'Your film has ruined my childhood!' Why nostalgia trumps logic on remakes | Dean Burnett

Why do people have such disproportionately aggressive responses to attempts at rebooting their childhood entertainments, like the new Ghostbusters movie?

Maybe you haven't heard. Maybe you've been combing the Mariana Trench for a dropped contact lens, or been employed to brush the dust off the Mars Rover, so have been out of the loop for a while. For everyone else, it's common knowledge that they've made a Ghostbusters reboot, that it has LADIES in it, and large chunks of the internet are seriously unhappy about it.

There are a few explanations for this, from a general disgruntlement with excessive Hollywood reboots to the whole Ghostbusters aspect being a feeble cover for what is basically an enraged anti-feminism backlash, something which is a depressing inevitability when women attempt to do anything, in any context, ever. But some people just seem outraged that they dare to "tamper" with their beloved childhood favourite, in this case Ghostbusters.