Filter to 1-star and note how many reviews are direct copies of each other - many referencing that the Obamas are executive producers.
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?
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?
Rob their neighbors, while armed.
Basically the American Dream.
To their dismay I will have been robbed 10x over by the time they get thede. Sorry gun nut, I’ve already been pillaged.
Sorry robbers, I’m already dead!
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.
Removed by mod
I kinda figured that’s why some of Meal Team 6 is kept around in reserve.
They were too busy snorting toilet paper and getting relief loans.
that’s all the maga and far right do… parrot each other ad infinitum
Correct, because they are incapable of actually thinking for themselves.
If they could, they wouldn’t be conservatives.
Thanks Obama
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.
I’d give it a 7/10. Didn’t blow my mind but it was entertaining.
End was frustrating just because I wanted more. But it was a fun ride.
That was the point. That’s what the whole daughter’s plot is about.
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.
I saw it, didn’t know who produced or directed it
Don’t watch it, It had potential, I loved the main actors, but it sucked badly. Fair warning: possible spoilers below.
The music score is way too loud, and annoyingly weird. For example, rap music in a supposed suspense thriller movie at points that made no sense, then some romantic “there’s about to be sweet sex” music while somebody walks through a house, exploring it. It was annoying when I watched it, we then had it on as background noise to hide sex sounds and had to turn it off because it was so damned annoying.
The story literally goes nowhere, yet is all over the place. The ending leaves loads of opened threads unfinished, and it’s quite obvious that the writer(s) heard “cool” things yet failed to grasp the basics.
The microwave emitters they were talking about have ranges up to hundreds of meters, not the hundreds of square kilometers required to reach them in the middle of nowhere.
The airplane crashing was supposed to be cool but one had already crashed many hours before, why was this one still in the air? Also, you can’t really “hack” airplanes to go down, pilots can easily take over.
The Tesla’s famously can’t drive themselves like they do in the movie
The kid would get acute radiation sickness from those microwave attacks? Oh come on. And then the rest of them are unaffected, somehow? And then they go get medicine? What medicine? The kid as shown is dying an agonizing death within two weeks, you can get him painkillers, perhaps.
What the fuck was up with the deer? What was that supposed to do? You could cut all the scenes and nothing would change.
What’s up with the girls addiction to friends? It literally ends the movie somewhere in the middle or something because so many questions are left, so many threads opened that aren’t brought to a satisfying conclusion.
The writers had a cool idea yet had no idea what to do with it. 1.5 stars out of 5, it was a waste of my time
Fair warning: possible spoilers below.
<3
I actually liked it. it’s a really cool / scary atmosphere. I was surprised by how much i liked it as it’s been ages since i even dared to watch a Netflix-produced movie.
Anything post apocalypse is on my list. Idk what it is, I just love the setting.
I usually enjoy them. I’ve been watching them since all the way back to my childhood in the 80s when I spent my life terrified of nuclear war and yet still fascinated by the post-apocalyptic.
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).
Removed by mod
Nostalgia has a bigger effect on user ratings than it does on critic reviews.
Removed by mod
Yes, and those movies end up with a reasonable gap between the two scores. It will have a lower user score than critic score, but it’s only ever below 2 or 3 if it’s been brigaded. This can be easily confirmed by just reading a few of the user reviews.
Sound of Freedom Comes to mind as a recently brigaded film. Trailer came up for me on Prime and I didn’t realize what it was. I don’t care how embellished the story is, what based on a true story isn’t? But Jim Caviezel‘s acting in the trailer is so bad I can’t imagine sitting through it.
Just to prove you wrong: 32% difference, and yes it’s objectively terrible. Even higher differences can easily occur organically without review bombing when critics happen to be smelling their own farts – which yes is what a definite 100% of those 37% critics who reviewed it positively were doing. I’m seriously worried about their mental state.
Velma was absolutely review bombed. 39% is on par for what it is considering TV has on average higher rankings than movies do.
Be that as it may it’s still objectively terrible and has more than 30% difference, which was my actual point.
As to review bombing: It would likely not have caught so much flak if it was stand-alone and not a Scooby Doo reboot – then it would simply vanish alongside other terrible shows that few people ever saw and even fewer rated, with middling score because of course there’s always some people who like something for inexplicable reasons, and without attracting a larger audience those are pretty much the only people who vote because they’re the only ones who care.
But it had a brand name, it walks all over the original (and I don’t mean race swapping who gives a fuck, I mean thematically), is neither witty nor funny nor insightful so… yeah. No need for an organised campaign to draw ire, and if some racists spent time review-bombing it over the race swap then all the better: They wasted their time as noone likes it anyway.
I don’t buy that argument at all. It was entirely about changing the race of the characters and going after white men. Scooby Doo has been rebooted dozens of times and they just exist, they don’t make the originals worse. This new series is not a betrayal to the source material without Scooby anymore than the first time they had a real ghost. I don’t think I finished it, but it is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be. The Pilot is, but that’s pretty typical especially with a cast full of non-voice actors recording during Covid. By episode two and three everything is better put together. I found it similar to a lot of current high school shows. Mindy received a ton of hate over it too, and she’s neither the show runner or writer of it. She was running two other shows at the same time so it’s hilarious how many idiots claimed she’s a no talent hack over it.
This timeline is full of morons and faildogs. Hate it.
Netflix doesn’t give a single shit about online reviews. All they care about is if people are watching it. And the numbers are really good from what I read. But I guess the anti-woke brigade needs to do something to feel like they’re relevant.
I don’t think Netflix cares if you’re watching it, as long as you pay your subscription they are happy, and if you don’t watch anything it’s even better!
views == royalties. Views actually cut into their bottom line.
I’m missing something here, if they produce it and stream it, who would pay those royalties?
They would pay the “royalties”. It’s actually residuals, and it’s usually paid to the actors and senior crew (director, producers, etc), from what i understand.
Royalties are paid to, potentially, a lot of people. Most a-list actors will get royalties with every dvd sold (and increasingly views on streaming services,) and such like.
ohhh okay, so it’s even better if nobody watches it?
for netflix, yes. I assume Obamas and others make more with every view. maybe a few cents…but still.
Makes me want to go watch it. Racist idiots gonna be racist idiots.
It’s worth a watch. Don’t read anything else about it before watching.
You go girl!
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.
I enjoyed, it’s not the best movie but if you already pay for Netflix it’s worth a watch
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?
Name a product Google has that isn’t half assed? They were letting YouTube accounts impersonate account owners in comments at least as recently as last summer.
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
This is why we can’t have nice things
Nice of them to make it really easy to filter from good faith reviews.
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.
The interesting part of your comment is missing. You’ve set up “a deplorable watched and liked it - even knowing the Obamas produced it” and it was recommended to you, by him.
So, did you watch it? Did you like it?
I cancelled Netflix and haven’t had time to setup a VPN to go sailing for it yet. Planning to after the holidays let up.
I also cancelled Netflix a few months ago. Already sailing, but still have to watch this.
The movie is pretty bad tbh.
