Another summer, another stale Disney remake. The reboot game was all well and good for a while. Most people actually enjoyed seeing updated, often live-action versions of classic favorites.
However, since wokeness and the left ruin everything, now we are getting reboot after reboot, but often with changes to beloved characters or subtle background storylines designed to further the leftist agenda.
At first, no one noticed, but then Disney and others started getting more brazen and bold, and when a Disney exec was caught talking about her, and I paraphrase, ‘secret gay agenda,’ people started pushing the pause button on Disney flicks.
Now, with the latest stale reboot, Disney is once again set to lose millions. “The Little Mermaid” opened to decent numbers but nowhere near what is necessary to be profitable. Of course, Disney did their usual woke thing and actually made Ariel, the mermaid, a red-headed black girl.
So what is the problem with that? It would have been different, perhaps, if Disney had actually portrayed Ariel as a black character. Instead, they simply threw a black face on the same character. It isn’t a representation of a black woman, just a black woman playing the same role. People noticed, and among other reasons, the reviews have largely been bad.
This leads us to the latest example of an entity we can no longer trust to be fair and balanced.
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IMDb will not let you have an opinion for New #Disney The Little Mermaid Movie, you’re not allowed to dislike it. Only positive reviews are allowed to “preserve its rating”
Just like everything else in this country you aren’t allowed to have an opinion or… pic.twitter.com/JkAfymilYl
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) May 30, 2023
IMDb, the internet movie database, which compiles and aggregates actual user reviews alongside snarky, professional critical reviews, made headlines and raised eyebrows when they noted on their site that they were essentially artificially boosting the film’s scores because of “unusual user voting.” In short, they are putting a metaphorical thumb on the scale to help the mouse out.
Currently, the film shows a user rating of 7.0. Pretty good, right? Not if the majority of users gave it a score of 3 or lower out of a possible ten. More than 40 percent of users gave it a score of 1, which is the lowest possible rating. So, what gives? Are people going out of their way to damage the movie’s score and sink it at the box office? Or does it just suck?
IMDb stated: “Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied,”
Amazon owns IMDb, and they keep their rating algorithm top secret. It’s probably stored in Jeff Bezos’s rocket. Who knows. What we do know is we now can’t trust IMDb.
The site went on to say: “To ensure that our rating mechanism remains effective, we do not disclose the exact method used to generate the rating.”
User reviews are critical for purchasing things online. Since you can’t actually try on that pair of jeans or see that vacation rental in person, consumers rely on honest, accurate user reviews. Considering the chain of custody, Amazon owning IMDb, and the aforementioned site clearly not giving accurate reviews, can we trust Amazon?
Naturally, the race baiters and Disney apologists are blaming racism as if a bunch of white supremacists has organized a “review bombing” campaign because Ariel is black.
Perhaps the movie is just bad? Perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to add an extra 30 minutes to a movie intended, allegedly for the segment of our society with the shortest attention spans?
One could even point to the unprecedented amount of “dislikes” the trailer got on YouTube, more than 1 million, in less than a week after its release.
Nah, it’s probably racism. Conservatives have so much extra time between working, trying to raise families and protecting them from radical ideology, and stressing over how to buy food and gas that they have probably just been spending all of their time on IMDb running down “The Little Mermaid.” Mystery solved!
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