"After speaking with you, the film critic Valerie Complex and a few other women of color, it sounded like across the board they weren't getting the same opportunities as others. "About a year ago, I started paying attention to what my press days looked like and the critics reviewing movies, and noticed it appeared to be overwhelmingly white male," she said.Īnd so her solution was to seek out more diverse people to talk to, as she had done in reaching out to this disabled reporter. While speaking with Marie Claire, Larson explained.
Don’t worry though, fans will still get to have their say: Once a movie is released, audiences can leave a user rating and comments as they always have.Sebastian Stan and Cobie Smulders Are Afraid of 'Avengers' Spoilers, Reveal Who They Hate Most We have decided that turning off this feature, for now, is the best course of action. “Unfortunately, we have seen an uptick in non-constructive input, sometimes bordering on trolling, which we believe is a disservice to our general readership. “We are disabling the comment function prior to a movie’s release date,” Rotten Tomatoes said of the other changes. A film now can no longer be “reviewed” by audiences before it is released. Rotten Tomatoes recently retooled its scoring system in an effort to combat trolls from sandbagging scores for movies they believed inferior and hadn’t necessarily seen. The quantity of user ratings (which is displayed directly below the audience score and is intended to only include the quantity of users who have left a rating or written review after a movie’s release) had included both pre-release and post-release fan voting.”
The statement continued, “We have identified a bug in the post-release functionality for the movies that have released into theaters since our product update last week. However, we still invite users to vote if they ‘want to see’ a movie prior to its release, and that vote total is displayed on the site,” the statement read.
“We launched some changes to the movie pre-release functionality last week, which included not allowing users to leave a comment or review prior to a movie’s release in theatres. According to Rotten Tomatoes, it had included audience reviews given before the film was released, something which is no longer allowed. 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. However, around 1 p.m., the number of reviews dropped to 7,000 with a score of 35 percent. That is more than the total of audience score reviews for Avengers: Infinity War for its entire theatrical run. The Disney film had only been in theaters for hours on Friday when the female-driven superhero picture was torpedoed online via Rotten Tomatoes.Īs of 8 a.m., the film had a 33 percent audience score from more than 58,000 reviews. It appears that trolls have descended upon Captain Marvel.