WSo8M: (9) Ghostbusters vs. (8) Heaven Help Us

[Guest AG/DC]

Rickey Smith Division, Dyersville, Iowa Regional

Ghostbusters



Heaven Help Us

[Willets Point]

Ghostbusters is going to win this one and deserves to win this one, but I had to throw a vote to Heaven Help Us or my Catholic guilt would have overwhelmed me.

[nymr83]

Not hard to determine who I voted for...

[Benjamin Grimm]

I never learned the "guilt" part of being a Catholic. Maybe that's part of the reason it didn't' stick.

Anyway, I loved Ghostbusters. Best fusion of comedy and horror since Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

[dgwphotography]

Big laughs, some scares, great, if pilfered, theme song. Who you gonna call?

[Guest themetfairy]

Ghostbusters - no question!

[Guest AG/DC]

I don't know why guilt has anything to do with appreciating this movie. The whole thing subverts the institution beautifully. If anything, it's a victory over any guilt. Everybody that I ever met who truly went to a sadistically repressive Catholic school was cheering by the end.

Heaven Help Us was billed as Porky's goes to Catholic school, which got it completely wrong.

• It's gorgeous first-love story.


• It's a perfectly laid out period piece (with 1965 looking like 1965 and not 1971).


• It's got a wonderful score from James Horner --- forget a cheap and silly ripped-off theme song --- from before he became an orchestral beast.


• It's got nuance and heart.


• It's virtually the debut of Kevin Dillon, Andrew McCarthy, and Mary Stuart Masterson.


• It's full of foul-mouthed innoncence and pious malice that almost always comes out cartoonish but doesn't.


• It has actors playing 15-17-year-olds who look 15-17.


• It has a perefectly selected supproting cast of Wallace Shawn, Larry "Bud" Melman, Yeardley Smith, and Donald Sutherland, et al.
  
• It's funnier than Ghostbusters. I said it.

Everybody who votes will have seen GB eight times, but this one maybe not at all. Rent it. Tonight!

Edited October 28, 2008 by Guest

[Fman99]

Heaven Help those who don't vote for Ghostbusters.

[Willets Point]

AG/DC wrote: I don't know why guilt has anything to do with appreciating this movie.

It doesn't. That was a joke I though you at least would get.

[Guest AG/DC]

Actually, I'm aiming at Grimmy with that comment.

[soupcan]

"Bustin' makes me feel good!"

[Willets Point]

AG/DC wrote: Actually, I'm aiming at Grimmy with that comment.

But Grimm was responding to me and not really referring to the movie at all.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm equally confused.

[Farmer Ted]

I met a guy who hooked up with MSM. Twice.

Edge, Heaven Help Us.

[MFS62]

Ghostbusters is going to wipe them out. And they won't even have to cross the beams to do it.

LAter

[Guest AG/DC]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'm equally confused.

I guess the "it" of "it didn't stick" refers to Catholicism and not Heaven Help Us.

Well, never mind then. I guiltily beg forgiveness for the first line of my response and stand by the rest.

[Willets Point]

Ghostbusters is on Hulu for your viewing pleasure.

[Vic Sage]

i've always liked HEAVEN HELP US but its no GHOSTBUSTERS.

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

Where do these stairs go?

They go up.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Ghostbusters.

[Theoldmole]

I don't even know Heaven Help Us.

[Edgy MD]

I really don't want to oversell it, so I'll remain silent.



























IT'S A FUCKING AMERICAN TREASURE! THERE, I SAID IT!

[Willets Point]

Looks like Gozer wins out over Jesus.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I always like Sigourney Weaver, even if I can't spell her name. And Rick Moranis is really funny.

But, truth be told, I like anything with Bill Murray.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Overwhelming victory for the Busters, 24-4