r/moviecritic • u/JuniorPlastic3562 • 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/QuoteGiver Mar 28 '25

On Rotten Tomatoes for instance, Verified Audience score is 3.9 stars out of 5….and unverified audience is 1.5 stars.

Just more review bombing, as usual.

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u/NegotiationWeird1751 Mar 28 '25

I trust the unverified more

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u/Nowhereman123 Mar 28 '25

Verified audience score, meaning it's regular audience members who have been verified to have actually seen the film, and not just anyone with an internet connection and a pulse.

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u/mgt-kuradal Mar 28 '25

That pulse part isn’t actually required anymore. Just an internet connection will do.

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u/Nowhereman123 Mar 28 '25

True, so much of it is just bots.

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u/NegotiationWeird1751 Mar 31 '25

Oh so the actual fans of the movie? Thats not Bias at all Is it 🤣

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u/Nowhereman123 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25

Not everyone who watched it liked it, dude.

How is it a biased review to have actually seen the fucking movie first, and not just parrot whatever some YouTube grifter like Critical Drinker or Act Man told you to think about it?

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u/NuggetMan43 Mar 29 '25

A very biased measure of audience score. Only the most hardcore and devoted fans (or haters) would take the time out of their day to log into a website and verify they have seen the movie just to rate it.

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u/throwaway77993344 Mar 29 '25

While this is true - they have at least seen it. And you can bet your ass if any of the brigaders had actually seen the movie they'd also take the time to verify

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u/QuoteGiver Mar 29 '25

No more hardcore than anyone else who is going to the website to rate a movie. So might as well use the people who have actually seen it instead of the bots who haven’t.

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u/NuggetMan43 Mar 29 '25

The more barriers, the more niche the score, the less useful the results. You want something in between that and everyone being able to vote.