Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20180715232450/@comment-3048593-20181011170206

Gemnist 2.0 wrote: So it appears the Internet is in a bit of a tizzy. As it turns out, we already have our anti-TLJ, and of all the movies in the world - it's Venom.

As we mentioned, the RT critical score is hovering around a low 30%, but the audience score is just under a whopping 90%. So screw it, I'm probably going to see the movie (on home media, at least). I was gonna say, I would be disappointed if you chose to pay to see it in the theatre. But then again, it's a free market, and one should be able to spend ones money however they want, so whatever.

I do feel with the Venom-stans, much like what they are to Marvel, as what Snyder-stans are to DC. But also in terms of comparison, they also remind me of fans of Michael Bay's Transformers movies, what they are to the overall Transformers franchise. Where the movie(s) is getting negative reception from critics, but the fans point to user score and box office in an attempt to discredit them, and there being an overall hostility towards critics in general.

And while people have their reasons to not like critics in general, they do have an influence on the average movie-goer on what they want to see, and it's going to eventually affect certain franchises in terms of how they perform financially ('Transformers: The Last Knight' and 'Justice League' being recent examples of the negative affect on it).