The review is actually pretty accurate; it's a very middling-quality movie with some exceptional character acting and some really awful, cringe-inducing editing.
As for why we'd care about DC's franchise...well, I actually
liked Batman v Superman. And Suicide Squad failing to take off makes it less likely that I'll see a Wonder Woman trilogy and an Affleck-directed Batman solo film. So if I had to answer "why do we care," it's because we're keen to see the characters on screen and because there was stuff we actually really liked (Wonder Woman) that they haven't fucked up yet.
You know, the whole thing is like watching a guy trying to make love to a beautiful woman, only every time he lines his Johnson up it slips to the side, and every time he gets a good rhythm going it slides out, and all the while there's a huge studio audience booing every time he fucks it up, and ten feet away there's an adult film shooting and the performers are doing all kinds of acrobatics you wouldn't think a human penis could endure.
The porn star is Marvel, in this analogy.
Solkard said:
So is it the first or second act that's weak? Because different reviews seem to have different opinions on that part. Could it be that it was just composed of too many different segments, that there was too little crossover in appeal?
Mostly the first. I felt it improved in the second act, when the squad actually gets together and starts doing stuff. The entire first act is pseudo-edgy exposition that clumsily sets up every character in the film.
Some reviews I read actually had the opposite opinion; that only the first act was worth watching, and the rest was standard superhero fare. Maybe I'm wrong; or maybe those reviewers are dumb, and they need to go to stupid person jail for first-degree ignorance.
fluxy100 said:
Can anyone answer me one question about the movie? Why on earth would anyone put Harley in the team? She doesn't have powers, she's a decent level acrobat and that's about it, and she brings multiple maladies and instabilities into a team. Harley actively makes a team worse for her being in there. I feel like the only reason she's in the team is "Hey she's related to joker and that's the only batman villain people know so put her in"
In a lot of appearances, Harley is the Joker's muscle, in that she fights Batman for him while he escapes. Anyone who fisticuffs with Batman on a semi-regular basis probably deserves to be on the team.
In reality, it's just that she's a popular but still secondary villain character, and the Suicide Squad comics were entirely based around the idea of taking a bunch of popular-but-still-secondary villains and having them do a team-up. Hence Deadshot, Killer Croc, etc. etc. So you're mostly right on that part; the reason this doesn't bother me is because I fucking love Harley Quinn, and Margot Robbie nailed the role so hard it was walking funny the next morning.
Zhukov said:
So you're saying it's a DCappointment?
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Please don't hurt me.
Man, they outta put you on a suicide squad just for making that pun.
..."Pun Platoon."
