DC Movie Fans Have Started a Petition to Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes for Their Negative Impact
If you look up any of the most recent DC films on Rotten Tomatoes, they don't have very good ratings. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice currently has a 27% score, and the highly anticipated Suicide Squad has earned a 33% rating, which I think is ridiculous because I thought the movie was great! My review will be published later today.
Anyway, DC fans aren't happy with the negativity that they claim Rotten Tomatoes is spreading, so they started a petition to shut it down! The petition is being hosted by Change.org, and this is what the petition says (all misspellings and bizarre capitalizations theirs):
"We need this site to be shut down because It's Critics always give The DC Extended Universe movies unjust Bad Reviews, Like
1- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
2- Suicide Squad 2016
and that Affects people's opinion even if it's a really great movies"
The goal they want to reach is 15,000 signatures, and so far they have over 11,500. What's funny about this petition is that Warner Bros., the studio who produces these DC films, actually owns a minority stake in Rotten Tomatoes.
No matter how many signatures the petition gets, Rotten Tomatoes isn't going anywhere. I will say that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't really allow fanboy and fangirl reviewers into their little club, so I'm not sure if the fans really have a voice on Rotten Tomatoes. Obviously, the majority of the movie reviewers who Rotten Tomatoes has approved have not liked what Warner Bros. is doing with the DCEU, but they sure do like what Marvel is doing!
In the end, I do think that Suicide Squad is getting a bad rap. It doesn't deserve the hate that it's been getting.
