You can if you don't include Harley. Lots of Suicide Squad stories without anything to do with Batman or Joker. But if you're going to use her, you kinda might as well yeah.
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You can if you don't include Harley. Lots of Suicide Squad stories without anything to do with Batman or Joker. But if you're going to use her, you kinda might as well yeah.
Succinct Verbosity
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Yeah, I guess so. I can't form an opinion until I see it, but I am really concerned about the Joker and Harley. This film really could have been great if it respected the
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Well this film (and WW) was a part of the early DC movie slate, they jumped the shark. The only thing I can imagine for WB to do is stop doing whatever they did with/after Man of Steel and slow down, focus on one movie at a time.
bananafactory
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Thor 2 actually has some stunning visual design and great character moments for both him and Loki. It's only let down by the fact Darcy doesn't get enough screen time as she should.
They don't have to do anything, Suicide Squad will be a financial success and most people will enjoy it despite what RT garbo have to say, and so will be Justice League and Wonder Woman. Things like IMBD or Filmaffinity exist, by the way, and they're much more extempt of absurd hyperbole unlike that other click-bait site people seem to worship here.
BvS did 900m$ and a lot of people liked it despite being one of the worst films ever if we take the 27% score seriously.
Get over it, RT and the hyperbolic critics won't change anything.
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One of these days I'll make my "The First Avenger is the best MCU movie" magnum sized thread
One of these years....right after my "All the reasons Iron Man 2 is better than Iron Man" thread
One of these years....right after my "All the reasons Iron Man 2 is better than Iron Man" thread
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The best thing is they're taking out their frustrations on a website which does nothing but aggregate scores. What a bunch of geniuses.
Discotheque
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Yeah I think even just a single minute to address the issue would have helped the character greatly.
Still there's massive potential there for a great batman. Particularly in that metropolis scene in the opening. Wasn't in the suit but he was extremely heroic. And I also really liked the Gotham intro too, shit was appropriately grimy and had a nice horror tone
Transformers - 57% Rotten
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - 19% Rotten
Transformers: Dark of the Moon - 35% Rotten
Transformers: Age of Extinction - 18% Rotten
Still to come from the Transformers Cinematic Universe:
Transformers: The Last Knight
Transformers: Bumblebee's Final Stand
Transformers: Sixth Bay Avenue
Transformers: The Search of Infinite Yuan
DC doesn't have to do anything. They just have to believe in themselves like Michael Bay and Paramount does.
johnnydrama
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Why has a Suicide Squad review thread turned into an MCU thread though?
Astral Dog
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Not really, plenty of the newest Batman animated films have been mediocre at best
And their budget seems to be going down
Because the world keeps spinning the same way over and over.
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I have high hopes for Batman. Affleck is a great director and even more important writer. Him having reigns over both parts gives me hope.
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Not GAF's fault to be honest. Most reviews can't seem to not mention a marvel movie for some reason.
Succinct Verbosity
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Look, I like BvS a lot, but taking my girl friend to see both that and civil war, DC definitely have a problem appealing to people that aren't fans already. 900M isn't a bomb, and SS probably wont bomb either... But the point is, how many misses can DC take before people just give up on hyping them?
It's one of the few MCU movies to stick the landing with achieving an actual comic book aesthetic, and Hugo Weaving's Red Skull is one of the few (only?) MCU villains to have any presence whatsoever.
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27% means 27% of critics liked it. If we extrapolate that to the total audience, 900 million with an average of say 10 dollars per ticket, suggests 90 million viewings. For the sake of the discussion we'll assume those are all unique viewings. That's 24 million people who would have liked it!
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Because generally its the best way to judge the quality of a movie.
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Are you serious?
People like to have validation on their opinions.
Generally the best way to judge quality is to witness it yourself and then decide for yourself.
Both Tomatoes and Metacritic are full of bad movies with good scores and good movies with bad scores.
The one with Tom Hiddleston, Jeff Goldblum, Cate Blanchett, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, and Mark Ruffalo.
That cast is stacked, boy.
Discotheque
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Justice League by a landslide. It would have to be worse than sucker punch for a thor movie to beat it for me.
Dat Karl Urban and Cate Blanchett tho. Wonder what they do with them.
Because movie ticket prices, especially in 3D, are high enough now to need justification before spending.
And to be perfectly honest, extremely low ratings are pretty accurate. While one can debate about middle-of-the-road movies that score around 50% depending on tastes, universally panned movies are very rarely not actually bad.
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I've actually never finished Thor 2, everytime I sit down to watch it on the movie channel my body just ups and leaves or Im on my phone the whole time.
To this day all I know is that there is some Space Elf, and that's it. Movie has this magically ability to turn off my attention. I should really watch it properly some day. Nah.
Most likely seeing Suicide Squad come this thursday.
To this day all I know is that there is some Space Elf, and that's it. Movie has this magically ability to turn off my attention. I should really watch it properly some day. Nah.
Most likely seeing Suicide Squad come this thursday.
Rotten Tomatoes is great for looking at a movie and generally seeing if it's going to be a dud or not (if the reviews are overwhelmingly negative).
If they're on either end of the spectrum you can probably figure out whether it'll be worth the money. In the middle is the tricky thing.
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Pigs will fly before I see another Chris Hemsworth film that isn't directed by Michael Mann, let alone a Thor movie
Plus I heard it has Planet Hulk stuff. That story was fun.
johnnydrama
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Hey, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, Jeremy Irons, and JK Simmons are pretty good too.
I don't even think this is true. Tbh, almost no one I know outside of the internet talks about RT scores or anything like that. I don't think movie going experiences have changed much. The majority of people who go to 3D movie screenings are just people doing it socially. My perception is that the more a person cares about RT scores or whatever, the more likely the person is someone who books IMAX 3D tickets a month in advance and wants to feel as hyped as possible before going into a film.
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Stayin in the ride until the end
Pigs will fly before I see another Chris Hemsworth film that isn't directed by Michael Mann, let alone a Thor movie
what the fuck!
I really don't understand how people are suprised by the negative reviews? From the first trailer alone you could tell this movie would be a fun ride .. not a great one. I'll go see this tonight.That's for sure. Because ... it looks fun and I really do not care about ratings.
Don't quite understand DC's need to introduce a shitload of characters in ONE goddamn movie though. Take your time.
Ah yes ... RottenTomatoes <3 Marvel. GTFO ...
Don't quite understand DC's need to introduce a shitload of characters in ONE goddamn movie though. Take your time.
Ah yes ... RottenTomatoes <3 Marvel. GTFO ...
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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
We're getting a more steady stream of comic book films so overzealous fans use the scores to validate their own opinions or invalidate the opinions of others. It's either:
Look! This movie is great! It has a 90% on RT
Or
Fuck critics! I enjoyed it.
I would say that social media played a part in their growing importance. Movie studios started using their RT score in promotion material as well. I literally just saw a commercial for Star Trek Beyond that had the RT score on it. Not the first time I've seen that either.
It's the modern equivalent of cherry picking random quotes from critics to include in the "Now in theaters" commercials.
I mean...you don't gotta explain yourself if you enjoyed a movie with a low RT score. Other people enjoyed it. Batman vs Superman having a 27% or whatever doesn't make it a 2.7 out of 10 movie. Just that only 27% of critics had a favorable opinion of it. But people can't get that through their skulls. We do this same song and dance over and over again. I don't know why crazy fans get so worked up about it. Probably because they have some strong emotional attachment to all of this and they're perceiving bad critical reception as the world collectively saying they have bad taste.
BoosterDuck
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the dance battle was the best on screen performance of a hero defeating the villain
I Dare you to find a better scene
clay_ghost
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The trailer is actually still great to me. I felt noting for JL teaser and Wonder Woman trailer but SS have me hyped. =/
They're playing catch up with Marvel. The Avengers are gonna be like 50 deep by the time Infinity War rolls around.
theaters have been cracking down on that set buying tickets for R rated movies lately
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