Ghostbusters

[Drezzy]

Well, yes and no. In one level, you really can't see anything without a pair of light goggles, and those don't last long. Most baddies take a hit to get rid of, and the bosses (2 per call, at the least) can be annoying sometimes (particularly the Ice Demoness).

What do you have against the controllers? D-pad on left, buttons on right. Takes little time to get used to, regardless of what hand you write with.

[JohnL]

>What do you have against the controllers? D-pad on left, buttons on right. Takes
>little time to get used to, regardless of what hand you write with.

I don't like control pads period. With a joystick, you just tilt your hand in the direction you want to move. It's quick and diagonals are easy. With direction buttons, you have to move your finger from one button to another and diagonals are a pain in the neck. Not to mention trying to do some of the moves in a game like Mortal Kombat. As for it being left handed, I'm right handed, which means that my left is my least coordinated hand. Most games require more movement than shooting or jumping, but they give those functions to the less coordinated hand. I did marginally better playing the Atari Lynx when I switched it to have the direction buttons on the right, but I still sucked at using them.

There's a reason arcade machines still use joysticks rather than control pads, even if they have started making them all left handed now too. :(

[Lancer]

Unless I'm missing something but I thought a "B" movie is a Budget Movie (which means that things were cut, trimmed, and cheaply added to fit the budget of the movie...)

Ghostbusters isnt a "B" movie... and I wouldnt call the cast high rate actors (just think of the movies that Aykroyd, Murrey, and Ramous (sp?) were in before Ghostbusters... so to make this movie those actors mostliky got peanuts in pay as the movie was being made...

But nothing was cut, trimmed, or even cheapen to make the film (as a normal B movie would be)

"If f**king TITANIC can be considered a b-movie, I don't see why a cheesy movie like Ghostbusters can't be."

Who ever called Titanic a B movie must be on pot... I think many "B" movie Directors could only wish they had such of a budget, as Titanic was.

[raj]

I don't think all of Fred Alan Ray's budgets add up to $100 million.  And throw in Ed Wood to boot.

Of course, they'd have the good taste not to have Celine Dion sing that f'ing annoying song.

[Drezzy]

B-Movie originally started as a low-budget movie, but the phrase now includes just silly movies. It also appears that most horror and sci-fi, and even most action, movies are considered b-movies these days.

I consider Ghostbusters to be a B-Movie in the sense that, despite the large budget, the plot is directly out of a comic book, or a cheap children's action cartoon, or a sci-fi movie from 1972 that wasn't about space.

Soooo...anybody got any Ghostbusters rip-off's I should check out?