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Ghostbusters (2016) Trailer #1 (Feig, Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon, Jones)

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Tremis said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/48wz52/uabrahamashley_fixed_the_ghostbusters_trailer/d0ndp7n

Great reddit post summarizing why most people, myself included, aren't especially pumped for this one. Touches on all the major points. Worth a read.
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1 was fine. 2 and 3 might have had points but they got buried in a bunch of either horrible misconceptions or a worse cast list than what he's trying to replace. Didn't bother reading all of 4. He had like maybe 1 or 2 good points that maybe constitute 15% of the total post so I'm not sure it's a great post.
 
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xsarien said:
I'm really hyped. It pushed a lot of RGB-ish buttons for me, and I'm absolutely, positively cool with that.

And another vote for this being McKinnon's movie.



The first movie had two people turn into demonic dogs and climaxed with a walking marshmallow mascot; the second one, via *very* generous assumptions about the ability of Ghostbusters fans to suspend disbelief, let Ray control the Statue of Liberty with an NES Advantage as if she were a Mech.

If you're arguing that a little Exorcist-ish head-spinning is somehow thumbing its nose at the first two movies and is too absurd, I think you need to find a better example.
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I have to agree that it did stand out as a bit hard to swallow in the trailer. The only times people have been possessed in the series they either turn into something else entirely, or they have their hair straight up (happens to Peter in one of the best episodes of the cartoon series), can float, having glowing eyes, etc.

I think that scene's believably will depend on the context and where it goes before and afterwards, so hopefully it doesn't come off like that.
 
Dai101 said:
I hope her character is like Prof. Farnswhorth type of i don't give a fuck.
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The trailer has a clip of her showing off a ghost trap, and it's modeled on a God damned bear trap!

That's clearly the mind of someone who's not just entirely bought into the completely weird circumstances she's put into, but is actively having fun with it. :)
 
Finally watched the trailer, tbh I hate Melissa McCarthy so I expected to hate it.

And I did Hate it. It just looked so generic, like the kind of comedy Will Ferrel makes 10 of each year.
 
Dr Prob said:
I mean, it's nice that we're having fun with that reddit post, but we've had ridiculous shit right here on GAF as well. Remember that whole episode where actors from superhero films visiting sick kids was awesome and proved that they were good dudes, while this cast doing the same only proved that they were a bunch of cynical demons using the kids in order to prop up their evil childhood-ruining feminist movie of doom? I do! It's unfortunate, but that bullshit ingredient was mixed into the bowl a long time ago along with general weariness and nostalgia and now we're all in the shit soup, man.
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Hell this thread alone saw people crawling over each other to shit on a young woman's reddit post talking about how excited she is about these women and this movie, and that she feels empowered by it.

It was pathetic.
 
xsarien said:
The trailer has a clip of her showing off a ghost trap, and it's modeled on a God damned bear trap!

That's clearly the mind of someone who's not just entirely bought into the completely weird circumstances she's put into, but is actively having fun with it. :)
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!
 
TK-421 said:
This fan re-cut of the trailer is a bit more enjoyable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDXpOX0Cp0
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Yeah came here to see if this was posted. The official trailer is just not good, it's like weirdly trying to play it up like its the return of something we've all been waiting for, which isn't really true. What we want is a fun movie and the trailer should focus on that.

Gozer the Gozerian said:
Hopefully the antagonist is better than some crusty medieval ass old painting like whatshisface
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If you consider casting a spoiler:
Neil Casey I think was cast as the villain, or A villian. If you don't know him, check out Other Space on Yahoo, he's like McKinnon level funny and dude is bound to blow up eventually if not from this movie.
 
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I don't know.
 
Sooooo, hate fueled the spooks in 2. Is the main hook gonna be nostalgia based for this? Like that is all that the city(internet) is spitting out and people are getting tired off it and it starts to wake the dead to transform everything into a (70s)(better) time, or the dead take back the planet of their time.
 
Gozer the Gozerian said:
Hopefully the antagonist is better than some crusty medieval ass old painting like whatshisface
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I see wut you did thar.

RE: Reddit post, I didn't like the persons opinion but was like "OK, ok, I guess those are semi-valid points, but whatever." until I got to this gem -

What REALLY annoys me about this film is that Sony have overblown the 'misogyny' angle and exploited it. Any hate this film gets is just deflected as 'Oh its just sexist ramblings. If you hate this film you are sexist' ...and the sad thing is a small but very vocal minority of misguided SJWs have jumped on that.
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You say "SJWs" and I immediately nope. Everything you've said to that point and everything you say after that point becomes moot because I automatically recognize you as someone who's going to always take the opposite view of anything that might even be remotely empowering to women.

Damnit women, get back in the kitchen, take off those high-fucking-heels, let me pop some of my seed into you and who do you think you are, telling me no?
 
excelsiorlef said:
I mean it's not a theory.

Every video about GB 2016 has disproportionate dislikes.

It's a continuation of a pre-existing phenomenon.
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Organized though? People are getting marching orders (in the 100's of thousands) to downvote the videos? All because of what?

I know you like the trailer, nothing wrong with that ( I love shitty movies that others hate), but come on. There are AMPLE reasons to downvote the trailer that doesn't involve sexism. Even if you don't want to believe it.

*edit* I went looking around youtube for proof that "every video" has disproportionate dislikes. There are a TON of videos that have more positive than negative. And the majority of the massive downvoting exists on the new trailer from different channels.
 
stufte said:
LOL Love this conspiracy theory!
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You jokin', right? This shit has been happening for quite a while yet.

stufte said:
Organized though? People are getting marching orders (in the 100's of thousands) to downvote the videos? All because of what?

I know you like the trailer, nothing wrong with that ( I love shitty movies that others hate), but come on. There are AMPLE reasons to downvote the trailer that doesn't involve sexism. Even if you don't want to believe it.
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So wait, are you suggesting that there cannot be an organized movement against the film because some people legitimately don't like it?
 
stufte said:
Organized though? People are getting marching orders (in the 100's of thousands) to downvote the videos? All because of what?

I know you like the trailer, nothing wrong with that ( I love shitty movies that others hate), but come on. There are AMPLE reasons to downvote the trailer that doesn't involve sexism. Even if you don't want to believe it.
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Did I say everyone?

Trailer gets shared around reddit especially the toxic parts.

That's all it takes.

This has happened with every GB 2016 trailer.

In contrast Gods of Egypt another movie with a horrible trailer and controversy attached has 52k up to 12k down approx.

So unless you think GB 2016 is extra special bad. Yes a major reason are the two built in will hate it no matter what camps. The sexists and the GB puritanicals.

Not part of those groups?

Congrats not talking about you.
 
NimbusD said:
Yeah came here to see if this was posted. The official trailer is just not good, it's like weirdly trying to play it up like its the return of something we've all been waiting for, which isn't really true. What we want is a fun movie and the trailer should focus on that.



If you consider casting a spoiler:
Neil Casey I think was cast as the villain, or A villian. If you don't know him, check out Other Space on Yahoo, he's like McKinnon level funny and dude is bound to blow up eventually if not from this movie.
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The casting spoilers character has been spoiled by toys, if you want to see what he looks like.

With no context, I'm not a fan of the direction, but I'm hoping that either they particular ghost is not the "main villain" or the execution is just way better than the design.
 
I'm mostly optimistic about this (and/or don't care, since Ghostbusters 2 already sucked enough that there's hardly a legacy to live up to), but one thing that irks me about this trailer is that they point out that the car is a hearse.

I always found it charming that they never explicitly pointed that out in the original.
 
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