# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/21 "2016-03-03T21:35:27Z")
Yeah…that was bad. Not battle goat bad but it’s up there. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/22 "2016-03-03T22:22:00Z")
Well, they got the original Ghostbusters wrong in the first 15 seconds of the trailer: “30 years ago…four scientists saved New York.” Uh, no three scientists and a guy they hired saved New York. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/23 "2016-03-03T22:23:18Z")
Winston was a scientist! If there’s a paycheck, he’d be anything you want! ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/24 "2016-03-03T22:48:43Z")
At least with these new set of characters we won’t have to worry about them crossing the streams. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/25 "2016-03-03T23:03:50Z")
That was a solid…meh. I’ll wait until it comes out on TV and probably end up watching something else anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/26 "2016-03-03T23:03:55Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > At least with these new set of characters we won’t have to worry about them crossing the streams. Oh but imagine what it would look like if they tried! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/27 "2016-03-03T23:21:11Z")
Seeing this shit will turn you WHITE! IMDB has the original cast, so I’m guessing it’s a “soft reboot”. Sort of like X-Men. Same exact story told in the same universe, but with a different set of actors. Other than that, it basically looks like: Leslie Jones playing a mad black lady again Melissa McCarthy playing a bumbling socially awkward fat lady again Kristen Wiig playing a mousy skinny lady again Kate McKinnon playing a crazy white lady again ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/28 "2016-03-03T23:34:23Z")
I love Leslie Jones so I’m looking forward to this. Maybe I’m a fan of that loud angry black woman shtick. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/29 "2016-03-03T23:39:13Z")
One of them said something about someone creating a device that amplifies the paranormal. It there is a human villain that would definitely suck :(. I agree that it doesn’t look promising. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/30 "2016-03-03T23:57:42Z")
> [@Abner\_Ravenwood](#): > > If I were to guess, I’d say that it’s a soft reboot/sequel. The trailer certainly implies it’s set in the same continuity as the original films, but trailers are made by marketing people not anyone who actually made the film. Either way I’m still looking forward to it. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/31 "2016-03-04T00:09:46Z")
Leslie Jones was the only thing I thought worth watching there. It’ll do okay at the box office I think, I’ll watch it eventually. It could be a lot better than the trailer indicates, more likely it could be a lot better than it is. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/32 "2016-03-04T00:20:48Z")
It looks… okay? I guess? Nothing about it made me think “I want to drive somewhere and pay ten bucks to watch this”. Nothing made me actively hostile towards it either so I guess I’ll see it when it’s on FX ten times a day. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/33 "2016-03-04T02:22:59Z")
I’m fine that they made them all women, I really am, but that trailer looked like the movie I have already seen dozens of times except not funny. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/34 "2016-03-04T02:56:45Z")
I was willing to give this reboot an honest chance, even though the original is one of the very few “perfect” films that needs no reboot… …until I watched the trailer… Sorry, not interested at all now, sure, the ghost effects are fancier now and “slicker” but the movie seems to be missing the “heart” and warmth of the original, the original cast had chemistry and played off each other well, the reboot? Mostly a bunch of unpleasant people mugging at the camera, making bad jokes and screaming… Oh, wait, that’s just NYC… If I want to experience a new Ghostbusters, I’ll just boot up the old Xbox 360 GB game instead. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/35 "2016-03-04T06:21:05Z")
Maybe the whole bunch of negative comments here left my expectations so low, practically anything in the trailer would surprise me nicely, but it was… fine? Maybe it gives a bit too much away of the possession scene, but it looks nice, I like the actors and, more importantly, it’s got Slimer- what’s not to love? ---
**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:** [March 4, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/36 "2016-03-04T07:55:55Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I’m fine that they made them all women, I really am, but that trailer looked like the movie I have already seen dozens of times except not funny. This is me. If it was a proper sequel, and maybe written by someone other than Paul Feig, I wouldn’t care who was in the team, as long as it was canonical and fun. This is clearly neither. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/37 "2016-03-04T11:59:50Z")
There were no Bill Murray “mic drop” lines. The whole architecture of the original was structured around the pillars of his lines. If you need to be reminded of them, you’re in the wrong thread!! 😉 I had assumed that Melissa McCarthy was the Murray type, but nothing she said came close. She’s capable, but the material wasn’t there. If they don’t bring that kind of Funny, forget it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/38 "2016-03-04T13:54:19Z")
I did not notice a Mrs. Stay Puft. Count me as disappointed. ---
**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:** [March 4, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/39 "2016-03-04T13:59:26Z")
There also seems to be no Sigourney Weaver or Rick Moranis counterparts. I haven’t heard of any, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838/40 "2016-03-04T14:00:29Z")
I was really looking forward to this, but the trailer looked bland and was not funny. I’m very disappointed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-ghostbusters-trailer/747838.md?page=3)