One-minded, bandwagoners and their negative reviews.

Rating: 10/10 (17 October 2018)

The same sort of people who think the original three Star Wars movies were groundbreaking works of pure art, while thinking the prequel reboots were utter garbage, but didn't adopt that opinion until they caught wind of it as the popular consensus of the zeitgeist, are the same people that despise this film. The margin of difference and quality between the original Star Wars trilogy and the prequels is far smaller than people seem to think. And that was the consensus of Star Wars fans at first. It took a couple years of fan forums and reddit pages to build such an exaggerated hatred of the Star Wars prequels, which began ironically and evolved into actual hatred. The same can be said, I think for Oceans 12. Of course it wasn't as good as 11 and no one expected it to be. Part of the reason 11 is so good is that all the styles and motifs, even the screenwriting, was brand new to everyone. Newness plays a huge factor in how large a place 11 holds in our hearts. If 11 had never been made and 12 were a standalone movie (assuming the backstory was explained and all), I guarantee all these people giving 1 star reviews would be giving 8s or 9s. Oceans 12 is a great movie. It's only slightly less great than 11 and 13. And all these people spewing nonsense like "it insulted my intelligence", first of all, get over yourselves, and secondly, you weren't as shocked or impressed with the twists and turns because you had already seen Oceans 11 and were specifically looking for them and trying to figure them out! Again, if Oceans 12 was a stand-alone movie, you all would have loved it. You're all just lemmings following the afactual and wrongly reasoned opinion of the zeitgeist.