'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.

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Movie reviews

[mwvdlee]

Movie reviews? Seriously... you're bombing movie reviews?
THIS is why we can't have nice things.

Re:Movie reviews

[Anonymous Coward]

No, moviegoers don't hate women.

We're not talking about "moviegoers", we're talking about comic book moviegoers. Whole different thing.

Comic book moviegoers don't hate women as long they have big tits and show plenty of skin. Maybe the problem is that Brie Larson wears too much clothing. She should dress more like Wonder Woman. And wear a pushup. That would end the negative reviews.

Re:Movie reviews

[lgw]

In fairness, the Ghostbusters backlash was all about "new=bad".

Nope. Fans are excited for Ghostbusters 3, which is not a reboot. It's the same problem with the Star Wars reboot. You will never be successful in capitalizing on a large loyal fanbase if you start by throwing away the very lore and characters they are emotionally attached to. The problem was never "new", it was "replacement".

The movie, on it's own merits, was OK. Not great, but not bad. The problem was that it was both a ghostbusters move with a different cast, and a REBOOT.

More specifically: it's a weak parody from a movie maker with a long successful track record of weak parodies. Had it been "Spirit Chasers" and a parody or genre parody of Ghostbusters, and had the appropriate B-movie budget it would have done fine.

Hollywood has sadly stopped making comedies that aren't parodies (excepting very lowbrow broad humor). I'm a little worried about GB3 because of that. I'd love it as a straight-up adventure story, because I don't trust Hollywood with comedy any more.

Re:Movie reviews

[mark-t]

Litterally, no one but you said that

Uh...

Women in general are not physiologically strong

Looks that way to me.

You are the one that created this "misogynist" conversation by shitting...

No, I did not... I opened with a statement to the effect of that I was assuming that the poster was *NOT* intending to sound like a misogynist... and went on to make my point.

And for some reason that is completely inexplicable to me, the fact that I had said this has somehow become a super huge deal with you.... I wasn't the one to blow things out of proportion here. I was quite willing to give the poster the benefit of the doubt, and not make any assumption about intent. I was only acknowledging what to me seemed entirely obvious that the above quoted comment could be taken as originating *WITH* some intent to be derogatory towards women. Whether this was the actual underlying intent or not was entirely irrelevant.

It seems somewhat ironic that my casual mention of the possibility that the original remark might be construed as offensive has in fact itself become very obviously offensive to you.

Get a life.

Article not really accurate?

[jareth-0205]

It's the "want to see" rating that's low, not the review. Not that that matters, seems obvious that there's a concerted effort to try to damage the film going on, but would be nice not to give a "well, actually" out to distract the issue.

Still, if ever there you need evidence of the pathetic weakling manbabies that inhabit the internet, here's another one. Marvel make one film with a black cast, or one film with a female lead, and they lose their fucking minds. "Quick, suppress anything that isn't exclusively aimed at me!" The film isn't released yet, there are no reviews and we know very little. Marvel have a great track record, so if you have enjoyed their past films the only reason for railing so hard against this is sexism. Sorry, it is actually pathetic.

For whatever reason?

[ardmhacha]

"Starting earlier this week, a certain section of the internet -- for whatever reason"

What a disingenuous comment

The reason is clear. In this remake Captain Marvel is a woman, so a certain immature troll section of the internet want to make sure lots of people know how traumatic that has been for them.

Can you point to a movie that had that narrative?

[rsilvergun]

I can't think of one. Last Jedi didn't rage on CIS males, it just kinda sucked. And you just listed a ton of movies that are the opposite of the point you're making.

I suppose you could dig up some independent movies written by/for radical feminists. But they're the left wing equivalent of Atlas Shrugged. Garbage written by and for the faithful that nobody really pays any attention to past high school when they grow out of their "rebellious" phase.

So barring that, what is a single mainstream movie that has even a side message of "straight white male bad"? While you're at it please explain why you feel that way (or link to a post/YouTube video that encapsulates your reasons).

Re: Completely True

[thomst]

lgw selectively quoted pseudofrog thusly:

reactions that based on some reactionary ideology that's far from uncommon online (The Force Awakens sucks because a lady with latent Force powers beat up a couple of guys with a space stick).

He then responded to that assertion by opining:

You know, I'm not sure anyone actually believed that. I think it's entirely a contrived excuse, or so oversimplified as to be wrong.

No. No, it's really not.

While The Last Jedi was still in theaters, some unemployed basement-dweller spent considerable effort to create a de-feminized fanedit of the movie.

If you're still determined to defend your thesis, you might first want to visit the Reddit discussion page about what has come to be known as the Chauvinist Cut. Or you could "treat" yourself to mundanemike's fawning SJWs lose their mind over THE LAST JEDI: THE DE-FEMINIZED FANEDIT review of the CC (the Youtube version is the same video he posted to the Daily Caller website, btw). Be sure to at least read the commments that other incels have posted praising his review's "takedown" of SJWs.

I could cite a Godzillion examples of similar foaming, reactionary rants about the original movie, the Chauvinist Cut, and the campaign to downvote it on Rotten Tomatoes, but all you really need as evidence is Bleedingcool's 2017 story about the Facebook troll who claimed to have written a bot he used to massively downvote The Last Jedi on RT to understand that your skepticism is baseless.

Not to mention naive ...