Wall Street Journal Critic Deplores Vicious Tdkr Comments
20 July 2012
Wall Street Journal Critic Deplores Vicious Tdkr Comments
The movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has restored user comments about The Dark Knight Rises -- some 4,000 of them after yanking thembecause of a Deluge of vicious and threatening comments directed atreviewers who had criticized the film. The website tends to view mixedreviews of movies as positive, something that veteran Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern appears grateful for. Referring to the deaththreats that had been posted by some angry fans aimed at one critic who hadvoiced strong criticism of the film, Morgenstern wrote "I may have saved mylife without realizing it by liking The Dark Knight Rises sufficiently -- or disliking it with sufficient restraint -- to have myreview categorized as 'ripe' rather than 'rotten' on Rotten Tomatoes."Lamenting the fact that popular discourse on the Internet "has been growingever more poisonous," Morgenstern commented, "The Dark Knight 'sacolytes don't have a monopoly on intolerance of dissent. They're part of arising tide that threatens to drown Internet discussion in shrill opinion."Nevertheless he urged that the comments be restored after the "clearlyintolerable" ones are removed. "Free speech for the many shouldn't fallvictim to abuse by the few," he concluded. Meanwhile director ChristopherNolan has defended the angry commenters, telling the Associated Press, "Ithink the fans are very passionate about these characters." It was not clearwhether Nolan included those who were posting death threats.
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