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Rotten Tomatoes President: We Didn't Change Site to Protect Captain Marvel

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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Original Submission

• Re:The Core of White Privilege Re:The Core of White Privilege (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @01:31AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @01:31AM (#808502)

  The movie went from 'hey that movie looks pretty cool' to 'meh' PDQ.

  The movie going public is fickle. Hearing from a bigot misogynist how she thinks about me does not make me think 'oh I must be wrong'. That is gas-lighting, I have enough of that in my real life.

  A wrinkle in time bombed because it frankly is a fairly terrible story aimed at 12 year olds. I have read the books. I have seen the movies. They have yet to make me think 'I need to see that again'. The story is just not that compelling.

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• Re:The Core of White Privilege (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @02:47PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @02:47PM (#808690)

  Dude, the movie hadn't been released yet. How did you get your hands on a copy?

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