ScreenRantReviews 116

Too obsessed with their social score and woke agendas to give an honest review. Spammy and too into politics and propaganda.

Overall entertainment sites in general have ads running on their site, but Screenrant makes the experience impossible for the user. The pop-up video ads are more noticeable on mobile. The other experience to share is that they do tend to not source where they get an exclusive. Sometimes they do which seems to be other sites owned by the same media company, but otherwise no credit is given to the original source. That is a sneaky practice and contributes to mis-information.

This site is a Google SEO hack. You have tonnes and tonnes of articles about a movie claiming to explain every aspect of it repeatedly it. In reality all you have is a blog by hired freelancers who stuff keywords throughout the article. Not your site if your a real movie lover.

As has been stated by others before me, the articles are incredibly repetitive and just not written in a way that makes them at all entertaining to read which is kind of a fatal flaw for a fun news and think pieces site about pop culture.
This lack of quality combined with the fact they're rarely actually saying anything or stating concrete facts AND the fact there's so, so many articles and some writers have allegedly written thousands of them in a couple of years makes me suspect they only write a sentence or two and let some ai generate the rest. It could also be the plagiarism others have pointed to. Maybe it's both, ai is known to plagiarise after all. Tho I wouldn't put it past them to also do it on purpose.
And if they aren't using ai I'm guessing they're forcing these writers to write x amount of articles each day to get paid so they're forced to churn out soulless mush. Which, for the record, isn't better.

ScreenRant knows nothing about anything that they are writing about and what they say makes zero sense all they do is kissing $#*! for corporate giants like Disney it's stupid and pointless

A bunch of losers who - failed in life, criticise others peoples movies. They aren't funny and they are pathetic.

What really makes me mad is that they're too cowardly to enable comments on their articles, likely because they know how negative they would be.

Used to be my goto for all things tv/movies. Now i have a hard time even finding content worth watching. Money money money, remeber where you came from folks.

OMG! Couldn't even get through ONE article! The constant pop up, intrusive, INVASIVE Ads literally ECLIPSED the page

I stopped wasting my time reading articles of this site as I realised I just kept feeling more and more annoyed at what I was reading and that wasn't good for my mental health. The so-called "journalists" of this site have no idea what they're talking about, having clearly not watched the TV show/film etc. they're writing about, while also being very unreasonably nitpicky and snowflakey about every little thing about whatever TV show or film they're writing about, or should I say attacking, while not even getting their facts right. The same goes for Gamerant, it's sister site, with articles that despite claiming have to be objective are nothing but the stupid, ridiculous opinions of the authors that are expressed in such a childish, juvenile, opinionated and condescending way, making out their opinions are fact, with a lot of what they write as well not even being backed up with any evidence.

There are many examples of this but one significant example I can think of is all the articles they'd write about Friends, nitpicking at every little single thing about it as being offensive, like saying the friends are bad friends to each other by making fun of each other affectionately, like that's what friends do, you mustn't have actual close friends to know that, while clearly not having even watched the show. It even made some misogynist comments, like how in Friends Rachel should've just stopped seeing her male friend Mark like Ross wanted if it bothered him so much, as well as a load of other very unreasonable opinions that made no sense whatsoever. A lot of the titles are even followed with "according to reddit users" like they can't just come up with their own ideas. Also the "Disney Villains who were right", actually claiming that they were right to kill people or whatever simply because they had a motive, as well as all sorts of other kinds of ridiculous rationalisations and condoning of immoral and wrong stuff.

I make sure to steer well away from this site as well as it's sister site Gamerant from now on.

I have never in my life seen so many articles that are just the same few sentences repeated dozens of times but paraphrased slightly different each time. You get the first paragraph where they basically talk about the subject but they are very vague and they beat around the bush to kill time. Then the next paragraph says exactly the same thing but with slightly different phrasing. Then the next paragraph does precisely the same thing only in a much worse way. Then the fourth paragraph is usually almost identical to the first or second paragraph, on and on it goes. This website really needs to hire some legit writers if they care at all about the terrible quality of their current writers' entries and they want to be known for more than just a place to go if you want to be driven up a wall with a horribly written article.

Badly written junk, ripped off from other websites and Youtubers usually. Add to that a needless social agenda stuffed into articles as filler and generally bad takes in opinions which go against the status quo to be edgy, and it makes for a pretty terrible reading experience. The Ads are pretty awful as well

Total garbage, no standards, accepts all kind of crap trash woke articles, while being woke does not need to mean you cannot write good articles, this is the case here. Articles such as 10. Characters that could easily beat Superman:

1. "Catwoman, because she's a woman and has to give birth, besides her beauty can distract superman and then he can scratch his face with her adamtium claws MEOOOW!"

2. Robin, because he is gay (probably) and being gay means you have to fight for your rights, Superman isn't gay, he does not know how to fight for your homosexuality, of course he loses to Robin's sexuality!

WHAT? I could pull better things out of my $#*!!

Most of their articles show they only picked one link on google and skimmed the page, your view gives them ad money, dont give that to them

Enough is enough, already. So many popups, that refuse to close when you hit the microscopic 'x' dead-center. They've introduced a new, more annoying form of ad that surrounds your screen in a black border, thicker on the top and bottom, which displays banner ads. You can't even read the article because it's cut off by the border.

It's an ad site. That's it, that's all. Clickbait for cash.

I'm done with screenrant. I'm tired of all the pop up ads. When an ad comes up I press the x multiple times and it doesn't go away. That's just dirty! Nobody wants the stupid ads anyway and screenrant keeps forcing them on users now pressing the x doesn't make ad go away and they are in your face the whole time I'm on the site. I'm done!

I have to read Screen Rant articles for my film class and more often than not they make some outlandish claim intentionally demonizing or distancing a group in favor of some political or social movement. They just did this with the newest Pokemon games trying to make it seem like the games weren't accepting enough of LGBTQ+ while also having an article praising them for their LGBTQ+ representation. They turn something that is not divisive into something devisive and even contradict themselves. We just want to enjoy a learn about games, movies, etc. Stop trying to turn everything into a political or social movement.

Every article seems to lead with some sort of made up problem for whatever fandom they are attacking. They then go on and on about something based off no fact just opinion and then try and cheery pick some other stuff to try and back their opinion. I use to think they were a solid place to get movie news but its just junk.

Screen Rant is the tabloid version of the newspaper world. They make up tantalizing stories to attract visitors. High visitor counts mean more views for advertisers who pay to be on their worthless site. Make it up as they go, with no real content that has been verified, by anyone of substance. Weak reporting by possible newspaper columnist rejects.