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@jack on his twitter was talking about the new ghostbusters Trailer(s), which most people I know inside and outside of social media aren't too happy about.

Here is what he had to say on twitter:

To everyone who has been sending me the "Ghostbusters most downvoted trailer ever" links... It doesn't make me happy, I want GB to succeed.

Ghostbusters is one of my favorite films ever, and I don't want the franchise to be tainted with a bad film. I'd love for it to be great.

My problem with the new GB is that it is clearly a COMEDY first, SCI-FI second. The original was SCI-FI with comedy mixed in. Not slapstick.

Don't get me wrong, this is a fair point.

Film is an ever-changing landscape and usually isn't the same for very long. The film industry is really good at coming up with tons of ideas, some of them being good, and some being the fucking worst. These choices are made because all businesses need to make profit, and Hollywood’s favourite ways of doing this is getting a series and redoing them. You usually don't see it because it's so embedded in the industry now, but most films are based off an already prominent IP; if that be a book, a comic or really anything. Now, there are obviously ones that aren't, but it's probably like 70% at present. There are many reasons why films are based of other IP's.

#1: You usually already have a fanbase

#2: Authors and comic artists spend months developing characters meaning that they can spend more time and effort on making the film look badass

#3: Everyone loves a bit of nostalgia

I'm gonna focus on point 3, because it references to Ghostbusters better.

Everyone loves nostalgia.

People love to be nostalgic about shit that happened 2 months ago, my personal definition of nostalgia is if it's was 10 years ago and you want to see/do/buy/watch anything from then so it can be like the good ol' days, then it's nostalgia. I think that's fair. The film industry knows this, so they remake popular films from long-ago-but-not-too-long-ago. Some turn out good/fine like the new Star Wars and the Italian Job and some are utter turds, like the Karate Kid and The Fantastic Four.

I would like to hope that the new ghostbusters is good, but at this point, so many people already hate it before it’s even been released that’s it’s doomed to not expect a lot. All we can do is hope…then listen to what reddit says and agree with them.