Amph Justice League

basically the star wars prequel strategy. make some downright awful movies so the bar can be incredibly low for future installments!

 

Metacritc has a different formula to aggregate their scores from Rotten Tomatoes (as Metacritic takes in a mixed review into account in their scoring whereas Rotten Tomatoes is pass or fail), which is about more or less 20 point difference as:

- Wonder Woman scored 76 on Metacritic and 92 on Rotten Tomatoes;
- Spider-Man: Homecoming scored 73 on Metacritc and 92 on Rotten Tomatoes;
- Thor Ragnarok scored 73 on Metacritic and 93 on Rotten Tomatoes.

So, Justice League currently sitting at 51 on Metacritic could loosely translates to about 72 more or less on Rotten Tomatoes.

 

So if Whedon hadn't reshot 20% of this thing, would we have to shear off 20% of the 51 Metacritic score?

Let me do my math...ah, it's Batman v. Superman!!!

 

Going tomorrow. So very psyched for this.

 

DC does certainly have an awfully low bar set for themselves, which is a shame.

I really hope this is a good movie, and does well. Early reviews seem mixed.

 

so is it good or bad im assuming since its not marvel it will get **** on no matter what

 

Wonder Woman got good reviews and it wasn't Marvel. It was just a good movie.

 

It ended yesterday, no?

 

Oh, just the RT embargo... yeah, that's stupid and (as I noted) it'll just feed conspiracy theorists stupidly as WB owns a stake. But actual reviews have been coming out yesterday

 

0% CONFIRMED!

 

edit:ninja'd

 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/justice_league_2017

40% with 136 reviews counted.

 

For reference:

SS ------ 25%
BvS ---- 27%
MoS ---- 55%
WW ----- 92%

 

Wow! I'm really surprised that Justice League is below 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's definitely a step back from the euphoria the Wonder Woman film received a few months ago. WB/DC probably knew this was going to happen thus the critical review embargo being lifted a day before the release of the film.

As a person that grew up watching the Superfriends and waiting for like ever to see a live action adaptation of the Justice League, the score is disheartening as I was hopeful that Justice League would be the DCEU's celebration of the their characters much the same way The Avengers did for the MCU.

Although the RT does take off some of the luster, I'm still looking forward to seeing this film. At worse, it manages my expectations for the film. The fanboy that I am, I'm sure I will find enough in the film to enjoy it.

And speaking of fanboyism, the darkside of fanboy, especially that of DC, reared it ugly head when Joss Whedon like a negative review about the film. However, it is puzzling why Whedon would like a negative review before the film drops when you'd think his job to promote the film before it's release.

 

David Abramowitz, who was the head writer of "Highlander: The Series" and worked on the last film once said of the latter, "You cannot polish a gilded turd". That could be the case here. The main issue I've read is that the plot is next to nothing and a half hour of the film was cut so that the studio could get the most money from it.

 

Odd, especially as he is under fire from some critics for his contributions to the film:

 

Wow, if that description of his face plant into her cleavage isn't an exagerration, then that is egregiously bad. It's not just sexist. It's also about as dumb as the awful sexist jokes you'd see in an 80's film like Porky's. Really embarrassing.

 

I don't know if it's fake news or not, but there's a FB rumor that the Amazon's costumes have been redesigned: leather bikinis. That does not bode well.

 

That was back when Snyder was directing it. So it was on him, not Whedon.

 

Yeah, that seems like something Snyder would do.

BTW, it's been confirmed by several people that have seen the film that there are two post credit scenes.