As anyone who’s struggled through an introductory calculus class can attest, math can be a real son of a beeyotch.
But try as you might, you can’t argue with numbers, so when folks at the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes say the majority of critics really hate the candy-colored supervillain gumbo that is Suicide Squad … well, it’s a safe bet they’re not secretly operating under the cloak of a worldwide anti-Leto conspiracy.
As we you told you yesterday, reviews for Suicide Squad have been bad.
Like, not quite Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice bad, but in that same ballpark.
You know – the ballpark populated by bafflingly dour superhumans, some of whose mother’s have the same first name.
Anyway, RT had the misfortune of being the bearer of bad news when it came to Squad‘s critical drubbing, reporting that a meager 29% of critics have given the film favorable reviews.
Now, DC fanboys have taken up their digital torches and pitchforks and demanded that the site be shut down because we live in the Land of the Eternally Butthurt.
We’re beginning to think Clint Eastwood may have been onto something.
Anyway, more than 13,000 people have signed a petition requesting that the site be permanently boarded-up (presumably by the Internet Police) because that 29% rating has crushed their dreams of a DC film actually delivering on its promise.
Now, to be fair, folks often read way too much into RT’s scoring system.
A film that enjoys 100% rating isn’t necessarily a perfect film, as it may have racked up nothing but B- reviews – good enough ratings to be considered "favorable" under the site’s binary, good-or-bad system.
And the same applies to films that applies to films that received generally unfavorable reviews, so it also helps to see what the movie experts are actually saying, as opposed to just dismissing a film because it has a big green splat next to the title.
That said, a majority of critics (about 71% of them in fact) were unkind to Squad in their reviews and some of the notices have been downright scathing.
But hey, that doesn’t mean you personally won’t enjoy the film, right?
To paraphrase a more memorable, less Hot Topic-y take on one of the comics’ best-loved villains, why so serious, nerds?
