Showing posts with label Jerry Zucker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jerry Zucker. Show all posts

Monday, 16 August 2010

Ghost (Jerry Zucker, 1990)

"He's stuck, that's what it is. He's in between worlds. You know it happens sometimes that the spirit gets yanked out so fast that the essence still feels it has work to do here."

Introduction

I watched this too late. I watched it, for the first time, Christmas 2008. This is one of those 'classic' films - "oooh, Ghost is great, oooh, Swayze is great, ooh The Righteous Brothers" and so I thought I might as well watch it - if anything for its ridicukous Oscar nomination. For Best Picture no less. [in mock shock] "oops" I may have given my opinion too early...

Its a Load of Rubbish

Lets be honest, it really isn't that good! The whole 'set-up' is a simple case of mugging-gone-wrong that ends in murder as Sam (Swayze) dies. Fact is, he knows it wasn't a mugging at all - it was murder. Funnily enough, in this day and age, the fact that the back story is about the banking profession - and 'discrepencies' in the accounts that Mr Moral Sam decides to look into personally - makes an interesting