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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Waldowal@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

Filter to 1-star and note how many reviews are direct copies of each other - many referencing that the Obamas are executive producers.

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[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 138 points 8 months ago

from the copy and pasted review:

Situations like these would bring you together, not force you apart.

Did any of these assholes pay attention to their own behavior during the pandemic?

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago

People's behavior during the pandemic is why I'm absolutely sure there will never be another civil war.

What are these idiots going to do when they find their first empty grocery store?

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 43 points 8 months ago

Rob their neighbors, while armed.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

Basically the American Dream.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 8 months ago

They think they're going to go hunting in the woods. But they forget that even if they do manage to catch something they don't have any way of preparing it or cooking it without taking it back to civilization. They think gas just turns up in stoves and electricity in wires.

They would probably fall apart long before that though, all national guard would need to do would be to turn off the internet in that area, and they'd be stuck. They have no way of organizing themselves except on social media less than one in 100 of them will own and know how to operate a AM radio.

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 12 points 8 months ago

I kinda figured that’s why some of Meal Team 6 is kept around in reserve.

[-] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

They were too busy snorting toilet paper and getting relief loans.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 65 points 8 months ago

that's all the maga and far right do.. parrot each other ad infinitum

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago

I never heard about this movie before. Now I know it's a post-apocalyptic movie (love those) made by Sam Esmail (he did Mr. Robot, which was terrific). I guess it also happened to be produced by the Obamas.

So congratulations, reviewers. You got me interested in seeing a movie I didn't even know existed.

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

i don't like that a former president is producing a postapoc movie with the way the world is going right now. does he know something we don't.

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For a few years now, I've purposely sought out movies and TV shows on RT and Metacritic with very high critic ratings, and super low user ratings.

The only time this really happens is if reviews are brigaded. If the user reviews were honest, it's pretty rare that you'd see more than 20-30% difference between critic and user score (MAX). So when you see a critic score of 95%, and user score of 1.8/10, then I know I'm in for a good time. Same with games to a lesser degree.

I'm not even kidding, this is almost always a sure way to find a film or show I enjoy. In fact, I wish they'd introduce a "Controversial" category with things that have a big gap between critic and user scores (though when it goes the other way, that is high user score to super poor critic reviews, it's almost always PureFlix-style Christian propaganda garbage).

[-] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

Can you give some examples? I'd love to discover some gems.

Word of warning - I usually find that movies on rotten tomatoes with low critic scores and high audience scores are hitting the midweek sweet spot for me. Low cerebral requirement, high distraction. If you get me.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I've found the same thing, critic scores are harder to use as predictors because there is too much variance between their individual special opinions about the importance of character development vs the average user enjoying a movie for what it is. Obviously crap is crap, but a 56% critic and 82% user score is usually more appealing than vice versa

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago

Rotten tomatoes doesn't get the average of all critics scores, they only look whether or not the review was positive or negative. It doesn't look at their individual special opinions.

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Literally anything critical of Christianity (or anything that could even be perceived as critical of Christianity, we can't actually expect them to watch it first).

I guess I should have kept better track over the years... Let me see if I can find a few.

An obvious one (video game though) that I can think of off hand is The Last of Us 2. Fantastic game, user scores brigaded everywhere "because gay/trans."

In fact, I think The Last of US TV show was review bombed after episode 3. Again, "because gay."

The TV show "The Watchmen" was brigaded by users (not sure if they've filtered those out, or if the score has been adjusted since, but when it originally aired, user scores were very very low due to review bombing). Anyone who's seen the show could tell you exactly why that happened.

Here is an article about it happening to a film about the Armenian Genocide (I haven't seen the film so I can't say if it's good, but I'm sure it doesn't deserve 1-star)

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-promise-film-christian-bale-armenian-genocide-imdb-turkey-oscar-isaac-a7378881.html

I will have to try to keep track from now on. Sometimes it becomes a cultural moment, like with TLOU, but lots of times it goes under the radar, and a show/movie/game gets quietly fucked over by idiots on the internet who have no interest in even trying the media first.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Another example of a movie where the audience score is higher than the critic score is Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Not sure if this applies in general to movies "so bad they are good" (though personally, at this point I believe Tommy knew what he was doing because he's been able to repeat that "so bad it's good" despite knowing how they are received, whereas if it was really driven by his ego, I'm sure that same ego would have forced him to change it up to get the critical acclaim the was supposedly chasing.)

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[-] moon@lemmy.cafe 52 points 8 months ago

Thanks Obama

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 47 points 8 months ago

Not even knowing that the Obamas had anything to do with it (like it matters at all?), I thought I was a refreshingly well-done movie in a genre I enjoy. Haters gonna hate.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

I'd give it a 7/10. Didn't blow my mind but it was entertaining.

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[-] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 22 points 8 months ago

Makes me want to go watch it. Racist idiots gonna be racist idiots.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

It's worth a watch. Don't read anything else about it before watching.

[-] MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

It's not great. Definitely more than 1 star but I watched it the other day and couldn't remember a thing about it until looking up the plot summary just now. It's one of those movies that could be amazing if it stuck the landing but I personally don't feel like it did. I voted for Obama twice so my opinion is not politically motivated.

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[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Excellent movie. I only watched it because a friend referred to it as “that Obama movie that says don’t trust whitey” I figured that’s gotta be a must watch lol

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago

Holy deranged

Don't even consider watching this movie!!!!! Horrible movie. If I could leave zero stars I would. I would say the Obama’s should stick to politics but unfortunately I can’t say that either. Regardless, this review sums it up very well: Zero stars needs to be an option. One reviewer posted an excellent review of this movie, so I had to copy and paste. "If you care about using your time wisely, then avoid this film like the plague. But if you like watching terribly written media, then by all means grab a snack and relax. Because this film is the embodiment of utter garbage. The first, and to me, the greatest red flag is seeing the Obamas as executive producers. The movie just changed far too many times, giving you more questions than answers. Family on the beach, a supposed home invasion, planes crashing, a brat obsessed with Friends, hackers start the end of the world, animals migrate for no apparent reason, son is poisoned by radiation yet no one else is and not to mention the blatant racial themes etc. Just a heaping mess of a pile. None of the characters are developed and slowly turn against each other. Situations like these would bring you together, not force you apart. You’d come to hate a few others, such as the daughter who treats Friends like a god and the other daughter, Ruth, who not only has a spoiled attitude but she assumes things on everyone and also believes you should never trust white people. I wish I were joking. And I quote: "I'm asking for you to remember that if the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people." This had no relevance to the film at all! If this statement was flipped around, watch how things would go. I guess her name “Ruth” is short for ruthless. Because she did not act nice to anyone, not even her own father at times. If they removed her from the script, it would have made this film somewhat better. But not enough to save it. But the fact this made it through production baffles me. Then again, remind yourself of who the executive producers were. As for the “terrorist” act itself, it just isn’t clear which nation is the main driving force of it all. First some Arabic country to then either Korea or China. No idea because this is never answered. Nor were a lot of things. Where was the military? The actual forces of the nation. Apparently they do not exist, so everyone has to fend for themselves. Granted we do live in a technological world, but planes wouldn’t be crashing nor boats intentionally grounding themselves if everything was hacked. Analog exists. Pilots can still operate a plane without working apparatus etc. I’d go on but other reviews capture the level of frustration this “movie” brings the table. It’s bad. At least the daughter got to watch the last episode of Friends, after running off with neither brains nor brawn. Ate a large supply of food and somehow, found a VHS tape that oh so conveniently had Friends. Leaving her family to die. I wonder what she’ll think after the episode is over. Probably happiness, not a care for her family, as a show takes more priority than the end of the world." If I could give this movie a rating less than one star I would!!!

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 8 months ago

This is a perfect simulation of unhinged 90s/00s chain emails your aunt would forward you. All it’s missing is a title like “FW: FW: FW: FW: OPEN, very important!!!!!” and instructions to forward it to more people.

[-] Lolman228@kbin.social 19 points 8 months ago

God it even sounds like trump

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[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Totally how normal people behave.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 19 points 8 months ago

It seems extremely trivial for Google to automatically delete all those identical reviews. Why they aren't doing this? On play store many times they delete my reviews because they think it's irrelevant to the product, here where they're all identical?

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[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My local trump trump supporter LOVED it and recommended I watch it. Despite the Obamas involvement (his words more or less).

He has the whole survivalist kink thing though.

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[-] Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 months ago

The movie is pretty bad tbh.

[-] GutsBerserk@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Solid movie. Watched it a week ago. Had no idea who was behind it.

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Okay but it is definitely a garbage movie. The plot is terrible. Come on, guys.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Eh, it wasn't great, but far from "garbage". There's more than 2 scores.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It was alright, suspenseful but I didn't get the deer part

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I have read that it somehow symbolizes nature trying to warn us about climate change or something but that doesn't make sense to me.

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