It’s a lesson some critics are learning thanks to furious online commentary — including death threats — in response to less-than-kind reviews of The Dark Knight Rises, the highly-anticipated finale to Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.
Reviewer Marshall Fine of the website Hollywood & Fine was the first to declare his dislike for the movie, calling it “tedious” and “lumpish” and comparing it to Michael Bay’s Transformers films. His review on Tuesday prompted the film’s score on review-aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes to fall below 100 per cent.
That’s when commenters struck. One person fantasized about beating Fine “with a thick rubber hose into a coma.” Another urged him to “die in a fire.” Others posted wittier criticism, quoting the movie’s villain Bane and saying Fine’s “punishment must be more severe.”
There were even some nuts threatening to rape and kill the family of the critic, and from there it went completely insane.
It all resulted in Rotten Tomatoes the unprecedented step of turning off comments on the review.
2 comments:
too bad you just can't take folks like that and remove their internet connection. Or maybe stick it up their ass because that's where they talk out of anyway.
Crazy-don't they know it is a movie? Like my grandson says,"It's only a movie, it's not real." I am still looking forward to watching it. If I like it, great, if not, OK.
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