re: The 2020 Razzie Nominations are out

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The typical media critics particularly loathed it because of political and social reasons. We've entered a horrible era where a huge portion of movie criticism is judging the movies by its perceived politics, even if the movies themselves aren't even trying to be political.

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Well... action movies getting panned by critics but loved by movie goers is not unique to this era. In the 80s a lot of action movies were considered terrible by critics but people loved them.

The Running Man? Poor reviews, but I loved it.
Total Recall? Mediocre reviews.
Terminator 2? Good reviews, but well below The Terminator (original movie)
Conan the Barbarian? Poor reviews.

Every Rambo movie outside of the first is below 50 on Metacritic. Hell, Rambo III came out in the 80s and was utterly blasted by critics.