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Suicide Squad Review Thread: As Fresh As Green Lantern!
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66 Batman is a brilliant show as both a satire and a comic book adaptation.
The conceit of Batman and super hero comics is inherently ridiculous and the writers on that show did a fantastic job exploiting it. The filmmakers do awesome stuff on a very limited budget and it perfectly captures the look and feel of the Batman comics of the era.
I got that, actually. The X-Men films don't set the Earth on fire but I'd take the worst one over the best DCEU one.
If they just cut their losses and dumped F4nt4st1c their batting average would skyrocket.
Mix Master
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Who's idea was it to hire a model to act for this film? That's an L right there.
If it really does take place in Arkham that would be different. Of course it's a thin rumor at this point.
It was pretty funny to see how hard Fox tried to make it look like Marvel Studios did Fantastic Four. I've never seen a production logo get off the screen as fast as that Fox logo did.
Funny, because this was exactly how I felt about the licensed music in Watchmen.
dancingphlower
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BlackGoku03
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Idk, without seeing it, I can't say WB's DC movies are on a bad streak. For BvS, I understand not liking the film even though I thought a lot of the reviews were too harsh. I liked most of BvS, but it had major issues that many non-fans of DC just can't overlook.
As far as variety goes, I think any attempts at being too outside the box has sailed when bad reviews for BvS came out. I don't think WB will take the chance.
Hopefully WW and JL will turn things around if SS is as bad as its RT score. Either way, I'm sure I'll like SS since I'm a big fan of the source material.
jediyoshi
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People thinking the only way of defending something is by attacking the character of others is why she said something so dumb to begin with.
Who's idea was it to hire a model to act for this film? That's an L right there.
At this point she is an actress with steady work.
CassidyIzABeast
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I went on Josh Trank's twitter to see what he was up to and dude has 3 tweets that are all retweets. He knows he's finished I guess.
Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
And MoS too. But I think WB started getting cold feet about creating a whole new brand of superhero films that's entirely separate from MCU-type films right around when MoS started getting tepid reception, but they braved on through with BvS only to have that critically thrashed as well
So they mangle the hell out of Ayer's SS cut and now we have a poor man's Guardians of the Galaxy
Agreed with you on WW, it does seem strikingly similar to those two. Flash, I can already see being a Spidey-esque film.
I like that Fox have made a strong middle-ground between MCU's lightheartedness and DCEU's dour approach; unlike WB (who has suddenly deviated from being director-driven), they're more confident in what they produce. They got jokes in there quite a few times, but they got a nice serious tone for the majority of their films. They just gotta amp up their consistency to the level of Marvel's and they might just be the best CBM studio out there
cuz Apocalypse was bad man
It's sad that he killed his own career because I loved Chronicle and was really looking forward to what he would do with Fantastic Four (before he lost his mind).
Messofanego
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Henry Cavill said the same thing for Batman vs Superman.
“The interesting thing is that we get the critics who have their personal opinions. And the thing about personal opinions is that they always come from a place. And there’s a preconceived idea which you have to get past a critic before you start writing your article or your review, and that affects everything. What is really going to matter, I believe, is what the audience says. Because they’re the ones who are buying tickets, they’re the ones who want to see more of this kind of story or not and so the audience’s voice is loudest and after this weekend the audience, at least partly, will have spoken.”
It's the typical defensive garbage that means nothing.
Would love that.
broncobuster
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That's him being all too realistic, to be honest. Cara and Ayer's Suicide Squad defense is, how to put it, closer to the Amy's Baking Company approach.
Speaking of people who live in the "real world"...
Holy fucking shit.
HAHAHAHA
Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
Yeah ayer is not doing this right, not at all, damn
Dude needs a reality check from his PR manager
Dude needs a reality check from his PR manager
Well, seriously, look at the flip side. You are a actor/writer/director/producer who spent 2 years on a film, and now you are forced to promote it as it opens. It is part of your job to go from place to place shilling for the product you worked on and saying positive things about it. Reviews are bad and journalists keep asking you questions about that to get a reaction. It feels like every question is asking you to justify your contribution to the project. It's not just about being diplomatic, it's also about self-esteem and positivity. If you don't try to look on the bright side and take down the negativity, you will feel like shit.
DeathoftheEndless
Crashing this plane... with no survivors!
The only thing that can save the DCEU now is the sacrifice of a brave porpoise.
Night Angel
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Startlingly different because it was total shit?
As someone who doesn't read their comics, that movie made no sense at all. Poorly paced with dream sequences and a vision of the future indistinguishable from a dream sequence in which an unintroduced character pops out of a computer screen and says... something that is completely lost in shitty sound editing that would have actually given a reason for the subsequent action scenes if only the audience knew who the character was, what happened, and what he said. Followed by the dumbest resolution to a fight between characters outside of parody/comedy films.
CaviarMeths
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It should be noted that Cara Delevingne tends to be super sarcastic and has a dry, deadpan sort of way of doing interviews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQDGTTY6W8
She got raked for that interview for being bitchy/awkward, but really she was just being a goof. I don't think it can be taken at face value if she says "critics don't like superhero movies."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQDGTTY6W8
She got raked for that interview for being bitchy/awkward, but really she was just being a goof. I don't think it can be taken at face value if she says "critics don't like superhero movies."
illmatic22
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Between the behind the scenes crap and the mediocre at best films I really can't blame people for being cynical of the DCEU. I myself have no reason to believe that they'll get this stuff right. Which stings because DC characters like Batman got me into comics in the first place.
dancingphlower
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Yeah it's definitely not a cool feeling to work really hard on something only for people to constantly shit on you for it. Like maybe the movie really is that bad, but having people constantly remind you of that must be pretty grating.
Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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Night Angel
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It appears to correlate well with the quality of said films. Hmmm.
Can't hate on those eyebrows.
Mix Master
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eyebrows from god himself
I still think I might watch it this weekend or matinee next week, but after reading reviews, positive and negative, I'm pretty sure this will suck because it drops the ball in so many areas they should have been succeeding in.
I mean, it's reviewing worse than Apocalypse and I knew that would be a turd and it was worse than that. SS sounds like even more of a mess.
I mean, it's reviewing worse than Apocalypse and I knew that would be a turd and it was worse than that. SS sounds like even more of a mess.
Yikes. When did "it's for the fans" start to mean "critic-proof"?
I mean, it sucks if you believe in a product and it kind of flops, but don't throw this back on the fans to save. Own your mistakes and make it better.
npanciroli
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I'm scared of spoilers in reviews. Any of them mention what the action is like? If it has good action scenes and none of that shakey camera garbage I'll be happy.
Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
Apparently it doesn't.
Discotheque
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On the plus side I really dug that Deadshot clip they showed on Colbert. Will Smith really does look like one of the more solid things about this movie.
And Captain Marvel is just waiting in the wings
Yeezus H. Christ
Banned
Yeah, Dr.Strange ain't tanking, it's Feige's baby. He'd never let it happen.
Swear I saw some shit about Feige crying tears of joy when the SDCC trailer played. You don't do that when the film in question is shit.
Swear I saw some shit about Feige crying tears of joy when the SDCC trailer played. You don't do that when the film in question is shit.
npanciroli
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This makes me sad.
Cumberbatch alone is a given it will sell, don't be crazy.
People were telling the same about Ant Man. It didn't sell as well as better known characters movies, but it wasn't a flop.
If it tanks, why would people overreact? It'd be the first Marvel movie to be critically panned and to flop in the box office, meanwhile, DCU hasn't had a single movie to be reviewed well and we've now had two we were completely and utterly hated by critics.
dancingphlower
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It's kind of funny how people are always trying to predict Marvel's first failure, just like people are desperate to find DC's first success.
It'll likely be fine if only because it's marketing has relied heavily on the Inception-esque imagery. That alone has me interested anyway.
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