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'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com)
"With a $302 million international gross, Captain Marvel has earned $455 million overall to date, the largest ever global opening for a March release and the sixth highest of all-time," reports the Wrap. The superhero movie raked in $153 million just in America, reports Collider, "Suggesting that a sad, extremely vocal minority of idiots on the internet don't actually matter in the slightest."
They're referring to another Rotten Tomateos review-counting glitch Friday morning, as covered by the Hollywood Reporter: The Disney film had only been in theaters for hours on Friday when the female-driven superhero picture was torpedoed online via Rotten Tomatoes. As of 8 a.m., the film had more than 58,000 reviews. That is more than the total of audience score reviews for Avengers: Infinity War for its entire theatrical run.
Rotten Tomatoes explained in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter that a glitch was responsible for thousands of reviews showing up on the site when they shouldn't have. According to Rotten Tomatoes, it had included audience reviews given before the film was released, something which is no longer allowed.
Movieweb believes those pre-release reviews were generated by bots, suggesting a small handful of review-bombers who were attempting to amplify their impact. Yahoo Entertainment believes the attempted review-bombers were angry with the film's star "for, well, not giving a crap about what the trolls say. Perhaps that's the best superpower of all."
When asked about the attempt to review-bomb Captain Marvel, the film's star Brie Larson smilingly replied, "Oh... who cares?"
"Love what you love! Who cares what other people think?"
They're referring to another Rotten Tomateos review-counting glitch Friday morning, as covered by the Hollywood Reporter: The Disney film had only been in theaters for hours on Friday when the female-driven superhero picture was torpedoed online via Rotten Tomatoes. As of 8 a.m., the film had more than 58,000 reviews. That is more than the total of audience score reviews for Avengers: Infinity War for its entire theatrical run.
Rotten Tomatoes explained in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter that a glitch was responsible for thousands of reviews showing up on the site when they shouldn't have. According to Rotten Tomatoes, it had included audience reviews given before the film was released, something which is no longer allowed.
Movieweb believes those pre-release reviews were generated by bots, suggesting a small handful of review-bombers who were attempting to amplify their impact. Yahoo Entertainment believes the attempted review-bombers were angry with the film's star "for, well, not giving a crap about what the trolls say. Perhaps that's the best superpower of all."
When asked about the attempt to review-bomb Captain Marvel, the film's star Brie Larson smilingly replied, "Oh... who cares?"
"Love what you love! Who cares what other people think?"
Bringing more and more anger and division to our pop culture is only hastening a very ugly future...
Agree 100%. But I saw Captain Marvel this morning and, unlike the remake of Ghostbusters or countless other examples, this movie doesn't have an agenda. I was worried from the early news that it might. But Marvel, in this case, did just what I hoped they'd do: Told an origin story that was fun, told us more about the world some of my favorite characters inhabit, and threw in a little 90's nostalgia without being overbearing or stupid. If you're looking for "wokeness," it's not here.
Hmm, I counted 4 males of consequence in that movie: Fury, Coulson, Talos, and Yon-Rogg. Only one of those was a villain.
It's ... okay. Not great, but an adequate filler in the MCU.
Part of its problem was a middling script that basically put Brie Larson in the position of smirking and making snarky remarks to everyone, posing heroically, and not much else. There wasn't much in the way of character development. Larson was very much overqualified for the role, given what she was asked to do.
That's most certainly not how it was marketed. Marvel and Brie Larson have went out of their way to insist that it's a unabashedly feminist film, even going so far as to release it on International Women's Day. If it is "just a movie," then they have done it a grave disservice by trying to market it as something with a very clear feminist agenda.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Spoiler alert for the whole post.
1. There are explicit references to past sexism in the movie but I am not sure where the "comically-over-the-top sexist men" comment comes from. Certainly, at a critical moment seen also in the trailers when she is gathering her strength, she refers to herself as a human and not as a woman. Also certainly, the one male who gets center stage throughout the movie, Nick Fury, is not depicted as sexist.
2. Truth be told, there is a villain female too. None are supposed to be human and the chief villain apparently has no form but its persona visible to us is female.
3. This mostly true. She does steal some clothes and a motorcycle for no reason. But it seems to be just very weak homage to terminator 2. Otherwise, I agree. What is worse, Brie Larson seems to have trouble conveying any emotional subtlety here. The movie starts when she cannot sleep because she is so troubled by the dreams. But she speaks evenly, has no sweat and shows no outward sign of inner turmoil. She is a good actress so perhaps she was just counting all the money Marvel just paid her. In any case, this is my least favorite part of the movie.
4. Captain Marvel is presented as basically an MCU version of Superman. She is given so much power that you never feel she is at risk of failing. And no kryptonite in sight. Then again, MCU has rarely had good villains. This is just an extreme version of a long tradition.
5. Frankly, the music was so heavy handed that I started tuning it out long before the climactic scene. And I do not mean, feminist heavy handed. I mean the score itself felt like it traded all good taste for that extra bit of pathos.
So in my view, CM was not a good movie, but it is not as bad as Superman IV. I think it is pretty much OK for a March movie.
When I went to see it the theater was almost empty, while the cinema as a whole had as large a crowd as I've ever seen on a Saturday. I wonder if these numbers are correct?
I do not belong to the church of the lowercase 'i'
1) The hero is potrayed as constantly having been kicked down and told she's not good enough, exclusively by comically-over-the-top sexist men.
Not sure who told you that, but since that is ludicrously false you should treat all stories from that source with suspicion from now on. Spoilers!
I cannot think of a single scene where she is "kicked down". We see a series of scenes from her past where she failed; sometimes men were there and sometimes not. There is a line like "women could not fly combat missions, so the only way we could contribute was by being experimental test pilots"; if that fits your comment, then you and I will likely never agree on anything.
In fact, the main person "keeping her down" is a female (more would be very spoilery).
2) SPOILER ALERT The one white male in the film who is her ally turns out to be the villain.
Well, if you assume that Agent Coulson isn't a white male, then maybe? But the "white male" is a villain, as are the others on his mixed-gender-and-species team. And (more spoilers) an alien played by a white male turned out to be a good guy.
Not worth refuting these one-by-one. Too many people believe what they want to believe and tune out what doesn't fit their notions.
They don't even have to pay them. Just have the star say she is a feminist and let the outraged keyboard warriors do it for you.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Uhh you must have missed Brie Larson on the promo circuit saying "I don't need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn't work about A Wrinkle in Time. It wasn't made for him! " (so apparently you can't be a critic of a movie unless you are the correct skin color and sex, I guess someone should go tell The Black Nerd on YouTube he is fucked) and her touting the movie was "made with intersectional feminism" so sorry, you can buy the bullshit all you want but the star of the movie was waving a big ass political flag as high and as hard as she could possibly swing the damn thing.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Also there was Alita, which rocked. Since I get to see about one film every quarter, that definitely had the more powerful lure for me.
Sadly, no it didn't. It wasn't god awful... didn't make me angry... But it was AT BEST serviceable.
That's if one ignores huge and pointless plot contrivances which would mar any movie (seriously, Rodriguez is barely a mediocre director), terrible dialogue and generally bad writing very much in the vein of Kalogridis' work on Altered Carbon and Terminator Genisys.
That movie should have been a new Star Wars... a work of fiction reshaping and presenting philosophical ideas to the general audience.
Also it should have felt a lot more like Mad Max and a lot less like... hell... Zootopia.
And I don't mean the uncanny valley eyes (an immediate giveaway that the movie makers don't understand the work they are adapting) - I mean the color scheme and the general feeling of cheeriness.
Not one moment did I feel that anyone in that world was a survivor of any kind of hardship.
It's supposed to be a post-apocalyptic world of cyborgs and mutants. A desperate world, built out of scrap and garbage of the old one.
Not an occasionally somewhat dangerous yet oddly kid-friendly global melting pot with what I can only imagine as a Walmart on every block filled with brand new and colorful clothes and various other casually flashed gear.
But I did notice this fake "rivalry" online.
Alita being somehow an opposite to Captain Marvel... and its "toxic feminism"... "toxic femininity"... by the usual members of the sad and pathetic ass-clown army.
One more reason I'm glad this movie has practically no chance for a sequel. Even on paper it barely broke even...
And knowing how long it was in development (for a while it seemed all that would come out if it is a passing resemblance of Dark Angel to the source material) - I suspect that it drags a LOT more in pre-production cost and how much Cameron will be taking for himself.
I'm inclined to believe its "break even" point is closer to 500 million or more.
Hell... at one time it was Alita or Avatar. It was supposed to make THAT much.
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