Everyone’s Mad At Everyone Over ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Reviews
Bat-mania is getting a bit too literal for the folks over at rottentomatoes.com, as for the first time ever, they’ve had to suspend user commenting on incoming reviews for a movie. By Tuesday, positive reviews were only garnering a handful of comments each, while write-ups from early nay-sayers like Christy Lemire had over 700, forcing Rotten Tomatoes to freeze all discussion on the film. As Deadline notes, Rotten Tomatoes put the unprecedented lockdown on comments despite being owned by parent company Warner Bros., who made the movie in the first place.The vast majority of sane Batman fans don’t really care what someone in San Jose thought of the movie, but now a few bad apples have passed a bum rap onto the whole of the caped crusader’s fanbase. An early prank review by Eric Snider of Film.com certainly didn’t help matters, when he wrote a scathing byline that linked to his review, where he revealed he hadn’t actually seen the movie. “It just got to be too much hate,” said Rotten Tomatoes editor-in-chief Matt Atchity of the comments; he’s already concerned about a similar backlash from fans occurring when Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is released later this year. Nolan hasn’t made his Batman movie more like the real world, he’s made the real world more like one of his Batman movies.
