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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 fyngyrz on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:27PM (2 children)

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday February 28 2019, @11:27PM (#808448) Journal

    A perfect Example was the District 9 trailer

    See, now that's exactly the point. I really liked District 9. If I'd seen any crap about the movie first, I might not have seen it.

    All the more reason to prevent so-called "reviews" prior to release.

    Then you spend the money and once you see what the aliens look like you don't know whether to laugh or cry at the next 2 hours you're going to waste on a preachy Dick-and-Jane movie with Dr. Seuss-tier aliens.

    But... again, that's the point. If someone posts a review before the movie comes out, bitching about [insert special butterfly triggers here], or just rah-rahing without any real knowledge of what was in the movie, they might have given you the wrong idea and sent you there anyway.

    Look, I'm not arguing against movie reviews. Not at all. But reviews before a film comes out? Come on. That's unreasonable.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @12:31AM (#808481)

    Except these aren't reviews. It's expressing interest in seeing the film or not.

    • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Friday March 01 2019, @04:32PM

      by fyngyrz (6567) on Friday March 01 2019, @04:32PM (#808769) Journal

      Except these aren't reviews. It's expressing interest in seeing the film or not.

      So.. they don't belong on a review site, then. Seems like they've done exactly the right thing.

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