Reviews for "Leave The World Behind" being brigaded with copy/paste negative reviews - presumably because it was produced by the Obamas.
Filter to 1-star and note how many reviews are direct copies of each other - many referencing that the Obamas are executive producers.
from the copy and pasted review:
Situations like these would bring you together, not force you apart.
Did any of these assholes pay attention to their own behavior during the pandemic?
People's behavior during the pandemic is why I'm absolutely sure there will never be another civil war.
What are these idiots going to do when they find their first empty grocery store?
They think they're going to go hunting in the woods. But they forget that even if they do manage to catch something they don't have any way of preparing it or cooking it without taking it back to civilization. They think gas just turns up in stoves and electricity in wires.
They would probably fall apart long before that though, all national guard would need to do would be to turn off the internet in that area, and they'd be stuck. They have no way of organizing themselves except on social media less than one in 100 of them will own and know how to operate a AM radio.
I kinda figured that’s why some of Meal Team 6 is kept around in reserve.
They were too busy snorting toilet paper and getting relief loans.
that's all the maga and far right do.. parrot each other ad infinitum
Correct, because they are incapable of actually thinking for themselves.
If they could, they wouldn't be conservatives.
Thanks Obama
Not even knowing that the Obamas had anything to do with it (like it matters at all?), I thought I was a refreshingly well-done movie in a genre I enjoy. Haters gonna hate.
I'd give it a 7/10. Didn't blow my mind but it was entertaining.
End was frustrating just because I wanted more. But it was a fun ride.
That was the point. That's what the whole daughter's plot is about.
I never heard about this movie before. Now I know it's a post-apocalyptic movie (love those) made by Sam Esmail (he did Mr. Robot, which was terrific). I guess it also happened to be produced by the Obamas.
So congratulations, reviewers. You got me interested in seeing a movie I didn't even know existed.
I actually liked it. it's a really cool / scary atmosphere. I was surprised by how much i liked it as it's been ages since i even dared to watch a Netflix-produced movie.
I saw it, didn't know who produced or directed it
Don't watch it, It had potential, I loved the main actors, but it sucked badly. Fair warning: possible spoilers below.
The music score is way too loud, and annoyingly weird. For example, rap music in a supposed suspense thriller movie at points that made no sense, then some romantic "there's about to be sweet sex" music while somebody walks through a house, exploring it. It was annoying when I watched it, we then had it on as background noise to hide sex sounds and had to turn it off because it was so damned annoying.
The story literally goes nowhere, yet is all over the place. The ending leaves loads of opened threads unfinished, and it's quite obvious that the writer(s) heard "cool" things yet failed to grasp the basics.
The microwave emitters they were talking about have ranges up to hundreds of meters, not the hundreds of square kilometers required to reach them in the middle of nowhere.
The airplane crashing was supposed to be cool but one had already crashed many hours before, why was this one still in the air? Also, you can't really "hack" airplanes to go down, pilots can easily take over.
The Tesla's famously can't drive themselves like they do in the movie
The kid would get acute radiation sickness from those microwave attacks? Oh come on. And then the rest of them are unaffected, somehow? And then they go get medicine? What medicine? The kid as shown is dying an agonizing death within two weeks, you can get him painkillers, perhaps.
What the fuck was up with the deer? What was that supposed to do? You could cut all the scenes and nothing would change.
What's up with the girls addiction to friends? It literally ends the movie somewhere in the middle or something because so many questions are left, so many threads opened that aren't brought to a satisfying conclusion.
The writers had a cool idea yet had no idea what to do with it. 1.5 stars out of 5, it was a waste of my time
Anything post apocalypse is on my list. Idk what it is, I just love the setting.
I usually enjoy them. I've been watching them since all the way back to my childhood in the 80s when I spent my life terrified of nuclear war and yet still fascinated by the post-apocalyptic.
For a few years now, I've purposely sought out movies and TV shows on RT and Metacritic with very high critic ratings, and super low user ratings.
The only time this really happens is if reviews are brigaded. If the user reviews were honest, it's pretty rare that you'd see more than 20-30% difference between critic and user score (MAX). So when you see a critic score of 95%, and user score of 1.8/10, then I know I'm in for a good time. Same with games to a lesser degree.
I'm not even kidding, this is almost always a sure way to find a film or show I enjoy. In fact, I wish they'd introduce a "Controversial" category with things that have a big gap between critic and user scores (though when it goes the other way, that is high user score to super poor critic reviews, it's almost always PureFlix-style Christian propaganda garbage).
Yes, and those movies end up with a reasonable gap between the two scores. It will have a lower user score than critic score, but it's only ever below 2 or 3 if it's been brigaded. This can be easily confirmed by just reading a few of the user reviews.
Can you give some examples? I'd love to discover some gems.
Word of warning - I usually find that movies on rotten tomatoes with low critic scores and high audience scores are hitting the midweek sweet spot for me. Low cerebral requirement, high distraction. If you get me.
I've found the same thing, critic scores are harder to use as predictors because there is too much variance between their individual special opinions about the importance of character development vs the average user enjoying a movie for what it is. Obviously crap is crap, but a 56% critic and 82% user score is usually more appealing than vice versa
Another example of a movie where the audience score is higher than the critic score is Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Not sure if this applies in general to movies "so bad they are good" (though personally, at this point I believe Tommy knew what he was doing because he's been able to repeat that "so bad it's good" despite knowing how they are received, whereas if it was really driven by his ego, I'm sure that same ego would have forced him to change it up to get the critical acclaim the was supposedly chasing.)
Literally anything critical of Christianity (or anything that could even be perceived as critical of Christianity, we can't actually expect them to watch it first).
I guess I should have kept better track over the years... Let me see if I can find a few.
An obvious one (video game though) that I can think of off hand is The Last of Us 2. Fantastic game, user scores brigaded everywhere "because gay/trans."
In fact, I think The Last of US TV show was review bombed after episode 3. Again, "because gay."
The TV show "The Watchmen" was brigaded by users (not sure if they've filtered those out, or if the score has been adjusted since, but when it originally aired, user scores were very very low due to review bombing). Anyone who's seen the show could tell you exactly why that happened.
Here is an article about it happening to a film about the Armenian Genocide (I haven't seen the film so I can't say if it's good, but I'm sure it doesn't deserve 1-star)
I will have to try to keep track from now on. Sometimes it becomes a cultural moment, like with TLOU, but lots of times it goes under the radar, and a show/movie/game gets quietly fucked over by idiots on the internet who have no interest in even trying the media first.
Sound of Freedom Comes to mind as a recently brigaded film. Trailer came up for me on Prime and I didn’t realize what it was. I don’t care how embellished the story is, what based on a true story isn’t? But Jim Caviezel‘s acting in the trailer is so bad I can’t imagine sitting through it.
Just to prove you wrong: 32% difference, and yes it's objectively terrible. Even higher differences can easily occur organically without review bombing when critics happen to be smelling their own farts -- which yes is what a definite 100% of those 37% critics who reviewed it positively were doing. I'm seriously worried about their mental state.
Ok... Finding one exception doesn't really disprove anything. I don't think I ever claimed that it was a hard rule that every movie fits into. Just a rule a thumb I use to find media that I otherwise might have missed.
This timeline is full of morons and faildogs. Hate it.
Holy deranged
Don't even consider watching this movie!!!!! Horrible movie. If I could leave zero stars I would. I would say the Obama’s should stick to politics but unfortunately I can’t say that either. Regardless, this review sums it up very well: Zero stars needs to be an option. One reviewer posted an excellent review of this movie, so I had to copy and paste. "If you care about using your time wisely, then avoid this film like the plague. But if you like watching terribly written media, then by all means grab a snack and relax. Because this film is the embodiment of utter garbage. The first, and to me, the greatest red flag is seeing the Obamas as executive producers. The movie just changed far too many times, giving you more questions than answers. Family on the beach, a supposed home invasion, planes crashing, a brat obsessed with Friends, hackers start the end of the world, animals migrate for no apparent reason, son is poisoned by radiation yet no one else is and not to mention the blatant racial themes etc. Just a heaping mess of a pile. None of the characters are developed and slowly turn against each other. Situations like these would bring you together, not force you apart. You’d come to hate a few others, such as the daughter who treats Friends like a god and the other daughter, Ruth, who not only has a spoiled attitude but she assumes things on everyone and also believes you should never trust white people. I wish I were joking. And I quote: "I'm asking for you to remember that if the world falls apart, trust should not be doled out easily to anyone, especially white people." This had no relevance to the film at all! If this statement was flipped around, watch how things would go. I guess her name “Ruth” is short for ruthless. Because she did not act nice to anyone, not even her own father at times. If they removed her from the script, it would have made this film somewhat better. But not enough to save it. But the fact this made it through production baffles me. Then again, remind yourself of who the executive producers were. As for the “terrorist” act itself, it just isn’t clear which nation is the main driving force of it all. First some Arabic country to then either Korea or China. No idea because this is never answered. Nor were a lot of things. Where was the military? The actual forces of the nation. Apparently they do not exist, so everyone has to fend for themselves. Granted we do live in a technological world, but planes wouldn’t be crashing nor boats intentionally grounding themselves if everything was hacked. Analog exists. Pilots can still operate a plane without working apparatus etc. I’d go on but other reviews capture the level of frustration this “movie” brings the table. It’s bad. At least the daughter got to watch the last episode of Friends, after running off with neither brains nor brawn. Ate a large supply of food and somehow, found a VHS tape that oh so conveniently had Friends. Leaving her family to die. I wonder what she’ll think after the episode is over. Probably happiness, not a care for her family, as a show takes more priority than the end of the world." If I could give this movie a rating less than one star I would!!!
This is a perfect simulation of unhinged 90s/00s chain emails your aunt would forward you. All it’s missing is a title like “FW: FW: FW: FW: OPEN, very important!!!!!” and instructions to forward it to more people.
oh wow that exact review is clearly being bot reposted
Maybe I should quit hanging around the internet now. I'd rather hang out with humans than bots.
Wow that review is being copy/pasted everywhere and reposted to multiple review sites under many usernames. I thought the movie was pretty good and it’s based on a book that doesn’t answer the questions that the viewer is asking. That is part of the story l, not REALLY knowing what is going on. It’s like the whole theme, not to know for sure. It mentions the military in the final scenes so we have a guess on what they are up to.
It feels like somebody get a printout of the events of the story without any context or meaning. Like the last comment says the girl left her family to die. No. The entire family is meeting her at the bunker.
I guess that factual correctness is not the goal. If one reads a "review" and decides not to watch, they win; if one decides to watch, they lose. Doesn't matter if the "review" contradicts the reality.
Well the same is accurate for many things said nowadays, unfortunately
Totally how normal people behave.
Makes me want to go watch it. Racist idiots gonna be racist idiots.
It's worth a watch. Don't read anything else about it before watching.
You go girl!
It's not great. Definitely more than 1 star but I watched it the other day and couldn't remember a thing about it until looking up the plot summary just now. It's one of those movies that could be amazing if it stuck the landing but I personally don't feel like it did. I voted for Obama twice so my opinion is not politically motivated.
I enjoyed, it's not the best movie but if you already pay for Netflix it's worth a watch
Excellent movie. I only watched it because a friend referred to it as “that Obama movie that says don’t trust whitey” I figured that’s gotta be a must watch lol
It seems extremely trivial for Google to automatically delete all those identical reviews. Why they aren't doing this? On play store many times they delete my reviews because they think it's irrelevant to the product, here where they're all identical?
Name a product Google has that isn’t half assed? They were letting YouTube accounts impersonate account owners in comments at least as recently as last summer.
This is why we can't have nice things
Nice of them to make it really easy to filter from good faith reviews.
My local trump trump supporter LOVED it and recommended I watch it. Despite the Obamas involvement (his words more or less).
He has the whole survivalist kink thing though.
The interesting part of your comment is missing. You've set up "a deplorable watched and liked it - even knowing the Obamas produced it" and it was recommended to you, by him.
So, did you watch it? Did you like it?
The movie is pretty bad tbh.
Solid movie. Watched it a week ago. Had no idea who was behind it.
Okay but it is definitely a garbage movie. The plot is terrible. Come on, guys.
Eh, it wasn't great, but far from "garbage". There's more than 2 scores.
It was alright, suspenseful but I didn't get the deer part
I have read that it somehow symbolizes nature trying to warn us about climate change or something but that doesn't make sense to me.
I liked it, but I didn't know it was produced by Obama when I watched it, so didn't have any preconceptions.
Here's a great rundown / critique of that movie 😆
I wish that lady would stop the whispering ASMR voice. I find it so grating
I thought the movie was pretty good. The ending was a bit anticlimactic but maybe that was the point.
If I was going to leave a review (which I'm not), it would be one star because the ending sucked out loud, not because of any politics.
Nah just a bad movie.
It really could have benefited from a cohesive plot.
I actually liked it and was really surprised about it. It being a Netflix produced film and all that. It was definitely a vibes movie and it excelled at that. No dense plot needed here.
And less Ethan Hawke.
Obama's a terrible person who killed tens of thousands of civilians, we should be boycotting any new project he's involved with. The man ought to be tried for war crimes.
Name a president who didn’t kill people
"That guy is a murderer" "Have you considered that other people are also murderers" what's your point.
Your FSB handler must be the type to reward activity instead of efficacy. Hope that Kremlin monopoly money is worth it.
maybe this sort of thing will be what biden does too
get in on office with promises to change things to the better and quarter ass the job get nothing done you promised on the campaign trail and when you are done leaving things worse than when you got in people still support you to do things such as produce films
democrats and republicans are definitely in the same bed on this
what about the anti vape laws obama signed in that trump supported that were also supported by biden helping to create the vape problem we have now such as shops selling whatever product with no evaluations or lab reports and stamping out the research needed for better products and that help exacerbate the current cannabis laws and policing laws as well
obama came in on empty promises just like trump and biden and watched sports games and fucked around his whole four years came out with more support after doing nothing and using that to still make money like obamas book
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/biden-promise-tracker/?ruling=true
obama did at least get more that he promised done but still at less than 50% and the damage done by his policies are still carrying on to today and he is using the clout he got doing it to expand his coffers wild people vote for this and yell support for blindly while being wounded by these politicians policies
Obama .. like Trump
Yeah, though Obama did a shit tonne of things wrong, he actually worked quite hard on trying to get shit done, a lot of which, quite famously got stopped by republicans as he didn't have the house.
Also, saying that Obama didn't do anything LIKE TRUMP is just so painfully dumb. Trump is quite famous for -amongst things- spending like a quarter of his time on the golf course, something that can't be said of Obama.
Obama was a imperfect president, Trump is a sick joke.
Anti-vape laws have everything to do with a post-apocalyptic movie. You've connected all the dots!