Suicide Squad- Yay or Nay?

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(08-03-2016, 11:20 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: Most critics hate, absolutely loathe these types of movies for whatever reason so whatever they say, take it with a spoonful of salt. They love artsy-fartsy types of movies, Lost In Translation, anyone? Sure, it may have not been a bad movie but Academy Award type? Nope.

Anyway, the only way to know if it's a bad movie is to see it yourself. Fans of the comics will love it while people who never heard of the comic will pass, like me. I'm not going to go see it although I like Will Smith and that girl looks hot on the commercials.

For instance, critics destroyed Warcraft here in the United States but it was the first or second ever grossing video game movie in China. It made roughly $400,000,000.00 I think worldwide. Fans of the game loved it but those who never played the game had no clue what was going on. They had fun but they won't see it again.

In other words, don't listen to critics. They will only break your heart. If you want to see it but unsure how it will turn out, see it during a matinee or wait to rent it out of RedBox.

I disagree. Marvel movies kill it.

Cap 1: 80%, Cap 2: 89%, Cap 3: 90%. Avengers 1: 92% , Iron Man: 94%, Guardians: 92%.

There are four in the 70's and two in the 60's, but even a 66% is considered "fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes ratings. 

Fox has done well with their X-Men franchise. As others have said, Deadpool got awesome reviews (84%), X-Men days of Future Past got a 91% and First Class 86%. Apocalypse was garbage and got garbage reviews (48%). Of their older stuff, X-Men Origins and the 3rd one got bad reviews, but the first two got in the 80s. 

What we're seeing that, for the most part, Fox and Marvel studios are making extremely well received movies in the last 10 years. Even 4 of the 5 Sony Spider-Man movies got good reviews.

Suicide Squad isn't getting bad reviews because it's a comic book movie. Apparently it just sucks as a movie. Apparently DC is doing a bad job at starting their new film universe, and there are a lot of underlying reasons for that. It seems like they're trying to play catch up instead of letting it fall together organically. Man of Steel- 55%, BvS: 27%, SS: 26%. It's almost like...

(08-05-2016, 11:34 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: The DC movies just feel forced to me. There's not that smooth progression and build up. It's too much material to take in all at once and it just becomes jumbled.

Hell, look at the fan ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. While they're higher (66%-75%), they're nothing compared to the 84-92% ratings on Marvel films.


Also, Warcraft was garbage. I played WoW on and off for 8 years and I played WC3. I loved the lore of the series. I don't think it was the worst movie I saw this year, but it left a lot to be desired. It set up the possibility of a good WC2 inspired sequel, but if you didn't already know the WC 1 and 2 lore, the movie was hard to follow. Too much thrown onto the screen. That's bad story telling.