Hey, Batman crazies, couldja find it in your fanboy hearts to stop loving this movie so much. At least not to the point in which you threaten the lives of film critics who review it negatively?
Critics who refused to swallow the red pill have been treated as enemy combatants. About.com's Jürgen Fauth and The House Next Door's Keith Uhlich … are two such critics. Neither of their reviews was intended to provoke, nor were they playing the contrarian — they simply didn't like the film. As of this writing there are 938 comments in response to these reviews. (Both at their sites as well as their links on Rotten Tomatoes.) Some go no deeper than Fag!; some are actually amusing - Keep your head in Little Women and Suffrage texts you pansy, but others are downright ugly. On Rotten Tomatoes, someone felt it would be beneficial to post as many personal details about Jürgen that they could find, while another likened his crime to Joan of Arc's:
This guy is a terd [sic], let him rot. Lets [sic] burn him at the stake!
The comments left for Keith are even more vile, particularly this one, which the author later claimed was written while channeling his inner Joker. Yikes. (All [sic]):
You know, some people have been so enraged by your little opinion piece that they want you to kill yourself. Please DON'T!!! You know why, because I am going to have so much fun killing you myself! I promise, it WON'T be painless. I am going to carve a smile in your face. And then I am going to carve you stomach. And you know why? Because i just want my phone call. You're my bitch now! I am going to track you down through your IP address and then I am going to f@#%!%* kill you!!!
Editor
the movie was not that good people. it was a B at best. the joker was so-so and batman needed some chloraseptic.
Someone should let these people know that this is a movie. A cinematic creation for their enjoyment. The joker is not a real person, he is a fictional comic book character created as an archenemy of Batman. Heath Ledger was not actually the Joker. He was an actor portraying the Joker. And they should be reminded that despite the past eight years politically, I'm fairly certain that people in this country are still allowed to have differing opinions. Denying someone their right to think the movie was lame is taking away their freedom of speech. COMMUNISTS!!!!
Ah yes, the internet…where there is a place for tough guys.
What a bunch a losers. It's easy to be the big man in cyberspace where you don't have to sign your name. How many of the comments left for these guys simply said FIRST?
Reminds me of a scene in "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" — don't judge — where the guys track down the geeks blogging crap about them (mostly nerdy sixteen year-old kids) and proceeding to beat them down.
It's the same with YouTube commentors. If I find something that someone's uploaded and put a lot of time into and I enjoy it, I tell them that I appreciate their efforts. For every comment of mine, however, there can be sometimes as many as five incomprehensible, bigoted insults. I just don't get it.
I wonder how many of those commenters have ever left their basements for anything but seeing Batman 10 times?
If they spent as much time obsessing over getting laid than they do with this movie, we would have a huge nerd baby boom on our hands.
deimos- Word.
there was an interesting article on trolls in the new york times this weekend. really puts stories like this (and online interaction in general) in perspective:
“Lulz” is how trolls keep score. A corruption of “LOL” or “laugh out loud,” “lulz” means the joy of disrupting another’s emotional equilibrium. “Lulz is watching someone lose their mind at their computer 2,000 miles away while you chat with friends and laugh,” said one ex-troll….
Another troll explained the lulz as a quasi-thermodynamic exchange between the sensitive and the cruel: “You look for someone who is full of it, a real blowhard. Then you exploit their insecurities to get an insane amount of drama, laughs and lulz. Rules would be simple: 1. Do whatever it takes to get lulz. 2. Make sure the lulz is widely distributed. This will allow for more lulz to be made. 3. The game is never over until all the lulz have been had.”
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…The willingness of trolling “victims” to be hurt by words, he argued, makes them complicit, and trolling will end as soon as we all get over it.
TERD BERGLER!
No worries, these kids aren't even mad enough to caps lock it.
Anybody who doesn't have the balls to spell out fucking isn't going to have the cajones to carve someones stomach.
And I don't think they have the will power to stop playing Dungeons and Dragons long enough to leave the house in order to carry out these threats.
Heck. They'll probably just create some game in which they can act out there fantasies without ever leaving their Mom's basement.
*they're*
I need a drink so I can spell properly.
*their*
That's so I can have 2 drinks.
*thier* that's so I can join you.
Knew game. Everytime you missuse or mispell a werd, you haveto take a drenk.
i lik the ballz/cahonys juxtaparadigm.
I think that I may work with some of those Lulz trolls.
I have also seen many Lulz trolls in traffic, and at the grocery store. Damn them.
nom nom nom. I wanted to show of my bilingualness and say balls in two languages.
You know, I think they lifted a picture from Robert Smith's fan club for this.
haaaaahahahahahahahahahaha
ooooh ma gah bedbugs, it's all too real!
So fucking desencitized (sp?). Void of reality and a lack of emotion on any level. These kids wish they were that fucked up in the head as the Joker and that is what is truly pathetic. They desire to be like this guy for whatever reason and don't seem to think/care that if they had the balls to actually act any of this shit out beyond the confines of an Xbox, they'd freak and run like cockroaches.