The Suicide Squad: General Discussion and Speculation

[emielaen]

Lol I guess I really don’t give a **** or stay up to date with audience scores cause B+ seems pretty good, not “decent-not-stellar”.

The last cinmeascore I remember seeing was a D+ for Hereditary and I just thought they had **** taste and never cared to see another cinemascore again lol

 

[DlAMONDZ]

It depends. For a horror movie a B+ is amazing. For something like Joker, it's good

I figured at least an A- seeing as both Deadpools got A's

 

[Micromind]

It depends. For a horror movie a B+ is amazing. For something like Joker, it's good

I figured at least an A- seeing as both Deadpools got A's

Yeah, If Deadpool can get A-, then there's no reason why this can't, I would even go as far as to say I think this is more entertaining movie than Deadpool.

 

[signalman]

Karl Kesel the creator of KING SHARK surprised by the casting of Stallone.

The Suicide Squad: Sylvester Stallone's Casting Surprised King Shark's Creator

 

[geosphere]

I'm watching it in theaters on Sunday btw.

I will watch it on HBO Max after seeing it in theaters for the first time.

 

[Micromind]

 

[Iceman]

Just about to go in for my showing!

 

[Gothamsknight]

Gonna watch it for a 3rd time tonight!

 

[kguillou]

Is the soundtrack out? I dont see it on spotify.

 

[Detective Conan]

 

[dhandler01]

I'm watching it in theaters on Sunday btw.

I will watch it on HBO Max after seeing it in theaters for the first time.

That seems like a pretty significant number for Thursday.

It would be nice if after the Pandemic WB/HBO Max would explain how they use the metric when it comes to evaluating a film's performance.

I am seeing this tomorrow in IMAX

 

[Iceman]

Just got out. Man this was some serious crazy fun! Totally blows the first film away.

 

[Micromind]

I have read many reviews that said the first movie provided good groundwork of introducing the concept and main characters which helped this movie as it could just focus on the story and new characters. The first movie did build the foundation which Gunn used to go further.

 

[Micromind]

Is the soundtrack out? I dont see it on spotify.

It's on YT, usually they release it on iTunes soon after, dunno about Spotify.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I have read many reviews that said the first movie provided good groundwork of introducing the concept and main characters which helped this movie as it could just focus on the story and new characters. The first movie did build the foundation which Gunn used to go further.

I would agree with that assessment. Though I don't think it actually introduced the concept well at all, the first film at least explained it. Which was leg work Gunn didn't have to do

 

[Detective Conan]

I have read many reviews that said the first movie provided good groundwork of introducing the concept and main characters which helped this movie as it could just focus on the story and new characters. The first movie did build the foundation which Gunn used to go further.

I haven’t read much reviews, but I think that’s flat out wrong. The first film did an extremely clumsy job introducing the concept to general audiences. I think if there is any SS media adaption that introduced the concept well it has to go to the Assault Of Arkham film - which did a much better job in introducing the concept but since it’s animation for a niche audience; way more people saw the live-action movie than they did that & that makes me a little sad. The only thing the first film did that was of benefit to Gunn for his movie was the casting. Which, tellingly, Gunn was willing to bring back quite a few of them back even though he wasn’t required to by Warners. Which shows, if nothing else, that Ayer did do something right in the first film.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I haven’t read much reviews, but I think that’s flat out wrong. The first film did an extremely clumsy job introducing the concept to general audiences. I think if there is any SS media adaption that introduced the concept well it has to go to the Assault Of Arkham film - which did a much better job in introducing the concept but since it’s animation for a niche audience; way more people saw the live-action movie than they did that & that makes me a little sad. The only thing the first film did, that was of benefit to Gunn for his movie was the casting. Which, tellingly, Gunn was willing to bring back quite a few of them back even though he wasn’t required to by Warners.

The issue I have with this argument is 2016's Suicide Squad was a 750 mil grosser at the BO and Assault On Arkham was a niche cartoon only fans watched. I have zero doubt the quality is better in AoA. But most people are familiar with the idea of the Suicide Squad going into this new movie based on the first movie. By a large margin. Even if the execution of the concept was bad, which it was...very much so, it did give audiences the basics. So Gunn didn't have to beat a dead horse introducing what the concept of the movie is

 

[emc5466]

Wow that CinemaScore is a disaster.

 

[emc5466]

GOTG also had weird, obscure, eccentric characters, but it was received very well. BTW, that CinemaScore explains the low projections and low tracking this movie has.

Yes, which is a shame. The general audience just wasn’t into this.

 

[dhandler01]

I admit I dont follow it much but I always seemed to remember hearing about Cinemascores a bit later. I mean it is only Saturday...

I assume (again no clue) that CS is only for the ones who went to the theater? I wonder what the HBO Max crowd thinks...

What did other Pandemic films get for CS? I mean the only film that seemed to hold an audience at all was GvK and that was extenuating circumstances.

 

[Gothamsknight]

I'm pretty surprised the GA seems to be less into this than GOTG. It's probably just me, but I'm pretty burnt on the MCU, so I felt like this was refreshing with all the characters and gore and stuff like that. Way better than something like Black Widow. But I guess, for some of the GA, it's a different story. More evidence that the formula for superhero films these days that attracts the big numbers is getting stale for me. Very curious how Matt Reeves The Batman is gonna do at the box office. i'm expecting something much bigger than TSS, I mean it's Batman, but I know that movie is being approached as more of a detective film than a blockbuster so I'm curious how the GA will respond to that.

 

[Drizzle]

GOTG also wasn’t rated R and released during a pandemic. The Suicide Squad is fun, but it’s a lot harder to market to kids even though a ton of them are probably gonna see it anyway.

 

[kguillou]

TSS is not Guardians of the Galaxy, like at all. TSS feels like a big budget niche film for us comic book fans. GoTG—while featuring obscure characters was essentially channeling a Star Wars vibe. TSS is an R rated midnight movie with a budget.

 

[emc5466]

TSS cost nearly $200m to make. That budget, in hindsight, is inexcusable.

 

[Iceman]

I think this has a chance of becoming a cult hit even after its run is done with many of the GA who stayed away finding out they like it a lot when coming across it on streaming.