Monthly Archives: March 2019

Captain Marvel: How Many After Credits Scenes + What They Mean

Full spoilers follow for Captain Marvel! 

Captain Marvel continues the long-running MCU tradition of end credits scenes. If you're wondering how many extra scenes there are in Captain Marvel, you're in luck with a quick answer: there are two worth waiting for after the latest Marvel movie ends, including one that sheds further light on what happened after the universe-altering events of Avengers: Infinity War. As for After Credits Scene 2, here's an explainer on Goose the cat and the Tesseract's confusing timeline.

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Why Rotten Tomatoes Removed Thousands of Captain Marvel Audience Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes blames "a bug" for tens of thousands of audience reviews for Captain Marvel showing up within the opening hours of the latest MCU film before the site deleted them.

Within hours of Captain Marvel hitting theaters, roughly 58,000 audience reviews had flooded the critical aggregator site, plummeting the Marvel movie's Audience Score down to 33%. Captain Marvel's Audience Score now sits, at the time this article was published, at 53% with over 35,000 user ratings, while the film's critical Tomatometer score is certified "fresh" at 79%.

58,000 audience reviews hitting within hours of the film's release, as The Hollywood Reporter points out, "is more than the total of audience score reviews for Avengers: Infinity War for its entire theatrical run."

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Why Rotten Tomatoes Removed Thousands of Captain Marvel Audience Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes blames "a bug" for tens of thousands of audience reviews for Captain Marvel showing up within the opening hours of the latest MCU film before the site deleted them.

Within hours of Captain Marvel hitting theaters, roughly 58,000 audience reviews had flooded the critical aggregator site, plummeting the Marvel movie's Audience Score down to 33%. Captain Marvel's Audience Score now sits, at the time this article was published, at 53% with over 35,000 user ratings, while the film's critical Tomatometer score is certified "fresh" at 79%.

58,000 audience reviews hitting within hours of the film's release, as The Hollywood Reporter points out, "is more than the total of audience score reviews for Avengers: Infinity War for its entire theatrical run."

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CinemaScores: What Audiences Think of the MCU, From Iron Man to Captain Marvel

UPDATED, MARCH 9, 2019: Captain Marvel has received an "A" CinemaScore rating. As Captain Marvel becomes the latest epic blockbuster to line Disney's coffers, let's take a look back at how every MCU movie has fared in the CinemaScore department and how those scores compare to their critical reception and box office gross.

Generally, a high CinemaScore rating -- the survey of what actual audiences thought of a film -- is a pretty good indicator that a movie will do well at the box office.

Is it any wonder then that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is such a huge moneymaker when these films almost always score at least an "A-" with moviegoers?

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Crimes of Grindelwald in 4K Leads Up Tuesday’s Blu-ray Releases

It's a bit of a slow week for home video releases, but that's probably by design, what with a blockbuster like Captain Marvel in theaters taking up people's movie-mind share. That's not to say there aren't some pretty big movies coming to physical media this week. The Crimes of Grindelwald and Oscar-winner Green Book are getting 4K releases, while the 1990s cult classic The Craft is getting a Blu-ray special edition release.

Coming to DVD, Blu-ray and 4K March 12

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (4K)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald comes to 4K UHD on March 12, and includes both the theatrical version and the extended cut, as well a Blu-ray and digital copy. That's like, 6 movies in one. What is this, some kind of wizardry? Oh wait.

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Crimes of Grindelwald in 4K Leads Up Tuesday’s Blu-ray Releases

It's a bit of a slow week for home video releases, but that's probably by design, what with a blockbuster like Captain Marvel in theaters taking up people's movie-mind share. That's not to say there aren't some pretty big movies coming to physical media this week. The Crimes of Grindelwald and Oscar-winner Green Book are getting 4K releases, while the 1990s cult classic The Craft is getting a Blu-ray special edition release.

Coming to DVD, Blu-ray and 4K March 12

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (4K)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald comes to 4K UHD on March 12, and includes both the theatrical version and the extended cut, as well a Blu-ray and digital copy. That's like, 6 movies in one. What is this, some kind of wizardry? Oh wait.

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Captain Marvel’s Cat Goose Explained

Full spoilers follow for Captain Marvel! 

Everyone who’s seen Captain Marvel knows that Goose the cat not only steals his scenes in the movie, he also steals the Cosmic Cube. And that’s because he’s not just some mere tabby cat. No, it’s revealed that Goose the cat's species is a Flerken, an alien that just so happens to look exactly like earthly felines …. but with some very shocking and deadly differences.

Introduced in the pages of Ms. Marvel by creators Brian Reed and Roberto De La Torre, the Marvel Comics equivalent of the movie’s Goose was named Chewie — yes, after Star Wars’ Chewbacca, but changed for the movie as an homage to Top Gun and Carol Danvers’ military aviation background. Fun fact: Chewie was also a she, not a he.

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Video Games Releasing Next Week: Division 2, One Piece, and More

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Anyone on the lookout for something new to play has a few appealing options coming out next week. So whether you do your gaming on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, or PC, let's take a look at what games are slated for release the week of March 11.

Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - March 15

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