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Talk about being jealous. This review site has been taking heat for the promised bad reviews about to flood its site of this upcoming superhero movie which is going to make tons and tons of money. It might even make $200M the first weekend. Why would it do this? The site is owned by a rival studio/comic book series. Oh, and making sure all of the bad reviews and trying to link bad reviews to the soon to be blockbuster is this cable news network owned by the same movie studio.
Errr... Black Panther? And DC fans are the trolls? It's all over the web. Has been for the last few days.
ReplyDeleteBlack Panther. Rotten Tomatoes owned by Fandango which is owned by Warner which owns DC?
ReplyDeleteAdrian’s got it.
ReplyDeleteAnd CNN for the Network.
Deletejust when you think dc fanboys couldn't get any worse
ReplyDeleteDC fanboys are sore losers who hate that what they see as perversion of the comics art form (bs) is more popular than their “pure” DC.
DeletePersonally, I think they need a few lessons in comics history, but they’d probably just ask me to name all of the artists who have done Iron Man in chronological order and dismiss me as a fake fan when I tell them I could not give three hoots which artists have done Iron Man.
The FB group is ‘Down with Disney’s Treatment of its Franchises and Fanboys’. The same group targeted The Last Jedi.
ReplyDeleteMovie: Black Panther
ReplyDeleteWebsite: Rotten Tomatoes (partly owned by Warner Bros., which HELD BACK reviews for "Justice League," also Warner Bros.)
"News" Network: CNN. They are disgusting not-journalists, and this is actually the least of their countless sins.
The crazy thing to me is that they're even trying to tank this movie. They won't. They can't. All it does is further sink their credibility. So short sighted.
Adrian Zmed was great in Gresae 2 and Bachelor Party
ReplyDeleteGrease 2 is awesomely awful. So much fun watching it.
DeleteIs it really not possible to like *both*?
ReplyDeleteI guess the incels need some way to fill their time...
It's even easier to like "neither".
ReplyDeleteIt’s tough to like both when your view of a “good superhero movie” is either gritty and dark fantasy explicitly for adults (DC) or set in a fantastic version of the real world with lots of lighter moments to keep things from getting too grim which kids can safely enjoy too (Marvel).
ReplyDeleteBut some people do like both.
LOL @ Chris.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
So DC couldn't get their own movies good reviews so they're gonna get others bad reviews even though Thor and such got great reviews? This isn't a blind but a rehashing of bulls hit story. And I'm a DC fan, don't know why theyd attack thus movie. Everyone seems excited about the movie and it's obviously gonna do well and get rave reviews. I haven't seen any DC fans attack it. Sounds like a bullshit story.
ReplyDeletemost of the posts on this site are made up nonsense, but this one just doesn't even know what its trying to say. the 'campaign' that the idiots of the internet was trying to affect with BLACK PANTHER was to affect AUDIENCE SCORE (as they did with Star Wars), not actual corrupt negative reviews—which, to add, is not a real thing. What a stretch, by this dumb site, where most everything is finding a few facts that are public knowledge, and making up a nonsense story around them.
ReplyDeleteWill some of the profits from Black Panther be used to help drill wells in Africa? Provide much needed health care, education, etc.?
ReplyDeleteDo other Marvel Universe or Disney-owned IP movies do this? Why single out BP?
DeleteThe film claims Africa's poverty is a hoax designed to protect Wakanda. Yes, I know this is a fictional story.
DeleteMy point is black people are seen as dollar signs. We spend a pretty penny on those Jordan shoes. Michael Jordan doesn't wear them himself. You get the picture.
I wonder how many of us who buy those shoes will sponsor charities that provide clothes and shoes to the poor. An American dollar goes farther in developing nations.
I don't care about either superhero franchise, they're both past their prime for me.
ReplyDeleteI also don't think there's much chance BLACK PANTHER is going to have a $200 million opening weekend. Only 4 movies have ever done that (SW:TFA, SW:TLJ, Jurassic World, Avengers but not Avengers 2), and this just doesn't feel like the 5th.
It could get close. Black nerds (which there are more than many people realize) are hyped about this. Many viewing events are already sold out in my area and theatres are continuing to add additional shows.
DeleteBlack people in general are stoked about this movie. Not just black nerds smdh.
DeleteI am aware of this. I noted “black nerds” because a) I am one and b) I have heard a lot of commentary about how surprised tptb (Mass media, Disney, marvel, etc) are about passion and breadth of the black cosplay/geek/nerd community. ‘Tis all.
DeleteI’m hyped for this movie too. At least black people are hyped for a good project and not a Medea pt 12
DeleteI don’t know any black person that gets hyped for that shit. I’m sure in some places, yes, but not in my neck of the woods. We. Are. Not. A. Monolith.
DeleteCheck black twitter. It’s a big hit there.
DeleteI'd like to see exactly how this is supposed to work. RT is just an aggregate site. They only report what other people are saying. They don't do their own reviews.
ReplyDeleteBlack Panther isn't going to open at 200m though - this feels more like Infinity War
ReplyDeleteIDK, Sparkle. If there's one Marvel film I'm genuinly, honestly-from-the-bottom of my heart excited for, it's BP. If I could only have a choice of picking one Marvel film in 2018, it would be BP.
DeleteNot even "Infinity War" (and Doctor Strange is in that one—and I'm obsessed and identify mostly with DS). I wouldn't read too much into the fact that the trailer was viewed over a million times on YouTube—Marvel basically threw EVERYONE in there. By the end of it, I was like, "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!" I feel manipulated and emotionally-blackmailed to see IW. I haven't even seen IW and already I feel some resentment. Marvel should cut that crap, it builds resentment and is bad in the long run IMHO.
But then I never really liked the "Avengers", too straight-laced... Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Please don't hate me for saying this, I'm just being honest.
Okay, I feel a bit guilty and bad saying I feel "emotionally-blackmailed" to see IW. I don't mean to imply Marvel are greedy. But they don't need to do taht anymore do they? People already like Marvel films, they don't need to throw everyone's favourite superhero into every film ever. Sorry if that came off too harsh...
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DeleteChrist! I wish the world had had enough of all this fucking cape shit no matter what pile of shite studio it came from.
ReplyDeleteNo wonder you are a lonely bastard. My son and I have a great time at superhero movies. Certainly more fun and entertaining than a lot of other “for kids” titles.
Delete🎼 "JEALOOOOOOOSSSSYYYYYYY is such a lonely word... Everyone is so untruuue, Honesty is hardly ever heard, and mostly what I need from youuuuuu... 🎶
ReplyDeleteI can always find someone to say they sympathize, if I wear my heart out on my sleeve. But I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies. All I want is someone to beliiiiiiieve... 🖤
I can have security until the bitter end! 💰
Anyone can comfort me with promises again... I know, I know..." 🎵
It's only not a "primer for the dark arts" if I get to score the sequel... Excuse me while I insert myself and pretend to like the right people so I can suck up to them.
If you want to know what I think............ this isn't about DC vs. Marvel. This is about creepy miscreants throwing temper tantrums over a successful project that doesn't center white guys. But, the creepy miscreants are smart enough to know that their campaign will be more successful if they don't say that outright. It's the dog whistle tactic.
ReplyDeleteJealousy is a light word for racist and misogynist. The founder of the group that planned the Rotten Tomatoes event stated himself he didn't like female roles being added to films (Last Jedi) and BP has powerful women and a lot of blackness.
ReplyDeleteam i the only one who thought"Howard the Duck" was awezzome??Anyways,if BP is anything close to the great Jack Kirby's late 60's/early 70's version(mostly in Fantastic Four,but also a short lived BP series)it could be awesome.And redpills should abound..after all,T'challa had aYUGE wall to protect his people
ReplyDeleteFew Views - 100%.
ReplyDeleteNot DC fans, they actually raised $5000 for school kids in the Bronx to go see Black Panther. This is the work of the same bigot who spammed the Last Jedi with negative scores from bots.
ReplyDeleteAwwww? That is so fucking sweet! 🗽👩🏻🚕🍂💛
DeleteHonestly I’m excited about BP because it’s finally a different take on this genre. Not because of race but because it’s just a really different kind of superhero.
ReplyDeleteDisney has bought enty too?
ReplyDeleteGrease 2 is awesomely awful. So much fun watching it.
ReplyDelete@ Normal - Grease 2 is deliciously bad and for me a guilty pleasure. Michelle Pfeiffer is the only one who came out of that steaming pile with any dignity.
FWIW, I've got Black Panther at $165mill opener. Happy to play over/under with other CDANers.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that Rotten Tomatoes has been pretty proactive in condemning the bad review campaign, as well as setting up a strategy to take down the phony bad reviews as they come in. It may be that the fanboys feel like RT is "their" site because of the chain of ownership, but I don't think RT itself operates that way.
ReplyDeleteIt's just a fanboy racism stunt, just like the Sad Puppies did to the Hugo awards by rigging the voting system against books and movies featuring women, people of color and gay characters.
It's not just the Black community that's pumped about Black Panther. The Asian and Latino communities are rallying to support this project. I'm trying to line up a sitter that weekend, but having trouble because it's a 3-day weekend.
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