Justice League The Justice League Critic Reviews/Rotten Tomatoes Thread

[Tony Gunk]

This is getting tiresome. When Wonder Woman came out there was not a drop of some so called conspiracy. Now once again its area 51 in here.

Maybe... just maybe Snyder makes bad or at the very least decisive films. And before anyone mentions Suicide Squad the director himself admitted he dropped the ball.

The level of mental gymnastics people are prepared to go to, to convince themselves Snyder’s done a good job can’t be healthy.

People liked WW because it had a concise, coherent story with great fleshed out characters and great character moments. It had a warmth to it and it was littered with triumphant moments of heroism and big hair raising rescues.

Snyder simply hasn’t give us any of that, he looks at comic books and says “ill recreate this panel on the big screen and it’ll be totally awesome”, beyond that he’s not even getting the basics right, and his determination to make everything. dark and everyone tortured just flies in the face of what a lot of these characters are about. That’s the reason the GA never get on the board, and that’s the reason the films get bad reviews from anyone who isn’t a Snyder fan or in some cases a big DC fan. Even a huge bunch of DC fans hate it, me being one of them.

At least they’ve given us the warmth in this new film, it’s just a shame the coherent plot and fleshed out well written characters are still something that continues to evade them, because it’s really a bare essential in ANY film.

 

[I Am The Knight]

"Pray for DC fans" is quite relevant right now I Am the Knight

I know right?

 

[Rjones1325]

I hate the first forty or forty-five minutes of this movie up until the six unite and fight together in an incredibly fun action sequence. The film does something that you wouldn’t expect Zack Snyder’s Justice League do: fight and SAVE PEOPLE! There's not that much destruction that goes on and to actually see these heroes care about saving people for a change, really puts a smile on moviegoers face compared to how "MoS" and "BvS" turned out.

The way how the action is choreographed, the way the humor is inserted, and even how these heroes sort of bond with each other due to natural chemistry that’s more organic than something manipulative like “Suicide Squad” are duly noted as you can tell DC is slowly fixing up their mistakes of their past.

"Justice League" is the cinematic equivalent to a man running a 300m hurdle race while holding a baton. At first, he painstakingly crashes through the hurdles, but 1/3 of the way through he begins to progress by by leaps and bounds while never to drop the baton. Though the first act is established unbearably sloppily, "Justice League," makes a 180° left turn by the second act and maintains throughout by becoming an entertaining ensemble superhero movie that proves the DCEU may still have some fuel in its tank.



FULL REVIEW HERE: http://www.rendyreviews.com/movies//justice-league-review

 

[TheVileOne]

http://collider.com/justice-league-review/

Collider's Matt Goldberg:

"‘Justice League’ Review: Beyond Saving"

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Age of Ultron: Great Characters, fun & entertaining, weak villain, Story problems= 75% RT.

GOTGV2: Great Characters, fun & entertaining, weak villain, Story problems=82% RT.

Justice League: Great Characters, fun & entertaining, weak villain, Story problems= 0%-30%


let's just watch the movie and have our own opinion, clearly critics are not consistent when rating.

Good god. America's school system must be in shambles.

 

[ultradog]

Metascore is 49 after 39 reviews.

I count 16 reviews at 58 and above. The other 23 are 50 and below.

I have no idea where the cutoff would be in regards to RT, but just assuming it's between the 50s and the 58s, that would be... 41% rotten.

 

[TheVileOne]

Clearly a result of conspiracy and bribery by Disney

 

[Tra-El]

Hyped!

 

[Zero_Effect]

Metascore is 49 after 39 reviews.

I count 16 reviews at 58 and above. The other 23 are 50 and below.

I have no idea where the cutoff would be in regards to RT, but just assuming it's between the 50s and the 58s, that would be... 41% rotten.

 

[flickchick85]

Hyped!

I've gotta admit I'm hyped for this Supes.

 

[Longshot777]

Headlines says Mixed to negative reviews???

Ummm 12 positives to 6 negatives

= negatives wins

Lol it should be mixed to positive reviews.

When does 6 becomes greater than 12???

 

[ultradog]

Headlines says Mixed to negative reviews???

Ummm 12 positives to 6 negatives

= negatives wins

Lol it should be mixed to positive reviews.

When does 6 becomes greater than 12???

I think mainly because 17 out of the 21 "mixed" reviews are 50 and below. I am guessing those 17 will turn into rotten on RT.

 

[TheScarecrow]

Headlines says Mixed to negative reviews???

Ummm 12 positives to 6 negatives

= negatives wins

Lol it should be mixed to positive reviews.

When does 6 becomes greater than 12???

Metacritic works on a basis where each critic assigns a rating between 1 and 100. So a 49 score is a "mixed to negative" rating, anything over 50 would skew towards positives.

The negatives have been very negative.

 

[Nvmyprixgt]

Metacritic works on a basis where each critic assigns a rating between 1 and 100. So a 49 score is a "mixed to negative" rating, anything over 50 would skew towards positives.

The negatives have been very negative.

Source?

Highly doubt reviewers do this for meta critic if they don’t do the same for RT. They assign a score based on the review.

 

[flickchick85]

Metacritic assigns the scores.

 

[Crashorama]

So, Thor "The Dark World" is at 54 on Metacritic, and has a RT score of 66. Could we maybe see a similar score?

 

[OSLIN]

So, Thor "The Dark World" is at 54 on Metacritic, and has a RT score of 66. Could we maybe see a similar score?

Sad day when a JLA movie can’t top MCU’s worst. I really don’t understand how the WB is screwing the pooch this consistently.

 

[Tra-El]

It's not really sad. It's just opinions at the end of the day. I'm hyped as heck. Like flickchick referenced, Superman's Resurrection may make me lose my mind in the greatest way possible. The moments in JL sound TIGHT!

 

[Nvmyprixgt]

Sad day when a JLA movie can’t top MCU’s worst. I really don’t understand how the WB is screwing the pooch this consistently.

That’s where people think bias comes. No one can tell me man of steel is worse then Marvels worse.

 

[Crashorama]

Don't get me wrong, I could not be more excited to see this Friday. I took the day off work, I am taking my son out of school for the day, and we're actually seeing it twice in two different theaters that day. Critic scores don't really mean anything to me. (I loved BVS)

 

[ultradog]

So, Thor "The Dark World" is at 54 on Metacritic, and has a RT score of 66. Could we maybe see a similar score?

No, not really.

TDW had 22 positives, 19 mixed, 3 negative.
28/42 were over 50. 28/42 = 67%

JL has 12 positive, 22 mixed, 6 negative.
16/40 are over 50. 16/40 = 40%

 

[honestbharani]

I'm disagreeing with the handful of critics,
not against the way they feel about it. They're free
to feel however they want about it. That's not the issue.

The issue is with them being professional critics
making these types of statements. My question, from
the very beginning, were about the credentials that they
may or may not have. Were they filmmakers? Have they directed
a film? Have they taken film classes? Or were they simply graduates
in Journalism/Creative Writing?

That all plays a part in how legitimate a professional critic's
word is, for me. Again, they're free to feel however they want,
but when it comes to professionally critiquing a film, that does
influence public reception and the studio itself, they need to have
an actual understanding and knowledge of film making.

Otherwise, what purpose do they serve as professional film critics?

To be honest, its a problem movie industries worldwide are facing. My first language is Tamil and our industry has the very same problem with reviewers. There is no real solution to it as a whole. You can do stuff as an individual. And believe me, RT does try to help you out with the "Top Critics" tag. Its obviously based on their criteria but you can basically look at a critic's credentials and choose a bunch that you think have the right background to do this and then take only their critique to account and do your RT thingy, both tomatometer and average rating. But again, this will differ person to person. There is no one size fits all here.

 

[Tony Stark]

Sad day when a JLA movie can’t top MCU’s worst. I really don’t understand how the WB is screwing the pooch this consistently.

There's no singular direction or story for these films. They sort of branch out all over the place and with the exception of Wonder Woman, they fundamentally changed the persona of a lot of these characters, i.e. Superman killing people, Batman putting marks for a death sentence of people in prison. These were bastardizations of the characters that really set people off, from the one positive thing I hear from Justice League is they "undo" a lot of those changes.

It's hard to judge a film without having seen it but just hearing what's written about it, I think the biggest fault here is having Superman show up in the last 20 min or so of the film. I said on the MCU vs. DCEU thread can you imagine if Marvel had made Avengers with Cap or Iron Man being barely in the film? I remember at the time there was a lot of concern that they were going to give a larger role to Iron Man and have him take the lead, with Cap relegated to almost a loyal side kick. Thankfully that didn't happen.

The other fortunate thing that happened with Avengers was Whedon threw out Zach Penn's script. If you have a bad script there's no point in trying to doctor it up, might as well start over.

This might have happened with Zach but they were trying to be respectful as they could with the tragedy that happened to him, which despite what anyone thinks of Zach Snyder's directing, no parent should endure that. But what it seems they were essentially doing with this film was putting lipstick on a pig.

 

[BigThor]

That’s where people think bias comes. No one can tell me man of steel is worse then Marvels worse.

It's close, but BVS and SS are definitely much worse though much much worse.

 

[Limonade]

To be honest, its a problem movie industries worldwide are facing. My first language is Tamil and our industry has the very same problem with reviewers. There is no real solution to it as a whole. You can do stuff as an individual. And believe me, RT does try to help you out with the "Top Critics" tag. Its obviously based on their criteria but you can basically look at a critic's credentials and choose a bunch that you think have the right background to do this and then take only their critique to account and do your RT thingy, both tomatometer and average rating. But again, this will differ person to person. There is no one size fits all here.

Yeah?

You guys want an equivalent to James Cameron or Steven Spielberg or Sam Riami giving you reviews of films?

James Cameron expressed his views on Wonder Woman and people here got all butt hurt.

I doubt that's really what you guys want.