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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:don't see this movie, don't trust rotten tomato Re:don't see this movie, don't trust rotten tomato (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday March 01 2019, @02:40AM (3 children)

  by c0lo (156) 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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• Re:don't see this movie, don't trust rotten tomato Re:don't see this movie, don't trust rotten tomato (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.

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  • Re:don't see this movie, don't trust rotten tomato (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.

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  • Re:don't see this movie, don't trust rotten tomato (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?

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