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Was anybody else disappointed with Gozer's appearance?

posted 3 years ago by TMC-4 (20304)
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I don't know how to properly explain it other than I was always more intrigued by the original idea of having somebody like Paul Reubens (AKA Pee-Wee Herman) appear as Gozer. Basically, Gozer would've been a meek and unassuming looking entity, who was secretly very powerful.

This video argues that Vigo from Ghostbusters II was a better antagonist than Gozer:
https://youtu.be/FUcjNi4TP0U?t=388

He basically said that Gozer in the finished product looked like a stereotypically 1980s theater dancer. With Gozer, they should've either gone with a much weirder or darker route instead of what they ultimately went with.

Gozer to me I suppose, also just looks too much of a cliched demonic creature with the blood red eyes, the lightening from the fingertips a la Emperor Palaptine in Return of the Jedi, and the deep, monstrous voice (a la Linda Blair when she's possessed in The Exorcist).

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

It's the least if the problems with the movie.

[–] TMC-4 (20304) 3 years ago

Come to think of it, Gozer kind of looks like an "evil" version of Sheena Easton from around that time:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxeC8uCXcAAxXvI?format=jpg&name=small

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

The "so hot it's scary" did it for me.

[–] moviechatterer (16049) 3 years ago

there was very little porn around in those days ....

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

? In every builder's shed there were crumpled and crusty magazines with every depravity known to man. All teens knew.

[–] aavfreak (3366) 3 years ago

That's funny, because that picture of Sheena Easton reminds me of Tim Curry from Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[–] moviechatterer (16049) 3 years ago

Was anybody else disappointed with Gozer's appearance?

well , i wasnt .
but now you mention it

theres plenty of other better directions they could have gone with it

[–] TMC-4 (20304) 3 years ago

How come Gozer doesn't manifest itself as Ivo Shandor? It seemed like to me, that would've been a logical enough of a payoff. Egon tells Winston after Winston says that he thought that Gozer was a man that is Gozer is whatever it wants to be. So why would Gozer manifest itself in the manner that it did as physically portrayed by Slavitza Jovan? Did Gozer think that if it appeared as a woman that it would give the impression that it would appear less threatening and less likely that the Ghostbusters would fight it?

Also, I don't like the old lady smoker/monster voice that they gave Gozer. Like I said, just comes across as a cliché of what demonic creature should should speak like. Maybe I wish that Gozer's voice would've been more subtle and less over-the-top.

[–] Biggs111Mr (253) 2 years ago

Yea true but it's an over the top movie anyway.

[–] GreenGoblinsOck8 (7818) 2 years ago

No. Personally I'd rate this movie a 10/10. There's nothing about it I would change.