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SuaveSocialist on 16 May 2016
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Lawlight said:
Runa216 said:

You don't really understand how RottenTomatoes works, do you?  It's not about how GOOD the movie is, but how successfully it did what it was supposed to. 

By your metric, you're trying to say that Zootopia was a better film than The Dark  Knight.  While I adore both films, it'd be foolish to assume that Zootopia is better than The Dark Knight.  Couple that with the fact that Spy Kids (the first one) was actually a pretty great movie in its own right and the fact that film Criticism was different back in, what, 2004 when it came out?  things change.  Times change. We get more perspective and we get harder on all forms of media.  

There's more to a film's quality than its RottenTomatoes score.  That number simply shows a vague representation of how many people liked it at that time, it's not a perrenial ranking system.  Stop being dense just to prove your faulty point. 

And what point is that?

The truth is that critics (the number of which is proportional to its time of release) recommend Spy Kids more than they would recommend Civil War. That's if you believe in the RT system. I don't since I don't think critics are just opinions among millions of others and are more prone to bias than regular users (non-fanboys).

False.  To date, Spy Kids only has 126 reviews averaging at 7.2; Civil War has 297 reviews averaging at 7.6.  At the time when Civil War had 126 reviews, it had a 94 rating from critics vs the 93 Spy Kids presently has.  Furthermore, Spy Kids only pulls a 46% approval from the Audience averaging a 2.6, whereas Civil War has a 91 averaging 4.4.

I know that you REALLY, really want to craft a Strawman Argument here, but a cursory glance at the review scores objectively disproves your claim that Spy Kids is better received on RT than Civil War.  It is a very poor attempt at a Strawman.

Now, do try to stay on topic.  This is Civil War surpassing BvS (you know, those two superhero Versus Movies released by rival companies targeting the same audience and within 2 months of one another?) as the topic; not Civil War surpassing Spy Kids.