For once with an MCU film I'm quite interested in how the audience will react. Absolutely no idea how the post-opening weekend box office will be if the word of mouth among casuals is it's really boring.
Except my post wasn't about a single review being added but about the average hitting a new low despite the upward trend recently. I focused in on one because it's the only review that'll be included on MetaCritic, and being designated as red at 25/100 will do a lot of damage that it won't easily recover from when the average is already as low as it is, especially not with how MC's system works.
Back to 71% and now down to a 6.0/10 average. Once Johnny Oleksinski's 1/4 star review is added on MetaCritic that score is also gonna go down quite a bit.
Well, at this point (41 reviews) Thor: The Dark World was at an 85% with a 6.6/10 average rating. Its average rating ended where Eternals is at right now, and the trouble Eternals is probably gonna face is it's incredibly rare the average goes up over the course of all the hundreds of additional reviews being added.
Well he thinks there's a much lower standard to be interesting on an MCU-curve than there is to be on a Zhao-curve. Since the critics get to decide whether their review is listed as rotten or fresh on RT, I'm gonna assume he didn't like the film. Unless of course if it changes soon to a fresh. If it does, we'll know RT were too premature and the critic stepped in to correct it.
A rare bug, there are actually 15 reviews. I noticed it when it showed a rating even though it also said it only had two reviews. They never do that until a movie has four at minimum.
Funny enough there are now 50 reviews on MetaCritic (almost done then), and of the six scores that aren't green, four of them came from that first day on Venice. After that there's only been one on Sep 13, then another (nearly green) on Oct 7, and everything else has been positive.