Ghostbusters
— Unique, ridiculous and the first great movie I ever saw at a cinéma.”
- Director: Ivan Reitman
- United States, 1984
Whilst the 70s brought us the “cinema of uneasiness”, a raft of Saturday Night Live comedians brought a smile back to America’s face on the small screen.
By the early 80s, these same heroes – Chase, Murphy, Aykroyd, Murray, Belushi et al – had overrun the movie theatres too. Hot on the heels of the phenomenal success of Trading Places came Ghostbusters. Drawing together zany humour, amazing invention and one of the most unlikely of high-concept storylines ever to make it to production, this movie also features one of the great logos of all time.
Ghostbusters is a bizarre yarn about three scientists who create a market for ghost pest removal after being ousted from comfortable but unproductive academic research posts. It won me over as a five year old and it still wows me twenty-odd years later.
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
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I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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