Saw it Friday... My thoughts (no spoilers):
Will Smith, Margot Robbie and a few other characters, judging solely on just their performances, were the only good thing about it. Was not a fan of the movie with the exception of a few scenes, including some fight scenes. Thats about as positive as I can get about this film.
Soundtrack was trying to be Guardians of the Galaxy but not executed nearly as well. In the first 10 minutes they went through a ton of hit songs which was distracting. Was like driving with someone who constantly changes the radio without letting the song finish.
The story was weak. From what I've read a lot got cut out of the theatrical release so maybe that was the problem. The plot just jumped around too much. You get all these villains that suddenly care about each other but you never see why they do. They are lumped together in a shitty circumstance. A majority of them are pointless, like the director thought "oh yeah, this bad guy is part of the squad in the comics, better add them somewhere and give them a line or two". Doesn't help pretty much all the squad members are stereotypes. Especially Killer Croc and Diablo. Without spoiling too much, one of the squad members sacrifices themselves towards the end and no one seems to care/remember afterwards.
All the hype for Jared Leto and he was in the movie for what felt like 10 minutes of total screen time and added nothing to the story. And he was not good. Nothing about him was Joker-esque except he is a deranged guy who laughs. His relationship with Harley was also not handled very well in my opinion.
The villain the squad faces is too powerful, and none of the Squad members really possessed any features that would make them more powerful than the soldiers they were fighting with.
It wasn't "the bad guys doing bad things that the heroes wouldn't do". It was bad guys taking down a bad guy. Which sucks because the premise of bad guys fighting bad guys by doing bad things is such a unique opportunity for DC, but they blew it. The actress who played the main villain, Cara Delevigne, gave a horrible performance.
Was very disappointed.
Jared Leto publically states unhappiness:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/08...tedly-feels-he-was-tricked-into-suicide-squad
While the theatrical release doesn't feature very much of Leto as the green-haired villain, the actor said he shot enough Joker material for a whole movie.
Is it that bad? I want to like the movie.
Jared Leto publically states unhappiness:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/08...tedly-feels-he-was-tricked-into-suicide-squad
That's pretty much how I felt about it. The first quarter felt like music video after music video; it was well-done in Guardians, but not in this...just felt like quick, sloppy editing. I liked the idea of the Joker, but they didn't use him at all! I understand why that one fan over in Europe is wanting to sue the company because it was completely false advertising. This was really the Deadshot movie, with Harley Quinn as guest, which is apparently how the comic book was. I think Will Smith did a good job, I just wasn't expecting the movie to center around him...I thought it was going to be a Joker movie.
I thought the Joker & Harley's relationship was pretty lame. So she's smart enough to work as a psychologist, falls in love with the Joker, and then he's like hey btw, I need a machine gun? Like #1, she's going to be that dumb, and #2, she's even going to be able to find one? And the very next shot was ten bad guys all running around with machine guns, busting the Joker out. Yeah, okay.
The bad guys definitely felt like big summer blockbuster bad guys instead of actual villains. Like, the fire dude was mashing up Mr. Aztec there & failed, and yet a little bomb underneath killed him? Okaaaay. I had a hard time with how over-the-top the CGI graphics were swirling around the city, and yet the magic underwater bomb was the catalyst to stopping everything. It just didn't fit. Like, it worked in the original Ghostbusters because there was a giant marshmallow man who got zapped by laser guns because those two things kind of fit together well for the movie. And rewinding, if the Mayan siblings had all of this awesome power, how did they end up getting cancelled a thousand years ago by people without explosives?
It felt re-cut & choppy & a bit rushed. It was more fun than BvS for sure, but I had higher hopes for it than I should have. Marvel is killing it & DC is killing themselves lately
Well, despite the horrible reviews, it's actually doing quite well at the box office.Always cracks me up when actors try to distance themselves after a movies doesn't do well. I feel he's being an attention whore and is milking this movie for all it's worth.
I wish I was more surprised, but I'm not since marketing rather than quality drives movie revenue. Marketing is made even easier when a movie obviously has potential, but living up to it is optional.Well, despite the horrible reviews, it's actually doing quite well at the box office.
They just hit half a billion $ worldwide. And for domestic receipts, they'll hit a quarter billion $ this weekend.