cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/24627458
While there are some “hard number” metrics to cite when it comes to how a movie is received, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDB, there’s one that gets circled back to more than others when it comes to audience reception: Cinemascore.
This usually measures what’s a “crowd pleaser,” skewing higher in terms of blockbusters a lot of the time as it tries to measure audience satisfaction. Now, Captain America has the lowest Cinemascore in MCU history, a B-, which may not sound that bad, but in context, it definitely is, especially when you see the overall chart. That would be:
edit: the list is missing some entries and has the ratings wrong for others, so I've redone it.
- A+
- The Avengers
- Avengers: Endgame
- Black Panther
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- A
- Ant-Man
- The Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- Captain America: Civil War
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Captain Marvel
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Doctor Strange
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- Iron Man 3
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- Thor: Ragnarok
- A-
- Ant-Man and the Wasp
- Black Widow
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- The Incredible Hulk
- Thor: The Dark World
- B+
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Thor
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- B
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
- Eternals
- The Marvels
- B-
- Captain America: Brave New World
...
Initial box office receipts are pretty good, and better than other low-scored MCU movies, but this still has to be somewhat alarming for Marvel to have a movie received this poorly. As it stands, this is the third lowest scored film on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest scored film on Metacritic and the lowest scored on Cinemascore now.
People finished watching the eternals? I was cringing so hard 10 mins in I had to give up. The CGI and dialogue were terrible (from what I recall)
Just a very puzzling entry all around. I think they thought star power would carry the next phase? Then they removed the things that made the team kind of interesting in the first place. Along the way changing the characters so much that even the dozens of actual Eternals fans wouldn't care about it.
Plus we all know that team at 99% power was Ikarus, who literally just killed himself.
I walked out of that movie not caring about any of those characters (maybe Gil and Thena but they weren't even a big part)...part of what makes MCU great is that you end up caring about what happens to the characters at the end and the future. I couldn't care less about the Eternals.