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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, Redundant) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:30PM (5 children)
Who owns Fandango? NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment (70%) and Warner Bros. Entertainment (30%). No secret payment is needed. Although they are helping Disney out here, they are making sure they don't face the same thing with their own movies.
There's some conspiracy level circular reasoning right there!
Your evidence that Fandago is cheating on Disney's behalf that Disney DOES NOT OWN THEM?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @07:43PM (3 children)
You fail. The President of Fandango worked at Disney for years. Now he is killing a feature that could result in lost revenue or bad press for other movies if left intact.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:10PM (2 children)
Have you considered the radical notion that they would simply prefer for the people who are reviewing a movie to have actually seen it?
There's this Occam guy who thinks I might be onto something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:39PM
Except, as has been clarified multiple times in these comments, this isn't about reviews as such. The score in question is about the percentage of people participating in discussion threads who indicated they do vs. don't plan to see the movie when it's released.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @09:39PM
And they just happen to remove these features that had been used for years less than 2 weeks before the release of Captain Marvel. At a time when Captain Marvel achieved by far the lowest "Want To See" score in the site's history.
Occam is showing us the way all right.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @08:44PM
Wait a minute! You actually believe that NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment, Warner Brothers Entertainment, Disney are separate entities, in competition against each other?? Oh, baby! Pull the other one!
Try to comprehend: Rotten Tomatoes is an industry owned site, protecting industry interests. What's so unusual about that??