Aquaman's Critical Reception Thread (Rotten Tomato and Metacritic)

[JOE]

When I open the site it still shows 78% with 36 fresh and 10 rotten. Not sure what's going on or why it's not updating.

 

[Lucellit]

Collider situation actually pretty unique, usually vid crew are more positive and writer crew are harder to please.

RIP Schnepp.

So far 75%, 64 reviews in.

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Just minor rant.

Spoiler: Rant

While I do think that sometimes DC movies scrutinized more than their peers within the genre, some incident today reminded me again that I frustrated with attitude of some of DC fans. Or CBM fans in general, regardless of 'allegiances'.

I understand that critics and many people mocks on DC and its fans for a long time with great glee and hyperboles and whatnot. There are critics who revel fans' hysteric reactions.
And it tends to make fans to be very defensive.

But digging any stains or bad behavior from past tweets, sending threats and wishing bad things happen to them OR their families... WTF.
To the point that I heard some of them put out some reminder that opinions may vary and please don't take things personally before dropping their reviews.

Critics aren't infallible. We can disagree and questions their statements or opinions. Some of their complaints are weird, or even factually wrong / not well researched,
but some of them are genuine about what they are feeling.
Several people calling them names, shills, stupid etc won't change that. They could retaliate or even bitter about the fandom.

This makes fandom name/ image looks bad and perhaps could make people dreaded or wary to be involved in DC/ CBM related stuff.

 

[dhandler01]

Collider also put a print review by Vinnie Mancuso.
It was pretty positive.

I still say they suck

 

[dhandler01]

Collider situation actually pretty unique, usually vid crew are more positive and writer crew are harder to please.

RIP Schnepp.

So far 75%, 64 reviews in.

- - -

Just minor rant.

Spoiler: Rant

While I do think that sometimes DC movies scrutinized more than their peers within the genre, some incident today reminded me again that I frustrated with attitude of some of DC fans. Or CBM fans in general, regardless of 'allegiances'.

I understand that critics and many people mocks on DC and its fans for a long time with great glee and hyperboles and whatnot. There are critics who revel fans' hysteric reactions.
And it tends to make fans to be very defensive.

But digging any stains or bad behavior from past tweets, sending threats and wishing bad things happen to them OR their families... WTF.
To the point that I heard some of them put out some reminder that opinions may vary and please don't take things personally before dropping their reviews.

Critics aren't infallible. We can disagree and questions their statements or opinions. Some of their complaints are weird, or even factually wrong / not well researched,
but some of them are genuine about what they are feeling.
Several people calling them names, shilles, stupid etc won't change that. They could retaliate or even bitter about the fandom.

This makes fandom name/ image looks bad and perhaps could make people dreaded or wary to be involved in DC/ CBM related stuff.

Agreed with your rant 100000000%. I may not like critics opinions but reasonable people can disagree. Attacking anyone over their review of a film that in the larger scheme of things doesnt matter is ridiculous and those people need to seek help.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

It makes little sense for a place like Collider to have an agenda against any nerd franchise as putting out a bunch of positive things about a franchise with a strong fan base certainly increases the amount of repeat viewers.

I also agree with the ones saying that attacking people for their opinions or reviews is certainly not making anything better. Quite the contrary. Regardless of what film we're talking about there will always be people that don't like it and people that do. It's all subjective.

 

[divan]

Critically there's really nothing wrong with a 75 percent or whatever. But there's a subset of fans that use these "scores" for their dick measuring contests with Marvel and other CBMs, and they can't stand that the number is merely "OK", thus the need of conspiracies to feel their opinion validated in case they have to compare it to another movie, which they'll inevitably will feel the need to, eventually.

 

[kguillou]

And heres the thing, the complaints seem VERY subjective. Its not like we're hearing complaints about the editing or pacing or coherence of the film which has been a problem for DC since BvS. Or bad special effects or CGI. Those kinds of technical issues are crippling to a movie but if the cheese factor and over the topness is whats turning people off then its all good. That first trailer announced that this movie was going to be an epic bug nuts, bonkers adventure and we all signed up for it.

 

[Mjolnir Reborn]

And heres the thing, the complaints seem VERY subjective. Its not like we're hearing complaints about the editing or pacing or coherence of the film which has been a problem for DC since BvS. Or bad special effects or CGI. Those kinds of technical issues are crippling to a movie but if the cheese factor and over the topness is whats turning people off then its all good. That first trailer announced that this movie was going to be an epic bug nuts, bonkers adventure and we all signed up for it.

The Collider review had issues with the pacing and editing. Those aren't any less subjective though as there aren't any objective measurement for what makes editing or pacing bad, which is well displayed by that many other reviewers haven't had the same issues.

I don't think anyone that's already planned on seeing the film has any reason to second-guess that decision based on the reviews. I think it will bring what the trailers have been indicating, which I think will please most fans.

 

[Iceman]

And heres the thing, the complaints seem VERY subjective. Its not like we're hearing complaints about the editing or pacing or coherence of the film which has been a problem for DC since BvS. Or bad special effects or CGI. Those kinds of technical issues are crippling to a movie but if the cheese factor and over the topness is whats turning people off then its all good. That first trailer announced that this movie was going to be an epic bug nuts, bonkers adventure and we all signed up for it.

Cheese, over-the-top stuff and length I could understand putting some off. This is all out, and I love that about it.

 

[Detective Conan]

Cheese, over-the-top stuff and length I could understand putting some off. This is all out, and I love that about it.

What the heck did they expect from an Aquaman movie? Granted, I haven’t seen the movie yet so perhaps the film might be guilty of overboard with the cheesiness. Regardless, I’m even more curious to see the film and form my judgement.

 

[Lily Adler]

75% range is good, so I'm glad it's reviewing well. Remember BvS, MoS, JL and SS when you see Aquaman's score.

 

[Iceman]

What the heck did they expect from an Aquaman movie? Granted, I haven’t seen the movie yet so perhaps the film might be guilty of overboard with the cheesiness. Regardless, I’m even more curious to see the film and form my judgement.

I don't think it's a surprising amount given the trailers, but it's definitely there in abundance lol. People who enjoyed the trailers are likely to enjoy the films IMO and vice versa.

 

[harlequinade]

What the heck did they expect from an Aquaman movie? Granted, I haven’t seen the movie yet so perhaps the film might be guilty of overboard with the cheesiness. Regardless, I’m even more curious to see the film and form my judgement.

Shame on Wan for not going underwater and finding actual Atlantis to film there.

SHAME!

 

[Iceman]

75% range is good, so I'm glad it's reviewing well. Remember BvS, MoS, JL and SS when you see Aquaman's score.

I thought people would be happier. Maybe it's because the twitter reactions were really glowing, although they very often are.

 

[Iceman]

Shame on Wan for not going underwater and finding actual Atlantis to film there.

SHAME!

I voted to preserve the real Atlantis and keep it free from risk of accidental damage and Momoa's rowdiness and practical jokes, so even on that front, Wan Wins!

 

[TheGDBatman]

Tickets purchased and I couldn't be more excited. Rotten Tomatoes score is about what I was expecting, so no complaints from me. If the biggest concern is how wacky and over the top it is, then it really could be worse!

 

[Iceman]

Tickets purchased and I couldn't be more excited. Rotten Tomatoes score is about what I was expecting, so no complaints from me. If the biggest concern is how wacky and over the top it is, then it really could be worse!

Nice one - hope you enjoy dude!

And I think those are good things lol so it suited me.

 

[harlequinade]

There's a blurb on RT where a 'critic' whines the film doesn't have an eco message.....that's some A+ trolling right there

 

[TheGDBatman]

Nice one - hope you enjoy dude!

And I think those are good things lol so it suited me.

Thanks dude!

Right?! The only time I don't want those things are when they don't suit the character(s) (ie. Batman). Otherwise, Aquaman seems like the perfect hero to go all out with when it comes to being comic-booky and over the top.

 

[Iceman]

Thanks dude!

Right?! The only time I don't want those things are when they don't suit the character(s) (ie. Batman). Otherwise, Aquaman seems like the perfect hero to go all out with when it comes to being comic-booky and over the top.

Exactly. I don't need a wacky version of Nolan TDK.

But here it fits well IMO and I was never against it being weird (and wonderful).

 

[Iceman]

There's a blurb on RT where a 'critic' whines the film doesn't have an eco message.....that's some A+ trolling right there

Huh? It totally does lol.

 

[harlequinade]

Huh? It totally does lol.

Yep. And it's of course a rotten review and I think from 'top critic' too

 

[Iceman]

Yep. And it's of course a rotten review and I think from 'top critic' too

Not the first time basic facts and reasoning are flat out wrong in reviews. That is really a strange thing to say. Will make a lot more sense when people have seen the film. And was this person asleep at certain moments or did they just not watch that far?

 

[harlequinade]

Mary Poppins Returns

oh snap

 

[Finarfiniel]

Bah humbug to any critics whining about cheesiness and zanyness. I love my superhero epics with a extra large heaping side of cheesiness and zanyness, bring it on. Heck, Ragnarok is my favourite Marvel movie so you know I'm not lying. I'm really glad this is being reviewed well, I've been excited about it for a while. It sounds like a lot of fun and a big spectacle so I can't wait to see it.