It does not need to be the greatest film of all time, or have the highest box office numbers imaginable to be a good starting off point for the DCU.
I understand why people think it does, but it doesn't. It just needs to lay solid groundwork for the future.
Look at the MCU.
The five solo movies before the first avengers movies dont all have a 90+ on RT. Only one of them does. Most of them average in the high 70s. Audience reception wasn't much better. They gave Iron Man 2 a 6.9/10 on IMDB. Captain America First Avenger a 6.9/10. Thor a 7/10.
NONE of them came even remotely close to a billion when the competition at DC with the dark knight hit a billion.
Tbh other than Iron Man 1 and 2 all the movies did kinda poorly at the box office.
What did the MCU have though?
A very strong creative grip across the projects. Worldbuilding. General crowd pleasing movies and characters audiences can get behind.
So far the DCU is doing this.
Honestly don't worry if the RT score drops to the high 70s. The Icons of the MCUs first movies are around that level too. Don't worry if the movie doesn't make a billion. The first Captain America movie made $370million from a budget of $200million. We then got winter soldier. Civil War. Infinity War. Endgame.
Don't put so much pressure on how this movie does. Just go to the theatres and enjoy the experience.

i hate superman, hope it fails

>>212562606
Why? No sex?

>>212562583 (OP)
Just because its not directed by Hack Snyder, this movie is already better than the entire old universe WB shat out last decade.

>>212562620
yes superman has no sex in the movies so i don't watch

>>212562644
Dubs of truth

1 billy confirmed

15 years of Gunn DCU coming

Gunn and Warner bros put pressure on the movie themselves with the $366 million and counting budget. Now it needs at least $700 million to break even.

>>212562583 (OP)
This is Superman, it has to make money, it is the same shit as Spider-Man, Hulk or The X-Men in Marvel.

>>212562668
He has more sex than you, so does Jimmy

T. Lexcel

>>212562805
Why? Previous superman didn't make money

>>212562583 (OP)
people have also memoryholed how mid Iron Man 1 was. the fact that it was only slightly less good than Batman Begins and made 585m in 2008 has been retconned as it being some kind of trend setting masterpiece.

>>212562644
the thing about Snyder is how hard he had to work to be so terrible.
his movie do not fail because they have large single flaws (although that does happen): it's more that 90% of all the small decisons are aggressively wrong and bad. it really seems like he would go into work bofore 6am every day, snort some adderal and pursue making his movies as turgid as humanly possible.

>>212562986
Him going to netflix is the final proof he is a hack. Rebel moon should retire him

I knew it was going to be good when he saved the squirrel

>>212562583 (OP)
What's this? Is someone moving the goalposts?

>>212562644
>>212562986
James Gunn turned Kor-El into a conqueror who wanted Superman to rape women.

>>212564209
Cool, thats nothing new in comics, you should, not, read the Bendis run...

>>212564243
>Superrape

>>212562583 (OP)
>I understand why people think it does,
They're probably MCUcks or Snydertards, they think they're acolytes in a religion or soldiers in a console war

>>212562986
Hack Snyder has a somewhat strong visual style other than that he is insanely retarded with his ideas, he need a great writer to combat his retardation.
See Dawn Of The Dead.

I remember as a wee tyke looking forward to BVS as the coolest thing that could possibly happen. I was disappointed AS A CHILD by that movie. That's how bad it is.

>>212564280
>>212564293

I love all of the pointless arguments on here about a movie made for children

>>212564405
Capeshit is for manchildren.

>>212564301
Nice cope, faggot.

>>212562795
here comes the cope

>>212564209
stop pretending like you actually care about this.

>>212562606
It will be rebooted again in four years. No one is going to remember.

>>212565571
Right. Like Sony rebooted Garfield's Spider-Man after underperforming at the box office.

>>212565087
are you retarded jeet?
"money a company makes form the sale of goods or services" is not equal box office nubers

letting thirdworlders access to internet was such a fucking mistake