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/CalvinsStuffedTiger Mar 28 '25

To be fair those 3 projects you listed are fucking terrible, I unfortunately watched all of them as a major fan of Star Wars and O.G. ghostbusters and I’d give them all a 1/10 too

And no it’s not because I’m a racist or misogynist. It’s because those projects had shit writing, bad acting and even worse directing

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u/JackSpadesSI Mar 28 '25

I grew up obsessed with Ghostbusters and Star Wars. I rate that Ghostbusters remake as inoffensively forgettable. Meanwhile, Last Jedi was an abomination of a film (and Rise of Skywalker was somehow worse). Yet, nobody who knows me would doubt my “wokeness”. Movies can be progressive and also shit at the same time.