Captain Phillips (2013) - Media Audience

YouTube Rotten Tomatoes (Fan-made Forums)

IMDB YouTube Comments

There is no official trailer uploaded from Sony Pictures, however thistrailer uploaded by ‘joblomovienetwork’ has the most views on YT forthe trailer. With 686,979 views, 2,179 likes and 88 dislikes the trailer hasproved to have captured a very positive result. Considering this is nota film which attracts a younger demographic who are more prone to use YT to find a trailer, it has a considerably large audience and feedback. This is excluding third party websites such as IMDB, RottenTomatoes and The Guardian, where ‘Drama/Action’ genre films areDisplayed. Also considering that a lot of older demographics use these websites in order to find a lot of other media apart from trailers, such as the news, reviews, images, etc. However, YT provides evidence that thistrailer was posted on 8 May 2013, nearly 7 months ago and still has a very active response. This is seen through the increase in likes and dislikes of the trailer. Furthermore, this can be further supported through the frequency in comments and the debates created throughopposing views on the film from audiences.

IMDB is a great indicator as to the rating of the film. In this case, the filmhas been rated by 6,307 with an average rating of 8.1. It also displayshow many reviews it has received (59). Furthermore, it displays how many critics have reviewed the film (156). This means that not only Critics gave felt the need to comment on the film, but also normal users.This not only shows the popularity of the film, but also provides a good sense of the film for other audiences who have yet to see it. Complimenting this, it displays a summary of the film, the director, Writers, trailers, images, features and many more.

This is a website that reviews new films as well as providing trailers,images, feature and forums to debate. The forums are fan-made and are helpful in measuring up how many people are involved in furtherstudy of trailers. It clearly shows the extent audiences will go in termsof discussing a film. There are various different titles other than the actual movie itself, stemming down to whether the actors should deserve Oscar nominations and other awards. The site is also helpful showing the popularity of the film, which attracts new audiences.

The YouTube comments for the trailer are generally very positive. However, due to the fact that the film is a drama and based on a true story there is a lot of space for audiences to comment on issues such as Somalia, expanding further into economic, cultural and political problems. There has also been a lot of research done into the actualcrew of the film, exposing rumours that the cast has said that the character of Captain Phillips was over exaggerated. However, commentsof this nature are expected as the films genre encourages debate and the need to comment on a certain aspect of it. To further support the idea that the films nature encourages debate, is seen through the origin from the comments. Each of the replies displayed are ‘replies’ toother film fanatics and users.