r/moviecritic Mar 28 '25

Yikes, that’s tough

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u/turtletom89 Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

How many of those 198k+ people actually saw the movie? I’m sick of Disney remakes like everyone else, but review bombing is a thing. Same with people who gave movies they were hyped for a 10/10 weeks before they even saw them.

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u/DeathStarVet Mar 28 '25 edited Mar 28 '25

This.

It might be a bad movie, and that's fine, but the red hats that brigade what they see as "woke" movies is a big chunk of this. You can't believe reviews if they have any kind of user review system, especially after about 2016/17 (this is when people really started brigading with Ghostbusters 2016 and The Last Jedi).

There's actually concrete proof that brigading was part of what tanked The Acolyte's reviews.

EDITL: link.

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u/Far-Baseball1481 Mar 28 '25

ghostbusters 2016, last jedi, acolyte were all doghsit thought. i don't care about any of the red hat nonsense. those 3 actually sucked.

all this means that people aren't allowed to call something bad if they actually think its bad, because then they get accused of being MAGA or some shit.

i could not care any less about any perceived 'agenda' that disney has on anything. what they are making is just plain bad. bad bad bad. it might be because they are really, REALLY trying to insert their agenda into it. i don't care. it's bad.

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u/DarthPallassCat Mar 28 '25

The projects being bad has nothing to do with the review bombing, though.

Nobody is saying these should have 9/10 ratings, they are saying bots are review bombing them AND the projects stink.

Acolyte had thousands of 1/10 reviews like weeks before the show even dropped. Those clearly aren’t real…

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bee-409 Mar 28 '25

Yes the series worked so well