A movie which doesn't satisfy your specific tastes and expectations in science fiction hasn't "failed".
replyAgain...dont confuse taste and quality:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519704
replyThis is pure sophistry. Your complaints about the movie's tone and dialogue are strictly and specifically problems of your own taste, not filmmaking quality. The movie is (objectively!) well made with respect to "craft, skill, storytelling structure and emotional impact".
reply> A negative review tells you what can go wrong, and whether that problem matters to you.
replyYou accidentally made my point here.
"Whether that problem matters to you" is a matter of opinion. You apparently find the smattering of negative reviews to match your opinion; that's fine! But they don't match mine, or everyone's.
Opinion-wise, the movie seems to be doing just fine. This weekend we'll get the actual metric that tends to matter, the % drop-off after the first week. That tends to be a pretty good indicator of actual public opinion and word of mouth.
(And frankly, at this point, I tend to assume the negative reviews on Amazon are competitors review bombing. They're no more immune than the positive ones.)
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