How is it a flop if it hasn't even been released yet? Who knows, maybe the general audiences will actually like it more than the critics have so far.
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Suicide Squad Review Thread: As Fresh As Green Lantern!
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How is it a flop if it hasn't even been released yet? Who knows, maybe the general audiences will actually like it more than the critics have so far.
V for Vendetta.
edit: And Road to Perdition. When it comes to teh 21st century, I think that's it.
Manmademan
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assuming the review consensus holds (which is likely, given we're about 50 reviews in) its a rare movie that scores THAT badly with critics but still does well at the box office.
When it does happen it tends to be a comedy- because comedy is so weirdly subjective.
Edit: oh, and those transformers films. no idea what's going on there.
Dash_Riprock
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I'm sorry to say but get ready for a lot more of him in every DC film if this movie underperforms.
Watchmen is DC and it has a fresh RT rating of 65%.
Edit: Certified Fresh is 75%. Fresh is just 60% or higher.
MHWilliams
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It's a shame Viola Davis went through all that Jared Leto nonsense for nothing.
I had the suspicion that Leto didn't really 'get' the Joker the same way Snyder doesn't get Batman or Superman from the few headlines I did glance at, but this would have removed any doubt. The Joker is about a lot of things, many of them contradictory, many of them disgusting, but the Joker is not merely about grossing people out with grotesquely. The best Joker stories have him doing repulsive things to prove some kind of point, not repulsiveness for it's own sake.
Congratulations, DC, this is the first major superhero movie I will make sure I do not pay for. I don't know when I'll see it, but between this, the negative reviews, and particularly the Vanity Fair review mentioning elements of racism, sexism, and gun worship, you've killed any appeal the movie had for me. I've seen literally every superhero movie put out by Marvel and DC for the last 8 years, sans maybe one or two. But those were done out of disinterest, because the fuck am I going to see Jonah Hex for? But this, I am choosing to not see, not because it didn't grab my interest, but because it doesn't deserve it.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Justice League Part 2 to be renamed... The Batman Saga: Justice League
what about BvS?
BrokenFiction
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Meanwhile, at DCTV... http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=212303127&postcount=1391
Why was it nothing?
Did she expect to get an Oscar nomination?
Didn't she get paid?
I don't know what you're trying to say.
Freewheelin'
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GAF demographics become even more apparent when everyone's favourite film of the year is CW, Zootopia and Deadpool :lol
Manmademan
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ThoseDeafMutes
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Pre-world wide web reviews on RT mean little since you don't get every review ever counted and it's often contemporary retrospective reviews. Blade Runner is 89%.
Jason's Ultimatum
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Marvel to DC: A good death has its own reward.
Maintenance
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im just really surprised (liking Ayer) that a lot of people describe it as a long put together trailer with just tons of licensed music shit and all that
there's few things in movies as cringe-inducing than overusing licensed music
apparently the film has all that was in the trailers and more. during actual scenes
gross
there's few things in movies as cringe-inducing than overusing licensed music
apparently the film has all that was in the trailers and more. during actual scenes
gross
Man, the Plainr_ gifs are truly amazing.
Still, disappointing to hear about Suicide Squad. Trailers made it look fun, but yeah, after getting burned with BvS, I'm not spending anymore money on DCU movies. Sorry WB. I know some people on GAF ridicule TDKR, but come on man, I wish the current and future DC movies would actually reach that level of quality. Save us Nolan-Man!
Anyway, at this point I just want Marvel to make a The Great Society movie just to see how a good DC-ish movie would look like these days.
Still, disappointing to hear about Suicide Squad. Trailers made it look fun, but yeah, after getting burned with BvS, I'm not spending anymore money on DCU movies. Sorry WB. I know some people on GAF ridicule TDKR, but come on man, I wish the current and future DC movies would actually reach that level of quality. Save us Nolan-Man!
Anyway, at this point I just want Marvel to make a The Great Society movie just to see how a good DC-ish movie would look like these days.
ratcliffja
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It's crazy that Deadpool will likely end up with an RT score higher than both DC movies combined. It's pretty fitting considering how badly they botched his Green Lantern movie.
doesn't help when you get your sample from a comic book thread but yeah it's pretty funny
He wasn't even going for "understanding" Joker because he literally didn't read/watch any source material.
I had the suspicion that Leto didn't really 'get' the Joker the same way Snyder doesn't get Batman or Superman from the few headlines I did glance at, but this would have removed any doubt. The Joker is about a lot of things, many of them contradictory, many of them disgusting, but the Joker is not merely about grossing people out with grotesquely. The best Joker stories have him doing repulsive things to prove some kind of point, not repulsiveness for it's own sake.
Congratulations, DC, this is the first major superhero movie I will make sure I do not pay for. I don't know when I'll see it, but between this, the negative reviews, and particularly the Vanity Fair review mentioning elements of racism, sexism, and gun worship, you've killed any appeal the movie had for me. I've seen literally every superhero movie put out by Marvel and DC for the last 8 years, sans maybe one or two. But those were done out of disinterest, because the fuck am I going to see Jonah Hex for? But this, I am choosing to not see, not because it didn't grab my interest, but because it doesn't deserve it.
He just did some really corny/fucked up/questionable things and thought he was brilliant for it.
He was method acting for a character that doesn't exist or necessarily fits the script.
old manatee
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I know some of you are talking about blockbusters but I liked Midnight Special, Green Room, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople this year too.
I wonder what the chances are of this getting a higher tomatometer:
Oh man I can't believe that comes out in 3 dyas. I will see that over Suicide Squad this weekend if it comes to my area. Looks like the best bad movie since The Beaver.
Yeezus H. Christ
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Pop-O-Matic
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Jai being better than anyone is a sign that the film is going to be a special kind of evil. The minute I realized I was tolerating his performance more than Emilia Clarke's (and that they were both floundering compared to fuckin' Arnold Schwarzenegger) was the moment I realized that I had made an even bigger mistake than I initially thought the moment I decided to go see Terminator Genisys.
Ah yes, the Zootopia-Deadpool demographic.
Really? That's just....bizarre. You'd think that if he was so passionate about it, he'd look up some material to understand the character.
It sounds like he just used this role as an excuse to act like a stupid jackass.
Freeza Under The Shower
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Freewheelin'
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Comic book
Animated animals
Comic book
I mean, all three are decent movies, sure. But there's shit like The Nice Guys, Green Room, Everybody Wants Some, Midnight Special...
Wait what, wasn't that based on some onion-tier joke article? Did he really do that stuff?!
Folks:
I was secretly hoping he actually did a rap.
BassForever
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Will probably hurt its legs and the film like bvs will be profitable but do under expectations
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First week it will be just fine I guess. Second week onwards...no idea.
Dash_Riprock
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We might see results as early as this Saturday. BvS suffered one of the largest Friday to Saturday drops ever.
Apparently, they're all kids movies and liking them put you in a bad movie-goer demographic.
If you want to get into a better one you better start watching those indie flicks.
Great insight 10/10
ViewtifulJC
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the box office for all four of those movies combined wont even match up with any of those three movie's opening weekends, nobody saw that shit. There's not just a GAF demographic, that's a "regular people" demographic
and I'm saying that with "Sing Street" and "Everybody Want Some!!" as my two favorite movies, but they're niche as hell lets be real
Pop-O-Matic
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I wonder if people will have wised up following BvS and actually listen to the reviews on this one. Once bitten, twice shy and all that...
Freewheelin'
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Gamers like comics, naughty words and anthropomorphic animals
news at 11
Not kids movies, but it's only on places like GAF on the internet that Civil War or The Avengers or whatever are routinely be exclaimed to be amazing movies, because of the make up of the forum.
Obviously I am posting on GAF (the irony), and I'm not speaking for everyone, but I will be very surprised if Civil War doesn't win GAF movie of the year.
thecouncil
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It's not even really that Warners can't make a good DC movie, it's very close to being that almost nobody can make a good superhero movie outside of Marvel, unfortunately.
It just reminds me of people getting super excited for Superman despite the director's shitty output post 300. And then again for Batman vs Superman.
David Ayer is very hit or miss. DC licenses have been mishandled heavily. Also Will Smith in any super hero related movie is a bad omen.
I'll admit though, that was a shit post from me.
DragonSworne
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Two stinkers in a row. DC isn't going to get the benefit of the doubt anymore. It's a shame, WW might end up unfairly taking hit regardless of its quality due to SS and BvS.
Will Smith should have done Independence Day instead.
Will Smith should have done Independence Day instead.
Yeezus H. Christ
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Ok, so what exactly are you implying with the demographic comment?
I still say they should have made a movie about the abolition of the upper chamber of the New Zealand Legislature. Box office gold, Jerry!
Freewheelin'
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The difference being that not all regular people think those movies are masterpieces or amazing films, yet on GAF (and various other places on the internet) they are.
I know they got good critic responses, I don't mind all three myself. But I'm pretty sure I've seen shit the last two years admonishing the Oscars for not representing The Winter Soldier or some shit.
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