10 Movies That Tried Way Too Hard To Be Cool

2. Suicide Squad

To give writer-director David Ayer some minor credit, it sounds like his grittier vision of Suicide Squad was put through Warner Bros.' post-production mangle, as the end result was basically "what if the DCEU made a lame Guardians of the Galaxy knock-off?"

The final cut of the movie was thrown together by Trailer Park, the editing studio who also made the film's fantastic trailers, and represents a clear attempt to make as flashy and fast-paced a film as possible.

The opening sequence is more-or-less an exposition dump montage, moving hastily from one character to the next in the hope of keeping cash-rich teens interested enough to recommend it to their friends (which, with its $746.8 million final gross, they clearly did).

Yet most of the dialogue lacks the wit of James Gunn's movie, the incessant jukebox-style inclusion of pop music felt pandering at best or lazy at worst, and the nihilistic tone came across as totally insincere.

That's not to ignore Jared Leto's Joker, a character whose faux-cool style and personality embody everything that's wrong with the movie - over-designed and under-thought.

With Gunn himself set to start production on The Suicide Squad soon, hopefully he'll be able to smooth out the tonal edges and deliver a more confident and less patronising vision worthy of its comic book namesake.