Lawlight said:
Really? You see nothing wrong with a critic being invited to the red carpet, being wined, dined and entertained by a company for a product that the critic is supposed to be unbiased towards? If this was a government sector, this would be a clear case of bribery.
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This happens with a lot of movies, which are bashed afterwards by critics. One thing is to invite reviewers to the pre-screening of your movie, and treat them well, an another very different is bribe those people. I mean, do you think that critics are so unprofessional that they give the movie a great score just because they invited them to the pre-screening and some drinks? OK, maybe this works for a couple of them, but we're talking about hundreds of reviewers which gave a high score to Winter Soldier, the vast majority surely haven't even gone to the movie pre-screening and red carpet.
Also, I think it's generally accepted that audiences react better to critics to these super-hero movies. Including MCU movies. Including BvS. It's always like that with super-hero comics, I definitely see not bias here.