn't have made the spectacular food -- only a man could have done so!

At the end of the movie -- I'm sorry for spoiling everything -- Henry decides he needs to go back to New York (or, you know, wherever). He leaves Pike behind, even though their relationship hasn't really grown except for one dinner date they had. Pike paces around where he lives, in his bathroom, after witnesses Henry drive away in a truck (his high school loverboy was also with him, taking him to the airport). It looks like Pike is contemplating suicide (this is the part where I decided to pause and play Checkers). BUT THEN! Pike gets a rush of adrenaline -- he's inspired -- HE FLEES HIS PLACE and drives straight to the Montana airport!

He goes after him -- but oh no! The plane is already taking off! They won't stop the plane for him! Even though he ran right through the metal detector.

He drives back home in his truck, his world ending. BUT! GASP! Henry's truck is outside! He goes inside the general store and there sits a large group of old cowboys -- AND THEN! Henry appears! Smiling! He decided to come back! Cut to a dance scene at night with Pike and Henry in each other's arms, at least. They passionately kiss.



Okay, so, after that scene, I really liked the movie a lot more. It wasn't THAT BAD before... but I mean... two hours went by and hardly any character development. I DID NOT LIKE HENRY. But I loved the Pike character. I had seen the person who played Pike before -- Eric Schweig -- in the 2002 Native American movie, Skins, which was a favorite movie of the MISSING MoFo moderator, Caitlyn, who happened to be Native American. I actually saw this Skins movie in a theater -- I won't forget it because the film broke (it literally burned and ripped apart) during a funeral scene, during a closeup of a Native American man's corpse. It was spooky. Luckily, they were able to fix the film and continue playing it -- but NO REFUND! So, anyway, Pike made the movie, even though he was mostly a silent and threatening looking gay Indian. But I mean, how many gay movies are there with silent and threatening looking gay Indians? Not many, I imagine.

Do I recommend this movie? I mean, I don't know. Make up your own damn mind. See it if it sounds good to you.

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Why not add a worthless comment myself? I saw the first half. That sort of thing often happens - I can rarely endure a movie. I also remember something with a plane, some sort of a chase on an airport. And he was trying to kill himself and bring himself back. Did he succeed? Anyway I give it the first half of the rating I'd give it had I seen it.
I always thought it's underrated, probably the most underrated film in history. It's got a very nice Christmas-like atmosphere, the humor's good and it has Uma. There are many Venuses out there, but she's unique even among them. The most beautiful woman I've ever seen, completely out of competition and in a league of her own, even with the likes of the Great Kate or Ava Gardner. On the other hand, it has Alicia whom I'm in love with. I separate these things - physical and spiritual beauty. I like Arnie too.

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There was another hillarious scene: Robin: "I'm going SOLO!"
Rating? I don't know wtf who cares.

There.

It's GOOD to see you finally updating this thread. I always thought you were a very underrated reviewer. I'll never watch BIG EDEN, but it was a fun, enjoyable review, per your usual. I never knew our very own Holden Pike was a gay Native American.

This post needs a bit of yellow.

As for Sexy's review, I've not seen the film but rep for returning to the game.

I'm not sure if I have ever read one of your reviews, but anyhow, this is EXACTLY how I would've expected a Sexy Celebrity review to be like.

Your Big Eden review Is funny, it's enjoyable to read and it's very much you. I like that. And you go through the movie nicely and give your points on why you think it doesn't quite work. Glad to see you back doing these, it's very different but it somehow works.

Awesome! I hope for more in the future.

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