10 Ways Suicide Squad Shows The DCEU Is Irreversibly F*cked
2. A Crazy Approach To Adaptation
When Man Of Steel came out, I was struck by the myriad of inspirations from across all of Superman in print it had. It may not have come together, but I thought it was impressive. How little I knew.
Batman V Superman was a clusterf*ck of adaptations, with The Dark Knight Returns and The Death Of Superman sloppily realised against a backdrop lifting from a random mishmash of iconic moments. Suicide Squad is even more confused, threading together every possible variant of each of the characters in the most thick fingered way possible, while at the same time having no particular central storyline to link together.
There's nothing necessarily wrong with cribbing from various comic books to make a movie - that's what the original X-Men and Spider-Man runs did and they've defined the genre - but doing it primarily so fans have easter eggs to spot rather than to actually create a strong, coherent narrative is only going to lead to sloppy films.