Poll: Suicide Squad Currently Doing Reshoots to Make it More Fun

[mduncan50]

I really hope by reshoot to make it more fun they don't mean "we're gonna reshoot it to make the humor so blatant and forced it makes Adam Sandler's films look like a work of comic genius.". I'm really worried they're going to think audiences won't understand the idea of dark or black humour in the film and just make it slapstick and stupid rather than funny in a clever way.

I think the main disconnect is that the writer/director made a certain movie and the guy that cut the trailer was an obvious fan of the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer and so used that for inspiration, taking (apparently literally) all of the jokes from the movie and adding a classic rock/pop sound track. Then when the response to the trailer was so positive, the filmmakers were stuck with "But that's not the movie we made." and so are now trying to make the movie closer to that. I'm not willing to guarantee that DC wont take things to Sandler level, because their decision making process baffles me, but my assumption is they are just trying to get tonally closer to the trailer.

 

[Sixcess]

I think WB should fire every single person involved in defining the direction of the entire DC cinematic universe project, take whatever plans they have for that project and burn them, and put the entire thing on ice for half a decade or so.

I'm not kidding.

Ever since that second BvS trailer came out - you know, THAT one - I've been convinced that everyone involved in this is either stupid, lazy or incompetent, and possibly all three. The fact that the trailer was released - that noone looked at it and said "Hey guys, this trailer basically spoils the entire fucking movie, let's not do that" - speaks of a terrible lack of something in WB.

Suck it up, WB. Marvel won this one. Marvel won this one several years ago, back when you were still fucking up your first two attempts to copy them. Just let it go and come back when you find someone with one original fucking idea in their head.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Grimdark: a subgenre or a way to describe the tone, style or setting of speculative fiction (especially fantasy) that is, depending on the definition used, markedly dystopian or amoral, or particularly violent or realistic.

I honestly don't understand how anyone cannot apply this definition to Batman v Superman. And no, I don't buy that they are just "serious", they are making a huge display of just how "serious" and "adult" and "not a comic book" it is that it really comes off looking like a kid emulating what it believes being an adult is.

Comic Books themselves have been emulating this Grimdark tone in recent years I mean look at these images from Marvel Comic Books:

I don't think those pictures are relatively recent.

I read maybe 3/4 of all the comics that Marvel puts out weekly, and even comics like Wolverine are pretty tame. As for DC, well, I only check out Batman stuff, so I can't say much about that.

 

[mduncan50]

Suck it up, WB. Marvel won this one. Marvel won this one several years ago, back when you were still fucking up your first two attempts to copy them. Just let it go and come back when you find someone with one original fucking idea in their head.

I think this kind of attitude is actually what is killing DC right now. There is literally no contest to "win". Marvel and DC (and Fox) have been pretty good about staying out of each other's way on the release schedule with the exception of when DC tried to book BvS on the same weekend as Captain America 3 (but full credit to DC for backing off, and I'm sure they are extremely thankful now that they did) so really each superhero can and should be able to stand on its own two feet. Yes, Marvel has a certain level of trust gained from consistently making good movies, but a large number of people would still name Dark Knight as their favorite superhero film, and every film DC releases has that same potential. However right now DC seems so focused on "winning" and beating Marvel at their own game that they're forgetting to just make good movies.