By "worst fanboyism on TFN", I obviously meant irrational pro-PT attitudes that the board is kinda known for - the opinions there range all the way from that to levelheaded/balanced and even slightly negative (and that's just on the PT forum), but I'm particularly referring to the "apologists" that other people kinda scoff at.

Problem is, critics like RLM are every bit as unreasonable themselves, just in the other direction.

Not on most other movies I'd say - Plinkett's Titanic, KotCS and ST'09 are solid pieces of nuanced pro and contra analysis, not perfect but solid.
With SW, however, the bias hijacked their critical faculties, and out came pretty much nonsense - not just "hyperbole", but genuinely invalid criticism that seems to have swayed many.