The pushback against an attempt to lower the superhero movie’s score on Rotten Tomatoes has shown that the culture war’s latest battleground is still ragingYou come at the king,you best not miss. Last week, an attempt to maliciously derail the record-setting rollout of Black Panther – Marvel’s upcoming blockbuster spotlighting the lithe (Flexible, graceful.) warrior-monarch TChalla (Chadwick Boseman) – was itself promptly derailed. A scurrilous Facebook event page, or whose stated purpose was to “give Black Panther a rotten audience score on Rotten Tomatoes” purported to be a grassroots protest against Disney and its “treatment of franchises and its fanboys”. Amid garbled claims that the corporation that owns Marvel had somehow paid off critics to trash the recent crop of superhero movies from their longstanding rival DC,the page organisers encouraged the employ of hashtags like #DownWithDisney and #DCOverMarvel as social media rallying points.
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Source: theguardian.com