Eternals Rotten Tomatoes watch thread

[Detective Conan]

 

[Prison Mike]

Touché

 

[DCnightwing23]

This seems both defensive and sarcastic, but it's nonsense to consider Sony and Fox failures as MCU failures. It's okay for the MCU to have one critical failure whilst trying to do something new creatively. They need to explore new ideas, concepts, etc. so be able to sustain their success in the long run. They hear the criticisms of their formulaic approach to date and I give them props for trying something new. My gut is telling me that this will also fail financially, but they'll stay the course and be just fine.

 

[Spider-Fan]

The reason this is getting the attention that it is is because this is the 1st time Marvel Studios has been in this position. They only ever knew critical hit after critical hit. So I get Marvel Studios probably saw this film, was happy with it, and thought it would be another Tuesday at the office and good reviews would flood in. Hard to get on Marvel Studios for that mistake. Had this RT score come out like, tomorrow then I don't think this spreads nearly as bad as it seems to have. That is why the Wednesday shows are not a bad idea: try and change the narrative by showing it to your fans who may be more inclined to enjoy the movie.

All in all, I don't overtly care about this whole RT thing and I think this is an overrated issue. I think the audience reactions will be what is important for how the movie performs.

 

[Erik Lensherr]

58% now

 

[Micromind]

 

[Detective Conan]

Eternals somehow getting worse reviews than Venom 2 is the kind of sick joke that not even the Joker would find funny.

 

[Micromind]

Let's be honest here, if the same movie was made by any Other Studio(Lionsgate, Sony, FoX, Universal, Paramount) the ratings would have been much lower, but since this is by Di$ney / Marvel Studios, many reviewers whose reaction is luke-warm (or meh) have given it a fresh tomato.

 

[Detective Conan]

I’ve noticed even with many of the “fresh” reviews they still read pretty negatively.

 

[blackdragon6]

I feel like the Eternalals was still a basic ***** Marvel film. I think people was expecting something on the level of DUNE. But Marvel can't help themselves, they live and die by a formula that can't work with all of their IPs. They need to step just a Liiiitle bit further outside of their comfort zone imo.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I feel bad for Chloe Zhao and Kevin Feige for this, but as a fan of the one MCU movie that is the shoe of most people's ranking of MCU movies -The Incredible Hulk- I'm actually glad it's not the lowest rated MCU movie anymore.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Let's be honest here, if the same movie was made by any Other Studio(Lionsgate, Sony, FoX, Universal, Paramount) the ratings would have been much lower, but since this is by Di$ney / Marvel Studios, many reviewers whose reaction is luke-warm (or meh) have given it a fresh tomato.

My favorite thing about this bad take, is that Disney owns Fox.

 

[blackdragon6]

I feel bad for Chloe Zhao and Kevin Feige for this, but as a fan of the one MCU movie that is the shoe of most people's ranking of MCU movies -The Incredible Hulk- I'm actually glad it's not the lowest rated MCU movie anymore.

Tbh I dug TIH too. I loved the design of that Hulk as well.

 

[Micromind]

My favorite thing about this bad take, is that Disney owns Fox.

Yeah, but I was referring to earlier FoX (before Di$ney bought it)

Anyway, I think it will do reasonably good at B.O. From what I can see, The visuals, the cast is a plus and and introduction to Celestials is enough to get fans excited.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Yeah, but I was referring to earlier FoX (before Di$ney bought it)

Anyway, I think it will do reasonably good at B.O. From what I can see, The visuals, the cast is a plus and and introduction to Celestials is enough to will get fans excited.

Early Fox. Sure. How about "early Marvel", before Disney owned them? You know when Paramount released the flicks. They went over pretty well with critics,. How can that be, considering your hypothesis? More over, how did so many of the X-Men films from Fox or the Spidey films from Sony go over so well? How did the Spider-Verse kill it/

 

[Detective Conan]

Bad movies that are generally seen as bad but are “certified fresh” critics rating on rotten tomatoes:

Sausage Party
Superman Returns
The Amazing Spider-Man
Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull
Avatar

I can’t believe I forgot to add Prometheus to this list.

 

[Micromind]

Early Marvel is still Marvel (movies were released under Marvel Studios and Paramount label), as Fiege was still involved, even though Paramount had the movie rights and distributed those films.

I would say all those Sony and Fox movies were mixed bag, while most Spider-Man movies got high RT ratings, TASM and Ghost Rider movies got "Rotten", FoX X-Men were also a mixed, so unlike MCU movies that were on a winning streak.

 

[Snow Queen]

Early Marvel is still Marvel (movies were released under Marvel Studios and Paramount label), as Fiege was still involved, even though Paramount had the movie rights and distributed those films.

I would say all those Sony and Fox movies were mixed bag, while most Spider-Man movies got high RT ratings, TASM and Ghost Rider movies got "Rotten", FoX X-Men were also a mixed, so unlike MCU movies that were on a winning streak.

Was Marvel Studios bribing critics when they were too cheap to let people have a second can of pop at premieres?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Early Marvel is still Marvel (movies were released under Marvel Studios and Paramount label), as Fiege was still involved, even though Paramount had the movie rights and distributed those films.

I would say all those Sony and Fox movies were mixed bag, while most Spider-Man movies got high RT ratings, TASM and Ghost Rider movies got "Rotten", FoX X-Men were also a mixed, so unlike MCU movies that were on a winning streak.

So what's your argument? The company just coming out of bankruptcy went around bribing all the critics? That critics had some random attachment to the studio from the start? Based on what?

The MCU being on a winning streak has to do with a base level of quality, those other movies lacked. You bring up Ghost Rider. I am actually a fan of the second, but is anyone here actually arguing people think those movies are good? TASM. The first film got a 72% on RT. Fox's X-Men. Are you going to argue people are big fans of the Last Stand or Origins?

 

[Micromind]

Now where have I said that Marvel Studios were bribing the Critics ? All I was pointing out was that Marvel movies by other Studios were not on same winning streak as 25 MCU movies, maybe that was due to their inconsistent quality.

MCU movies has some fanbase and goodwill which helps them to some extent.

 

[Prison Mike]

I’ll admit, my hype for this movie has died down drastically. I’ll see what the audience score is but I may wait until this hits Disney+ in a few months to watch it.

 

[psylockolussus]

Let's be honest here, if the same movie was made by any Other Studio(Lionsgate, Sony, FoX, Universal, Paramount) the ratings would have been much lower, but since this is by Di$ney / Marvel Studios, many reviewers whose reaction is luke-warm (or meh) have given it a fresh tomato.

Yeah I'm going to be honest too to say, thats just your opinion. Disney from time to time have gotten poorly reviewed movies. A big eXample of this are the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, The Lone Ranger, Cars 2 by PiXar, Chicken Little, Tomorrowland, Aladdin 2018, Maleficent movies, etc.

This is another conspiracy post against a company (specifically Marvel Studios) with a better track record in Rt.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Was Marvel Studios bribing critics when they were too cheap to let people have a second can of pop at premieres?

To be fair, they could spend their bribe money on another can of soda

 

[Flint Marko]

Let's be honest here, if the same movie was made by any Other Studio(Lionsgate, Sony, FoX, Universal, Paramount) the ratings would have been much lower, but since this is by Di$ney / Marvel Studios, many reviewers whose reaction is luke-warm (or meh) have given it a fresh tomato.

2016 called and wants their "RT bias" posts back

 

[AcidRain]

With each new batch of reviews, this film's RT score is firming itself up as "rotten". Embrace it. See it as Marvel's first opportunity to have an underrated classic. Or, alternatively, see it as ... "you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs".