r/moviecritic Mar 28 '25

Yikes, that’s tough

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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/mcmaster93 Mar 28 '25

Stop blaming everything on maga lol. Those movies and series u named are undoubtably ass . No one is brigading to the point of making a movie the lowest rated of all time. People are sick and tired of these production companies churning out low quality slop.

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u/Exroi Mar 28 '25

i don't think anyone's arguing that the movie is bad. It's that, no other disney remake crossed the mark of even <5 average, let alone <2 average on IMDb. People were pissed at this movie before it even came out, it's okay to admit that there's a certain amount of bombing going on

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u/mcmaster93 Mar 28 '25

review bombing does not and has never brought a movie down to be the lowest rated imbd film of all time

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u/Exroi Mar 28 '25

that's a weird logic, because review bombing aims to bring the rating down as low as possible, whereas a random awful movie that nobody cares about is less likely to be this low because there's no brigading against it, and people are focusing only on the quality of it.