Short of being the greatest movie of the year, the Ghostbusters reboot stood no chance. The trailer fucking sucked. Sure, part of the 1,000,000+ YouTube dislikes came from trolls who simply couldn’t get past the whole all-female cast thing, but I bet even Lena Dunham couldn’t find a reason to carve out the time to see it.
Full disclosure: I didn’t see it. I was going to, but then I just kept living my life. I know I shouldn’t hate on things I haven’t seen, but I haven’t seen my parents have sex and I’m positive I’m all set with that. And, in my defense, I made sure to get an opinion from a few of my girl friends who wouldn’t be deterred by the all-girl cast. All of them, with the exception of the one I like the least, said it was a flaming dumpster fire. Critics widely claim the screenwriting is absurdly lazy, and your every day commenter wasn’t so easy on it either:
Screen Junkies did an excellent job calling out the irrational people who refused to give the movie a chance, while also recognizing that the movie (allegedly) blew ass. Probably a good call to do this as well: