To no one’s surprise, ‘The Little Mermaid’ has joined the select club of which recent productions such as ‘The Last of Us’, ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ or ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ are already part. This is none other than titles affected by the review bombingthe despicable practice of giving negative scores to web pages known as aggregators using arguments outside the strictly audiovisual.
Is it that nobody thinks of the children?
As of today, the feature film directed by Rob Marshall has an unbalanced and usual ratings graph in this type of situation on IMDb, with 39.5% of minimum scores —of one star— that adulterate the organic result of the survey. However, on the grades page, there is a message that reads as follows:
“Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.”
Within the IMDb Help Center we can find a more exact explanation on this alternative weighting of the mean.
“While we accept and consider all votes received by users, not all votes have the same impact (or “weight”) on the final rating. When unusual voting activity is detected, an alternate weighting calculation may be applied to preserve the reliability of our system”.
As expected, the bombing It has not only occurred in the popular database of movies and series. Metacritic, fief of the average troll with alt-right speech, has also joined the party. While the “Metascore” of ‘The Little Mermaid’ —average media scores— is 59 out of 100, the user rating is 2.1 out of 10; mean taken from 545 negative scores22 mixed and 113 positive.
Up to here everything correct. The movie may not have been liked and people are expressing their discontent with it. However, when we dive into the reviews, we can find the tantrums on duty talking about woke culture, progressive dictatorships, black sirens, empowered women and harmful ideological propaganda for children. Is it that nobody thinks of the children?
And before doubts can arise in this regard, it should be emphasized that yes, a feature film can be perfectly criticized based on its visual treatment, its narrative or its interpretations. But when the arguments for scoring a zero are more concerned with the sexual orientation, gender or skin color of the charactersWe are not talking about cinephilia, but directly about hate. Crystal generation stuff I guess.
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