Went out last night to catch one of the final showings of the Ghostbusters re-release. There was about a dozen people in my theatre, and about half of them had never seen the movie before (college-age kids, mostly), so it was fun to watch the movie with people seeing it for the first time. You could tell that the studio had done a little work on it, the picture seemed clearer and brighter than I ever recalled it from when I was younger. I even noticed a sight-gag that I’d never spotted before – in the scene where the guys accidentally blow up the housekeeper’s cart, they turn away to do a bit of dialogue and in the background the housekeeper is trying to put out one of the flaming toilet rolls with a spray bottle.
On the way out of the theater I overheard one of the audience talking to a couple members of the staff. They were asking how it was because they had never seen it either, but one of them had heard “that the second one is better” to which the audience member said “There’s a second one?”
I just had to leave before I said anything. I’m kind of glad Gill had decided to stay home, I’m sure she would have them away from Ghostbusters II.