Volterra_90 said:
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. |
No, they're not all different things - entertainment and gifts can be a form of bribery. Whether I or you think critics are professional or not doesn't matter (though a lot of them are just like you and me and act very unprofessionally). If they were being professionals they wouldn't have watched the movies independently from the studios.
