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ElanorTX
Gondor
Apr 30 2012, 9:47pm
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the "Amy Nicholson Effect" - comments gone wild
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Amy Nicholson (editor of Boxoffice magazine) published an Avengers review giving it 3 of 5 stars, mostly because it could have done so much more. She listed a number of positive points. When Rotten Tomatoes picked it up, they translated the 60% as 'Rotten' -- and Amy has been vilified in hundreds of comments, many by people who can't have seen the movie yet.
Now her review may have missed the boat (I am not a professional critic, nor have I seen the film). What is making this story newsworthy is the intensity, misogyny, and virulence of the responses. People have hoped that she dies in a fire or kills herself; they have accused her of sleeping her way into her job (she *is* the boss), trolling for hits, accepting money from RT or DC Comics, being all sorts of four-letter and five-letter words based on her sex, etc.
News articles from the Philippine Sun to the UK Guardian have criticized the criticism. Amy was at CinemaCon when the controversy broke and has elected (wisely IMHO) to avoid reading the RT comments. The one I find most hurtful claims that her daddy bought her degree, when in fact he died young and she had to put herself through school (two BAs and an MA). She's a National Merit Scholar, is a member of LAFCA, has been a critic for 10 yrs, votes for Academy Awards, and in many other ways has good credentials.
I hope and trust that anyone in the TORn family knows how to play fair and to criticize another's work or opinion without making personal attacks. Thanks for listening.
ElanorTX
"I shall not wholly fail if anything can still grow fair in days to come."
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