I think it's time we revisit "GHOST" (1990) and the wonderfully fun performance Whoopi gave us

This movie made $505 million worldwide in 1990. That is huge. Idk what that converts to in 2020, but a lot.

She was great.

She definitely inhabited that role, as did Demi and Patrick Swayze. It also reflected a more innocent time. There is so much cynicism now (and for good reason) that this film takes us back to something more pleasant and positive.

A fantastic classic that deserved all it's Oscar nods

Molly-you in danger, gurl!

Love that movie, too. Always do, always will. Love it for Whoopi Goldberg, and it's the only movie where I truly appreciate Demi Moore. And it makes the best use of Unchained Melody.

It's the ultimate frau movie.

Molly Ringwald must have been kicking herself and passing on this. And doing Betsy's Wedding instead.

Whoopi is amazing.

The scene where Swayze turns up at the seance and first talks to Whoopi is so, so, funny.

“Sam Wheat!”

And Tony Goldwyn was incredibly creepy. What a body, though.

You in danger gurl is one the best lines in a movie of all time!

Obviously it's a DL iconic line too, but I liked it way before DL existed.

You in danger girl is a popular meme with today’s youth.

I watched it once and that was more than enough.

I loved Swayze

I recently watched this. I was blown away by completely moved by how beautiful Patrick Swayze's acting was. He was so tender and yet, a strong man. What a caring soul.

In Wong Foo he was also a delight. R. I. P

If he were gay and that caused him to drink I feel so sorry him.

Will no one say a word for Tony Goldwyn?

This was such a huge hit in 1990. This film, Pretty Woman and Home Alone at the end of the year dominated 1990.

Whoopi was wonderful. "You're in danger gurl" has helped this movie become popular with younger generations.

Hollywood just can't seem to make movies like this, Pretty Woman or Home Alone anymore.

I agree with you on Ghost and Home Alone but Pretty Woman doesn’t hold up. The relationship between Edward and Vivian is creepy

[quote] Willy Lopez terrified me as a kid lmao.

Every Willie Lopez still terrifies me. The movie did do a good job of showing what happens to people when they die, except for the ghost part. There are no ghosts walking the Earth. You get taken away almost immediately.

R18. Agree. Pretty Woman happened to be on yesterday and the scene of Julia at the table with Richard Gere was cringe. She's a little more than a prop. Disgusting how it's all white men corruptly doing business.

The normal hotel manager having to save her and teach her how to use a fork.

The best scene was when the bitchy sales clerks wouldn't let her shop and she comes back and shows them!

Willie Lopez scared me too because he was so evil but as an adult reviewing he was kind of hot.

Whoopi was great in this. One of the best movie comedic performances ever. Comedy is harder to pull off, and usually overlooked compared to big, dramatic performances.

Whoopi was a delight. She was very natural.

I like how movies were back then. Actors today seem too self aware to have fun like that.

Whoopie had tough competition that year, it was a very strong year for supporting actresses:

Lorraine Bracco, Goodfellas; Annette Bening for The Grifters, Winona for Mermaids, Shirley MacLaine for Postcards, Diane Keaton and Talia Shire for Godfather III, Mary McConnell for Dancing with Wolves.

Ghost should have won.

R24: In that case, Annette should’ve won for The Grifters.

I prefer Lorraine Bracco in Good Fellas

Ghost is dreck

It was a very watchable film, even though I was not a fan of any of the actors.

Whoopi winning for one of the best comedic performances in recent memory.

How did Diane Ladd get nominated? Wild At Heart is one of my least favorite movies of all time and she was horrible in it. I like her but not in this.

OMG R3 are you kidding? Ghost is on the most cynical, manipulative, reactionary, conservative POS ever! I just I can’t with this.

Conservative? How so?

I thought this movie was novel in that it combined a beautiful and tragic love story with a genuine thriller. While I enjoyed Whoopi in it, her performance seemed cartoonish to me and far from Oscar worthy.

I thought Tony Goldwyn, on the other hand, was a brilliant villain. In the scene when he realizes his plot is unraveling, he conveys a true sense of terror and desperation.

By today's special effects standards, the little black demon ghosts that come and drag away the bad guys to hell look pretty cheesy, but at the time they were chilling.

Hard to believe this won Best Original Screenplay.

This year marks the 30th Anniversary of Ghost

The last 30 second of the trailer is a pretty good sum-up of the movie

I think it's time we stop beginning thread titles with "I think it's time."

I think it's time we mock R35 for having nothing to contribute other than to say he thinks it's time we stop saying we think it's time.

I love this movie. It is a classic and will be remembered long after the last few Oscar winners are long forgotten.

It's a beautiful performance!

Ditto r37.

It’s autumn sunrise!

I know a few people who were traumatized by the shadowy demons that took away the evil person who died.

I do love Whoopi, but also would’ve fully backed Diane Ladd winning the Oscar for her stunning portrayal of me after a month in self-quarantine, R29.

They could remake this movie and still have Whoopi and to Demi in the picture. The story can start with the loss of her husband in the subsequent meeting of a new man many years after her loss.

They could remake this movie and still have Whoopi and to Demi in the picture. The story can start with the loss of her husband in the subsequent meeting of a new man many years after her loss.

I think you're suggesting a sequel, not a remake, R43/44.

RIP Pat.

This performance locked Whoopi in for Sister And remember her talk show??

This movie is just a piece of trivial fluff. Whoopi Goldberg's win is one of the major Oscar travesties. The other nominees were Annette Bening (The Grifters), Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas), Diane Ladd (Wild at Heart) and Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves). They ALL were more deserving of the award that Whoopi Goldberg.

It presented subtle messages (what happens to bad people when they die), well above average acting, comedy, deep drama. The scene where the guy tries to log into the bank account and the password's been changed is brilliant. To be able to get across onscreen the tension was not easy.

Demi's character was clearly a closet lesbian. The flannel shirts, the short hair, the pottery. So obvi.

No Whoopi deserved it more. Lorraine Bracco is not that likeable and neither are any of the others.

OP, this movie engendered much in the way of racism against Puerto Rican men!

[quote]This movie is just a piece of trivial fluff. Whoopi Goldberg's win is one of the major Oscar travesties. The other nominees were Annette Bening (The Grifters), Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas), Diane Ladd (Wild at Heart) and Mary McDonnell (Dances with Wolves). They ALL were more deserving of the award that Whoopi Goldberg.

Oh fuck you. "Ghost" is a terrific entertaining movie, just what movies are supposed to be. The Academy routinely shits on comedic performances and this time they go it right, Whoopi's performance is most definitely remembered over the other nominees. You think but a few remember Diane Ladd in "Wild At Heart? Most people couldn't tell you who co-starred in "Dances With Wolves" and people think of Anjelica Huston when remembering "The Grifters". Great performances but clearly not memorable.

I worked behind the scenes of movies and talked to someone at Paramount about a month before the release and told her I had seen an early trailer and it will be a blockbuster and she was thrilled because they really didn't know what they had.

Then I got to meet Whoopi and my friend got the DVD signed and did the famous quote and she told us, people yell that to her all the time, and that she never saw the movie. She, along with many actors never see their finished film.

"No Whoopi deserved it more. Lorraine Bracco is not that likeable and neither are any of the others."

And Whoopi Goldberg is "likeable?" HAHAHA! She's a CUNT. All the other actresses nominated gave better performances, were more talented, and were "likeable." By the way, they all were a million times more attractive than Goldberg, who has a face like a horse's ass.

"Oh fuck you. "Ghost" is a terrific entertaining movie, just what movies are supposed to be. The Academy routinely shits on comedic performances and this time they go it right, Whoopi's performance is most definitely remembered over the other nominees. "

Oh, go suck Whoopi Goldberg's withered clam."Ghost" was a mindlessly entertaining piece of piffle, as a lot of blockbuster movies tend to be. It was worthless. Movies of this sort appeal to a lowbrow audience and there are a lot of lowbrows out there. Like you, Whoopi lover.

[quote] more attractive than Goldberg

And that's how we judge acting ability. On how pretty someone is.

Whoopi got the Oscar for Ghost because she was robbed the year before for the Color Purple. Everyone knows that. Hell - everyone was robbed for the Color Purple. It had 11 nominations.

I love Whoopi.

Stand With a Fist also played Jake Gyllenhaals mom in Donnie Darko.

R56, there were 5 years between those two movies.

It was a stellar category of nominees.

Annette was also great in Postcards. One scene, but it's very memorable and she steals the picture right out from under Streep (who was okay, but her laid back performance seemed to contrast with everyone else in that movie, who was doing first rate work).

Wonderfully fun performance?

It was shuck and jive and modern Black face.

"Let's make the character as demeaning as possible so white audiences will like it and post about how fun it was on DL one day"

R59 Your delusional. I don't like Streep (kinda hate her) but that one scene didn't steal the picture from anyone.

God your stupid

you're ^

Shirley should have been nominated for Postcards from the Edge. Clearly one of the most surprising omissions in Oscar history in my opinion. Definitely one of my favourite Shirley performances.

But Whoopi was great in this, and a reminder there was a time when Whoopi was a great film star. She could deliver excellent performances (The Color Purple) and was a genius at comedy (Ghost, Sister Act) and could do both comedy and drama (Corrina, Corrina).

1990 was a good year for Whoopi. She also starred in the excellent and underrated The Long Walk Home with Sissy Spacek. They both should have been nominated for that film, and indeed, Whoopi could have been - and should have been - a double nominee for leading (The Long Walk Home) and supporting (Ghost).

It drove me nuts the way she was always looking off to the side past Swayze when speaking to him. I know she couldn't see him, but probability has it that she would hit the mark every once in a while at least.

Whoopi was cute in that movie too.

Now she jokes about her Rasta bush being gray.

R49, not to mention the embrace and kiss with Whoopi!

The Whoopi Goldberg troll needs to give it a rest. "Great in this...a great film star...excellent performances...genius at comedy...could do both comedy and drama"...what drivel! Maybe the troll is Whoopi's agent.

Yeah that kiss was... I mean no one wanted to see that.

There's a reason why "The Color Purple" didn't win any Oscars. It STANK. No kidding, it really was a very white, sanitized version of the novel, which was much darker. I mean, depicting lesbian love by having wind chimes tinkling was funny as shit. And that pathetic scene where the two sisters (teenagers who still play patty-cake?) are being physically torn from each other was more laughable than moving. And it didn't take place in the novel. It was the very white Steven Spielberg's attempt to jerk tears.

Some of you people must really be miserable in real life.

I'm sad she's old now. It wasn't THAT long ago. Demi still looks younger.

I also love any film that shows the "old" SoHo.

The character that always stood out for me was the VERY strange looking ghost on the train, who reluctantly becomes Patrick's mentor.

That actor (Anthony Scavelli?) was at the time married to Miss DiPesto from Moonlighting. A handsome couple!

R60 yes because it's ONLY white people who've praised Goldberg's performance

Eyeroll

She was great in the film and deserved her Oscar, so please shut the fuck up

R69 Spielberg is Jewish not white

I love this movie. It’s iconic.

The writers and directors did great too. It's cathartic seeing a movie deal with the afterlife.

"Ghost" is just a dumb movie that a lot of dumb people liked. A movie with no substance at all.

It made so much money

[quote]A movie with no substance at all.

Oh Woody, where in the world did you get the notion a movie has to have substance? They are just stories, entertainment. Maybe you can find "The Sorrow and the Pity" streaming somewhere.

"Oh Woody, where in the world did you get the notion a movie has to have substance?"

My name's not Woody. And I didn't say "a movie has to have substance." I said THIS one didn't. And it doesn't. So there.