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It’s the Ghostbusters 2016 strategy: blame negative reactions on bigots until everyone gets the chance to see for themselves that your product is trash.

by vlunkr 4y ago

rileymat2 4y ago
I enjoyed the 2016 ghostbusters, in particular McKinnon and Hemsworth. I can see someone involved trying to justify the lackluster economic performance.
- vlunkr 4y ago
  That's fair, I was being hyperbolic. I thought I would like it, the cast is obviously great. The humor just fell flat for me.
  - midoridensha 4y ago
    Like so many bad movies, it had terrible direction. Just look at George Lucas's SW prequels. Having a great cast is useless if the director is bad.
denlekke 4y ago
i can't speak to what happened with Ghostbusters 2016 but before watching I checked the metacritic user reviews for LOTR:ROP and there was blatant "review bombing" if that's the right term, where it was so blatantly obvious that a large proportion of the 0/10 reviews were manufactured by one person. (they made the exact same points, and had ~100 users supporting that review, whereas genuine appearing reviews rating 2-8 had at most ~5 users supporting a review)
- DiggyJohnson 4y ago
  Your confidence is astounding.
  - denlekke 4y ago
    yeah that's fair. i should have said "a large proportion of the 0/10 reviews i looked at" and even then i admit that there is no perfect way to determine what is and isn't a fake review. i guess i have very little faith that any platform does any work to combat review bombing so i take a very skeptical look at anything i see. i'd also wish for more powerful user tools to automate some of the things that looked suspicious to me such as filtering the score to exclude new accounts, accounts which have only reviewed one thing, reviews that are just the exact same sentence, reviews which have tons of "helpful" reactions the moment they are posted.
mola 4y ago
Oh comeon, Ghostbusters 2016 was genuinely bad. It had an incoherent plot that went nowhere. The first episode of ROP was OK, amazing production value, a laying out of foundation, some nice fight scene. Nothing especially bad nor especially good. The vitroil against this show is so obviously manufactured.

It’s the Ghostbusters 2016 strategy: blame negative reactions on bigots until everyone gets the chance to see for themselves that your product is trash.

by vlunkr 4y ago

It’s the Ghostbusters 2016 strategy: blame negative reactions on bigots until everyone gets the chance to see for themselves that your product is trash.

rileymat2 4y ago

I enjoyed the 2016 ghostbusters, in particular McKinnon and Hemsworth. I can see someone involved trying to justify the lackluster economic performance.

vlunkr 4y ago
That's fair, I was being hyperbolic. I thought I would like it, the cast is obviously great. The humor just fell flat for me.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  Like so many bad movies, it had terrible direction. Just look at George Lucas's SW prequels. Having a great cast is useless if the director is bad.

denlekke 4y ago

i can't speak to what happened with Ghostbusters 2016 but before watching I checked the metacritic user reviews for LOTR:ROP and there was blatant "review bombing" if that's the right term, where it was so blatantly obvious that a large proportion of the 0/10 reviews were manufactured by one person. (they made the exact same points, and had ~100 users supporting that review, whereas genuine appearing reviews rating 2-8 had at most ~5 users supporting a review)

DiggyJohnson 4y ago
Your confidence is astounding.
- denlekke 4y ago
  yeah that's fair. i should have said "a large proportion of the 0/10 reviews i looked at" and even then i admit that there is no perfect way to determine what is and isn't a fake review. i guess i have very little faith that any platform does any work to combat review bombing so i take a very skeptical look at anything i see. i'd also wish for more powerful user tools to automate some of the things that looked suspicious to me such as filtering the score to exclude new accounts, accounts which have only reviewed one thing, reviews that are just the exact same sentence, reviews which have tons of "helpful" reactions the moment they are posted.

mola 4y ago

Oh comeon, Ghostbusters 2016 was genuinely bad. It had an incoherent plot that went nowhere. The first episode of ROP was OK, amazing production value, a laying out of foundation, some nice fight scene. Nothing especially bad nor especially good. The vitroil against this show is so obviously manufactured.