Actor, director, comedian and Ghostbuster, Harold Ramis, died at the age of 69 today. We asked our community at large to share with us some of their favorite movies, memories and moments that Ramis was a part of.
@IGN "I collect spores, molds and fungus"
— Justinalynn (@kristinaj2010) February 24, 2014
@IGN "I met her on a Monday and my heart stood still Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron" #STRIPES
— Zero (@Zerocool_62) February 24, 2014
@IGN sorry venkman i am terrified beyond all capacity for rational thought
— Derick Schroeppel (@schroepnuts) February 24, 2014
@IGN Caddyshack and Ghostbusters of course!
— Jorge Poveda (@jorpoveda) February 24, 2014
@IGN "Don't cross the streams." pic.twitter.com/Kd2DeGQtfZ
— Daniel Krupa (@Krupa) February 24, 2014
@IGN: I once called into the local news to talk to him about Ghostbusters 3. He kept calling @dan_aykroyd "Danny." Made me love him more.
— Greg Miller (@GameOverGreggy) February 24, 2014
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R.I.P to this guy right here.!. Harold Ramis will be missed. He was such a good actor in Ghostbusters!! @igndotcom #IGNRemembers #HaroldRamis #RIP #Ghostbusters
BahamutXXXX Ghostbusters. The first is one of my all-time favorites. I'm actually pretty upset over his death.
Lost_In_Translation He was one of the best comedic writers of all time, and made so many great 80s and 90s films. Caddyshack, Animal House, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Stripes. What an amazing career. His loss is truly huge, and he will be missed terribly.
Stylobean National Lampoon's Vacation having been the only movie of Ramis's I'd seen (besides seeing him act in Ghostbusters), I watched both Caddyshack and Groundhog Day for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Caddyshack is definitely the work of a first-time director and it isn't a masterpiece, but there were some big laughs there. Groundhog Day, though, is a legitimately great and well-directed movie. It pains me that Year One (2009) was his directorial swan song, because I really believe we might have seen some more great stuff from him in the future—not least a possible reprisal of his role in Ghostbusters III.
LeCambrioleur I've always maintained that Harold Ramis remains one of the most underrated comedic directors of all time. For a man to have made a film as influential to modern comedy as Ghostbusters is incredible; for him to continue that trend with the sublime Groundhog Day and Caddyshack by way of National Lampoon's Vacation brackets him as not only a visionary, but someone who created film that has relevance today through its inspiration to contemporary film and in the way his films have refused to age.
However, if there's a distinct moment that I will forever attribute to the man, it's one of his later films, Analyze This. Yes, it wasn't his most complete film, but it still had some of the nuances that had graced his filmography beforehand. It would be one of the earliest comedies that I would see and had a distinct impact, not just in attuning my Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal radar, but in the techniques that I would critique other similar films by.
What are your favorite memories of Harold Ramis? Share with us down below.
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