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'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com)

Posted by msmash on from the growing-issue dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The fake Rotten Tomatoes review onslaught continues for Captain Marvel, giving the film the lowest-rating of all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies on the site nearly two weeks ahead of its release. As of this writing, Captain Marvel now has a 28% Audience Rating, a whopping 18 points below the next lowest MCU flick -- 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Starting earlier this week, a certain section of the internet -- for whatever reason -- decided to start filing fake negative reviews in an attempt to purposefully lower the film's Audience Rating.

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  1. Completely FALSE by ChodaBoyUSA · · Score: 5, Informative

    These are NOT reviews! This is the Audience "WANT TO SEE" rating, which is completely different. People NOT wanting to see a film, is NOT review bombing. STOP LYING!

    1. Re:Completely FALSE by ITRambo · · Score: 4, Informative

      I have no idea why you're being called a Troll. Your comment is 100% factual. The figure represents "Want to see" comments. There is not audience score yet as the movie hasn't been released. I believe it will do okay, like The Last Jedi,. but probably not as well as other Marvel movies unless the story is far more awesome than the previews make it look.

    2. Re: Completely FALSE by Luckyo · · Score: 5, Informative

      Please don't mix social democrats in SJW insanity. They're desperately trying to take over social democratic parties in many Scandinavian countries today, and they're more abhorrent to most of us in that camp than they are to you.

      To you, they're just ideological opponents. To us, they're people who are trying to subvert our core message of empowering and managing capitalism to fund wide scale social programs available to everyone regardless of their sex and race to its polar opposite: socializing capital and forcibly redistributing the wealth based on sex and racial stereotypes they hold.

    3. Re:Completely FALSE by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Informative

      We're a victim, always a victim, somebody's out to get us.

      To be clear are you implying that the film is not being "want to see" bombed? Maybe have a look at how many ratings this movie is getting vs any other movie on Rotten Tomatoes and then come back and tell me if you still think someone's not out to get them.

      Since you're probably busy I'll give you a spoiler: Captain Marvel currently has 70x more "want to see ratings" than most movies coming out this year, 40x more than all other super hero movies coming out this year with the exception of this years biggest expected blockbuster: Avengers Endgame. ... It's only 4x more than that, and significantly the Avengers game is 98% positive.

      Odds are, they are really out to get them.

  2. Re: Movie reviews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not reviews, it's audience interest. It's literally asking "Are you interested in this movie?" and most people said no. It's not a review of the movie. This is fake news.

  3. Reivews? What reviews? by Noishkel · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'll point out that no one is posting review on this movie yet, they're merely posting weather or not they want to see the movie.

    And that reality really does show exactly what's wrong with sites like Comicbook.com. They're more interested in pushing a narrative than anything else.

  4. Re:Movie reviews (But not really) by Chas · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. They're not bombing reviews.
    Because the movie isn't out yet. So RT isn't accepting reviews for the film's Tomatometer score yet.

    What is being affected is the "Want to see" score (currently at 29% and falling).
    This is where the person marks whether or not they are interested in seeing the film.

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    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!
  5. Re:GB for Girls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Carol Danvers has more recently taken the title Captain Marvel but her character under the title of Ms Marvel has been part of the Marvel universe for years.

  6. Re:GB for Girls by tempo36 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seriously...like the late 70s. People who think this is some sort of gender swap in the name of equality are showing just how comic book clueless they actually are.

  7. Re:For whatever reason? by tempo36 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Captain Marvel was caught in a explosion in 1969. In 1977 it was revealed that Carol Danvers inherited his powers to become Ms Marvel. So folks have had since 1977 to deal with this. It's not like Marvel suddenly looked at the Trump administration and MAGA folks and said, "Let's take away their cherished male superhero!"

  8. Re: Movie reviews by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 4, Informative

    True, Anonymous Coward.

    I'm GenX - Age 52 in less than a month. In the comics I read as a kid, Captain Marvel was always a DC Property - That's how I know the name.

    Billy Batson says "SHAZAM!" and turns into Captain Marvel:

    https://static.comicvine.com/u...

    I'm still keen to see the Marvel movie, though. It looks fun.

  9. Western values under attack by Socguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    If anyone has been paying attention to what's been happening in the world of weaponized trolling, this should surprise no one. Paid foreign actors who are looking to sew discord (in largely western society) are taking up both sides of many issues (social and political) they think can be blown up into a polarizing argument. They spam away on social media, youtube, twitter etc. Along they way they hope to drag as many folks as possible into the never ending argument quagmire. By dividing a population and causing internal turmoil, they create space for their political overlords to operate with less outside scrutiny.

    Don't play their games. Next time you think you should argue with some idiot on the internet save your energy for things that actually matter.

  10. Re: Movie reviews by CronoCloud · · Score: 4, Informative

    Marvel's Captain Marvel, on the other hand? A relative unknown. I had been peripherally aware that Marvel had someone by that name in their hero pantheon, but until recently I thought he was male.

    Hand in your Nerd card. Carol Danvers became Captain Marvel (well Ms. Marvel), when she got zapped by the Kree Psyche Magnetron in 1977. The Kree "Captain Mar-Vell"... well he died, Carol then adopted his name to honor his memory.

    Monica Rambeau (currently Spectrum) also used the name when Carol got depowered by Rogue just before she joined the X-Men.

    All of that happened decades ago.

    Sharon Ventura (altered human who got her powers during the Things UCWF storyline) and Kamala Khan (Inhuman ancestry, Inhumans are a Human derived species who are Kree experiments) have also used the name Ms. Marvel