Clayface reviews give you a good metric on the strange bias against the DCU. All signs pointed toward the film being generally well liked. This is considering the Letterboxd average of 3.7, aligning with similar horror flicks like Resident Evil, and the ratio of positive tweets vastly outnumbering negative and mixed impressions. Despite the objective evidence, you still had a multitude of tweets creating a narrative that the movie was “overwhelmingly negative/mixed.” You had comments about it being the dc equivalent of a Sony-Verse villain movie. People will try to say that the comparison was presented only because it’s a villain origin film, but it’s pretty evident that it exists because of the negative association. These narratives swept up people unaware of the true reception of Clayface and caused them to believe that the movie is bad and thus the DCU had “another failure.” & should be rebooted. Let’s be clear: these manufactured narratives were created on purpose to manufacture distrust and hate toward the DCU and its projects. They exist purely because some people want these projects to fail simply because of their association with the DCU. Built by stupid agenda pushers, and by groups who frankly don’t deserve to be named or called out, as my time is wasted by their incessant juvenile whining. This will be the norm for DCU projects. Everything will be under a microscope, and these films will be held to a different standard compared to similarly budgeted movies. No matter how much Clayface makes, just know that the narrative created will be that it needed to make a substantially greater amount of box office revenue compared to other horror flicks of similar budgets to be successful—just like how Lanterns is a failure despite the high viewership, because of course a superhero series from the DCU has to completely surpass everything before it or else it’s a failure Just know, Clayface got scrutinized only because of its association with the DCU. If they released the exact same film as today but in 2016, the same people calling it shit would celebrate it, because ultimately their love of a film comes down to whose name is attached, not the quality itself. There are certain people, however, who would hate it regardless of what era it released, but that’s to be expected. Also, just to clarify before the agenda posters who may try to use this tweet as an example of a “toxic DCU fan” not accepting bad reviews: Firstly, you are a moron, and second, this is not a slight or insult against reviewers who didn’t like the movie. If you disliked Clayface, that is fine and I don’t care. I have the mental maturity to know that there are subjective opinions when it comes to film analysis. This is made to spite of the agenda posters and not anyone who may have gotten swept up or misled about the “negative reception.” I also understand that some people didn’t mean any ill will toward the film and were simply worried about its critical and financial reception. This is not an attack against you. The people this is targeting know this is addressing them because they’re probably reading this and preparing their responses.