Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Ghost Story
I just finished watching Ghostbusters II, and I have more questions than answers.
How did an evil Carpathian warrior end up trapped in a painting in the first place? Isn't it kind of weird that the two major supernatural events of the century would both center around Sigourney Weaver? And how did she go from being in an orchestra to working in an art gallery? Did she take an extension course at the local community college? Was it ever really that easy to get into the Statute of Liberty at 10 PM on New Year's Eve? Doesn't that raise the specter of terror attacks? And doesn't the threat of ghost attacks seem a bit antiquated in a post September 11 world? Why does the African-American ghostbuster seem to have so little to do? And what is he up to these days? When did New York City become so racially heterogeneous? Why do all the special effects look like they were created using Colorforms?
Some of these may actually have been covered; I wasn't paying that much attention.
I just finished watching Ghostbusters II, and I have more questions than answers.
How did an evil Carpathian warrior end up trapped in a painting in the first place? Isn't it kind of weird that the two major supernatural events of the century would both center around Sigourney Weaver? And how did she go from being in an orchestra to working in an art gallery? Did she take an extension course at the local community college? Was it ever really that easy to get into the Statute of Liberty at 10 PM on New Year's Eve? Doesn't that raise the specter of terror attacks? And doesn't the threat of ghost attacks seem a bit antiquated in a post September 11 world? Why does the African-American ghostbuster seem to have so little to do? And what is he up to these days? When did New York City become so racially heterogeneous? Why do all the special effects look like they were created using Colorforms?
Some of these may actually have been covered; I wasn't paying that much attention.
