Last night, Warner unveiled their second trailer for this summer’s SUICIDE SQUAD.

Many remain dubious about the project for all sorts of reasons: DC is well behind Marvel in this whole “Comic Book Movie Thing”…Leto’s Joker doesn’t seem to measure-up to Ledger’s…David Ayer can’t direct…pick your poison.

While I admittedly come in biased as a “DC Guy”, there’s one thing I see in this trailer – at the very least, in the way it has been packaged for us – that I haven’t seen in WB’s DCU yet at all…

…fun.

That stolen beer sip, Harley cracking wise about the voices in her head, the shorthand about who these weirdo’s are (“…eats people…burns people…”)…right down to the way the trailer plays around with the timing of such an iconic song. This film might well still be a misfire, but at the very least we are being sold something less dour for once from the people who want us to watch Superman and Batman scowl and clobber each-other to the sounds of thundering drums of war.

Colour me encouraged, if not still cautious.

 

6 Replies to “Bohemian Like You: SUICIDE SQUAD Trailer”

  1. it looks so good…. can’t wait for this one.

    I feel this is another year where all the “serious” outlets will write about Superhero saturation (looking at you Kurt), but at the same time it feels like a year with the most FUN superhero films. From Deadpool to Suicide Squad and back to Superman & Batman duking it out (till it gets to damn Justice Leaguing)… I expect lots of fun times in 2016.

    1. We’re getting six, which is about par for the course nowadays (all three studios with Universes…universi?…have a pair on the slate). It’s no more or less than many years in recent memory.

      It’s just a genre like any other genre – if we were getting “so many action films” would we be having this conversation? What about “so many comedies”? The trend will eventually die, as all trends do, so backlash at this point feels less like doomsday prophecy, and more like telling me to get off the lawn.

      I’m also looking at Kurt.

      As always, there will be up’s and down’s…this seems like it might be an unexpected “up”

      1. A: Gambit is next year, but your list doesn’t include Suicide Squad…so we remain at 6 for ’16

        B: How is this any worse than 2011 when we got Green Hornet, Green Lantern, First Class, Thor, Captain America, and Jonah Hex?

        Six in twelve months isn’t the worst thing in the world…and it’s pretty much maximum output from Marvel/WG/Fox (As SONY licks their wounds and trying to get their shit together). It won’t happen every year.

        Again, I ask you, would we be saying the same thing if we were getting six westerns in 2016?

  2. As a fan of Ayer’s other directorial work this movie definitely has my interest. Add in the amazing contrast that makes the colors pop in this trailer and the outfits designed for Leto’s Joker I am in.

  3. I’m remaining highly positive with this one. I think Robbie and Leto will steal the show, and if anything else, it’ll be a fun ride. Right? Let’s hope!

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