Widows | 16th Nov, 2018 | Steve McQueen directs, Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Erivo to star as the widows | #FeaturesFarrell

[YLF]

WOM is just awful on all social media platforms:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Im not even cherrypicking. These are all recent posts by people about widows.(within last 1-2 hours) I obviously am not going to peruse the entire twitterverse. 

[Barnack]

2 minutes ago, YLF said:

Im not even cherrypicking.

Box office pro twitter metric (if they are reliable) are really good also:

 

https://pro.boxoffice.com/movie/31667/widows

 

Twitter Index

 

 

DATE	# TWEETS	POS:NEG RATIO
November 13, 2018	311	28 : 1
November 12, 2018	504	104 : 1
November 11, 2018	493	14 : 1

[AndyK]

^ first three I saw were'nt positive though.

 

Typical....

 

 

[YLF]

6 minutes ago, AndyK said:

^ first three I saw were'nt positive though.

 

Typical....

 

 

Thats from nov. 9th. I just looked under latest tweets about it. Im not saying that there's not going to be ANY negative reviews. every movie has people that dislike it. but it seems there more positive than negative reviews on it.

[AndyK]

1 minute ago, YLF said:

Thats from nov. 9th. I just looked under latest tweets about it. Im not saying that there's not going to be ANY negative reviews. every movie has people that dislike it. but it seems there more positive than negative reviews on it.

Yes, I was looking at the top posts, rather than the latest.

 

The critics seem absolutely enthused, the public is a bit more mixed.

 

 

[That One Girl]

the movie isn’t even out yet in the US and we’re already making declarations on its WOM?  ok

[AndyK]

14 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

the movie isn’t even out yet in the US and we’re already making declarations on its WOM?  ok

Its out in the UK.

 

 

Edited November 13, 2018 by AndyK

[That One Girl]

Just now, AndyK said:

Its out in the UK.

 

yes, which is why I said in the US.

[AndyK]

4 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

yes, which is why I said in the US.

The comments are from UK public, but I agree the film might be more geared to US audiences.

[Valonqar]

Could be UK vs US thing. IMDB is so-so:

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4218572/?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2413b25e-e3f6-4229-9efd-599bb9ab1f97&pf_rd_r=Q0DY0F8SHHS3500BW69M&pf_rd_s=right-2&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_otw_t2

[Barnack]

13 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

Could be UK vs US thing. IMDB is so-so:

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4218572/?pf_rd_m=A2FGELUUNOQJNL&pf_rd_p=2413b25e-e3f6-4229-9efd-599bb9ab1f97&pf_rd_r=Q0DY0F8SHHS3500BW69M&pf_rd_s=right-2&pf_rd_t=15061&pf_rd_i=homepage&ref_=hm_otw_t2

Black director/lead on IMDB....

 

That 5.5% of 1/10 is a bit suspect, really some real viewer thought that Widows was one of the worst movies ever made ?

[Alli]

isn't this based on a british tv show?

[Valonqar]

4 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Black director/lead on IMDB....

 

That 5.5% of 1/10 is a bit suspect, really some real viewer thought that Widows was one of the worst movies ever made ?

Comments so far are not political at all. Mostly found the movie boring and those who loved the show thought this was not it. They all praise acting but say that's not enough. 

[Barnack]

7 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

Comments so far are not political at all. Mostly found the movie boring and those who loved the show thought this was not it. They all praise acting but say that's not enough. 

We see only the comments of 2 of the 155 1/10 score and the US were the movie is yet to release has 12.3% 1/10 reviews versus 2.9% for non-US users (for those IMDB know the place they come from)

 

That really does not look like a normal law distribution or a normal movie distribution:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4218572/ratings?demo=us_users

 

When the movie will hit the screen with real audience, you will see that percentage of 1/10 score go down.

[Valonqar]

I'm sure you are right. I'm not familiar with how their scoring works. I only read user reviews. 

Edited November 13, 2018 by Valonqar

[Jonwo]

I've seen it and enjoyed it, it does take a while to get going but its great just from the cast alone. 

 

 

[Jessie]

5 hours ago, mldardy said:

WOM is not the most powerful form of advertising.

 

People have computers, cell phones, TV, radios. Those are more powerful than WOM.

WOM is the most powerful form of advertising, it turns movies like Avatar into giants, or lower budget drama into leggy hits. Its literally one of the first things you learn in film/media studies. Not that it's not glaringly obvious anyway. 

 

3 hours ago, mldardy said:

 

 

Edited November 14, 2018 by Jessie

[Jessie]

15 hours ago, That One Guy said:

 

yes, which is why I said in the US.

So UK WOM isn't as important? despite both countries having very similar taste (UK obviously having slightly better taste 😜)

[Krissykins]

15 hours ago, That One Guy said:

 

yes, which is why I said in the US.

Doesn’t matter. 

[That One Girl]

My only point was that there isn’t a big enough sample size to judge WOM yet but sure I said that opinions from the UK dont count