Brie Larson the frontrunner for Captain Marvel

~~Leo656~~ · 03-04-2019, 06:10 PM

An ad for the movie came up in my FB feed, so just for fun I decided to look at the comments. YIKES!

Almost every comment was in the vein of, "I'll just take my toxic masculinity and stay home, thanks", with the others taking them to task for not being more excited. It's like "Answer The Call" all over again. And those are the comments that have been allowed to stay up!

That got me thinking, though - and feel free to call this a "conspiracy theory" - but you remember how with "Answer The Call", Sony went out of their way to delete all the "regular" complaints about the movie - stuff like "I'm just not interested", "It just doesn't look funny," etc., and leave up all the Toxic Man-Rage comments, so as to insulate themselves and their film from any and all criticism, and create the narrative that EVERY single person who wasn't excited was a "hater" or "manchild"? Could this be a case of history repeating? Do you think Disney is "pruning" the comments on social media so they can mold the larger story to their liking, the way they did with "The Last Jedi"? I wouldn't put it past them.

It just jumped out at me because I really don't think there's THAT much hate against this film, NOR do I think all of the people saying they're going to skip it actually will. I fully expect 8 out of every 10 "I'm staying home" nerds to be there opening weekend. But going ONLY by what I see on social media, there seems to be a lot of anger and resentment and little else. Which is weird. That's why I think Disney is trying to craft their own narrative out of it.

As I've said before, if people paid good money - and lots of it - to see TWO Ant-Man flicks, then this movie has absolutely nothing to worry about. But the chatter surrounding it is... interesting.

They still might wanna put a "gag order" on Brie, though... just to be safe.

03-04-2019, 06:10 PM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	An ad for the movie came up in my FB feed, so just for fun I decided to look at the comments. YIKES! Almost every comment was in the vein of, "I'll just take my toxic masculinity and stay home, thanks", with the others taking them to task for not being more excited. It's like "Answer The Call" all over again. And those are the comments that have been allowed to stay up! That got me thinking, though - and feel free to call this a "conspiracy theory" - but you remember how with "Answer The Call", Sony went out of their way to delete all the "regular" complaints about the movie - stuff like "I'm just not interested", "It just doesn't look funny," etc., and leave up all the Toxic Man-Rage comments, so as to insulate themselves and their film from any and all criticism, and create the narrative that EVERY single person who wasn't excited was a "hater" or "manchild"? Could this be a case of history repeating? Do you think Disney is "pruning" the comments on social media so they can mold the larger story to their liking, the way they did with "The Last Jedi"? I wouldn't put it past them. It just jumped out at me because I really don't think there's THAT much hate against this film, NOR do I think all of the people saying they're going to skip it actually will. I fully expect 8 out of every 10 "I'm staying home" nerds to be there opening weekend. But going ONLY by what I see on social media, there seems to be a lot of anger and resentment and little else. Which is weird. That's why I think Disney is trying to craft their own narrative out of it. As I've said before, if people paid good money - and lots of it - to see TWO Ant-Man flicks, then this movie has absolutely nothing to worry about. But the chatter surrounding it is... interesting. They still might wanna put a "gag order" on Brie, though... just to be safe. Last edited by Leo656; 03-04-2019 at 06:22 PM.