Evidently, someone flashed the Troll Signal and they received their marching orders because Rotten Tomatoes just had to purge over 50,000 bad reviews from Captain Marvel.
Not bad as in negative mind you, because that happens all the time and is part of the process. No, these were purposeful reviewed bombs aimed at lowering the score that can be affected by such a campaign, the Audience Score. This became quite noticeable once Rotten Tomatoes saw the overall number of user reviews for Captain Marvel sat at around 58,000, which is way above the norm for a movie.
To put that into perspective, Avengers: Infinity War had a total of 53,000 reviews over its entire run and there is no way that many people have seen Captain Marvel after 1 day of release.
As you'll notice now, if you go to Rotten Tomatoes at the moment you'll see a much smaller number of ratings, which currently sits at 4,567. Rotten Tomatoes has started going through their user-submitted reviews and have already purged 54,000 of them. We imagine this process isn't over and it won't be the last we hear of it more than likely, but currently, the audience score sits at 36%.
Fandango president Paul Yanover recently broke down the changes they made after the first review bombing for Captain Marvel, switching up how they interpret anticipation rankings and not
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