Tag: suicide squad

The clatter and chatter last week was all about critics vs moviegoers.. The critics said SUICIDE SQUAD was awful.. terrible! Abominable.. Ratings on Rotten Tomatoes weren’t better. Even some reports had moviegoers feeling frustrated with what was perceived as a 2 hour barrage of movie trailers within a movie.

All that doesn’t matter now as a major August movie maker just was revealed: SUICIDE SQUAD racked up dollars with $146 million for the weekend take!

DEADLINE previously reported that CinemaScore crowds under 35 gave Suicide Squad an A- (76%), while 46% females gave it an A-.  The pic also earned an A with the under 18 demo (28%).  Smith and Robbie fans both gave it the film an A-, each group turning up at 30% each..

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History redone?
Don’t forget an earlier movie this year, BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, also had awful movie reviews.. but went on to have an exceptional box office take.

Whether SUICIDE SQUAD is a repeat or not will be seen next week.. Box offices will relatively stay the same in number, but the percentage drop from this week to next will be the most telling..

Developing..

Fans feud with critics ahead of ‘Suicide Squad’ release »

This has turned into a mean ordeal..

Critics have lambasted the film.. some have called for the website ROTTEN TOMATOES to actually be shut down because of the negative press that has been linked on the SUICIDE SQUAD page..

What is noteworthy about the aforementioned article linked here: My friend Anghus Houvouras from Flickering Myth got quoted by CNBC about the movie and controversy:

“I think they believe the potential is there. Take (2016’s) ‘Ghostbusters’ which pushed a very strong misogynist narrative. It became less about the quality of the film and more about the ‘importance’ of a blockbuster with an all-female leading cast,” Anghus Houvouras, movie maker and writer for the pop culture website Flickering Myth, told CNBC via email.

“Sony and Paul Feig got on board and beat that horse to death. But it didn’t end up resulting in the kind of cultural zeitgeist they were hoping for. Those who benefit from feuds are the media and websites that proliferate a binary narrative. Conflict breeds clicks,” he said.

EARLY BOX OFFICE COUNTS ///

SUICIDE SQUAD with a make or break weekend.. 4,255 theaters strong for August release..
NINE LIVES with less than 3000..
Developing..

REVIEWS GRIM: … Vanity Fair described the film as “ultimately too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting.”..
One fan in Alexandria, Egypt, went so far as to launch a Change.org petition to have Rotten Tomatoes shut down for its supposed bias against DC Films..
“Fumbles”..

FLASHBACK: SUICIDE SQUAD plagued with reshoots in effort to change dark and grim movie to one with more humor..

EARLY REVIEWS GRIM FOR GLUM SUICIDE SQUAD
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34-percent Fresh rating on Rotten

The trailers aren’t good..
The previews don’t seem to help a thing..
Excitement should be building for SUICIDE SQUAD, released this week in more than 4,000 theaters, but instead the movie is being plagued by awful reviews and equally terrible word of mouth stories from screenings..

Perhaps one reason why: Dave Canfield from SLATE discovered  this:

According to writer Kim Masters, two versions of the film—director David Ayer’s more “somber” cut and the studio’s more commercial one (with “jazzed-up graphics” and more characters introduced earlier in the film)—were tested as late as May, with the outcome a proposed, studio-leaning compromise between the two that required “millions of dollars’ worth of additional photography.” Other sources that chimed in described Ayer as “exhausted,” in a “panic,” and “under a lot—a lot—of pressure.” Warner Bros. also declined to get behind the director’s next project, the Will Smith–starring Bright, which was instead scooped up by Netflix in a$90 million deal.

While these are only a few pieces to a complicated puzzle, they do provide insight into the final version of Suicide Squad that will be released in theaters on Friday. Critics’ complaints of tonal dissonance, a reliance on cameos, and a general lack of coherence certainly reflect what reportedly occurred behind closed doors. And regardless, the fact that two distinct visions of this movie remained in opposition until the last minute could indicate serious trouble for what’s to come. For starters: Could the relatively light trailer for Justice League be masking similar tensions?

A movie that is basically a 2 hour trailer…
Who wants to watch that?

….no white paint yet.
Just green hair.
Lipstick..
And lots of fans becoming quickly amazed at his teaser. Detractors, though, are dismayed by the appearance.

You can only judge for yourself..
So do so accordingly.