hedwards: I wonder how long before we get feminists bitching about how men refuse to go to movies that feature female actors? Rather than the fact that the movie has a terrible trailer.
granny: See, even beyond the trailer being a turd, this is the saddest thing about the film: it'll never be judged on its own merits. If/when it bombs, no one will say "Hey, maybe we made a bad film", or "Hey, maybe we should try something slightly original for a change", they'll immediately go for "Hey, y'all are sexist!"
Just based on the trailer, I'd say the biggest problem is that they're actually trying to be funny. What made the 80s Ghostbusters work was that all the actors played it (largely) straight. Take out the gags, and you've still got a decent action horror. With this new one, I'm pretty confident that if you take out the gags, you'll be left with nothing.
Blech....
They'll release other trailers, but with the cost of movies being what they are, I'm not sure how anybody but the die hard fans is going to be able to justify paying to go see it.
Crosmando: What happens when there's no longer any old franchises left to reboot? Does Hollywood implode?
They'll start rebooting reboots. So you can reboot while you're rebooting.
MaxFulvus: So, Ghostbusters franchise is officially dead.
RIP Ghostbusters.
To be fair, this is more or less what I expected when I heard they were making the movie. Harold Ramis is dead and I don't think any of the other people that worked on the previous movies and TV shows had any involvement in the production.