| Okie_Loki said: Comparing it Deadpool and Guardians? It's not really inferior to either in all honesty. Disclosure, I've seen all three and currently own one of the aforementioned films and I can say that they are all breaths of fresh air in these genres. Guardians was fantastic and Deadpool was just crude and funny to a point where you just grinned at everything. Suicide Squad deserves to be in those same conversations. Suicide Squad was really funny and the audience was laughing quite a bit. I just don't understand half of the criticisms towards SS because it's fine if Disney or Fox do it with Marvel properties, but sure enough, DC has a funny ensemble or somewhat crude film and it's dashed by critics and the moviegoers who hold these critics up on pedestals. I don't understand why it's so important to put a number scale on something since we all have different personal scales, but if Guardians is an 8/10 for me, Deadpool a 6/10, then Suicide Squad is right in the middle at 7/10 for me. Deadpool had one thing going for it: Reynolds and his quips. Guardians had the cast, humor, and villain going for it. Suicide Squad definitely has the cast and humor as major pluses. |
I don't even like Marvel movies that much (my favorite comic book movies are The Dark Knight and Batman Begins with Burton's Batman '89 probably at three), but no way is this as good as Deadpool or Guardians.
This movie is basically trying (very hard) to be like Deadpool, but doesn't have the R-rating or clever dialogue to come close to pulling that off.
Deadpool had huge laughs and a huge reaction from the crowd I saw it with ... this movie had a couple of giggles at some forced Harley Quinn lines which got tired after 15 minutes.
Deadpool even did the whole "lets get some kitschy 70s/80s songs in the soundtrack" better by using Angel of the Morning and even Wham to good effect.
There is basically no story to this ... the plot is them *literally* fighting faceless villian hordes, they then stop to take a break at a bar for 10 minutes, then continue on, Will Smith defeats the female Mummy/Zuul (which is hillariously out of place in a movie like this), and the movie is over. This plot should be in every screenwriting book as an example of awful storytelling, there's no stakes, no drama, no escalation of events.
