User:LancedSoul/sandbox/Review bomb

A review bomb is an Internet phenomenon where a user leaves positive or negative reviews with multiple accounts. Many targets are around published work, a business, a product, or a service. Review bombs can be found in review aggregating websites and digital stores.

This article will focus on the matter regarding movies, but there are also articles on this topic on the Crappy Games wiki.

Examples

 * 1) The 2016 Ghostbusters film was met with user backlash on its announcement of having an all-female starring cast (unlike previous films that had an all-male starring cast), causing to become review bombed. The film's IMDb page was also subject to a coordinated effort to lower its rating before the film's release. Some media outlets dubbed it "The Female Ghostbusters". Despite that, it somehow got 6.9/10 rating score for IMDb.
 * 2) Star Wars: The Last Jedi got review bombed on Rotten Tomatoes because they call out the film for its inclusion of "SJW" concepts, criticizing the movie for its forced inclusion of race and powerful female figures.
 * 3) Captain Marvel was review bombed by trolls and fanboys on Rotten Tomatoes for "Want to See" score an audience anticipation poll had fallen to 28% ahead for the official release. Reports described the decline as an effort by some to review bomb the film's page with negative comments attacking the film and Larson for their perceived feminism. Rotten Tomatoes changed the "Want to See" feature shortly after, showing only the number of people indicating interest in the film instead of a percentage.
 * 4) Music was review bombed following controversy around the casting of neurotypical actress Maddie Ziegler as an autistic girl, as well as for scenes involving potentially dangerous restraints.
 * 5) Godzilla vs. Kong was review bombed by Snyder Cut fans on IMDb, because they are angry with Warner Bros. over not continuing the Snyderverse.
 * 6) The Suicide Squad got review bombed by Snyder Cut fans on Twitter, because they have no connections of Snyderverse. James Gun says: "I'll live - stuff like this means nothing in the big picture. (And important to point out most of the SnyderCut fans have been supportive, it's only a few who feel it's worthwhile spending their time doing stuff like this."
 * 7) Lightyear was review bombed by trolls, because a scene featuring a same-sex kiss between Uzo Aduba's female character Alisha Hawthorne and her partner that got banned. The film's IMDb page was also subject to a coordinated effort to lower its rating before the US release. Most media think Lightyear is worse then Cars 2. Fortunately, this was died down when it got 66% audiences score on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.5/5 score on Letterboxd.

Why This Practice Sucks

 * 1) First and foremost, the main problem is that there is often a high amount of review bombing that can lead to having legit and honest reviewers overshadowed. As the result, it caused to be unfairly hated movie.
 * 2) As such in general, many of the review bombing doesn't qualify as a actual review. Instead, it is more like a actual spam and whiny, which leading people to suggest the review website, like IMDb, useless to removed the troll reviews, except Letterboxd (of course).
 * 3) Just like video games, the practice shares the same and similar characteristics as vote brigading and cancel culture.
 * 4) Since the review bombing, it could cause other actions to occur.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Although they were still wrong, the review bomb may do have a point about the flaws of a certain movies like Ghostbusters, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Captain Marvel and Mulan.
 * 2) While they can't trust the review website, you actually get review sites that can have means to detect or prevent review bombing, so this is reasonable.

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