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The plot of this is kind of complicated.

posted 7 years ago by GreenGoblinsOck8 (7703)
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I love this movie and have since I was a kid. But when I was a kid I never really watched the jail scene where Egon and Ray explain what's going on. Egon and Ray say that Dana's building was basically made to be an antenna for ghosts. Egon goes on about how a crazy guy named Evo Shandor during the First World War decided he hated the world and got a bunch of other crazy people to join a cult where they worship Gozer. And that he specifically designed Dana's building to bring Gozer into our world. And now because of all these crazy rituals they conducted on the roof of Dana's building Gozer is coming now. Kind of complicated. I like that explanation but it is also a bit complex. But then this is a movie about a bunch of guys catching ghosts.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2408) 7 years ago

what's complicated--that's the part I understood as a kid, her building was magnet for ghosts.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7703) 7 years ago

The stuff about Evo Shandor was a bit complicated.

[–] pioneergrrrl (2408) 7 years ago

Guy who's weird wants to destroy world with others who are weird---apartment is the thing to open dimension

The part about the two demons having sex--yes that is kinda edgy for a kids movie now....but it was 80's.

[–] Stratego (30516) 4 years ago

It's not that complicated, the problem is that they don't really put it to any use and it's just all over the place.

[–] JediJones (235) 3 years ago

Only thing I'm not clear on is why the terror dogs only activated now if Ivo was doing this stuff decades earlier.

[–] JediJones (235) 3 years ago

Could be like us sending signals out into space. It may take centuries before the signal reaches an alien species.

Dialogue like this just sells that scene, "The structure of this roof cap is exactly like the kind of telemetry tracker that NASA uses to identify dead pulsars in deep space." The line just sounds terrific. Has the right dark tone for this point in the movie. The line sounds like something nerds or scientists would say. They say it matter-of-factly, as if everyone there should know exactly what they're talking about. And I have no idea how someone writing a script could come up with a line like that. Did they already know about that stuff before they wrote it? Or did they pore through scientific journals trying to find things that sounded good?

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 3 years ago

The latter.

[–] contorno (101) 2 hours ago

DID EVERYBODY GET THAT?

[–] TandyMan (11109) an hour ago

lol

[–] Melton (4522) 2 hours ago

That stuff always passes over my head when I watch GB. I vaguely recall some stuff about Shubs and Zools being roasted in the depths of the Slor.

It’s blah exposition really, it needs to be there I guess but it’s probably a good thing that the film races past it and remembers that it’s ultimately a special effects comedy.

[–] TandyMan (11109) an hour ago

I've always been fascinated by the occult and notion of actually building for real haunted houses. That a house or castle could be constructed on a set of ley lines and configured in such a such a way to channel/host dark energies. What this movie did by taking that to the next level with a high rise in the biggest city in the world really blew my mind. Absolutely not lost on me as a kid.