MHWilliams
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To be fair though it certainly does seem to be the case with Sony, part of me believes they know the movie is going to tank so they almost want it to seem like people only dislike the movie due to the fact it has four femles as leads.
The overwhelming majority of criticism I have read seems to come from the fact that the movie just doesn't look very good and the racial stereotyping that seems to be present, both very valid concerns.
I mean, it's pretty well known that there's a sizable amount of sexist hate towards the film. I mean, look at the YouTube comments that were scrubbed. The lack of acknowledgement of that is part of the issue.
You can dislike the trailer on its own merits and I've certainly seen arguments towards that point. But I've also seen arguments right here talking about the "gimmick" of an all female cast and once you start there, you're already in bad territory because that's an assumption with no basis in reality.
Ghostbusters will live or die on finding on audience and if it bombs, that'll likely kill most of Sony's plans for the future. I'd hope they'd allow the second film and animated film to proceed forward, but given the handling of Amazing Spider-Man, I doubt that's the case.