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11. Suicide Squad
The most recent entry on this list. Now after I saw Man of Steel I was so pissed off I skipped seeing Dawn of Justice. Then again I had little hope for MoS in the first place after I saw the trailers. And for a guy who grew up watching ANY comic book movie from the Richard Donner Superman movie to both Reb Brown Captain America movies; when I skip a comic book movie it’s kinda a big deal. And the new DC movie universe got off to a terrible start. That being said when I heard they were making a Suicide Squad movie and the writer and director was David Ayer; I got interested. I love Ayer as a director. The man wrote Training Day, wrote the screenplay to SWAT, wrote and directed End of Watch, directed Street Kings, and directed Sabotage. I am a fan. So to see they guy get the shot at a comic book movie I was pumped. I became even MORE pumped after the trailers dropped. I thought to myself “Holy crap! I might actually see a good DCU movie!” I bought my ticket, saw it, and was really disappointed.
Now the acting I had no issues with. Well for the most part. The casting was very good, but holy CRAP was the writing bad. And this is David Ayer, I KNOW he writes good stuff. The man wrote Training Day! But the movie felt like it was on fast forward! The pace was break neck when it needed to slow down at times and establish this group as a collective unit and not just a pack of criminals shoved into a bad situation. I needed more character motivations, I DESPERATELY needed more back story on villains, I needed more back story on some of the team members, and I needed less tattoos on the Joker.
And why the hell is Amanda Waller so damn skinny in this movie? I blame the Nu 52 for this BS. In the Nu 52 reboot of the DC universe they made Amanda Waller; a smart, cunning, and ruthless FAT black woman into a skinny hot busty black woman. What the hell? We can’t have a government intelligence be a big girl? Look I ain’t a fragile crying SJW snowflake crying on Tumblr, but what was wrong with Amanda Waller being fat? Why change the character? The character was a damn good one. Why did we need to slim down Amanda Waller? Was it the artists thinking that to appeal to 13 year old boys they can’t have a fat character? Or would it because the character would be a unique figure be drawn and not just flat out traced. I don’t know but DC lost my business with that crappy reboot. Viola Davis is a great actor but she is just too damn skinny to be Waller. What the hell people?! Now I could go on about the Nu 52 and why it sucked, and how they messed up Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle, and why the hell Barbra Gordon can walk when The Killing Joke is still cannon, but that would take way too long.
The movie needed an extra 30 to 45 minutes to flesh out the story. And I can’t say that this was a new issue. Man of Steel was crammed with way too much story and not a lot of time, but that movie was around 2 hours and 30 minutes or so. This movie was closer to two hours. If they added an extra 30 minutes and added a few more scenes I think it would have really improved on the movie. But they didn’t and the movie just plain suffers for it. A+ in marketing, but a C- in execution of the movie.