Rotten Tomatoes suspends comments on 'Dark Knight'

[proud2BlibKansan]

LOS ANGELES -- The aggregating Web site RottenTomatoes.com suspended user comments on movie reviews of "The Dark Knight Rises" after commenters reacted harshly to negative reviews of the film and made profane and threatening remarks about the critics who wrote them.

Matt Atchity, the site's editor-in-chief, said Tuesday it was the first time RottenTomatoes.com has suspended user comments, adding postings about "Dark Knight" reviews would likely be restored by the end of the week. The final film in director Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy opens Friday.

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

Atchity said the site is considering a move to a Facebook commenting system, which might cut down on the glut of anonymous posts. Other film review aggregating sites, such as MetaCritic.com and MovieReviewIntelligence.com, either don't allow user comments or don't permit comments to be posted before a film opens.

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[onehandle]

1. I wonder if people are getting paid to create controversy and 'buzz' for the film.

Wait, I'll answer my own question.

Yes.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I wonder if Rush's comments had anything to do with this.

[freshwest]

3. Had everything to do with it. Dittoheads went on the rampage against an Asian official in CA who...

Dared to object to the BFI's racist remarks. That included a lot of death threats. The hillbilly heroin hero has a lot of fanatical followers, no matter how low he sinks, and he's paid very well for brainwashing them.

Dittoheads are well-named, don't even question his pronouncing them non-thinkers by labeling them that, meaning, thinks just like me. He said early on that was his goal on radio. This particular film trophe had been publicized by their God.

And yes, I've heard young Dittoheads call his show and praise him, gushing, 'Rush, you are my God!' and he didn't correct them. The Bane reference is against Romney, and guess who pays the Big Fat Idiot's salary:

[whatchamacallit]

4. I have a feeling the rabid OWS Haters are gonna cream

Judging from Nolan's other films, it will be a clever, thinly-disguised, polemic supporting the ruling class and status quo.