A love story of a man who is killed and comes back with the help of a spiritual advisor to solve his own murder and protect his lover. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/04/2005 Starring: Patrick Swayze Demi Moore Run time: 126 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Jerry ZuckerDemi Moore and Patrick Swayze are the passionate lovers whose romance is undone when the latter is murdered during a bungled hit arranged by a rival. The clever concept by screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin (director of My Life) extends outward into comedy (Swayze’s character communicates through a sassy medium played by Whoopi Goldberg, who won an Oscar for this role), horror (the afterlife is populated by hell-bound demons and the like), and romantic complications (a handsome suitor, played by Tony Goldwyn, comes on to Moore while Swayze’s spirit is still hanging around). Directed by Jerry Zucker, previously best known for codirecting Airplane! and similar broad comedies, Ghost is a careful balancing act of strong commercial elements, but at heart it is a timeless Hollywood tearjerker that easily gets under one’s skin. –Tom Keogh
April 21, 2008
#1
this whole movie was a mistake.its really a love story between demi moore who once played a lesbian and patrick swayzee who dresses up like a girl and dances.one of them gets killed.its ol pat and then whoopi goldberg lets them make out and god knows what else using her medium body.itll probably scare the kids.there are no sequels thank god.i dont understand how anybody could like this movie.its stupid.its emotional if you forgot your meds.theres 2 chicks.demi moore whose rather overated as a sex symbol and the extremely racistand hateful whoopi goldberg whose not at all attracvtive.on a up note,all whoopis movies are worse.all patricks movies are worse and demis got gi jane and a small part in batman returns that outrank this autrocity.
April 21, 2008
#2
At first view, this movie should be looked at as one of the greatest romantic movies of all times. But then it’s not.
The movie is about a man who was murdered, then returns as a ghost because he still loved his girlfriend and wanted to catch his killer. If you could ignore the fact that there is no ghost, then perhaps you’ll get over the first hurdles of this movie. But if you’re one does not believe that there is such a thing as a ghost, then the movie is simply nothing but mindless entertainment.
The director of this movie, it seems, was confused as to whether this movie should be a comedy, a romance or a drama type movie. Because of that, all the elements were incorporated together and that ruined the movie. The humor in the movie was dry, the romance cheesy and the dramatic elements were anything but. As one person wrote, by the middle of the movie, we already knew what would happen next and who the murderer was.
This movie also lacks one other element — logic. For any logical person who could think critically, this movie should be very painful to watch. Nothing they do in the movie makes any sense.
For those who are thinking about watching this movie as a movie date — please don’t bother. It’s a waste of money, fake tears and if you end up liking the movie, your date *if your date is at all smart*, will laugh at you for being superstitious, sophomoric and stupid.
April 21, 2008
#3
En su momento no la vi en el cine, y la verdad es que por suerte asi fue. Realmente me parece una pelicula tipica de Hollywood, exagerada en todos los aspectos, no tiene ese toque sutil que veo en “Always”,por ejemplo, la pelicula equivalente de Spielberg. Dejando de lado algunas escenas, como por ejemplo la clasica en la que Demi Moore hace alfareria, es una cinta para ver si no hay otra cosa en cable, pero si aparece algo un poco mejor, no dudo en hacer zapping, y por supuesto que no la alquilariia y menos la compraria.
April 21, 2008
#4
For the longest time all I could remember about this film was that the villain’s name was Willie Lopez. I had a dog named Lopez, so it was hard not to associate the two. I also remember that my French teacher in high school for some reason loved Ghost (although he called it The Ghost) and announced one day that we would all watch Ghost and all benefit and learn from it because it was such a fabulous and otherworldly film. I, for one, laughed throughout. Parts that were supposed to be romantic, loving, touching, or otherwise emotional were so contrived that it was not credible. Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze are two of the worst actors in modern cinema. Swayze particularly lacks the depth and talent necessary to convey the kind of love he supposedly feels and definitely lacks the depth to convey the level of frustration he feels when he is dead but has unfinished business to take care of. Tony Goldwyn and Whoopi Goldberg are the two best things about the movie. Goldwyn as the ultimate villain, Carl, who orchestrated Swayze’s murder and tries then to seduce Moore. Goldberg won an Oscar for her portrayal of a psychic who never actually believed she had psychic powers until Swayze’s ghost came along and convinced her to help him catch and punish Carl and save Molly (Demi Moore). People who like really sappy love stories and far fetched tales will appreciate this film. In fact many people like it. It is a crowd pleaser, but it was too idiosyncratic for me.
April 21, 2008
#5
Whoa. GHOST is a good flick, but I’m having a hard time coping with all the metaphysical implications. That spinning clay pot reminds me that my load of laundry is neither dry–nor clean. And when spinning is accompanied by the Righteous Brothers, that’s a recipe for supernatural confusion.
Kind of like Dolly Parton serenading Hannibal. Sure, it could happen, but who would believe it?
Patrick Swayze, all four-eleven of him, steals our hearts as the lovable “ghost.” He can do it all: from raking a penny across a door to disrupting a money-laundering scheme. And Demi Moore–even when she’s up to her elbows in mud–is hotter than Hades. She loves, she cries, she grieves, she believes (and now I’m out of “i” before “e” comparisons). Yet Whoopi Goldberg provides both comic relief and clairvoyant clarity as the metaphysical agent for Swayze to extract his revenge and save his honey from the mob-hungry hordes. Whoopi’s good, she’s funny, she wrinkles her nose and spits out her punch lines–but she needs to lose the hats and the Patti LaBelle outfits.
Again, this is metaphysical stuff.
But as I’ve said, I like GHOST. Just don’t understand all this supernatural stuff. Like, when a bad guy dies, these Warner Brothers cartoons come floating out of the floor to capture said bad guy’s “soul.” The noise reminds me of my cat choking on a chicken bone. Is all of this metaphysical? Well, my cat doesn’t think so.
–D. Mikels