TMOS Reviews Thread - Non Spoiler Review and Discussion - Part 6

[ThePhantasm]

Why question anyone's self-security?

I didn't.

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

Seeing FF6 get a good score on RT for it's gravity defying action scenes, and seeing MOS get some flack is a tough pill to swallow.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Critics don't like a movie I'm looking forward too.

I wonder what their sinister reason is?

All of the critics are actually Pinky and the Brain.

Tonight they take over the world.

 

[Suzanne78]

This is the warmup. They're also planning to cancel your next birthday.

And Christmas.

And steal your kittens.

If anything now, the mixed reception this film's getting is making me itchy to go see it this weekend. I want to see it for myself and make my own judgment about it.

I'm not discounting the critical complaints about the movie though. I do think they've identified a few issues with the movie that are pretty common complaints about Zack Snyder's work. I mean, if you look at the RT scores of his other movies, MoS score isn't too far off from his best reviewed work, DotD.

But still, I did enjoy 300 despite its flaws. And I've disagreed significantly with RT on other movies (most recently I liked John Carter and Battleship a lot more than RT did, and I disliked Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty far more than RT). I hope that the positives outweigh the negatives for MoS for me.

 

[db85usa]

Seeing FF6 get a good score on RT for it's gravity defying action scenes, and seeing MOS get some flack is a tough pill to swallow.

Split it in half and I will take the blue one, please

 

[Cannikan]

I also think Thor and Captain America were good films. They were fun comic book films. They weren't claiming to be something else. Maybe that's Man of Steel's problem?

 

[Jake Cassidy]

All of the critics are actually Pinky and the Brain.

Tonight they take over the world.

And tomorrow they're back in their cages again. Where they belong.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Seeing FF6 get a good score on RT for it's gravity defying action scenes, and seeing MOS get some flack is a tough pill to swallow.

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

db85, in that world MOS is at 100% on RT!

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

Or reverse, waiting to be disappointed in some self-fulfilling prophecy...

A lot less likely.

 

[Sharkboy]

Seeing FF6 get a good score on RT for it's gravity defying action scenes, and seeing MOS get some flack is a tough pill to swallow.

That's not a pill you take orally.

 

[ThePhantasm]

I also think Thor and Captain America were good films. They were fun comic book films. They weren't claiming to be something else. Maybe that's Man of Steel's problem?

What is MOS claiming to be?

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

That's not a pill you take orally.

Liquify and take it as a shot in the arm?

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

What is MOS claiming to be?

 

[Mjölnir]

I love Thor and Cap. I don't think either is a great film, but they are definitely favorites for me.

That's my opinion too. I rate them high because they make me love them and manage to do pretty much what they try to do.

If MOS can manage that I'll be very happy with it.

 

[Poni_Boy]

And Christmas.

And steal your kittens.

If anything now, the mixed reception this film's getting is making me itchy to go see it this weekend. I want to see it for myself and make my own judgment about it.

I'm not discounting the critical complaints about the movie though. I do think they've identified a few issues with the movie that are pretty common complaints about Zack Snyder's work. I mean, if you look at the RT scores of his other movies, MoS score isn't too far off from his best reviewed work, DotD.

But still, I did enjoy 300 despite its flaws. And I've disagreed significantly with RT on other movies (most recently I liked John Carter and Battleship a lot more than RT did, and I disliked Silver Linings Playbook and Zero Dark Thirty far more than RT). I hope that the positives outweigh the negatives for MoS for me.

I thought Zero Dark Thirty was garbage, personally. And I'm a big supporter of Bigelow and Jason Clarke.

 

[db85usa]

db85, in that world MOS is at 100% on RT!

In that case, give me lots and lots of blue ones!

 

[db85usa]

That's not a pill you take orally.

I don't want it now.

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

Thor=80 for me. Captain America was probably like a 65 or so. Decent but not done quite as well.

 

[db85usa]

I thought Zero Dark Thirty was garbage, personally. And I'm a big supporter of Bigelow and Jason Clarke.

That movie was a snooze fest. Holy cow. One of the few movies I've ever been so disinterested in... yet dragged along to see. The things you do for a friend...

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Thor is one of my favorite Marvel movies, just love the feel it has, Captain America is merely decent yeah, don't like the period, and Red Skull is a weak villain.

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

I saw Signs like 4 times as a teen because of different friends lol!

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

James Franco makes me laugh in SM3. Other than that it is terribad to me and can only be appreciated as a comedy.

Wouldn't ever get too hung up on RT. There's been so many films where I don't relate to the pro critics and the aggregate and that's the way life goes as reviewing is subjective. Here's some advice for those that do:

The percentages measure consensus. 60% is used as their barometer because anything below that is either means the pro critics are divided on a movie or a consensus gave it not recommendable reviews. RT treats films where there is no consensus as inherently a bad thing so they get the rotten label.

0%-40% - Consensus of pro critics think a movie is not recommendable
40%-60% - No consensus
60%-100% - Consensus of pro critics think a movie is recommendable

 

[Doc Samson]

I'm not discounting the critical complaints about the movie though. I do think they've identified a few issues with the movie that are pretty common complaints about Zack Snyder's work. I mean, if you look at the RT scores of his other movies, MoS score isn't too far off from his best reviewed work, DotD.

Good point. A lot comes down to taste. I own Watchmen & 300, and didn't particularly hate Sucker Punch either.

On the same token I've wanted big action in a Superman film since technology got to the point where such a spectacle could be delivered. Snyder, if nothing else, sounds like he's delivered that...

 

[Senator Pleasury]

IDK about that. Batman Begins did a hell of a job erasing former (BF / B&R) perceptions of the character. Hell - the TDK Trilogy has done a better job at lowering the amount of BAM! POW! SNICKT! ideals than Burtons did.

That's easy when you don't have BAM! POW! SNICKT! ideals in Burtons movies.