Could you even imagine the atmosphere?
I still remember how the DCCU zealots over there bragged about how "BVS will be a tidal wave that will wipe out the MCU and Star Wars" and how Justice League would "Destroy Avengers box office".
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I think the one thing that is NOW undeniable and what would IMO be dominating the discussion if IMDB was still around is....
The box office results of JL unequivocally proves Audiences did it fact HATE BvS as much as Critics....
If you were a regular on the IMDB boards, youll remember, just as you said, hardcore DC simply went FULL retard with BvS, No fan base in the history of the internet trolled like Hardcore fans did with BvS, they went to every single big upcoming movies board and claimed BvS would Kill their film in box office, as you said, They made completely absurd predictions that BvS would literally end The MCU universe, They guaranteed BvS would Top The Avengers and JL would Top 2 Billion., from late 2013 to March 2016, hardcore DC fans went on the single biggest and most pathetic trolling rampage in the history of the Internet....
and Then IT HAPPENED...The review embargo lifted on BvS.....lol DC fans Literally had their DREAMS crushed..But in a shocking twist, something quite ODD happened.
DC fans literally could not except reality, They truly couldn't except BvS was awful and under performed at the box office, and thus became A truly weird time in history, where DC fans started coming up with Weird conspiracy theories for Why BvS wasn't really Bad, which included, Disney paying off critics, Rotten Tomatoes suddenly became "Biased and Unimportant", and the Crutch of DC fans Defense were "Audiences LOVED BvS"
these became the battle cry for DC fans, "Fvck Critics, Audiences Loved BvS", now I always found this ODD because literally not 1 thing pointed to audiences loving BvS, it got horrible audiences Scores and BvS had historic Box office drops due to POISONOUS word of mouth...
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billbrown7071 (3194)
7 years ago
but if you were on IMDB....you'll know....despite all facts proving otherwise..."Audiences Loved BvS" became DC fans LONE Battle cry....
they completly ignored and refused to acknowledge that Critics hated the movie by simply Making up this narrative that "Audiences LOVED BvS" and Critics dont know what they are talking about.
well with this weekend Box office results for JL, We can finally put to bed those hilarious "Audiences Loved BvS" excuses from DC fans....
lol JL was completely REJECTED by audiences....JL was a direct sequel to BvS and literally almost 50% of the people that saw BvS didnt show up to see JL...
BvS opened to 166 Million JL is gonna open to 90 Million ish.....
that means BVS literally was POISON for JL, critics dont make box office, Audiences Do....and Audiences Literally didnt show up for JL....
this unequivocally Proves, "BOTH Critics and Audiences HATED BvS", When you literally have half of the Audience not show up for The Sequel, that means they hated the first film and didnt care to see the sequel.
IMO this would be Incredibly Fun to discuss if the IMDB boards were still going, DC fans spent so much time trying to convince themselves and Others that "BvS wasn't really bad, that Critics were biased and audiences LOVED BvS", and now here with JLs box office is undeniable Proof....that Nope, Audiences truly Hated BvS.
I dont even know where DC fans can go now....JLs box office is so astonishing low, Its literally indefensible....
I think if IMDB was up and going, the ONLY thing that DC fans could possibly do, is just go Full...FULL...FULL Retard and claim Box office numbers aren't being reported right, that Disney is paying box office sites to report JLs box office low....
lol thats seriously it, thats the only thing DC fans could do at this point
but Man I do wish IMDB was still around...no fan base in history Trolled like DC fans Did with BvS and JL, In the end, No fan base in history got BURNT Like DC fans did with BvS and JL
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ranmast (626)
7 years ago
Hello billbrown!!!!
Nice to see you here... I still remember your thread on IMDB "The Final Insult For DC fans,It Officially Can't Get Any Worse lol" to which I contributed a little in those times. One of the greatest threads on IMDB in my almost 20 years as a member of the site. In fact, you can still see it here (I remember bumping it a few months ago).
dteam was a regular on IMDB and a critic of the deluded DC Zealots who twisted and went crazy with their conspiracy theories. We fought together against the Nolanites and DC fanboys who kept insulting other poster who didn't like BvS (the majority). The craziness there was of epic proportions: from death threats to critics and other fans, to doxing and violence.
Imagine all those crazy guys today. Well, there are some of them in this site, but they seem a little more tamed. Yes, reality is a bitch and it slapped them very hard this time. NO MORE EXCUSES!!!
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NorrinRad (5468)
7 years ago
I remember those non-halcyon days of IMDB. It is one of the reasons that IMDB message boards are defunct. Civil discussions and movie debate became way too personal and movie discourse gave way to petty clan bashing. A few personalities dominated too much of the air and just as you said those parasitic few hopped from board to board with their delusional venom.
Was it at all possible that the Warner/DC audience for their films and their way of portraying their characters was smaller than they realized and not as accepted as they believed? Hardcore comic book fans are not the wide swath of the general mass media audiences. That especially holds true for Overseas. Why would the Fast and the Furious do so well? They are essentially superheroes that no one knew anything about. Cars and action translates most cultures and languages.
WB/DC fancies that their film products are love letters to their loyal fans. I beg to differ and they continue to craft a product for a limited few and claim that it is art and visionary. WB/DC hasn't found a mass audience beyond their Frank Miller fantasies.
BvS is and was loved by a select few and that isn't a debate.
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dteam6 (5073)
7 years ago
As usual, you've pretty much summed it all up, Bill. It's great to have you here. Your posts are always gold and impossible for the zealots to refute.
Yeah, I was a regular there--we even spoke a few times there. Not much, though. I was the one with the Mario avatars.
Great to see you over here--you've always been one of my favorite posters there--right up there with Twisted, Ranma, TJ and some others. :)
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