Landis was a keynote speaker at a film festival I was working at, and afterwords he was like "drinks on me" for the staff so I turned out talking to him, saying something to the effect of "why don't you just skip to ghostbusters 4 instead of deal with the third one? There's like so many cool stories" He just laughed like "I didn't do that one." We played pinball. Strangely enough, Harold Ramis was a keynote speaker like 2 years later and I told him the story and he said that Landis told him what I said. Ramis didn't buy us drinks though.
Last year I saw Ghostbusters & The Blues Brothers on the same day, introduced by Ivan Reitman (who didn't say much) & John Landis (who I think would have gone on talking forever if nobody stopped him).
Yeah, when you just view things like that in a vacuum you don't want to make too many judgements about the mindset of the person at the helm, a bad decision, an accident, they probably don't deserve the guilt you're projecting and for it to be attached to them for all time, it could have been anyone in that situation maybe... Then you broaden your view and, no, Landis is just a terrible fucking person.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm rooting for the Japs!
What's the deal with Gandhi? He was really only in that one scene, but he seemed like a really interesting character. I tried looking him up once, but I couldn't find any biographical information besides a few general notes about where he was stationed.
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