Suicide Squad (2016)

In 2008, Marvel Studios released Iron Man. One of their B characters (at that point all of Marvel's A characters had been licensed out).

Marvel, Stan Winston Studio and ILM made the impossible, possible (Tony Stark in the Iron Man suit, fly)

When I first watched the trailer, and seeing Iron Man out flying a F18 (I think) I was SOLD!!

At the premier of the movie, the story was right, and Marvel Studio is SET!

Fast forward 8 years and DC Universe....

It is doing a lot of things right.

It basically has a bank (Warner Brothers) behind it.

It attract BIG names to script/direct/act in their projects and yet...

They are having a lot of trouble (with the exception of The Dark Night) making their movies "gel" with the audience.

I think, the success of The Dark Knight success has been a stumbling block for the DC Universe movies (Don't crucify me).

Here is why.

The movies were dark, serious and grounded to reality.

Audiences flocked to the cinemas to watched them. And after that, bought the blurays!!

And everyone at Warners went, oh, so THAT'S selling...

And henceforth that is the "formula" they adhere to...

Case in point Man of Steel. Did it need to be SO "dark". My answer is no....

Then you had Batman vs Superman, which would have been an excellent to elaborate the light and dark aspects of Superman and Batman, and alas, no.... Dark, dark DARK!!

And now, Suicide Squad....

Was never a fan of the comics, and after this movie, still NOT a fan.

To start with, you show us how terrible these "anti-heroes" are, and in the end, we are supposed to like them?...

I really pity Will Smith!

He has SO MANY so-stars and he has the burden of USD $175,000,000 price tag movie all on his shoulders!!!

So did he managed to carry the movie?

No quite...

Okay okay, Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn) did some carrying as well, still it think it still falls short...

Story folks, you have to get the story right

I am sorry to say, they again did not get it right here, again...

Here is a DC fan plea, to other DC fans, please please please go watch this.

Let it make some money.

Do not let Warner abandon the DC Universe.

It has SO MUCH POTENTIAL.

Please...

My Two Sen.