| LivingMetal said: As a MARVEL fan, I've taken off my fanyboy hat, and I've little by little indoctrinated myself in the the DC lore. Liked DC as a kid, not much a fan as an adult. But my daughter is getting into it which I think it's been great for her so far. I've been quite impressed with some of the animated series I've seen on Nexflix. I finally watched Man of Steel. I'll Watch BvS soon, and I'm looking forward to both Wonder Woman and JLA. But then there's Suicide Squad. Trailers look good, but I have no interest in the movie so maybe that would make it unfair when I criticize it. I don't understand the aesthetics of this movie as a movie. I understand the concept to putting all these super villains together to get a job done. But why should I care about these villains since NONE of them have been in any prior DC movie of the same continuity? And I hate to compare this with the Avengers, but we as an audience were already emotionally invested to some degree with almost all of the main characters when the first Avengers movie was released. But does anyone really care about the main characters in Suicide Squad from a theatrical continuity standpoint? We might have seen these characters in the comics, animated series, past films, but if I understand correctly, these villain are not the same character in past media. I've always beleived that movies and stories are about the characters. But this is not Conair where you meet the characters for the first time as they merrily go on their adventure. These are DC supervillians that have had such a rich history that putting them together in a movie for the first time seems like a forced attempt to fasttrack them to movie stardom status. |
Because it's basically Fight Club 2, with Angel (aka Joker) keeping Project Mayhem alive.
"You wanna know how I got these scars?"
But other than that, given it's performance on RT, I don't think there's any reason to really care about it.
