cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13458510

It seems some Star Wars fans are accidentally review bombing the 2008 Australian horror film Acolytes instead of The Acolyte Disney+ series. The Acolyte is the latest live-action Star Wars series to air on Disney+, premiering its first two episodes on June 4, with new episodes airing weekly until the finale on July 16. The show has earned mostly positive reviews from critics so far, but it has been incredibly divisive among Star Wars fans, to say the least.

At the time of this writing, the Rotten Tomatoes critic score for The Acolyte is a respectable 84%, while its audience score is an abysmal 16%. Without delving into spoilers, there are Star Wars fans who are not happy about some of the creative choices in the show, feeling as though it doesn’t fit with the rest of the Star Wars canon. Others are not impressed with the show’s quality, and are unhappy at the direction the Star Wars franchise has been going in general. There are also some people who are upset that the show focuses on female characters and has a diverse cast.

Those unhappy with The Acolyte, whether it’s due to legitimate criticism about the show’s quality or anger over its “woke” content, have taken to Rotten Tomatoes to let their displeasure be known, spamming the series with low ratings to bring down its audience score. However, some individuals seem to have gotten lost, instead review bombing the 2008 Australian horror film Acolytes, which has nothing to do with the Star Wars franchise in any capacity. Now, the Acolytes film was never popular with audiences anyway; from what we can see using the Way Back Machine, it’s gone from about a 42% audience score to a 33% audience score. Still, it does seem as though its score has been impacted by Star Wars fans who actually want to review bomb The Acolyte instead.

  • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    283·
    5 months ago

    I agree. For me, it wasn’t Kenobi but Book of Boba Fett. I really enjoyed the show, however, when I went online, somehow all Star Wars fans called it the worst ever made.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      28·
      5 months ago

      I didn’t like the Book of Boba Fett, but only because I wanted a different show. I wanted a loner amoral bounty hunter weaving through the galaxy. Basically I wanted the early Season 1 Mandalorian. But it wasn’t as bad as people online said.

      Anybody that uses the term “woke” in their review can be dismissed entirely.

      • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
        18·
        5 months ago

        Book of Boba Fett would have been a decent Star Wars story if it was the Book of Bib Fortuna seizing power.

        Boba Fett was saved by Tuscans, but spends the whole show talking about protecting “his people”, the city folk.

        It’s like if James Bond was left for dead and rescued by Navajo, then became sheriff of Albequerque and needed to keep the streets clean for the saloon and “his people”.

        It’s not the character we know, and it doesn’t even make sense as a character arc!

        • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          5 months ago

          And the shot where the camera pans a little and you can see the back of the set, the wood framing of the building facade…

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      I liked boba, and kenobi, but they were a “meh” kind of “liked”. They didn’t have anything like Mando where it was like… “OMG!”

      Mostly? I’m angry they brought Boba back from the dead. The entire show was clearly a merchandizing grab; they could have done that with something set pre RoTJ, and could have made it more, how shall we say, about Boba.

      It really felt like Mando 2.5, and that kinda tanked it for me.

      • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
        5·
        5 months ago

        Boba Fett came back in the books which… aren’t cannon, but a lot of the cooler elements have been borrowed and shoehorned in (ie Thrawn)

        I didn’t have a problem with it. I just think the show fumbled that story pretty hard.

        Kenobi… man. I was excited, but honestly… the fight with Vader just fucked up so much of the continuity for me. You knew nothing was at stake because they’d have to fight later in ANH. Also, it completely invalidated Vader’s while tirade about “last time we met, you were the master” because Vader effectively kicked his ass. It was a meh story that didn’t need to happen IMHO

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I’m not really a fan of those books, either.

          Let’s be honest, Boba was a d-tier villain before dying in ignominy. He had only slightly more screen time than Bossk. (Okay, thirty seconds to what? Two minutes?)

          He had as much lines as the jabbering fat guy who took care of Jaba’s Rancor.

          It was only because of that ignominy that he became an icon… why take that away?

          • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
            2·
            5 months ago

            It was only because of that ignominy that he became an icon… why take that away?

            $$$$$

            I don’t disagree necessarily with your take on Boba Fett. I think it’s distractingly annoying how the current Star Wars universe shoehorns Mandalorians into any story they can because of Fett

    • VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
      53·
      5 months ago

      Both shows for me. Actually include Ashoka in that too. Funnily enough the only show I haven’t finished has been andor as I got bored so quick with it. Yet “fans” treat it as if it’s citizen fucking kane.

      • Worldtrident
        4·
        5 months ago

        I found Boba and Andor benefited from binging. When watching BOBF it seemed to drag in parts. But it didn’t have the pacing issues when I reached it a year or so later. And Andor’s first arc doesn’t suck you in like the rest of the series.

      • SilverFlame@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 months ago

        I genuinely enjoyed Solo. I like that they were able to tell a Star Wars story that was more self-contained. The third act was pretty shaky though.