The Suicide Squad Film Follies

U.S. box office grosses the day after the Oscars. This is pretty cool. pic.twitter.com/4CEXTphv4P

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) February 11, 2020

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.

What a disaster for the inevitability of inevitable disasters.

Birds of Prey is fucking horrible. Never bothered with Suicide Squad and now I'm not very interested in the Gunn reboot either.

I thought it was a pretty big step up from Suicide Squad

I didn't watch a movie by the writer of S.W.A.T., and I didn't like a movie by the writer of Bumblebee, so now I've lost my previous interest in a film by the writer of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Lots of missed opportunities there

I didn't think Suicide Squad was as bad as the reviews said, based on the second version (extended edition? director's cut?).

I didn't actually think it was any good either, mind.

Half trailer half EPK

When @JamesGunn says, “It’s going to be different from any superhero movie ever made,” he means it! See more in this official first sneak peek behind the scenes of #TheSuicideSquad! #DCFanDome pic.twitter.com/1uV9Ve4oeX

— The Suicide Squad (@SuicideSquadWB) August 22, 2020

This didn't get canceled, huh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdlvexsfRAw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r41n7dOcEf0

idris elba, nooo

I'm a little unsure whether you're concerned that the film is besmirching itself with Idris Elba or the other way around?

i feel like idris elba deserves his own tv channel where you can just flip it on any time of day and hooray! there's idris elba! but all the parts that don't have idris elba should be excised. this looks like you will have to endure a lot of non-idris elba content to get to the idris elba bits.

but hey, he's getting paid and raising his profile, which should ultimately lead to more idris elba vehicles, which is a net good for humanity. and maybe this suicide squad won't be crap? (it will be crap, it's dc, there hasn't been a good dc movie yet except for the ridiculousest parts of aquaman)

He's just a shill for Sky TV over here, that's enough profile cheers

idris elba, whyyyy

he's gonna be great in it.

Looked up who’s playing Boomer in this and imo he is several decades too young

Unless they make him fully bogan

He was already pretty good in the first one! Surprisingly so since a) it's Jai Courtney and b) the first one was a bit of a shitshow.

I was going to say I don’t know anything about the first one except they put Harley Quinn in it, but that reminded me it’s where the twisted vision of Jay Leno Jared Leto’s forehead tattoo came from

I also don’t know anything about Jai Courtney tbh

#ReleaseTheLenoCut

I can tell you he makes an absolutely terrible dumbarse gymbunny stand-in when you're recasting sweaty, wiry Michael Biehn.

A trailer set to a bombastic trailer remix of Steely Dan's Dirty Work already makes me more optimistic than a trailer set to Bohemian Rhapsody.

can you imagine if instead of “the empire strikes back” they called the second star wars film “the star wars”?

“you see, this film is different from the last because the word ‘the’ is in front of the title”

See also (or don't) "The Predator," "Blair Witch," etc.

that "dirty work" remix is an abomination

I mean, yeah, it's a Steely Dan song.

I can tell you he makes an absolutely terrible dumbarse gymbunny stand-in when you're recasting sweaty, wiry Michael Biehn.

searched to see what this was, found your alt:

"You know Michael Biehn read books about the Polish underground resistance fighters during WW2, that's who he based Kyle Reese off, and the sort of mindset he would have developed spending most of his life fighting and hiding underground, and it shows in his performance.

Jai Courtney was asked if he watched The Terminator to prepare for the role of Kyle Reese, and he hadn't even done that much, he did no research, nothing, he just rocked up on set."

no need for prep when you have the once-in-generation raw animal charisma of jai courtney

Haha, sic, what is that from?

jai courtney's raw animal charisma must have come in handy when he played Macbeth in 2017 for the Melbourne Theater Company's production of that Shakespeare play.

How the hell did that happen

same way mel gibson got paid to play hamlet in a movie version?

how the heck did Icon Productions manage to land Mel Gibson for their debut film

JM - I searched 'michael biehn jai courtney' and that was m/l the top result, a reddit post quoting / linking some interview

Mel Gibson has a personality, though. Jai Courtney is literally cardboard

(Gibson also directed and produced his own Hamlet. Someone decided to cast the most boring, I memorable person in Hollywood for this Macbeth.)

jai courtenay and garrett hedlund are the same person imo
made in the same factory, exact same cardboard, everything

I have no idea if I've ever seen Garrett Hedlund in anything. When I read his name I think of Garrett Dillahunt (as any sane person would), but when I realize my mistake I then have no further thoughts on the matter at all.

his best performance was silently chain smoking & occasionally grunting in Inside Llewyn Davis