Rodimus wrote:Can you define what is tame and needs to be censored bout Ghostbusters? There's no foul language in it? I'm just curious?
I have to wonder if your only copy IS the ABC-TV version if you don't think there's any bad language in it. Why exactly did you think it got the PG rating?
As for what needs to be censored... how about all of the things that Reitman knew wouldn't be broadcast-friendly and replaced with alternate takes for the ABC version?
For the complete list of what all they took out, watch the comparison videos at the bottom of this page:
http://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/gb1_deleted.htm I actually thought this was one of the best family-friendly versions of a movie ever done. Far better than all the ones where they had some guy come in and loop different words over the same footage. (I always wondered why they weren't protecting lip-readers too.)
[Fun fact... one of Dave Coulier's early gigs as a voice artist was looping Richard Pryor's movies for regular TV. He said in an interview with former RGB costar Arsenio Hall that even though it was flattering to be hired as the best sound-alike, he was sure audiences didn't think it was really Richard saying "Shoot! Those doggone guys just ran right past us!" et al.]
Since Reitman wasn't sure what rating GB1 would ultimately take, they had shot scenes numerous ways. He always felt it would benefit from not being particularly vulgar. Go back and look at Stripes and Caddyshack with their gratuitous nudity, and you can see they really did make a conscious effort to be more clean.
Those unused 'clean' takes were a marvelous resource when taking out the few swear words that wouldn't work on regular TV.
Alex