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[neorej]

Ghostbusters fandom on a fast track to being the most unlikeable ever.

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Though at least it gave us Wetwired.

Dan got a different trailer than us?

 

[Disgraced]

This is exactly what I was thinking when I watched the trailer, and for me that's good, since I like the Scooby-Doo movies. On the other hand, I remember those movies being cute and clever, while none of the jokes in this landed for me. Although, I did have a hearty, baffled laugh at how horribly archetypical Leslie Jones' character seems.

 

[Rimon-hanit]

Can't wait for the HitB review.

 

[C4Lukins]

Before seeing the Scooby Doo mentions, yeah that was my first thought with the ghosts. Just obvious CGI nonsense with little to no personality when it comes to the ghosts. I prefer the effects from the first two films to what I saw in the trailer.

 

[Messypandas]

So the "ooze" is regressing the buildings back to the 1970's

 

[Mr. Pointy]

I'm not really feeling it. I did chuckle at the end though.

 

[AniHawk]

So the "ooze" is regressing the buildings back to the 1970's

1976 in particular it seems.

 

[Seesaw15]

The dislikes on this are crazy

 

[openrob]

I have a problem with it, and the problem is that the tone is soo vastly different from the originals, and not in a good way.

The originals were subtle and mature (I mean as much as any film about ghost fighting can be!). This new film, it's a kids flick.

It's all guns blazing, slapstick and awkward comedy. It's too self aware and the characters seem to typecast with no real personality other than a funnel for the comedy.

I can't even think of examples properly from the originals, but them mentioning how they made ray remortgage to get them going, or the talk they have in the car about religion whilst having a smoke. Not every scene was cartoonish.

 

[Flynn77]

I have a problem with it, and the problem is that the tone is soo vastly different from the originals, and not in a good way.

The originals were subtle and mature (I mean as much as any film about ghost fighting can be!). This new film, it's a kids flick.

It's all guns blazing, slapstick and awkward comedy. It's too self aware and the characters seem to typecast with no real personality other than a funnel for the comedy.

I can't even think of examples properly from the originals, but them mentioning how they made ray remortgage to get them going, or the talk they have in the car about religion whilst having a smoke. Not every scene was cartoonish.

That dark talk and then of all things it pulls back to the twin towers :/

 

[DiipuSurotu]

So the "ooze" is regressing the buildings back to the 1970's

Gotta (try to) appeal to the old fans.

 

[NZerker12]

Ugh, that trailer was bad. It looks too silly at least the original had some darker more serious moments, but still it's the first trailer so it may look better after more is shown.

 

[MassiveNights]

The Exorcist joke was fucking abysmal.

 

[Wanda/Wander]

Everything was updated except for the token "street smart" black person trope. The gender swapped roles is great step forward, but Leslie Jones character is just...ugh. I can't support this.

 

[Discotheque]

The dislikes on this are crazy

it's a garbage trailer and it's okay to hate it but when you see dislikes being this noticeably skewed then it's solely because of an angry nerd internet response.

this is no worse than a number of crappy comedy trailers i've seen, with far less dislikes.

 

[crazyrabbits]

hen you see dislikes being this noticeably skewed then it's solely because of an angry nerd internet response.

Or people just genuinely don't like it.

 

[m3k]

The dislikes on this are crazy

Lol i was just thinking the same

 

[JasonUresti]

I think there might be SOME parity with the original crew based on their role in the crew.

Kristen Wigg - Peter Venkman
Mellssa McCarthy - Ray Stantz
Kate McKinnon - Egon Spengler
Leslie Jones - Winston Zeddemore

Their characters however are completely different, Egon wouldn't joke around like Kate's character does in the trailer and Leslie is a lot more over the top than Winston would ever be.

There does seem to be some hints that Melissa McCarthy's character is somewhat earnest and excitable like Ray though.

Kristen Wigg's character doesnt seem to be anything like Dr. Venkman so I dont think that works. Nor does Mckinnon seem very Egon like. Winston might not have been a scientist, but he wasnt a sassy black stereotype like Jones character sadly looks like at this point. The only one that seems even remotely close would be MCarthy as a Ray type personality.

For better or worse they have clearly gone with their own tone and character types. The similarities seem to end at their being four of them and they use science to bust ghosts.

 

[Blade30]

I have a problem with it, and the problem is that the tone is soo vastly different from the originals, and not in a good way.

The originals were subtle and mature (I mean as much as any film about ghost fighting can be!). This new film, it's a kids flick.

It's all guns blazing, slapstick and awkward comedy. It's too self aware and the characters seem to typecast with no real personality other than a funnel for the comedy.

I can't even think of examples properly from the originals, but them mentioning how they made ray remortgage to get them going, or the talk they have in the car about religion whilst having a smoke. Not every scene was cartoonish.

To me this trailer seems like it's your usual comedy-action film with the usual actors/actresses you see every few months but packaged as a ghostbusters film.

 

[Ampersands]

Yeah, that trailer wasn't so hot. I've only seen part of the original Ghostbusters so I don't have the burden of comparing the two but it objectively looks unfunny. I don't see why, if you have the opportunity to create a movie about hunting ghosts, you would stick to such unimaginative jokes.

 

[PaulloDEC]

Or people just genuinely don't like it.

Speaking anecdotally, people just not liking something isn't usually enough to get the dislikes higher than the likes. When that happens there's usually some kind of Angry Internet Thing™ going on.

Yeah, that trailer wasn't so hot. I've only seen part of the original Ghostbusters so I don't have the burden of comparing the two but it objectively looks unfunny. I don't see why, if you have the opportunity to create a movie about hunting ghosts, you would stick to such unimaginative jokes.

It's worth keeping in mind that trailers aim to attract as large an audience as possible, so we shouldn't be surprised when they pick out the broadest (read: dumbest) jokes in the movie to put in there.

 

[AxeMan]

This looks bad. Really bad

 

[LeonSPBR]

Bad trailer. Only cracked a smile in the end of it. Feels really bland, like a action movie with forced humor that shows up every month.

 

[daviyoung]

Hitler, duh.

I agree his performance in the Berlin Sportpalast at 1938 was somewhat lacking but between that and 1941 performance at the Reichstag he really came into his own. He also has a nice moustache so anyone calling him "the worst" is obviously objectively wrong.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Speaking anecdotally, people just not liking something isn't usually enough to get the dislikes higher than the likes. When that happens there's usually some kind of Angry Internet Thing™ going on.

I agree. I was disappointed in the trailer, but I've seen plenty of vitriol the moment it was 4 women as the leads, so this being the internet and all, of course the amount of people bother to hit the dislike button was gonna be insanely high. Persistent little cockroaches.

Watch the original, don't let this be your first taste of GB.

I wouldn't skip the sequel either.

 

[JoeBoy101]

Tried open-mind, and this trailer hurt me. Its really bad and, just on the trailer for now, doesn't seem to capture anything from the first movie.

 

[KooopaKid]

I think I really don't like McCarthy. I thought Spy was not funny at all.

 

[Otherspacing]

Well, it seems in the same level of quality of the first movie.

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I didn't like it.

 

[Klyka]

Urgh, right in the childhood.

Damn you Hollywood!

 

[wetwired]

Kristen Wigg's character doesnt seem to be anything like Dr. Venkman so I dont think that works. Nor does Mckinnon seem very Egon like. Winston might not have been a scientist, but he wasnt a sassy black stereotype like Jones character sadly looks like at this point. The only one that seems even remotely close would be MCarthy as a Ray type personality.

For better or worse they have clearly gone with their own tone and character types. The similarities seem to end at their being four of them and they use science to bust ghosts.

Yeah that's what I meant by my post, the Characters aren't the same but the roles in the crew seem similar.

Kristen Wigg - Peter Venkman - Leader of the group
Mellssa McCarthy - Ray Stantz - Earnest heart of the group
Kate McKinnon - Egon Spengler - Brains of the group
Leslie Jones - Winston Zeddemore - "everyman" of the group

 

[Fudgepuppy]

One thing that I noticed when rewatching it, is that it seems a lot more friendly in tone than the original. The original had Murray being a lovable dick to everyone and all of them messing with each other. Compare that to the "Let's go scene".

Why make it Ghostbusters if it's not Ghostbusters?

 

[wetwired]

Feig and the writer talk trailer bidness

Paul Feig: Sony marketing put together a ton of trailers. Really great job, but we kept testing them because I wanted to see what real people think. We can sit around all day and think we know what we want, but [you need to] find out what people want. And if we didn’t acknowledge those [original] movies existed, it was very confusing to people — and I think might have also made us seem a little not reverant to what we owe a great debt to. But it was tough, because we went through a million different wordings. I said it can’t play as a sequel, because I can’t support that, so what’s the way to pass the torch? And Ivan [Reitman, who directed the original], when he saw the trailer, he was really happy about it.

So the whole "30 years ago" was a reference to the MOVIE 30 years go..way to mislead everyone...and rub it in by showing old firehouse

 

[neorej]

One thing that I noticed when rewatching it, is that it seems a lot more friendly in tone than the original. The original had Murray being a lovable dick to everyone and all of them messing with each other. Compare that to the "Let's go scene".

Why make it Ghostbusters if it's not Ghostbusters?

It's so totally disconnected from the franchise, it's like starting a haute cuisine restaurant and calling it "McDonald's".

 

[Agent Gibbs]

I think there might be SOME parity with the original crew based on their role in the crew.

Kristen Wigg - Peter Venkman
Mellssa McCarthy - Ray Stantz
Kate McKinnon - Egon Spengler
Leslie Jones - Winston Zeddemore

Their characters however are completely different, Egon wouldn't joke around like Kate's character does in the trailer and Leslie is a lot more over the top than Winston would ever be.

There does seem to be some hints that Melissa McCarthy's character is somewhat earnest and excitable like Ray though.

I disagree with that i'd say its more

Kristen Wigg - Egon Spengler
Melissa McCarthy - Peter Venkman
Kate McKinnon - Ray Stantz
Leslie Jones - Winston Zeddemore

Kristen's character seemed the most straight of the bunch and arguably had the most advanced degree, more in line with Spengler
McCarthy seems the least academic and most 'dumb' of the scientists more akin to Venkman
McKinnon whilst looking like the real ghostbusters Spengler seemed more akin to how Ray was, more enthusiastic but also a brilliant scientist
Leslie's character by default is Winston, but Winston was portrayed as an everyman, with no racial sterotypes, he was just doing anything for that pay cheque - Leslie's character seems like she's straight out of the racist stereotype hand book

 

[Mr. Pointy]

I thought the comedy would be a bit more biting. This trailer just didn't click with me. It's unfortunate.

 

[Agent Gibbs]

Feig and the writer talk trailer bidness



So the whole "30 years ago" was a reference to the MOVIE 30 years go..way to mislead everyone...and rub it in by showing old firehouse

It isn't helped with Dan Akroyd on his social media stating he told us GB3 would be good!
i mean come on you are all intentionally marketing it as a sequel

 

[ZehDon]

Speaking anecdotally, people just not liking something isn't usually enough to get the dislikes higher than the likes. When that happens there's usually some kind of Angry Internet Thing™ going on...

Or, just maybe, fans of one of the most widely known and beloved comedies of all time, of which there are many, aren't happy with a trailer for a remake that feels, at best, tonally disconnected from the elements that resonated about the original films. Sure, it ain't Gods of Egypt, but it isn't all that good, either.

 

[Master_Funk]

Super disappointed that the one black character is not a smart educated person like the 3 other white women, but a 'street smart' subway attendant. And man, did that exorcist joke make me cringe.

Not looking forward to this

 

[Pyramid head]

So the "ooze" is regressing the buildings back to the 1970's

I wonder...

If this is in fact a sequel?

And not only a sequel but also a prequel?

Like these Ghostbusters run into the original crew during their university days during their jaunt through time and set them on their path?

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Spy was great but this looks....I don't know. Just a trailer I guess.

 

[AniHawk]

I wonder...

If this is in fact a sequel?

And not only a sequel but also a prequel?

Like these Ghostbusters run into the original crew during their university days during their jaunt through time and set them on their path?

or maybe they go back in time and set history on a brand new path. that's something i think is pretty fresh and interesting!

 

[the_milkybar_kid]

I wonder...

If this is in fact a sequel?

And not only a sequel but also a prequel?

Like these Ghostbusters run into the original crew during their university days during their jaunt through time and set them on their path?

I'd rather they had the dignity to leave the originals as they are and this be it's own thing. But they can't even get the reboot part right.

 

[OmnipotentO]

Looks like a straight to DVD movie but I don't get the straight up hardcore rage over this. :/

 

[breakfuss]

I chucked at the end. "THE DEVIL IS A LIARRR".

 

[Host Samurai]

I liked it from a visual perspective.

 

[Beefy]

I'm not sure it's misleading. And I understand the fondness for the past.

Maybe the film itself will be less nod and wink. But I'm not sure about that, either.

When they call it a reboot yet then have "30yrs ago" in the opening credits, that is misleading.

 

[BronsonLee]

When they call it a reboot yet then have "30yrs ago" in the opening credits, that is misleading.

Marketing tends to play real fast and loose RE: misleading people in trailers and promo materials

SEE: Iron Man 3 forever and ever

 

[kurahador]

I hope someday there will be an adaptation of Extreme Ghostbusters.
I love that series.

Marketing tends to play real fast and loose RE: misleading people in trailers and promo materials

SEE: Iron Man 3 forever and ever

Hardly the same case. Making the movie seems like a sequel when it's actually a reboot is outright lying

 

[Nightmare452]

Wow, trailer looked quite good. Looks like a fun take on Ghostbusters. Liked the characters a lot more now that I see them in action, could never imagine the roles before this. Glad the ghosts are plentiful and a bit macabre. Seems like it will hold well and a good copy of the originals. Do not know if it's a remake or 30 years after the last movie (same universe, set in the future).

 

[Bluth54]

For anyone who wants more Ghostbusters but wasn't happy with the trailer I highly recommend checking out the Total Containment and Mass Hysteria graphic novel collections. These comics are an excellent continuation of the two movies and the videogame storyline that do a great job of expanding the Ghostbusters universe while respecting the source material.