I ended up NOT being able to see it as planned this weekend (our sitter got sit Friday night and bailed on us), so I cannot comment on the film itself. Massive opening of course, and check this out from BoxOfficeMojo:
"Heading into the weekend the swath of negative critical reviews were a major focus as the film now sits at a 29% rating on RottenTomatoes <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/batman_v_superman_dawn_of_justice/> and no film with a rating lower than 63% on the site had ever opened over $150 million. Clearly *Batman v Superman* bucked that trend as it is now one of only five live action films to have ever grossed over $100 million on opening weekend with a RottenTomatoes rating lower than 30%. So does this say something about critics, about films with baked in audiences... or both?" Again, I cannot comment, but it does help further my personal choice to ignore RT, as most "mainstream" critics tend to stick with the groupthink rather than provide actual criticism. This especially seems true of genre movies. FWIW, I was wrong, the CinemaScore was a "B" rather than the A- I suspected they would get. Although, apparently viewers under 18 gave it an A-. On Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 11:21:26 AM UTC-4, Jim wrote: > > Shouldn't that be what it's all about? Enjoying the spectacle of it? > That's how I enjoyed movies as a kid. Anytime I can get thy feeling back > the more I enjoy movies. > > Jim > > On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Irredeemable Shag <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Well... I've seen it. AND I LIKED IT. >> >> Not thinking deep. Just enjoyed the spectacle of it. I won't be able to >> refute anyone's logic or analysis. I don't know art, or writing, but it >> sure was fun to watch. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Mar 25, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> That's a perfect illustration of why I do not trust critics for genre >> movies, frankly, or RT in general. Much too subjective. >> >> Totally let everyone know what you think! Hear hear for making up your >> OWN MIND! :) >> >> >> On Friday, March 25, 2016 at 12:18:10 PM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote: >>> >>> Underworld scored a 31% critics and an 80% with fans. S v B has slipped >>> below that (30/79). Underworld was so bad it made me want to punch the >>> first person I saw. I'm still going to give it a shot, but it'll be at a >>> discount theater on Sunday. >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On Mar 24, 2016, at 8:24 AM, Luke Jaconetti <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Furthering the critical/viewer divide, Newsarama solicited fan reviews, >>> and apparently received strongly positive ones. To the point that they >>> were accused of seeking out positive reviews; not sure how that would serve >>> Newsarama, who I find typically leans anti-DC. >>> >>> >>> http://www.newsarama.com/28529-newsarama-readers-review-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice.html >>> >>> All of this hype and speculation and name calling will get put to bed >>> for me this weekend, so until then I reserve my judgement. >>> >>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 5:26:26 PM UTC-4, Luke Jaconetti wrote: >>>> >>>> And 83% of audience members liked it. >>>> >>>> Like I said in the other thread, I think this will end up with a poor >>>> critical score but a good Cinemascore grade. >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 5:16:08 PM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Yikes. I was hoping the critics would be at least lukewarm, but energy >>>>> the positive reviews have some nit so kind observations. I'll still >>>>> likely >>>>> see it, but if it's as bad as critics suggest his could kill DC's big >>>>> screen efforts. I've already turned off most of their TV shows. Gotham >>>>> was >>>>> awful, Flash and Arrow got stale and just seem to be generally much lower >>>>> quality than the Marvel stuff I've been watching. >>>>> At least they still make good animated stuff. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "The Unique Geek" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Jim > > blog <http://jimpeluso.wordpress.com> > "Keep moving Forward" > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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