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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?"
Frankly I never had anything against the movie as such. I didn't KNOW enough about it to make that decision. I just didn't like the actress. And frankly, the only way Miss Marvel was ever relevant in my Nerdverse was as a power source for Rogue.
So I'm not going to pay to see a human battery in the cinema.
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.
If you portray terrorists as Allah worshiping mideasterners, you are reflecting reality and truth. That is fine, it is what the world really is- Muslim supremacists destorying all that they can.
Instead, movies have Russian terrorists, pretty much exclusively. At the same time, the media demonizes Russia and has a whole Busb-did-911-tier conspiracy about Russia and Trump.
If anything, it appears that corporations and entire wings of the government are trying to manufacture casus belli as fast as possible.
I think that might be a bit of an oversimplification. The overseas market really doesn't care too much about any political message agenda a film might or might not have unless it targets them in some way. I've seen plenty of foreign films that supposedly have political messages that go completely over my head since I'm not familiar with what was going on in the country, so it doesn't stand out to me.
Also Ghostbusters wasn't shown in China because the government has a thing about showing films that contain ghosts or spirits in them so it didn't get any boost from China that other films would get. I guess there's a new Ghostbusters that's getting made that's supposed to be a sequel to the first two, but unless it gets the original cast back outside of cameos, I don't think it will do much better than the previous reboot attempt. Even then, I don't really know if it will be anything but a shameless cash grab.
I think this goes to show how much everyone overreacted to some idiots trying to bot online numbers. I think it just goes to show that people need to get out more. It only seems like people give a shit about any of this because there's a small group of busy bodies on social media that don't have anything better to do and end up sounding a lot louder than they number in reality.
I saw it today. Yes, it was good. My wife and I both enjoyed it, and that's all I really care about.
If you are the kind of person who sees a powerful female lead and tries to explain your feeling of inadequacy as "I don't hate women, just SJWs", well, you're gonna hate it. But we all expected that. There are interesting and powerful women and men in this movie; some of each are good and some are evil. Kinda like life. There is a theme of "you have your own power; nobody else controls it", which will resonate well with women but also with men.
If you are the kind of person who likes seeing good guys as good and bad guys as bad, with no shades of grey, well, you'll hate it.
But if you want a movie with a young (and very emotive) Nick Fury, a bland-as-always Coulson, many fights and explosions, a good sound track of 90s music, and the usual Marvel wisecracks, then go see it.
The term "Feminist" is so subjective that it really only serves as a floor: a film where the woman is nothing but a love interest or a damsel in distress is not feminist because the woman is acted upon by the events in the film rather than driving them.
This is a movie where the superhero is a woman, therefore it is feminist unless she is texting Nick Fury all the time asking for permission.
You have posted an awful lot in this thread about a film you haven't seen and complained that the film was divisively marketed. Is this anger and division coming from anyone but the men complaining that men are not fairly represented?
In James Bond films, the woman are at best help-mates, and at worst murderous vixens, yet Feminist criticism is (for the most part) correctly derided and ignored as doctrinaire and humorless. Now there are legions of men who turn into scolds and vandals worse than bellbottom-wearing, hairy-armpit feminists when a movie has some of the roles reversed. It's just a movie, don't try to shoehorn your identity politics into it.
Pretending like you weren't bullied for a good reason I see?
No, actually. The reason for my ostracism wasn't exactly the same as yours, but it was close enough for most purposes. I also faced some bullying -even fair targets can be treated unfairly- but really, most of it what happened to me was as fair for me as it was for you.
The process of coming to understand this was extremely unpleasant. Having been in your position, I don't envy you. But there was no other way I was ever going to learn. Just like there's no other way for you. You've had years to prove it, like I did.
Just like creeps need to be put in their place so nerds and geeks need to understand that their social inadequacy is not acceptable in the real world.
Still no. I was basically one of Those Geeks, just as you are. I need to be clear about this: the geek community was founded by the unfairly targeted, and only co-opted for abuse by the fair targets later. Most of us are just fine, even though some of us are not. But the ones who aren't are the ones who ruin everything for everybody.
They need to learn to interact normally with people just like everyone else.
There is no "just like": society can withstand quite a large range of social interaction and function. This is perhaps one of the hardest lessons I had to learn, as, I suspect, it is for you: that just because my behavior and interactions were unacceptable doesn't mean that there's only one acceptable way to behave or interact. But there are boundaries.
The bar is low, but it exists, and it is necessary. Only once I understood all three parts of that sentence could I even begin to improve things, by improving myself. And so it is, I suspect, for you as well.
1. This plat point is relatively downplayed, and is shown from a stance o faulty memory. The scene was less about her being a woman, but just being told she cannot do that, only SPOILER ALERT to show her resolve and getting up to try again after her memories returned. Being that these memories were from the 1970's and 1980's where historically they had Men and Woman's roles in society. The AI which was manipulating the was a shown as a women as well.
2. Technically that was an Alien, the white human male with a major roll was Agent Coulson, who was a good guy.
3. Her flaws is her self doubt, and controlling her temper. But this is similar to most of the Marvel Movie introductions. Captain America was always the good guy, he just got powers, but it didn't change his personality, just how other see him, and what he can do.
4. The challenge is her changing alliances (I think they could had done it a little more dramatically), Overnight she had learned who the good guys are and who the bad guys are changed overnight.
5. I keep on hearing that shows that have a strong female lead being heavy handed, while the fact that she was a woman, had little to do with the plot of the movie, Yes it was brought it . But it never was a major point.
Perhaps you should have watched the movie before doing criticism on it. There are just too many people Afraid of Liberal Hollywood, and project the clumsy tropes of the past onto these newer shows.
As a Middle Class White Christian Male, who live in a rural area. Diversity isn't scary or is it threatening to me and my way of life. I notice differences in how other act and react to problems, however these differences give me new perspectives on new problems.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Since the movie has nothing about SJWs or Manspreading in it, then yes, you can enjoy the movie. In fact, taking sides is the best way to not enjoy it. No matter what side you take, you can always find something to complain about.
Its not as if this clown has seen the movie in question though... I went to see it and it was absolutely not divisive and people saying that it is either haven't seen it and are trolling or are serious fucking snowflakes getting offended at nothing. How he claims to have liked other movies is irrelevant.
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
I loved A Wrinkle In Time when I was a kid. It was one of the first books that taught me about multidimensional space. It made me interested in math. I bought the book for my daughter and tried so many times to get her interested in it, but she thought it was boring. But she was kind enough to buy me the sequel because she knew I really liked it.
Then Disney came along and turned it into a movie about magic and completely removed everything that made it such a great educational story and ruined it. And now that racist sexist bitch is talking about how it was an empowerment film for black women and men shouldn't express an opinion about it?
Fuck that bitch.
Fortunately I was able to watch Flatland with my daughter and engage in the kinds of conversations that A Wrinkle In Time should have been provoking.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth