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Harold Ramis Dies At 69
samzenpus writes "Writer and comedian Harold Ramis has passed away at 69. Ramis had a hand in many classic comedies but is especially loved for playing the ghost-hunting Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters. 'His creativity, compassion, intelligence, humor and spirit will be missed by all who knew and loved him,' said his family in a statement."
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Egon the scientist left an impression on me as an 11 year old kid.
While his character was supposed to be a little dorky I suppose, he was just pure awesome to me. He was the only Ghostbuster to be totally on top of things, and knew what he was doing. He inspired me to be the techie I am today.
RIP Harold Ramis.
He crossed the beams!
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
It's a pussy.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
He will be missed.
For making us laugh, making us think, and making the world a little happier. You did good.
From SCTV to Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day and so many guilty pleasures from the 80s
You will be missed
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I grew up on his 80's flicks.
Way too young in this day and age.
I'd like a sample of his brain tissue.
Ah, arrogance and stupidity, all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari
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- In Soviet Korea, only old people loose all their bases to Natalie Portman's petrified hot grits overlords.
I really liked him in the Ghostbusters movies
I've got better things to do tonight than die.
"Now I really collect spores, molds, and fungi."
Oh come on, he would laugh!
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Caddyshack. RIP
This news makes me really sad. Ghostbusters shaped an incalculably large portion of my childhood. :(
Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day are two of my all-time favorite comedies (My top-top probably being Grosse Pointe Blank) in fact I just watched Ghostbusters the other night on my new bigass TV, and was considering watching Groundhog Day... (And now, definitely will tonight.)
One of my favorite moments in Ghostbusters is when Egonâ" in a complete deviation from his usual demeanor, and out of all the people present â"ends up being the one who jumps Peck shouting "YOUR MOTHER!" when he accuses them of being responsible for the explosion at the firehouse. It's something that always stuck out in my mind as being particularly funny.
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
Hate to say it, but it's probably for the best. The second one was pretty bad. And Ackroyd was the only one who even wanted to make a third.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
I still remember sitting in my living room when I was a kid watching Second City TV and hearing Floyd Robertson (Joe Flaherty) and Earl Camenbert (Harold Ramis) muddle their way through the "local" news. That was my first exposure to Harold Ramis, and every time I have seen him since has brought back that memory.
I'm sad that he won't be making new ones for me.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing for money.
Bill Murray did say he'd be willing to do a third, as long as it didn't suck. He had a pretty high bar for not sucking though, which is why it never happened.
Dan Akroyd is the all-time winner of the Landing a Woman Way Out of your Class geek Olympics. I in good faith cannot criticize him or anything he has ever done.
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
While his character was supposed to be a little dorky I suppose, he was just pure awesome to me.
One of the things I enjoyed about his character in the movies as I got to be older was his relationship to Jeanine was a bit complicated. She clearly puts the moves on him...but unlike nearly every male movie character I can think of (who isn't implied to be gay) - he's ambivalent, tolerates, or rebuffs her. The stereotypical reaction from male movie characters is "Yeah, let's get it on!", especially in action movies.
However, there's a scene - I can't remember which - where he says something, she responds with "OH EGON, I just blah blah blah" and he responds with a look that's half "Yeah, baby. You know you like it" and half "siiiigh, ok, I'll console you, fine..."
Now...if only Winston's character hadn't been so racist. That's the part I hate the most about Ghostbusters; Winston Zedmore is pretty much just there to bounce jokes off of or be the 'dumb black clown' character. I feel like the cartoon actually gave him character development and whatnot more on par with the others (although did they ever show any of his family, for example?) The series definitely played up the "the most normal and people-skills-equipped of the group" elements.
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Harold Ramis wrote and directed Caddyshack.
And that movie is from Caddyshack.
So now you look a bit stupid.
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HE-MAN!!!!
Sincerely,
The Ungrateful Yuppie Larva of the world.
I was MASSIVELY bummed out when I read it this morning.
Gonna miss his deadpan affect. It just made all the insane things going on around him (or happening to him) even funnier.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
There's no reason to pull out the racist card any time a black man isn't portrayed as the ultimate hero and intellect in a movie. All the characters in this COMEDY were slightly strange and comedic characters...
Yes, except virtually the only lines his character gets are to crack jokes.
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He must have forgotten about Garfield 2...
To be fair, we all try to forget about Garfield 2.
That's because he was the outsider, not because he was black. The Ghostbusters needed another guy with a proton pack, Winston signed up because it was a job. He wasn't a conman like Venkman, and not a semi-insane scientist like Egon or Ray.
You might as well complain about how Weaver's character spent most of the time in both movies being the vulnerable incapable female.
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Not acting per se, but he was excellent in the Caddyshack documentary. Some of the insights into how that movie got made were awesome. Especially his observations about the direction a movie can take when you decide to make an animatronic gopher one the lead characters.
The problem is that is how this was the standard way virtually any black character was constructed by Hollywood
At least he wasn't wearing a red shirt as part of the away team. While not claiming it was intended, the movie The Edge seemed to go down that path. Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and a black guy (Harold Perrineau) are stranded by a plane crash in the northern wilderness. Then there was a bear. Then there was no black guy.
Yes, far more notable is his brilliant but all too brief career as part of the Belushi-Akroyd team. I even love them in their semi-flop Neighbors.
Akroyd's talent largely went to waste after Ghostbusters, or maybe he just stopped having interesting ideas any more. I think John Belushi was his muse, and when Belushi died, Akroyd lost it a bit. But still, even he is a bit of a nut, he's a funny guy.
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He would deserve the highest praise for Groundhog Day alone, a film that has only grown in popularity and appreciation since its release. The fact that he was involved in one capacity or another in a number of highly esteemed projects over the years shows just how good he really was.
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High status has a hell of a lot to do with that. Wealth, too, but status is king. Why else do dirt-poor garage bands tour the nation getting laid like rockstars everywhere they go?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Political correctness is real, and it is routinely used by feminists and other radical left-wingers to dismiss any speech that disagrees with them. How is it "accusing" leftists of being politically correct, when in fact they are?
Funny how you prove his point by all but demanding a story be told by bolting PC narratives on the side and derailing the entire flow by screaming "I CARE MORE ABOUT NONWHITES, WOMEN, AND GAYS THAN YOU!" at each other and their audience.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Personally, I thought Winston was the most real character in the whole zoo; a necessary character to ground all the others. And I loved his "I've seen shit that'll turn you white!" line--and I'm black.
Bill Murray, "Umph, ..., Garfield, maybe..."
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Am I the only one who's been waiting for years to nail someone who "corrects" me for saying "pdf file"?
Egon: Venkman, get a stool sample. Peter Venkman: Business, or personal?
"Doe.... Ray.... Egon!" *smirk*
The developmental years of my life would have been very different if not for his specific influence on them. Fare well Mr. Ramis, and thank you.
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According to this 2013 interview, Murray says that the agents were ''foaming'' at the thought of Ghostbusters3. (20:00) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
And grouping "white, male, racist, asshole" together is a standard leftist lie.
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Funny how you prove his point by all but demanding a story be told by bolting PC narratives on the side and derailing the entire flow by screaming "I CARE MORE ABOUT NONWHITES, WOMEN, AND GAYS THAN YOU!" at each other and their audience. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/... Start reading, asshole. I never did anything you claim I did.
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I'm breaking my long silence for this...
The world is worse off for having lost Harold Ramis. May Dan Akroyd make up for his loss.
I just don't get... eh, ugh... never mind. This post wasn't worth the research I put into it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NYC... RIP :(
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The really important part of his character was that, unlike the irreverent scientists who founded the company, he was religious (but needed the paycheck). It was not a "black" role. There was nothing about him that meant the character HAD to be black, but no reason he couldn't be either. Some people, for sad cultural/historical reasons, got caught up in his skin color and never saw the character. That's a shame.
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It will start with abandonment of noun-ism.
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