The New Ghostbusters Movie Looks Really Good

BUCK: I didn’t even know this.

CLAY: You didn’t know this. We were talking about it off the air.

BUCK: Ghostbusters, just to be clear was the movie, we actually had it in laserdisc at my cousin’s house. They had a house in the suburbs. We all gathered there. And remember laserdiscs you don’t stop or, you couldn’t fast-forward; you had to watch the whole thing all the way through. It’s like a giant CD, for those who can remember this, way back in the day. But it was cutting-edge technology. We had Ghostbusters on laserdisc. We watched that movie, it was when all the kids, there were 11 grandchildren, so to speak, in my family. We would all crowd into one room and watch Ghostbusters when the parents were either having cocktails or, you know, cooking or whatever, I mean, it’s a movie that has tremendous importance in my life. You’re telling me that there’s a new Ghostbusters movie.

CLAY: Yeah. And one of the great things one day, Buck, you will find when you are a parent, you get to go back and watch all of the movies that you loved as a kid and let your kids experience them. So, my boys loved Ghostbusters 1, loved Ghostbusters 2. In fact, we took my middle son up to New York for his birthday. He wanted to go see the Ghostbusters, the place where the end scene of Ghostbusters is right off Central Park, he wanted to go see the Ghostbusters firehouse, and he wanted to go to where — yeah. Where he wanted — oh, it’s great. Ghostbusters 2, you know, where they have the museum, the Vigo character, pretty scary, by the way —

BUCK: Vigo. I remember —

CLAY: — Carpathian.

BUCK: He looks at you through the painting and that weird little guy running around, very much, Renfield from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, very much a borrowing of that, yeah.

CLAY: So, they have a new movie which is, it’s not the women’s version of Ghostbusters, which everybody just pretends didn’t happen.

BUCK: ‘Cause it was horrible. Did you try to watch it.

CLAY: Went and watched it.

BUCK: I watched 15 minutes of it and I was like, this is honestly burning a hole through my eyes that I will never recover from.

CLAY: This is a direct lineage. It has the old Ecto-1, it’s directly connected, it’s the granddaughter of I believe Egon Spengler is the idea for those of you who loved the original Ghostbusters, and it particularly pays homage to the 1984 original Ghostbusters and the 1989 and is connected and has supposedly Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, the Winston character. I can’t remember what his name is, the —

BUCK: Is it Zeddemore? Am I right?

CLAY: Maybe so. The Annie Potts character who ended up, and all of those people, Sigourney Weaver, all of them evidently have cameos in this movie —

BUCK: Winston Zeddemore. Nailed it. That’s not an easy name to remember, either. But —

CLAY: All of these guys in the movie, I’m taking the boys to go watch it today. Ernie Hudson. I’m gonna go see it. I cannot wait to go see this. I heard it’s great. I’ll give you a review tomorrow.

BUCK: I’ll actually go check this out with my brothers, ’cause we got to the point, there are only certain movies where we can all make reference to the, basically we could pick out the a line and any one of my siblings could pick up the dialogue at that point, Ghostbusters is one of them, Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger is another.

CLAY: Predator was so good, such a good movie.

BUCK: So, this is like the stuff that folks may get into. By the way, if you have not seen Ghostbusters, the original for some reason which I think is probably a very, very small component of the audience, and looking for a movie to watch over the holiday, it is it holds up very well. It holds up very well. The other movie that we watched at holidays in my family — other than obviously Christmas, we watched some of the Christmas movie stuff. But Back to the Future, we must have seen Back to the Future a thousand times.

CLAY: Holds up perfectly. Back to the Future, the Indiana Jones movies, the Ghostbusters, Goonies, all of them even watching today in 2021 you will watch and say, my goodness. These were still perfect movies 40 years later. And that’s one of the great things about being a parent is getting to re- — my kids think the 1980s is the greatest decade that’s ever existed.

BUCK: I will say that I have another — I have a suggestion for my friend Clay, the sports guru. Have you seen the Netflix documentary about the — the Trashers, the hockey team from —

CLAY: No, I’ve not even heard about it.

BUCK: It’s like an hour and 20 minutes. It’s amazing. This guy back in the, like, early mid-2000s who was a Mafioso who ended up going to prison for a long time, a Mafia don essentially bought a minor league ice hockey team —

CLAY: I know nothing about this.

BUCK: — in Connecticut for his 17-year-old son, stacked it with as many kind of, you know, thuggish players, ice hockey players as possible, guys that are just brawlers. It’s amazing. If you haven’t seen this, it’s Untold stories on Netflix. It’s about the Trashers. What are they from Hartford or from New Haven? I forget. One of those cities in Connecticut. I watched that over this weekend. I could give two thumbs way up on that; so, I’d highly recommend. But I have to go see Ghostbusters for the break, Clay, I’ll check this out.

CLAY: I’ll give you a review. I know how much everybody is excited to be with their family, this is a great movie to go see with all the ages. I’ll tell you how well it is and how well it holds up.

BUCK: The Danbury Trashers was the team I was wanting to check out.

CLAY: I just wrote it down.

BUCK: Danbury Trashers. It’s amazing.