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'Captain Marvel' Review Bombers Have Dropped Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating To Lowest Among MCU Movies (comicbook.com)
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.
Sure, but early off-the-record comments from reviewers for this one have actually been surprisingly positive. I was honestly expecting it to detract from the lead-up to Endgame and I questioned the wisdom in introducing a game-changing character this close to the climax of the story they've been telling for the last decade. By all indications, however, it sounds like the bet may pay off. In a quick roundup I read last week, most of the off-the-record reviewers were saying that it's increased their anticipation and the buildup leading to Endgame, even more so than where things left off at the end of Infinity War last year. That was not at all what I was expecting.
Not true. Captain Marvel is a relatively well known superhero name. Unfortunately for Marvel, the well-known Captain Marvel is in DC's stable, along with the rest of the Marvel family. (They've been promoting Captain Marvel more recently as Shazam, however that's not his name; Shazam is the wizard who granted Captain Marvel his powers.)
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.
Honestly, most people outside of comics fans didn't know who Iron Man was either prior to his movie. He was considered a minor hero that Marvel was trotting out to test the waters for a big movie release. They expected Iron Man to barely make a profit and just act as set up for future blockbusters. Instead, it was a huge success and now Tony Stark is a household name.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
"Women in general are not physiologically strong. .... The reality is ... "
Assuming you didn't deliberately intend to sound like a misogynist, you know this is a movie about a comic book superhero, right?
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I have watched this closely. There have been numerous very recently stories about how men are bashing this movie etc. Yet, as far as I can tell no one has or can bash this movie. Having followed film releases, a similar strategy seems to emerge. The studios get a pre-relase feed back, realize the film is going to bomb and purposely find a group to blame the poor showing on. So they are false flagging basement dwelling men as the reason this film will do poorly. They already know it's audience pre-screening is bad, so they are going to find something to blame other than themselves.
He was male. And he had a romantic interest named Ms. Marvel. Then they renamed her Captain Marvel. But it was really about keeping ownership of the name, which was passed around between DC and Marvel. You could look it up, but it's not really worth your time. All I care about is, YouTube has been shoving it down my throat and it's really making me hate the brand and the actress who plays the character, who I'd never heard of prior to this, but who appears to be a real sexist, racist, bigoted cunt. Identity politics, aka bigotry, seems to be everywhere you look these days.
I heard two women on the bus talking and one said to the other "I'm not a feminist, but I do think they've done a lot for women.", and all I heard was "I'm not a member of the KKK, but I do think they've done a lot for white people."
That pretty much encapsulates why people are so pissed off, in my opinion.
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Feminists *have* done a lot for women. Women once could not vote. Maybe you don't like today's brand of feminist, but I really don't see why you would compare feminists to an organization who's famous for murdering black people for being black.
I think a good argument can be made that modern feminists have gone too far. But you know what else is too far? Equating them to the KKK. Are you really trying to combat hysterical overreaction, with even more hysterical overreaction?
That would be all well and good if this was about the over-abundance of superhero movies. In reality, the "review bombs" are from misogynists who can't fathom the idea of a female superhero, much less a female superhero played by an actress who opinions of her own and isn't afraid to express them.