For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don’t think it’s excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art.

IMO it would have been better received if it wasn’t advertised as an Earthsea adaptation and was just its own thing.

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    Here’s the flipside of this phenomenon:

    The Little Mermaid (2023)

    Absolutely awful, atrocious, lazy cinema. It had a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. When they do the whole under the sea scene, none of the sounds align with anything happening on screen. The plot was garbo. They’ve got a whole song dedicated to the cruelty of eating fish as if fish never eat any fish, and then that’s still not as bad as the fucking “scuttlebutt” song.

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      Wait, really? I thought it was pretty universally hated. I wonder if critics gave it good scores for fear of being lumped in with the idiots who were pissed with Ariel being played by a black woman.

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        The 94% is an “audience score”. The only way I can rationalize it is they used a bot network, but I’ve got no proof. Maybe just a bunch of parents who took their kids rated it highly? 10,000 of them.

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          Ever considered you weren’t the target demographic?

          I bet tons of little kids loved the movie. It became like a frozen to them.

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              Yeah, of course not lol. It was actually 20,000 children ages 5-11, because each review was written by two kids in a big coat to get past the bot filters.

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    Anything fourth wave Marvel, people were done after infinity wars and just shit on anything since because it’s too much nerddom on their systems. I still loved she-hulk but people didn’t.

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    Love The Last Airbender movie and people basically think I’m trolling when I share that. I’ve watched it multiple times, I love it, I like it better than the Netflix series even. One of my all time favorite movies.

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      7 months ago

      Even taking the premise of this thread, I still think you’re trolling. I just can’t comprehend this point of view

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        My theory is that M Night Shyamalan was asked to make all three Avatar movies so he could make Split, but made it bad on purpose so he wouldn’t have to make the other two.

        My evidence is him using a quarry as a prison for the earthbenders.