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Review site Rotten Tomatoes is instituting some changes, leading many to believe it's responding to the recent controversy over the site's Captain Marvel page. But Paul Yanover, president of Fandango, which owns the site, told CNET that's not the whole story.
In case you were snapped away by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, and thus missed the recent controversy, here's a recap. Captain Marvel doesn't come out until March 8, but users were already leaving negative comments about the film on Rotten Tomatoes, a process dubbed "review bombing." Many recent comments seemed to come from those who are angry at star Brie Larson.
The movie review site has removed users' ability to leave reviews or to indicate they are not interested in seeing a film [EDIT: before it comes out].
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:11PM (3 children)
That's fine. You can have that opinion about any genre if you like (it's not like rom-coms aren't extremely predictable as well). But that doesn't say anything about the quality of the movie, which is what RottenTomatoes is trying to get a handle on.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:35PM (1 child)
The rating that was removed was showing the percentage of people that want or don't want to see it. It has nothing to do with the quality of the movie, since it hasn't been seen yet. There can be any number of reasons why someone doesn't want to see the movie, like not liking the genre, trailer, subject matter, or plot line. Maybe someone just doesn't like the time period, style, or clothing in the movie. It could be not liking a particular actor as an actor. Maybe they hated the previous movie, or just the studio/creators in general. In this case it could have been not liking the actor as a person, or maybe even getting tired of movies being made to push a particular agenda instead of focusing on a good story. The reason doesn't matter, either someone wants or doesn't want to see the movie. The rating system should have stayed.
I'm not saying a movie can't cover controversial topics, just don't force an agenda into a movie where it doesn't doesn't fit. Hidden Figures is a great movie that covers an important topic, and it was done right. Strange Days is another movie that handled it right.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @08:57PM
The article specifically mentions comments, so it was much more than a simple numeric ranking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:48PM
you're such a fucking suck ass.