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Ironically, this was kind of a lie too. I was being nice; I was very sure what they meant (and explained in great detail why my interpretation was the only one that made sense) but I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt until they clarified it since I didn't feel like drilling that point any more than I already had. There was no hoping or guessing or lying about knowing; I knew.
Edit: It occurs to me that you may not have seen this part of the thread, where they confirm my interpretation, before you made your comment replying to them elsewhere: https://lemmy.world/comment/14530165
If you didn't mean your comment as an insult, then I apologize for getting hostile. What was the simple concept you were trying to explain to me?
The same one I've been saying the entire time- that a small vocal group can bring down a movie's performance before it is ever even made by announcing that it's woke and that you can tell very little about a movie's quality if a movie has yet to be made even if it still later turns out to be a bad movie.
In fact, even movies that people expect to be terrible sometimes aren't bad. Uwe Boll made a whole lot of god-awful movies and he also made Rampage, which was pretty good.
It didn't matter in the end whether Captaim Marvel was good or bad- I will note that I have looked it up now and both user opinions and professional reviews I am looking up seem to agree in general that it was good and its sequel much less so from everywhere from the IMDB to Rotten Tomatoes- because it was doomed before a screenplay was written.
I should also point out that you initially said this:
And yet the latter did far worse at the box office than the former. It was a complete disaster.
Oh. Yeah I agree that people can tank box office performance by calling a movie woke. My point was that not all criticisms of such a movie are based on its wokeness. I thought that was clearer than I may have made it. Sorry for being a dick about it.
It surprises me that professional reviews rank them in that order.