# New 'Ghostbusters' Trailer. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838 "2016-03-03T17:42:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/221 "2016-07-11T09:04:33Z")
Since it continues on from the original story I wouldn’t call it a reboot except that it has the same title as the original. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/222 "2016-07-11T10:08:10Z")
> [@JohnClay](#): > > Since it continues on from the original story It does not continue, it starts over from scratch. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been led to believe. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/223 "2016-07-11T10:24:16Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It does not continue, it starts over from scratch. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been led to believe. In the trailer there’s the Ghostbusters logo on a wall. Did the graffiti artist copy it from the original Ghostbusters or make it up himself? The new Ghostbusters have the logo on their car. If the graffiti appeared before the new Ghostbusters formed, then it means they copied the logo on their car from the graffiti. I thought the trailer was misleading saying things like “30 years ago”. I was under the impression that in the movie that also happened 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/224 "2016-07-11T11:03:39Z")
Every Paul Feig movie we have to go through this. People see the trailers, insist it doesn’t look funny and that they don’t like Melissa McCarthy. Movie opens, it’s ‘surprisingly’ good and goes on to do reasonably well. I certainly thought Spy, for example, looked like a dud based on the marketing. Turned out to be funny as hell. Maybe Feig’s brand of humor just doesn’t translate well to snippet form somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/225 "2016-07-11T12:12:18Z")
> [@Greekfreak](#): > > Already you’ve alienated 50% of your audience, who will be content to let their wives watch this one alone or take the kids instead. How is that smart? I like to think that my testicles are securely enough attached to my body that going to see a movie with a mainly-female cast won’t cause them to pop off and roll away. But that’s just me. Maybe every other man in the world except me (and Miller) lives on the edge of danger as far as that’s concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/226 "2016-07-11T12:51:51Z")
> [@Greekfreak](#): > > Already you’ve alienated 50% of your audience, who will be content to let their wives watch this one alone or take the kids instead. How is that smart? What in the world are you talking about? Why would casting four women as leads in a comedy alienate _all_ men? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/227 "2016-07-11T16:46:03Z")
Hollywood Reporter says this is a bad film… > **[‘Ghostbusters’: Film Review](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/ghostbusters-film-review-909313/)** > > Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones ain’t afraid of no ghost in this female reboot of the 1984 supernatural comedy franchise. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/228 "2016-07-11T16:48:27Z")
Hell, the _trailers_ indicates it’s going to be a bad film. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/229 "2016-07-11T18:51:21Z")
UK reviews are in. Turns out it’s [pretty good](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ghostbusters_2016/). I’m looking forward to illegally downloading it 😉 ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/230 "2016-07-11T19:56:48Z")
This is going to be one of those movies where two sides firmly plant their feet and argue for years about whether it’s good or not. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/231 "2016-07-11T22:12:33Z")
Which is why I think a lot of it has to do with the main cast being women. When it was announced that the cast was going to be all women… Mass Hysteria! Looooong before the trailer came out. Then there are people, (Like ‘The Angry Video Game Nerd’,) who had legitimate reasons why they don’t want want to see it. They want to “preserve” the first one and didn’t find the trailers all that appealing. But the hate was there before the trailer. I have plans to see it Friday. Sent from my VS986 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/232 "2016-07-11T22:18:50Z")
While we don’t have too many reviews, those that are coming in seem to vary pretty widely. Overall trend on Metacritic is 62, with some seeming to believe it’s the Second Coming and others the long-foretold dread Anti-Humor incarnate. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/233 "2016-07-12T02:35:48Z")
Because my son has gotten into Ghostbusters, I had occasion to watch Ghostbusters II for the first time in decades. It is an inferior follow up, but after all these years I’ve pretty much forgiven it for that, it seems, and I can recognize that it does have a lot of solid jokes and it advances the lore in a way that pays off in the Ghostbusters video game which basically substitutes for a third movie, capping off the saga of Ivo Shandor. As to the new movie – overall, this round up of critical responses seems to be pretty positive: > **[Here’s What Critics Have to Say About the Ghostbusters Reboot](https://slate.com/culture/2016/07/ghostbusters-review-roundup-critics-on-the-reboot.html)** > > After months of controversy, outrage, and eager anticipation, reviews of Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters remake are finally out in advance of the film’s... ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/234 "2016-07-12T03:56:08Z")
I don’t think that’s really a fair overview of the critical response. Variety, in the review quoted, thinks it’ll bomb. Richard Roeper reviewed it like it gave him cancer. About 7/10 critics really liked it, but the 30% who didn’t often hated it. I haven’t seen it and can’t say, but it seems quite polarising. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/235 "2016-07-12T10:19:42Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > I don’t think that’s really a fair overview of the critical response. Variety, in the review quoted, thinks it’ll bomb. Richard Roeper reviewed it like it gave him cancer. About 7/10 critics really liked it, but the 30% who didn’t often hated it. > > I haven’t seen it and can’t say, but it seems quite polarising. Im sure a substantial number of the reviews are politicised rubbish. The reboot will in all likelihood be ok-_ish_. Im just not yet sure whether it’s ok-ish going on decent or ok-ish going on poor. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/236 "2016-07-12T11:37:28Z")
> [@Fuzzy\_wuzzy](#): > > Im sure a substantial number of the reviews are politicised rubbish. The reboot will in all likelihood be ok-_ish_. Im just not yet sure whether it’s ok-ish going on decent or ok-ish going on poor. Ok-to-decent seems to be the verdict of most unbiased sources. Not good enough to sway the haters. Not bad enough to sink with critics. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/237 "2016-07-12T18:01:11Z")
The Ringer’s review is out: > **[I Ain’t Afraid of No Trolls](https://www.theringer.com/2016/7/12/16036422/new-ghostbusters-gender-wiig-mckinnon-e169d4fafbe)** > > The new ‘Ghostbusters’ is a silly, expensive blockbuster that barely worries about the gender controversy surrounding it. Somehow, that feels like progress. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/238 "2016-07-12T18:07:40Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > The Ringer’s review is out: > > [I Ain’t Afraid of No Trolls - The Ringer](https://theringer.com/new-ghostbusters-gender-wiig-mckinnon-e169d4fafbe#.ur24jxm35) That’s one of the worst movie reviews I’ve ever read, if it’s supposed to be a movie review. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/239 "2016-07-12T20:25:25Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > That’s one of the worst movie reviews I’ve ever read, if it’s supposed to be a movie review. I agree, all I got from it is that the author thinks she’s much cleverer than she actually is. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/240 "2016-07-12T20:37:07Z")
This is probably the fairest negative review that I’ve read so far: > **[Ghostbusters Takes the Right Idea and Makes All the Wrong Moves](https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/review-ghostbusters-never-finds-its-own-way.html)** > > The new Ghostbusters isn’t a horror, exactly. It’s just misbegotten. There are plenty of positive reviews, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838.md?page=13)