I just wanted to post this because it appeals to that part of me that likes to take frivolous things very seriously. Ghostbusters - like Groundhog Day* - is a film that could so easily have been made into a ‘proper’ film and wears its lightness of touch and deft script very easily. All the flashes of ‘proper’ film making are here extracted and assembled along with the Inception soundtrack. Hurrah! Knockout.

Ever since I was watching this film on a cruddy VHS taped from the telly, I always loved the shot of Ecto-1 going across the (Brooklyn?) bridge as night gathers. It appears in the above video at about 25 seconds; in the film though, it comes right at the start of the final act, when the tone of the film lurches into the dark - and that lonely, dusky helicopter shot has always stood out for me, possibly because I think its the only such shot in the film and is probably c-grade 2nd unit material. 

There’s a desperate loneliness to it that even now makes me feel anxious - and that feeling only makes the *fucking astonishing* climax to the film all the more feel-good.

Anyway, that’s what I wanted to say. 

* Don’t believe me? Let’s get drunk together, you and me. I’ll make you believe me.