Fantastic Four has been dogged by bad critical reviews, a bad opening weekend, and now bad moviegoer reviews (Sorry, Miles!).
Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four has received a C- CinemaScore, making it the lowest-rated superhero movie in the review organization’s history (they began gathering moviegoer reviews in 1978).
To understand the significance of that, you have to know how CinemaScore works: They go to theaters around the country and ask average moviegoers what they thought of the film after they see it.
“Each opening weekend, CinemaScore polls moviegoers directly at theatres across North America, including Canada,” they write on their website. “Pollsters provide audience members a ballot with six questions—including an A to F grade scale, purchase and rental interest and demographic data.”
Major superhero films that have scored low — but not as low as Fantastic Four — include The Green Hornet (B+), Elektra (B), Catwoman (B), and Ben Affleck’s Daredevil (B). Batman and Robin and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace both scored a C+.
CinemaScore averages have always been an important part of the reception process because they are, as far as we can tell, the best way to get an overall understanding of how non-critics liked the film.
Miles Teller recently shrugged off bad reviews of Fantastic Four by saying critics don’t tend to rate these films well. “Rarely are films of this size critically well received,” he said. “This is not a movie we’re going to go on Rotten Tomatoes and it’s going to be at 80 or 90 percent.”
He may want to rethink that statement, because it’s not only the critics who are disappointed.
Fantastic Four made $26.2 million domestically over its opening weekend, with another $34 million made internationally.
The low CinemaScore matches Trank’s thoughts on his own film — last Thursday he tweeted that he knew the movie wasn’t any good.
If you saw the movie this weekend…
Source: ComicBook.com
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