Comments on: Is Disney Paying Off Movie Critics For Good Reviews?

By: Mister Truth

Mister Truth — Sun, 24 Feb 2019 02:21:09 +0000

In reply to Eric.

>Well the critic and audience scores are normally different.

They shouldnt be. They should match nearly exactly. Basic stats. A sampling should reflect the entire population. Unless someone is paying off the critics…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 01:46:01 +0000

By: Shannon Hubbell

Shannon Hubbell — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 23:37:39 +0000

In reply to Not.

“You have any evidence they don’t?”

That’s not the way evidence works. You can’t prove a negative. The only thing you can point to is that there is no evidence that they are. Which puts the ball back in your court. Do you have any evidence of bribery.

By: James

James — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:48:17 +0000

In reply to Eric.

Please tell me what evidence the critics have of blaming low audience review on sexism? They have none, rotten tomatoes have said that the data does not reflect bots or trolling, just lots of unhappy viewers. Its an absolutely joke – its ok for the establishment to crank out a conspiracy theory but the idea that critics have something to gain by dishing out praise reviews is out of this world?? Negativity is bad for business, its the same in the finance section – you must be positive if there is money on the table.

By: James

James — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:39:16 +0000

In reply to Nunya.

Nobody is being paid but they are incentivized to give good reviews.
1) You want to go to the premieres and prescreenings to get your review in early.
2) The company you work for may actually have side business with Disney – advertising, contracted journalism, art or marketing material.
3) When you go for your next journalist job do you want to be the seen as the guy who dumps over large franchise movies (out of step with the industry) or as a bankable witty reviewer?
4) if you are a big paper (e.g. the guardian 5 star for SW:TLJ) you probably get a paid luxury dinner for you and your wife with some disney pr guy before the screening. This is where the butter you up to the “direction” the movie is going to take.

If I was a movie journalist i really wouldn’t give 2 s**ts about what score I gave a movie, i would give the score that put me in favour with future or current employment.
Its systemic. Disney are too big.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 24 Dec 2017 05:11:20 +0000

In reply to Not.

Well the critic and audience scores are normally different. If that was the case for all of their movies then maybe that might be some evidence.

Also we’ll have to agree to disagree, I loved The Last Jedi.

By: Not

Not — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:35:46 +0000

In reply to Eric.

You have any evidence they don’t? Watched the knew SW.. total shit. 93% critic score 56% audience score. The fucks up with that?? Seems the audience is being more critical.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 03:22:14 +0000

In reply to Nunya.

You got any evidence other than “Man, Disney is just like that!”

By: Nunya

Nunya — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 04:52:37 +0000

“If no one comes forward, it can’t be true!”

-Random clueless writer on the internet

They absolutely do pay for good reviews.

By: Adriana Noriega

Adriana Noriega — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 07:03:00 +0000

I’ll admit most of these movies were decent but hardly deserving of an unanimous consensus that they were pretty much instant classics. Take the Jungle book and Cinderella recent live action adaptations for instance both of which while adequate, competent and entertaining enough little movies paled in comparison to their animated counterparts and won’t be on your mind long after you’ve seen it; yet they were given close to absolute praise by critics. Only a handful of selected movies obtained that in the past, even oscar nominees for best picture received general lukewarm reviews yet plenty of disney movies over the past five years have achieved absolute fresh status at rotten tomatoes. There is something fishy indeed.

By: Adriana Noriega

Adriana Noriega — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 06:47:00 +0000

In reply to Zachary Chichwak.

to think Disney stood at the brink of bankrupcy several times and have they learned, they now try to get their greedy filthy hands on any guaranteed success property. I do believe they influence critics albeit they ask them to make it look realistic therefore sacrificing 1 movie per year as in the cases of John Carter, The Lone Ranger, Maleficent and Prince of Persia; 3 of which bombed and failed to kickstart planned franchises.

By: Eric Pace

Eric Pace — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 01:18:00 +0000

In reply to Zachary Chichwak.

But you do realize a bunch of your evidence were movies Disney had NOTHING to do with (Elektra, Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider, etc.), heck even Marvel Studios (the film division just so we’re clear) wasn’t involved.
But let’s say they were for the sake of argument, those bad movies got all got awful reviews. Now if they got amazing reviews despite being terrible then that would probably mean something but even the actual Disney/Marvel movies can get alright reviews like Avengers: Age of Ultron.

By: Zachary Chichwak

Zachary Chichwak — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 15:27:00 +0000

Disney’s been caught doin shit like this before in the 80’s and 90’s. WB actually owns a piece of the rotten tomatoes machine itself. It would not be hard to undermine their already loose grip on things. Anybody that chooses to put their faith in Disney executives (money hungry whores) you need to ask yourself this. When was the last time you read a story about rich people not doing EVERYTHING they possibly could (morally scrupulous or not) to not just stay rich…..but to get richer. There are tens of thousands+ of people worldwide that are over the ages of 35-45 and before buying a ticket read reviews from critics that have proven to be in line with their tastes. To see if it’s worth a theatre viewing, or if it’s only worth a streaming rental or skipped all together. Disney did this many times before. When animation studios started dippin’ into their “kool-aid”… Dreamworks’ Shreck franchise ring any bells. Look into it folks. And this undignified bullshittery is not limited to just feature films. Animated titles, cartoon series’ and publications as well. If you control the media and/or the media’ proverbial spin, you control America. Any economist public relations firm will tell you the same. In summation, if you DON’T believe that this is true; you’ve clearly not reached the point in your life where you realize that greedy men don’t play fair and never do after a certain point. Our country’s economic, judicial and foreign policies are entirely based on rules that ‘bend’. Marvel’s made more bad movies than good ones. For every good iron man film there exists Elektra and ghost rider. For two great avengers flicks we still have 4 (yes FOUR) god awful fantastic four movies, 3 shitty x-men films. 3 shitty Punisher adaptations, a daredevil cinematic abortion, 2 unwatchable wolverine films followed by Spider-Man 3, Iron man 2, Thor 2, captain America #1 (which was so bad I cried) and adding to the fact no actor until ruff ski would play hulk more than once…yea the system clearly appears to be balanced. If it means growth/more capital for their company, theirs no such thing as business ethics. And before someone says “it’s not just Disney doing this!” I’d then say flip through some stories (some going back to the 80’s) you’ll find your pattern. Plus this article was about Disney doing it, not somebody else. Don’t try changing the subject. Just start digging…..

By: Marty Nozz

Marty Nozz — Tue, 17 May 2016 20:08:00 +0000

I think Disney has a plant over at the Warner bros movie department who keep giving reeeeeeeeeealy bad suggestions.

“Hey, Nolan’s Batman films made a lot of money! Let’s treat Superman like Batman! It’ll totally work!”

“Make a bunch of movies to introduce our main characters before putting them together in film? That’s for suckers! Everyone knows these characters! Just throw them together!”

“Heroes working together to fight evil? That’s so 1950s. These are incredibly complex characters. They’re supposed to be punching each other in face!”