Dude I wanted to like this movie. I'm the easiest to please. I even enjoyed BvS and Warcraft. It was horrible. A Netflix b movie type flick. I seriously regretted going. That's super rare for me. The complaints are warranted. If it has all those negatives combined yes it's shit.
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Dude I wanted to like this movie. I'm the easiest to please. I even enjoyed BvS and Warcraft. It was horrible. A Netflix b movie type flick. I seriously regretted going. That's super rare for me. The complaints are warranted. If it has all those negatives combined yes it's shit.
Killer Queen
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Read my post again.
Well...yeah? Who enjoys see someone or something they dislike succeed? :lol
Monocle
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Sad to see such a mess be so profitable. Mostly because I want DC to have a financial incentive to do right by its great characters.
If you want a legit great DC movie, like The Dark Knight, sometime in the next few decades, you should hope their current direction fails.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
I mean you could realize that the world doesnt revolve around you and thus not every piece of entertainment needs to please you to justify its existence.
But that would require being an adult.
The Transformers films make absolute bank, people will watch all sorts of shite.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
You can not care about it.
Killer Queen
Banned
People like them so who cares. It's such a trivial thing to complain about. No one is forcing you to watch them so let those that do live and let be, and again that's not to say you can't express your displeasure with said films but there's a way to do it that's constructive and one that's not worth anyone's time.
I don't mind
Like at the end of the day enough things I do enjoy do well. Enough things I don't fail.
I'll move on to the next thing.
I don't know. SS's problems are the easiest to fix. For most people it was pacing, plot and villain. So it's not something like BvS to JL to many where felt fundamentally got chars and tone off.
It's an easy enough switch, and sure they took some of the complaints to heart.
Chill. I wasn't even talking about this movie, I was talking about in general. If a lazy prick at work gets a promotion and a raise, do you stop and think, "Hey, good for him, glad to see him succeed?"
I haven't seen the movie yet, so I frankly don't care.
heliosRAzi
Banned
The same goes for those who like it. Just saying "it's a great movie" doesn't add to the discussion either.
Hope they make a sequel and we get to work on it again.
Did you work on the sfx?
Killer Queen
Banned
Not saying it is, but I see that a lot less.
Glass Rebel
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heliosRAzi
Banned
Probably because the film is bad.
MidnightCowboy
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Some movies are so bad they don't deserve insightful criticism and thoughtful posts. Suicide Squad is one such movie. It's pure trash from beginning to end. The single redeeming quality of the movie is Slipknot.
Killer Queen
Banned
Great, glad you feel that way but it's not the point either of us are arguing. So if you're done here.
-shadow-
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I enjoyed the film. But I wont deny that the editing, pacing, editing, humour, editing, story and the editing weren't an absolutely disaster. I really wonder if we'll ever see the original intended cut.
Oh and why the hell was it rated PG-13 anyway? It's a film entirely about the freakin villains!
It didn't even achieve that!? Man that is depressing! I almost saw it twice on the big screen because I thought it really was that good! ;_;
Oh and why the hell was it rated PG-13 anyway? It's a film entirely about the freakin villains!
And Kubo didn't even make its budget back.
It didn't even achieve that!? Man that is depressing! I almost saw it twice on the big screen because I thought it really was that good! ;_;
Mass_Pincup
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I was talking in general.
EscoBlades
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Nah i'm good. There is NOTHING constructive about this approach or mindset. That said, i'm not surprised one bit to see it in this thread, on this forum.
It isn't that deep.
Glass Rebel
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You're not really arguing anything here, simply whining about other people whining. Hiding it behind posts where you act all concerned about how posters aren't discussing it properly and try to police what others can write doesn't make it an "argument" so get off your high horse.
Killer Queen
Banned
Ironically, then aren't you doing the same thing? I'm not on any high horse and youre right people can post what they want, as can I express my irritation with continued trends. But if you're going to attempt to make a post like that you could at least try a bit harder to not be hypocritical.
Discotheque
Banned
I really liked the deadshot intro with his profile and stats and then the scene showing him work. That's about it. Mere minutes of a 2 hour movie.
heliosRAzi
Banned
I liked the assassination we saw with him killing someone using a ricochet, but then he doesn't do anything like that ever again.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
1. Amazing marketing
2. No big competition in August
3. Joker and Harley Quinn
4. Trendy music artists in soundtrack
5. ?????
6. Profit
2. No big competition in August
3. Joker and Harley Quinn
4. Trendy music artists in soundtrack
5. ?????
6. Profit
Glass Rebel
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I don't pretend to have an interest in "productive and constructive" discussion because a movie I like is getting lambasted on a video game forum. But try harder next time.
Read my post again. If a movie fails all of your specific listed criteria it's shit. The movie is all around bad. Getting specific every time isn't worth it when a post directly above yours has usually gone into detail.
People care because the movies could easily be better. This isn't hard to understand.
it's funny that ayer took to twitter to try and claim that this was his cut when the reviews hit, what a load of bollocks. it obvious several scenes were cut and the reshoots additions were noticeably awkward. that and leto was notably pissed in an interview when he realised he was barely in the film.
and that's a bit weird, it was definitely a 15 here in the UK.
Schweinehund
Member
It never ceases to amaze me how people that dislike a (or all) CBM can't stop talking about them like a literal broken record. Why invest so much time in something you claim to hate?
Killer Queen
Banned
"Pretend"
Alright, so you're now whining about someone whining about other people whining then hiding behind the "videogame forum" defense. Very mature of you. And yet funily enough the person I was having a discussion with and I despite having opposite opinions found a way to discuss our opposing stances in a calm and civil way and came to an understanding.
But you don't actually have any interest in discussing anything nor do you have any argument (funny how hypocrisy works) and thus we don't have anything to talk about.
I never said you couldn't feel like the movie is bad, you're arguing against points I never brought up. You're entirely missing the mark. If its not worth stating why than its probably not worth posting at all, sure you can post whatever you want but what's the point of posting on a forum for discussion if you're not contributing to said discussion. You just want your voice to be heard
heliosRAzi
Banned
I just don't like it when people try to curate thread discussion by ushering out negative comments. You're basically telling the people who don't like the movie to ignore it and move on. Leave the thread for people who like the movie. Not everyone has the time to discuss the movie in depth. Not everyone has the words and concepts to articulate why they don't like the movie. And that's alright.
Discotheque
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I don't hate them. I actually kinda like BvS. But they're more fun to whine and talk about than they are to watch lately.
hydragonwarrior
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Marketing was as fantastic as Batman vs Supes, not sure why this is surprising.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Yay! Movie didn't break $8 billion, like I was hoping, but I guess it made a fair amount of money in the end. Was it successful though? That's another matter.
Seriously though, I hope people stop pulling numbers out of their asses, like they did with BvS and SS, and running with it as to how much something should make to be successful come Wonder Woman and Justice League
Seriously though, I hope people stop pulling numbers out of their asses, like they did with BvS and SS, and running with it as to how much something should make to be successful come Wonder Woman and Justice League
Glass Rebel
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well, not the part about liking BvS
had way more fun talking about how they fucked up on a technical level and how racist suicide squad was
I don't think you trying to police threads and what gets posted in them merits any civil discussion.
Wait, how was the movie racist?
Glass Rebel
Member
did you miss like everything about killer croc?
I can't blame you, he was barely there and I wish I could forget about it as well
Killer Croc liking bet is racist because he's black, I think. And he says "ain't axing."
El Diablo is racist because he's the one character who's actually relatable...
Deadshot is racist because he says "white people" and calls Harley doll face.
And the film implies Waller is Satan.
Killer Queen
Banned
Like I said, I don't care if people don't like the film and obviously people are entirely free to ignore how I feel and post whatever they want. But it would be nice if a forum for discussion contributed to more discussion than circle jerking, not just with this film but for anything really. Because then it becomes an echo chamber and where's the fun in that?
Also it's fine to not be particularly articulate and you're right not everyone has the ability and this is a separate issue entirely but it also irritates me when that kind of posting bleeds into other threads. Like say if Will Smith was starring in another movie unrelated to DC, someone will use it as an opportunity to express their feelings on this movie, not Will Smith's acting in this movie, but the movie itself and its just kind of "there's a time and a place for everything" and I find that behaviour particularly annoying. It's a site wide problem, not just this film but today it just kinda ticked me off.
But like I said everyone is free to ignore me and post what they want and I'm not going to quote everyone and tell them to cut it out that's "policing" but I'm just as much allowed to express my frustrations as anyone else so I find the complaints that I should shut up and let others say what they want ironic when I'm not A: Stopping anyone from doing so and B: they're now doing the thing they're complaining about.
shira
Member
These movies are meant to make a lot more than $750M.
So 8/13 MCU films flopped then, by that metric.
They still do. It's extremely apparent that this movie could've made substantially more money if it had reviewed well, same with BvS.
In fact, these movies doing well but not setting the world on fire is a legitimate financial incentive to do better next time, while them bombing outright is a financial incentive to stop making them altogether/for a very long time.
They do though. There are all the related tie-in promotions, toys, shirts and other junk for fans to buy. And, if people like SS/BvS then they're more likely to see the next film in the DCEU.
Finishing less than $10M domestic and less than $25M worldwide behind Guardians of the Galaxy (not factoring in the $96M GotG made in China), is clearly a horrible result. WB was totally expecting way more from their August film, deapite the fact that GotG is the biggest August film of all time.
DCEU's days are numbered. Expect Justice League 2 to be a made for TV film premiering after a showing of part 4 of the Divergence series.
Glad to hear it. The movie wasn't wow by any means, but I was entertained throughout. It was however, nowhere near as good as I had hoped it would be; I was expecting something groundbreaking in the genre with it being the first "villains are the protagonists" CBM.
Edit: the soundtrack was fucking goat
It's 0:05 here and having just come across this gif, I can already say, "Today was a good day".
Edit: the soundtrack was fucking goat
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