The Movies That Made Us: Ghostbusters (Netflix Episode) Review
My biggest pet peeve about the episode was Joe Medjuck and Sheldon Kahn both mis-remembering the detail of the alternate title. Here’s a quick video I made yesterday about it. (Irony: I slightly recut their footage of editor Sheldon Kahn!) https://youtu.be/3RsghTrK8u4
Good video, Alex.
Yeah, every time Joe and Sheldon said “Ghost Breakers”, I was thinking to myself, “That isn’t right”.
Like you said in the video, I binged all four episodes of Toys a few weeks ago, and the editing style drove me NUTS! It wasn’t so bad in seasons 1 and 2 as it was in season 3. Some lengthy interviews are clearly edited down to ONE SINGLE MEANINGLESS SOUNDBYTE. Other stuff that isn’t important is repeated ad nauseum to create a “story” instead of presenting things as facts. Here’s what I wrote about it in a Facebook comment a few weeks ago:
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45 minutes just isn’t enough time to do any of it justice.
The editing is the most annoying part. They go through the trouble of bringing some people in for interviews, and then you only see a mere five seconds of them. As an example, John DeLancie in the My Little Pony episode. He *literally* appeared in just one clip, and what they used of him contributed absolutely *nothing* to the show. I’m sure that he had much more interesting stuff to say.
The other big problem with the editing is that the whole thing is edited to make a “story”, instead of being a documentary type of narrative. I’ll bring up the Pony episode again, because there were several times in it when they replayed a quote from an interviewee like it was a character’s inner thoughts. And don’t get me started on the incessant mention of “golden rules” for the ponies that seemingly only *one* employee actually believed existed – which the show disproves every chance it can. Why bring it up CONSTANTLY if it’s not true to begin with?!?
That’s not to say that I didn’t learn anything. I never knew anything about MLP history, or even the behind-the-scenes stuff on all of the wrestling figure lines (many of which I had when I was younger). So, the show is still worth watching, but it’s not what it *could* be.
If they keep doing Blu-ray and DVD releases (seasons 1&2 are out on both formats), I hope they put some complete interviews on there. You can tell that there is much MUCH more filmed that isn’t used in the episodes.
One thing that annoyed me, which I didn’t mention in my other comment, was something they showed for a second or two in the wrestling episode. They quickly showed a photo of Hulk Hogan’s and Roddy Piper’s car toys for an unreleased Rock ‘n’ Wrestling toyline. Yet they never once spoke about it. They never even mentioned there being a toyline planned for the show. Unless I completely missed it in my childhood, a toyline was never made for the show. There was lots of other merch, but not toys. So, it would have been nice to get some history there.
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— Paul
They covered the legal matter regarding filmation, but not the lawsuit with Huey Lewis. It shows Ray Parker jr saying how the melody was the easy part of writing the song & other interviewees mention the theme song. Maybe it’s part of the gag order in thw settlement that niether party is at liberty to discuss it in interviews?
I’m interested to see how much they cover the filmation ghostbusters toys in the real ghostbusters toys episode whenever it gets made.
