Posted on 06/03/2023 3:48:43 AM PDT by rbg81
*The racist backlash against "The Little Mermaid" is impacting the film's reviews on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
According to People, Disney’s live-action re-imagining of the beloved 1989 animated classic is getting a lot of “unusual activity” on IMDB, specifically when it comes to ratings for the movie.
The film opened Friday to $117 million at the domestic box office over Memorial Day Weekend. According to The Washington Post, "The Little Mermaid" received 41,000 user ratings on IMDB but more than 39 percent of the ratings are 1 star, Variety reports. IMDb revised its rating system as a result of the negative reviews.
“Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title,” a statement on the page reads, People reports. “To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
And, of course, if you don’t like our Woke movie, you must be racist!
As long as you saw the movie, you have every right to rate it as you please. They believe people who never saw the movie are rating it which is a no-no. The movie did very well financially considering the backlash. I have no interest in seeing it. Nor did I see the original.
$117m opening is a bomb?
The East German judge is now in charge of IMDB ratings.
“$117m opening is a bomb?”
Maybe yes. I’m not interested enough to look any of this up or to read the article, but if a movie costs a billion dollar to make then even an opening that seems large to us might indicate a money loser. Even if it does end up making money with overseas sales and DVD sales it might be a disappointment compared to what a different reproduction could have earned. If Disney exhausts their backlog of intelectual property with loses or slight gains then the stocks potential future profits have been ‘spent’ with minimal returns.
For a movie with a budget of reportedly $250 mil, yup.
Anyone else wondering if Hollyweird now exists to launder money for Deep State.
Affirmative action for movie ratings. To paraphrase the Wizard of OZ: “It’s not a bad movie! It just has bad ratings!”
Currently, 40.5% of the reviewers gave this movie 1 star.
What they say on ‘making’ cost....it ran to around $250 million (I find this ridicious), with a added overseas campaign at $140 million. I would add, from a overseas prospective...a ton of merchandise was created and in toy shops across Europe presently, and if that crap doesn’t sell....it’ll be a secondary problem.
Disney had some expectation that opening week would turn half-a-billion, with the kid’s summer audience showing up big-time. From what I see....most boys have zero interest. It’s only attracting girls in the age group of five to twelve.
The primary target audience for this movie is mixed-race little girls. The movie is racist in that it only suggests marrying a white prince. Selling this movie is a multi-stage process, like selling dog food. Hollywood first has to sell the person with the money, in this case the virtue signalling woke mother, then the end consumer that doesn’t care at all about woke. Had a pale redhead mermaid girl married a dark black African, then this children’s movie would have bombed.
$117m opening is a bomb?
Disney is living paycheck to paycheck facing a big balloon payment in the future. They need a steady stream of money to pay not only their current operation but to service the debt they incurred in buying up existing franchises.
Americans (and perhaps the world) are getting to the end of their tolerance for forced diversity and of inclusion of the alphabet people’s agenda.
Maybe the last straw was having a man in a dress greet little girls saying he was the “godmother’s assistance” and he would help her buy a dress.
Disney will soon become a case study on how to destroy a brand. They went from a beloved company to one hated by millions all because they switched from a entertainment business to a propaganda business.
So if The Little Mermaid does not exceed the cost of making the film, it is a bomb!
Disney may not survive as it exist today.
From what I have read on various articles, a movie has to make back it's production costs plus it's marketing costs.
The production costs were 250 million, and the rule of thumb for marketing is that they equal the production costs.
This movie has to make 500 million to break even, and it's already had it's best day. It will get virtually no support in the Asian countries, so there is a good chance this movie will turn into a loss for Disney.
It’s not the first time. Look at the Far-Left wingnut RACISTS did to “Song of the South.” This is just a bunch of liberal horses***.
Disney may not survive as it exist today.
The old Capitalism was self-correcting, but this is crony, politicized version of “Capitalism”.
In other words, when we disagree with the actual, observed, rating, we can step in and make it fit our rating. What a crock.
That was just the production costs. ($250 million.) I am told the marketing is usually double the production costs. An article I read earlier on another website said the movie had to crack 500 million just to break even.
Why? because Disney is a ship of fools.
Being entertainment for the whole family is no longer their business model.
Pedos and people too foolish to lift the covers and look at what they are giving to their children and friends children are now disneys target customer.
I dont know about you,but in my house we dont worship or follow a pedo mouse.
p.s. We actually saw and liked disneys "cruella". but it wasnt for children.
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