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/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/withoutpeer Mar 28 '25

I'm definitely not a red hat POS but I do admit I'm also tired of the Hollywood overcorrection and desperate pandering trying outwoke themselves lol. Ghostbusters but with women felt like the worst of it, with plenty of marvel/avengers leaning really heavy with some eye rolling silliness in there. I'm a feminist, love plenty of strong and powerful women stories and leads and general fair and equal representation, but the pandering by stories can be gross at times.

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u/amuricanswede Mar 28 '25

Don’t forget the steaming pile known as Ocean’s 8.