Why Suicide Squad flopped
, but he is an example of a filmmaker/actor whose mainstream popularity is vastly overstated by online discourse and SEO-friendly articles constantly fan-casting for any and all commercial projects under the sun. If anything, as evidenced by solid showings for modestly-budgeted programmers likehe’s not unlike Gerard Butler. Butler is a B-movie action star when the movie is cheap enough to thrive on a $15 million opening weekend.
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN as Polka Dot Man, JOHN CENA as Peacemaker, IDRIS ELBA as Bloodsport and DANIELA MELCHIOR as Ratcatcher 2 in “THE SUICIDE SQUAD'All of the above variables combined to create a sequel which had nothing to sell other than the fact that it was anothermovie. It lacked Will Smith, the allure of the “first” Harley Quinn appearance, much-hyped cameos from Ben Affleck’s Batman and Jared Leto’s Joker and a PG-13.
was arguably always a dead man walking with or without a global pandemic and concurrent HBO Max availability. Yes, Delta-specific infection rates are a big reason why it didn’t even reach the “successful disappointment” level which we might have otherwise seen, butlacking almost everything that made that movie a hit. That it’s pretty good is beside the point.
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