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Jason's avatar

How much of the increased prevalence of 1 star reviews post-2015ish can be attributed to social media hate campaigns and the rise (?) of review bombing? I wonder how many of the movies getting a lot of 1 star ratings in recent years have higher average scores than the movies getting a lot of 1 star ratings in the past. Is there higher variance in audience scores of movies in the last decade? I think of things like Last Jedi or Black Panther getting a lot of praise while also getting a high absolute number of 1 star ratings.

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Decarceration's avatar

I do think, unfortunately, that it's as simple as the work that goes into "loving" and "hating", work that often isn't worth it. A lot of people go to the movies and they don't WATCH a movie, they just LOOK at it. And if you ask someone who went to go see "Madame Web" with a friend, there's a very good chance that, more than "I hated it" or "I loved it", the sentiment would actually be closer to, "A movie happened."

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Kristen's avatar

The fact Ishtar no longer comes up automatically in this kind of article makes me feel really old.

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Charles in San Francisco's avatar

"All forms of press can be beneficial—even if it involves rendering an anatomically correct cat anus... In a world of too much content, the worst fate is simply to be forgotten." This seems to be the ethos of our current regime in Washington!

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Andrew Bogle's avatar

LOVE this article; thank you!! Was just joking with friends this past weekend about both Morbius AND Madame Web; great times!!!

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