There is a Sammo Hung movie woth Andy Lau coming it, so there is a little competition over there. And there is a tradional holiday coming up. It's not just a China thing, Hong Kong isn't buying into BvS either, it's dropped by 75% there as well, the shame is that in HK it's taking all the screens from Zootopia which also opened last week.
Batman V Superman Takes A Dive With -70% Second Weekend
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There is a Sammo Hung movie woth Andy Lau coming it, so there is a little competition over there. And there is a tradional holiday coming up. It's not just a China thing, Hong Kong isn't buying into BvS either, it's dropped by 75% there as well, the shame is that in HK it's taking all the screens from Zootopia which also opened last week.
Gordon Shumway
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Shouldn't even be on his radar, Rei..and it really doesn't change what an unnecessary comment that is. I'm gonna guess we disagree, but yeah..just how I see it.
Also God.
Yup. Hickman's run was really one of the best modern runs in recent memory.
He's someone on YouTube who gave the film a glowing review.
There is some inherent value in seeing a movie for yourself and in order to have a more informed opinion on why you don't think it works. (This is directed at the Polygon article)
I really wanted this movie to be good. Even though it's in-universe and real world raison d'être was flimsy for me right from the start. I even had my reservations about Snyder, but I figured what the hay, "I''ll give a chance anyways" I was really disparate to see my favorite childhood characters on the screen for the first time.
Goddamn, that's what I call getting rekt.
Not really.
HeartlessNobody213
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Gordon Shumway
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Oh, so his true heart was on display! Kudos to him.
Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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Iron Man was the first movie they made with the MCU vision in mind.
A true 29%er
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Who is this douchenozzle supposed to be?
I'm somehow more disturbed by this than I am by our proposed "avatar" for AlteredBeast.
God damn Stan, ice cold.
Yeah there is no real pressure to switch screens over to anything else next week, not like any showings of anything are going to sell out, and I doubt having a few extra showings of anything else will get more people in the seats.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
lol..What's the Metacritic score? Also average? Or higher? Seems the user score has held well enough.
Metacritic was 44. But that was based on average score and not percentage of critics who recommended seeing the film. MC average was actually lower than the RT average
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Damn. Yet RT gets the most anger. Go figure.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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Kiiiiiiiiii, not surprised. I knew when I wasted my $20 on this movie to see it in IMAX 3D and fell asleep 3 times which I have never done in a movie ever, was when I knew this was whack and was going to suffer badly because of it. Sorry but this was just a horribly done movie. One of my friends saw it twice but I understand that his DC fanboyism just didn't want to see it fail.. Lol.
It's for the stupid fresh or rotten system. It makes little sense. Two reviews can give the movie the same score but yet one can give it a fresh while the other gives it a rotten.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
LMAO at least B v. S will be remembered for something.
Path is now clear for Civil War to get that $200 million opening weekend.
Path is now clear for Civil War to get that $200 million opening weekend.
For a movie that is trying to be more realistic than it source material, I found Gotham being across the bay in Snyder universe stupid.
I understand comic reasons- its my turf, stay out! But this Bats and Sups dont have the relationship established in the various incarnations of the comics.
Because that the way things are in comic or it would make Batman stories boring are writer issues. Its the writers job to make even the stupidest thing in their story world possible. Again, because this is supposed to be more realistic, having Gotham across the bay broke that illusion for me.
Gotham being out of normal human sight from Metropilis is a simple trick to keeps up the illusion of Bats and Sups not crossing paths often by simple distance. If this Superman can see the bat signal from his house without trying, there is no logical reason why these two havent meet before Lex brought them together.
It makes perfect sense if you actually take it the way it is meant to be taken. Does the critic believe the film was worth seeing/recommending to others? If a film gets 90% on RT, it means that 9 out of 10 critics think that the film is worth seeing. It's not really RT's fault that people on the internet try to twist that into meaning that the film was a 9/10 or something.
AHA-Lambda
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Kind of amazing to repeatedly see gaf predictions turn wrong
Jurassic World should show that anything is possible
Percentage of positive reviews is more useful predictor of enjoyment than a straight score average though.
If half the critics hated it and half loved it, there is a larger percentage chance of it not being an enjoyable experience than if everyone pretty much unanimously liked it.
I've often disagreed with review scores or even averages of reviews, but I can't remember a time where I saw an 80%+ on RT and thought it sucked or a 20%- and thought it was good. I might think a film that got an 80 on RT was better than one that got a 90, but I almost certainly enjoyed both.
The average review score system on the other hand, I've seen plenty of movies with middling scores(5-7 or so) and thought they were one of the best movies I've seen or one of the worst. If the review average is a 2 or a 3 or an 8 or a 9, maybe it could be useful, but for that middle range it's basically a dice roll whether you'll like it.
Kind of amazing to repeatedly see gaf predictions turn wrong
Jurassic World should show that anything is possible
Jurassic World came in much higher than expected, but Jurassic Park was the highest grossing film in the world before Titanic, and even the Lost World was briefly in the WW top 10. JP3 just made us lowball the franchise's potential.
Opening weekend was out of the blue though. Only because we were still getting $130M predictions that Friday.
Jack Remington
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Camel >>> Marlboro.
Not really but that's cool if you think that. What if the critic thinks the movie was well made but wasn't interested in the topic. Then you have a well made movie with subject matter that the reviewer wouldn't personally recommend. It's more about the reviewers taste as opposed to the quality of the movie. Just give me scores and let the reader figure it out. When you have one critic giving it a 3 out of 5 and a rotten while another gives it a 2.5 out of 5 and a fresh your system is screwed up.
broncobuster
Banned
Kind of amazing to repeatedly see gaf predictions turn wrong
Jurassic World should show that anything is possible
Last year's Avengers 2, Star Wars, Jurassic World thread is amazing for how wrong some were. Pretending Star Wars didn't have the brand power it once had. Avengers would pass $2bil. Jurassic World would flop.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Kind of amazing to repeatedly see gaf predictions turn wrong
Jurassic World should show that anything is possible
Jurassic World is a terrible movie. Bad acting, terrible CG, hammy plot, sexist treatment of female characters, cheesy nostalgia throwbacks (that didn't work). Worst film I saw in 2015.
Batman V. Superman is a masterpiece in comparison quite honestly.
Bobby Roberts
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He thinks that because that's how Rotten Tomatoes does work.
Yeah I know how it works. Thanks.
Under The Skin was a well made movie but I wouldn't recommend it to people.
Nothing in your paragraph explains how score averages are better. Especially when your counterpoint is the voodoo shitshow that is the Metacritic averaging algorithm. A 2 out of 5 is as much the reviewers opinion as "go see the film" is. Only you don't really know what a 2/5 means to the guy/girl unless you follow them. At least RT reviewers get to decide whether their review is rotten or fresh.
Bobby Roberts
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You don't seem to. None of the rest of that post made any sense.
Do you? Then why are you so hung up about it. The movie has score averages and has links to every individual review they aggregate.
Are you just bothered that a movie shows a percentage you don't agree with? The information you want and apparently desperately need is right there too.
I don't really see your point.
Film reviewers do the same recommendations in the context of their reviews.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
But, that's how that system works? Whatever. I'm not going down this RT hole again..Buttons and Mindy is on!
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Don't worry, the Ultimate Cut coming in July will fix the film's issues.
30 minutes are being added back in!
That's fine. Basically the quality of the movie and recommending someone to see it are 2 different things. Obviously I'm not communicating my point very well so I'll give up. I'd rather have numbers and not a mixture of recommendations and numbers. Anyway, carry on.
Mr. Pointy
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Jokes on him when Ant-Man And The Wasp outgrosses BvS.
It's fine if you don't like it, but that doesn't really change the fact that it's how RT operates, and people seem to be looking more for recommendations than just numbers.
I mean, there's always Metacritic.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I have a hard time believing an extra 30 minutes of shit is going to fix this film's issues. The problems are too big and glaring.
You looked at the score, you spoiled yourself, and you expected nothing? No, you went in with a lot of negative preconceived notions, expected a shit movie, and that's what you got.
ThoseDeafMutes
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It could fix many specific issues people had with missing connective tissue and unexplained plot points or motivations, but is unlikely to transform the film into something that people who hated it will enjoy.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I can agree with that at least. But honestly I felt the film needed streamlining, not bulking up.
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