At this point, unless it's Nolan-good, I honestly expect this film to be savaged by fanboys and critics alike, regardless of whether it's a decent movie or not.
People have just been rubbed the wrong way by pretty much everything from the word go, and I think that's because this all started out on the wrong foot. The production was probably too secretive in general from the start and didn't give enough fanservice, and that made fanboys paranoid and angry, and that made people pick at every little thing they did hear and overinterpret pretty much anything anyone says into something negative...and its just snowballed from there. Many of the websites and blogs and media outlets have fed into that paranoia/hatred with headlines like "It's Not a Disaster" and various other things for clickbait. It's been somewhat fascinating to watch, really.
I think, in a sense, Four fandom got their feelings hurt, and there has been a lot of sensitivity and people seemingly being personally offended by broad statements people on the production have made, sometimes even in jest.
I've never seen that for a movie before. I've never seen this level of personal attacks against filmmakers, stars, etc, and an almost hopefulness that a movie is bad. Well, not from a group. I've seen that from individuals on SHH.
This isn't an excuse if it's a bad film. If its truly a badly made movie, I'll admit its a bad film, but I still wouldn't be surprised to find that this is a solid film, and that people will just decide everything about it is awful because they dont like some of the creaive choices about it, or were just pre-disposed to hate it. That seems to be the fanboy mentality anymore, and its never been clearer than with this movie.
And yes, I know some of you just don't like that it's not as faithful as you'd like it to be, and are giving it a chance anyway, or simply not interested. I'm obviously not talking about you all.
