RIP Harold Ramis.
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this. his resume trumps even the farrelly brothers, and that's saying something.
Abefroman
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Do you think his resume trumps John Hughes? I would have to put them both neck and neck imo.
iannis
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It was impossible for it not to, considering how big a hit the first one was. If GB2 had been GB1 it would have been "not that bad". Not a great movie on its own merits, but not a horrible one. And it did suck ass... but it sucked the most ass compared to #1.
I had known that Egon wrote Ghostbusters. I had no idea that Egon wrote so much of the other genre defining stuff. Cause when you think "80's(ish) comedy"... it's predominately either Ramis' scripts or stuff trying to copy them. Apparently. TIL.
RIP in peace.
iannis
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Pretty interesting. I've seen an interview with one of those brothers who claims he wrote Dumb and Dumber basically as a reaction against the Stripes/Bill Murray character.
So there's a direct instance of one "great" influencing another "great".
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i agree with you. i would put john hughes and harold ramis as equals. between the two of them, they pretty much defined 80's cinema; including some of the best movies of all time.
hughes: 16 candles, breakfast club, pretty in pink, ferris bueller's day off, some kind of wonderful, weird science, home alone
ramis: caddyshack, ghostbusters, national lampoons vacation, groundhog day, back to school, stripes, animal house
Abefroman
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Stop being so thick Abe. He is saying the same thing I explained to your dumbass. Hughes did not make straight up comedies, thus the comparison is stupid.