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8.4 on imdb , but all the recent user reviews are bad

posted 5 months ago by tom8 (3119)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23468450/reviews?sort=submissionDate&dir=desc&ratingFilter=0

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looks like this movie received positive review bombing before it even premiered.

[–] CaptBeefBlower (250) 5 months ago

Movie hype has been a huge problem post-Covid. It seems to have started with Everything, Everywhere, blah blah blah. A lot of mediocre films and TV shows are getting hyped to the skies.

[–] WhereIsRent (1080) 4 months ago

Longlegs lived up to the hype for me, it delivered on that sense of dread from the trailers. Dune: Part Two, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Furiosa, Civil War and A Quiet Place: Day One all lived to the hype though for me.

I do agree though that some films have been overhyped like Late Night with the Devil, how that got critical acclaim I have no idea. Yes it's original but it's executed so poorly that it's an absolute waste of that original premise.

[–] CraigJamesReview (1717) 4 months ago

There seems to be a major push to turn everything that's even competently made into a masterpiece, maybe by people who can't seem to take the fact that movies and theaters are really struggling for relevance post Covid. I've been very upset by it but to call everything a masterpiece is just insane.

Now this is well made and Perkins may turn out to be a horror maestro in his own right but to say this good movie has been way overinflated is not wrong.

If anyone's interested, I reviewed the movie on my youtube channel. Appreciate any feedback. Trying to improve -
https://youtu.be/sIpuq9ORZhc

[–] CalvinJarrett (451) 4 months ago

That's exactly what happened. Imdb should probably prevent voting until a movie is officially released in theaters (or on Netflix, whatever the platform). Longlegs is not an 8.4 film, and the average will track downward as more people view the movie. I suppose imdb wants to get as many people to see the movie as possible, but they are trading their credibility for money that they're not even receiving. Longlegs' rating is going to drop like a stone when more and more people sit through this poorly paced, lazily written film.

[–] Satan2016 (25525) 4 months ago

It's down to 7.4 but Metacritic is higher at 78. The high 8.4 was the result of rating the trailers!

[–] Diddy1111 (401) 4 months ago

For me it was a 6 or a 7. It will probably end up around 7.2 or something when it settles.

I liked the ending but the pacing to get there was very slow.

[–] [deleted] 4 months ago

This is par for the course. Pretty much every single movie opens to high ratings and trends downwards.

Some of the biggest offenders are franchise entries where an influx of opening day fanboys gleefully rate their beloved new franchise entry a whopping 10/10.