I never said any of the things you just said. I said that it is not the most successful comedy of the entire decade. First off, you can't possibly make that claim for any movie. The movie was very successful, and was good as a kid. However, as an adult and in today's world I would not consider it to be a good movie anymore.

I'll answer your questions in order: Yes, no, it's not BS.

In 1984 it was in the #1 spot for 5 weeks  Then Purple Rain dethroned it, but only for one week.  Then Ghostbusters was back at the top spot.  It was the 2nd most successful film of 1984, only behind Beverly Hills Cop.  Then it was re-released in 1985 and made way more money, so yes, it was the most successful comedy of the 1980's.

And regarding critical accalim... it has a 93% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

Also,

In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Ghostbusters the 44th greatest comedy film of all time.  The American Film Institute ranked it 28th in its list of the top 100 comedies of all time (in their "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs" list).  In 2005, IGN voted Ghostbusters the greatest comedy ever.  In 2006, Bravo ranked Ghostbusters 76 on their "100 Funniest Movies" list.  Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the Funniest Movie of the Past 25 Years.

So for you to say that Ghostbusters is not a good movie, and still claim that you have "good taste" while saying that... actually makes it unable for me to tell you how I feel without getting banned.  Good day sir.

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@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...

It's fine if you don't like the movie, but you've got to realize the ridiculousness of you trying to say that 'people' don't find it funny anymore when the entire rest of the thread disagrees with you.  Hell, most comedy movies today have to RELY on sex jokes to sell tickets.

Ghostbusters made comedy gold out of:

-Twinkies

-Slime

-Bill Murray (because he's that awesome)

-Marshmallow men

-Electroshock therapy

-Fancy furniture

Tell me what movie you're more likely to remember in ten years: Ghostbusters or some crap like Are We There Yet or I Love You, Man?

Actually, I did not say "people" don't find it funny, I said I don't. And frankly, I can point out a million examples of complete crap that "people" like, so I really wouldn't use that argument. Average "people" are not all that intelligent...and I am putting that nicely here so that I don't make a big thing out of something so unimportant.

Your like Kaz saying that Sony are still the leaders or whatever. How the hell do you wanna measure success if you don't go off box office sales? 

You know, the intelligent thing to have done is point out why it wasn't a success, rather than saying everyone who disagrees with your opinion is an idiot.

Did you even read the thread? I NEVER said it was not successful...

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.