Whats with the Psychopaths on Rotten Tomatoes?
Let’s take a moment to talk about the internet and the people who use it. As someone who writes for a fairly prominent blog and who, from time to time, gets a fact wrong or overlooks something (when you do several posts a day, it’s hard to be perfect), I am familiar with the wrath that internet commenters can unleash. But I am quickly coming to realize that you, gentle readers, have indeed been gentle. If you have a moment, take a look at the Rotten Tomatoes page for The Dark Knight, and click through some of the comments that users have left for the critics who have dared give the film a negative review. Or, to save time, take a look at this piece by Hollywood Bitchslap’s Rob Gonsalves, which discusses some of the worst (best?) examples. If you’re not inclined to click, suffice it to say that the likes of The New Yorker’s David Denby have been told that they “do not deserve to live,” that they should “contract AIDS,” that they “rode the short bus to school,” that “I should go over to
