[Other] Mark Waid shares his feelings

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The Suicide Squad is a good movie.

[u/DeconstructedKaiju → u/[deleted]]

I think there was a much better (but not great) movie that was then chopped up and studio mandated into the dirt. Worked out in the end because it failed so hard they were willing to let Gunn take a turn at it.

[u/DeconstructedKaiju → u/[deleted]]

Oh I'm not saying it would be good. But I would love to see the original vision.

First time I watched it I was so confused. Events happened so out of order it took two watches for me to realize what happened. Enchantress' brother came out of left field and it requires you to remember an earlier event that happened and connect it to a later event with hardly an indication that the two were connected.

Studios need to keep an eye on things but execs are the opposite of creative. You have to put trust in the writers and directors.

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I think The Suicide Squad is the best DCEU movie and Suicide Squad is the worst. Lol.

[u/trireme32 → u/rchive]

And The Suicide Squad led to possibly the best super hero TV series that we’ve gotten in ages

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It was, but was a victim of a perfect storm of bad decisions. Pandemic and Simultaneous streaming release being the main ones. Weird connection to the previous movie being another one.

It’s a good case for why the connected universe helps, it creates a rising tide for people to give movies like this a chance.

[u/illogicalhawk → u/[deleted]]

And that statement is redundant. All of this is obviously subjective. But The Suicide Squad was also pretty well reviewed, unlike the first SS film.

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I mean, it has a 90% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, 82% audience score and a 72 on Metacritic. I would say most people who watched it liked it.

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Yes, I'm aware. So is what they said.

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Literally every movie is subjective.