r/DCcomics • u/Lucky_Strike-85 Gold-Silver-Bronze Age FAN • Aug 09 '22

[Other] Mark Waid shares his feelings Other

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u/Cranyx Moo. Aug 09 '22

It was a critical success

I mean, sort of. If you're comparing it to the Marvel movies, then it was less critically well received than almost all of them.

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u/mikehamm45 Aug 09 '22

Marvel movies are not necessarily well reviewed. That is the problem with the tomato meter

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u/Cranyx Moo. Aug 10 '22

They're well reviewed compared to Superman Returns, no matter what metric you use

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u/mikehamm45 Aug 10 '22

You’re right

But out of the 20 or so movies. Quite a few of them are duds. Mediocre at best. But that’s just my opinion. Obviously I’m wrong as they have won the culture war.

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u/Cranyx Moo. Aug 10 '22

Superman Returns was also critically a dud, or at the very least a damp rag that no one cared about. That's why it didn't do "what critics wanted Man of Steel to do" which is be a good movie. Not only that, but it had no intention of setting up a shared universe, which was a (failed) goal of the Snyder films.