Kyle Newman: Critics gave TLJ good reviews to "maintain access"

I'm shocked, shocked I say, that any critic would do this. *delivered in complete deadpan*

I mean. . .yeah.

And if you didn't like it, you were ruled a Russian hacker.

Shocking

What other properties does Disney own?

You losers are still bitching about that movie?

Christ.

I'm sorry your snowflake sensibilities were offended that Luke Skywalker didn't turn out like how you thought he would. Ever thought that maybe talented guy who got handed the keys to a gigantic franchise had better ideas than you did?

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Ever thought that maybe talented guy who got handed the keys to a gigantic franchise had better ideas than you did?

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Yea, and then we watched episode 8 and saw how much of a colossal turd it was. And Luke had 1/87th to do with it.

HA. HA. HA. My crackpot theory about Marvel getting positive reviews from critics over DC/Sony/Fox films despite the disparity in fan rating isn’t so dumb after all now is it?

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Ever thought that maybe talented guy who got handed the keys to a gigantic franchise had better ideas than you did?

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Just wondering why he didn’t use any of those good ideas you think he had.

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Ever thought that maybe talented guy who got handed the keys to a gigantic franchise had better ideas than you did?

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You either never watched the movie or you're Rian Johnson himself.

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Kyle Newman was the director of the movie Fanboys, and he was on a podcast recently where he talked about the reaction to The Last Jedi. He claims that there are few people in the industry, both filmmakers and journalists, who actually liked Episode VIII, and that many of the good reviews delved out by critics were the result of wanting to maintain exclusive early access to Disney productions.

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This doesn’t make sense since they didn’t need to do this for a movie that was already going to make a ton of money with a huge opening weekend with already huge presold tickets before any word of mouth would occur.

In addition, if they did it for TLJ then they had even more reason to do it for Solo because after the backlash, a 70% rating on rottentomatoes, which many probably thought was already inflated anyways, wasn’t going to help entice anyone on the fence. Why would they suddenly not do the same thing, especially since it was a better movie anyways.

And there have been 80 reviews posted starting in January of this year, weeks after the release and mostly from the more obscure on-line critics who probably don’t have any exclusive access. Those 90% of those 80 reviews were fresh scores.

And besides, the things that drew criticisms from the fans (debunking theories; how they handled Luke’s storyline) and the things that drew praise from the critics (social themes; female driven), make the discrepancy in their views unsurprising.

In other words, many critics probably don’t care as much about the things fans were critical as they don’t care as much about the universe. On the other hand, the fans don’t care as much about themes and commentary that the critics enjoyed.