Apex Mountain on The Rewatchables
103:23 – 110:26… and Columbia had to shut down all of their other stages while they did this because it was so much electricity. Ironic. Like almost a parallel to the movie. Apex Mountain. Oh, I had one more piece of internet research. From the Vanity Fair, kind of not an oral history, but it's like a making of Ghostbusters piece. when they're basically waiting to find out whether Murray's going to do this movie. And they're not sure until like the day of the movie. So Murray flies back to New York after the Razor's Edge shoot. This is from Vanity Fair. Ramis and Reitman picked him up at LaGuardia Airport to show him the …
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the final confrontation was at a sound stage that required 50,000 amps of electricity to properly light it and Columbia had to shut down all of their other stages while they did this because it was so much electricity. Ironic. Like almost a parallel to the movie. Apex Mountain. Oh, I had one more piece of internet research. From the Vanity Fair, kind of not an oral history, but it's like a making of Ghostbusters piece. when they're basically waiting to find out whether Murray's going to do this movie. And they're not sure until like the day of the movie. So Murray flies back to New York after the Razor's Edge shoot. This is from Vanity Fair. Ramis and Reitman picked him up at LaGuardia Airport to show him the reworked script. Quote, Bill flew in on a private plane an hour late, Ramis said in the 1985 interview. He came through the terminal with a stadium horn, one of those bullhorns that plays 80 different fight songs. And he was addressing everyone in sight with this thing. They had to drag him out and take him to a restaurant in Queens where they showed him the script and he had no input and just said, I trust you guys. He does the movie. That would have been good for the Steven Seagal category. Apex Mountain. Murray, I think yes. Okay. Yeah. Could make an argument for Groundhog Day, but yeah. Ackroyd. I think Groundhog Day is a good encounter. No, after this, it's like, I mean, he didn't work for four years because this movie is so huge. Groundhog Day becomes like this like gigantic, huge, Ackroyd. Probably Trading Places. Well, he wrote this though and he basically like kind of is the custodian of the Ghostbusters franchise. So I think that in some ways this is his, it's his apex. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Groundhog Day to me is for Bill Murray. Is Bill Murray. But yeah. Sigourney Weaver? No. Nah, I don't know. Aliens. Aliens. 55 Central Park West? Yes. Ramis? Yes. I guess probably being a director. It would be this or Groundhog Day. Probably Groundhog Day. Stay Puft Marshmallows? Yes. Yes. Real Brand? Is it? Yeah. Is it? I thought it was. Didn't look it up. Ghost movies? I have that as, to me, I think it is. This or Ghost? This or Ghost? This is the debate that I'm here for. Is it Ghost or Ghostbusters for the number one ghost movie of all time? For me, it's busting. Did you do Ghost with us when we did that and rewatch it? Not. That was you, me, and Amanda where you said that this is your idea of the afterlife. Yeah, I thought that was, I thought what happens in Ghost is what happens in Hell. Is it? You're talking about at the end? Yeah, when they bring Willy Lopez, they pull him down and the shadows come out and pull him down in the ground. Right. That's what happens. Oh, wow. Okay. I think they really figured it out. In the real, in like, that's what he thinks after. And then you look at your dead self and then the fucking shadows come out and pull you down. Yeah, it was a very sad scene. Which one is it? I think it's Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters or Ghost? I think it's Ghostbusters. Boy, I would have put Poltergeist in the running too. Poltergeist is cool, but Poltergeist is cool. I think it's Ghostbusters, but it is like, it's razor thin to me. Ghost is like such a big deal. Some other people might be like, it's paranormal activity or it's, it's, it's conjuring or something like that. Paranormal activity is really good. I like that movie. New York City movies? No. No. Ernie Hudson? Oz? What else was he, what's his biggest thing? Well, he plays the special needs gardener in Hand That Rocks the Cradle. Yeah. He was in Oz for a couple years. Oz, he plays the warden. That's right. He's good in Oz. I like Ernie Hudson. Yeah, don't try to, stay on that side. I already, man, the record is like Ernie Hudson. Stay on that side. I like it. I don't think that part was Ernie Hudson's fault. Ernie is the man, but this is probably what he's best known for. I think so. He's one of the Ghostbusters. Is he in the sequel? Yes. Does he have a larger role? Basically the same. A little bit larger. Rick Moranis? No. No. Right? It's Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. New York City Library scenes? Eh, might be. Yeah, I think you're, New York City Public Library, probably. The Cedric Hotel? Never heard of that before this movie. Anything else? Uh, Turn It Into Dogs? Hmm. Oh, yeah. Could it, could it be? Think about other, I mean, Turn It Into Dogs, there's, I mean, there's Twilight where you turn it into a wolf, there's other stuff, but it's just there. I was gonna say, this isn't, it's hard to articulate what exactly is the Apex Mountain, but one of the things that bums me out about modern architecture is you're just never gonna get a story like the occult architect who built in, like, a special metal to make it a superconductor of paranormal stuff. Like, it's like, got five condos above a Trader Joe's. Like, nothing's gonna happen there. That's a good point. Ghost Combat. Last one. Is this the Apex of Ghost Combat? I'm asking. Because there's actually a ghost. Ghost fighting with ghosts, tussling with the ghosts. I would say Ice Cube and Ghost of Mars. This is pretty good Ghost Combat. I think it is. Cruiser, Hanks. I have Hanks. Hanks. Scorsese or Spielberg? Spielberg. This is tough. No, it's not. You don't want to see Marty's version of this? No, I don't know. I think it's fucking Travis Bickle becomes a Ghostbusters? instead of Marshmallows. You guys are so fucking boring with this one. The Van Lathan Award did this movie need more black people. Nah. Okay. Picking Nets. Is Dana's apartment too nice? Feels like it is. So, that feels like an apartment that, it's like Mimi Rogers' apartment and someone to watch over me. Isn't that like the single most coveted spot in New York City? Central Park West has always been one of the great, you know, real estate. If I could pick any apartment location, it might be that literal apartment. But I think she's got a one bedroom. Like, it's not like she's living in a penthouse apartment. It is very nice. I think she comes from money. Oh, she calls her mother. Yeah, that's why she doesn't like Venkman. She doesn't like Venkman because he doesn't have any bread. She's a concert cellist or whatever. She probably went to all the finest schools and fucking Sorbonne, wherever you go. Wherever you go to do that, I don't know where you go. But she's with Juilliard, wherever you go. Juilliard, yeah. And so, she went to all that and that's what she's doing. That's why she's stuck up. Goes to bring her back down to earth. Well, I had for her. You get a little edge about Dana. I didn't like that part, man. Like, don't front on me when I come over there to help you with the ghost situation and then after I blow up, you want to be down with me. Don't front on me. He's turkey-basting her apartment and is like, when can we go get Chinese food? That's facts. I had next pick in this. Why did Dana like Venkman? What turned it? But we already talked about this. We already know. Yeah. You've been bossed up. Probably a little cash. My only other one is, I just think hundreds of people would have been killed by falling debris during the ending. Like, all the people that were in the bottom of, like, looking up, they're all dead. Right. Just things are falling down and hitting them. What do you have, CR? For picking nits? Yeah. You know, I really love, like, your point about, like, what gave them the right and would there be any oversight? Furthermore, like, the New York City being in a paranormal
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