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did people start hating this movie because of the Nostalgia Critic review?

posted 6 years ago by [deleted]
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It seems like ever since Doug's review came out, people have become far more critical of this film than before. More often than not, detractors tend to paraphrase the Nostalgia Critic's points. That it's pretentious, that its acting is bland, that its romance is forced etc etc. The same thing happened with Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. I disagree with most of these critiques, but I'm not here to argue that. What I wanna ask is, how many of you found yourself being more critical towards this film after seeing Nostalgia Critic's review.

Please, be honest.

[–] Ace_Spade (9658) 6 years ago

I think people started to light this film up a little bit once the sequels came out. The first film is such a gobsmacker of a movie that it (rightly) blew people away; I love it. The second two films are ho-hum action-sci-fi pictures and tarnished the legacy of the original, opening the gate for people to start in with high levels of criticism.

I just don't listen to the detractors. The film has style in spades and a lot of depth. Don't care what anybody else says.