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Ghostbusters 2 (1989) - 10 corrections

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

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-fi

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During the entire scene where the Statue of Liberty is just outside of the museum, a green screen can be seen in the background anytime there is a closeup of one of the actors in the statue. [It is not a green screen, the inside of the statue is actually green.]
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During the scene in the subway with the river of slime, as Egon, Ray and Winston are measuring the depth of the river Winston's equipment begins to pull him into the slime. During the struggle to stop this Egon is heard to shout the name Ernie, the actor who plays Winston. [He doesn't shout "Ernie!", he shouts "Hurry!"]
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In the scene where Ray and Egon are in the dark room analyzing the photos they took at the museum, watch as they run the one photo through the "spectral analyzer". As they put the photo into the machine on the left side, the photo goes throught the machine at a very slow pace. You can see the photo as they are talking about what food they should get. The photo is about halfway through the machine on the left, when the entire photo magically appears on the right hand side of the machine and is finished being analyzed. When they pull the completed photo out of the right side of the machine, you can see the original photo still being analyzed on the left side. [They're analyzing all the photos. The machine is obviously capable of scanning another photo while analyzing a previously scanned photo.]
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When the Statue of Liberty makes its entrance in the streets of New York, close observation shows that the statue actually steps on a bunch of people. [How is this a mistake? The guys cannot see exactly where the statue is going, and she is stepping on cars and other objects, so why not a few accidental people?]
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In the final scene where the Ghostbusters are coming out of the Museum, where did their proton packs and slime blowers go? [As noted by Tully as he proudly put on a proton pack, then ran about 20 feet and had to stop to catch his breath, and saying "this equipment sure is heavy" one can assume the other ghostbusters definitely needed some relief after having them on for so long.]
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When the heroes walk the statue of liberty across New York Harbour, her head etc, are well about the waterline. Yet if you measure the statue herself and find out the depth of the harbour in some places, it would have been impossible for her to take that walk and not "drown". [The key phrase is "some places." The Ghostbusters could have mapped out a route along the harbor that would make sure they didn't get submerged.]
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The film takes a large liberty when portraying the Titanic. The Titanic we see is complete with a huge hole in one side. The real sinking was nothing like this with small gashes made along the front of the ship, which eventually split in two. There was no large gaping hole like that made when she hit the iceberg. The Titanic was found four years before the film was made, so it was known at that time what condition the Titanic was in. [It's a ghost ship, so I think we can forgive them for this, just like the ghost train in the subway scene, because it was a steam engine, which never would be in a subway tunnel like that.]
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In some shots the slime is red and in other shots it is pink. [This is because of the different levels of light on the slime in different places and at different times.]
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Why does everyone in the mayor's office and the police think the Ghostbusters are crazy and lock them up? You would think they would believe their story, It couldn't be too outlandish considering a few years before a giant Marshmellow man attacked the city. [It was implied that the 'bad vibes goo' was making everyone in New York crazy, and not just people who really touched it.]
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When Ray and Egon are analysing the photos and talking about what sort of take-away to have, Vigo manages to slide the bolt on the door shut. Presumeably this is the only door into the room, so the bolt has to be on one side of the door or the other (being a dark room, it should be on the inside to prevent anyone else coming in). Why didn't they just slide the bolt back? If the bolt was on the other side of the door, then Winston could have slid it back instead of smashing the door open with the fire extinguisher. [Actually one of them does try to open the bolt from the inside but can't because the Vigo guy must be controlling it still.]
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