{"id":1190,"date":"2016-10-12T03:43:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2016-11-22T05:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T05:02:45","slug":"why-be-a-ghostbuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/10\/why-be-a-ghostbuster.html","title":{"rendered":"Why be a ghostbuster?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghost Busters was a long time ago.<\/p>\n

Former cast members of the 1984 original have cameos in the 2016 reboot. Bill Murray, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson all appear. So they put in a new cast this year. It works.<\/p>\n

Does anyone believe in ghosts anymore?<\/h4>\n

Haunted houses, specters, and visions floating through space were material for children\u2019s books. Ghosts were described in fictional terms. No one really believed preternatural apparitions actually existed as the books put it.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Ghostbusters<\/em> (2016, USA) can\u2019t be taken too seriously. \u00a0And I had to ask if there are better things to do for Ghostbuster<\/em>\u2019s heroines than busting ghosts.<\/p>\n

Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) wants to prove that ghosts exist. She\u2019s hooked up to find ghosts, but is she barking up the wrong tree? Nothing happens. There aren\u2019t ghosts. It\u2019s a pipe-dream for curiosity seekers. All is quiet on the western front.<\/p>\n

This odd-job of ghost hunting may be a cross-over skill, or perhaps a unique one, but investigating the paranormal is too far-fetched. Abby, this would-be ghost hunter and her associate Jillian (Kate McKinnon), shouldn’t be surprised if it is all quiet on the job. I could think of better things to do.<\/p>\n

When she began ghost hunting, Abby was curious about what is out there in terms of ghosts. Abby says ghost hunting is better than getting drunk in college. Everyone else was getting smashed, but she was hunting for ghosts with her friends, perhaps thinking she was serving society, as well as satisfying her curiosity.<\/p>\n

It has been a large waste of time.<\/p>\n

Then Abby\u2019s friend Erin (Kristen Wiig) tells her about a haunted house. And there are disturbances around town. Then there\u2019s the proof and this odd-job turns into a mission when it turns bad out there. As it\u2019s called: \u201capocalyptic\u201d mayhem.<\/p>\n

Ghostly<\/h4>\n

The ghostly visual spectacular on show in Ghostbusters<\/em> is purely imaginative and a wonderful stroke of visual effects skillfulness, but the ghostbusters are about salvaging the day from all the bad stuff. We like that. We\u2019re rooting for the heroines battling less than friendly ghosts. Abby goes from ghost hunter to seeing ghosts for what they are worth. Now, she’s a ghostbuster.<\/p>\n

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Ghotsbusters<\/em>\u00a0seduces by drawing you into the theme of ridding the town from all the rotten things in life. There\u2019s a grand sense of doing away with what is terrorizing New York. So when the finale comes, we know whose side we are on. Let life come out on top.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s be honest. How did they go from practically zero ghosts to an apocalypse? That\u2019s a \u201clarger-then-life\u201d jump, but come to think about it, life surprises us like that.<\/p>\n

Ghostbusters<\/em> was released on DVD October 11, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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