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posted by martyb on Thursday February 28 2019, @05:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the Honeypot? dept.

CNet:

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].


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:13PM (13 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:13PM (#808281)

    "Hateful comments" hahahahahaah

    "OMGZ she says our opinion doesn't matter! How hateful!!"

    context man, context

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:24PM (12 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:24PM (#808291)

    She's a racist misandrist.

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:34PM (11 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:34PM (#808300)

      When your evidence is

      "I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about [A] Wrinkle in Time. It wasn’t made for him. I want to know what it meant to women of color, to biracial women, to teen women of color, to teens that are biracial."

      you miiiight want re-evaluate your world view.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:37PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:37PM (#808306)

        You first. Just remember that these movies are not made for you and stay home.

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:25PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:25PM (#808447)

        This explains a lot. I watched that movie. It felt very similar to black lives matter The Movie panther where shoving ideology down the throat of the audience is more important than the story. The new she-ra too is in that boat.

        It's good to know that she doesn't care about my opinion. Middle age white men obviously should just crawl in a hole and die right?

        • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday March 01 2019, @02:40AM (3 children)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @02:40AM (#808527) Journal

          Middle age white men obviously should just crawl in a hole and die right?

          Nobody (and this includes you) is entitled to entertainment that s/he would enjoy, much less an entertainment that should involve specific performers.

          How that translates into: "Any/everybody just crawl in a hole and die" is beyond me.

          But, yeah, I've seen my share of idiocy on this Earth, one additional bit doesn't surprise me.

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          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @09:17AM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @09:17AM (#808608)

            Well, I don't think you understand the situation.

            The target audience of this universe is, and has been, and WILL be, and by vast majority, comprised of white males. It's thanks to them they can make this movie.

            Now they take this white male product and turn it into a "SJW PC races don't exist but white males are fucking shit and women are better at man things of course" propaganda. Then they see how the 90% of their audience say "ok, you shit on us and ruin what we like, so fuck you" and react censoring the comments and shitting even more on their real audience while calling them masclist privileged trolls.

            Yeah, really, fuck you. Good luck with the movie and comic sales, we are all awaiting for them to be honest.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @11:55AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @11:55AM (#808643)

              Well, I don't think you understand the situation.

              Wekk, what a coincidence. I do think that you don't understand the situation, dude, and you are in for a life of disappointment.
              This Universe is no longer primarily made of white male, but from "PC races don't exist but white males are fucking shit" type of SJWs. Deal with it the best you can.

              Speaking for myself, as an going-old white male, I don't care about that at all.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @06:42PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @06:42PM (#808840)

              Did you enjoy Sex and The City and Gossip Girl?

      • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:30PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:30PM (#808454)

        Are you saying that because that comment is aimed at white men it isn't racist?
        Or that because it targets that specifci6 racial group it gets a pass?

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 01 2019, @02:44AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 01 2019, @02:44AM (#808529) Journal

          Are you saying that because that comment is aimed at white men it isn't racist?

          Whadda fuck?
          You mean a movie in which the tropical climate is part of the plot is racist because Inuits can't resonate with the situations?

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        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @04:33AM (2 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @04:33AM (#808571)

          I'm saying it is a stretch to call that statement misandrist and a VERY big stretch to call it racism.

          • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @10:06AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @10:06AM (#808621)
            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @06:48PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @06:48PM (#808843)

              I'm guessing the "white" is just a popular turn of phrase that will get you a level up in some "help i'm being opressed" game. I assume black men would not enjoy the movie either.