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'Captain Marvel' Smashes Box Office Record, Laughs Off Review-Bombing Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) 549

Posted by EditorDavid from the higher-further-faster dept.
"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?"
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  • One site had a bunch of people say they weren't going to go see it. News hungry sites and YouTubers pounced on it like a dog on steak because the anti SJW crap gets clicks. We're all being played for ad revenue. It's pissing me off and I can't do anything about it except point out.

  • Cue the counter-narrative that the troll bombs were an inside job, furthering two parallel agendas:
    * to drive insta-guerrilla publicity for the movie
    * to discredit word-of-mouth review

    In the almost-as-large-as-life MCU, this wouldn't even count as a least mustard-seed of a standard-issue dastardly plot.

  • I did not know I am a bot (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Rui F Ribeiro ( 2870173 ) on Sunday March 10, 2019 @04:28PM (#58248624)
    I voted I did not wanted to see. Rotten tomatoes changed 47K do not want to see votes to "liked it". So much for credibility.

    • You're conflating Rotten Tomatoes with actual box office revenue.

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      by thegarbz ( 1787294 )

      So much for credibility.

      And then found, announced and corrected the problem which occurred due to a very recent change. That is precisely how credibility works.
      Also they didn't say all the original votes were bots, but given site participation it was obvious that 90% of them were.

      Now please, stop frothing at the mouth, smoke some weed, do some yoga, or do whatever it is you do to relax after you nerd rage over nothing.

  • I had no skin in this one and wouldn't waste my time on "review bombing," probably done by the marketing department to convince the people paying for the marketing department to increase their wages since it would take so much effort to overcome the "trolling." Obvious psy-op is obvious.

  • Is whether a movie is any good. I don’t care about the trolls, who never venture far from the rocks they cower under anyway. And I don’t care about the flag-wavers like this review writer - feel free to listen to your Helen Reddy album on continuous loop, just don’t insist I sing along.

    I don’t care what an actor’s or actress’ opinion is, I only care whether they can act. When performers think they’re bigger than they are, we get Clint Eastwood rambling to an empty c

  • Good controversy is the best marketing (Score:3, Insightful)

    by SchroedingersCat ( 583063 ) on Sunday March 10, 2019 @04:42PM (#58248714)
    Investing into small team of review-bombers is a brilliant marketing move.

  • wrong headline (Score:2, Insightful)

    by slashmydots ( 2189826 )
    Actually the headline should be "Brie Larson makes insanely racist and sexist comments and ignorant moviegoers see it anyway."

    • There's a big difference between being ignorant, and just not giving a shit. Brie Larson is a SJW arse, the movie however was decent and not seeing it due to something irrelevant to the movie itself doesn't achieve anything.

  • I don't care about the film (I don't like any movie super heroes AT ALL, only deadpool and mostly only for the 4th wall humour - without the 4th wall humour I would not bother watching). But one thing I remark is that the first openning is not that important for any film. What is important is 1) is this sustainable after word of mouth (e.g. 155M 1st week end and 3M next is bad) and 2) how does it compare with the long tail (e.g. some film do much better on the dvd market than in cinema). I am just saying th

  • I should point out that the current movie era, dominated by cartoon tent-poles, is based on network effects. Remember those? We used to discuss them on Slashdot back in the day.

    As movies gained international markets, there was a marked effect on the quality of your typical movie, which I've dubbed Dialogue for Dummies. The strong, silent protagonist of the 1950s made a splashing comeback, simply because it was easier to dub into a dozen major international markets. Witty repartee does not translate. Subtle

  • it's now officially impossible to have an opinion or discussion about this film, because it's become nothing more than a political litmus test. It's funny-- I don't think there has ever been a movie in the history of film where the conversation around the film has so thoroughly degenerated into a politically-motivated pissing contest. Even films with an overt and hard-edged political or social message, like "Do The Right Thing", were still viewed as works of art, which you could discuss as *films* first a

  • Of course, the steadily (in some instances, rapidly) increasing ticket prices over the years had no effect upon that accolade.
  • Who hired the bots?

  • Slashdot article Smashes zero Box Office Records, (Score:4, Insightful)

    by triffid_98 ( 899609 ) on Sunday March 10, 2019 @06:04PM (#58249160)
    Thanks to new ownership and a wide understanding that comments are forever Slashdot is no longer an effective medium for discourse on many topics. This is but one of them. It may not be a #metoo echo chamber but once upon a time controversial discussions were had here without posting as AC over a VPN connection

  • Weird... (Score:2, Informative)

    by ASCIIxTended ( 4777373 )

    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?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by guruevi ( 827432 )

      This is hollyweird, it doesn't matter as long as the narrative works. Plenty of box office records are artificial, if you have a poor movie but want to make a lot of money, buy your own movie's tickets out and have the media fawn at how good the movie must be. Seems to happen to a lot of Marvel movies, they're cookie cutter scripted movies that keep smashing box office records but have no long-term sales income and within less than 24m you'll see them at the $5 bin.

  • Hmmm (Score:2)

    by nnull ( 1148259 )
    Why does bad reviews instantly mean trolling? Just because a movie was hyped up to try to get as much people to go and watch it doesn't mean the movie was excellent. You got people tricked into paying to see your crap movie, sort of like how EA hypes up games to get people to buy it only to find out it's crap. If it keeps up, you'll end up like the video gaming scene where no one buys into hype anymore and game sales drop off dramatically because of it. You can fool people up to a point, but eventually it's

  • This is an MCU movie with no competition marketed to pander to woke people so extensively that it was even released on International Women's Day. No one with a brain thought it was going to have a bad opening weekend. You won't get a good idea of how the movie has been received until next weekend. It's like The Last Jedi--that movie had a massive opening only to drop 67.5% in the second week, ending up making 33% less than The Force Awakens and having knock-on effects on the rest of the franchise. Capta

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