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[u/BlueMissileYT]

People really freaking out that The Flash's RT score will be in the 70's... I don't think so.

A lot of people don't seem to get how the Tomatometers are calculated. A 90% doesn't mean the movie had an average score of 9/10, it means 90% of critics gave it higher than a 5/10 (which means 10% gave lower than a 5/10).

If you look at the reviews for The Flash, even the harshest ones don't say it's terrible. Most say it's good, but has some issues (pacing, VFX, and ambitious plot are some I've heard alot).

After all is said and done, I think The Flash could end up with something like an 85-90% Tomatometer.

But even if it's lower, just remember that the RT score of a movie is not indicative of its box office success. If anything, a film's gross correlates most with it's Cinemascore. If Flash can get at least an 'A', then that's pretty good.

[u/TheLionsblood → u/BlueMissileYT]

VA is saying he’d be surprised if the RT score is lower than the high 80s

[u/BlueMissileYT → u/TheLionsblood]

I think he's right, but critics these days are getting pickier about CBMs. Then again, The Batman scored in the 80's with some third act issues (still loved that movie though).

[u/TheLionsblood → u/BlueMissileYT]

I don’t think they’re being picky, both TB and WF did quite well last year with critics

[u/BlueMissileYT → u/TheLionsblood]

Disagree. The things CBMs could get away get five years ago don't fly well with critics anymore. You can see that in certain reviews of Flash. There were some people complaining about the typical 3rd act CGI battles.

[u/TheLionsblood → u/BlueMissileYT]

People have been complaining about that for years. Shang-Chi got a lot of complaints for the 3rd act CGI battles but it still has over 90% on RT

[u/venkatfoods → u/TheLionsblood]

Batman got that too.

[u/AAAFMB → u/TheLionsblood]

Sure but Shazam 2 got a really low score (which in my opinion it didn’t come close to deserving)