Suicide Squad (David Ayer, 2016) Movie • Page 61

I don't hate the concept of Suicide Squad at all. In fact, it has the potential to be one of the best superhero movies ever. Unfortunately, what we saw last year was a shallow, shitty representation of what could have been.

 

Truly one of the bigger gaps in cinema between idea and execution

 

The trailer for SS made it look like it was going to be great.

 

100%. I feel like if you have primary examples of what has been working for a rival company, the history of what made these characters work in other iterations on the big screen, and a stellar cast that the final film was an impossible feat. Like, I am impressed that they had so much potential and an open runway, yet somehow managed to never even get the plane off the ground.

 

Of course they didn't get the plane off the ground, they flew around in helicopters in this movie. And I think they all crashed. Awkward.

 

Gavin O'Connor to Direct 'Suicide Squad 2'

That's definitely a choice

 

Recast the joker, have the Suicide Squad go after the Joker. This was so easy to not fuck up

 

Jake Gyllenhaal should be the JOKR.

 

Oh, you're so kind to suggest that

 

I like O'Connor a lot. That is a pretty good choice.

 

Kill off the Leto Joker and make a new Joker.

 

Another option.

 

This trailer in particular made it look like an entirely different movie:

 

Seriously. I remember having such different feelings about Leto being Joker from that trailer. Was expecting a lot more than we received.

 

I love that Leto did so much pretentious stuff only for people to go "meh" at his 11 minutes of screen time

 

I don't really blame Leto for his blah Joker, I blame the writers. I'm cautiously optimistic that they'll get it write in the sequel.

 

I certainly blame Leto for a real shitty performance

 

The character is the joker........I don't see how the actual performance was bad. People have it out for this movie though.

 

I mean, he did the best that he could with the words written on the script. Personally I thought he had the mannerisms and voice down well, but had to work with really crumby material.

 

Yeah his actual script of lines was really bad. If had been more prominent in the movie and had a bit more of his own leeway with it I'd imagine it would've been 10x's better.

 

I thought his acting was at least as bad as the script and I usually like him as an actor.

 

I threw up when he purred

 

Umm, how is it Leto's fault?

The script was trash. This Hot Topic re characterization of the Joker was gonna suck regardless of the actor.

 

The script sucked. Jared Leto's performance sucked.