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I can’t believe I am so easily manipulated.


I always look for a good scary show to watch at Halloween. I checked the rating and thought this must be amazing with a 9.1 average. I watched the first two episodes and felt I was watching a different show then everyone else. The acting was terrible, soap opera quality. The sets and cinematography were amateurish and I was totally bored. At times I felt I was watching a play on video. I kept checking back with user reviews and how everyone was “blown away”. My roommate kept saying to me every time He caught me watching the show, ‘this looks boring’. I just kept on saying well it’s got these amazing reviews but ya it is really boring and not at all well made. I finished the series thinking I must be going crazy. I then went one final time to imdb and this time scrolled past all the 10 star reviews to find the low ratings and talk of paid/fake reviews. I never heard of this and now I can’t believe I was so easily manipulated into watching the whole awful series. I feel like I was scammed.

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Thank you! Finally someone else get it. I thought I was going nuts.
I was also manipulated by the reviews and the rating.
This show is a joke. It is genuinely hard for me to believe that any serious horror buff actually liked this show.
Most of the reviews are fake. If you look at all the negative views, you can see they have figured this out too.
It is obvious as soon as you watch the show.

2 of my friends watched this too and had the exact same response as me. The ACTUAL people watching this on their own can see it for the terrible show it is. Whereas everyone acting like this is the next Exorcist CLEARLY worked on the film and/or were paid to say so.

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Yeah it's called a difference of opinion. I would rate this show 9/10 and I didn't work on it. I loved it and I know plenty of others who feel the same.

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Ah so you’re a homophobe as well, huh? Not surprised. I mean you obviously called me gay as an attempt to insult me because you think there’s something wrong with being gay, but I don’t mind if you call me gay because I don’t hate gays like you. I also noticed you called someone a faggot in another thread. Homophobia is not cool bro.

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Yikes, Rajh, Niko! Can't there be a discussion without name calling?

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Where's the fun in that?

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How can I be a liberal when I am not American?
-Nicko's Nose

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I thought the acting was stellar - some of the best I'd ever seen in fact. Did you even watch the episode with the family arguing in the funeral home, the one done in basically three long takes a-la Birdman? Sure, maybe there were some hidden edits there, but do you have any idea how difficult it is to stay in character for long takes like that?

I do have problems with this series, especially the ham-handed ending which was so out of place, but acting? Seriously?

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I guess I’m just not used to this type of acting or style of filming. The way the actors spoke reminded me of a theater play, or a soap opera. I appreciate your opinion though.

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"I thought the acting was stellar - some of the best I'd ever seen in fact."

Speechless...

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"I thought the acting was stellar - some of the best I'd ever seen in fact."

Speechless...

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lol your just Trolling yourself into a deeper grave....

your now at this point where your trolling on things that are a universal consensus....

there are complaints about the show, some of the are Its Boring or theres not enough scares....

but Literally damn near 100% of the people that watch this show all agree the acting is great, the cast is great and Performances are great....

Like, I get it, Your in full on troll mode now, but you need to be clever at it....

You acting like your "speechless" at some one saying something that almost everyone universally agrees with ONLY makes you look like an idiot....



your beat man........theres nothing you can do....I'm sorry, Your in the minority....you know it....all facts are against you....you know it....



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hahahahaha you can't help yourself, can you!

BTW It's "you're" not "your"

Seriously, it's 2018, who the fuck doesn't know that by now??

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Seriously, it's 2018, who the fuck doesn't know that by now??

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says the guy who is living in A fantasy world instead of reality where Theres a giant conspiracy to give Hill House FAKE REVIEWS....

You would think In 2018, we wouldnt get things like this, you would think with 3 + sites reporting the exact same excellent reviews and scores,Trolls like you would think of something better than the very "2016" fake reviews trolling tactis....

But Its seem "YOUR" very bad at trolling and "YOUR" desperate,so youve been forced to fall back on some old outdated trolling tactics

PS your response did nothing to dispute the fact that theres a near 100% consensus The acting is great and cast is great....

again, YOUR Trolling backfired....."YOUR" going too far....."YOUR" trolling is too extreme....and in doing so its outing you as clearly trolling and making you look stupid...

If you dont agree they acting is good, thats fine, but going Hyperbole and saying "Speechless" to a Perfect normal statement is.....Just bad trolling....

Im not kidding, even look at the bad reviews(theres very few) but even the bad reviews note the acting is great and cast is wonderful....


IMO you simply are in over your head and are now fighting to try to keep your head above water....

I do not think you fully understood The stats of this movie before you decided to troll on it, You basically PICKED a TROLLPROOF Tv series to troll on...

Hill House's reviews,ratings and scores are so overwhelmingly positive....The consensus is so Great.....Trolling really isnt a option, Trolling only makes you look bad Or ONLY put you in a tiny, almost non existent minority....

My guess is if you could go back in time...You would avoid this board and series like the plaque as you simply did not understand what you were getting yourself into...

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That's right, keep pounding those keys, kid. The fact that I've told you twice already that I am not even reading your long ass posts and yet you keep continuing to pour your heart out....XD LMAO.

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I heard great things, checked out the trailer and that alone almost put me to sleep.

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lol almost positive this is A Fake account created by RAJH


Lol only 14 posts....

The post touches on nearly everything RAJH has been trolling on the last 2 weeks.....







But if its not, Lucky92610....sorry You didnt like the show, your more than entitled to your opinion....unfortunately Its kinda ODD that you feel the need to try and discredit the show because YOU didnt like it

bringing up and suggesting the show only has a high rating because Of FAKE REVIEWS is a classic trolling technique, and if your not trolling then it suggests your angry the show is so highly rated and angry others dont agree with you thats it bad...

your entire post was fine until you brought up FAKE reviews....Your post then went from Just your opinion to and Angry,delusional rant....

had you simply said all the nasty things you wanted about the show and Then ended it with "Ill never understand why this show has a high rating", that would have been fine, you would have made your points that you hate the show and dont agree with the ratings

Instead you took to another level and Tried TO Discredit the rating and tried to claim everybody must be wrong or all reviews must be fake and YOU are right that Its terrible....

this is delusional and again suggest you either have a biased toward the show, or you indeed watched the show and truly hated it so much you now cant except that Its highly successful and Highly rated....

just so you know(again I think your RAJH , so you probably already know this)....But if not, Hill Houses rating is actually not 9.1....

Its 8.9....IMDB has a Top 250 rating, right now Hill House is #26 with an 8.9 rating....The reason why The Top 250 ratings is different is because IMDB vets the posters who rates....On the Top 250, They have a code they use to weed out trolls,fake accounts and bots....They only count proven reliable members, who's voted consistently for a number of years, their ratings are always in the averages and theyve rated at least a thousand movies or TV shows....

Bottom line....IMDB rating is pretty reliable....

If you dont trust them though....

go to Metascore where Hill House also has excellent scores...

If They doesnt float your boat, go to Rottentomates where 55 out of 59 professional critics gave it excellent reviews resulting in a 92% rating with an EXCELLENT 8.3/10 average rating...

Bottom Line...of course there are some fake reviews, literally every movie has them....But unfortunately for you literally ALL DATA Unequivocally points to The show is just really good and over 90% of the people that watch it like it and Give it great ratings....

you are more than within your right to hate the show and even ignore all these facts,sites,ratings and reviews....

personally Id think it would be a lot easier just to except your in the minority and you simply dislike a show others really like....but hey if you want to go the angry, delusional route....thats your right

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Oh really? lol Do I seem like someone who would complain about fucking swearing in a horror film, to you? LMAO Dumbass.

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I put nothing past a person that intentionally decides to Ignore at least 3 sites all reporting the exact same excellent reviews,ratings and scores to Instead Believe There is a giant conspiracy among Audiences and Professional critics to give this film fake reviews....

whats most shocking about this is....This show doesnt even have a fan base...lol

In 2013 and 2016....Hardcore DC fans pulled the same excuses, claimed "Marvel paid off critics to hate BvS, Man of Steel and Suicide Squad"....They claimed theres a giant conspiracy to bring down the DCEU

this too was absurd and had no facts behind it...But at least here, You can understand why they use this excuse

DC and Marvel fans has some of the most Loyal fan bases there is, and There are TONS of them

You can at least understand with such die hard and passionate fans that some might really want to create fake reviews to try and "Help their film" or to Try and "discredit their rival film" ...

but here....who the hell cares about Hill House?

its only got 24 thousand votes on IMDB....Its only got 59 critic reviews....it has no fan base, It has no one that cares enough to RIG the System....This board literally had 1 post at the time the series debuted, Meaning no one really even knew about it or cared...

lol You Literally are using a trolling tactic the does not fit This series and is impossible...

The fake reviews or giant conspiracy Trolling tactic only works on a film or series that has a Loyal or hardcore fanbase that is dedicated enough to do it or Has the numbers that suggests they could do it

this again points to just how bad you are at trolling...You did not think even for a second before trolling on this series...You embarrassingly choose a trolling tactic that is impossible for this series...

I've seen some Epic fails in my day....This and you are right up there with the greats

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I am truly moved that you care so much about me, Bill..

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I feel the same, watched two episodes with my girlfriend and we knew it was going to be bad when you are waiting for the episode to end. Each one ended the same with a twist 30 seconds before the end of the episode.

Felt robbed of two hours where we could of watched something a bit more entertaining, like Bad Boys 2

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Some of the acting was alright. But I agree that there was a LOT of awfully painful dialogue, especially the way that characters kept dropping f-bombs all over the place, just because they could. It felt like the scripts were written by a teenager trying to be edgy. Many of the lines and conversations didn't feel organic or natural, it felt like the actors were saying dumb lines given to them to say. ESPECIALLY in the cringe-fest funeral episode. Also, there are times when the show stops everything while one character sits and has a long monologue, basically trying to catch back up and explain SOMETHING, give the audience SOMETHING of background and plot filler. Because otherwise, the show is a collection of images and events, loosely tied together. That's how it felt to me, anyway.

I think that Stranger Things has its problems. Seasons 2 and 3 especially, to me, gradually go downhill and start getting pretty dumb, compared to the relatively brilliant first season. But that first season was well done, and had good, organic characters, dialogue, and conversations.

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