epicurean said:
I have no idea what the reason was (I doubt it has anything to do with diverse leads), but I have never left a movie more confused about how it was so loved by critics. I truly felt the movie was trash, not just because it didn't live up to my expectations, but just that it failed as a basic movie with a decent plot and character development. It just screams terrible to me. I'm 39 years old and have no idea how many movies and critic reviews I've read, and I've never even considered this before for any other movie, but I have to wonder if there was money given to critics or SOMETHING that influenced them. I understand there can be different opinions, but the near universal praise just doesn't make sense. |
Star Wars is a huge franchise and having access to that franchise means needing to go through Disney. Not everyone is invited to a press screening, a privilege that can be revoked at any time which means your review gets out later than all the other reviews which in turn costs you visits of your review website.
That's one way critics could be influenced.
