Ghostbusters: Afterlife

What I'm about to say does not necessarily pertain to this board. It might apply here. It might only apply to other people. But I'm going to put my thoughts here anyway.

I don't get why a lot of people seem to have a problem getting their heads around the idea that fans just don't take kindly to "their" stuff being changed. It's not a new thing. It's definitely not exclusive to this movie.

Honestly, the director of this thing should know that pretty darn well. The last movie he had a hand in was The Peanuts Movie (as a producer). I can tell you right now the announcement of CGI Peanuts was not met with open arms and optimism. I've seen the designs get insulted literally years before there was any way for the public to have actually seen said designs.

If it's so common for fans to get angry over change then why is this movie in particular getting hit with such an uncommon level of hatred? I don't know. Maybe people are tired of an endless string of unoriginal ideas and this is the straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe it legitimately looks worse than other remakes/reboots/really late sequels. Maybe they messed with something with a big enough fanbase to get a real wave of hatred this time.

Maybe people don't take well to being called misogynist over stupid crud. Maybe people have tried to make the damned thing into some kind of social issue instead of a crummy movie and therefore it's been tossed around a lot for no reason. You never know.

The trailer said 30 years later, which I didn't get myself...believe me, the question was asked. I was like 'I think that's very confusing,' but then everyone said 'we don't care what you think.'

The Peanuts Movie

I don't blame him for losing his rag over some of the comments for this movie though. There has been some very sexist responses to the idea.

SPEAKING OF The Peanuts Movie, there's a trailer that very nearly shot itself in the face.



When did this:

Going to comments sections for articles or videos of trailers show that there WERE a ton of complaints about the music.

But there were two things mitigating the anger;

1. The makers said it wouldn't be in the movie. And it wasn't. And even if the creators hadn't come right out and said it, it's a common enough practice to put songs in trailers that don't show up in the movie that some people picked up on the possibility and reserved the lid flipping.

2. It was one bad thing cushioned in a promising adaption.

That's why I said "very nearly". Even so, isn't it worse to potentially spoil a promising adaption than something like Ghostbusters with virtually no positive expectations going in?

If we're going into hypothetical scenarios, maybe? I can't imagine having a movie spoiled for me because I didn't like the use of a song.

Still feeling the exact same way, can't imagine dismissing something because the trailer music is bad.

You assume it's not in the movie though, how can you know for sure?

I didn't want that blaring wubwub soundtrack in Tron: Legacy after I saw it in the trailer, but guess what stuck around?

Because, again, the makers of the film said it wasn't sticking around.

And they also released a soundtrack list that was distinctly lacking the song around the same time the trailers were dropping. Anyone who was really that concerned could find these things easily enough.

And also again, I think having one bad song in it is an extremely crummy thing to dismiss a movie over.

Why is this relevant again? Peanuts had one thing in its trailers that ticked people off, and that one thing was something commonly screwed with and misrepresented in trailers and simultaneously had easily accessible evidence that it was in fact misrepresented and the unliked thing wasn't actually going to be used. Ghostbusters' trailer is ticking people off with everything in it, mostly with things that are extremely unlikely to not be in the finished film. The latter got more hate because that's logically what flows from the situation. You apparently thinking the former should have got more hate has nothing to do with anything.

Especially since the original point was that changing things nets complaints; the music was changed, it got complaints. It didn't get as many as Ghostbusters because, again, the screw up was smaller and more likely to just be a trailer problem.

I'm not continuing this conversation wherein people have time to see movies but not Google things

and where the movie with rotary phones and typewriters is modernized.

Change = Complaints. The music changed, people complained. What, exactly, is the problem here?

tell me what this has to do with my point.

It's not a matter of time, it's a matter of motivation.

I've been talking about fans from the start.

Can I just ask; have you actually seen Peanuts?

You know you could have just said that without spending multiple posts complaining about a completely different movie's trailer, right?

Wow... I just checked the Youtube comments section for the trailer of the movie.... that place is WORSE than here... worse than Rodent's comments.... they really hate this movie. It's beautiful.

Wow... I just checked the Youtube comments section for the trailer of the movie.... that place is WORSE than here... worse than Rodent's comments.... they really hate this movie. It's beautiful.

There's a pretty big difference in depravity between this thread and your average Youtube comments section.

So...? We should go tell everyone on youtube they are awful or what? Rodents comments are here, if he wants to backtrack he can but i don't think he'd like being compared to youtube comments either, whatever though.