Bevendre

kennysamathedeviant:

prydonianrenegade:

comingupforblair:

bevendre:

“Suicide Squad is great!  The critics just don’t get it!  All of the real fans love it!”

Rotten Tomatoes score is still at 27%.  One of the biggest names in the movie has come out saying that he hates it because it left him out.  The film has had the second biggest box office drop off in a week, beaten only by Batman Vs Superman…..

The movie was not good.  It wasn’t god awful and it had its moments, but it was still a bad movie and that’s certainly being reflected in the reviews and box office numbers both.

DC, why must you try so hard and fail so spectacularly at being Marvel?  Take your time, do your own thing, and for the love of all that’s good, don’t butcher your own characters.

Sausage party is higher. Does that mean that that’s a good film? I thought everyone agreed that Jared Leto was annoying and, as such, his opinions don’t matter. And box office drops mean very little. CA: CW dropped 74 percent in it’s second weekend. 

I thought everyone’s complaint was that They were trying to be different than Marvel. I lose track. It seems like people go back and forth on that depending on what the news is. I also thought people didn’t like how long it took Them to make a movie, what with that whole meme about how Marvel make more movies and are therefore better. They’re doing Their own thing in case you hadn’t noticed. Some people not liking doesn’t mean that They’re not. And I haven’t seen any characters butchered so far. 

Because I have too much free time on my hands, I decided to dig a little deeper.  So far in 2016, a total of 17 films have debuted at number one.  I will list them below, along with their second weekend percentage drop:

1) Ride Along 2, 64.7%
2) Kung Fu Panda 3, 48.5%
3) Deadpool, 57.4%
4) Zootopia, 31.6%
5) Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, 69.1%
6) The Boss, 57.8%
7) The Jungle Book, 40.4%
8) Captain America: Civil War, 59.5%
9) Angry Birds, 50.8%
10) X-Men: Apocalypse, 65.3%
11) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, 59.3%
12) The Conjuring 2, 63.2%
13) Finding Dory, 46.0%
14) The Secret Life of Pets, 51.3%
15) Star Trek Beyond, 58.2%
16) Jason Bourne, 62.2%
17) Suicide Squad, 67.3%

Now, as you can see, of those 17 films, only 6–or slightly more than one-third of them–have dropped more than 60% in their second weekend.   Only four of them have dropped more than 64%–the two DCEU releases, X-Men: Apocalypse and Ride Along 2, both of which have also been reported on in the press as financial disappointments.

Now, does ANY of this make Suidcide Squad a bad film?  Absolutely not.  Neither does it mean that DCEU is destined to fail.  But 67% drops are absolutely NOT some new normal that should just be waved off and dismissed as meaningless.

It’s something that needs to be viewed in its proper context, which rests somewhere between “It’s the end of the (cinematic) universe as we know it!” and “Nothing to see here, folks!”

Civil War fell 74% on it’s second weekend. I know people would prefer to pretend it didn’t happen but it did, you may want to correct your figures.

I’ve checked the figures.  Captain America dropped 59.5% from its opening Thurs-Sunday weekend on its second Fri-Sunday weekend.  The 74% that you’re referring to was from the initial Thur-Friday opening in comparison to the second Friday.

For comparison, both BvS and Suicide Squad had Friday to Friday drops of 79% but higher overall weekend percentages.

(via kennysamathedeviant)