Posted on 02/27/2019 12:22:42 AM PST by Simon Green
I ended up watching Black Panther on Netflix, and while I did surprisingly end up enjoying it overall for the comic book movie that it was, Michael B. Jordan’s performance made a mockery of the entire affair IMO. He ghettoed it up to the point of ridiculous, and the movie itself is so far away from anything that is worthy of a traditional Oscar.
But I have to qualify with the word traditional, because maybe Black Panther is worth an Oscar of today, because an Oscar of today is trash. All it is is an award for who virtue signaled the loudest, and it has nothing to do with the art of film making.
After Brie Larson, who plays "Captain Marvelous" opened her big, fat mouth and went on a toxic, anti-male, "hate men", "hate white men", SJW tyraid.
She utterly poisoned the well of potential movie goers and the "Yes I want to see it" POLL completely TANKED. Going from 96% down to 26% before ROTTEN Tomatoes stepped in to protect this hate filled women and her PC, SJW movie by taking down the POLL and telling everyone to essentially shut up, sit down and buy tickets to our cappy movie while we denigrate you and spit in your face.
Not any more, ROTTEN Tomatoes has DELETED ALL COMMENTS and removed the ability to leave any comments, like the good SJW Fascist website it is.
It cuts both ways. Ban the negative comments and people will go looking for them. But diss the film too harshly and people will go to see it. Maybe that's not the Streisand Effect, but sometimes bad publicity turns out to be good publicity: it gets people thinking about the film.
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Its a browser extension from Gab and lets you comment on any URL. A freeper posted a thread about it yesterday.
I had way too much fun with it last night. Its a brilliant idea from Gab.
The contrast between most ‘big’ movies now and from the 40s is just astounding. They used to make film plays based on classic and current literature and they seemed to do pretty well. Now, it seems, the big movies are based on comic book characters or fairy tales/children’s stories. Hollywood did make such films in the 40s but they were B movies or serials.
Yes, they are willing to wreck their brands just to be woke. Tech companies like Twitter and Reddit hate their clients, the old adage of the customer always being right is so long gone now.
FWIW, I always look at both audience and movie reviewer reviews. Usually the audience score is a better guide whether a movie is worth seeing. Chalk it up to reviewer snootiness that promotes anything deranged and hate anything down to earth.
Larson was miscast.
That’s media spin to try to discredit the votes and comments - they were not reviews at all, but a vote on whether or not they were interested in seeing the moving. This was in the 90s at first and after Brie Larsen and allies went on their attacking of the fan base it fell into the 20s and then this feature was removed.
They were not “reviews” it was the “interested in seeing” vote box and comments as to why or why not. After Brie Larson started her left-wing rhetoric this rating fell through the floor.
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