### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/1 "2016-03-03T17:42:20Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ugHP-yZXw)
Haters are going to hate.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/2 "2016-03-03T17:47:20Z")
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The first Ghostbusters wasn’t great, IMO. Remaking it with the original team as women instead of men doesn’t compel me. I’ll pass.
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### Author:  [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/3 "2016-03-03T17:52:02Z")
The effects look good.
The walking stereotype black woman gives me pause. Winston was a great addition to the team - I have no idea what girl-Winston brings.
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### Author:  [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/4 "2016-03-03T17:56:21Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#):
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> The effects look good.
>
> The walking stereotype black woman gives me pause. Winston was a great addition to the team - I have no idea what girl-Winston brings.
Apparently she knows New York and has a car.
😃
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/5 "2016-03-03T18:01:36Z")
Looks funny. Apparently Leslie Jones is funny somewhere but I haven’t seen it myself. Her schtick on SNL is that she’s a loud black woman and that seems to be what she’s doing here too. Maybe they can give her a little nuance. I like the other three leads though and their interactions look funny here.
I do wish that they would recognize the earlier movie instead of making this a “reboot.”
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### Author:  [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/6 "2016-03-03T18:05:58Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#):
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> The effects look good.
>
> The walking stereotype black woman gives me pause. Winston was a great addition to the team - I have no idea what girl-Winston brings.
Sass.
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### Author:  [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/7 "2016-03-03T18:13:47Z")
Is this supposed to be a _remake_ of the original? I thought it was a new film, but the plot seems to be essentially the same as the original movie. Am I missing something?
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### Author:  [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/8 "2016-03-03T18:13:51Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#):
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> Looks funny. Apparently Leslie Jones is funny somewhere but I haven’t seen it myself. Her schtick on SNL is that she’s a loud black woman and that seems to be what she’s doing here too. Maybe they can give her a little nuance. I like the other three leads though and their interactions look funny here.
>
> I do wish that they would recognize the earlier movie instead of making this a “reboot.”
Well, according to IMDb, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts all are in the new movie.
[IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/)
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### Author:  [@Reluctant\_A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reluctant_A)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/9 "2016-03-03T18:15:31Z")
Based on that trailer, it seems at least a hundred times more likely that I would enjoy that than I did the original.
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### Author:  [@Abner\_Ravenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abner_Ravenwood)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/10 "2016-03-03T18:16:02Z")
> [@Tithonus](#):
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> Is this supposed to be a _remake_ of the original? I thought it was a new film, but the plot seems to be essentially the same as the original movie. Am I missing something?
If I were to guess, I’d say that it’s a soft reboot/sequel.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/11 "2016-03-03T18:16:32Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#):
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> The effects look good.
>
> The walking stereotype black woman gives me pause. Winston was a great addition to the team - I have no idea what girl-Winston brings.
Tyler Perry fans?
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### Author:  [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/12 "2016-03-03T18:18:44Z")
Well, what _did_ Winston bring? He was just a random dude who walked in looking for a job. Comic relief, “common sense,” street smarts, or whatever. Looks like the same character.
Though Ernie did it well without being a gigantic overplayed racial stereotype. His performance is, in my opinion, even more amazing knowing how [massively disappointed he was at last minute changes to the character](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/11/05/ghostbusters-ernie-hudson). Winston was supposed to be much more, and a badass with specific skills to bring. He handled the changes really well, and the movie still works and people love his character. The actress in this trailer looks like she’s just channeling every other single “sassy black lady” anybody’s ever seen in every dumb comedy ever.
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/13 "2016-03-03T18:27:57Z")
> [@Abner\_Ravenwood](#):
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> Well, according to IMDb, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts all are in the new movie.
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> [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289401/)
Interesting.
Going by Io9 here but they say Paul Feig is calling it a reboot:
[http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-new-ghostbusters-trailer-is-here-and-everything-lo-1762501978](http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-new-ghostbusters-trailer-is-here-and-everything-lo-1762501978)
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/14 "2016-03-03T19:31:08Z")
> [@troub](#):
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> Well, what _did_ Winston bring? He was just a random dude who walked in looking for a job. Comic relief, “common sense,” street smarts, or whatever. Looks like the same character.
No, Winston was not the comic relief. He was _us_. He was proof that technology empowers us all, not just an intellectual elite of [del]wizards[/del]scientists.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/15 "2016-03-03T19:35:48Z")
I have no particular emotional attachment to the original movie - I think I only ever saw it once, on home video, and was mostly bored by it.
I did, however, love _The Real Ghostbusters_ animated series as well as Ghostbusters 2.
I see nothing in this trailer that I actively dislike and I may very well end up seeing it, but probably not until it comes out on Blu-Ray.
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### Author:  [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/16 "2016-03-03T19:57:52Z")
I’ve liked Paul Feig since _Freaks and Geeks_, and I’ve been keeping an open mind about this.
It looks fucking awful.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/17 "2016-03-03T19:59:23Z")
It never occurred to me that the diversity of opinion on Ghostbusters could encompass people who disliked the original, but liked Ghostbusters 2. It boggles.
Ghostbusters has not aged well, but it’s still pretty cool, pretty funny. I had heard that Winston Zedimore was originally written for Eddie Murphy. I agree that he served as a voice of normalcy in the crazy world of the mad scientists. But I wish we’d gotten more of him and less of spectral blow jobs.
The trailer looks like something I’d like to watch, though clearly signaling things I might dislike. I prefer to be pleasantly surprised and gratefully forewarned. As much as the new crew seems even goofier than the old crew, we see signs that like the old crew they get an opportunity to rise to coolness now and then. I have high hopes.
The mention of the old Ghostbusters made it sound like it was going to be a sequel, but the rest of the trailer seemed to be a reboot. They should make that clear. Also, it wasn’t four scientists last time, it was three. Well… two?
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/18 "2016-03-03T20:26:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#):
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> It never occurred to me that the diversity of opinion on Ghostbusters could encompass people who disliked the original, but liked Ghostbusters 2. It boggles.
They bring the Statue of Liberty to life and pilot it through the city with an NES Advantage joystick.
How can someone of my generation _not_ love that? 😃
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### Author:  [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/19 "2016-03-03T21:23:36Z")
> [@Tithonus](#):
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> Is this supposed to be a _remake_ of the original? I thought it was a new film, but the plot seems to be essentially the same as the original movie. Am I missing something?
I have been so excited about this movie coming out… until I saw the trailer.
It looks AWFUL. Where’s the smart humor? It looks looks like they’re making a parody of the original film. Blechh
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### Author:  [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/20 "2016-03-03T21:33:59Z")
> [@Grumman](#):
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> No, Winston was not the comic relief. He was _us_. He was proof that technology empowers us all, not just an intellectual elite of [del]wizards[/del]scientists.
Yeah, comic relief was probably not exactly what I wanted to use there; I think comic relief sprung to mind, though, because I guess I kind of associate him with a bunch of one-liners. But as the “normal” guy, he was more of the straightman, but that has its own comic aspects when the whole premise and other characters are so goofy.
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