Film criticism is dead

Majority of critics rated both TLJ and TFA positively while fans immediately recognized their severe shortcomings. These people get invited to exclusive screenings, receive gifts and free trips so long as you don't disobey the mouse. Now that Disney owns almost half of Hollywood it seems critics realize it's bow or die.

You're totally right. This is the very beginning of critics liking a movie for being a coherent, affecting story rather than fan service porn.

These films are fan service as fuck though. Especially TFA.

>coherent
>The republic is now the resistance and First Order rebels now the Empire that also wipe out the entire Republic with just a button push of a device that is never explained how is logistically possible
>coherent

>First Order rebels
Watch the movie first and it'll all make sense.

>these people get invited to exclusive screenings, receive gifts and free trips so long as you don't disobey
Is this new? Shit like this has been going on for years - critics of any sort from film to products.
All of these goons will change their tune after this weekend, depending upon the RT score of the audience. If it goes below 50%, then expect a lot of "well, upon seeing it again, I thought it wasn't as good."

The First Order is portrayed as a the scattered remains of the Empire.

Just how was this small part of the old Empire able to turn an entire planet into a Death Star that cpuld wipe out entire star systems with just one button push?

Why does the Republic refer to themselves as "the resistance" when they're not rebels anymore?

That's right, because Disney thinks you're too dumb to even consider how retarded all this shit is.

They were trying to use the OT as a selling point. The more like the OT the better.
Plus, it didn't help that JewJew pulled the story out of his ass by making a new trilogy based upon the idea of if the natzi's in Argentina started the war again. Fucking Jews can't let the war go

I mean even that would've maybe been ok if he respected the laws of logic. Show their ascension to power. Not start the fucking film with Empire rebels being more powerful than the actual Empire at the height of its power. That's not a continuation. That's as you say just a disguised reboot.

>while fans immediately recognized their severe shortcomings

you spend to much time here, leave the echo chamber and try to think for yourself

>while fans immediately recognized their severe shortcomings
Most fans liked TFA. Time to step out of your Sup Forums bubble.

Its also astounding that any criticism is met with harsh backlash.
"If you didn't like a single aspect of the movie, it just means you're an awful person"

>perfectly calculated product with "star wars" slapped on
>coherent, affecting story
The state of shills.

>OP genuinely thinks that people outside of the Sup Forums bubble bobble babble hated TFA when it initially came out
o i am laffin

Is he our only hope

He's going to like TLJ and praise it, he liked TFA so why wouldn't he love this latest shit

this is correct

in the real world, people who didn't like the Disney SW films are few and far between.

Critics have been absolute useless scum for quite a while now.

Look into (decent) literary critic Harold Bloom's complaints on what he calls the "School of Resentment", which he so named to describe how criticism started to shift towards questions of social politics based in resentment over gender, race, class, and sex... and pretty much nothing else.

Which as we see now is a really shallow and arbitrary form of criticism that reveals the critics as really having no real knowledge of or engagement with the work, but as just wanting to spin everything to suit some peripheral political conversation they were taught to push while in college.

>you were alive to see the beginning of our cyberpunk dystopia where people's reviews are more accurate measures of quality than corrupt qualified critics.
Cool, expected to look cooler by now though, it just looks like the 2000's but gayer and darker.

MOUSE FUCK GET IN THE FUCKING GAS CHAMBER

You're a dumbass if you actually believe that.

He'll feel conflicted about it.

Jay will say he liked that it had the director's personal vision.

Rich will laugh uncontrollably all the while dismissing the film as whatever.

Mike was fan-drunk on TFA. RLM never backpedaled on RO, so why would they cave here?

They killed Luke.

>based in resentment over gender, race, class, and sex... and pretty much nothing else.

Oh yeah, "colonialism". That's one other thing critics will talk about. And body image, mainly just as concerns the right of obese women to tell themselves they're healthy. :/

Film critics are like the original fake news.

There are a few who get enough fuck you money to somehow manage to usually tell sort of the truth, but come the fuck on. These guys are on the marketing team for studios.

The Empire wasn't small when Sideous was killed. It's reasonable to think someone could take command and form The First Order

Why they called it that idk, more like sloppy seconds

Yeah no. Opening week sure. But after a year it was impossible to enter a TFA discussion without people criticizing its derivative nature. Consider it the honey moon between SW fans and Disey that over time eroded.

Why is Rey's outfit so hot?

This. Anyone have that image of Mike praising TFA with a hipster hair cut?

A friend of mine refers to TFA as "Star Wars: The Apology." It's Disney proving they can handle the franchise, after the prequels landed with a thud. They did a pretty decent job. With all the nostalgia out of the way, though, they dropped the fucking ball. It's a polished product, and China will buy tons of tickets, but its 'story' is held together with gum and duct tape, almost as badly as Guardians 2. It has nothing meaningful to say, which was kind of why people fondly regarded the orginal trilogy in the first fucking place. Some would call this a problem.

More then that no one even talks about these movies. I’ve had three conversation with three different groups of people talking about fuvking stranger things this week.

The mouse can make money though.

The media is bought and paid for, it wouldn't be surprising that Disney could influence / pay off reviewers for shill reviews. Same goes for other companies. That's why I always read user reviews or watch youtube videos on it. Luckily it's easy to filter out sycophantic shills

Fans liked TFA more than critics though. Just because they're pissed that Luke died doesn't mean they know shit.

Film critics today rate whichever movie that has the most buzz, production value and nostalgia high scores. It's not about story or substance anymore, it's about the package, what it looks like, if you know what I mean.

User reviews are iffy because people can unfairly harsh for personal reasons, like when they feel their childhood was attacked.

Not really there. Movies with huge ad campaigns like BR2049 got average reviews. Or the reboot of The Mummy which was panned. If it was really that easy WB would've just paid for good reviews like Disney supposedly does.

Fuck off with that shit Blade Runner 2049 was critically acclaimed, but it actually deserved it.

We're talking about hot names behind a production, hot directors, stars, etc; usually going with a "solid script" but is ultimately forgettable.

Non capeshit, nu disney wars wise, The Revenant comes to mind. Summed up, Movies with high production values you only watch once.

>TFA was Antarctica Nazis
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