I'm not surprised. I don't understand why they focused on their origins at all. "They da bad guys. Da good guys stopped them. Now they gotta be special team or die" is basically all the history the Suicide Squad needs. It's a dumb call, especially for a movie that is both a team up and a debut movie for these characters. They should've pulled a Guardians, and gave the viewer snippits of their backstory, but only parts relevant to the current story.

And the dark movie vs the more lighthearted promo material wasn't surprising. Fans speculated that the reshoots was to make it more lighthearted, but once DC straight up said "No, we're not doing that" then it was kind of obvious it was gonna be a needlessly grim movie.

So basically DC crapped the bed again.

Hilariously, I still want to see it. I hate the Margot Robbie Harley, but it feels like the only DC movie right now, live action or animated, that has any life in it.

I'm holding out hope that it'll be enjoyable even if it is overly grimdark.

I just can't get over how all of DC's recent movies animated or live have writing that reads like a 2edgey4me teenager's bad fanfiction.:lol

Oh yes they are. They seem to think every movie must be better than the last one or it isn't good. They are really going to have a field day when Marvel hits that ceiling and starts spiraling downward.

I'm not surprised. The movie looks awful.

Jahns gave it a good review, but I don't always agree with him. Hell, he loved Jason Bourne and I thought it was as dull and uninspiring as its title.

He never said a damn thing in his review about Croc, Katana or Enchantress, so that worries me that they are nothing more than wallpaper.

It's because DC was way out of touch with what makes comics good. They think everything has to be grim and dark and joyless with excessive language and sex scenes to make it good. Hell, Bruce got laid in 4 of the first issues of the New 52 he was featured in. Batman, Detective Comics, and Catwoman, but I can't remember what the last one was.

I just hope DC finally realizing the error of their ways can fix their cartoons and comics before it becomes too late.

Well, if you believe some fans, Marvel has already hit that point since Civil War. Then again, other Marvel fans will say that every movie since Winter Soldier has been "So average it's lame"

As for DC's current affairs, well, Justice League Action is definitely a lighthearted show, and the Justice League trailer is on the right track (We just have to see if it'll follow Suicide Squad's lead and make a light trailer that is completely not indicative of the final product)

...I've actually been wondering for awhile now if DC editorial is ran by overgrown 2edgey4me teenagers who never grew out of the 90s comic fad?

It's more likely an old man who doesn't know how to keep up with the trends.

I think it's Geoff Johns. Don't get me wrong--he's a talented writer. But he's at his best when he's not trying to defend comics as a serious artistic medium by revamping old heroes so that they don't have the qualities that people make fun of them for, regardless of how intrinsic some of those qualities may be.

It's why Barry Allen's mom is dead.

And why nobody wears trunks anymore.

And why Aquaman spends half of his time brooding about the fact that nobody takes him seriously.

And why Simon Baz is defined by the fact that everyone thinks he's a terrorist instead of the fact that he's a Green Lantern and a hero.

And why Hal Jordan, Hal FUCKING Jordan, the biggest IDIOT in the entire DC universe, is "the greatest Green Lantern of all time."

Lately, it seems that for every Superman: Secret Origin he writes, there's a DC Universe: Rebirth.