Suicide Squad getting horrible reviews

[TheCount]

What are his five best performances?

I love that it's become trendy to crap on Will Smith.

 

[DallasDomination]

What are his five best performances?

I liked concussion and pursuit of happiness to name a few.. I don't have a list of movies but I've always liked him tbo.

 

[DallasDomination]

First I didn't hate Batman vs Superman

I'll put that out there for those in here to understand that fact before I speak about Suicide Squad.



Now Suicide Squad...I watched it last night...it was a decent movie. It wasn't great. It wasn't spectacular and it doesn't wow you. I thought it was decent though.

I felt like Harley Quinn and Dead Shot were, by far, the best characters in the show. They were done very well and I enjoyed them. Robbie and Smith played them absolutely great, IMO.

I felt like the movie made Captain Boomerang actual seem like a decent enough character. Generally speaking I think the character is awful but in this movie he was passable.

Killer Croc was absolutely AWFUL. It wasn't the actor so much, as he doesn't speak a whole lot, but they definitely should have CGI'd the character because he's way, way, way to freaking small to be Killer Croc. It was just bad.

The lady playing Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) was excellent. I thought she absolutely captured the character pretty much to perfection. Extremely well done on her part.

Jared Leto as the Joker...I won't say a let down as I didn't expect much. All I can say really is that he didn't ruin the movie, as I was worried he would, but he wasn't good as The Joker IMO.

The only thing I felt he did well was he showed the crazy person side pretty well but it seemed more like just a regular crazy person. What I mean is if he was just playing in a movie about someone in a nut house and it was just a random movie about a regular crazy person he'd have done a pretty solid job because he captured that part.

But being as that he's playing the Joker, with a particular personality and such I don't feel like he did anything that actually captured the Joker's personality. His laugh was...ehhh. It just wasn't good. The voice was not good. And he completely whiffed, IMO, on the personality of the Joker.

But all that said he wasn't so terrible with any of it that it ruined the movie. Which is good on his part. At least he didn't ruin it.


Overall I feel like the movie was probably deserving of nothing higher than a 6, and if we're being real honest it probably shouldn't even get above a 5.

But the performances of Smith, Robbie and Davis bumps it up a bit more for me simply because I thought they did such a good job with their characters. So I'd give it a 7.5 just because of their performances.

Thats kind of how I saw it too.. Smith and Robbie did their best to elevate a rather cappy movie. I also agree with Jared Leto as the joker. He aimed high and went for it but he fell short. He seemed more like just a crazy person but without that edge. Heath Ledger really took that role to an almost unreachable level.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

I love that it's become trendy to crap on Will Smith.

people love to pull someone down for no other reason than their success

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

This morning industry weekend estimates for Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad have risen to $146M-plus after a $65M Friday. Combined with the pic’s three-day foreign run of $64.6M, Suicide Squad‘s current global cume stands at $130M.

 

[cml750]

My son and I just went to see it. It started off fairly good and then was really bad. I guess I would maybe give it a 4 out of 10. Still better than the turd floater Man of Steel but not as good as Batman V Superman which was pretty bad itself. I think it is time to quit giving DC my money thus enabling them to make bad movies. I will probably wait for the next DC movie to come to Red Box and rent it unless it gets great reviews from the start.

 

[cml750]

I honestly believe it is time for DC to do a complete reboot. Their movies are an embarrassment to the great comic book characters I grew up with. They should try hiring good writers and directors who are comics fans.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

I honestly believe it is time for DC to do a complete reboot. Their movies are an embarrassment to the great comic book characters I grew up with. They should try hiring good writers and directors who are comics fans.

They need directors who have experience with big budget films. But don't want to pay the price to get those.

 

[TheCount]

They need directors who have experience with big budget films. But don't want to pay the price to get those.

You think so? I think that's a sure way to make matters worse.

Before Jon Favreau directed Ironman, he came off Zathura (What?) which had a budget of $65 mil. Iron Man had a budget of $140m, so $65m was nothing in comparison.

Based on the types of movies David Ayer had directed in the past, Suicide Squad seemed like a good fit. I really doubt direction is where things went wrong.

Also worth noting that the movie currently has a fan rating of 73%, meanwhile the critic rating has dropped even lower to 26%.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

In Ayer, Warner Bros. enlisted a director who had never made a giant, effects-packed action movie. Hiring filmmakers who lack such experience is the trend, and it's often out of necessity. "There are a lot of people who don't want to direct those movies and that's a huge problem," says one producer with franchise experience. "A lot of the proven guys are back-to-back with their stuff, or they want to develop it for five years, and there's a machine that has to be fed. And there's the economics." Seasoned directors are expensive, meaning studios turn to those with less experience, relying on instinct that they will be up to the job. Sometimes it works (Colin Trevorrow on Jurassic World), and sometimes it doesn't (James Bobin on Alice Through the Looking Glass).
'Suicide Squad's' Secret Drama: Rushed Production, Competing Cuts, High Anxiety

 

[jrumann59]

First I didn't hate Batman vs Superman

I'll put that out there for those in here to understand that fact before I speak about Suicide Squad.



Now Suicide Squad...I watched it last night...it was a decent movie. It wasn't great. It wasn't spectacular and it doesn't wow you. I thought it was decent though. Yes it was decent

I felt like Harley Quinn and Dead Shot were, by far, the best characters in the show. They were done very well and I enjoyed them. Robbie and Smith played them absolutely great, IMO. I will agree with this along with Flagg's Character

I felt like the movie made Captain Boomerang actual seem like a decent enough character. Generally speaking I think the character is awful but in this movie he was passable. I do not know if they used his character right seemed campy, for wrestling fans Brooklyn Brawler-ish.

Killer Croc was absolutely AWFUL. It wasn't the actor so much, as he doesn't speak a whole lot, but they definitely should have CGI'd the character because he's way, way, way to freaking small to be Killer Croc. It was just bad. I agree too many wierd camera angles to give him the hulking feel.

The lady playing Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) was excellent. I thought she absolutely captured the character pretty much to perfection. Extremely well done on her part. Pam Grier played the role pretty good on Smallville, too bad DC comics have her changing dress sizes like Oprah

Jared Leto as the Joker...I won't say a let down as I didn't expect much. All I can say really is that he didn't ruin the movie, as I was worried he would, but he wasn't good as The Joker IMO. I could not stand anything about this guy's look, the personality was not too bad but he was more of a sledgehammer instead of that crazy like a fox that the Joker really is.

The only thing I felt he did well was he showed the crazy person side pretty well but it seemed more like just a regular crazy person. What I mean is if he was just playing in a movie about someone in a nut house and it was just a random movie about a regular crazy person he'd have done a pretty solid job because he captured that part.

But being as that he's playing the Joker, with a particular personality and such I don't feel like he did anything that actually captured the Joker's personality. His laugh was...ehhh. It just wasn't good. The voice was not good. And he completely whiffed, IMO, on the personality of the Joker.

But all that said he wasn't so terrible with any of it that it ruined the movie. Which is good on his part. At least he didn't ruin it. He was too much of the secondary focus of the movie and that dragged it down for me. I also wish they would have addressed the scenario the movie opened with, I wont spoil it, but it did not make any chronological sense.


Overall I feel like the movie was probably deserving of nothing higher than a 6, and if we're being real honest it probably shouldn't even get above a 5.

But the performances of Smith, Robbie and Davis bumps it up a bit more for me simply because I thought they did such a good job with their characters. So I'd give it a 7.5 just because of their performances.

Comments above I would give it 6.5 because the Joker Montana thing was painful to watch, he did not scream Arch Nemesis of Batman, Harley was actually tougher, and more cunning.

 

[jrumann59]

I love that it's become trendy to crap on Will Smith.

I will say his has been one of Will Smith's better performances recently, but it is really no different from his characters in MiB, ID4, Bad Boys

 

[jrumann59]

You think so? I think that's a sure way to make matters worse.

Before Jon Favreau directed Ironman, he came off Zathura (What?) which had a budget of $65 mil. Iron Man had a budget of $140m, so $65m was nothing in comparison.

Based on the types of movies David Ayer had directed in the past, Suicide Squad seemed like a good fit. I really doubt direction is where things went wrong.

Also worth noting that the movie currently has a fan rating of 73%, meanwhile the critic rating has dropped even lower to 26%.

Personally I blame the demand for 3D that destroys the cinematography of a lot of block buster movies, because they need it to come at you as a viewer so they try and shoot it that way which makes for some bad camera wrk sense.

 

[BAZ]

I love that it's become trendy to crap on Will Smith.

Cop on to yourself, some people always thought he was brutal. Take his poster off your wall, the fresh prince was a long time ago.

 

[BAZ]

I liked concussion and pursuit of happiness to name a few.. I don't have a list of movies but I've always liked him tbo.

Fair enough, I've always considered him, Cruise and Denzel in the same vain as actors I just can't buy into.

 

[BAZ]

people love to pull someone down for no other reason than their success

What a load of bollox.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

What a load of bollox.

oh...you must be new to the internet

 

[BAZ]

oh...you must be new to the internet

You must waddle around with your head up your hole.

 

[TheCount]

Cop on to yourself, some people always thought he was brutal. Take his poster off your wall, the fresh prince was a long time ago.

lol, sure thing champ.

 

[rynochop]

I will say his has been one of Will Smith's better performances recently, but it is really no different from his characters in MiB, ID4, Bad Boys

I guess that's my problem with smith, he's basically the same character in every movie.

As far as reviewers, I wish there was a way I could see what they thought about movies I liked to put any credence in a movie I haven't seen. If they say a comedy sucks, but didn't like Old School or Anchorman, then I'm going to ignore them