Rotten Tomatoes' contributing editor Mark Ellis talks to Digital Trends about The Batman, Doctor Strange 2, and the current state of comicbookmovies.
Mark Ellis is a comedian, actor, podcaster, and self-proclaimed “dog stepfather” who has been dissecting pop culture for over a decade. In addition to performing in comedy clubs nationwide, Ellis co-hosts Rotten Tomatoes is Wrong, where he dissects both critically fresh and rotten movies like Spider-Man 3, Cats, and Thor: The Dark World.
So much of that credibility was predicated upon having A-list performers in the films and having them treat the material with respect, too. Robert Downey Jr. is also one of the most revered actors of his generation, so seeing him be the one that kicks off the MCU helped legitimize it. I think that the high-quality filmmaking for most of them, combined with the vision of a guy like [Marvel President] Kevin Feige with the MCU, was also very important.
It feels like we have a Batman that a lot of folks are going to gravitate towards, that we’re going to get to grow with this Batman in a way that we didn’t get to do in DCEU movies. And I thought Ben Affleck did a great job, but he’s already established as Batman when we first see him. In The Batman, we get to see Batman sort of coming into his own in the same way that we’ve enjoyed watching Spider-Man come into his own in the MCU for the last few years.
Well, it’s never a bad thing if you get to follow up Spider-Man: No Way Home, a massively successful film that everybody seems to love. I mean, it got a 93% score on the Tomatometer. And then you follow that up with a trailer at the end for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which everyone is talking about what’s going to happen next with this multiverse thing?
In contrast to the goodwill supporting Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, you have the bad critical and audience reception that greeted Morbius last month. What went wrong with that movie?
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