Chris Pratt describes the problem with ‘Suicide Squad’

>“I really like all the Warner Bros. movies,” Pratt said. “I think they’re really cool and I’m not a real tough critic on those movies. But one of the flaws might have been they were introducing too many characters in Suicide Squad. They spent 10 minutes telling us why should we care about these characters, rather than creating trilogies for each character and convincing us to care about the characters.”

>"This is Katana," he added with a wry smile. "She's got my back. She can cut all of you in half with one sword stroke just like mowing the lawn. I would advise not getting killed by her; her sword traps the souls of its victims."

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Well gang, what do you think now that Chris Pratt has weighed in on the matter?

>rather than creating trilogies for each character and convincing us to care about the characters.”

This meme that you can't make movies without 7 set up films needs to fuck off and die

>“I really like all the Warner Bros. movies,” Pratt said. “I think they’re really cool and I’m not a real tough critic on those movies."

Cocksucker. I see him walking on eggshells just so Warner Bros will hire him for some shitty movie in the future. Go all in and call it a piece of shit movie.

Really old news.

he's right except for the trilogies bullshit

I agree, not with the trilogy to set up each character, but each character should've been set up.

We should've got the Justice League solo movies first, and each movie introduce a member of the squad. Either as minor villains or the main villain. Then you do the Suicide Squad.

Justice League, as much as I want to enjoy it, is going to be shit. They have to introduce several new characters into the universe and get the lowest common denominators to know who they are and why they should care.

The problem with YOU SAYIN WE SOME KINDA was the writing.
>why the fuck would you put harley quinn on a team designed to counter people who can level cities
>black lady recruits/enslaves a fucking demon and is surprised when the demon becomes the villain of the movie
>harley tries to act indignant towards a guy who burned some kids to death on accident when she's a psychopathic murderer and the editing doesn't try to make her look like a fucking hypocrite
>generic mcsoldier's love plot
>le wacky unicorn man
>ham handedly explaining that katana is talking to her dead husband who is trapped in the sword when ANY FUCKING IDIOT can infer that from the subtitled dialog

why'd i put so many fucks in there. Sorry everyone. Sorry.

I hope they do because maybe all these fucking babies will stop with their DC vs. Marvel bullshit after a Marvel actor simultaneously stars in a DC movie. Hell, Josh Brolin's working with both Marvel and Fox already.

While I agree that they are rushing into the DCEU WAY too fast in an attempt to catch up with Marvel, I feel I should remind you that a whole bunch of the Avengers were introduced IN Avengers, and many of them still haven't had solo movies.

>and is surprised when the demon becomes the villain of the movie
Actually what bothered me most about this is that the movie didn't even seem to acknowledge that she had done something wrong. She didn't seem to feel any remorse for it and nobody stopped to point out the fact that if she hadn't tried to create a Suicide Squad the Enchantress wouldn't have gotten loose. Don't know if it was bad editing or what but they could have made it somewhat less stupid by having her form the squad AFTER Enchantress got loose or maybe tossing in some line about how this was "all part of the plan."

But don't worry about the swearing, the writing pissed me off too.

Oh yeah, and the way they framed it in the movie, they went through the city to rescue Waller just to escort her up a flight of stairs. There were just so many stupid things like this that made it look like something a bunch of WB execs manufactured without even looking at the script. Like they just chopped up shit at random and smashed it together. And BvS had the exact same problem so whoever is fucking around in editing needs to be fired.

SS was destined to fail. enchantress aka eyebrows mcgee had to pay her way into the movie and couldn't even pull off generic evil
even if rest of the cast had done excellent work(they didn't, all they did was work out and wear form fitting clothes and use tropes like buff man likes unicorn) the movie would have fallen apart at her
destined to fail, casting was shit

>This meme that you can't make movies without 7 set up films needs to fuck off and die
It's not even a meme, only a few films even attempt this and they're all comic book movies. The vast majority of films still being released tell standalone stories and don't overconfidently expect sequels.

The weirdest thing is they didn't even have Cara Delevingne do the voice of Enchantress. They dubbed her over with someone else. So they really have no faith in her acting ability.

no the problem is all those characters are lame compared to the joker and all we want to see are joker scenes and to make it worse big willy styles takes up half the screen time

If you have a bunch of characters you better do some exposition beforehand and they just hammered all of those in like a 5 minute montage.

I didn't mind them getting down to business fast. Do we really need more than a short introduction for "Captain Boomerang"?

DC knows that most of the people watching their movies are comic book fans so they don't waste time unnecessarily. They show them what they want to see.

I'd say the plot twists didn't make any sense, but the plot itself wasn't coherent in any way anyway.

Part of it is the awful editing done by a trailer company and the other part is the clueless script.

People complain about comic book discussion on this board a lot, but you know why we like to talk about these movies so much? Because they're some of the few movies that Sup Forums can't shit up discussion with some hamfisted political bullshit. You can't blame anything in a DC movie on "angry liberals" or "Trump."

How about not making a stupid comics into a movie? This stupid shit with 50 different marvel characters that barely share the same universe belongs to stupid comic books. a movie like this will never and should never work

>a whole bunch of the Avengers were introduced IN Avengers
Like who? In the first one it was only really Hawkeye. Captain America, Ironman and Thor all had at least one solo, Black Widow appeared in Ironman 2 and the Hulk had a solo movie, albeit with an actor change between movies.

>a movie like this will never and should never work
Except it has worked numerous times with GotG and Avengers you idiot.

>dude suicide squad sucks lmao
>it would be better if they did it like marvel

why did he leave his qt wife who got him into the industry?

>ather than creating trilogies for each character and convincing us to care about the characters
Subtle Marvel BTFOing, Chris. I like you

He said he liked it you idiot.

based chris pratt tellin it like it is

Based Chris making fun of capebrainlets. Needing a trilogy to care about a character is a sign of bad moviemaking. Fuck they are going to kill off Cap in the next Avengers and people won't give a fuck about, and this is not company wars no one gave a fuck about Superman dying either. These movies are so shit they need a hundred hours to achieve something a good director can very well get in 10 minutes or less

No it didn't.

>make hundreds of millions of dollars
>didn't work

Why does everyone keep saying they're going to kill off Cap? They're obviously going to kill off Iron Man.

No.

Don't bother, he's one of those people who thinks he can win an argument if he just keeps making a short post, regardless of facts.

Movie contracts

Suicide Squad and BvS rested on the fact that comic book fans know the characters so they don't have to introduce them beyond telling the audience "ok this is katana and this is cyborg, you know him right? Oh and you already know Flash can time travel so we don't need to explain it!". Problem is that the vast majority they're selling the movies to don't know comics beyond Superman, Batman and Spider-man.
Well that's how it used to be at least, now everyone knows Iron Man, Cap and fucking Guardians who NO ONE knew about pre-2014. This is because Marvel laid a good deal of ground work, they're selling you on the characters, not just the movies. It's fine if DC doesn't want to take this approach, but it's so fucking obvious they do since they shove all these characters in every movie, ultimately damaging them in the process.
There are more issues with the DC movies, like there is with Marvel's, but all these shortcuts they're trying to take to get to where Marvel is is what's ultimately hurting them the most and granting them all this backlash.

lmfao

I'm not a comics guy and I knew about Rocket Raccoon long before the movie because everyone was always like "Ha ha holy shit look at this fucking raccoon superhero." Granted, I had no idea he was part of a larger team until GotG came out.

This

*radical guitar riff*

Based

Damn! We're in a tight spot.

ITT: People who don't get that Crisp Rat was joking because Guardians of the Galaxy did the exact same thing

Agreed.