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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36191146

The promo for the new Ghostbusters film has attracted more "dislikes" than any trailer shown on the YouTube website.
At time of writing, the trailer for the comedy franchise "reboot" has more than 647,600 "dislikes", compared with about 220,800 "likes".
That puts it 18th in YouTube's list of most disliked videos - higher than any other item of non-music content.
The trailer's unusual ratio of views to dislikes suggests a concerted campaign to vote down the video.
According to the ScreenCrush website, "a certain subset of people on the internet... are teaming up to downvote it into oblivion."

Released in July, Ghostbusters sees Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and others take on a franchise previously headlined by male leads.
Its director, Paul Feig, recently told The Guardian that disliking the film because it has female stars was "just a non-starter".
Justin Bieber's Baby video is currently unassailable at the top of the YouTube rundown with 6.05 million dislikes.
Its nearest competitor, the promo for Rebecca Black's much-mocked Friday single, has just 2.05 million dislikes.
the dudebros are mobilising

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the dudebros are mobilising
Not exactly, the reason it's the most disliked trailer because:

1. It's a remake of a beloved franchise that no one wanted.
2. Fans wanted a Ghostbuster 3, which will never happen now that Ramis is dead.
3. The jokes in the trailers were unfunny and cringe-inducing.
4. The whole plot got leaked on reddit, and the scenes shown in the trailer were accurate to some of descriptions from the leak.

There's more this issue than it meets the eye, so I will provide a 2-part video that goes into full detail about the situation of the remake:



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how many people do you think really have an in-depth reason for their hatred and not just a kneejerk reaction to w-w-w-women and a less than spectacular trailer

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I'm not surprised, remakes of classic movies has always been more or less flops.
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The trailer itself wasn't that bad in my opinion. It's just that people don't want a remake, and unfortunately not everyone is happy with an all female lead.

People are just... bleh :/

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The trailer itself wasn't that bad in my opinion. It's just that people don't want a remake, and unfortunately not everyone is happy with an all female lead.

People are just... bleh :/
We've had female Ghostbusters prior to this remake (in the cartoons and comics), so it's really the former.
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We've had female Ghostbusters prior to this remake (in the cartoons and comics), so it's really the former.
Indeed, Cringe worthy and Unfunny. It's already had to reboot/remake a beloved franchise like Ghostbusters but crossing those boxes along side it pretty much guarantees a muk fest.

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woah ,,,,,, a girl???????? in a SCI FI MOVIE????????????????????????? IN MY GOOD AMERICAN PATRIARCHY!!!!!!??????????!!!!!!!!! WHO UP CLICC DISLIKE >:(((((((((((
That's definitely a big part of it unfortunately. I still think the trailer was less than stellar, so I think those who attribute it entirely to men not wanting female leads are oversimplifying.

Also 4chan probably raided the trailer for a mass dislike imo.
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Not that I'm defending the movie. It looks pretty bad. Why reboot Ghostbusters? It wouldn't work in modern day anyway.
How would it not work in modern day to be exact? If there were plans for a Ghostbusters 3 prior to the remake, then it clearly there's something about the franchise that isn't outdated. Heck, outdatedness was a major plot in the one of the new Muppets movies to counter this mindset.
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I think a huge part of the dislike is from the fact that this is another reboot of an 80's movie that was liked so much by people who saw it in the 80's. Wasn't Robocop and Total Recall also just rebooted? Looking up the general rating between the original versions of Robocop and Total Recall and comparing those to the general ratings of the reboots, the reboots all scored less than the originals.

Fans of a source material generally don't like having their favorite things touched by people who don't "understand" the material the way that the fans do, however misguided that thought is. Rarely do you get the fan that sees it as a reimagining of the source material. Mostly, the reaction is pure rage.

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We don't hate it because it has women in the lead roles. There's plenty of great movies with female leads. Plenty of badass women in movies too. We hate it because it's a reboot that nobody wanted - like most reboots - and because it looks like it will be even crappier than the Ghostbusters sequel (which is saying something).

There's no need to turn an issue of taste into a feminist debate. That's creating a problem that isn't there.
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"There's no one better at quantum physics than you!" *shot of a drab looking Kristen Wiig standing in front of a whiteboard filled with mathematics*

... aaand of course there is a sassy black woman on the team. How could there not be. Sigh.

I can see why people dislike the trailer. It even starts off with that familiar over-dramatic sequence of aerial shots, punctuated with redundant text in between. I would reserve judgement on the actual movie until I see it though. I generally enjoy Wiig and McCarthy, so it might still be good.
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We don't hate it because it has women in the lead roles. There's plenty of great movies with female leads. Plenty of badass women in movies too. We hate it because it's a reboot that nobody wanted - like most reboots - and because it looks like it will be even crappier than the Ghostbusters sequel (which is saying something).

There's no need to turn an issue of taste into a feminist debate. That's creating a problem that isn't there.
Alien and Aliens are prime examples of great movies with female leads, Seriously what more could you want from a badass women then fighting an Xenomorph Queen in a Power Loader. Going back to why people hate the trailer, I have to agree with anyone one of pie's quotes about people not wanting reboots. Reboots are most of the time horrible sure you get an occasional good reboot like Golden Eye, Casino Royale, Gamera Guardian of the Unvierse, Amazing Spider and Batman Begins but most of the time they really are just horrible. Nothing in the trailer made me laugh and there was quite a few moments that actually got me to cringe. The one and only good thing about this movie is that they will probably put the first movie on TV a week before this comes out.

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I read the title as "Mythbusters" and I was so heartbroken. :c

The trailer was really just "meh". It wasn't all that good. And when people who love Ghostbusters see a trailer you would only rewatch to scoff at more, they press dislike. Besides, Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig are both hilarious people and are very well suited to be in a Ghostbusters movie.

I guess we'll have to wait and see but right now, it's not looking so good.
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As has been previously said, the problem isn't that the cast in this movie is all female. Ghostbusters could potentially work great with a female cast. The problem is that this movie feels like another classic movie series that is getting a modern reboot solely because those in charge know that reboots, even lackluster reboots, are great ways to get people to give them their money.

Also:
I read the title as "Mythbusters" and I was so heartbroken. :c
I wish we were getting a Mythbusters reboot. But maybe its just too soon.

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James Rolfe, better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd, isn't going to review the Ghostbusters remake, because he's not planning to watch it at all. It's really hilarious how SJWs are calling him "sexist" or "misogynist," even though not once has he said anything bad about the female ghostbusters in his video.

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Lets necro revive an issue, for your birds;



James somehow knows that the movie is going to be bad for his tastes, but he has some very level headed thoughts about it. He doesn't slam on anything harshly, heck, he doesn't even say anything about the use of the all female cast, and was even level headed enough to say that it may actually come out good. He does say "how the f**k did all of what to that" but again in a more level headed manner as what you'd expect coming from a hardcore Ghostbusters fan.

Now i'm not sharing this because I'm force feeding AVGN/Cinemassacre/James Rolfe on this thread, but James himself has some very interesting points to say in his video about why he isn't going to watch Ghostbusters to review it. And he has a pretty interesting point as well which is as simple as breathing.

BUT we have individuals likes this guy:
https://twitter.com/pattonoswalt/status/732634606982160388

So he suddenly tries to attack James (AVGN/Cinemassacre) because of his refusal to see the movie?

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I saw the trailer. I like two of the main actresses (McCarthy and Wiig, especially Wiig), I don't know the two other ones. I wasn't impressed by the quality of the jokes though. I might see it once it comes out on Blu-ray or comes to Netflix or something, but I won't get my hopes up.

I think that, judging by how the people behind the movie responded to the negative reactions to the trailer (saying that the negative reception is because of the all-female cast, period) it kinda becomes obvious that they are flat-out using the angry feminist crowd for their marketing.

I'll just leave MundaneMatt's reaction to James' video here:

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The second trailer is out. And based on that and the merchandise:

Spoiler:
The movie's final boss is the ghost from the series' logo. I think this symbolizes Sony killing off what's left of the franchise's dignity.

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I've heard of people calling some reboots terrible (such as Teen Titans Go! and more recently, the new Powerpuff Girls) but this one is just awful, to the point I find this Ghostbusters reboot the worst reboot ever.
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If these trailers are meant to advertise the movie, they've failed badly at least in my view. I didn't laugh at all watching it and the special effects look cheap as hell. It's a shame, I would be on board with a female ghostbusters movie, but it's obvious that the people who made it just used it as a marketing gimmick to rile up controversy and make out anyone criticising the movie as sexist. If anything the creators of the movie are the sexist ones as they probably think that movies with female-only protagonists don't need to have any effort put into them.