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Critics didn't like it that much and it's falling on IMDB as well. Saw AngryJoe's opinion on the movie and he made it seem awesome.
Will certainly watch it some time later.



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Angelus said:
Seen a lot of contrasting opinions on this movie. Everything from god awful to wtf are the critics thinking. Suggests to me that it's most likely down to the mindset people are going into it with. Do you wanna a flashy summer blockbuster? My guess is it's probably an enjoyable movie. Looking for some plot heavy expansion of the DC movie universe to flesh things out and rectify the perceived wrongs (whether you agree with them or not) of what came before? Probably gonna be very unsatisfied.

Agreed, amd what I've noticed is that with either the "it was pretty good after all!" crowd vs the "it was a trainwreck!" crowd is that they both end up giving it a middling score between 4-7/10 and usually end up saying it was a good enough movie to round out Summer if you just want an entertaining popcorn film. I've truly only heard two common complaints from everyone who both liked it and didn't: the villain was underwhelming and the third act of the film felt rushed and choppy. 

My conclusion is that you have to just go and see it for yourself. 



Okie_Loki said:
Angelus said:
Seen a lot of contrasting opinions on this movie. Everything from god awful to wtf are the critics thinking. Suggests to me that it's most likely down to the mindset people are going into it with. Do you wanna a flashy summer blockbuster? My guess is it's probably an enjoyable movie. Looking for some plot heavy expansion of the DC movie universe to flesh things out and rectify the perceived wrongs (whether you agree with them or not) of what came before? Probably gonna be very unsatisfied.

Agreed, amd what I've noticed is that with either the "it was pretty good after all!" crowd vs the "it was a trainwreck!" crowd is that they both end up giving it a middling score between 4-7/10 and usually end up saying it was a good enough movie to round out Summer if you just want an entertaining popcorn film. I've truly only heard two common complaints from everyone who both liked it and didn't: the villain was underwhelming and the third act of the film felt rushed and choppy. 

My conclusion is that you have to just go and see it for yourself. 

"It's a good movie" is stretching it, it has some likable characters, the plot is virtually non-existent, it has no progression whatsoever and it turns into a supernatural/magic movie by the end (if you're saying "what the fuck" ... again, exactly). Also Jared Leto sucks ass as the Joker, probably the weakest Joker put to screen, even though the Joker doesn't really even need to be in the movie, he's complete shoe-horned in for no reason. 

It isn't that entertaining either unless you have a hard-on for the characters, my friend fell asleep for about 15 minutes. There are definitely moments where it drags on. The pacing is all over the place, sometimes it moves at a decent clip, other times it crawls to halt. 

The screenwriters don't even understand basic plot construction, either that or the movie got cut so heavily in the editing process. 

What I mean by that specifically is lets take a movie like Back to the Future. Now the "setup" for Back to the Future is that Marty McFly gets stuck in 1955 with a broken time machine and has to get back to 1985. The "raising the stakes" aspect of the plot is that he runs into his parents as teenagers and causes a catastrophic change in his family time line as his own mother falls in love with him (lol). So now he has to get his sheepish father to become a man and win the love of his mother. 

Now imagine that movie, just without the second part of the plot. That's basically Suicide Squad's plot (without spoiling it), there is no progression or challenge during the plot. They have one job basically, and they just go and do it ... while stopping in a bar for a drink for 10 minutes. 

I hate to drag the whole "Marvel does it better", but in this case it's painfully true ... Deadpool basically does the whole "badass cool" angle this movie tries way too hard to hit like 10x better and even does the "dysfunctional low-rent team" thing better when Deadpool teams up with Colossus and Negasonic Teenager (or whatever her name is). 



It seems it did not hit the 145 million afterall, but hit the 135 million, because of declines on Saturday and Sunday compared to Friday. Regardless of this, it breaks records for August numbers.

I will keep you posted on second week numbers and the legs of the movie. I am glad unlike some other recent movies this movie opened well.