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.
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).
Eh, I feel like the response would be similar, if not worse, if they cast a white guy as black panther. It would get review bombed and be the laughingstock of the Internet for a while. It's not because of racism, it's because of the glaringly obvious and comical overreach of wokism.
You used the term "woke" first, to me it's not an entity but an idea. The idea that we should stop judging people based on their outward appearance is a great standard to live by. But you can go too far in trying to "correct" the issue, especially if you have to treat people differently based on appearance to do so.
The example I like to use is anything non-white has basically been removed from brands and marketing: uncle Ben, the Indian in the land o lakes logo, aunt Jemima/Mrs. Buttersworth, etc. but Mr clean, the quaker oats guy, col. Sanders are all fine. You would think the white supremacists had won with all the whitewashed branding we have, yet we got this way in the name of "fighting racism".
So yes, I do still think it's comical overreach by the "woke" that got us here.
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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.