Since you brought up one post of mine, I'll bring another from another board I wrote that speaks to it:
I'm really curious about something. Like, this is genuine curiosity. I've never paid attention to anything below a YouTube video before. I watch the video and get out. But because people are pointing out the astronomical amount of dislikes for the video (whew there are a lot of them) I decided to take a look at it and a trailer for another movie coming out soon that folks are looking forward to...Batman v Superman. Right now Ghostbusters has nearly 275,000 dislikes (yikes!). Comparatively, Batman v Superman 14,252 dislikes. Interesting considering MOS was not the most well received film, but that seems average.
Here's where my question comes in. I chose trailer #2 for BvS since it was one of the better received ones (and didn't have Doomsday reveals) and noticed it has 168,423 likes and has been viewed nearly 25 million times. It was released back in December and has had time build those numbers. Now we look at the numbers for Ghostbusters and see that it has 144,530 likes and, already 15 million views. That's just after, what, two days?
I don't ever follow these things, so without doing some hardcore research (which I don't really care to do) I don't know what the significance of this is. Already this has more dislikes than most anything I've seen. Something about this has motivated folks to campaign against this. I know that this boils down to misogyny, hate for reboots, genuine criticisms of effects and style, etc etc. It's varied, I know, though the first comment I read was "This is so Gay!" and that gives you a hint as what mostly is to follow. We've discussed in detail what the dislikes and negative reception can do to this film, but this trailer is being watched by a lot of folks and actually has a good amount of likes for a film that's reviving a movie franchise dormant since '89 (not including comics and EGB). In fact, it's tracking right up there with Batman v Superman in those categories.
People call me out for burying my head in the sand. I'm not ignoring the humongous negatives, at least on YouTube. But are we just supposed to ignore the other numbers, too? For those who follow this stuff, what is your take to help me understand?
Because others have mentioned it, F4NTASTIC's last trailer received a bit over 3 million views, 2,886 likes and 704 dislikes. No where near the hatred for new GB on YouTube, but also doesn't come close to the interest people seem to have for new GB.
Yes, it's getting a lot of dislike and yes that's only 2% of views, but I find it interesting how the likes and views are still tracking alongside BvS, a film that is expected to have a $140 million opening weekend.
I don't think GB will have something quite so large, though. Near a $100 million maybe. I think a lot of folks will check it out just to see what the fuss is all about..." So this is the movie that people have been actively hating on!" If the movie ends up good, that would be the doorway for some good word of mouth and more people coming to see it after the opening weekend. If it's bad, then we will see the negative prophecies come true!
This film has a budget of $150 million, right? I think it's going to need to make around $600 million WW for this to be a success. Sequels might get greenlit for a bit less, but I think there hoping for this and more. For Feig, Bridesmaids, I believe, is his highest grossing movie. It made 288 million and I imagine his fans will support this new endeavor. Add in the nostalgia of GB, lowering the rating from R to PG-13, the love all things paranormal are getting and this could easily make that amount if it ends up being a good flick. Doesn't need to be fun, but it needs to be fun and cohesive with good chemistry between the actors. I'm optimistic, myself, but any of you reading my posts knows that.