Rotten Tomatoes disgraced over Captain Marvel.

The ‘want to see’ feature was abandoned for CM. That is not relevant to a release date. In fact it is more applicable to films that have yet to be released.

Yes, they lost all credibility because they got allow people who haven't seen a movie to use their platform to try and hamstring the movie because their wittle feewings were hurt.

I agree with everything you said up until this point.

I respectfully disagree that an "anti-feminist" stance is "healthy" but rather a misunderstanding of what feminism means, which is simply equality between the sexes. I think we can all agree that equality where possible should be the goal; there's some things men or women are biologically predisposed to doing at different levels, of course.

Where people seem to go wrong, and this includes Larson, is in the application/pursuit of these principles in an exclusionary way. There's no reason that, to bring in some new and diverse voices about movies, half the ("white") guys who have worked hard to establish careers as paid reviewers should be unceremoniously forced into early retirement. The snag here is the blatant hypocrisy of someone who's simply not very intellectually sophisticated but is prolly well-meaning about tryna use her "platform" for what she perceives is a good and necessary cause.

But here's the problem: she is an extremely mediocre "talent" taken seriously by almost nobody anywhere punching way above her intellectual weight in way that's flat-out fucking embarrassing, anti-feminist, fucking stupid, and hurting the cause(s) she claims to support. Saying she "doesn't need to hear" someone's opinion about her shitty failed popcorn flick, A Wrinkle in Time, because of their gender, race, or age? Look, all kidding -- all "Colden"-ing -- aside, I'm a fucking Bernie Sanders supporter and flaming liberal, not some incel MRA troll douchebag, and let me tell you: that shit is racist and ageist and sexist. I don't care what group, age, or race she's disqualifying solely on those grounds. And it's not a matter of context, as I've read the entire transcript. Reducing "feminism," a serious issue if there ever were one, to some horseshit clickbait flashpoint to fight about with respect to MCU movies totally undermines her cause, and the fact that she so obliviously refers to her shitty acting credits as her "work" betrays a ridiculous sense of self-importance totally unwarranted here: she's a smug, crappy Hollywood actress acting in blockbuster McFilms! It's not like she's some Artiste with the crushing burden of an intellectual vision; it's not like she actually created anything herself or has any original ideas, or that she can even articulate well and inoffensively the basic tenets of feminism. She's essentially the equivalent of a corporate spokesperson, no more qualified to talk about gender equality than the nice person handing me a little piece of sausage on a stick at Sam's Club in hopes that I'll buy some -- and probably less so.

So I say all that to say: don't shit on feminism as a basic concept just because nobody bothered to sit Brie Larson down and tell her what it actually means.

ETA: So "when" feminism means excluding people and "hating men"? That's not feminism. That's... something else.

Blah. This sort of gross oversimplification strikes me as beneath someone as broad-minded as yourself, even if it's the largest contributing factor.

And while you're right about the sites being private and not obligated to afford their customers First Amendment rights, doing so and silencing consumers' ability to share their opinions about a corporate product is absolutely the definition of censorship and not a thing to be praised on the technicality that they're a private business; that distinction doesn't absolve them of the moral ramifications of their actions, just the legal ones. So addressing the latter doesn't mean you've successfully argued the former. You know?

ETA: er -- "innit"?

I don't mind people saying whatever they want to about a movie. They have that right. My only problem with it is the irrelevancy. They weren't reviewing the film or even talking about anything in the trailer that disinterested them. They were talking about Brie Larson's comments and SJWs. It just seems like there are so many places to talk about that.. why go to a movie review site?

What kind of person just wants to destroy something just because they don't like someone invovled? It's not like Brie Larson is a pedophile or rapist. It just seems like a serious overreaction.

It'd be like people trying to cause the Mission Impossible franchise to fail because they don't like Scientology. I am aware however that that's not a perfect example because Tom Cruise doesn't use his films as a platform to push a Scientologist agenda on people, but his success certainly contributes to that religion's success. Emma Watson might be a better example with her HeForShe program which she most certainly has used her fame to bring attention to yet nobody seemed to huff and puff over Beauty and the Beast.