>I've been a fan of the Suicide Squad comic book for a little
>while, especially the original John Ostrander run on the book
>which is phenomenal. I can't believe a movie based on these
>characters has been made. Deadshot and Harley Quinn were
>awesomely portrayed, and even getting to see Amanda Waller and
>Captain Boomerang (what??) on the big screen was pretty cool.
>
>Was it flawed? Very much so. The editor job at Warner's DC
>division needs to be fired immediately, and have some more
>balls when standing up to the brass. The Ultimate Edition of
>BvS was much better than the theatrical version, I suspect
>this 'Ultimate Edition', if it ever gets released, would be
>pretty amazing.

The problems goes beyond the editing. There a post up above detailing in full what happened.




I wanted more Joker (Leto was good but what
>little we saw was NOT enough), thought Enchantress was weak
>(but not as bad as I'm reading here... poor Delevingne did
>what she could),

Dawg, you can't tell me with a straight face that Enchantress isn't as bad as we made her out to be. She was literally doing a fucked up belly dance during the climax. She had a pissed poor plan and holy shit at June Moon. An archeologist thinks it's a good idea to break off the head of ancient totem? Fuck. outta. here.


and would have liked more background on
>others besides Deadshot and Harley (who we actually got a
>brief glimpse of in her comic book/TV show costume!). I also
>keep in mind how little we learned of most of the X-Men
>characters in all of their movies (save Wolverine), and those
>movie always fared better with critics and audiences, so the
>hate here is a little strange.

X-MEN has been getting for the exact same shit lately. At least each X-Man got a moment to shine. Kantana, Killer Croc, and Captain Boomerang do nothing and add nothing.



>
>While it was easy to say "why have this team put together to
>fight a couple of witches when Flash or Wonder Woman could
>have fought her themselves", the very first comic book mission
>these characters came together for was to fight a skyscraper
>sized demon from Apokolips. Read Legends #3 for the first
>appearance of the Suicide Squad to see how the team was
>originally portrayed, and for them to go head-to-head with a
>gigantic fire monster.
>


This my problem right here. What works in a comic 80% of the time never works in a movie. That's where adaptation comes in and making it work instead of plastering the shit on screen.


>I liked it, despite its problems, and hope we'll get to see
>the movie that could have been.
>
>Trust me, I'm just pretty surprised that I liked the movie at
>all with the hate DC has been given, seeing as how I'm a
>Marvel fanboy first and foremost.

But, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope people spending money always enjoy it.