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From Slime to Stay Puft: Why Ghostbusters Still Works
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A haunted library, a deadpan pitch to City Hall, and a marshmallow titan stomping through New York—our rewatch of Ghostbusters digs into why this blend of scares and snickers still hits. We open on the film’s tonal swerve: real chills in the stacks that quickly give way to chaotic hotel hijinks, a smart pivot that reframes fear as fuel for character and comedy. From there, we trace the heartbeat of the movie—the scrappy startup story hiding in plain sight—where three displaced academics bootstrap a business, find product–market fit with a media montage, and sell…
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