Suicide Squad: Did It FAIL?

Money talks more than critics! Don't be scratching for any other reasons why it could fail. If the entire world is so butthurt how do these movies make so much?

after showing me the math does it matter?

Suicide Squad was alright I think its 6.5-7/10.

Who knew putting your money from one of your pockets to another one of your pockets costs you money. Wondering if you're paying someone to move your money around.

I want the movie to be good, and I haven't gone to see it yet. I just don't want to waste my money on it like I did BVS. I figure I'll wait for it to be available to rent somewhere, or wait for it on Netflix.

I just saw it. And I liked it. Instead of retelling lore we already knew from the other movies, it made new lore, and expanded on some pre-established lore. Considering that Warner Brothers hasn't done anything like that before, it's a welcome change. Add in the fact that it was more entertaining, and the fact that it's more clear that the actors are having fun, that makes it a lot more fun to see. It might have been all over the place, but they knew what story they wanted to tell. Unlike Dawn of Justice, which seemed to be unable to figure out what story they wanted to tell (Pick one. It's Batman vs. Superman. It's not a precursor to Justice League, Flash, or Aquaman.)

Something that I have issue with, however, is the fact that these supposed 'villains' caused less collateral damage, and killed less civilians than Superman did when he was fighting Zod. What the hell? These are murderers. And they're somehow more heroic than freaking Superman in terms of civilian casualties.

My overall score: 7.8/10

What did I just hear? I've always been of the opinion that cinema is a dying industry, and I think it can't come fast enough after hearing this.

So I've seen it a few days ago and I didn't LOVE it and I didn't HATE it. I'm not a giant DC fan so I am not most qualified to comment on DC movies/comics/characters.

I only know about Joker and Harley, the rest of the characters were pretty much new introductions for me. There are a few problems with the movie that I had, the Jokers feelings towards Harley were more than what they should be (I know they covered this in the podcast, only seen the RT Podcast last night).

***SPOILER ALERT***

The plot had no need for any of the characters except Harley. They killed the "bad guy" with a bomb that the military had, they could of done that with or without Diablo, they could of waited and watched until he got to that area of the room.

They showed Deadshot killing multiple "bad guys" which were just shots to the head, which the military could of done easily. The characters have no progression from the beginning of the movie to the end of the movie. They all started in jail and they all ended in jail, minus Harley.

The action was a bit tame and the dialogue was a bit wonky, but I do not blame any of the actors for that. The movie should of been rated R and not PG, I feel if it carried an R rating then it would of been more dark/evil. You'd be surprised what a few curse words and blood/guts would do for a movie.

The actual acting was great, I feel that all the actors played their characters the way they were suppose to. Leto as a joker wasn't bad, he was barley in the movie so I have no idea. The movie kept me entertained for the most part but only because it was a bunch of new characters that I know nothing about. Maybe if this was a Marvel movie which I know a lot about, then maybe I would feel differently.

So, in other words, No it isn't. Lol

Little A, little B. No it isn't a failure and it isn't likely to be a failure either. But I expect it to follow BvS or even the most recent Bourne movie and take a steep dive going forward. Between that the and lack of a China opening the total gross won't be as high as a 135M opening weekend would normally indicate.

Something they didn't touch on here - and possibly not an issue with WB movies anyways, given how massive WB is - is that global distribution often works a bit different then domestic. Domestic you do typically pay a flat fee based on a number of factors but with global the profit sharing can split in ways that favor the distributor. I've seen other movies that were small domestic but huge overseas that still resulted in losses because the overseas rights negotiated let the overseas distributor take a sizable cut of the profits.

If you don't want to go see Suicide Squad but still want a damn good DC villain story, watch Assault on Arkham. Its Suicide Squad's better older brother. And literally all DC had to do to make a good Suicide Squad movie was make that movie live action