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Goddamnit without the thumbnail warning me I clicked the link just as my 'wait a second' thoughts were cutting in.


My YT recommends are gonna be trashed now, thanks.
 
Sebine said:
EXTRA EXTRA
John Walker Flynt says Government should protect Brie Larson's feeling from bad movie reviews

Watch all about it

What a bloody joke.
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Yes, you do appear to have linked to the Youtube account of a bloody joke of a man.

Gee wiz, this sure is a quality source you've got.

I'm not sure which of these videos is the saddest, and they're just a small cross-section. Is it the ohgodnonottheFEMINISTS Captain Marvel pink hair edit? Is it spending almost 17 minutes ranting about losing a sponsorship? Is it the "all FEMALE Avengers" freakout? Is it the one I didn't screenshot that literally contains the phrase "SJW cult"?
 
Khona Moshr said:
He used the dead name of Brianna wu; John Flynt, so that should have been a clue on the video being alt right.
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TBF, many people probably don't know those two names are connected. It's not necessarily any sort of clue in that light.

I for example had heard vaguely of Brianna Wu but this was actually my introduction to the name 'John Flynt'. Though when I googled it my computer actually started making vomit noises as it tried to display the results so I did cotton on fairly quickly.
 
Lunatic350 said:
TBF, many people probably don't know those two names are connected. It's not necessarily any sort of clue in that light.

I for example had heard vaguely of Brianna Wu but this was actually my introduction to the name 'John Flynt'. Though when I googled it my computer actually started making vomit noises as it tried to display the results so I did cotton on fairly quickly.
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Ah, yeah I kinda forgot its uncommon knowledge.
 
I have seen it. I enjoyed this from start to finish. It never felt like it dragged or any use of humor was ill-timed or poorly placed. Great character stuff. Larson's fantastic. SLJ is fantastic. Coulson... well, he's there? He felt more like a 'hey, remember this guy?'

A few little details felt off and wrong when you take the larger picture of the movies as a whole into account, but after 10+ years and 20+ movies, a few torn stitches are unsurprising. Those did not detract from enjoying the movie on its own merits though.

Also, people a couple of rows behind me were talking before movie and went to see it opening night specifically to spite alt-righters who had been spewing their trash about it and Larson.
 
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Just finished, waiting for the end end credits scene, which are the only things about Marvel movies I spoil myself on for the number of, and it was good.
I'm a bit disappointed that they turned Fury losing his eye into a joke, but other than that, good alien cat monster thing.
EDIT: I also liked their little tribute to Stan, and boy was his cameo hard.
 
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Probably seeing this on $5 Tuesday. Having neglected to purchase advance tickets, there aren't any more good seats/times available this weekend...
 
Well, if nothing else, I hope this illustrates just how kind of worthless RT is as an aggregator - when the only options are like/dislike, it strips even more nuance than star scores already do and makes things painfully easy to game.
 
I always knew RT was worthless, considering how several films I like have such low scores on there, yet films I didn't like have such high scores.

I just got back from seeing Captain Marvel with my nephews and their father, it was a very good film, I rank it high in my rankings of the MCU films overall and I look forward to getting it on DVD to add to my DVD collection later in the year.
 
Saw this flick last night. It was pretty by-the-number Marvel movie, but very fun to watch and didn't have some of the problems others have had where they drag in the middle or seem to meander. Cinematography was solid, though pretty safe and bland. Brie Larsen and Samuel L. Jackson had really good chemistry on screen together, which was cool. Humor was well placed and the film had a couple solid moments that landed really well, even if they didn't really subvert expectations the way they might have expected them to if Marvel hadn't been making movies like this for the last decade.

Jude Law was a delight in this movie and I felt like he had some fun chewing the scenery a little.

Especially
the whole "Prove yourself to me by fighting me on even terms!" "Nah." bit right at the end.

As I put it to my friends, if I wasn't already gay this movie would have made me gay. Brie Larsen all glowy is super attractive not gonna lie.

Also maybe it's because I have shipping glasses on but I felt like the "we were best friends" relationship with Carol and Maria was reaaaaally close to being "we were dating."
 
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serra2 said:

The review bombing is real.
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The >50k review things seems to be some sort of issue with RT's site, at time of writing it's at 7,167 User reviews, with 35% score:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain_marvel

Still doesn't change the fact that an aggregate score based of RT's user reviews is almost completely worthless. Putting aside the rather large amount of reviews complaining about the "SJW's" coming to take their movies away, a basic percentage score fails to represent the reviews given. Most of the reviews are either 0.5 / 1 stars, or 4/5 stars. That might give the movie an average score of ~35%, but simple averages are bad for sets of data that have extreme variance.
 
Caught a matinee today, first MCU movie I actually went to the theater for, it was super fun. Good balance of action, humor, heart, cosmic peril and 90's nostalgia.
 
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Saw it today, thought it was great. Larson was excellent but SLJ and the Skrulls stole the show for me.

Honestly I was genuinely surprised they kept it as just a friendship with Carol and Maria. I kept waiting for a kiss and I'm disappointed we didn't get it.
 
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Well, if nothing else, I hope this illustrates just how kind of worthless RT is as an aggregator - when the only options are like/dislike, it strips even more nuance than star scores already do and makes things painfully easy to game.
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It illustrates they need to pull the plug on at large "reviews" and do what respectable services/sites do. Verified unique purchases only.

EDIT: They just deleted 54,000+ "reviews" for botting. Still has a low rating from trolls (Infinity War only got 50k odd user reviews including spam so 6k trolls/multis are still significant on opening day) but that's how bad the problem was.
 
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Back from seeing it, went on impulse and it really brightened my night. Sure, it's the same basic formula in many ways, but it's a formula Marvel knows how to do right and I was pleasantly surprised by how...mature, I guess, Danvers is as a character when compared to most of the Marvel stable. I think Larson did an excellent job, and I think SLJ had a lot of fun with a Marvel film where he has a reasonable claim to being the backup lead - given screen time, I mean.

All in all, a highly enjoyable Marvel film, and a hopeful beginning for if (when, I hope) they do another one with a female lead.

The power-flare to tell the Kree ships to fuck off after she flew right through one of them was cinematic as fuck.

Also Goose stole every scene he was in and I absolutely loved it.
 
Just back from seeing it, and its gotta be the non-crossover, non-team MCU movie I've enjoyed most since.... Homecoming I think (Ragnarok was a third a Hulk film so I count it as crossover).

I didn't expect it to be as jokey, GotG-esque in tone as it was, but it didn't detract and I didn't find any particular joke overstaying it's welcome. Yes, even the cat thing I found great, as kinda predictable as it was.

The buddy cop dinamic was great, and Larson was just an overall great, enjoyable badass.
 
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