The Suicide Squad Film Follies

when thinking of jai courtney roles my first thought was "wasn't he that guy in terminator salvation?" then i found out he was in genisys and i went whaaaaaa

it's fair, they're p much the same person

the only thing I liked Jai Courtney in was his guest spot in Wet Hot American Summer

which one is spawn?

Wait did they re-cast Deadshot?

Jai Courtney is impressive in that he is the least memorable person in the universe. I've seen several movies where I know he had a decent part and I remember the character existing but I'll be damned if I could tell you what he or the characters he played looked like. It takes special skill to be more anonymous than Sam Worthington, IMO.

Hoping David Dastmalchian is playing the same loveable psychopath from The Dark Knight.

oh dear god no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSD6Jvq3M7Q&

there haven't really been good superhero cartoons since the Batman ones from the 90's/2000's. A bit surprised at the cursing in this one. where is this running? on a channel absolutely no one watches?

"i am guessing they had margot robbie contractually obligated to do a sequel, kind of like how Elektra happened."

maybe; I think she was the only well received part of the first movie (so I gather, I didn't watch it) and they're also giving her her own movie (Birds of Prey).

there haven't really been good superhero cartoons since the Batman ones from the 90's/2000's.

if Teen Titans Go! is half as good as the movie, you are incorrect

oh right, that is good.

Hey DC, you don't have to try so hard to repel me with your increasingly-regressive, masturbatory output. You've already had overwhelming success in that arena. Take the win!

where is this running? on a channel absolutely no one watches?

according to the text on the embdedded still, aiui, an app-based subscription service

Wretched

Ur butt is wretched

Did you write for this show?

Birds of Prey was fun if not exactly high art. kinda loses steam at the end but at least it isn't garbage Suicide Squad level drab.

zero Joker appearance too is nice.

At some point Harley Quinn -- a character I never heard of til I saw the trailer a week ago -- says "I voted for Bernie."

it's actually not said out loud, tehre are points she lists her enemies grievances with her and one of them is 'Voted for Bernie'

comrade quinn, welcome to the revolution

NY Times spreading fake news again!

look they gotta give her some redeeming qualities

sitting through this wd be torture for me

(it was a fun movie, could've been better. liked the cast)

ppl are wondering why this film flopped and tbh i haven't seen much in the way of advertising for it out there, seemed like there wasn't a lot of heavy promotion beyond trailers.

I haven't seen a single billboard or bus stop ad for it. I don't watch TV with ads much so no idea if there were commercials. but the hype seemed significantly less than previous DC films. Probably seeing it this weekend assuming it's still playing (never saw suicide squad and not interested really at this point but this sounds better)

I saw plenty of advertising, but the idea of people wanted to watch anything spun off from Suicide Squad, even the least awful part of it, seems insane. And they are making a Suicide Squad 2 as well.

ppl are wondering why this film flopped

it's been out for four days and made its budget back already.

no way it's got to make like $300 worldwide to break even, it went $20 million below weekend estimates iirc, and they're already changing its title for online ticket sales.

i assume it's ten times better than Suicide Squad of course

Yeah, it far far far away from making back it's budget.

Is it me or do we do this anytime a blockbuster is called a flop?

Whoa yeah, I saw an ad earlier today and idly thought 'Harley Quinn'? That's not right.' Didn't even occur to me they'd changed the title post-release.

Never change, DC, seriously. Great stuff.

and they're doing a soft reboot of suicide squad next year

they immediately decide anything that doesn't break records is a flop these days

the reboot is likely to be good since James Gunn directed

They all jump into a fire pit into the first ten minutes

I said made budget, not is in profit

Just think there’s a chance it’ll sell more tickets before the week is out, us here deciding once and for all *why* it’s a flop could probably wait until it’s had the opportunity to actually become a flop

Can't wait to see what title they go with next week!

The title change in the AMC app was weird. Never seen them do that with any film.
I think good reviews/word of mouth will give it better legs than most of these movies, given the lower-than-expected opening weekend.
Besides, what are people gonna go see this month? Sonic the Hedgehog? Brahms: The Boy II? The serious horror remake of Fantasy Island? (well ok, I may see one or more of these out of morbid curiosity, but still... pretty bad month).

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Besides, what are people gonna go see this month? Sonic the Hedgehog?

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Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog exploded onto screens this Presidents' Day weekend, delivering the largest opening weekend ever for a video game adaptation to go along with an estimated $68 million, four-day holiday debut. Meanwhile Sony's Fantasy Island and Universal's The Photograph are neck-and-neck in a race for third and Searchlight's Downhill finished just inside the top ten.

With an estimated $57 million three-day performance, Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog topped last May's Pokemon Detective Pikachu to become the largest three-day opening ever for a video game adaptation. The film, based on the iconic SEGA video game, is expected to finish around $68 million for the four-day holiday frame, which would be the fourth largest Presidents' Day opening ever, with some anticipating the film will top $70 million by the time the long, holiday weekend is over.

Sonic not only performed well this weekend, it was a hit with audiences, earning an "A" CinemaScore to go along with a 95% audience rating on RottenTomatoes. Opening weekend crowds were 56% male with 70% of the audience coming in aged under 25 years old.

Sonic was tolerable, actually

does he swear at all?

i might see the movie if he says "kiss the rings, bitch"

between this and detective pikachu, we're gonna be fucking bombarded with video game movies over the next decade.

amazed we haven't had a Fallout movie yet

Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog topped last May's Pokemon Detective Pikachu

AHAHAH

i actually saw Sonic, tbh, thinking it was going to be a hilarious trainwreck.
it was a decent kids movie, very comparable to Detective Pikachu or Bumblebee, maybe a slight notch down but totally watchable.