It’s okay to like a movie if other people don’t, and vice versa. However, in this world where movie criticism has become about consensus and assembling teams either for or against a film, it can be lonely out there if you dare to disagree. John Boyega has found this out the hard way with an innocent tweet about “Bright.”
The actor, likely just trying to kick back after a gruelling promotional cycle for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” wanted to let the interwebs know he liked “Bright” — big mistake. The actor defended his position, and stuck to his guns for his admiration of “Bright,” but the interweb wanted to let him know his opinion was wrong and the movie sucks:
https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/945932371492327424
https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/945936014257917953
https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/946121901507825666
https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/945936829630599168
This is all pretty silly. If Boyega enjoyed the movie, then cool for him, but this sort of exhausting culture of those who police opinion is somewhat tiring. For what it’s worth, and in Boyega’s defense, the film is scoring far better with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes than critics (89% versus 28%; basically the reverse of that whole ‘The Last Jedi’ situation). So maybe Netflix isn’t so crazy about working on a sequel. Or, online trolls are really wasting their efforts on some pretty dumb stuff.
Bright was great a lot of fun ..looking forward to the sequel
Thanks
Sorry Mr. Boyega – Smith has gotten way too many passes in Hollywood. A person really has to wonder what it is Smith has on someone to be able to tank so many movies and seemingly walk away unscathed & continue to get hired. Very puzzling
If audiences loved Bright according to rotten tomatoes, which people on the internet are calling him out? You say the internet was out to get him, but then only screen grab 2 people.