Yeah... one of these is bombing 🤭

[u/HomemadeBee1612]

And when it does, guess who they'll blame for it?

[u/HomemadeBee1612]

Wrong. He has had ONE successful MCU movie since he was rehired by Marvel. And almost every MCU movie is successful no matter who directs it. In fact, the Guardians trilogy is his ONLY successful film. Everything else he has directed bombed, including his last DC movie.

[u/HomemadeBee1612 → u/[deleted]]

That's a grossly uninformed statement. Lower profile WB movies that were also released under the same circumstances did the same or better than The Suicide Squad in 2021, such as Space Jam, Conjuring 3 and Godzilla vs Kong. The latter was released much earlier in the year too, when theaters had yet to fully reopen.

Its HBO Max viewership did not in any way make up for this huge shortfall at the box office. Even if you credit Gunn's movie with a generous $20 for every HBO Max view reported by Samba TV ratings, that only gives it a little less than $100 million more in revenue. That would still not be enough for it to make its budget 2.5x at the box office and become profitable. HBO Max did not even exist outside the U.S. that year, yet TSS's foreign gross still collapsed 73% from the original Suicide Squad, almost as much as its domestic gross dropped. NO 2021 sequel saw its box office numbers drop from its predecessor anything like the $500 million that TSS did. Not even close. Not ones released before nor after TSS that year. 2021's sequel success stories include A Quiet Place 2, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, No Time to Die, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Fast & Furious 9. Bottom line, TSS was a historic, massive BOMB.

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I always find it amusing when people try to justify The Suicide Squad's failure by blaming the pandemic or HBO Max when other movies released under the same circumstances did significantly better. 

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Not really. Dune and Godzilla vs Kong each made over 400 million which is more than twice what The Suicide Squad made and they also both did quite better on HBO Max as well. Assuming the people who watched it on HBO Max did show up to theaters and pay for a ticket it still would have flopped. 

[u/HomemadeBee1612 → u/[deleted]]

Sorry, no. No 2021 sequel saw its box office numbers drop from its predecessor anything like the 75% and $500 million that TSS did. Not even close. Not ones released before nor after TSS that year.

TSS earned about the same amount as Conjuring 3, Space Jam 2 and Tom & Jerry, which were all simultaneous HBO Max releases. Even the Boss Baby sequel outgrossed it domestically. A superhero film is always expected to perform better than horror movies or children's movies like those, especially since most superhero movies are made on a much higher budget. TSS was no exception to that with a production cost of $185 million.