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

(9) Ghostbusters

24 votes

(8) Heaven Help Us

4 votes

AG/DC Oct 27 2008 11:03 PM

Rickey Smith Division, Dyersville, Iowa Regional Ghostbusters Heaven Help Us

Willets Point Oct 27 2008 11:23 PM

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 Oct 28 2008 12:44 AM

Not hard to determine who I voted for...

Benjamin Grimm Oct 28 2008 04:30 AM

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 Oct 28 2008 04:37 AM

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

themetfairy Oct 28 2008 05:52 AM

Ghostbusters - no question!

AG/DC Oct 28 2008 06:02 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Oct 28 2008 07:24 AM

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!

Fman99 Oct 28 2008 06:13 AM

Heaven Help those who don't vote for Ghostbusters.

Willets Point Oct 28 2008 07:19 AM

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.

AG/DC Oct 28 2008 07:22 AM

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

soupcan Oct 28 2008 07:30 AM

"Bustin' makes me feel good!"

Willets Point Oct 28 2008 07:35 AM

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 Oct 28 2008 07:41 AM

I'm equally confused.

Farmer Ted Oct 28 2008 07:46 AM

I met a guy who hooked up with MSM. Twice. Edge, Heaven Help Us.

MFS62 Oct 28 2008 07:48 AM

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

AG/DC Oct 28 2008 07:49 AM

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 Oct 28 2008 07:50 AM

Ghostbusters is on Hulu for your viewing pleasure.

Vic Sage Oct 28 2008 10:14 AM

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

Vince Coleman Firecracker Oct 28 2008 12:19 PM

Where do these stairs go? They go up.

Rockin' Doc Oct 28 2008 06:06 PM

Ghostbusters.

TheOldMole Oct 28 2008 06:48 PM

I don't even know Heaven Help Us.

Edgy MD Oct 28 2008 07:03 PM

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 Oct 29 2008 07:13 AM

Looks like Gozer wins out over Jesus.

metsguyinmichigan Oct 29 2008 08:11 AM

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.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 30 2008 07:27 AM

Overwhelming victory for the Busters, 24-4