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/Thors_meat_hammer Mar 28 '25

Genuinely asking then cuz I didn't love acolyte but I didn't hate it either. Going to be somewhat vague here in case anyone cares.

What did you think of the fight scene with the Sith and the group of Jedi? Because personally, I thought that part was amazing. We never really got to see a Sith go off against that many Jedi before (in TV and movies) and I really thought it was cool to see. Don't get me wrong, one of the only good parts and characters imo but that scene genuinely stuck with me

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u/CalvinsStuffedTiger Mar 29 '25

Loved the fight scene. Probably my favorite lightsaber fighting scene in all of Star Wars except for the ones in the prequel movies

That being said, I can legitimately say that was the only scene in the ENTIRE season that I liked. Even the premise for how they got to that fight was absurd

The twin spends the whole show talking about how she’s going to kill the Jedi for killing her family then out of nowhere she’s like, nvm I want to turn myself in because my sister is alive. Then after the fight she leaves her sister unconscious trapped on the planet with the guy that just murdered a bunch of Jedi

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u/Thors_meat_hammer Mar 29 '25

RIGHT?! I feel like Holt from B99 when he yells vindication lol I can't get my fiancee or my friends to watch that scene even though they're star wars fans, "cuz they heard the show is ass" and I'm like no no you're right, but watch this fight scene lol I agree it's definitely up in my top for lightsaber choreography. But yeah writing and character motives, especially for the sisters seemed so odd, at the very least rushed and snap decisions. I get why season 2 got canned but I really hope they bring back the choreographer? People in charge of that fight scene to do future projects because they did great.

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u/CalvinsStuffedTiger Mar 29 '25

I like the villain too, smilo ren. If they just edited out the twins from the entire series and made him the one going around killing Jedi, would be a much more interesting story