'Batman v Superman' Is A Blockbuster For The Trump Era

'Batman v Superman' Is A Blockbuster For The Trump Era
FORBES
March 28, 2016
The weekend results have been tallied: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice: $425 million, critics: zip. Despite garnering a putrid 29% Rotten Tomatoes score from nearly 300 reviews, DC and Warner Brothers’ high-stakes franchise launcher scored big at the global box office.
Did I say big? I meant “Yuge.” It’s on track for one of the biggest global movie opening weekends in history and will almost certainly finish above a billion worldwide when all is said and done.
That’s kind of remarkable, because the critical response to BvS has been brutal.


The Critics Must Be Crazy: 'Batman V Superman' Is Fantastic
 FORBES
  March 29, 2016

If there’s one thing critics can agree on, it’s that Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice is terrible.
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes currently rates Zack Snyder’s Dark Knight meets Man of Steel film at 28%, just five points above the much-reviled Zoolander 2, and a mere 17 points above the disastrous Divergent: Allegiant (which sounds like a bargain jet-plane that’s gone missing.)
Metacritic rates the film at a slightly higher aggregate critic score at 44%. Not quite as bad, but still decidedly in the “F” grade range.
When I saw these numbers, I shook my head sadly. Surely Batman v. Superman was a huge mess, botched in nearly every way possible.
Then I went and saw the movie. And it was great. I still can’t reconcile the widespread panning of the film with what I actually experienced in the theater.