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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Friday March 01 2019, @06:06AM (2 children)

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Friday March 01 2019, @06:06AM (#808588) Journal

    I went to see Ghostbusters in theater just because of all the diaper-wearing snowflakes dishing out so much needless hate. It was a movie for teenage girls, something my younger relatives would've loved. Wasn't great, but also wasn't terrible. Decent kids movie.

    I also went to see it, though I didn't know much about the remake beyond that it starred a few women I'd never heard of. I found it almost indescribably awful, and would have even when I was a teenage girl because the female characters were over-the-top representatives of the usually-female traits I've always hated -- I liked the female characters about as much as I liked Jar-Jar Binks. I also recall noticing (though the details now escape me) that the writing in general was painfully weak, with large plot holes, characters acting in ways that real people simply wouldn't, terrible dialogue, and so forth.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by bobthecimmerian on Friday March 01 2019, @01:22PM

    by bobthecimmerian (6834) on Friday March 01 2019, @01:22PM (#808658)

    The Ghostbusters remake was awful, agreed. But the people who complained that a remake with women ruined their childhoods or signals the decline of Hollywood are still sexist idiots. The problem with that film had everything to do with the terrible story and mostly unfunny dialog and nothing to do with the fact that the Ghostbusters were women. It wouldn't have been any better if all the gender roles in the film were swapped.

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday March 08 2019, @09:49PM

    by edIII (791) on Friday March 08 2019, @09:49PM (#811770)

    Thank you. You provided a wonderful example of a constructive review. That is what belongs on Rotten Tomatoes. Reviews from people who have actually seen the film, and not a troll in an army trying to poison stats before reviews are even possible.

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