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To touch more on Rings, there was more to it than just race. Race was an issue, because it's supposed to be a mythology of Britain. But there was also what's considered a woke portrayal of characters like Galadriel. Plus social and political themes that are considered woke.
The written reviews are what we're talking about. If you actually read them, a significant percentage of the negative ones appear to be written by AI (they use similar vocabulary, make similar arguments, and are structured like ChatGTP usually structures responses), and they're mostly posted by accounts that have never reviewed another movie. Those are hallmarks of "review-bombing" rather than legitimate critical reviews.
Yes I agree on the other "woke" bits. But still, the worst offense by far was that the basic storytelling - with awful writing at the center - was just terrible.
I know it's review bombing the same as Rings etc. I think it's review bombing over it being woke. But I'm not all that vested in a movie that there's a 99.999% chance I'll never watch.
And it was a lower way before the Republicans took back the vote. Ask Bud Light how things went for them under the Biden administration when they made Dillian Mullaney their mascot.
The lion's share of criticism seems to be over it being woke.
That just shows us how invested people are in the culture wars bickering.
Right - my point was that a movie or show getting review bombed just means that it managed to annoy at least one trollish corner of the internet, and thus the low rating is meaningless.
Well the complaints regarding aspects such as the story telling are blamed on Disney going woke with it.
I don't care enough to dig through them, but some are probably insightful criticisms, while others are probably just re-hashes of the same AI-written junk in the IMDb reviews. Again, my only point was that touting the low aggregate review score on a platform that's been review-bombed is meaningless. That doesn't mean that it's a good movie (I wouldn't know - I haven't seen it, and I have no plans to see it); it just means that your argument that it's bad is flawed.
I'm just saying it's likely the main reason behind the negativity, whether from one person or one million, is over it being woke.
Oh well! There are bigger fish to fry!
Box Office: ‘Snow White’ Limps to Alarming $42.2M Domestic Opening, $86M Globally
The news was far worse for Warner Bros.' Robert De Niro mob drama 'Alto Knights' and Jonathan Majors' 'Magazine Dreams,' both of which bombed.www.hollywoodreporter.com
A $250 million dollar movie only raked in $87 million internationally. You'd think they would have learned their lesson after the failed Star Wars: The Acolyte series. But alas, you go woke, you go broke. Is this yet another message to progressives that people are not really buying what they are selling? In this case, literally.
