For anyone that was looking forward to Suicide Squad, its getting hammered from a review standpoint. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/suicide_squad_2016/
Big fucking surprise. It didn't look good to begin with. The DC Universe is already going up in flames and if Justice League sucks too it's toast. Affleck is already 0-2 as Batman in FOUR MONTHS.
Yikes. Marked as 98% "want to see" and 33% Tomatoes score. This could be one of the biggest Fri-Sun drops of all time.
The thing about BvS is that when the first few previews that came out it looked like it could be good. I do not get that feeling with Justice League. At all. They're already trying too hard to be hip/funny and it's failing miserably. I lost interest in Suicide Squad the second I saw Hot Topic Joker.
After watching a trailer for it, I thought the only reason people would see it is because they knew who batman and the joker were. The Nolan batman movies were all pretty good. How did they fall so far?
Know what else got hammered by critics but ended up being pretty good? Vincent Van Gogh. I'm kidding about that. I'm not into that genre so I have no idea of the hype or story behind the whole thing.
The Nolan ones were great (save for Dark Knight Rises, but compared to BvS it's Citizen Kane). I had no idea that DKR would actually be the gold standard in the years to come...
Hell, they fucked up with Man of Steel. I get it, the Nolanverse did dark and brooding very well. But not every DC character is like that. Superman certainly isnt. Hes supposed to be a positive beacon of hope, not some angsty version of batman. For all its faults, Superman Returns didnt even do that.
I'm not surprised to hear that Suicide Squad turned out bad. The concept looked crowded and noisy, and compressing it all into one movie was a fool's errand. The only part that interested me was Amanda Waller, who I think is much more interesting than Nick Fury, and I think that Viola Davis was a good casting choice. Hopefully they do more with her, because a very corrupt, good-intentioned government agent whose schemes usually make things worse is something that would actually add interesting conflict to the DC universe. I'm also not surprised that BvS was bad. Most of the best works involving both of them dwell on how broken Batman is and finding vulnerability in Superman, and their friendship is an important part of conveying that.
Superman is one of the darkest and most violent comics in the DC universe, it has a bystander bodycount in the billions. In my opinion Man Of Steel is the one and only time they got Superman right. It SHOULD be violent and destroy cities, that what basically every issue that I own was.
Thousands are petitioning to get Rotten Tomatoes shut down because Suicide squad got bad reviews. Holy fucking shit. Between this and feminists attacking Richard Roeper over Ghostbusters.... We need to bring back corporal punishment, I see no other modern solution to this special snowflake society. This generation is fucking hopeless.
That doesn't even make sense. It's not just fan / moviegoer reviews that are bad, it's New York Times, SF Chronicle, Us Weekly, etc.
And RT just aggregates the reviews from other sources. When they say "thousands" its probably hundreds, and when they say "people" they mean kids. No adults with any value actually give a shit.
This guy is a comic book artist: But like you said, RT is a collection of things said. The sand in vag is hilarious, though.
To circle back around to the subject of meeting people from message boards.... I had a plan to meet Ballsack.... he literally text me the morning I was supposed to leave to tell me he was backing out - told me he'd call me later to explain. Didn't hear from him again until 2 months later when I text him to ask if he was ok/alive. He replied that he was and sorry for disappearing and asked how I was. I replied and then nothing. Never heard from him again.