Ah yes, the daily beast where I go for all my media reviews.

Like getting video game news from Forbes. LOL.

Sounds like somebody paid the Daily Beast to generate hype

Does it really generate positive hype if they said it sucks?

The Daily Beast is as creditable as Diddy not being rapey.

"Any publicity is good publicity."

Not universally true, generally true. because not gaining any attention at all is a death sentence for entertainment.

I don't think it is intentional in this case though since the Daily Beast is trash and the odds of trying to coordinate a subversive campaign through them would be a waste of time.

I think there's a large contingent of people who see negative reviews and go "Yeah, fuck that, I'll make up my own mind."

I felt the same way about Megalopolis. Glad I saw it. When I see reviews talking about how a movie is confusing or hard to understand my general feeling is "Yeah, but the reviewer could just be dumb too..."

Confusing movies are sometimes the best movies. Pi, Primer, the Fountain, Cloud Atlas (I still need to re-watch that one), Life of Pi. Lot of "P" movies here for some reason.

I've only had that feeling about movies I was already interested in. Random movie, not so much

When the plot is deeper than a puddle, it's harder for a movie to get a good review.

I mean. It's a superman movie. What more need be said?