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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 population loves to pretend they are super-heroes, while gobbling up extra large coke with extra margarine popcorn.
Truth be told, I don't think almost anyone on either side spends any actual money for their side. Slacktivism wins in the end.
But it does go to show how ridiculous and impotent the incels' efforts are. They can't sink a movie even when they sink its reviews. They really should forget this ridiculous nonsense and just grow the fuck up already. Then people might actually want them around for once.
Admittedly, I haven't see it (only its effects and the ugly divisive firestorm surrounding it), so maybe I'm being unfair. Up to this point I've had no interest in seeing it myself, but I have heard some things about it that suggested it was pretty heavy on the propaganda side. Maybe you can clear this up. This is what I've heard:
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.
2) SPOILER ALERT The one white male in the film who is her ally turns out to be the villain.
3) Captain Marvel herself is a "Mary Sue" with no real character arc. She starts out perfect and flawless, and ends up perfect and flawless. Her only "flaw" that she overcomes is not appreciating how awesome she truly is, or appreciating how much evil men have been holding her back or deceiving her about her awesome-amazingness.
4) Captain Marvel never faces any real challenges, nor has real character development, nor is shown to grow in any meaningful way.
5) The feminism is presented in a clumsy heavy-handed way, such as playing the song like "I'm Just A Girl" during the climatic fight scene--and not in a funny, ironic way.
Perhaps I've been misinformed on this, and if so, I would be legitimately interested in hearing an alternate take. Maybe Nick Fury takes her cocky attitude down a peg in a funny scene? Maybe she has some real flaws that she overcomes? Maybe there are scene(s) where she shows some real humanity or vulnerability? Maybe she makes some real mistakes and owns up to them? Those would definitely help combat the "one-dimensional Mary Sue" rumors.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Cheering on a Disney movie (and an inarguably subpar one at that) because GRRL POWA.
Where's the socialists now? GRRL POWA!
Where's the copyright arguments? GRRL POWA!
Rotten Tomatoes completely destroyed and subverted their own reporting system (can you ever trust their tomato scores again?) GRRL POWA.
You guys are being suckered for pure crass-commericalism - you spent your money to see a movie from an org you hate, perpetuating capitalism and then pat yourself on the back because you support the GRRL POWA because the advertising told you to believe that's what this movie was about.
Then, then you have the audacity to post an inflammatory summary to show your oh so righteous indignation about how you support crass commercialized movies as if you've somehow "won"?
Well enjoy your pyrrhic victory...
As the Melania body double famously said, "I really don’t care, do u?"
Is anyone surprised that nobody listened to a bunch of man babies who were upset that their superhero didn't have a penis? The good news is that none of them will be procreating, so the 40 year-old overweight man baby who hangs around the comic book store and jacks off to drawings of Thor genetic profile will soon disappear and the rest of us can go on with our lives.
However, it may drastically reduce the Anonymous Coward population, so comme ci, comme ça, which is Gaelic for "fuck them sad sacks".
You are welcome on my lawn.
That's the saddest thing, isn't it? Mainstream superhero movies have traditionally united us. This is the first one that feels like it has only divided us even more. And, perhaps most disheartening, Marvel seems to have chosen this approach intentionally. The certainly didn't take this approach with Black Panther. Nor did DC take this approach with Wonder Woman.
This feels like the kind of unpleasant turning point that I had hoped would never come in this genre. They've brought divisive politics and social division into a genre that used to be noted for its universal appeal. It makes me dread what we can expect going forward.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Odd that when I look at RT, only 57%. Not exactly the windfall they claim. Looks like it will have a good opening, but end up leaving the theater early as the rest of the population waits for it to come out on dvd.