Suicide Squad (2016?)

[AUChase]

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I saw it in 3D (by accident) tonight.

I usually hate 3D and I was unprepared (wore glasses instead of contacts), but I thought it was well done and fit with the movie.

There were about 10 people in my group and it was pretty well divided on good or bad. I'm not as knowledgeable about comic storylines as some are and it seemed the most critical were those with a lot of knowledge and the people who are typically the most critical of EVERYTHING we see or do. I definitely understand most of the complaints about the movie they presented and they were well constructed, but that **** was seriously killing my vibe on the walk back afterwards.

I thought the movie was a lot of fun. I could find some things I didn't like about it, but what I've learned after finishing the movie and listening to friends is that I don't catch nearly as much as some others do. I'm always saying, "How do you find time to watch the movie between all of these thoughts running through your head ?".

Villain and plot wasn't the best, but loved the characters and walked out of the theater wanting more. I had decided to go in with an open mind and I think that combined with my excitement for the movie really helped.

I would definitely watch this again and I'm all ready mentally adding it to my future collection to watch again one day.

[TMagic]

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My biggest gripe about this movie was

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The mission and villain. Why the hell were these guys used to fight all powerful witch. That's something that the Justice League should have fought, not a bat **** crazy lady, sharpshooter and a guy who can climb stuff fast. Should have been a totally different mission. It would have been awesome to do a an Assault on Arkham story or something similar. Try to get the Joker out instead of him being a side story.

I just hated the 'in case there is a bad Superman that comes we have to make a team" story. If there was a bad superman, the Suicide Squad would get ****ed up. I just hope this is the last of the beam of the light stuff in comic book stories.

The main villain should have been Amanda Waller. I thought Voila Davis was way scarier than Enchantress and her stupid brother.

Seriously! That was a huge gripe for me too. They just seemed way out of their league.

Enchantress and big bro should have wiped the floor with them.

Let's just say HISHE (YouTube) is gonna have a field day with this one. Lol

[jfsolo]

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DC's plot's and storytelling for these movies have been inexplicably amateurish, but maybe with Geoff Johns taking over the reigns the narrative will be better going forward.

[JazzMan]

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I'm mostly excited for Leto's Joker. Big fan of his acting, think he'll be excellent. Robbie looks great as Harley, too. Not sure about much else going into it in one hour, I'll probably write down my thoughts afterwards.

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[Cyros]

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Seriously! That was a huge gripe for me too. They just seemed way out of their league.

Enchantress and big bro should have wiped the floor with them.

Let's just say HISHE (YouTube) is gonna have a field day with this one. Lol

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Wasn't their original mission just to extract Waller?

[JazzMan]

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Margot Robbie is bad as hell. Always had faith in Jared Leto being the Joker and he delivered, IMO. Can't wait to see those two more in the future.

Will Smith was great. Don't know how Deadshot will be expected to be a villain in coming films, I see him more as an anti-hero in the DCU now, in that neutral zone.

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Where the hell was Batman? Vacation? The world is being threatened by a voodoo witch doctor lady and he's nowhere to be found. Same goes for Wonder Woman. I know it wouldn't make sense at all to throw them in as trying to save the day, since it's the Suicide Squad's movie afterall, but leaving the world in the hands of Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Diablo, Killer Croc, and Captain Boomerang just seems less than ideal.

Regardless it was a fun, fun movie. Definitely had a Guardians vibe to it, just couldn't quite deliver on that level. I think the trailers ruined most of Harley's star moments. Feel like this would have been so much better going into it blind.

Also don't get how the Squad became Diablo's "family" after being acquainted for less than a day. The group definitely could have used more friction amongst themselves, IMO. Yeah, they're all bad guys, but bad guys don't have to get along.

I liked the movie though. 8.0/10.0 for me. They're setting up the DCU pretty well. Also liked the small Flash cameo.

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[TMagic]

Suicide Squad (2016?)

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Wasn't their original mission just to extract Waller?

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That's exactly my issue. I don't know. Lol

They show Enchantress and big bro doing bad things. Then Waller gets approval for the Suicide Squad and they're released and brought together. So it made it seem like what they were assembled to do was stop the meta human threat she kept harping about in the meeting.

I didnt understand how Waller got stuck in there to begin with. Or how the Minions knew where she was exactly. Or how she didn't have enough time to leave safely when she's supposed to be that important; especially considering that most everyone else in the city did.

Then the team leader reveals what they are really against and they all get upset about being lied to. But you all saw the giant s##t storm as you were coming in and just spent the entire movie beating up weird *** beings. Did they really think the boss was just a regular Joe Terrorist like Two Face or something?

Suffice to say, none of that made sense to me. Lol

[Chrisksaint]

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I thought this was a great movie, all the actors did their part well especially Smith, Robbie, and Leto. It was an enjoyable time, I really liked the connections to the greater DC universe. Harley Quinn in this movie may be the most accurate representation of a comic book character ever. I was a big fan of the music in this movie too, especially House of Rising Sun right in the start.

Like most comic book movies it suffered a bit from a weak villain, but it was a solid job of trying to make it work story wise for the rest of the characters.

I'd say out of the 3 DC movies released this was the one I left really excited about and can't wait to see what they got next


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[Cyros]

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That's exactly my issue. I don't know. Lol

They show Enchantress and big bro doing bad things. Then Waller gets approval for the Suicide Squad and they're released and brought together. So it made it seem like what they were assembled to do was stop the meta human threat she kept harping about in the meeting.

I didnt understand how Waller got stuck in there to begin with. Or how the Minions knew where she was exactly. Or how she didn't have enough time to leave safely when she's supposed to be that important; especially considering that most everyone else in the city did.

Then the team leader reveals what they are really against and they all get upset about being lied to. But you all saw the giant s##t storm as you were coming in and just spent the entire movie beating up weird *** beings. Did they really think the boss was just a regular Joe Terrorist like Two Face or something?

Suffice to say, none of that made sense to me. Lol

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When they got to Waller didn't Flag say he told her to get on a train or something? Or maybe he just asked why she didn't leave.

I would assume the minions knew how to find Waller because she was carrying Enchantress's heart, but it doesn't explain why they didn't come for her earlier since there was a 3 day window between Incubus showing up, Enchantress betrayal, and the Squad showing up.

I think the anger was over the revelation that it was a Waller screw up that led to the crazy sky spiral, and not that it was some super natural being.

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[mestevo]

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Wife balked at our weekend plans to see this due to reviews and impressions, so on my own. Hopefully this evening or early in the week so I can stop skipping over spoiler tags.

Looks like it opened at $135m domestically. A nice chunk towards that $750m break-even point.

[Blzer]

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Looks like it opened at $135m domestically. A nice chunk towards that $750m break-even point.

Slightly OT, but I don't get how they can say numbers when a day isn't over yet. I understand projections, but they do this very early, very often.

What if today I walked up to the box-office and said, "I'd like to buy 100,000 tickets." Definitely unrealistic haha, but what says that amount of people will go on that day for that film?

I always wondered that for sporting events as well. What if there was a day where most everybody just "had something else to do" and there were only 2,000 in attendance for some odd reason? Heh, I'd like to see that.

[mestevo]

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Slightly OT, but I don't get how they can say numbers when a day isn't over yet. I understand projections, but they do this very early, very often.

What if today I walked up to the box-office and said, "I'd like to buy 100,000 tickets." Definitely unrealistic haha, but what says that amount of people will go on that day for that film?

I always wondered that for sporting events as well. What if there was a day where most everybody just "had something else to do" and there were only 2,000 in attendance for some odd reason? Heh, I'd like to see that.

Decades of data allow for good prediction models I imagine. They then revise them when actuals are available. Good movies usually edge higher and poor movies lower due to word of mouth but not always

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[tdawg3782]

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Wife balked at our weekend plans to see this due to reviews and impressions, so on my own. Hopefully this evening or early in the week so I can stop skipping over spoiler tags.

Looks like it opened at $135m domestically. A nice chunk towards that $750m break-even point.

So I don't understand if it cost roughly $175m to produce and a little over $100m to advertise why are reports saying they need to hit $750m to break even? Break even seems like a misused phrase. Maybe $750m to be considered a success? I don't know. Just doesn't seem like it makes sense. I would think $300m or so would be breaking even.

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[RockinDaMike]

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Yeah no way 750m you're breaking even. Not even Star Wars is that high.

[Scott]

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I saw this a couple days ago, and I was pretty impressed. Only the villian was lacking IMO, which has been said by multiple people already. I was really impressed with Will Smith as Deadshot and thought he did a very good job. At first, I thought there was no way he could pull it off, but he sure did.