Copy and paste of TotalBiscuit comment that was removed from ScreenJunkies latest video, comment regarding Ghostbusters reboot controversy

Edit: further down the thread /u/aronnyc has the quote of a semi-official reply by Dan Murrell of ScreenJunkies. Permalink - http://ift.tt/1qy3ydH

Link to video - https://youtu.be/qF0zKbIT2mw

Screen shot from some guys twitter - https://twitter.com/sixfingersvi/status/733391985722195969

TotalBiscuit top comment, in its entirety, prior to removal -

Maybe its the most disliked trailer in history because everyone and their mother wrote about how it was such a big controversy that people didn't like it, which drew in further attention, bandwagoning and infighting to the trailer? It has snowballed over the course of months and outlets see easy money in continuing to poke that particular bear. Maybe it's because you're posting videos like this that the trailer continues to get people jumping on it.

You ask if you put out the same trailer with Channing Tatum etc, would it get as many dislikes? If they were spouting the same awful jokes, the same racial stereotypes, the same Haunted Mansion level CGI, the same abject disregard for any connection to the original, maybe it would. But hey, let me ask you this. Can you so easily explain away the dislikes of the new CoD trailer, the second most disliked video in Youtube history? Must have been their all female cast! Oh wait, no, it doesnt have that. People bandwagon, its what they do. CoDs trailer became a bandwagon, so did Ghostbusters and it was egged on by the media.

Where was the hate over Spy, or Fury Road? Hell why do we venerate Alien as one of if not the best sci-fi-horror of all time when its got a female lead? To claim that sexism is such a big part of the dislike of this video is to ignore how many films in the same genre have been adored by "nerd culture", which, at least according to the hack journalists online, is now the biggest hive of sexism scum and villainy this side of the known galaxy.

Why are people more riled up over Ghostbusters than they are over the Point Break remake? Do you even have to answer that question? One is one of the most venerated sci-fi/comedy franchises of all time in film and the other one is Point Break... Nobody cares about Point Break.

"Hey you should go see it and form your own opinion". Why should consumers be asked to hand over money to see something that they don't think is going to be very good, based on the footage the studio themselves put out? Isnt it the studios job to convince people to go and see it through trailers, not the consumers job to fork over their hard-earning money? It's easy to forget, regular people dont get free screenings of movies, they dont have the privilege of just "going and seeing it to make up their own mind", not without paying anyway. "Just go see it anyway!". Every movie deserves "a shot" you say. Sure, a message about not prejudging things is cool but movie tickets cost money. It's up to the studio to convince the consumer that their product is worth a shot. Obviously these guys haven't done that with this movie, at least for some people. Whose fault is that? No, some people have to work for a living and dont have money to just throw away like that. Have we forgotten that all of a sudden?

You talk about not doing the book report. It's not the consumers responsibility to do the book report, it's the critics responsibility. Consumers are completely entitled to write something off based on the only information they have (which are the trailers) and not spend their money on it. They're even entitled to throw some offhand remark about the movie sucking or leave a dislike (heaven forbid, a dislike!) on a video. That's not a critique. That's not a review. That's them taking 5 seconds of their life to say "nahh" and then move on. The dedicated trolls who just can't shut up about this are a tiny, tiny minority.

Were it not for every single media outlet including yours repeatedly covering it, throwing out ridiculous, blind accusations of sexism at anyone who dared dislike (credit to you, you brought it up but it didn't dominate your discussion unlike most) what looks to be a pretty awful remake (are we supposed to like Hollywood remakes now? I didnt get the memo), maybe this wouldn't have blown up as much as it did. But no, as much as I like your content, you along with every other media outlet saw a chance at a quick buck by fueling the fires of controversy and decided to just dive right in. There are times when people involved in an industry lose sight of what your everyday consumer is dealing with. You have dream jobs, I have a dream job, we get to work in an industry we love, we get all our shit for free, we get to go to lavish events, interact with stars. Regular joe doesn't get to do that and when we say things like "oh just give it a chance" his response is going to be "dude, what world do you live in where movie tickets are free?". Well, we do live in a world where movie tickets are free, but everyone else doesn't.

Submitted May 20, 2016 at 06:12AM by UnrelatedComa http://ift.tt/1XDkNrq