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'Suicide Squad' A Flop

Oops, Warner Brothers did it again.

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Last week, the highly anticipated DC movie "Suicide Squad" premiered leaving fans and critics with a lot of mixed feelings. This leaves us all wondering, did DC Comics and Warner Bother Studios bomb yet another awesome superhero movie that could have made them a ton of money? Well according to movie critics everywhere, they believe it was down right awful. This is not the first time either, a lot of bashing came onto the DC cinematic universe with the initial release of "Batman vs. Superman."

Bare with me, there are slight spoilers ahead.

I went and caught a premier sceening of the movie myself and I am not going to lie, it left me with a bit of uncertainty. I should mention though that I am not a movie critic, just a guy voicing his opinion on a social platform, even though that is what critics do -- voice their opinions. Speaking as a fan of super-heros and comics, the movie was fun and enjoyable. But if you step back and take a look at the film as a whole, then you will realize that it needs some work.

For starters the movie needed to be longer, much longer. There were nine main characters, so you could tell there was a struggle giving each of them enough screen time and good character development; something that was lacking in the movie. In addition, the movie was way too fast and jumped from one main event to another with the blink of a cut scene.

Another thing that was really big for me was that there simply was not enough Joker screen time. From the very beginning, photos of Jared Leto's Joker were released and everyone wanted to see how he would portray the clown; having to follow Heath Ledger's amazing performance. The debate for whom is the best Joker will have to wait for a stand alone Batman film because I cannot adequately judge Leto's portrayal for the amount of screen time he got (Mark Hamill you still take the cake on this one).

"Suicide Squad," like "Batman vs. Superman," simply just seemed like it was rushed. They tried starting up the entire DC cinematic universe with these two movies. Partially because the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is really kicking butt and taking names right now and do so at ease with the strong foundation they have been building over the past several years beginning with "Iron Man" in 2008. That is truthfully what DC and Warner Brothers is lacking at the moment, a strong foundation; they already have the fan base.

Well, while DC is playing catch up to the, by far, ahead MCU, we can look forward "Justice League" in 2017 in hopes for a better outcome.

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