BVS- loved it. Thought critics are nuts. Anything DC they're predetermined to dislike.
The criticism of BvS was completely warranted. If you're a big fan of the comics, you'll still enjoy seeing some of the comic panels come to life, but it was panned for a reason.
I actually didn't mind sitting through it, but completely agree with everything said about it. It wasn't good.
Suicide Squad, though... good god, it's atrocious. Arguably the least entertaining movie I've seen this year. It's terrible.
Well it's all subjective. I loved every minute. To each his own though.
People say that a lot. There's been lengthy debates about it. To a certain extent, taste is subjective. But we have some established standards in how we measure the quality of art, food, movies, etc. You can ignore those standards if you want. You can claim the "Big Mac" is better than whatever dish is being served up a Michelin star restaurant, because you prefer the taste. But if we're not completely ignoring those established standards, it's possible to say the latest Oscar winner is an objectively better film than Tyler Perry's latest "Madea" movie.
Ignore the standards all you want. But by every established standard used to determine the quality of a film - "Suicide Squad" is a dumpster fire. It's an awful movie. You can subjectively like it, but objectively it sucks.
In defense of critics... in general, they are a collection of unbiased folks with varied tastes that are paid to give honest critiques of films they don't necessarily have a pre-fandom of. They represent a broad audience. That broad audience has pretty soundly panned this movie as trash. That said, a niche pocket of DC fanboys who project their life-long love of these characters onto this terrible film might come away liking it. They don't represent a broad audience. A niche audience of horror fans might love whatever latest horror B-movie schlock that has come out. They don't represent a broad audience either. When people whine about critics, they are misunderstanding what critics are. They are there to help you determine how appealing a movie is going to be to most people. If you take 1000 random people and force them to sit through "Suicide Squad", their opinions are going to line up pretty well with what the critical consensus is. Even the people I saw the movie with do not represent that broad audience, because these are people who found the concept appealing enough that they decided to see it a day before it officially opened in theaters (and actually had to buy the tickets weeks ago when they went on sale). My theater had mostly uncomfortable silence. In overhearing conversations, nobody seemed to have enjoyed it all that much.
The negativity surrounding that film is only beginning. Wait until more broad audiences get suckered into seeing it.