Suicide Squad may be getting hammered by critics, but it’s also on track for a monster opening weekend and is generating a lot of discussion among comic fans. On the surface you are meant to see them as psychotic villains, but through the genuine performances by these two you really see that they are just a couple in love. After all, the only thing that really matters when it comes to movies is revenue. It could have possibly been Batman (Ben Affleck) capturing Boomerang, as he’s seen in the movie nabbing Deadshot (Will Smith) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie).
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“The critics have been absolutely horrific, they’re really, really terrible”. A story which has about as much rhythm and natural flow as Harley Quinn in a straight jacket bouncing off of padded walls.
If you’re not familiar with Harley Quinn, she is simultaneously murderous and sympathetic, unhinged and brilliant. Tough in a way that makes even Batman blink, she’s by far the scariest person onscreen at any point.
Waller concedes that keeping them in line could be problematic, but she has just the man for the job: tough, no-nonsense Colonel Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman).
And as the Joker, Leto is a worthy successor to Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger. Bowie was definitely one of the people we spoke about, ‘ he continued – before adding that Bowie (who died in January aged 69) inspires him in all aspects of life. Sometimes, the cackling seems purposeless, and the faux gangster accents grates on the nerves, but there are times when he does manage to focus enough to seem like a genuine threat.
In an interview with UK TV show “This Morning”, he said: “It took twice as many hours to get in shape than it did 10 years ago”. “A lot of the proven guys are back-to-back with their stuff, or they want to develop it for five years, and there’s a machine that has to be fed”, said the trade’s insider. It could be that the movie studio would have to start polishing its projects which are already in production or towards the end of filming, or Warner Bros. may need to let go of some of the DC Extended Universe’s future movies.
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But as long as they kept giving me the banter between the characters, I ended up forgiving them. “It’s not just that you’ve told the public the movie is coming, you’ve made huge deals around the world with huge branding partners, with merchandise partners”, explained a source.
