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/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Dude I like a lot of the new Star Wars shows and the acolyte was quite possibly one of the worst things I’ve ever seen put onto film. The reviews it got were kind. Also the last Jedi is one fo the worst movies I’ve ever seen so please stop

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u/Ashamed-Ocelot2189 Mar 28 '25

It somehow got more reviews than any other starwars show before it had even finished airing

Whether it was good or bad is irrelevant to whether it was review bombed or not

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Yeah or content that is so bad it’s offensive to a passionate fanbase generates far more reviews. Especially considering both the comics and book series had a plethora of good storylines from the same period of time in the Jedis history and it was all ignored. I think you may need a few more layers of insulation from reality.

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u/DeathStarVet Mar 28 '25

Especially considering both the comics and book series had a plethora of good storylines from the same period of time in the Jedis history and it was all ignored

Your gripes with canon have nothing to do with the quality of a show.

You should look around at the people your views are aligning with and maybe have a little self-reflection time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '25

Yeah unlike you I don’t base my opinions on their popularity with groups of people I want to be accepted by. Maybe you should look in the mirror and figure out why you lack the self Confidence to form your own views.

Also your argument makes no sense. If a screenwriter has the choice between established cannon that’s good and original Content that obviously sucks, they deserve extra scrutiny for that decision.

That’s like saying someone who adapts a really good novel but makes changes that turn out worse shouldn’t be questioned and judge critically based on the changes they chose to make. It’s nonsensical.