Superhero movies have taken over everything, and everyone has to choose a side: are you on Team Marvel or Team DC Comics? DC would seem to have the most iconic superheroes: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, etc. And yet these days, Marvel is more popular and their films are the ones breaking all of the records. I actually don’t believe that Marvel’s popularity is strictly about the quality of their superheroes. I think Marvel films do better because Kevin Feige (Marvel’s president) is an evil genius who spent years growing Marvel’s brand and superhero stable. Feige had, like, a 20-year plan and he executed it flawlessly. Whereas DC Comics and their home studio, Warner Bros, seems content to just give their franchises to Zach “Lens Flare” Snyder and hope for the best. I know that’s not the most nuanced analysis, but there you go.
Anyway, Chris Pratt – star of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise – was asked about DC vs. Marvel and he actually gave a nuanced answer.
“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.”
Unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which introduced its heroes one by one before gradually bringing them together, Suicide Squad hit the ground running with a full group of characters before viewers even knew who they were. However, it seems like DC is already taking Pratt’s advice to heart. Having introduced Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, director David Ayer now plans to take her into the spinoff Gotham City Sirens. And after catching a brief glimpse of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, viewers will get the chance to spend time with the character in her upcoming solo movie this spring before she helps lead the team in November’s Justice League.
Yeah, I actually think Pratt makes a decent point. I still haven’t seen Suicide Squad (because I don’t give a sh-t) but if you have to spend ten minutes doing introductions and backstories for every character, why are you even making the movie? Meanwhile, I actually think that Marvel has leaned too hard into the backstory game – Marvel’s new Spider-Man movie is THE SAME BACKSTORY that we’ve already had in two other franchises. You guys, did you know Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben died? DID YOU KNOW THAT?
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I think the Spiderman reboot is actually quite interesting because it seems like they’re straight up skipping the backstory. Uncle ben is already dead, Petey is already Spiderman, and Spiderman is already well known.
Yeah. It takes place right after Civil War. Peter is already Spider-man.
And he’s an actual teenager instead of a guy pushing 30 pretending to be a teenager. And Marisa Tomei.
My kids made me watch Suicide Squad and I didn’t find it as terrible as people did. I mean, the Joker was good – I don’t get the hate. The actor is silly but the character was good. Perhaps not the best Joker but he was ok. I didn’t like it as much as they did and I suspect it was the soundtrack and how f–king cool Harley Quinn was that did it for them. Margot Robbie was amazing in it.
It had too many characters in the sense that there was no time to follow any personal story. Also, it was a mistake to make Cara Delevigne as one of the story’s character – she is not good.
But the again I find superhero marvel films super boring so I’m perhaps not the best judge.
I liked the Suicide Squad Joker. It was the plot that was ‘meh’. Overall it felt like a B movie.
I really enjoyed Suicide Squad, far more than I’ve enjoyed any of the Marvel movies. It was fun, colorful, didn’t take itself seriously, all around a good popcorn movie. I have an issue with Marvel trying to treat their movies like cinematic masterpieces when they’re boring, filled with robotic dialogue and a sausage fest. I don’t think comic book movies should go that route, but it’s worked for them so far in $$$ so. Either way, I think Suicide Squad got an unfair panning.
I didn’t care for the plot, felt Enchantress was not nearly as fascinating and intense as she could have been and it all felt rushed. But I loved Margot Robbie and Will Smith and would watch films about their characters without a second thought. And the Joker didn’t bother me at all.
I finally watched Suicide Squad with my son, because he wanted me to see it. I found it rather boring and convoluted. The Joker was annoying as hell. All in all, I could have skipped it and lived just-as-fulfilled of a life.
God Kaiser, spoiler alert.
Haha jk, I now hate Spider-Man because all the iterations made me realize I don’t care about Peter Parker at all.
Question, is Chris Pratt smart? Like , if we had to rank him on a scale of Kellan Lutz to Mayin Bialik, where does he fall?
I would say on the low end of average intelligence. I’m not sure he puts a lot of stock in his education, but he seems to genuinely care about his fans, regardless of his douchiness. Well see how smart he is in a few years if/when his career starts to dwindle and the moves he makes.
He can be clever with his sense of humor, but he’s not like a deep thinker. I wouldn’t call him dim, but I wouldn’t call him bright either.
i don’t think he’s dumb, his wit is too quick.
Watch the Honest Trailers of Suicide Squad, it’s shorter and better.
The DC movies are disappointing because they are long and bloated and grim dark and dark grim – where’s the moments of levity or humour or humanity? Why can’t they have a shot of Superman warming up his coffee with his laser eyes because it’s easier – for him – than walking over to the microwave? Where’s a montage of Wonder Woman training the rest of the gang as she’s the only trained warrior? Bruce Wayne winning beer money at darts, Cyborg looking for WD-40 to fix a squeaky joint, Aquaman getting drunk at a Greenpeace fundraiser, et cetera.
Now I want to see this movie!
OMG @incredulous I need to see that movie!
I loved suicide squad, and wow, Pratt brings up a great point. I’m impressed! So true. Would have been nice having the stand alone stories first.
The thing that primarily bothered me about Suicide Squad was its bad editing. You can tell they just cut the sh__t out of that movie and re-pieced it together (same as Moana, that Disney cartoon, you can tell that thing was rewritten in the last year of production in a blind panic.) It was like 10 music videos edited together, with the most cliche musicn (Spirit in the Sky also makes an appearance in a Guardians of the Galaxy movie.) I wonder if Kanye West ever gets annoyed that white people use Black Skinhead as non-diegetic music in the background of either a black character shooting targets/demonstrating their ‘toughness’, or white kids running around at a frat party (a la Neighbors.)
Call me whatever but i tend to support female character driven movies over male. I think I’m not alone in this and movie studios really should try to make me part with my money.
Never seen an iron man movie, new superman, new batman, deadpool none of those bc the leads are all guys and watching guys are boring.
He’s not wrong. It’s like DC just wanted to skip all of the world building and jump right into the big Avengers-type billion dollar blockbusters without doing any of the work.
It probably would have turned out okay if the movies were decent. But they aren’t. I’m not asking for oscar worthy superhero movies, I’m just asking for a couple hours of entertainment, like with the marvel movies. Why is DC having such a problem getting it right?
He might be up to something there actualy. Still, I don’t care for superhero movies. They are taking over the world though