That ‘Ghostbusters’ Trailer is Among the Most Disliked of All Time….

By MrDisgusting on May 1, 2016

Maybe I’m just a sucker for nostalgia, like everyone else, but I didn’t hate the trailer (above) for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters remake. What really grabbed by attention was the fact that, while it’s a new story with new talent, it captured the spirit of the original using sound design. Obviously, it’s just a trailer, and anything can happen, but I am definitely started to pivot to the side of skeptics (look at this awful bit of footage).

And while I slowly join the angry mob, the Bloody Disgusting community has been venomously against the project since the first teaser dropped. I think it’s safe to say that Ghostbusters is among the most hated films I’ve ever covered here on the site (in 15 years), and each story I post shrouds me in such rage that I’ve had no choice by to slow my coverage to a near-halt. I hear ya.

But what I love here is that, while there’s no right or wrong opinion, your voices have echoed the sentiments of movie-lovers all over the planet. Everyone hates the new Ghostbusters, so much so that the YouTube trailer is among the most disliked of all time.

The hatred is so strong that it’s also included in the top 25 most disliked videos overall.

Released March 3, the trailer, viewed 29.2 million times and counting, is the most disliked movie trailer in YouTube history, according to the social platform’s “Most Disliked Videos” list that was last updated April 16, THR writes.

Coming in at No. 23, the reboot — starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones and Chris Hemsworth — more than doubles its number of dislikes than likes (208,606).

ScreenCrush really breaks down the mathematical significance of the negativity:

The ‘Ghostbusters’ trailer is remarkable in that it has 507,610 dislikes on just 28.7 million views. That’s a staggering 56:1, almost exactly four times the amount of dislikes per view of Bieber’s aforementioned most disliked video (‘Baby’) on all of YouTube. (By contrast, a trailer for a movie like ‘Captain America: Civil War’ has a 5,237:1 ratio.) It’s not just that people dislike it, it’s that they’re disliking it at a highly disproportionate rate to other YouTube videos.

Yes, for every person who clicked a “thumbs up” there were 56 who clicked “thumbs down,” and that’s crazy. The awareness may be through the roof for the new Ghostbusters, hitting theaters July 22, but there’s a serious image problem that Sony’s going to have to work tirelessly to rectify.