Why are you so mean to workers? Workers are now on strike because they want to
exist!!! I mean Workers like Kevin Feige!!!!!!
A rando says that the MCU is getting worse because Kevin Feige likes Rick and Morty too much, and Bob responds that blaming screenwriters instead of executives or the coof is R&M-brand nihilism. Never mind that Feige
is an executive who has very obviously been meddling in the entire MCU for the majority of its run (as countless filmmakers have attested)...how is that nihilistic? You're just using big words again in an attempt to sound smart, almost like the average R&M fan.
As always Bobby is full of spite, against people who don't like what he considers "fun".
And speaking of executive meddling, why would you be excited for Sam Raimi to direct another MCU movie when Doctor Strange 2 basically removed almost everything that he brought that was unique? I never saw it, but from my understanding, there are little tinges of Raimi throughout, but it's diluted and filtered through the MCU formula until it's pretty much indistinguishable from the rest. I have no doubt that, should Raimi actually get the job for this one, he'll be forced to go along with what Feige wants, especially considering it's an Avengers movie.
What would be the point of creating a company dedicated to inflating review scores? That's such a niche scope that I can only expect a money laundering operation.
As the article discusses, studios have a bizarre fixation on RT scores despite audiences generally not caring that much. It's unclear if a good score actually improves the box office for a movie, but it's a quantifiable amount they can understand, so they chase it anyway. And for a smaller indie movie, a good score could mean the difference between getting picked up for distribution or having your project languish in obscurity.
That's the service that the company in question was providing, inviting critics that might be amenable to writing a positive review to watch the movie. There were some shady things going on, like suggesting that a critic put a negative review on a sister site that RT wouldn't index in order to keep the scores positive, but nothing illegal that I can see. They claimed they weren't actually paying people to review the movies, but unless someone shows receipts, I don't know whether to believe them or not. Regardless, they're just a company playing the game as it's laid out. Don't blame them, blame RT and studios for being a bunch of idiots.