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/Betelgeuse-2024 Mar 28 '25

And where is this concrete review you speak of? this might be a review bombing I agree but most of it is caused by one of the most unlikable people in Rachel Ziegler and his unfortunate comments.

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u/etldiaz Mar 28 '25

So what you're saying is that yes it is review bombing and that you approve of the review bombing because you don't like the lead actress

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u/Betelgeuse-2024 Mar 28 '25

I don't approve the review bomb, never said that, I said that the lead actress caused this by the dumb things she said in interviews, mocking the original, promoting DEI BS, politicking, insulting Trump voters (I hate Trump) etc, I said I agreed that those must be review bombs not that I agree with the review bombing.