Summer Movies - Eff Yeah!
Not feeling this summer's crop of movies so far? We can fix that.

Summer 2010 is just not working as well as both Hollywood and audiences hoped.

Memorial Day weekend didn't break any records, and it witnessed the birth (and death) of a potential Bruckheimer franchise. And last weekend posted one of the lowest box office tallies in summer movie history.

When the fourth Shrek movie stays atop the charts for three weeks, that sound you hear is moviegoers clamouring for better product, better entertainment. With audiences seemingly not having what Hollywood's released so far this season, we decided to reunion tour with the best of the best summer movies.

From the first blockbuster ever, Jaws, to last year's District 9, we reunion toured with over 30 summer movies that make us glad to be the movie drunks we are. Film quality, how well the mix of story and spectacle play, overall impact with audiences, legacy potential and Editor's Choice pad our list of movie-selecting criteria. So less reading, more, er, reading. But with shiny pictures!

Ghostbusters
Release Date: June 8, 1984



Must-See Movie Moment: Four guys who drive a souped-up hearse and wear slime-stained jumpsuits climb 30 floors of stairs to square off against a bitch with a flat top, her demon dogs and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man. (Drops the mic.)

Why Ghostbusters Still Kicks Ass: Venkman said it best, following a proton-pack blitzkrieg with Slimer: “We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!”

Our favorite comedy ever, Ghostbusters is an 80s classic, a movie we have seen so, so many times it's hard to have any objectivity. But we know it's good, no, great. It has a 30-foot tall Marshmallow Man stepping on churches, eggs cooking themselves on Zuul-possessed kitchen counters, “human sacrifices, dogs and cats, living together – Mass hysteria!” It gave birth to the high-concept blockbuster comedy. None of its imitators come close to the movie that gave us Vinz Clortho.



http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/109/1096036p1.html

Why isn't GB considered a Horror-Comedy more often? Granted it is more of a Comedy but there's still definitely elements of Horror in it. Anyway, good to see it made the list.

Granted it has elements of Horror and Science Fiction to tell the story, but i think overall that GB1 is an all out Comedy, there's a lot more focus of the chemistry of the characters, and a sarcastic overtone of how ridiculous 4 guys dressed up in goofy outfits chasing ghosts really looks, kind of takes away from the horror element's scariness. Something like ‘Evil Dead II’ or “Dead Alive” are Horror-Comedies.

That was a good read though, makes me wanna take each DVD out and have Summer Blockbuster marathon…of course, that would take a very long time.