How much did this one cost to make? I feel like, if it bombs, it's the kind of movie you need a decent budget to make, putting part 2 in jeopardy.
I don't always go with the critics, but 30% is quite bad. More importantly, though I'm not going out of principle. Supporting Sony's half-assed attempts guarantees we'll get more movies shoveled out to sell merchandise rather than genuinely awesome movies. I'm done with Fox/Sony superhero movies, I want them to give the rights to Marvel.
I'm glad whenever a low score on the Tomatometer doesn't stop a film from doing well. 31% vs. 89% is ridiculous.
I don't think there's some conspiracy. Movie reviewers don't really have any inclination to band together, (and they actually often hate one another). Probably: it's not a well-made or coherent movie (so critics hate it), but it's fun as hell and wacky to sit through, even if for the wrong reasons (so fans like it).
Yes, I've seen that and really makes me wonder too.. if critics were trying to go the "I'm cool route, thumbs down etc etc", bots voting for audience, or movie was legitimately good/okay and box office shows that (obviously not always the case with some).... It's definitely made me question rt/meta scores more regardless. Especially if the critics were grading a movie for what its not... ie this isn't going to be on the Academy's list of best movies, but certainly isn't straight to stream/video score... I don't know about Venom and probably won't see any time soon... But rt can definitely be wrong, and of course the critics never have to recant or at least explain why the apparently "dumb peon audience" enjoyed it. Oh well.. Someone Should probably review movies here, haha (not me). And to add.. I don't think it's a conspiracy either, I just think critics should ease up if a movie is fun or whatever and let the audience know up front while it's wacky or whatever it's fun to watch etc.
Certain types of movies are the ones that seem to be skewed. Blockbusters (sometimes critics hate what the audience loves) or niche/artsy movies (opposite effect). It doesn't seem that weird to me. A movie like this, in this constantly growing, crowded category, I think you wind up having to compare it to its peers. So the question is, compared to all of the other recent superhero movies, how does it stack up? Because there are 50 that came before it in the past 5-6 years and more coming after it every 2-3 months. I don't know if it's good or bad. I haven't seen it. But I do know, based on that critics score, it's not in the top tier of the genre. I'm confident in that.
I’m shocked it’s at 89%. Most of the people I’ve talked to who have seen it are like “It wasn’t that good. How are u gonna make a movie about Venom, and there’s no Spider-Man?” I was gonna wait to catch this on Redbox, but maybe I should take my ass to the theater
