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Ghostbusters (1984) - 21 corrections

Directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Annie Potts, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver (add more)

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-fi

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When Peck arrives at the Ghostbusters HQ with the electrician, and tells the electrician to turn off the place where all the ghosts are being held, the electrician says that he has never seen anything like the device, to which Peck says, "I'm not interested in your opinion. Shut it off". But the electrician did not give an opinion; he was stating a fact, so Peck should not have said that. [Really? Seriously? By this reasoning later in the film, Venkman should not have said that Peck has no dick as he almost certainly does have one. This is just silly, Peck is infuriated and is not going to be paying attention to the electricians grammar.]
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The "experiment" that Venkman conducts at the beginning of the film is a parody of the Milgram Experiment. In the Milgram Experiment, people were told that they would be giving a person increasingly powerful electric shock whenever the person incorrectly answered a question from a list that was read off. (The reality was that the person being "shocked" was an actor and that the generator was fake; the experiment was a test of whether the subject would give a person lethal shocks just because an experimenter was telling them to do so.) [How is it a parody of that experiment? Venkman is the one delivering the shocks, not the test subject, and the shocks do not increase in severity at all. The two experiments actually have nothing at all in common outside the shared use of electricity. Venkman explains the purpose of his experiment: to determine if negative reinforcement has any effect on psychic ability. It wasn't just some half-baked scenario to "parody" an actual experiment.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
At 00:39:38, the Ghostbusters' logo in the right door of the car is looking to one side and then, a little bit later, it is looking to the other side (has changed its direction). [This is a duplicate of the entry that begins, "During the montage."]
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In the scene after Dana's orchestra rehearsal, when Dana sees Venkman skipping by, she asks the "stiff" to wait there a moment. The "stiff" replies with "What? Oh, sure", however his lips do not move. [He indeed does say the words. What he says doesnt actually need much mouth motion at all (try it yourself) but watch his throat/adam's apple to see the motion that matches his words.]
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In the sequence where the ghosts go berserk in New York, one ghost shoots itself into a taxi cab through the muffler. Right after that a man goes into the taxi, and we see the ghost at the wheel, in the form of a live corpse. The taxi then proceeds to drive off. However, it is now being driven by a regular guy, easily visible in the shot for a second or two. [We have no idea if this is an actual ghost driving the car (if so, this is the only instance in the film where a ghost manifests itself in a solid form), or if it's a possession, giving the driver the momentary appearance of a corpse.]
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Near the end when the Ghostbusters are talking with the mayor, Ray's hair is flat on his head. In the next scene when they get to Dana's building his hair is full and wavy. Would he have washed and blow dried between scenes? [Of course he washed and blow dried his hair between scenes. After speaking with the mayor, the Ghostbusters obviously had to go back to the firehouse (which isn't very far from city hall) to get Ecto 1, along with their uniforms and proton packs. While there, he did his hair. The Ghostbusters then drove Ecto 1 back to city hall to meet their escort and head to Dana's building.]
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Scene where Venkman gives Egon the candy bar and says, "You've earned it": in the original film version, Venkman gives Egon a Nestlé Crunch bar; in the VHS/DVD versions, the candy bar is a Payday. I'm guessing there was a contract dispute with Nestlé sometime between the film release and the video release of the movie. [It's always been a Nestle Crunch bar. In the theater and on DVD. It was too small to see on VHS.]
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In the scene when the Ghostbusters have a police escort, as they arrive at the condo building, in one shot the emergency lights on the Ghostbuster car aren't one, in the next shot they are on. [They turned the lights on.]
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At the beginning of Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman says that he studies the effects of negative reinforcement on ESP ability, when, in fact, he actually studies the effects of positive punishment on ESP ability. This can be seen in the fact that he adds an aversive stimulus to the subject when the subject "gets it wrong" in order to decrease that behavior, which is positive punishment. If he was studying negative reinforcement, he would have to make the shock occur at all times unless the subject guessed the right card, at which point, the shock would be removed. Of course, Peter's methods were shown to be less than sound. [The "negative reinforcement" occurs with the female subject. She sees that the punishment for getting a wrong answer is electric shock. When she gets the right answer (or so Venkman tells her) she escapes that aversive stimulus. *That* is negative reinforcement. The experiment is bunk anyway, because Venkman is lying to them both.]
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After the Staypuft Marshmallow has been blown up we see everyone covered with marshmallow (except for Bill Murray). When we see them leaving the building, everyone has suddenly been cleaned up. [Submitted and corrected before. The Ghostbusters have had plenty of time to clean up on their way down the building, especially since they were covered in marshmallow at night, and when they reach the street, it's morning.]
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In the ballroom scene, when Egon shoots the cake, it explodes seconds before the proton beam touches it. [There's no telling what the physical properties of the proton beam are or how it affects objects around it.]
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Who takes 300 cc's of Thorazine with them on a date? [The same person who would unethically and unnecessarily administer electric shocks to a test subject in an attempt to impress a girl and make her think she is psychic.]
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In the scene in the hallway at the hotel with the green ghost, the ghost goes through a wall right above a vase of ferns, and about a second later, a cart crashes into the table with the ferns on it. The ferns go up into the air and out of the shot, but they never come back down. [This scene is in slow motion, which is why they don't come back down.]
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When Gozar, or the voice of that lady character is telling the Ghostbusters to "choose" the form of their destructor, Peter tells them the example about J. Edgar Hoover and that they need to clear their minds. Well if he was thinking of J. Edgar Hoover at the time, shouldn't he have came out instead? [No, because Gozer probably would give the Ghostbusters some time to reach a decision.]
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In the scene where Dana gets out of her car with the bag of groceries (just before you see the statue on the roof crumble) all of the cars are driving on the left side of the road. The story, however, takes place in NYC. [Its a one way street, so all lanes are in the same direction.]
Edit Corrected by Ral0618
After Ray's dream sequence, when we see all three 'busters lying in bed: after he finishes tossing and turning Bill Murray appears to sit up, as if expecting the end of the take. [Actually, this whole scene was meant to be 'real'. It was, however, edited because it was too long, and turned in to a 'dream' sequence. As a result they filmed extra shots of Ray sleeping (and dreaming), and the joke was that Ray was groaning with pleasure while dreaming of the ghost/oral sex, and his moaning and falling off the bed woke the others. If you look carefully, Bill Murray (Peter) is actually looking at Ray, having just been woken up by him....]
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When Ray and Winston were driving across the Brooklyn Bridge around midnight in the Ectomobile, Ray quoted a verse of Scripture claiming to be "Revelation 7:12". Although in actuality the verse that contains "...opened the sixth seal...and the sun became as black as sackcloth, and the moon became as blood..." Actually was Revelation 6:12. The writers were one chapter off. [Ray also states that it's the only verse he can remember, if he has such a limited grasp of the bible it's not much of a stretch to think he could have got the number wrong.]
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When Peter and Dana are looking in her refrigerator after the Gozer incident, notice the Coke can on the top shelf. In the wide shot, it has "Coca-Cola" written in small cursive letters, but in the close-ups, it just says "Coke" and the letters are large, and in print. [If you look closely, there are actually two cans of Coke in the refrigerator. The on nearest Peter is the one with the cursive writing, and the one on Dana's side is the one with the big bold lettering. Although if you watch the can with the cursive writing, the can turns to the left just a bit from when the refrigerator was first opened.]
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After the battle with Gozer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man, if you pay close attention, you can see that the marshmallow goo covering Ray varies in amount, especially after he apologises for the barbecued dog hair comment. [Just before the barbequed dog hair comment, watch Ray in the lower right section of the screen. He is clearly seen to be wiping marshmallow off of his face, which accounts for the change in amount.]
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When Dana tells Peter of the refrigerator incident, Peter opens the door to investigate. On the top shelf is a can of Coke with the label "Coke" clearly displayed.  Just a moment later, he double checks the fridge, where the can now reads "coca-cola." Somebody turned the can between shots. [There are two cans, it's just that in some shots we see them one at a time].
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