I'm honestly shocked as to how anyone could truly find enjoyment in this movie, save for Will Smith doing his damnedest to bring even an ounce of charisma and humility to this otherwise train wreck of a film.
Walking out of Batman v Superman, I definitely thought it was bad, but not nearly as bad as the critical reception. Suicide Squad, on the other hand? Good Lord, that was somehow even worse than I was expecting. I don't even know what the hell it is that I just watched. Really, how does THAT happen? How was any draft of that script ever approved to film?
Going in, based on the trailers, I thought for sure Harley Quinn would be the best thing about the movie. But man, that character and her "jokes" were so flat and so terrible and just downright annoying. With a packed audience, opening night, you could hear a pin drop after every one of her one-liners. I legitimately felt embarrassed for Margot Robbie. That said, she was nothing compared to the utter trash that was the Joker, as brief and pointless as he was. Jared Leto legitimately pissed me off with that uninspired hack job of a performance. That, mixed with the insufferable amount of stories about all the mind games and shenanigans Leto played with the cast - based on THAT performance - is the very definition of a wanna-be poser d**che. The thought of having to watch either of those two characters in another DC movie makes me want to give up on this franchise right now, altogether.
In fact, I really do think I'm done. After what I saw tonight, I've lost interest even in Wonder Woman, which I thought had a pretty great trailer. This felt like all the worst aspects of the X-Men and Mummy franchises rolled into one, with a ****ing sky portal to boot. Seriously, how in the hell, in the summer of 2016, are there STILL evil ****ing third act sky portals with light beams shooting down over cities????? This became a trope like FIVE years ago. And yet, this summer alone they've factored into the climaxes of the TMNT sequel, Ghostbusters, and now this POS, never mind Fantastic Four last year and countless blockbusters before that. This one, in particular, was so lame and so derivative that it somehow made me want to wash my hands of everything going forward. I just don't want to visit this world ever again, one with lame ass spells and magic on that kind of scale, where characters like The Flash literally appear out of thin air two movies in a row, for only a few inexplicable seconds, for absolutely no reason at all.
Anyway, I could go on and on about this movie's problems, and I'm sure I'll get plenty of "chill out, it's just a movie" comments, but whatever. This summer has been the culmination of a very real epidemic among Hollywood blockbusters, and for me, this was the tip top peak of sh*t mountain. I'm never going to stop railing against this kind of lazy, incoherent filmmaking.
Really, the biggest reaction out of the audience tonight - by a wide margin - was the reaction to the trailer for Dunkirk. That alone, site unseen, already puts summer 2017 above this one, which is now officially the worst summer for movies in my adult life. The fall movie season (and football) can't get here soon enough.
Later DC, it was nice knowing you.
