Angry fans post threatening comments over negative Dark Knight Rises reviews

[marmar]

If only people would get this worked up over LIBOR or Citizens United........


For the first time ever movie-review aggregating site RottenTomatoes.com has suspended user comments after fans erupted with anger after critics gave negative reviews of the film "The Dark Knight Rises."

"The job of policing the comments became more than my staff could handle for that film, so we stopped the comments altogether," the site's editor-in-chief Matt Atchity said in an open letter. "It just got to be too much hate-based on reactions to reviews of movies that people hadn't even seen."

Atchity said comments will be disabled on "The Dark Knight" for a few days.

The site disabled user comments on reviews Tuesday after Christy Lemire of The Associated Press and Hollywood & Fine's Marshall Fine attracted negative and threatening comments. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/rottentomatoes-halts-dark-knight-comments-backlash-120225415--abc-news-movies.html

[msanthrope]

1. Why so serious? nt

[patricia92243]

2. How do they know the people posting have not seen it?? n/t

[VenusRising]

4. It doesn't actually open until Friday.

[Initech]

3. I've been looking forward to this film for the last year and a half.

I'll reserve judgment until I see it but it's pissing me off that fans are threatening critics over negative reviews. Don't shoot the messenger - only bad things can happen .

[BlueJazz]

5. WTF!...The film's "Thumbs-Up" is 86 percent. What the hell are they bitchin' about?

86 on the tomatometer is pretty damn good...Geez...

[white_wolf]

6. Grr stupid people are stupid.

If a reviewer didn't like it, that's their right. I'm going to be seeing it at midnight Thursday and I'll make up my own mind.

[uponit7771]

7. GOP FUDrs, I'd put some money on it...