Who Ya Gonna Call?

[Psychosplodge]

If you're talking the first one, its unsurprising that trailer was poor. If it's the second one then yes its just pettiness.

[Kirsten]

it is all pettiness whichever one it is.

[Psychosplodge]

Something has to be the worst voted trailer on youtube

[Mr Mystery]

Except this is a concerted effort to denigrate a specific film.

And given the manchild reaction to the original casting decision, I think we can make an educated guess as to why.

The trailer isn't even all that awful - and as already covered, I'm not exactly a Melissa McCarthy fan (Mike and Molly was/is just dire) but even she seems to have toned it down for this one.

[Psychosplodge]

The first one was dire mystery it really was.
The second was a massive improvement.

[CoffeeGrunt]

I sincerely doubt it's the worst trailer ever made, nor is it going to be the worst movie ever made, but it's a popular 'worst movie ever' for a lot of people.

Kinda like rating music by Youtube views and finding Gangnam Style is a thousand times better than Mozart cos Views.

[Psychosplodge]

True cause there's no way Bieber is as good as it is popular.

[Mr Mystery]

First trailer was simply 'OK'. Nothing offputting, but nothing massively compelling.

And Beiber needs to go away, and his entire wing of the music industry.

[Erik Setzer]

Funny you mention Bieber. One of his videos was actually the most down-voted prior to that trailer. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that wasn't based on gender.

While I've got no doubt a lot of the votes are just based on the gender of people involved, it's also very likely that, just as with Bieber, a lot of people don't like what they saw. And there's some people who probably would have been pissed off about a reboot even if it'd had a male cast. Heck, look at all the haters that spring up to tell us how SW:TFA sucked and anyone who likes it is stupid.

The real telling will be how it does in the theater and with critics (who we'd at least like to assume won't be swayed by personal sexism).

[Psychosplodge]

I am bugged by them doing a "reboot" rather than just continuing the story and making this a new GB team. It feels like they tried to even copy the roles of members of the original team. That just seems lazy. Make it a new team, with a new story all their own. Let them be their own people!

That's the only thing that's really bothered me. Why the reboot? Why not a sequel? Hollywood just seems obsessed with reboots.