Rotten Tomatoes Tweaks Ratings System To Combat ‘Captain Marvel’ Trolls

Rotten Tomatoes is making a few tweaks to its audience ratings system to combat the trolls that attacked Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel.

Popular review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes has announced that it’s removing its “Want To See” percentage score after the rating for Brie Larson’s first cinematic solo outing as Captain Marvel dropped down to 28% due to internet trolls. The site released the following statement:

“Starting this week, Rotten Tomatoes will launch the first of several phases of updates that will refresh and modernize our Audience Rating System. We’re doing it to more accurately and authentically represent the voice of fans, while protecting our data and public forums from bad actors.”

The move came as the trolls had begun to attack another upcoming blockbuster, Star Wars: Episode IX. The “Want To See” score of the yet-to-be titled final chapter in the Skywalker saga had dropped as much as 5% in a single day as a result of the negative review onslaught.

Captain Marvel marks the big screen debut of Carol Danvers, played in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by Academy Award winner Brie Larson. In the comics, Danvers was a test pilot who gained super strength and the ability to fly after being caught in an explosion with a Kree device.

Not much is known about the plot of Captain Marvel. The film takes place in the ’90s and introduces the Skrulls to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Larson is set to reprise the role of Carol Danvers in Avengers: Endgame, which opens in theaters just over a month after Captain Marvel.

Mississipi Grind helmers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are directing from a script written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve. Here’s the official synopsis:

Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

Captain Marvel stars Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Algenis Perez Soto, Rune Temte, McKenna Grace, Clark Gregg and Jude Law. The film is slated to hit theaters on March 8, 2019.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes