Suicide Squad

[MahrinSkel]

That's pretty much me, too. I expect these to suck, and don't have any expectation to see any of them in theaters or any other setting I am paying for. My 'cable, if I even notice or I'm bored' list, not even worth raising the black flag for.

--Dave

[Evildrider]

Well I know why Will Smith took this film.. so his brain dead spawn Jayden can get cast as Static Shock.   

[Riggswolfe]

I'll be blunt. Arrow couldn't use Harley Quinn and lost Deadshot because of this movie. At this point I'm actively hoping for this movie to crash and burn harder than After Earth did so DC has the chance to learn a lesson. (I know they won't learn it.) This just looks pretty awful all around...

Well I know why Will Smith took this film.. so his brain dead spawn Jayden can get cast as Static Shock.   

That kid...I swear. He was ok in that dismal Karate Kid remake, as in, he didn't single handedly ruin it but I'm still not impressed. Thankfully I have no idea who Static Shock is.

[Merusk]

Did you avoid superhero cartoons in the early 00's?

http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/staticshock/index.jsp

DC Teen Superhero that does impossible things with the power of static electricity. (though apparently it's electromagnetisim)  Think a teenage black Magneto w/o the Holocaust angst.

[Surlyboi]

Static shock is based on Static. From the DC Milestone imprint of the early 90s.

[Khaldun]

Static is pretty much Black Teenage Peter Parker Superhero in the original comic without the Parker angst--light-hearted, likes to quip a lot, has lots of complicated relationship and friendship troubles, generally fun.

[Surlyboi]

It was a good counter to the heaviness of Blood Syndicate.

[Riggswolfe]

Static is pretty much Black Teenage Peter Parker Superhero in the original comic without the Parker angst--light-hearted, likes to quip a lot, has lots of complicated relationship and friendship troubles, generally fun.

So, he'll be in a grey tinted world dealing with his grief and loss while occasionally fighting bad guys in his almost grey costume in the movie version?

[Khaldun]

Static 100% does not work in the Cinematic DCU as it stands. Not even remotely.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Static 100% does not work in the Cinematic DCU as it stands. Not even remotely.

Grimdark Static.

[jgsugden]

Spidey 3.

[Furiously]

A Huntress/Question romantic comedy would be 10 times as fun as this movie. Actually now I want a Question tv show. He made the DCAU.

[Johny Cee]

A Huntress/Question romantic comedy would be 10 times as fun as this movie. Actually now I want a Question tv show. He made the DCAU.

I'd watch a Clancy Brown voiced Luthor and Hamill voiced Joker in a remake of the Odd Couple.

[Evildrider]

At the rate DC is going, if Squirrel Girl was one of their characters she would be in this movie.

[jgsugden]

No thank you. I don't need to see 1000000 grim dark depressed squirrels. If I want depressing animals, I'll go watch a shelter commercial.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Grimdark squirrel girl already exists.

http://illwillpress.com/

 

[Evildrider]

So apparently the movie is so grimdark that David Ayers hired an on set therapist, in case actors broke down.   

[NowhereMan]

I suspect that was just when they realised what this is likely to do at the box office.

[penfold]

So apparently the movie is so grimdark that David Ayers hired an on set therapist, in case actors broke down.   

Bleh, in the 70s they would just push them to have a breakdown to make for a better film. The making of Apocalypse Now was just as fraught as Heart of Darkness.

[Evildrider]

Suicide Squad Comic-Con first look trailer.


Meh, doesn't do much for me.

[Ironwood]

hahhahha, omg, that fucking sucks.

[Tannhauser]

Lame.

[Nevermore]

Well that looked as awful as I expected, especially Marilyn Manson the Joker.

[schild]

See, I think this looks great because comic books are stupid.

Though mostly it just makes me want Jared Leto to play Spider Jerusalem.

[RhyssaFireheart]

What was that?  I mean, it was just... I don't know.  Trying a bit too hard with the weird factor, IMO.

[Mattemeo]

I'm actually more impressed than I thought I would be, though my expectations were pretty much rock bottom. I'm still not keen on Leto Joker's design but I know better than to dismiss an actor's potential to play a part these days. It's not 'my' Suicide Squad (or 'my' Harley for that matter), but it's possibly not the disaster everyone here pretty much thought. I wonder how much I'd like the trailer if they weren't using I Started A Joke though...

[Velorath]

See, I think this looks great because comic books are stupid.

I feel like it will be a shitty Suicide Squad movie, but a perfectly ok David Ayer movie.

[Khaldun]

Doesn't work for me. Looks like it's going straight up for splitting "caper movie" and "comic-book movie" without the manic energy that the best of the former have and without the four-color energy that the best of the latter have.

[HaemishM]

I liked it better than the Batman/Superman trailer, but the more I think on it, the more I realize it's a REALLY shitty trailer. None of the characters are given names. You have no idea if the Joker is supposed to be the main villain or if he will be part of the squad. If you don't look closely, you won't even see Batman. If you don't know who any of these characters are, the only connection you'll see or hear to the DC Universe is the mention of Superman. And Leto's Joker is far enough away from Ledger's or Nicholson's portrayal that you could argue he's just a weirdo psycho.

I was impressed in that I thought it would look a shitload worse, but as a "this is a DC Universe movie" trailer, a serious and early attempt to create a shared universe, it's a really shitty trailer.

[jgsugden]

Nothing impressive there. Leto's Joker seems pretty bland.

[MediumHigh]

This will suck.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Problem with this joker is he probably won't be funny at all.

[Evildrider]

Problem with this joker is he probably won't be funny at all.

Yeah but Ledger's Joker wasn't really funny.  He had a couple one liners, but it was more the way that Ledger carried himself and acted that made it.  Also the first time they showed Ledger, he completely sold me on his vision of the Joker.  Leto gives me nothing.

[Velorath]

I liked it better than the Batman/Superman trailer, but the more I think on it, the more I realize it's a REALLY shitty trailer. None of the characters are given names. You have no idea if the Joker is supposed to be the main villain or if he will be part of the squad. If you don't look closely, you won't even see Batman. If you don't know who any of these characters are, the only connection you'll see or hear to the DC Universe is the mention of Superman. And Leto's Joker is far enough away from Ledger's or Nicholson's portrayal that you could argue he's just a weirdo psycho.

I was impressed in that I thought it would look a shitload worse, but as a "this is a DC Universe movie" trailer, a serious and early attempt to create a shared universe, it's a really shitty trailer.

The movie is a year away and this trailer was released for Comic-Con. It's aimed at people who have at least some idea who the characters are. Whether or not it's successful in that respect is debatable but they have plenty of time to market it towards the general public.

[Ironwood]

It reminded me of Suckerpunch.  In a bad way.  Because there's no good way to be reminded of Suckerpunch.

Fuck this shit.