No, 6/10 is a perfectly respectable score, but 0/10 is not. I'm specifically talking about fake review from people who did not watch the movie. Another example is the IGN review had a 4:1 dislike ratio, for a review that came out 3 days before the movie was released. Sure lots of these movies have fake reviews in favor and against, but this is a whole new level. The evidence is overwhelming. Cinemascore is based on actual audience scores, at the movie theater. Sure you can say it was better than you really thought, but you can't lie and review something you didn't watch. This whole smear campaign started with the "she should smile more" horse **** and just continued and got worse from there.
There is a couple of you have got to be shitting me elements here.
1: IGN. I have far more respect for the Pietriots and Khushrenada's ramblings.
2: That is people disliking a review. That's like shouting conspiracy over a trailer getting disliked.
3: WHAT EVIDENCE.
4: There is no campaign.
5: If there is a campaign it would be the weird changes on RT and the media narrative.
6: I am pretty sure smile more was -
a: Smile please, we like happy people.
b: Concern from fans as to whether she could compare to the heavy weights that have come before her. Black Panther had the serious problem of BP himself being extremely disinteresting. I didn't want to see him, I wanted to see everyone else. See Goose the Cat.
6/10 is catastrophic for this kind of movie. Movies and games curve doesn't sit anywhere near the 50% mark as it should, it's closer to 75%, anything below that and you have failed score wise.
That's the thing that really gets me - this movie has absolutely no political agenda at all - but even if it did, Stan Lee was always an outspoken progressive, so it would be nothing new.
Being progressive is not about tearing others down to equal the playing field. Stan certainly understood that, Brie didn't. Even had CM had no political agenda, she gave it one, a bad one at that. It's not the progressive ideals people are having problems with, it's the delivery. Brie absolutely made a mess of it.
However, I will say the media telling stories like, if you don't see this movie you are a bad feminist is going to give people the wrong idea. As always, I believe the safest thing to do, is put your message you desire in the movie (the humanist message with subtle feminist undertones) and then let the movie speak for itself. Correct the media when they get off track, so that public perception is not hurt.
Bingo. This keeps happening over and over again. BP thankfully avoided that by not having people with foot in mouth. While the whole first all black movie or whatever is ridiculous there wasn't a "You're racist" narrative going on. They had accepted the legitimate flaws by staying quiet and letting the movie stand on it's own. Gotta say the Oscar nod is a joke.
Past and today's feminism are two very different things. It was liberating ones self and building yourself up, now it's tearing others to make yourself relatively bigger.
Funny thing is that the DCAU Wonder Women, even with the current literation is a man hater and no one blinks an eye, why?. Her character is easily understood by her upbringing and history. Countered by other open minded women, certain powerful emotional events and seeing the logical extreme of her views. Because of this it wasn't an attack, it was an introspection. This is what good writing can do for you.
Looked up some of the CM comic book material. It's horrific. She is also a villain. Seriously though, if you had asked me before all this what I knew of CM my reply would have been 'The person now in a coma who gave Rogue her powers' from the x-men cartoons.