DOTR
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And if you thought you might join in a discussion of this train wreck of a movie and give an honest review....remember the purpose of the movie and who owns the means of objecting.
Here's the thing... the reason why Rotten Tomatoes had to change it was because the Toxic Masculinity crowd was posting bad reviews on a movie that they hadn't seen.
This was something they never should have been doing to start with. How can you know if a movie is going to be any good or not if you haven't seen it. I haven't seen this movie. I might see it today, haven't decided for sure yet. But I'm not going to posit an opinion on it based on whatever dumb thing the actress starring in it might have said.
We're subverting the genre in a lot of ways and breaking new ground and we're doing it in a way that feels really natural...On top of that, they said they wanted to make the biggest feminist movie of all time."
Brie Larson
Um, okay.... Not sure why a female superhero (superheroine) has you guys so upset.
I checked out of the MCU some time ago... I think after the Civil War movie because although I thought it was okay, I'm just not that invested in this universe where i have to watch all the movies to know what is going on.
Well you’ve lied to defend raw power before. Why should this time be any different? And you never ever vary from the party line by so much as a word.
Rotten Tomatoes had a “want to see” section. Always worked fine. And a comment section for people discussing upcoming movies. Those are what were disabled.
To no avail. The movie scored pitifully on opening. So at 1 PM rotten tomatoes purged 7000 bad reviews to try and get the score up above a sad 33%. After the purge the new score for this train wreck was 35%.
Before you leap in and say “they are angels and of course they should purge bad reviews” let me save you the embarrassment. Their excuse? “Rotten Tomatoes explained in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter that a glitch was responsible...”
On IMBD the reviews were an abysmal 6.6. Can’t have that for “the biggest feminist push Disney has ever attempted “.
So IMBD instituted filters. "Although we accept and consider all votes received by users, not all votes have the same impact (or 'weight') on the final rating. Various filters are applied to the raw data in order to eliminate and reduce attempts at vote stuffing by people more interested in changing the current rating of a movie than giving their true opinion of it."
This is not something that would bother you. You’ve already expressed your feelings about people’s opinions being vetted by experts.
You will be happy to know, btw, that Disney has hired a team of 40 to AstroTurf the internet and get the score up.