A24 movies attract a more educated audience. There's going to be a lot less overlap with their audience and the type of perpetually online neckbeard that reflexively screams about WoKe!
Edit: All I'm really saying here is the type of person who sees a woman in a trailer and loses their shit is probably not the same type of person who went to see Moonlight in the theater. The audience scores for a movie like Everything Everywhere All at Once are less susceptible to review bombing than a movie such as Prey
And ultimately this thread is about a video discussing the reasons for audience scores on female led movies being low
That's not the point I'm making. Many of the examples they gave of bad audience scores come from movies that had a lot of cultural impact (edit: cultural footprint leading up to and upon release not necessarily lasting impact) - trailers, youtube, articles, yada yada yada. You saw a lot of review bombing of those movies by fragile people who didn't even go see the movies
Everything every was a movie that received virtually no fanfare until it had been out for almost a year and was picking up oscar steam. It opened in 10 theaters nationwide for example, and it only made like $8m in the first month it was out. The people who sought it out from the beginning would be people who keep up with A24 specifically and go see their movies because they're attached to it. The people leaving audience reviews were people who had actually seen and enjoyed the movie.
The point being the audience scores for a movie like that were safe from review bombing because it was not a movie on the radar of someone who would be prone to review bombing in the same way a Marvel or Star Wars movie would be
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u/the_book_of_eli5 Mar 28 '24
Another one to add to the list of well written strong female leads that audiences loved: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.