Most viewers... you mean the ones that actually showed up to watch it? Or we are going to ignore its insignificant Box Office numbers? And didn't I just mention the fact that the actual ratings, not the loud haters, disagree with that notion? Despised you say, let's bring in the numbers to illustrate a less biased story right there:
(I'm excluding BvS and JL because neither of the movies are the cuts Snyder intended to release to the theaters and they got their ratings based off theatrical cuts, to be clear, I didn't like the TC of BvS, but was converted after watching the Director's, so yeah, it matters a lot. To see the whole picture clear, let's bring in MoS/Shazam/Aquaman data to analyze it all)
IMDb:
Rotten Tomatoes: (from top to bottom: MoS, AM, Shazam)
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Hell, go to the most casual of the casuals ratings, the
Google search rating and the numbers are: MoS with 4.6 and 87%, Aquaman with 4.1 and 90% and Shazam with 4.2 and 89%.
So what are we seeing here? In everything beside the so called "professional" critics numbers, MoS isn't far behind both of those so called "audience pleasers", DCEU "course correctors" and everyone and their mothers darlings in general according to some people, actually it even does better among the audiences in other places! Wow. What a surprising outcome... unless one actually believed that those obsessive stalking haters represented the whole audience...
But the funniest part? The movie you don't see such a lukewarm "audience support" right there, Aquaman, made the most money by far. And the critic darling, Shazam, made less than Thor did in freaking 2011.
When I was talking about the narratives that got out of hand? This is exactly what I was talking about.
(apparently you can't post more than 3 images on this site, so I'll try to manage it in other posts)