• The Dark Lord ☑️
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    356 months ago

    The last one could just have just been review bombed because it was “woke” for casting a person of colour as the lead, or a woman.

    • swayevenly
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      6 months ago

      Third one can be the opposite. Reviewers rating it on how unwoke(?) the movie is.

      RedLetterMedia had a great bit on this.

    • @jonsnothere@beehaw.org
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      36 months ago

      Yeah, in fact I think that’s a majority of those cases. Vocal minority of reactionaries and/or fans disappointed that their expectations weren’t met despite the product on its own being good