Superman (2025) Rotten Tomatoes Thread

Still haven’t seen Guardians 3.
I know, I KNOW!
Watch it.
It's a really great, really bonkers, at times grizzly but also really emotional sci-fi pulp movie. Likely the most ambitious of the three and probably also my favorite. It's the angry grown-up cousin of 1 & 2 , and I mean that as a compliment.
 
I had through the roof expectations for SR.
I followed the production religiously. Even after the suit reveal I remained optimistic.
I was very disappointed with the final product.

Then MOS was announced. Zack said all the right things, so again my expectations were high. I wasn't AS disappointed in it as I was SR, but still somewhat disappointed.

So Now, I'm keeping my expectations lower.

And I'll be honnest, so far, Gunn hasn't really did anything for me to get excited over.
The suit reveal was a miss for me. ( not terrible but not great either )

The supporting cast is just OK. I would have preferred a couple A listers in some roles. Namely perry and Jonathan and martha.

We need some production shots, and definitely a better shot of the suit, some hints at a villain other than Lex, what's the score gonna be like, etc etc.
Build some excitement man.
The best thing I can say about Superman Returns is that it got me hyped about Superman again, regardless of teh movie itself.
 
So can we trust Rotten Tomatoes? The critics reviews for Star Wars: The Last Jedi made no sense.
 
So can we trust Rotten Tomatoes? The critics reviews for Star Wars: The Last Jedi made no sense.
Trust or not, Rotten Tomatoes has a huge influence on the success of a lot of films box office-wise, especially superhero films, hell i remember the day when Batman V Superman's RT score released, panic across the internet.

So even if it won't affect every individuals opinion on the film, Superman needs a good score to reflect more positively and become a staple for the future of the DCU.
 
Jordan Ruimy from World of reel throwing crap on Superman again by pointing out that The Daily Beast has accidentally broken the review embargo with their negative one of the movie (our first Rotten review).

If anyone wants to read it... look it up.

Let the drama begin lol.
 
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I still think it will get a score in the 70s.
 
Personally think Snyder has poisoned Gen Z on what Superman is actually supposed to be like...
Gen Z needs to get hooked on some Superman TAS / DCEU and My Adventures with Superman juice (if they aren't able to read comics).
 
Personally think Snyder has poisoned Gen Z on what Superman is actually supposed to be like...

I think "Injustice" and the evil pastiches of Superman would have more influence on Gen Z's view of Supes than anything Snyder did.
 
I was browsing back through the MOS reviews discussion thread and it was embarrasing seeing my posts attempting to rationalise why 58% didn't mean the movie would be bad.

I'm not going to descend into that level of denial again lol

If it gets a low score, i'll be going in knowing it's not a great film and just trying to have fun with whatever bits I can enjoy.
 
To be fair, I don't think that the Rotten Tomatoes score is necessarily an indicator of a movie being good or bad.

I also don't think that Man of Steel is a bad movie. Sure, it's not great, either.
 
To be fair, I don't think that the Rotten Tomatoes score is necessarily an indicator of a movie being good or bad.

I also don't think that Man of Steel is a bad movie. It's not great, either.
I think 58% is a fairly good indicator it's not going to be a high quality film.

Sure, there have been plenty of films i've enjoyed that have a score below 70% (I know, I listed them all here last time round lol). But those are either films I recognise aren't the best quality, I just personally love them... or they are those rare anomalies.

Sadly, I do think Man of Steel deserves it's 58%, and my opinion hasn't changed from day one to the rewatch I just did today. Even without all the things that don't meet my personal preferences. I just think it is a very badly paced, poorly edited film, with a terrible script and weak performances.
 
I think 58% is a fairly good indicator it's not going to be a high quality film.

Sure, there have been plenty of films i've enjoyed that have a score below 70% (I know, I listed them all here last time round lol). But those are either films I recognise aren't the best quality, I just personally love them... or they are those rare anomalies.

Sadly, I do think Man of Steel deserves it's 58%, and my opinion hasn't changed from day one to the rewatch I just did today. Even without all the things that don't meet my personal preferences. I just think it is a very badly paced, poorly edited film, with a terrible script and weak performances.
I remember vehemently disagreeing with the RT score for MoS when it first came out. I was on such a high as a non-Donner Supes fan finally getting a Supes movie not beholden to that take…took a couple months and a few rewatches for the disappointment to properly start to set in. Eventually I came to find the RT score to be too KIND to the movie, honestly. I agree it’s poorly-crafted on most fronts.

Frankly, I find myself agreeing with the critical consensus on movies about 85% of the time. The greyest area being when the reviews are lukewarmish (like say, high 60’s or low 70’s) I often myself feeling more strongly one way or the other. So on that front, if this one lands in the 70’s like SR, I hope I love it more than that. Like you, if it’s below 60%, I’d imagine it probably really is a highly flawed film overall, even if there are parts I love (which I know there are just based on what we’ve seen).
 
I remember vehemently disagreeing with the RT score for MoS when it first came out. I was on such a high as a non-Donner Supes fan finally getting a Supes movie not beholden to that take…took a couple months and a few rewatches for the disappointment to properly start to set in. Eventually I came to find the RT score to be too KIND to the movie, honestly. I agree it’s poorly-crafted on most fronts.

Frankly, I find myself agreeing with the critical consensus on movies about 85% of the time. The greyest area being when the reviews are lukewarmish (like say, high 60’s or low 70’s) I often myself feeling more strongly one way or the other. So on that front, if this one lands in the 70’s like SR, I hope I love it more than that. Like you, if it’s below 60%, I’d imagine it probably really is a highly flawed film overall, even if there are parts I love (which I know there are just based on what we’ve seen).
The Marvels. :o

My opinion of MoS was I liked parts of it. It really falls apart ironically when Lois says it's all downhill after the first kiss and we get DBZ through Metropolis.
 
Yeah, it's safe to say that if only 58% out of hundreds of critics would recommend a film, there's bound to be some issues. My key takeaway from Rotten Tomatoes (and reviews in general) is that people take them way too seriously. If you're the type of watcher that has extremely low standards and tends to consider bad reviews an endorsement, then why pay attention to them in the first place? :funny:
 
I find Man of Steel to be an average movie.

And the point I was trying to make wasn't really about that movie. There ARE movies with a rotten score that I genuinely find great.
 
I remember vehemently disagreeing with the RT score for MoS when it first came out. I was on such a high as a non-Donner Supes fan finally getting a Supes movie not beholden to that take…took a couple months and a few rewatches for the disappointment to properly start to set in. Eventually I came to find the RT score to be too KIND to the movie, honestly. I agree it’s poorly-crafted on most fronts.

Frankly, I find myself agreeing with the critical consensus on movies about 85% of the time. The greyest area being when the reviews are lukewarmish (like say, high 60’s or low 70’s) I often myself feeling more strongly one way or the other. So on that front, if this one lands in the 70’s like SR, I hope I love it more than that. Like you, if it’s below 60%, I’d imagine it probably really is a highly flawed film overall, even if there are parts I love (which I know there are just based on what we’ve seen).
I definitely get that. I'm a non-donner supes fan myself as you know, so that was part of why I was so hyped. It seemed so different and had such potential for a great modern take grounded in realism (which was just so in at the time). But I remember sitting in the theatre and even 30-45 mins in having this deflating sensation and the thought 'oh man, the reviews really were right weren't they.'

I will never know exactly how i'd have experienced it if i'd never seen the RT score and never read any of the reviews. Maybe it did make those quality issues feel more prominent, because i'm pretty sure things like editing and pacing were mentioned as criticisms straight away.

All I know is that I went in still TRYING to love it... and I just never could.
 
I find Man of Steel to be an average movie.

And the point I was trying to make wasn't really about that movie. There ARE movies with a rotten score that I genuinely find great.
I don't disagree at all. Like I said, there are those anomolies.

What i'm not going to do though, is see a RT score of 58% and try and deny it could be a sign of something bad. That's what I did last time, and it was actually a really stressful experience cognitively. If I see a low score, I will go in prepared for what that might mean.
 

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