[jettajeffro]

Not sure if this has ever been put up before. I found this at a used bookstore the other day. I saw it on ebay yesterday and decided I would try to find it on my own luckily I didn't have to look too long. The author took the movie alittle too serious and keeps bringing up the lack of scientific explanation for everything and the improbablility of it all. I'd love to track this guy down and give him a few words. The article does have a good pic of the foam stunt packs with the n-filter crashing into the bumper as the stunt guy goes down the hole.

[Quendor]

Is this guy kidding himself? To say I want to strangle him for being a complete moron is an incredible understatement. Hopefully he's still alive, or lived long enough after the fact, to realize just how much of a deusch he is. He could beg forgiveness for an enternity and not satisfy me!

[jettajeffro]

I have never read such a review in my life. Waterworld didn't even get reviews like this one. I think this guy tried to make his mark by hating the movie everyone else loved.

[CAZAFANTASMA]

Hahahaha. thanks for posting this man!!!! This guy probably would have killed GBs if he was the director or the writer of the movie. Its tipical of this critics. He probably was a film student reject , or a wanna be filmmaker with no talent or common sence...

Sal

[ecto_skywalker]

Thanks for posting! That is a great shot of the N-Filter and bumper... Funny how the only shot in the article of the guys in full gear, really isn't the guys at all.

Hopefully he's still alive, or lived long enough after the fact, to realize just how much of a deusch he is...

Unfortunetly, an actual deusch connot possibly live long enough to understand or realize the true reality of his own existence.

[jettajeffro]

He's still alive and well. Here's the wikipdia page on him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Goulart

[AJ Quick]

He's still alive and well. Here's the wikipdia page on him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Goulart

Beat me to it.

[Boomerjinks]

"To let us see clearly every monster"

We only see ONE ghost that is actually 'busted'. The there are what... three in the release montage and then gozer blows up.

[prototype7]

Seeing this makes me want to ask three questions...

1) What did the cover of this issue look like?
2) What else was in this issue... c'mon I'm curious!
3) In all these years and so many fans... has anybody ever figured out what book that librarian ghost is reading?!

Oh, and thanks a million for that!!!! Even if we all want to egg this guy's house it's cool to read something like that after that many years.

[jettajeffro]

The whole issue was reviews of the years movies like Temple of Doom, Gremlins, Last Starfighter, etc. Pretty much all the reviews of all the movies said they sucked. I'll scan the cover later.

[GVGB2005]

He was right about one thing...

"I'm not important enough (for Hollywood) to waste expensive sorcery on."

[Kingpin]

I read most of it and can't find myself all that surprised. He's obviously made up his mind on the matter, and boy is he both wrong but setting himself to be really on his own back then.

Keep in mind that it seems every generation has this one person who badly misses the mark (and in this case, the point), like for instance; the President of AT&T saying there'd be no need for personal computers in the home (if I recall correctly).

[phantom50]

Seeing this makes me want to ask three questions...

1) What did the cover of this issue look like?
2) What else was in this issue... c'mon I'm curious!
3) In all these years and so many fans... has anybody ever figured out what book that librarian ghost is reading?!

Oh, and thanks a million for that!!!! Even if we all want to egg this guy's house it's cool to read something like that after that many years.

Starlog #87 (10/1984)


Starlog #88 (11/1984)


Brock
phantom50

[jettajeffro]

Yup issue 88. Sorry got sidetracked about getting that cover up.

[dtango69]

What a great time it was for watching new movies is all I can say!

[jettajeffro]

Those days will never come again. The closest thing to it is to find some theaters that show cult and classic movies.

We have two around here in Arizona.

http://www.loftcinema.com

http://www.midnitemoviemamacita.com/

[Spooky]

I stopped reading halfway
Pretentious little prick this guy...
You can tell he went in already feeling that is was an over rated movie.

[jettajeffro]

He must have hated SCTV and SNL.

[Jeff Haas]

I forgot just how many good movies were coming out back then!

Now we have more movies each year but mostly more crap. Too much focus on making it something that everyone can understand, so less dialog and less complicated or clever ideas.

[jettajeffro]

Ghostbusters had something called character development, witty dialog exchanges, and the narrative worked very well with the outrageous topic. We'll probably never see that in movies again.

[Lewis Tully]

I agree with two points.
A. He went into this movie thinking it was already overrated, SO!
B. He wanted to stand out by writing a crappy review of it.
So he might have gotten his jabs in, and if he can't enjoy a good movie, then damn, it's his loss. I wouldn't go as far as to say that I want to strangle the loser, or egg his house (That'd be a waste of good eggs...) But all in all he's entitled to his opinion, and we can't really be mad at him for that, can we? Like I said, I see it as his loss...
JC

[Quendor]

I'm not saying he can't be entitled to his own opinion, I'm saying I hate him for it. To me, it's the equivalent of pissing on everything I'm fond of from my childhood. I have a lot of good memories from back then...and pretty much everything revolved around ghostbusters for awhile, so it all feel interconnected to me. I can't watch the movie without feeling as if I'm still 5 years old. I know I'm overly sentimental about all sorts of things, but I take it as a kind of personal insult as well (which it is in a broad sense, as he attacks everyone who enjoys it).

[castewar]

I've had this magazine for awhile and the review is THE meanest review ever for Ghostbusters.

I was working to include it in the PC digest, but now those without a copy can see it much sooner.

Read the Last Starfighter review for a much better, smarter review by a (far more famous) sci-fi writer. I which he'd reviewed Ghostbusters.

[jettajeffro]

Most of the other reviews were positive save the review for Brainstorm and Raiders of the Lost Ark. One of the better shorter reviews was for Buckaroo Banzai. At the end of the magazine it had another article on Banzai and the hopes of a long run of sequels. What might have been indeed.

[Quendor]

Raiders of the Ark got a bad review too? Well, time does give such sweet vindication. After all, Indy 4 comes out next summer.

[jettajeffro]

Actually it was Temple of Doom, not Ark, Alan Dean Foster did that review. He mainly said it just lacked the magic of Lost Ark.

[Quendor]

Well, that makes a lot more sense...I haven't heard of much love for Temple of Doom.

[Lionbush]

I wouldn't dignify that scanned review by wiping my arse on the paper it was printed on to be honest.