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The Suicide Squad aka Suicide Squad 2 Pre-Release Thread

Aragorn said:
James Gunn quote:

“Bloodsport is in prison for putting Superman into the ICU with a kryptonite bullet. Yes, The Suicide Squad is a part of the DCEU, but I don't know which Superman it was because I don't cast the next Superman. So it could be Henry [Cavill]; it could be somebody else. It's whoever people decide on other than me.”

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-suicide-squad-trailer-breakdown-james-gunn-superman-dceu
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In other words, like I said, don't think about it, its a comedy.
 
kirk55555 said:
Its not even called Suicide Squad 2, which has to be on purpose, and has really no similarities outside of sharing some cast members. They might specifically mention events of the first movie, but its no more a snyderverse film then Shazam or Aquaman are/their sequels will be. The Flash film is already apparently killing off that universe anyway, so any potential third Suicide Squad film will almost certainly expressley be non-canon with Snyder's stuff. Hell, WW84, for as bad as it was, went pretty against the Snyder films anyway.

The Suicide Squad is really its own thing at this point. I doubt anyone at WB is even bothering to pretend Mos/BvS/JL matter at all in the context of this film. Even if any of those get referenced, it will probably be vague enough to ignore or work in another context. I'd bet on Harley Quinn's film getting referenced, some of the events of the first Suicide Squad getting mentioned, but any potential Superman/Batman type references being things that could work even while ignoring the Snyder stuff.

WB has already said the snyder stuff was done after the Snydercut, and the Snydercut isn't even canon to the DCEU stuff that got released anyway. Its over, Snyder and his stuff are gone and WB is moving on, keeping the non-Snyder stuff that worked and starting over with other things.
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I doubt we'll get any references to first movie at all. In all of the promotional stuff, they seem to be going out of their way to not call a sequel and when someone asked James Gunn about the watching the first movie during an Instagram Q&A session earlier today, he would you would absolutely not be confused at all if you did not watch the first one. So my expectation right now is that it might not outright contradict the first movie, but it won't specifically call back to it either. He did say point blank that it's after Birds of Prey though, so they might at least acknowledge it's events at some point.
 
I took it as Supes' being shot post-Josstice League, probably around the Shazam! ending montage. Or concurrent with Shazam! (getting out just in time for the lunch scene), since you didn't see him show up to help out during the chaos.

The film looks okay, but I'm over the Marvel movie + teenage humour formula it seems to be going for. I loved DC's more varied output but this looks like more of what we've seen. I've enjoyed most of James Gunn's output so I'm hoping it'll be enjoyable.
 
I'm looking forward to this more than I expected. Especially for David Dastmalchian, who is fast becoming one of my favorite character actors.
 
Much better than the first, unsurprisingly, but not astounding by any means. Certainly not as good as either of the GOTGs.

I will say this for it, it managed three, actually make that four, genuinely surprising deaths.
 
I'm thinking of going to see this this weekend. As of tomorrow I'm 2 weeks post second shot, so officially fully vaxxed. Bird of Prey was my last in theater movie. Seems appropriate to go see this as my first.
 
Saw it tonight. Humor, drama and action were very well balanced. That R-rating was earned, but not used as a mission statement. Gave it an A in the Spoiler-thread's poll.

There is a post-credit scene, so stick around.
 
We just got back from seeing it at the theater, and I loved it. I have HBOMax, but everbody in the reviews and comments I've seen kept saying to see it on the big screen, and I'm glnad we did. There was a lot of stuff in last chunk of the movie that wouldn't have been anywhere near as impressive on my 42'' TV.
 
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