GZAofTheMidwest t1_is4kc1o wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:57 AM

The pottery scene was the key differentiator.

sprint6864 t1_is4syow wrote on October 13, 2022 at 9:03 AM

And was banned in pottery classrooms in community colleges the world over

colefly t1_is5cryn wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:47 PM

And making whoopie with Whoopie

HairyNutsackNumber9 t1_is4p5sn wrote on October 13, 2022 at 8:05 AM

ghost isnt a ghost movie its a love story.... with... a ghost...

colefly t1_is5czet wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM

....who controls Whoopie Goldberg...

...so he can lesbian sex his wife

pookypie88 t1_is5dyas wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:57 PM

Every man’s dream!

HairyNutsackNumber9 t1_is5e78l wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:59 PM

REALLY? i never watched it

deadwlkn t1_is4lmi9 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 7:15 AM

That's by far my most favorite horror movie.

colefly t1_is5cvy7 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:48 PM

I don't find Patrick Swazye THAT scary

Betteradvize t1_is56rl7 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 11:54 AM

Saw it in the theater, nothing has come close since.

QuotidianQuandaries t1_is4i13p wrote on October 13, 2022 at 6:27 AM

Reverse psychology

sprint6864 t1_is4t162 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 9:04 AM

Which is interesting, being as it's largely inspired by a classic and popular Twilight Zone episode

lambuscred t1_is5ia7z wrote on October 13, 2022 at 1:30 PM

To be fair Ghost is a romance movie with a ghost in it. Jacob’s Ladder is pretty explicitly about a ghost.

Kirkverbal t1_is9mgsw wrote on October 14, 2022 at 9:05 AM

It is? I always took it as being all experienced in Jacob's head while he was dying in that triage tent.

falconuruguay t1_is6wz9n wrote on October 13, 2022 at 7:08 PM

Jacob's Ladder was a damn good movie...a real mindfuck!

I do recommend that you watch the movie more than once, just so you can see everything you will miss on the 1st viewing

Sometimes_She_Goes t1_is74iei wrote on October 13, 2022 at 7:56 PM

This film was dark af. I really enjoyed it. Would recommend.

goteamnick t1_is4xes8 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 10:06 AM

This is pretty confusing, given Ghost was released before Jacob's Ladder. Jacob's Ladder also barely made back its budget.

WouldbeWanderer OP t1_is7vft7 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 10:56 PM

Jacob's Ladder was written years before Ghost but nobody wanted to produce it.

jar1967 t1_is4o9zp wrote on October 13, 2022 at 7:52 AM

For the young men out there Watching Ghost with your girlfriend will most likely end with you getting laid

savehoward t1_is5kg38 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 1:46 PM

I think this says more about how a small number if movie execs know less about which scripts are good rather than a writer’s ability to write well.

substantial-freud t1_isfhtie wrote on October 15, 2022 at 4:09 PM

“Nobody knows anything. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess.”
― William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade

”We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
—Decca Recording Company executive Dick Rowe, declining to sign the Beatles in 1962

TIL that it took several years for writer Bruce Rubin to sell the script to Jacob's Ladder, because it was "too metaphysical" and "Hollywood does not make ghost movies". Rubin would later write the screenplay for Ghost, a box office success that grossed over $500 million.

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