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Ghostbusters Trailer is most disliked film trailer in YouTube history

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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/02/ghostbusters-trailer-most-disliked-in-youtube-history

With more than 600,000 thumbs-down votes, the promo for Paul Feig’s reboot becomes the first piece of film content to make the streaming channel’s 100 least-liked list
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Since then, the hating has not abated, and the first trailer (a second one appeared to address the controversy around the film’s perceived misogyny and racism) has now racked up more than half a million “thumbs down” votes on YouTube. This is not only more than any other trailer: it means the two-and-a-half minute ad earns a place on the streaming channel’s list of the 100 least-liked pieces of content.
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“The haters on our trailer were very proud of the fact they had racked up 400,000 [currently 600,000] dislikes on YouTube versus 200,000 likes. But [given the number of views] that’s not a majority by anybody standards. Some of it is that people don’t want an old property touched – I’m sympathetic to that. But the ones who are hating it because it’s about women? That’s just a non-starter.”
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What do you think, GAF? Many in the commenters pointed out that the director is dangerously veering into "You're criticizing my film? You're a misogynist then." territory. This doesn't bode well for the movie, methinks.
 
I think a lot of that is the sheep mentality we see more and more these days, people hating just because they feel like they have to.
 
A lot of people have vested interest in watching this reboot fail so this doesn't surprise me. Say what you want about how shoddy that trailers was (I would agree with you) but people marked it as shit the moment the casting was announced.
 
I think Star Trek Beyond Driftopia deserves this more.
 
activatethesmile said:
What do you think, GAF? Many in the commenters pointed out that the director is dangerously veering into "You're criticizing my film? You're a misogynist then." territory. This doesn't bode well for the movie, methinks.
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Ever been to YouTube? Without a doubt the vidoe is littered with mysogenistic shit. Hr even says that there are those who don't like what is done to an IP they love, which is cool with him. What he isn't liking is the hate on women, which is real. You have seen what happened with the recent Star Wars. And a Ghostbusters where all the characters that were formerly male are now female? This is rustling some jimmies.

Personally I think it's a mix of both, with people who just jumped on the hate hype train.

Dmax3901 said:
I haven't been following this, is it because they're rebooting an old franchise or because they're women?
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Yes.
 
Dmax3901 said:
I haven't been following this, is it because they're rebooting an old franchise or because they're women?
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It does look bad and unfunny, and most movie commenters are saying this.

The worry is that it's also hated for reboot/women hate.
 
Dmax3901 said:
I haven't been following this, is it because they're rebooting an old franchise or because they're women?
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Honestly you have a bit of both, but it also looks terrible.

The problem is that this could get a 0% on RT and people will blame misogyny instead of admitting that it's a shitty film.

And it's a shame, because they actually have a great cast, the writing is just...absolutely dreadful.
 
DeathyBoy said:
Nonsense. If it was actually funny, it'd get a lot of counter likes.
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I'm trying to parse your post and I don't really get how you disagree with me.

It looks bad. It looks bad even in a world where reboots/misogyny doesn't exist.
 
a lot of that is because of mysoginy, no doubt.
but let's be honest here, it certainly doesn't help that the movie really doesn't look any good
 
I don't think it looks all that good tbh. But I kinda want it to do well in spite of the butthurt dudes being like "ewwwww women!"
 
I think it's a bit naive to assume that a legitimate dislike of the trailer is the prime reason why it the most disliked film trailer on YouTube. Surely enough people simply don't like the movie according to its trailers, but the number of people who are just mad that it is a reboot of their childhood or that it stars women (or both) is damn well necessary to achieve this kind of notoriety.
 
I don't really buy the "it just looks bad/unfunny" argument. This isn't the first trailer to drop on youtube that looked bad/unfunny. The point of the article is the number of dislikes is completely unprecedented for trailers. What are the unique things about this movie and its trailers that have led to such a high number of dislikes?
 
echoshifting said:
I don't really buy the "it just looks bad/unfunny" argument. This isn't the first trailer to drop on youtube that looked bad/unfunny. The point of the article is the number of dislikes is completely unprecedented for trailers. What are the unique things about this movie and its trailers that have led to such a high number of dislikes?
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A beloved franchise from the 80s that is now being rebooted and entirely unfunny.
 
If this is a commercial success or a flop people will use it as validation either way.

The stakes are high now.

Success - it was an irrelevant vocal minority of trolls on the net. They don't affect sales, they have no power.

Failure - told you. *Pats on back all around.*

If it does "average", no one will know for sure if the pre-release dislike factored into it. Did it influence it a-lot/little/none? The "debate" will be forgotten and non-OT threads won't go past 5 pages.
 
Just doesn't look promising, if the entire cast were a bunch of dudebros itd still look just as unappealing to me.

But who knows. Maybe it ends up actually being decent, I've been burned enough times to where I'm less likely to base everything on a trailer.
 
Hopefully this isn't a sign that if the movie comes out and is shit, people will just blame misogyny. I mean I'm sure this plays a part in it but I can already tell people defending any shortcomings with accusations of sexism, and that doesn't help anyone.
 
It's a legitimately terrible trailer. The name Ghosbusters is gonna drawn in more views than other movie trailers also.
I'm sure some people hate it solely based on the fact that they are all women too.
 
It wasnt that bad.
And if people are hating on it just because it has women in lead now, then fuck off!
 
People who like the film are scared to show it, people who dislike it are loud, and most just want to fit in with the loud voice for fear of being rejected from the herd.
 
echoshifting said:
I don't really buy the "it just looks bad/unfunny" argument. This isn't the first trailer to drop on youtube that looked bad/unfunny. The point of the article is the number of dislikes is completely unprecedented for trailers. What are the unique things about this movie and its trailers that have led to such a high number of dislikes?
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The way in which it starts with this mythic nostalgia element and then devolves into "The Fatties Fart 2"-level stupidity means that I think this a poor metric for determining societal misogyny.

I think misogyny is in the mix, no doubt. But I also think this trailer was uniquely eningeered to get millions of geeks and nostalgic casuals on the end of their seat, and then vomit goofball jokes into their face. It's like it was calculated to get masses of people to run for the dislike button.

It's not so different from the nostalgia laden The Force Awakens or Independence Day: Resurgence trailers, tapping into deep societal nostalgia... except if it turned into a low-brow comedy halfway through. I think people inherently hate that bait and switch, and I think Hollywood learned something from this experience about how a trailer tapping into nostalgia can backfire.
 
I'll dislike it just for funsies.

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I find it funny when people say this film will ruin Ghostbusters, yet Ghostbusters II was nothing special compared to the first film, even as a 10 year old in 1990 I didn't think it was that great.
 
devilhawk said:
I'll add a 4th, the hate snowball.

People click dislike just to see how may dislikes it can get.
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Sure. Especially after this article came out a couple days ago. I bet more people made a point to dislike it.
 
To be honest I was really excited when it was announced it was an All-Female cast, but I felt the trailer's joke felt a bit flat. I got a chuckle out of only two scenes, and one of them was the secretary who is the guy that plays Thor.

I REALLY hope is good, I want it to be good, but the trailer is just... really bad.
 
TatteredHat said:
Claiming that people hate it because of the female casting is a cop-out.
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I think a lot of people don't want to admit that if they were an adult back when Ghostbusters came out originally they would have recognised just how corny it was like they are now with this reboot.
 
DerZuhälter;202503271 said:
What? No. I like the direction Justin Lin took. Finally some realism in the next Fast & Furious.
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I can't wait until the Enterprise slingshots around the sun to go back in time and resurrect Han.
 
I disliked it because of Leslie Jones. Her range is as one dimensional as a drag race track. I feel bad for Kate McKinnon though. I like her characters and am sad she was dragged into this project
 
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