Ghostbusters Reboot Is Most Disliked Movie Trailer Ever on YouTubeEver since the full trailer for Paul Feig’s upcoming all-female Ghostbusters reboot debuted online, strong opinions both for and against its sense of humor and presentation have been flying furiously back and forth. However, it appears that those who did like the Ghostbusters trailer have been mostly drowned out, at least if simple populist metrics like “likes” and “dislikes” are to be trusted.
According to the latest available numbers as reported by ScreenCrush, the Ghostbusters reboot trailer is the most disliked trailer in the history of YouTube. As of this writing, the trailer has 508,533 dislikes, with about 28.8 million total video views recorded. That is a staggeringly high amount of dislikes when compared to total views, to the point that no other trailer even comes close to matching Ghostbusters’ hater to viewer ratio. To put that number in perspective, the full trailer for last year’s infamous bomb Fantastic Four currently has less than 8,000 dislikes.
Of course the article goes onto say that there is a belief that there is a conspiracy to get that many hates and of course remarks that because the lead characters are female this time there are sexists hating it.
The answer may be more simple than that, while the original movie was iconic, the sequel left a lot to be desired and the Saturday cartoon didn't do much to help the franchise either, so can we really expect a reboot 30 years later to improve on it?