Conference noted::sf

	I  agree.  It's  megafunny  and  could  well end up as THE movie of the
	summer, as I suspect that IJatToD will not generate the repeat business
	that RotLA did.

	However,  since the humor is mostly Bill Murray one-liners, rather than
	visual,  please  be extra careful about defusing the movie's humor with
	spoilers.

bob

You mean we shouldn't start quoting all the good lines?

--- jerry

I felt that whoever wrote it and whoever directed both felt like 'See,
it's easy to make a scary flick AND have fun at the same time.'  Definitely
a must see.  BTW, did any one pick up on the Larry Bud Melman reference?
Or did my friends and I read something into that?

What impressed me the most was the special effects.  They were JUST realistic
enough to allow easy suspension of disbelief and a little initial shock
effect: but not realistic enough to be truely scarey (with the exception
of the "green gobbler," which was clearly only for laughs, and wasn't at
all realistic).  The "scariest" parts were actually the women -- Sigourney
playing the Gatekeeper and what's her name at the end; impressive expressions
and acting there!

An extremely fun movie: there are parts at the end which will drive me to
hysterical laughter every time I think of them for weeks.

	/dave		"did YOU choose???!!!???"

RE: .3

Who the heck is Larry Bud Melman?

	Mike

Just saw the movie yesterday.  Yes, go see it.  But the credit for
the one-liners does not go to Bill Murray.  He just SAID the lines.
Dan Ackroyd WROTE the lines (along with someone else who I forgot).

re: .6

	It was Harold Ramis, the other ghostbuster.  He was also Bill
	Murrays' sidekick/straightman in "Stripes".  

						mike

re: .5

I guess you don't watch David Letterman (after Johnnie).  He's a regular on
the show and during one show decided that god was toast on a stick.  Does
my reference make sense now?
(I mean as far as the movie is concerned).

This movie is great!  I've seen it twice already...

I think the ``reference'' to Melman is maybe an accident.  However, I think
I remember seeing a Melman in the credits.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Digital PC on the secretary's desk.
Here's what the June 1984 issue of _DECWORLD_ says about it -

``There are several close-ups of DECmates in office environments.''

and, between two photos from the movie,

``In two scenes from `Ghost Busters' involving a Digial Rainbow ... adjusts
  the positioning of the Rainbow...''

I couldn't tell which it was, and I can't tell from the pictures, either.

Say, the nameplate on the secretary's desk says ``Janine Melnitz'' - is that
a veiled reference to Melman?

Jim Stratton

  Yeah, I saw the Rainbow.  (Can't really tell whether it's a Rainbow or DEC-
  mate without getting either a close-up of the logo on the system box or a
  close-up of the keyboard -- DECmate has a 'gold' key.)  I said to myself:
  "Big deal!  So who's to know this is a DEC PC except those who already have
  one?"

That's the big problem with *ALL* of DEC PC advertising.  Sure we are
starting to see PCs in commercials and movies, but who knows the
difference?  To the average person on the street, it's just a computer.

Kevin McC

In re 87.10,87.11:

The point is to modify the viewers vision of what a computer should look
like. It doesn't matter if they recognize it as a Digital computer as long
as they see that's it's a computer. If we can establish the shape of the
box and the keyboard layout as being a "correct" picture of a personal
computer, then people will be more likely to buy one when they have the 
chance. (See "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" for discussion
of "Quality"...) (also, note that Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were real good
at this sort of stuff -- Madison Avenue isn't too bad either...)

		bob wyman