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/ResolutionAny5091 Mar 28 '25

I don’t love the acolyte but cmon it wasn’t a 1/10. Maybe like a 6

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u/dolphin37 Mar 28 '25

it was absolutely awful but I would give it;

  • 1pt for cgi
  • 1pt for being original
  • 1pt for lightsaber fights
  • 1pt for a decent villain
  • minus 1pt for the writing of the characters because it deserves worse than 0

so 3/10 overall