Ghostbusters budget (150 Million) need 500 million worldwide to be considered successful (NOT BREAK EVEN)

[Chris Hu]

VGhippy said:

thismeintiel said:

Love how people belittle the original to prop this one up.  First of all, Ghostbusters was nowhere near a B-movie.  It cost over $72M in today's money to make.  It was the 2nd highest domestic grossing movie of 1984, barely being beaten by Beverly Hills Cop, and  handedly beating The Neverending Story, Sixteen Candles, Nightmare on Elm Street, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Terminator, Red Dawn, Amadeus, Star Trek 3, Police Academy, The Karate Kid, Gremlins, and Temple of Doom.

 

It was probably because it looked dated by the time I watched it that I thought it was low budget. It's a good entertaining movie, but it will always look B-movie to me. Probably because by the time I started watching movies I watched it alongside things like terminator 2.

It might have looked dated by the time you watched it but its effects where excellent for the time and it was pretty much shot before CGI became pratical since the first movie that featured a very realistic CGI character Young Sherlock Holmes didn't come out until a year later 1985.