I'm sure that Suicide Squad featured as DLC in a recent LEGO game but they were referred to as 'Task Force X' rather than Suicide Squad for obvious reasons.
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Suicide Squad Review Thread: As Fresh As Green Lantern!
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I'm sure that Suicide Squad featured as DLC in a recent LEGO game but they were referred to as 'Task Force X' rather than Suicide Squad for obvious reasons.
FTFY
I can understand not being fond of The Dark Knight Rises, but the first 2 were pretty on-point to the point where few comic book movies can keep up.
Rumored so far. But given we know nothing about the next game from Arkham Origins developer except teases that it's an open world, I think it's coming alright.
If I had to guess, said Suicide Squad game would have to be set before the Assault on Arkham animated movie (which is canon to the Arkham games, by the way). While AoA did take place 2 years before Arkham Asylum, there's still the likes of Deathstroke who were unaccounted for in the animated movie but were teased as being recruited for the Suicide Squad in Arkham Origins.
Chris Stuckmanns Review
I have no idea why this movie has also bad editing and that you get the feeling that scenes were just cut out (similar to BvS). WB what are you doing?
I have no idea why this movie has also bad editing and that you get the feeling that scenes were just cut out (similar to BvS). WB what are you doing?
Dash_Riprock
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RT consensus seems spot on.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
What the hell happened in here
In my local paper in Gothenburg Sweden they released a review today. They gave it a 2/5.
Why wait 2 weeks? It's out this week as well.
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Rottentomatoes has been 'important' for at least ten years, and has been one of my go to sites for nigh on fifteen. They used to have comment possibilities, but took it out when fanboys started harassing the individual reviewers, I think around the Dark Knight era.
It's become more prevalent due to IMDb's very slow decay into shit, now being more of an advertorial for astroturfing production companies. At least there's still some modicum of authority with the top critics.
AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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Pulp Fiction is better than any super hero movie. That's an indisputable fact.
milanbaros
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I agree on imdb turning to shit.
Rottentomotoes is a really useful site if you understand what the actual % scores represent. Too many people confuse the score to that of an individual review ignoring that a film universally viewed as a 6/10 can get 100%.
Ah yes, good old IMDB. The site where 18-29 year old boys go to pummel their sci-fi/comic book superhero movies with 10 star ratings.
lol Youtube comments
Critics, just pretend the next DC is awesome cus these DC fans can't take 4 poorly reviewed movies back to back. Ya'll gonna kill these poor people.
Yes, that too. Suicide Squad scoring 27% doesn't mean the movie is unwatchable, it means that only 27% was decidedly positive about it. The rest could be anything from 'great but only if you're into these kinds of films', to 'crock of horse shit'.
Well, I'm going to see it with some friends later tonight, at least I'm going in with very low expectations.
Wait, it's down to 27%? Haha, ok my expectations is even lower now.
Wait, it's down to 27%? Haha, ok my expectations is even lower now.
ThoseDeafMutes
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Says 35% my end
Wait, we still have people in here going "RT scores mean nothing!"? BvS is a 27%...Suicide Squad is currently at 35%, yet people are claiming that the movies don't deserve to be there.
If the RT system didn't work, then we should expect quite a few good movies to show up around 30%...or is it only the DC movies that the RT system gets wrong?
I don't know...these are recent movies that got around the scores of BvS and Suicide Squad. I'm not seeing much good here.
Vacation
Poltergeist
Entourage
Max
Warcraft
Alice: Through the Looking Glass
Now You See Me 2
Chappie
Momentum
Independence Day: Resurgence
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Pan
If the RT system didn't work, then we should expect quite a few good movies to show up around 30%...or is it only the DC movies that the RT system gets wrong?
I don't know...these are recent movies that got around the scores of BvS and Suicide Squad. I'm not seeing much good here.
Vacation
Poltergeist
Entourage
Max
Warcraft
Alice: Through the Looking Glass
Now You See Me 2
Chappie
Momentum
Independence Day: Resurgence
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Pan
shira
Member
Yeah this is morelike GAF taste.
Rotten has its issues, with lacking many review outlets and being really wonky with non-english films. Also safe movies tend to be overrated on it because they make nothing particularly wrong( also great), which is enough for scores north from 80%.
IMDB is just horseshit for reviews.
IMDB is just horseshit for reviews.
good point
Captain Smoker
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CosmicGroinPull
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Sorry didn't check, somebody mentioned 27 not too long ago, apparently that person mixed it up with BvS, or I misinterpreted the meaning of the post.
I want all the e-mails from Warner dealing with the DC movies. Must be a gold mine.
I talked earlier about how I rarely notice editing because most movies have decent enough editing where it's never a problem but the biggest issue with BvS was the editing. The first 40 or so minutes felt like random scenes thrown together and even ways into the movie, you'd still get really weird editing decisions and it now seems like Suicide Squad has the exact same issue.
I really don't understand what is happening over there.
Guess we gotta wait until the director's cut of SS.
NinjaTehFish
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Kenzodielocke
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Don't act like WB has fault in this one. The only fault I would give them that they haven't intervened. This seems like it's purely on Ayer.
This is becoming a trend. Unfortunatly.
So it's coincidence that both BvS and Suicide Squad suffer from bad editing?
WB told Snyder to cut the movie down to 2 1/2 hour instead of a having another 3 hour long film, you can see the result in the theatrical cut. I'm not saying that Suicide Squad was supposed to be 3 hour long or sth. just that WB most likely had something to do as this can't be just a coincidence.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Both seem to have bad editting for different reasons.
plasmawave
Banned
This review was a bummer...
Side note:
FANT FOUR STIC, ROFL
Check out his Fant4stic review lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo5NETEV0S0
milanbaros
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True. I almost always dislike rotten films on RT. However, it can get a bit wonky if you start looking for films you will find great only in the 80%+ category for example. You wont find bad films in that range but many are merely ok, if that makes sense.
blueyesdevil
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Well I don't have high expectations anymore, I'm seeing it tonight. I did love BvS though so I got that going on in my favor.
*There were aspects of the final act that reminded me of Fantastic Four (2016), it was that..messy*
Jesus that killed me hype for this..
You can still watch it and like it, don't worry.
It's the director's fault that the cut that makes sense is three fucking hours long though. That's ludicrous. I haven't seen Suicide Squad yet but BvS definitey suffered from the pure amount of stuff Snyder tried to cram into that movie. The desert subplot was completely unncessesary since you already had the events of MoS to hang the central conflict on. Then there's the third act with Doomsday that comes out of nowhere and shouldn't have been there in the first place. If he had focused on one, two or even three things maybe it wouldn't have been such a mess of a movie. Hell, Civil War had a lot of shit going on and they managed it in two and a half hours.
Seems like a gamble I don't really need to take.
AmaterasuOni
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I really loved Chappie. The others, not so much.
I tend to trust RT score as IMDb is prone to troll machination and other low-life behavior. You cannot troll critics consensus, thus RT is superior and has always been. IMDb is awesome for getting information of the said movie, nothing else.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Username1198
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So I'm not up to date yet, but is suicide squad still tracking 150$ million?
Is it the director's fault if the studio tells him "now your Man of Steel sequel is going to have batman. Now your movie is going to have Wonder Woman. Now your movie needs to introduce all the other Justice League heroes." Snyder is mostly to blame for length, but the studio doesn't get off scot free here.
Can anyone confirm this?
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