Star Wars: The Acolyte

[ZaCHw117]

I only cf the dialogue and acting to the PT nothing else

PT dialogue is wooden, I’ll give ya that. Though I don’t think it’s near as wooden as this.

 

[choombaz]

PT dialogue is wooden, I’ll give ya that. Though I don’t think it’s near as wooden as this.

The best moments in the PT are dialogue free

No shock there

 

[jye4ever]

WAIT…

The budget for this cosplay atrocity was 170 million!!!!

Where did it go I just don’t see it!

Is Robert Downing Jr in this lol

I love Carry Ann Moss but she was in it for just a few minutes.

 

[Shai]

Its not fear, its disgust.

 

[Khev]

WAIT…

The budget for this cosplay atrocity was 170 million!!!!

Where did it go I just don’t see it!

Is Robert Downing Jr in this lol

I love Carry Ann Moss but she was in it for just a few minutes.

120 million went to RT critics, lol.

 

[Wor-Gar]

The execs we all hate shave off the better portion of that budget. Its a grift.

 

[pixletwin]

I have yet to see anyone mention how Coruscant has cut and paste buildings.

 

[ZaCHw117]

I have yet to see anyone mention how Coruscant has cut and paste buildings.

Jeremy caught that and it made me chuckle, he was totally right. Looked like a PS2 game.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I have yet to see anyone mention how Coruscant has cut and paste buildings.

For $170M?

 

[ZaCHw117]

For $170M?

They had to Pay George for the B-Roll prequel footy. That man drinks the finest wines with his Big Mac’s.

 

[chrisstbh]

Do people think the budget is equally distributed across all episodes?

 

[ZaCHw117]

Do people think the budget is equally distributed across all episodes?

About $22 Million an episode give or take the finale, I’d like to see Cannibal Campout 2-8 made with that budget.

We may even get a Hawt Toy out of em’.

 

[jye4ever]

Do people think the budget is equally distributed across all episodes?

if that’s the case that last episode better look like $169 million lol

 

[Khev]

 

[Felinx]

So many claims of review bombing and there likely is some, but everyone ignores the artificial review inflation from paid and unpaid shills, bots and those looking to stick it to the evil fans (there are tons, you can tell just by reading those super positive reviews). I say ignore all the 1/5 and 5/5 scores and see how the average looks then.

Also keep in mind, a 5.1 out of 10 is considered a positive review by RT. Many of those "fresh" reviews are not what anyone would consider positive. When you take that in to account the disconnect between critic and audience scores shrinks a lot.



From what I have seen so far, this show is not the worst quality Star Wars show so far. Thus far it has yet to harm the lore as much as the ST. The dialogue is terrible and the story appears to lack logic while being laiden with modern political messaging so it isn't a masterpiece either. I expect the show to be a 4/10 in the end. If it destroys the lore in a massive way it won't matter how good the production value, acting, direction, set design etc etc is, fans will consider it a 1/10 even if normies consider it an 8/10. Part of how good something is is how well it fits into the larger puzzle.

It seems nobody even noticed when the whole TV/movie review landscape got ideologically captured probably 5-7 years ago.

Certain types of movies/TV really can't get bad reviews anymore, so even beyond the deeply corrupt way RT operates now (there was always an element of "buying reviews" all along, but RT and others have taken it to a new level,) you can't rely even on the reviews themselves.

Sad to some degree - criticism used to be an art, something that required real knowledge, wisdom and experience and reviewers sometimes went on to become noted artists in their own right (Truffaut, Bogdanovich etc.)

 

[Asta]

A suspicious upsurge from 26% overnight on Rotten Tomatoes...

...but good old reliable IMDB dropped from 4.6...

IMDB has 435 written reviews.

They breakdown as:

145 x 1 star (33.33%)
59 x 2 stars
50 x 3 stars
30 x 4 stars
21 x 5 stars
15 x 6 stars
28 x 7 stars
26 x 8 stars
22 x 9 stars
35 x 10 stars (8.05%)

(There are four more reviews than there are stars).


The 1s form a similar percentage to those for The Last Jedi ratings: 2392/6886 (34.73%).

The 10s are also very similar: 559/6886 (8.11%).

 

[Asta]

IMDB ratings not attached to written reviews:

Circa 19,000 votes, and obviously a simpler way of either sticking it to or supporting Disney without having to write anything.


Ahsoka got some stick, but the numbers on IMDB are much, much kinder than they currently are for The Acolyte:

The sudden drop off (i.e., backlash) from one series to the next is pretty staggering.

 

[Felinx]

Disney stock price has roughly halved in the three years since March 2021 (in context of Dow gaining from around 31,500 to around 40,000 in same period) and while that's largely to do with sluggish parks, it's also a measure of the overall picture with streaming at the core of that.

They have pinkie-promised streaming will soon be profitable but with this kind of thing happening time and again - shooting themselves in the foot on purpose - you have to wonder what they are thinking, and how much longer they can keep up this kind of thinking.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Sluggish parks means they're priced too high.

Streaming profits still seem difficult to quantify to me. There's some very creative booking keeping going on.

 

[Mandible]

I have yet to see anyone mention how Coruscant has cut and paste buildings.

I didn't mention it because it's quality is in line with the rest of the show.

Is there an emoji for flatlined?