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NBC News reports:
Rotten Tomatoes is fighting back against trolls. The powerful movie review aggregation website announced Monday it would ban user comments before a film premieres in theaters. The move is in part a bid to crack down on what it called “non-constructive input, sometimes bordering on trolling, which we believe is a disservice to our general readership.”
The move comes after some users apparently tried to torpedo the moviegoer interest percentage score for the not-yet-released “Captain Marvel,” Marvel Studio’s first female-led superhero movie. Rotten Tomatoes’ webpage for the film, starring Brie Larson in the title role, had been swamped with negative comments, some of them misogynistic.
Time Magazine reports:
The site is doing away with the “Want to See” percentage score before a film is released, in a bid to stop the impression of so-called “review bombing” where a film like Captain Marvel appeared to be panned before it was in theaters or Star Wars: Episode IX given low scores, despite the fact that film does not have a trailer or title yet.
Ghostbusters “fans” downvoted the trailer for Paul Feig’s female-led reboot, some Marvel Studios “fans” attempted to lower the score of Black Panther, and recently targeted Captain Marvel, even though it is not in theaters in the U.S. until March 8.