10 Ways Suicide Squad Shows The DCEU Is Irreversibly F*cked

Three strikes and you're out. That's the rule, right? It works for everything, from prison sentences to baseball. And, really, should be applied to movies now.

The DCEU is three movies in and each one has been an awe-inspiring dud. It's such consistent downturn that Man Of Steel look positively fine by comparison to what we've got this year; Batman V Superman is so spectacularly awful it's now just funny and Suicide Squad's a resounding disappointment of the highest order.

Look at any other long-running franchise; you don't have this much failure out of the gate and expect to continue (the only exception is Transformers, and nobody wants to be Transformers). Even eighties slasher franchises usually had a least one interesting flick.

This is the point when we should say enough is enough. The DC logo on a film is now a warning sign that it's cack, something to be loved only by willingly oblivious die-hards and those with unobjective film interests. You can cite opening box office numbers, gleefully ignore massive second weekend drops and treat blind love for the characters as reason enough to call it a success, but, seriously, there's no two ways about it; the DCEU is a resounding failure so far.