Usually, I'm just like "well that movie sucked" and I forget about it. But the backlash-to-the-backlash coming from the professional critics is interesting to me.
They all use the same terminology like "vocal minority". They all praise the movie on meta levels (i.e. the director is so brave, bold, daring, subversive) rather than on the story, pacing, characterization itself. You can do both at the same time. This movie didn't.
Reminds me of when people criticized Ghostbusters, and all the professional critics started saying that we're just hardcore Ghostbusters fanboys who are mad at women being in movies.
Or when people got mad at Iron Man 3, and the critics tried to convince us we're just angry Mandarin fanboys who wanted to see racist Chinese stereotypes.
Never thought I'd see the industry attacking Ghostbuster and Mandarin "fanboys". I don't even know wtf that is. I'm a casual fan who barely remembers the original trilogy. I just want to see a good story. The director/screenwriter can do whatever he wants, kill whoever he wants, as long as I'm entertained. I wasn't.
The mouse made him fall back...
