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VIDEO: "Ghostbusters Psychobabble" featuring "Halcyon & On & On" by Orbital
"Still making headlines all across the country, the Ghostbusters are at it again." -Casey Kasem
With this update, we have made it to the end of Ghostbusters Week here at Dizzle; quite the surprising feat considering I suck at holding deadlines and standards. Speaking of standards, did you notice the (rare) 2nd update for yesterday?
One of my favorite things about the Ghostbusters franchise is the almost infinite amount of quotables from the film, whether it's the punchlines or the technical mumbo jumbo. If I had somehow managed to forgot this fact in the time it had been since I had last seen the series, it was something I was quickly reminded of while putting together the AC/DC videos for the first and second film. The action clips were put straight to use, but almost 2 hours of quotes are, in a word, impossible to cut down to 5 minutes.
So, with a good chunk of both films still available at my fingertips, I decided to put them together in to a custom, Quote-a-rama type video. By no means am I saying that I used every single definitive quote from either film. Obviously a lot of clips were already used between the previous two videos this week, so I did make a conscious effort to not re-use anything. I also didn't use any clips that I highlighted on either of my columns concerning Bill Murray and Rick Moranis's future involvement in the franchise for the same reason of repetetiveness.
This isn't like the other videos where the whole movie (or movies, in this case) plays out exactly as it would in a cut down, highlighted form. That was what the other two were about. This is about getting up any of the leftover comedy & exposition ("psychobabble", if you will) that wasn't squeezed in anywhere else so those who have are still left in the dark on the Ghostbusters (which believe me: that's more people than you would expect) can claim to know a little bit more.
Knowing that there was at least 10 minutes of worthy quoteables that would work out between timing and cueing, it was time to pick a massive song that could encompass all of these clips without getting too overwhelmed, so I went with a track just under the 10 minute mark that was one of the first real tracks to effectively combat my undiagnosed ADD when I was a kid: "Halcyon & On & On" by Orbital, which is probably one of the most well known techno tracks that no one knows the title of, having featured in Mortal Kombat (after the final fight), Mean Girls (during the resolution scene), and Hackers.
Each movie gets about 5 minutes (GB2 kicks off around the 4:48 mark), and while the conscious effort was more on making sure the quotes flowed rather than getting the plot across, you can definitely get the "feel" of what the Ghostbusters franchise brings in the way of mixing techno-jargon plot with comedy, even without any of the big action scenes.
So with that, it's time that we close this bad boy off: here is your Ghostbusters Week update for Sunday, September 11th, 2010: without further ado, Dizzle presents Ghostbusters Psychobabble featuring "Halcyon & On & On" by Orbital.
Oh yeah, did anyone hear about a new Ecto-1 driving around NYC? Looks like this really was the perfect week for Ghostbusters Week. XD --Tommy Dizzle
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