Now DC Fans Are Getting Angry About The Trailers For Suicide Squad
Have these guys ever seen a movie before?
I get the impression that a lot of DC fanboys are new to this whole "cinema" thing. Last week there was a short-lived petition to shutdown Rotten Tomatoes in the face of negative reviews that was stopped the moment the angry, grammatically confused poster realised what Rotten Tomatoes actually was (a story that writes its own Onion-esque headline), and now we have a reddit post moaning about misleading trailers, specifically on how the Joker in the movie was a world away from what we were sold:
Suicide Squad trailers showcased several SPECIFIC Joker scenes that I had to pay for the whole movie just so that I can go watch those SPECIFIC SCENES that WB/DC had advertised in their trailers and TV spots. These scenes are: When Joker banged his head on his car window, when Joker says, ”let me show you my toys”, when Joker punchs the roof of his car, when Joker drops a bomb with his face all messed up and says, ”BYE BYE!”. Non of these scenes were in the movie. I drove 300 miles to London to go watch these specific scenes they had explicitly advertised in their TV ads…and they didn’t show them to me.
It's not even a joke post - this guy is seriously talking about suing Warner Bros. Look, I get it. Most of the Joker stuff in those excellent trailers wasn't in the movie, and what was was portrayed vastly differently (see "the really, really bad static shot, which is hued and shakey in the finished product), but to make a big strop about it acts like this isn't the case for pretty much every major Hollywood picture.
There's countless movies that have been worse than this - Drive and Sweeny Todd are the obvious ones - although with mainstream film it's just a pretty regular occurence; Marvel are notorious for inserting unfinished scenes and Star Wars: The Force Awakens campaign was full of altered moments, likewise completely mis-sold the character of Maz Kanata (she's a wise, calm Yoda type in the trailers).
I guess this does show that not every DC die-hard is desperately trying to look past the movie's fundamental flaws and love it just because they really want the still unproven series to work.
The moral of the story is that "trailers lie". Well, that and that travelling from Scotland to London for a widely panned film will be a waste of fuel regardless of what you were sold.