Block-Busted

What do you mean?

Speaking of which, without any baiting, what are your RottenTomatoes rating and average score predictions and why?

What do you mean? I'm kind of confused.

Well... we'll see what happens.

As mentioned in Page 33 of this thread, legitimate critics' screening for Wish on November 15 yielded in overwhelmingly negative reviews: Unlike "critics" who have seen this film in November 8 and gave the film positive reviews, these guys are legit critics with the review at the bottom being posted by someone who is registered on RottenTomatoes. It also doesn't help that the film is getting extremely negative reviews on Letterboxd already: https://letterboxd.com/film/wish-2023/ There's another problem - the film shares a similar release date with a Netflix animated film called Leo, starring Adam Sandler. If you're wondering what that is, here's the trailer for it: Admittedly, one review that talks about the film also trashed the film: But remember, this is only one guy talking negatively about Leo and even then, literally every criticisms that this guy made towards that film applies even worse to Wish. As I've said, I predict that Leo will get 75% on RottenTomatoes with 6.5/10 average and Wish will get 2% on RottenTomatoes with 2.0/10 average. At least Leo has great-looking animation while Wish has an animation quality that is on par with Norm of the North at best and Foodfight! at worst If Wish somehow either gets RottenTomatoes rating of 80% or more or RottenTomatoes average score of 7.1/10 or more, I will watch that film at least twice - once in 3D (which I was planning to do anyway) and once in 2D.

You don't think it will end up at 2% on RottenTomatoes with 2.0/10 average even after seeing those reviews that were posted here on November 15?

And like I've said, there is some chance of this film going back to Fresh territory once it hits the U.K.

I actually asked that last question purely out of curiosity.

Like I've said, Besson's films tend to get polarizing reviews with American critics. If this was directed by... say... Denis Villeneuve, it would've received much better reviews.

Well... it sometimes includes Spanish critics too, so... yeah. But you're right, it's mostly British critics, and the reason why I mentioned the whole issue is because a film that gets released in the U.S. first tends to have its Tomatometer going up when it's released in the U.K. (I remember seeing this happening with 'Lucy' and bunch of other films).

Okay, let's be honest now. Did anyone really think that this would do well at the U.S. box office? Also, Luc Besson's film getting this kind of reviews in the U.S. isn't exactly a huge surprise, so we'll see how Tomatometer changes once it gets released in other countries next month.

Yeah, I noticed. We'll see where it lands once it hits British cinemas.

If you're talking about 'Deadpool' and 'Logan', the former was based on an r-rated character to begin with and the latter was inspired by 'Old Man Logan'. R-rating doesn't work with every single source materials. Some people said that 'Warcraft' should've been an R-rated 'Game of Thrones'-esque film with $40 million budget, but if that happened, the film would've been even worse than what we've got. And... I haven't read 'Valerian' comics before, but is it really an R-rated material to begin with?

Actually, there are some Netflix films that DO get MPAA ratings, so that relevancy thing is probably not an issue.

The part that I bolded is very unlikely to happen given that James Bond films have ALWAYS been PG or PG-13 ('Licence to Kill' had to be edited to receive PG-13). Suddenly making it an R-rated would result in tons of backlash. Also, another thing about 'Atomic Blonde' is that the film seems to be going for more of a low-key route - even more so than 'Valerian'.