Just got back from seeing it and I had a lot of fun.

Very enjoyable, kept a good pace and explained things well without over doing it.

My only criticisms would be that the lighting is a little low in one or two scenes so you couldn't see exactly what was going on, Killer Croc was a little tricky to understand when it was loud, and one or two of the flashbacks happened in questionable places.


But overall a good film, not sure why people are panning it honestly.

I'll say this - Jai Courtney was good.

In fact, when I saw his name in the credits, I did a double-take as I reviewed the characters in my head trying to determine which one he was.

Apparently it crushed Guardians of the Galaxy's August box office record, and audiences like it significantly more than critics do, and Ghostbusters.

Alright, gonna see SS in about a few minutes. Will give my full review of it once I get back.

Yeah, think I'll lean more on the critics side regarding the reception of the movie--it isn't that particularly good.

Let's start with the plot. Just like with BvS, DC once again takes up an interesting premise that tackles the issue regarding the rise of metahumans in society. While BvS questions the nature of the overall social welfare of the world by the existance of Superman, SS has a more focus on the political side, with how metahumans interference can have on a geopolitical stage, and how it should be feared and exploited, as well as showing how they are as well people like any other. Of course, SS does the same thing BvS did; throws away a potentially interesting plot in favor of mindless action sequences. The overall story is disjointed and doesn't add any new significant elements to the DC universe, other than just further demonstrating that metahumans are dangerous. Sure, it correlates to some degree the bias that the movie has regarding humanities view on metahumans, and just like the movie wants to tell you through its main characters; that they aren't all bad (though it does a rather cheap job at it--e.g. by making the good guys do bad things so that you care about the bad guys). But the movie lacks any significant focus, and the threat that the characters face doesn't carry any real weight and you are just left with more questions than answers, and overall it is just bland.

The characters are hit and miss. The great ones are Deadshot and Harley, who get most screen time and characterization, while others are just either meh, or simply pointless and have no real value in the movie. The Joker is disappointing and pointless as well, though apparently a lot of his screen time was cut, so I expect another Extended Edition to fix the movie on his part.

The humor was and action scenes were OK. I had a chuckle at one or two scenes, and some scenes were done well, but nothing remarkable. Honestly the best things I can say about the movie personally is the few scenes with Batman. Ben Affleck is still great, and I simply want one great, solo movie with him just that much more.

There are more aspects I could talk about, but I don't really wanna bother, since the movie was rather disappointing as a whole and I just don't care really.

Admit it

Marvel just paid you off didn't they?! >:[

I could have sworn this was exactly the premise they were pitching in one of the trailers. So that was sorta false advertising?

No, because most likely, during the time that trailer was made, that was indeed the plot of the movie. And theeeeeeennnnnnn reshoots happened. A lot of reshoots. And producer meddling. And editing. So what you have, is a movie of jumbled ideas, that if unjumbled, would have been 5 different movie plots.

This is what happens when you leave the decision for a film to a bunch of people who are willing to change everything in a film at the drop of a hat.

Garbage Guardians of the Galaxy.

Which is one description for it.