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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?"
The hate I see is only coming from the trolls. As for the movie, there's no propaganda in it anywhere, it's just a movie. Deal with it.
White males are not the most persecuted people on the planet yet there are a few who feel that they are under siege, and it's ludicrous. Why is this an issue? Have white males been underrepresented so much that they have to unleash their review-bot army to redress their ancient grievances? The video game industry wants to market to everyone, so of course lets add some games where the girl is the hero, or a minority, etc. So what? Why does that generate so much rage? Play a different game. Watch a different movie. Don't go into some holy war over something so stupid.
If white males actually were so underrepresented that you don't see white males in governments, no white males in movies as the stars, white males being underpaid, and so forth, then I can understand the anger. But white males are still on top - maybe not 100% of them, but certainly on average they're on top.
As for games - checking the Steam store just now for games on sale or being features or new releases, the use of white male figures in the marketing shots (where you can see faces) white males are well represented despite the video game industry actively trying to get a broader audience. And just googling for "new games" many of the images that do have females they're often underdressed or anime loli stereotypes. Checking gamestop upcoming releases, the featured game features a male (looking white but in Anime style so is probably Japanese).
It's more that geeks have become sick and tired of Those Geeks. You know the type: the ones who weren't bullied for being different so much as ostracized for being creepy, and ran to the all-ostracism-is-evil crowd to escape the social pressure to grow that they so desperately needed? They've abused our generosity long enough, and it's time to put them back on the outside where they always belonged.
Marvel took what approach? Because all I see are:
1. A trailer being released six months ago.
2. The usual Internet Misogynists responding in the usual stupid way (mostly about Brie Larson not smiling enough.)
3. Most of the comics community laughing at the misogynists.
4. The misogynists deciding that the movie must, thus, be an "SJW" film because they got laughed at for being shitheads.
5. Six months of re-interpretation of everything Brie Larson says to imply she hates white men. There's even an AC in this thread arguing she hates men because... she once mentioned, critically, the fact she was sexually harassed by a TSA officer. Two years before the film was released.
There's been nothing divisive about how the film was marketed, and contrary to the gaslighting I'm seeing by you and others, WW was attacked by the usual IMs at the time too. Alita? No, but what does Alita have to do with literally anything at all, given it's about a robot who happens to appear like, eyes excepting, a girl? It says everything that the average IM thinks they can pretend liking a film about a robot somehow means they're not motivated by misogyny when they attack Captain Marvel.
The entire controversy was whipped up by IMs. Marvel's done damage control, but they've not said a single thing that can be construed as anti-anyone other than anti-misogynists-who-hate-this-movie-before-theyve-even-seen-it. And if it's "divisive" to say "People whose hatred of women means they're running bizarre campaigns to reduce the ratings on Rotten Tomatoes of a movie they've never watched", then... I guess it fits that definition, but that's not the definition most people use.
Not seen the film. Not particularly bothered by it generally but nonetheless feeling like I can't trust a single review at the moment thanks to the IMs poisoning the well again. This is a repeat of the same shit we saw with Ghostbusters (which turned out to be awful), Wonder Woman (which turned out to be good, great if you exclude the last 20 minutes), and Black Panther (which turned out to be great, period.)
Stop blaming Marvel for what an anti-women campaign that had nothing to do with them. And stop interpreting the lifting up of minority voices as being an attack on white men, it's ridiculous.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.