5 Things Ghostbusters Haters Have Already Done To Make The Film Fail

In the immediate aftermath of the review embargo lifting, there was shock all over the film internet; Ghostbusters wasn’t the steaming pile everyone expected. In fact, it looked good – the Rotten Tomatoes score was a mid-seventies knock-out (it later became certified fresh). Although, according to a widely-shared screen-capture, the same wasn’t true of the site’s Top Critics (writers for major publications), which put it in the same ballpark as the rest of 2016's duds.

That gap's pretty interesting, and highlights the importance of reading beyond the simple numerical score when using Rotten Tomatoes for movie recommendations. It's also fake.

That’s right: somebody mocked it up to try and hurt the movie. The proof is in the number of reviews – the image cites 7 negative reviews against 6 positive, whereas in reality there’s only been 5 (so far). The sheer effort of this in face of what it's doing is bonkers – it’s a full gif, as if to increase its validity – but also shows a desperation for the film to be bad; it's not like people have been taking critics at their word this year...