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I see no photo

EDIT: Nevermind. I switched to a different browser and it's there. Firefox doesn't like it for some reason. Not even a broken link to let me know something should be there.

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It's hosted on an NYU server. You can still find stuff from 20+ years ago buried on the internet. Those sites become relics of the internet that was.

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A lot of this has more to do with product placement than subtext.

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Ghostbusters II is a great film? :lol:

It's more or less the same movie as the first one, so if you like that one.

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Is there junk food in the library?

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C'mon....really? Never heard anyone make that argument.

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The librarian has "junk in the trunk".

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Are you, Groucho, currently menstruating right now?

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Is that where they give Egon the candy and say "go on...you've earned it"? Or is that just after the library.

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Cheezits (and twinkies) aside there's not much product placement in the examples that the op gives.

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It's certainly no where near as good as the first but it's a respectable sequel.

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There wasn't any actual promotion in regards to branding (like fast-food, soft drink or food tie-ins). There was a promotion with Coca-Cola in Europe, but that was about it. So if there was going to be any product placement in the film, it should have been Coke.

I guess technically you could throw Wise brand potato chips in to the mix (there's a bag in plain view behind Venkman when Walter Peck comes to the firehouse to talk to him).

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Stay Puft paid god money to have their mascot become the destroyer of worlds.

I don't mean it in a bad way, necessarily, I just mean that the second film was basically a rehash of the first with little interest in messing with the formula. Given how successful the first one was, I can hardly blame them, and given how many fans it has, it's clearly not an issue. More of the same when you like the same isn't a bad thing.

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Nobody mentioned this fact: in order to keep the actors and crew happy, producers had catered food on the set every day!

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Ghostbuters II is a complete parallel to the first one.

Hotel Bust with Slimer = Courtroom Bust with the Scolari Bros. (Winston missing for some reason)
Walter Peck = Jack Hardemeyer
Louis Tully = Janosz Poha
Mr. Stay Puft = Statue of Liberty
Gozer = Vigo
Vinz Clortho = Possessed Janosz

They completely ignored the chemistry Janine had with Egon that was even played up in The Real Ghostbusters, and instead turned it into a Louis/Janine thing. Bill Murray (off and on set) feels completely detached from the rest of the Ghostbusters.

However, I wouldn't say the film has a huge amount of fans (aside from the die-hards and those like me who are nostalgic about it). I can find a lot of good in it, but in does pale in terms of charm that the first has. There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that is more interesting that unfortunately will most likely never come to light (given the 25th anniversary BD is the first time the film will have any special features aside from the theatrical trailer).

It would have been interesting to see Wilhelm von Homburg's reaction to being overdubbed by Max von Sydow (he supposedly walked out of the film during its premiere).

What kind of behind the scenes stuff?

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True, but there's also the Crunch bar, Coca-Cola in Dana's fridge, a bag of Fritos, Oscar Meyer lunch meat (also in the fridge), and Wise potato chips.

No wonder they through in this:

http://www.runleiarun.com/ghostbuste...ture-globe.jpg

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That's after, no?

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Dana's baby in part 2 was also named Oscar. I think Venkman even says something about Dana naming him after a hot dog.