Ghostbusters’ reboot debuted in theatres in the US on July, 15 2016. With a female-led cast, this film reaped US$46 million in North America. However, Ghostbusters’ reboot shows how an internet rating is serious problem. And people has the rights to ask the reliability of this business.
Sites such as Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and IMDb explained how men quickly judged entertainment pieces aimed at women. “Sex and The City” is a clear example how male users on IMDb, despite making up only 40 percent of male raters, rated the TV show a 5.8, while female raters assigned an 8.1 rating.
An investigation was launched into an online movite rating site, Fandago. The conclusion: any site that aggregates reviews and rating tends to be subjective as users have their personal judgments to consider what an ideal rating is.
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People tend to believe easily in numbers shown online (even before the show starts) and oversimplify the matter.
Varied ratings on media and the comparison with the original
On YouTube, the Ghostbusters reboot trailer triggered more”dislikes”, which was believed to be concerted by some fans of the original version of Ghostbusters. One of the media that gave the movie four stars in a UK-based The Guardian, saying the movie’s director Paul Feig’s female boot is a blast.
The New York Times also praised the movie, saying the move has a lot of enjoyable, disposable fun.
However, no matter that Ghostbusters’ reboot shows how an internet rating is serious problem, it is interesting to see that most people are comparing the current version with the 32-year old version. The female-led cast, consisting of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon, seemed to work hard to satisfy demanding fans, who mostly were wondering about whether they will feel the hype such as they used to feel 32 years
The gendered patterns in advertising that Craig outlines in his essay still exist today, in commercials of how men and women are portrayed. In Steve Craig’s, “Men’s Men and Women’s Women,” it is stated that large advertisers and their agencies have evolved the pseudo-scientific method of time purchasing based on demographics, with the age and gender of the consumer generally considered to be the most important predictors of purchasing behavior. Therefore, Craig argues that computers make it easy to match market research on product buying patterns with audience research on television viewing habits, eventually building a demographic profile of the “target audience.” According to an article titled Web Advertising: Gender Differences in Beliefs, Attitudes and Behavior, previous research suggests males and females exhibit different beliefs about and attitudes toward traditional media advertising along with different advertising-suppressed consumer behaviors. Craig talks about how in John Fiske’s book, Television Culture (1987, Chs.
Michael Abernathy’s article “Male Bashing on TV” uses many television sources and percentages to explain how men are treated like idiots inside of the media. Abernathy is a television reviewer, cultural critic, and queer culture commentator (350). While Heather Havrilesky's article “TV’s New Wave of Women:Smart, Strong, Borderline Insane” is the opposite and uses television sources to explain how women are treated as smart yet crazy inside of the media. These two articles describe how men and women are portrayed differently in television shows and the media. The articles have smaller subtopics in common which are the portrayal of men and women in the media, the comparison of men and women in each article, and how Abernathy and Havrilesky want
With the release of JJ Abrams’ Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens in late 2016 recording a staggering domestic gross of over $936 million (Box Office Mojo 2016), the Star Wars series continues to be one of the biggest pop culture icons of the 21st century. However, for a film targeted towards all ages and demographics, with women making up 52% of all movie goers in North America (Motion Picture Association of America **), there is a startling lack of female representation within the series. Furthermore, with the growing prevalence of media in our daily lives combined with media’s role in the development of beliefs and ideas in its viewers, the messages delivered by mass media texts are partly responsible for the for the
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...he main character and the portrayal of women; however, when I asked males for their opinion about the film, they had nothing but praise for the movie stating that it was “inspiring”. The ability of the film to be interpreted various ways also fits my personal definition of art because I believe that upholding multiple interpretations and not having a clear right or wrong interpretation is art’s defining factor. Lastly, the surrounding space heavily influenced my judgement because the theatre’s massive size filled with multiple individuals magnified my uncomfortableness due to the film’s abundant use of nudity which directly influenced my judgement. My uncomfortableness affected my judgment negatively and highlighted more of the aspects I disliked such as the sexism in the film instead of positive aspects such as the superb and diverse background music that was used.
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