Honestly, I think they tanked Ghostbusters '16 on purpose just so they could claim some moral high ground and have an excuse to claim only sexist toxic masculinity types would have a problem with it. An all female Ghostbusters team could've totally worked (see Charlie's Angels and Final Fantasy X-2) if they hadn't gone out of their way to get about the ugliest (both outside and in), most unlikeable women possible.
Going further back not only was this 1948 film (probably) fairly low budget but it was rushed to production because they wanted to release it before Babe Ruth died (which he did three weeks after he personally attended the premiere). It doesn't even mention Babe's first wife and the star of the movie William Bendix who was right handed had to try to bat/throw like the left handed Babe, and by his own admission he wasn't very good at it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babe_Ruth_Story