Bevendre

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. 

Firstly, Cap dropped 59% in its second weekend, which is on the higher end for comic films, as opposed to 67% for Suicide Squad and 69% for BvS which are on the low end for any film.  Box office drops mean a fair bit.  The opening weekend numbers are typically a gauge for how well the studio did in marketing their film, whereas the second weekend numbers are a gauge for how well the film actually resonated with fans and how much said fans want more.

DC’s issue isn’t that they’re trying to be different from Marvel, it’s that they’re trying to catch up to Marvel and do it hard.  That’s why the second film in a series saw major characters pit against each other and against a world ending threat when next to none of them had been explored or built on.  Marvel’s where they’re at now because they took time, set up arcs and characters well in advance before bringing them into a group movie.  That’s why their films tend to be more focused, and even when they’re not great end up doing well for more than the first few days.  That same reason is why the last 2 DCEU films have been so split in reaction and ended up floundering after coming out, they’re playing catch up and it’s hurting them in the end.

Marvel makes more movies now because they’ve had the opportunity to build their cinematic universe, and it’s been stupidly profitable.  That the movies tend to be average to amazing on their own is a definite plus.  DC hasn’t taken the same amount of time or invested the same care in crafting their world for cinema and so pieces are missing that should be touched on, pieces which end up leaving holes that aren’t filled in the films so far.  Marvel went from film 1 to film 2 and so on and it’s worked.  DC went from film 1 to film 4 to film 7 and it’s hurting them.

DC has said that Suicide Squad needs to pull in at least $800 million to break even.  Globally it’s just over half of that after its second weekend, and is not slated to release in China so it making its goal is possible but unlikely.

As for characters being butchered, try Lex, Harley, Joker, Batman, Superman, Katana, Doomsday, Captain Boomerang, Rick Flag, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen.  In the DCEU none of the characters come off like their comic counterparts, which at times is great and good, but more often is just done for the sake of being done and only detracts from the films when they’re already skipping so many steps.

(via comingupforblair)