After all, the audience is the one buying the tickets. While Rotten Tomatoes' critic scores don't inherently destroy box office, the audience score may actually be a better indicator. Venom is notable, though, because of its ancillary connection to the MCU as a Marvel product, proving the MCU's Rotten Tomatoes and box office are a correlation, not causation. The first four Fast and the Furious movies' scores were also Rotten, however, in that case, the score trended upwards alongside box office for later installments. Ironically, Bumblebee was the first Transformers movie to finally score a Fresh score on the Tomatometer, yet it turned out to be the lowest-performing Transformers movie to date. Every single Transformers movie was rated Rotten on Rotten Tomatoes prior to Bumblebee, yet most of them performed fairly well at the box office. Of course, Venom isn't the first franchise to prove this about Rotten Tomatoes. Considering it was also made for a much lower budget than either of those movies, it's shaping up to be one of the most successful 2021 theatrical releases. It may be hard to compare its post-pandemic performance to the pre-pandemic MCU, but its opening weekend is already the strongest seen since the pandemic, beating both 2021 MCU movies, Black Widow and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. If you were to compare the scores to the rest of the MCU, both would be squarely at the bottom, yet the first Venom's box office is well above average for the MCU, and Venom: Let There Be Carnage is off to an even stronger start at the box office. Venom: Let There Be Carnage opened to much more positive reviews, but has since also fallen into Rotten territory. The first Venom movie scored just 30% on Rotten Tomatoes, yet went on to gross $856 million at the worldwide box office, whereas the MCU's pre-pandemic non-Avengers movie box office average is just under $780 million. Related: Why Venom 2 Retcons A Major Marvel Movie Event
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