DCU fans do not get to complain about Snyder fans being toxic ever again after what happened to Josh Wilding last night.
Josh saw CLAYFACE at an Odeon “Scream Unseen” public screening in the UK. He paid for his ticket. It was not a press screening. He was under no embargo.
Then he gave the movie a 2.5/5, called it “DC’s Morbius moment,” and the James Gunn crowd absolutely lost their shit.
People were trying to get his Warner Bros. press access revoked.
Some were even tagging Disney.
Over a negative review of a $30 million comic book movie.
That is insane.
And the funniest part is that the actual review embargo lifts October 21, but Josh wasn’t bound by it because he saw the movie as a paying customer at a public screening. Other attendees at the same kind of screening have said the same thing: no press invite, no embargo notice.
I don’t even like Rotten Tomatoes critics half the time, and somehow you’ve got me defending one.
That’s how stupid this got.
If Snyder fans had done this to a critic who disliked one of Zack’s movies, the Gunn crowd would spend the next six months using it as proof the fandom is a cult.
But when their side does it?
Tweets get deleted. Nobody apologizes. Everybody moves on.
Nope.
You don’t get to have it both ways.
If you’re willing to mob a critic and try to fuck with his career because he didn’t like CLAYFACE, then maybe stop pretending toxicity is something that only exists on the other side of the DC fandom war.