Babaláwo

5y

You can’t be serious

BnBallinToo

5y

Name me a better 'DCEU' movie

ChiefSosa

5y

They gotta drop that streaming release thing they’re doing now. Its killing the industry and getting people accustomed to not going to the theater. At least release it in theaters for a month first before putting it on streaming.

New NIGHTMAN

5y

Shazam >

malédiction

5y

It was conveyed to me by Kevin Feige the Marvel Studios president. I called Kevin the morning it was going on, and I said, “Is this a big deal?” And he goes, “I don’t know.” That was a moment. I was like, “You don’t know?” I was surprised. Later he called me — he himself was in shock — and told me what the powers that be had decided. It was unbelievable. And for a day, it seemed like everything was gone. Everything was gone. I was going to have to sell my house. I was never going to be able to work again. That’s what it felt like.

Yes and no. I’m more considerate of people’s feelings today. I had talked about this a lot before those tweets were resurfaced.They
are awful things, that’s what my sense of humor was back then. But before this ever happened, I realized that I had closed myself off to things I thought were schmaltzy because I didn’t want to be vulnerable. This attitude — I can make a joke about anything, look how
great I am — that’s just not the fullness of me as a human being. And I learned that long before I got called out for the tweets.

I understand people’s preoccupation with that term. But it’s such a bigger issue than that. Because cancel culture also is people like Harvey Weinstein, who should be canceled. People who have gotten canceled and then remain canceled — most of those people deserved that. The paparazzi are not just the people on the streets — they’re the people combing Twitter for any past sins. All of that sucks. It’s painful. But some of it is accountability. And that part of it is good. It’s just about finding that balance.

Even when the person has done something terrible, I still feel sympathy for that person. Because I’m a compassionate person and it’s part of my faith. Sometimes things get taken out of context. And sometimes somebody did something when they were in college — it’s 20 years later, they’ve lived a great life, it’s just too much. And then sometimes you read, oh, well, what he did was pretty awful.

You do not understand the immensity of it until you’re in the middle of it. For a guy who feels like he’s done most things by himself and hasn’t had a lot of backing from anyone, ever, and has had to claw my way from B movies to where I am today, you don’t expect people to have your back. As somebody who does have a difficult time taking in the affection or the love of others, to have everybody around me — my girlfriend, my parents, my family, my manager, my publicists, all of the actors I’ve worked with — to have them come to my side and be there for me, that was an eye-opener for me. I felt really fulfilled and loved in a way that I had never felt in my entire life. And when Warner Bros. comes to me on the Monday after it happens and says, we want you, James Gunn, you think, wow, that feels good to hear.

They proposed that to me. Toby Emmerich the Warner Bros. Pictures Group chairman, he works out with my manager, and every morning he would say, “James Gunn, Superman. James Gunn, Superman.”

At that time I said I can’t commit myself to something right now. It was traumatic. I had to deal with myself. I just have to take a step back. So I took the different possibilities of projects I could work on, and for a month, every day I worked on a different project. I really wanted to make sure that whatever I was going to write was going to be a great story, and if it worked out and I felt like directing it, I could. “Suicide Squad” was just the one that came to life immediately.

I really loved the writer John Ostrander’s take, which was taking these Z-grade villains and throwing them into black-ops situations where they were totally disposable and they wouldn’t come out alive. I loved “The Dirty Dozen” as a kid. It’s that same concept, mixed with a DC comic.

Not at all. I wanted to create what I thought of as the Suicide Squad. For me to react to David’s movie would make it the shadow of David’s movie. I wanted it to be its own thing completely. When Warner Bros. said they wanted me to do this, I watched the first movie for the first time, and I called them back and said, what do I have to keep from this movie? And they said, nothing. They said, listen, we would love it if Margot’s in the movie but she doesn’t have to be. You could come up with all new characters or you could keep all the same characters.

BnBallinToo

5y

Aha damn, haven't watched this one yet.

BnBallinToo

5y

Name me a better 'DCEU' movie

user

5y

Give dude the whole DCEU outside of Batman

DonJuanCherryTempo

5y

Anyone questioning why the box office on this is so terrible needs to remember that it’s technically a sequel to one of the worst films I’ve personally ever seen

Every person I’ve asked about seeing it has no intention to bc the first was that bad

6isco

5y

I enjoyed the Oscar Award Winning Film Suicide Squad but after watchung this one I cant see myself ever rewatching the first one again

chip skylark

5y

I thought they was gonna leave and in the background you see Superman just charge right through it saving the day lol

ilgnd

5y

What???

Also, name a time that’s even happened before.

Sleazy

5y

Really didn’t enjoy this film. They don’t develop the characters enough it seems

RoosterShooter

5y

Wow...where to start. I honestly don't wanna give this movie TOO much attention. But it was basically a r rated marvel movie set in the DC universe.

Pretty much zero character development. Zero villain motivation or backstory. Childish humor boiled down to quick quips. Out of poxket moments for already established characters.

And by the end it felt 20 minutes too long.

I'm honestly legit curious how anyone could call this the best dc movie when levied against the criticisms of past dc films

RoosterShooter

5y

First film blew this one out of the water in terms of box office lolol.

DonJuanCherryTempo

5y

I know and the general audience clearly regrets spending that money

RoosterShooter

5y

Based on what? Lol what a terrible comment.

You have no idea what you're talking about

DonJuanCherryTempo

5y

Based off the fact that people aren’t interested in seeing the sequel