What Would You Have Done Different/How Would You Have Changed SS? (SPOILERS)

[Ultra Nolanite]

Also the Task Force X should've been active for a while. We didn't need to see the origin story o the Squad.

Just the addition of maybe two or three new members freshly caught by Batman and the Flash or something.

Task Force X should've been operating in the shadows for years before the movie starts.

 

[MadVillainy]

I think it was best that they showed the origin.

Why shouldn't they have shown the Squad forming

 

[JtheDreamer]

Get rid of the magic/Enchantress angle. Was a very poor decision on the WB's part to have that in there.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I don't get why so many people have a problem with the magic. Enchantress was a part of the Squad from the very beginning.

 

[JtheDreamer]

I don't get why so many people have a problem with the magic. Enchantress was a part of the Squad from the very beginning.

Well having her as the main antagonist is what killed it for the most part. It's when it all derailed for me personally. It morphed into silly generic destruction porn riding paper thin motivations.

As many have previously said - this movie would have been better served as a heist film of some kind and/or raid on Arkham.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Well having her as the main antagonist is what killed it for the most part. It's when it all derailed for me personally. It morphed into silly generic destruction porn riding paper thin motivations.

As many have previously said - this movie would have been better served as a heist film of some kind and/or raid on Arkham.

Okay, I get it. I thought people were against them using magic in general. But yeah, they'd have been better served doing a more traditional covert ops Squad mission. No raids on Arkham, though, that's not any more original than Enchantress' scheme.

 

[Loki882]

Keep the Enchantress, but don't have her go so bad so soon. Also don't have it be a massive apocalyptic "destroy the world for stupid reasons" plot, or have her spend a bib chunk of her time dancing goofily in front of a machine.

Make the mission smaller in scale (so that this team feels appropriate for the situation) and more covert/espionage-ish.

 

[metaphysician]

Also, it kind of begs all kinds of questions about "Why would you need the Suicide Squad to acquire something from Arkham? Why not just send police, or federal agents, or whatnot?"

 

[Loki882]

Well in the AOA animated movie, it was revealed that Waller had more self-interested secret motives. So sending in government people would not be good for her. Whereas an expendable team of criminals that she can throw under the bus if necessary, works much better.

Also don't "tame" the Squad up so much, give Boomerang, Katana, and Killer Croc more to do, don't telegraph the "sacrificial lamb" character so obviously so quickly, etc.

 

[metaphysician]

Personally, if I were redoing the plot, I'd have the "sacrificial lamb" die. . . at the *training camp*, as part of Waller giving a "you have all been selected" type speech. Somebody ( *coughSlipknot* ) is openly defiant and badly behaved, and so Waller presses a button, and their head explodes, splattering on the Squaddies around the guy. Waller than coldly continues explaining the rules, having demonstrated that, yes, the threat is real, and yes, she really will kill you.

And then I'd have a segment that heavily implies Waller chose that particular "recruit" *specifically* because he could be expected to make trouble immediately, and thus create an excuse for an "example". His role was always to die in the introductions.

 

[gdw]

Also, it kind of begs all kinds of questions about "Why would you need the Suicide Squad to acquire something from Arkham? Why not just send police, or federal agents, or whatnot?"

Because you don't use police for off the books, illegal, ops.

 

[Guts]

The Squad story that the movie should have been based on.

 

[Web-Head]

Made it a smaller scale thing the Squad would be after. Give more time to members of the Squad to make us actually care or want to see them succeed. Other than Deadshot and maybe El Diablo, I didn't really care emotionally for the characters.

 

[kguillou]

As much as I enjoyed Harley, she felt SO out of her element here. Almost borderline useless. You really need to give a group like this a more grounded, infiltration type mission, where people like Harley and Captain Boomerang could really contribute to the mission.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I think they really should have left Moon dead. Not only would it have made Flagg's sacrifice more poignant, the tragic victory would have been more fitting to the source. Plus, it would leave Flagg with nothing left to turn to but return to the Squad. Now Waller loses her leverage over him, something they'll have to explain in a sequel.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

I feel Task Force X should have been a strictly Black Ops team that doesn't deals with more smaller scale threats that feel a tad more believable as an opponent for the Squad, rather than having someone like Boomerang who throws objects at a centuries old witch.

 

[MadVillainy]

I think they really should have left Moon dead. Not only would it have made Flagg's sacrifice more poignant, the tragic victory would have been more fitting to the source. Plus, it would leave Flagg with nothing left to turn to but return to the Squad. Now Waller loses her leverage over him, something they'll have to explain in a sequel.

Agreed. That came off as a focus group ending to me

 

[Angel0fDeath]

Wouldn't change anything from the story, characters etc. Just the technical stuff - horrible editing, garbage music.

edit:
Well, maybe one thing - The ending. If you're gonna have the Joker in a security guard uniform, why blow up the prison to get in ? Have them come inside like they're going on a new mission and then reveal that it's actually Mr. J coming to get Harley.

 

[Flint Marko]

Would've made it a smaller-scale conflict and spent more time with each character. I would've liked it, even with the spotty editing and haphazard music selection, had we seen more interaction between them throughout the movie. Out of every DCEU film thus far, this had the most potential because of how much I enjoyed several of the characters.

The bar scene was good, but it would've landed better had we seen the relationships build up in a more satisfying, organic way. Hearing Diablo refer to them as a "family" was pretty jarring.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Would've made it a smaller-scale conflict and spent more time with each character. I would've liked it, even with the spotty editing and haphazard music selection, had we seen more interaction between them throughout the movie.

The bar scene was good, but it would've landed better had we seen the relationships build up in a more satisfying, organic way. Hearing Diablo refer to them as a "family" was pretty jarring.

Spot-on.

 

[KillerWolf]

Smaller, covert operation would certainly be a much better way to go.

Ostrander, pretty much said that himself:

"The story is a little more generic 'we have to save the world' than I usually did; I always liked having one foot squarely in reality."

http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...e-squad-says-critics-came-prepared-to-hate-it

 

[metaphysician]

Agreed. That came off as a focus group ending to me

Agreed. I suspect in the original cut, Moon *did* die.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Change reasons why Task force X squad made. Get rid of Enchantress and Joker. Set movie in Arkham like assault on Arkham movie. Give Croc and Katana and Boomerang more to do.

 

[Guts]

Why Arkham?

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Watch assault on Arkham movie. Better Suicide Squad movie.