Johnny Simmons

I don't think I need to give a background of Ghost's plot... and this isn't a review per se anyways. I just wanted to rant about some of my issues with the movie...and the things I liked. And yes, there were things I liked.

One of my biggest issues with the movie is completely unrelated to the actual film. Its classification. How on earth is Ghost a comedy? Ask the Golden Globes. Maybe they have the answer. Because that's the category they put it in. Moving on though, to the Oscars. Ghost earned five nominations. We all know about Whoopi's famous win, and actually I don't have that much of a problem with it in anymore. In my head, the Oscar is Annette Bening's, but I digress. Ghost won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Firstly, I don't think it even deserves to be up for nomination, muchless be the winner. In retrospect it seems kind of ridiculous. I tend to equate Ghost's screenplay with Pretty Woman. But I rather Pretty Woman [and its screenplay for that matter] because at least it knows it's not serious or realistic. Pretty Woman knows it's not a masterpiece and never will be. Ghost on the other hand - not such a smart cookie.

If I'm so annoyed with the screenplay nod, imagine how I feel about the Picture nomination. Over The Grifters, Reversal of Fortune, Dick Tracy, Postcards From the Edge, Green Card, Avalon, Alice and a lot of other stuff. Come on...come on...

I've always been a swim against the tide kind of person, so of course I wanted Demi Moore to end up with Tony Goldwyn. At first I thought the ghost would help him turn good or something, and then afterwards I just didn't care and hoped it would turn into slasher. Sorry. But I thought Tony was a way better actor that Mr. Swayze. I mean Tony Goldwyn did some good acting. But nobody cared. Actually, other than Whoopi, the acting was not very good. Demi was not too bad, and neither was Vincent Schiavelli [the subway ghost] but it was all pretty light stuff.

Ghost is just too simplistic for me...but it's light and not clunky. And Whoopi Goldberg is hilarious, when the script calls for it. Seeing that she wasn't the main part of the film, I don't think her sporadic bursts of hilarity warranted a comedy classification for the film. But what do I know? Obviously not as much as the members of the Foreign Press Association.

And would you look at that. There isn't much I like about Ghost after all. Oh well. I've changed my mind, it's probably not even in my 500. Tough.

But what do you think of Ghost? Comedy? Drama? dramedy? Masterpiece? Crap? You Decide.