Ghostbusters [Blu-ray] | ![Ghostbusters [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M5VN6X8rL._SL500_.jpg)
| Actor: Bill Murray
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $28.95
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Rating:  286 reviews
Sales Rank: 37
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Arabic (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Portuguese (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 105 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 24946
UPC: 043396249462
EAN: 0043396249462
ASIN: B00164GDD2
Release Date: June 16, 2009 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/16/2009 Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Pg
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Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis wrote the script, but Bill Murray gets all the best lines and moments in this 1984 comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (Meatballs). The three comics, plus Ernie Hudson, play the New York City-based team that provides supernatural pest control, and Sigourney Weaver is the love interest possessed by an ancient demon. Reitman and company are full of original ideas about hobgoblins--who knew they could "slime" people with green plasma goo?--but hovering above the plot is Murray's patented ironic view of all the action. Still a lot of fun, and an obvious model for sci-fi comedies such as Men in Black. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 281 more reviews...
 Shame on you Sony! July 3, 2009
Aydin Dilber
I am not going into reviewing this item as there is plenty available. But I want to say SHAME ON YOU SONY for putting a lengthly self congratulatory commercial at the beginning of the movie, you cannot get out and to the main menu, a confusing like hell menu, not one but 4 warnings of this or that before to finally coming to the movie. This is a disgrace on top of BD being SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW to finally get to do something useful.
Bad Transfer AND the "extra's" suck July 1, 2009
J. Peterson (Philly)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of my top 5 all-time favorite movies. But, as has been noted by other reviews, the transfer is terrible. To add insult to injury, the special features are not special at all. The DVD collectors series looks better on my HD screen, and is packed with extra's. Very disappointed.
 Ghostbusters [ Blu Ray ] July 1, 2009
Jeremytotten
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Classic Movie In Blu Ray Now, All I Can Say Is Its Worth The Money An Brings Back Memory's When I Was A Kid, 5 Stars
 Great film, mediocre transfer July 1, 2009
Dan Clark (CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's worth saying "I LOVE THIS FILM!" for context.
The Blu-Ray transfer, though, is quite disappointing. All in all, for a movie of that's actually newer than Blade Runner or The Empire Strikes Back, the quality is way lower than one would expect.
Interestingly, the worst grain problems are in the introductory scenes in the public library, and the one "the dead are rising?" scene, which is just terribly grainy. After the library, the quality gets somewhat better, but as noted above, it simply falls short of what one should expect from a high-budget blockbuster from that era.
Great Movie; Disappointing Restoration June 28, 2009
Steve S. (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased a couple of the James Bond Blu-Ray reissues such as Dr. No. The restorations (I think they slang them "4K"'s) were almost too good. I could see the makeup on characters. a mole on Sean Connery's face. The scenery and coloration were awesome, but in some ways it was almost too good.
Sad to say, Ghostbusters does not follow that quality of restoration. The story and comedy are second to none. The effects still hold up after 25 years. But honestly, I've seen better quality rebroadcasts of this movie on my cable provider's HD channels, and we all know how much they cut the bitrates, despite their denials.
It appears they spent next to nothing on restoration of this movie. It certainly rates as good a treatment as Dr. No or From Russia With Love.
You won't find a more sympathetic reviewer than me towards this movie, but I just can't understand why no one cared much about the video quality. It really looks little better than a DVD upsampled on a high-end DVD player. Sad. At least the movie's still funny.
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