Did you hear about the Ghost Busters Wii version?

[madkiller]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

madkiller said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
HIGH FIVE SUPERCHUNK!


@wrongitty wrongmcsteen,

By "most successful comedy of the 1980s" I meant "it made more money than any other comedy in the 1980s." Don't try to turn this into a semantics battle. You know what I meant, and you were wrong. The goal of big budget films is to make money. Ghostbusters succeeded at that goal harder than any other comedy in the 80's. That makes it the most successful comedy of the 1980's.

Success can be measured in many more ways than just box office sales. Plus, I said it was very successful, but once again, you cannot claim most successful for any movie. And sorry, but you are the one that is wrong, in every way. One thing any educated person would understand is that comedies do not age well. Over time comedies are just not nearly as good as they were when they were released. It would be the same if you watched a comedian from the 50s or 60s. Their comedy would not be funny anymore because comedy is usually based on what is going on in the world at the time. The bits you see from 20, 30, 40 years ago is just not funny anymore. The comedy in Ghostbusters is over 20 years old, and I'm sorry if you still like it, but for me, it is not funny at all anymore. This is especially true because as a kid I probably saw that movie a million times like everyone else at the time. Every movie or anything else gets old and stale when you have seen or played it way too many times...

Wow, you're getting wronger and wronger.

You're talking about standup comedy.  There was a huge shift in how standup comedy worked thanks to Lenny Bruce and George Carlin.  You might call it a standup revolution that changed standup forever.  So yes, standup comedy from before that change has aged horribly.  Standup since then... hasn't changed at all.

Film comedies have nothing to do with standup comedy.

When you're talking about films... aw screw it, just go to Google and type in "funniest films of all time" or "best comedies of all time" and tell me what years they came out in..  It's gonna be Dr. Strangelove from 1964, Ghostbusters from 1984, and a bunch of other stuff that goes all the way back to Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and the Marx Brothers.  Not too many movies from the 2000s though.

You want to talk about subjective taste, go ahead.  I'm a film major.  It's really fun for me.  If you want to talk about "success" in a vague way, then you need to discuss the artistic goals of the work in question, to determine whether it succeeded or not.  But if you want to talk about the success of a big budget blockbuster film, that goal was definitely to make a ton of money.  So yes, Ghostbusters was the most successful comedy of the 1980s.  It is also highly regarded as one of the greatest comedies of all time.

 

And no no no no, real good art doesn't get stale.  I still love the Beatles, Super Mario Bros., Ghostbusters, the Muppets, Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Picasso, a nice glass of champagne, a good sonnet, and a good burrito, and I always will.  How dare you.

 

Well, the fact that you used the word "wronger" tells me that I am done arguing with you...I guess your studies don't include learning how to speak and write, which is strange considering you are a film major.