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It's basically Hollywood Execs always taking the wrong lessons from successful movies. This lesson is "Nostalgia will sell anything! Even if it isn't quite the same!" They basically looked at what the current movie demographic is: People in their late 20's to mid 30's. They then look back at what was popular back then, and start thinking of what they can bring back. The usual problem: What they bring back, is usually changed or modified in a way that doesn't capture what made the original so good. (case in point with Ghostbusters here). The newest one we are worried about is what happened with Deadpool. What they should take from the movie is: "Movies that pay tribute the original character rather than try and change them, can make people happy" What they will take from it: OMG WE CAN MAKE R RATED NOSTALGIA MOVIES! LET'S MAKE 20! RIGHT NOW! I DON'T CARE WHAT THE SUBJECT IS!

I have no problem with an all female cast. But that characters seem too over the top. The team from the original felt like real but eccentric people and they were funny because of that. The comedy here feels to in your face and less natural. And worst of all it dosnt look or feel in any way scary. Ghostbusters is in many ways like Gremlins, it's a movie that dosent just slot into one genre. This feels like a pure comedy. And those awful, neon CGI ghosts. I literally didn't know whether to laugh,cry or both and this is coming from a guy who has never complained about CGI and can watch crappy Bigfoot movies. After watching Crimson Peak these ghosts look and feel so tacky.

A little too over the top on the forced humor IMO. This one seems to be trying to be what Ghostbusters 2 tried harder to do... Be too much of a comedy rather than a movie about ghosts and ghostbusting... And this trailer shows they even go farther. The original is just a great movie in that the humor is very subtle in most cases and it usually played off more seriously. I mean, some of the things they say ( especially Egon) sound funny, but it all comes off as serious to the person who said it. I was never against an all female cast. I understand that as soon as you throw a mixed sex team in an adultish movie, two of them are going to end up in a relationship by the end of it and ruin the team dynamic (Unless one of the members of this team was a gay male...) But they are reaching very low with the stereotypes on this cast, and it certainly is not helping. I was kind of hoping that maybe. Just MAYBE, they could have done something at least in the same tone as the original... But this trailer clearly shows that they are not.

It's not at all about the female cast for me... just the lack of interest in a reboot of the franchise. Also, the CG ghosts are so lame in comparison to the old school ones. I'll see it on Netflix if it makes it there. ... maybe... To be fair, I als had no interest in seeing TMNT reboot. They all look like LL Cool J to me... but I watched it on Netflix and thought it was decent.