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Confusion on the strong disliking

posted 7 years ago by connorkabbes
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Saw a one star review with 200 agreeing with it. I just have a question, why?
I understood what the review was getting across, nevertheless, I disagree on much of what was said.

Tony is first and foremost a film editor. He demonstrates his talents at that very well throughout his video essays. He doesn't claim that these are rules chiseled in stone, but rather as guidelines.

Me personally, I find his content to be very motivating and gets some creative sparks flying.

I'd love to hear what others have to say. Especially some of the 200 who agreed with the one star review.

[–] connorkabbes 7 years ago

The only thing I disagreed with for tony was the David Fincher episode. Finchers style always seems too cold and calculated with the cinematography(Which works well with dark thrillers). Nevertheless, I never took what he said at face value, but rather as incite.

[–] NimmToDrum 7 years ago

All things considered, I feel like this might've been posted entirely as a backlash against Tony. Not in a massive way, but there seems to be a malice towards him.

Like, the way that it uses what is, at least presumably, his face when his channel features no physical avatar, seems to be a hint of that; a truthful representation would use his actual channel avatar.

But yeah; seems to be made by someone who has a... well, let's say extreme disdain towards him and his perspective on film and seeing him as being a terrible conservative who only wishes to wreck upon everyone boredom and cold calculation or something to that sense.

Also, regarding that theory, idk; maybe all those people are sock puppets or something (Looking it up, apparently the user reports for those who key in whatever demographics they are within yield a much higher score, so maybe it is sock puppets); I'd honestly only really found out about this from being bored and looking him up again and going "Hey, I didn't know he had an IMDB page now."

Apparently, it's been kicking around for about a few months now at the least; that review was in September, so... -shrug-

[–] connorkabbes 7 years ago

I actually think your right. Especially the picture just being Tony's face rather than the galloping horse. So do you think more or less that its just one angry person who made fake accounts to trash on him? Because it's not the first time to happen.

[–] cosmicfish14 7 years ago

I feel the same way, but I think the whole thing with more than 100 1/10 reviews might just be from spamming, or someone just making a whole load of accounts just to give it 1/10 ratings. Maybe they had a lot of time on their hands, I don't know. But again I don't understand the hate either

[–] NimmToDrum 7 years ago

I actually think that the sense of it might be that whoever is doing this wants to sway people away from watching it? I dunno.

I mean, some part of me does use IMDB ratings as some level of a gauge on what I might want to watch (Not soon; more eventually, for the most part), so... maybe their intent is to affect the rating so that people looking at it at face value think less of it?

The problem, of course, is that the IMDB page image is of, ostensibly, his face. And not his YouTube page, so it probably would serve to confuse those seeing the page itself, as opposed to the display on Google's search results, right off the bat.

[–] harryt856 7 years ago

I suspect the guy who made that negative review also made this "parody" twitter account called TonyMFZhou. A lot of the complaints sound very similar:
www.twitter.com/tonymfzhou

For some reason, this guy also seems to have a problem with "Tripod fetishists" who complain about shaky cam in movies. I don't know why since it's arguably a valid complaint.

[–] connorkabbes 7 years ago

Sorry for the late reply, but that is really interesting actually. I was wondering what the review meant by "film school dogma". The only sense of dogma I got was in the episode about David Fincher.

I'm almost positive your right. He uses this same photo as everyone of his tweets. It's pretty damn petty to go this far out of your way to attack someone over different opinions.