It's a stat that's hard to dispute - people did not like the Ghostbusters trailer. It has a dislike to like ratio of 3:1 on YouTube, with almost 400,000 people not happy with the first look. That's pretty damning, and in many ways hard to argue with (let's not forget I'm playing devil's advocate here), but there are an awful lot of factors to consider here that mean things may not be as agreeably awful as this stat suggests. For starters there's the massive sexist backlash against the film, with vast corners of the internet taking to the gender-swapped leads in a less than kind manner. I don't want to imagine this is the cause, but it'd be silly to say it hasn't had an impact; even if only a fraction of the dislikes come from people who actually think Kristen Wiig in Ghostbusters is sacrilege, this long-standing negativity will have coloured the movie's reputation. Then there's the other form of "sacrilege" - this isn't our Ghostbusters. With nostalgia goggles tightly on it's easy to hate the Ghostbusters reboot at its very core and tear the trailer to shreds without a second thought. And, rounding it off, you have how the negative response propagates an even greater negative response; the trailer has been watched over 20 million times on YouTube, astronomical for a movie that isn't Star Wars or Marvel, and much of that traffic will stem from the negative hype surround it, with people wanting to check it out themselves. And, when the dislike bar is that big, people are going to feel a lot less sheepish about clicking the thumbs down. Again, I'm not saying the dislikes aren't deserved, but just that they shouldn't necessarily be used as further ammunition against the film.
