Captain Marvel: The MCU's First Failure?

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I don't get this thread.

Type ''Captain Marvel controversy'' into Google. You'll get there.

Do you think the anticipation score bombing is a reasonable reaction to her tweets?

[MixedDrops]

He's never going to answer a direct query about vote brigades because he tacitly approves of them while constantly claiming they aren't relevant or that they don't exist at all. Somehow clearspira wants to both claim that movies like Wonder Woman are a counterpoint to misogynists vote bombing select movies but also wants to simultaneously bring up the fact that Brie Larson made some comments that riles up people who overlap in said crowds as a major cause of a movie that's not even out "bombing".

Me personally, I'm completely ambivalent about Captain Marvel. But I'm not going to delude myself into thinking it's going to bomb in any way, shape or form when it's being set up at a direct lead-in to the great big conclusion of one of the biggest movie franchises ever.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Then why now? Why are they removing the anticipation score now? Why would a guaranteed success need help? Wonder Woman needed nothing.

Rotten tomaters changed the anticipation system as to indicate the sheer volume of people that want to see it, and not as a concentration of total voters that want to see it. So now it will say "20 million want to see it" instead of "x % of voters want to see it." The stated reason being to prevent people with an agenda dragging down films.

[MissKittyFantastico]

Okay so I haven't been following this online controversy closely because why the frell would I, but what tweets are we talking about? Because I just had a quick google, and what I read seemed to suggest what kicked it off was Larsen pushing for more diversity in the press pools at promos for the film. Is that what these folks are upset about?

[MixedDrops]

Yes.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Oh so it wasn't the smiling controversy?

[MixedDrops]

There's that too. Never underestimate the ability of the Internet to turn anything into a controversy.

[Sir Will]

Okay so I haven't been following this online controversy closely because why the frell would I, but what tweets are we talking about? Because I just had a quick google, and what I read seemed to suggest what kicked it off was Larsen pushing for more diversity in the press pools at promos for the film. Is that what these folks are upset about?

Yep. It was not articulated well at all but people really blew what she said out of proportion.

[Admiral X]

You know, if they really wanted to prove this was just trolls or whatever, all they'd have had to do was wait until after this movie came out and obviously a lot more people went to see it. It would have had the added benefit of calming down the people who are panicking about the thought people might not go to see the movie depending on what the various scores on RT say.

As it is, I'm taking this as yet another example of outrage marketing, and I have a feeling it might backfire on them the way it did with the Ghostbusters reboot.

[MixedDrops]

Who is "them"? RT and Captain Marvel are owned by two different companies. I'm not even talking two different studios under the same parent or something, they're under two completely separate media conglomerates. Nobody who pedals in these conspiracy theories is thinking rationally at all (which is also why your suggested method wouldn't do anything to deter them).