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[TheDinoman]

After Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and now Suicide Squad, it really sounds like the DC film department needs better editors

They need better everything.

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

Damn Faraci goes in on the Joker:

That villain is surely not The Joker. Jared Leto is fucking insufferable in the role, playing The Joker as Scarface with a bad sense of humor. I know that everybody gets their own interpretation of comic book characters, but I think this is the worst version of The Joker yet, a version that so deeply misunderstands the chaotic heart of the character that he’s simply ruined.

 

[Tansut]

One more from the archives.

Spoiler

originally had captain america hail hydra there

I'm holding in so much laughter at work. Holy shit.

 

[BronsonLee]

So what I'm getting from reviews so far

Not Ayer enough (wanted R?)
Not enough Joker OR hate Joker
Edited weird

 

[Ban Puncher]

Well, at least The Killing Joke came out last week.

DC and WB couldn't possibly have messed that up.

 

[NealMcCauley]

Well, at least The Killing Joke came out last week.

DC and WB couldn't possibly have messed that up.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Well, at least The Killing Joke came out last week.

DC and WB couldn't possibly have messed that up too.

Didn't Batman fuck Batgirl in that one?

 

[Scientist Supreme!]

It's amazing that the critic DC fans hates (Devin Faraci) is one of the few to actually like it.

 

[| Praxis |]

Middle of the road.

I'd say that's an achievement considering how unbearably dumb he looks. Not a good, crazier than a shit house rat dumb... Just knuckle chewingly, put your head in the oven dumb.

 

[tomtom94]

So what I'm getting from reviews so far

Not Ayer enough (wanted R?)
Not enough Joker OR hate Joker
Edited weird

Bad editing is very common this year for some reason.

(And why they didn't aim for an R-rating with this I do not understand)

 

[jmood88]

what idiot? Zemo?

c'mon, DKR sells you the idea that Bane is all knowing and always a step ahead of batman when in reality he's just a puppet,

at least Zemo was the one pulling the strings of everyone on Civil War

And he won at the end.

 

[Ahasverus]

Well, at least The Killing Joke came out last week.

DC and WB couldn't possibly have messed that up.

 

[TheRagnCajun]

So what I'm getting from reviews so far

Not Ayer enough (wanted R?)
Not enough Joker OR hate Joker
Edited weird

My take-away is that the reviews seem to reinforce the notion that this movie is as cringey as the Harley meets Katana scene makes it out to be.

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Affleck will sort out the Joker (and Leto). Ayer just wanted to bring out the Hot Topic-ness, it seems.

He'll fix it. He'll fix it all... *mutters to self*

 

[JABEE]

DC fans to Nolan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAmYdc8lSU

 

[broncobuster]

As someone who saw F4ntastic, I can guarantee this won't be as bad as F4ntastic.

Fantastic Four is used as a punchline in two of the reviews, but yes, I genuinely cannot fathom it being worse. Fantastic Four is barely a movie.

To me the real shame of the reviews is making SS sound like a very conventional, safe, Marvel-ish (not my words) film. I had that problem with X-Men Apocalypse, too.

 

[BossDarkseid]

I still have absolutely no idea what Hot Topic is.

It can't be as bad as F4. That movie was one of the most boring things I've ever seen, and I love the Fantastic Four.

I'm not sure there'd be much point in getting Nolan back. His vision of Batman was pretty much done, and didn't he help with the story in MoS etc?

I want WW to be good but await Faraci's article in x months about WB taking a hatchet to it in the editing room.

 

[Jarmel]

Ledger still the king.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

what idiot? Zemo?

I think he meant Captain America.

#TeamStark

 

[Dash_Riprock]

DC fans to Nolan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAAmYdc8lSU

And Nolan to WB

 

[Bold One]

Didn't Batman fuck Batgirl in that one?

 

[Tankard]

I'm shocked.

 

[Lord Virgin]

Affleck will sort out the Joker (and Leto). Ayer just wanted to bring out the Hot Topic-ness, it seems.

He'll fix it. He'll fix it all... *mutters to self*

Just like Ayer would fix the DCEU.....bunch of false gods.

Can't wait for the next directors line-up at SDCC.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Zack Snyder! *booo* David Ayer *boooo* Patty Jenkins? *booo* euhm, Batfleck? *eh*"

 

[JimJamJones]

Well, at least The Killing Joke came out last week.

DC and WB couldn't possibly have messed that up.

 

[Cuburt]

One more from the archives.

Spoiler

originally had captain america hail hydra there

Holy fuck.

plainr has me laughing so hard I'm crying.

I'm crying on the inside a little as well for this movie.

It should have been good. I'm shocked they managed to shit the bed with this.

The marketing will probably save the OW but the DCU is hurting.

 

[jmood88]

I still have absolutely no idea what Hot Topic is

It's a store in American malls that sells the clothing that inspired the making of this movie.

 

[Oddduck]

Irish Times review

Irish Times likes Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), but doesn't seem too fond of Leto's Joker.

Viola Davis, one of our greatest living actors, brings unnecessary class to the role of ruthless government wonk Amanda Waller.

The most charismatic, played by Margot Robbie at full pelt, is a charming psychopath named Harley Quinn. Her special power is that she owns a baseball bat. Her humanising globule is an inexplicable affection for The Joker (Jared Leto). Objectified in contemporary comic-book fashion – while the men are all decently covered up, she is dressed like a sex worker at a truck stop – Robbie somehow manages to make the character fizzle. The Australian spits out more carnival energy than a whole tent-full of drugged-up clowns.

Leto cannot boast so much. It has been reported that the recent Oscar winner, now 44 years old, sent “sticky” porn magazines and a dead pig to fellow cast-members when preparing for the role. This middle-aged actor also stayed “in character” when not delivering his lines as the mad jester. For what? The extended cameo turns out to be everything you’d expect from a 1980s soap-star playing Captain Hook in panto at the Barnsley Empire: all extended vowels and erratic phrasings. You never caught Caesar Romero gift-wrapping a dead pig.

Anyway, for all the silly “darkness”, Suicide Squad does prove to be more fun than either of the preceding DC films.

 

[bob_arctor]

So what I'm getting from reviews so far

Not Ayer enough (wanted R?)
Not enough Joker OR hate Joker
Edited weird

I'm getting "action packed B-movie that ulimately disappoints". Focusing on the former, as that's what I expected. Movie's going to make bank at the box office.

 

[PeskyToaster]

Hot Topic is a store in American malls that sells sort of emo-y clothes to teens. Nolan still the king but we knew that.

 

[Rickelodeon]

lol what are you talking about? Reviews are calling it a disaster, some even worse than F4ntastic.

? that one Vanity Fair review i guess that said that a few pages back? im just taking a quick glance at the main page of this fuckin thread and on there i count (and actually skimmed through them) like, 9 who gave it fairly positives (slashfilm, timeout, empire, hitfix, Wrap, USA, village voice, gamespot, guardian) and the rest are negatives, as well as plenty of other positive and negatives ones ive seen on twitter. It does seem truly more mixed from what im seeing. Haven't really looked at the Tomatoscore so i'm just speaking from what i've seen so far.

 

[Unspeakable Evil]

my nigga Cyborg looked like a melted Bay Megatron cosplay

"They fried me, bruh. They said I looked like a melted bay Megatron cosplay. Even Dr Doom from Fantasic Four was laughing

"

.

 

[TheRagnCajun]

I still have absolutely no idea what Hot Topic is

Clothing store for 'edgy' 13 year olds. I would go into detail but its better to just google it.

 

[old manatee]

I still have absolutely no idea what Hot Topic is

It's a store in the mall that starter goths shop at. You can get DCCU merch there

 

[Maintenance]

Well, at least The Killing Joke came out last week.

DC and WB couldn't possibly have messed that up.

Isn't that the one a lot of people are mad because Batgirl fucks Batman?

 

[AlfredX1990]

First No Man's Sky leaks, then Cursed Child, then this

This week is trying to burn the internet and I'm just here, laughing

 

[Spine_Ripper]

Didn't Batman fuck Batgirl in that one?

In ten years, people will legitimately be asking that.

Why DC

 

[Scotia]

In ten years, people will legitimately be asking that.

Why DC

DC:

 

[Rooster12]

It's amazing that the critic DC fans hates (Devin Faraci) is one of the few to actually like it.

What did he actually like about the movie?

What were the positives he listed?

 

[BossDarkseid]

In ten years, people will legitimately be asking that.

Why DC

If it helps, Azzarello wrote it and even Bruce Timm was saying he has no idea about the first 45's relevance to the back half but they went with it anyway

 

[Gorillaz]

my nigga Cyborg looked like a melted Bay Megatron cosplay

I had to rewatch that reveal 3 times to be sure because I had no idea what I was looking at

Dude straight up looked like aluminum surfer. Cyborg was one roll of aluminum away from that.

 

[johnnydrama]

Current state of WB.

 

[Strangelove77]

There's so much anger and disagreement here, hope you guys don't fight each other and then all of a sudden start boning.
Thatd be weird and tasteless.

 

[KazenY2J]

Sort of expected this, unfortunately.
GG DC.

 

[illmatic22]

Whiffing on the Joker is sinful. Booooooooo

 

[Doctor Bat]

In 10 years there will be articles written on how badly WB got the DC universe wrong.

 

[FunkyPajamas]

There's so much anger and disagreement here, hope you guys don't fight each other and then all of a sudden start boning.
Thatd be weird and tasteless.

It's fine, we'll all be friends as soon as we figure out our dad's name is Tyler.

 

[Kibbles]

Ledger still the king.

No, hes not. Letos only in like 10min max but I love what I saw from him more than any other live action Joker and give him a full starring role and I think he'll be iconic

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

 

[SpaceWolf]

When you compare Suicide Squad to what James Gunn and Marvel Studios achieved in Guardians of the Galaxy – low-profile property, oddball characters, make-it-fun brief – the film makes you cringe so hard your teeth come loose. But it’s a slog even on its own crushingly puerile terms.

And while “Suicide Squad” isn’t as poorly stitched together as its nearly unintelligible forebear “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice,” it’s still a patchy, makeshift effort of mismatched tones, tacked on jokes and messy narrative. While a flippant sense of humor assists its entertainment factor, the second DCU film ain’t no “Deadpool” either.

I guess Tom Dagnino was right from a few months ago :/

Chicago Tribune, 1.5 stars

Meanwhile we have this thing, this garish, overstaffed, overstuffed, blithely sadistic corporate directive disguised as a PG-13 summer movie for all ages. (You'd be pretty stupid to let anyone under 13 see it. Actually you'd be pretty stupid to let anyone over 13 see it too.) It will open big, and if its de facto prequel "Batman v Superman" could make $872 million worldwide, well, anything's possible and quality has very little to do with it.

i09 review:

"Suicide Squad Is Chaotic, Manic, and a Total Mess"

http://io9.gizmodo.com/movie-review-suicide-squad-is-as-messy-and-weird-as-th-1784666704

Via Vanity Fair's review:

https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/760508893864660992

might as well post these unused evans gifs. I didn't get use em the first time around.

One more from the archives.

Spoiler

originally had captain america hail hydra there

Oh let's add that Jai Courtney inflicted self damage and using drugs to get into the role of Boomerang...yeah that's not how you do for a role..it is plain stupid doing shit like that.

The Hollywood Reporter





All this talk of "edge" makes it sound like it has always looked in the trailers: Hot Topic, the Movie.

In 10 years there will be articles written on how badly WB got the DC universe wrong.

 

[Username1198]

Aw dang guys.