By David Futrelle
Reactionary dinguses and #Gamergate leftovers have been raging against Captain Marvel for weeks (months?) now, claiming that the movie is little more than secret SJW propaganda designed to genocide white men or something. Now that the movie has hit theaters at last, you might be wondering how well their Captain Marvel boycott is going?
Not very, it turns out. Far from tanking, the film is actually racking up impressive numbers at the box office, with industry observers currently projecting a $150-$160 million weekend in North American theaters alone, way up from initial projections of $100 million.
So how is the angry mob responding? By declaring the box office numbers to be a big hoax, fake news, no collusion! (Oh, wait, they actually think there is collusion.)
— We Are Negan (@NeganWins) March 9, 2019
HOAX ALERT
As I rightly predicted the fake news media lying about #captainmarvel box office numbers to cover for SJW white feminist Bree Larson and Disney.
Naturally, the positive reviews the film have gotten are supposedly fake as well:
As it turns out, there actually ARE some fake positive reviews of the movie out there. Namely 100 or so identically worded reviews up on Google. So of course the Captain Marvel foes — who only a few weeks ago bombarded Rotten Tomatoes with so many “don’t want to see” votes that the site disabled that feature — are now accusing SJWs and/or Disney of fraud.
— 1/4BlackGarrett (@QTRBlackGarrett) March 9, 2019
nope nothing to see here.
Fake positive @captainmarvel reviews. pic.twitter.com/hw2Syzwm9H
nope nothing to see here.Huh. So a huge multinational corporation pushing a major film is going to try to game the reviews by … hiring some troll to post 100 literally identical reviews on Google? Knowing that anyone who saw more than one of the reviews would instantly realize they were fake? I’d say the chance that Disney (or even freelance SJW “shills”) are behind this, rather than some anti-Captain Marvel troll trying to make Disney look bad, are probably about, well, one in 160 million.
Even Jack Posobiec, the Nazi-adjacent professional troll who’s been pushing for people to see Alita: Battle Angel instead of Captain Marvel, has been sounding a bit defensive today:
I got the entire Disney machine terrified about the legions coming for them
— Author Jack Posobiec
With a couple tweets I did in my spare time for fun
I got y’all to spend tens of millions more to prop up a mediocre film with an average actor and a so-so plot
Who lost here? #AlitaChallenge(@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2019
(@JackPosobiec) Captain Marvel needed the entire Hollywood machine, Disney worldwide, and hundreds of millions in marketing costs
— Author Jack Posobiec
And no one will remember it in a year
Poso is just one guy with a twitter account who terrified you
And I’m not going anywhere(@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2019
“But Poso people are still seeing Captain Marvel, did u failed?”
— Author Jack Posobiec
When did I ever say no one would see it?
I said WE are not going to see the mediocre man-hating Tree Larson and supporting Alita instead who deserves it
Y’all need to learn how to READ WORDS #AlitaChallenge(@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2019
Captian Marvel has a lot of people seeing it bc its part of a branded unit
— Author Jack Posobiec
You know what other sucky movie had that?
The Last Jedi
How’d that work out for you @Disney?
Lol!(@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2019
It took me 3 years for #DumpStarWars to take effect
— Author Jack Posobiec
We’ve only just begun on the MCU
Hi @JamesGunn https://t.co/mVfc1mUPLs(@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2019
You know you’re WINNING when all you can offer is excuses.
UPDATE: The numbers from Saturday night are in:
Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson, shattered the glass ceiling in its box office debut with $455 million in worldwide ticket sales, including $153 million in North America.
The tentpole’s global launch reps the biggest ever for a female-fronted film — eclipsing Beauty and the Beast ($357 million) — as well as the second-largest for any superhero pic behind Avengers: Infinity War ($640.5 million). Overall, it’s the sixth-best worldwide bow of all time, and the international opening of $302 million is the fifth-biggest ever ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($281 million).
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