Two days before the worldwide release of Suicide Squad, the reviews came in. And to say that the critics disapproved of how the movie was made is an understatement. At this moment, the latest DCEU outing stands at 46 points on Metacritic and 35 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. It is at this point better reviewed than Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but it didn't exactly meet expectations.
And of course the DCEU fans are now less than satisfied with the critics' response. And everybody expected this to happen if Suicide Squad became less than a hit. How dissatisfied are they?
Well, as it has happened before, weird things are happening. And they are so weird that we cannot even fathom the weirdness. Shortly after the review embargo was lifted and shortly after it became clear that David Ayer's movie is a flop, a petition appeared online. And this petition asks for Rotten Tomatoes to be shut down.
Weird, right?
The petition states that the Rotten Tomatoes critics always give DC movies bad reviews, influencing the opinion of the general audiences. Thus, it is implied that the Rotten Tomatoes critics are paid by the competition and that this hurts their box office success.
It isn't implied that the DC movies are great - it is actually stated:
We need this site to be shut down because its critics always give The DC Extended Universe movies unjust bad reviews…and that affects people’s opinion, even if it’s a really great movie.
And it is more than weird, considering that the critics don't work for Rotten Tomatoes"¦
The petition has already been signed by more than 6,500 people, with the milestone having been raised several times until now. We guess there’s nothing for Rotten Tomatoes to do other than to shut down…
Fans can do some pretty peculiar things. Right? And to think that Warner Bros. (you know, the studio building the DCEU), owns 30 percent of Rotten Tomatoes"¦
Well, Suicide Squad is still on track to make a big splash at the box office. It’s estimated that it will manage to have a $140 million+ opening in the US.
But will the critics' opinion hurt it in the long run?
