New movie shocking fans by how good it is :-)

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Originally Posted by Leo656

Well, by the standards of today, sadly, yeah, that's totally "journalism" these days.

Cracked has like 87 articles on "BS News Stories That Fooled The Mainstream Media" or whatever in the past two years. Thanks to the f*cking internet, "journalism" is as easy as skimming wikipedia or doing a copy/paste from IGN or Ain't It Cool News.

A dozen people saying on twitter or FB that anything is true automatically makes it so, these days. As someone who studied journalism (back in the stone age when the internet was about a year old), it's pretty shameful. But hey, that's life in the digital age.

Movie still might end up doing alright, but yeah, that's not really "reporting" on their part, you're right. As for whether the reviews were paid, we'll never know. That's definitely something that happens, a LOT, but who knows if that's the case this time. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they're just enthusiastic. Who knows.

I'm not going to argue with that, but remember that Internet stupidity goes both ways. You're just as likely to see someone make an utterly retarded post against something new on any number of social media sites. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Twitter is open-source. People can troll a tag and use it for their own agenda all they want, so there's not grounds to think that, say, every bit of positive press this is getting there is from agents of Platinum Dunes.