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Top 20 reasons why Suicide Squad made so much money.

posted 8 years ago by Bubbathagut
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1. Suicide Squad stinks

2. Studio shills tricked me into watching it

3. Genius marketing

4. Will Smith is box office gold

5. Got lucky

6. Had huge opening weekend

7. Over sexualized Harley Quinn

8. The most over the top film version of the Joker yet

9. Batman

10. Was tricked into believing by the trailers that there would be more of the Joker

11. Little competition in august which gave the film legs. People had nothing else to see pretty much

12. Summer movie

13. Kids were out of school

14. Was not released in China because only 34 films are released there in a year

15. Was front loaded

16. Current comic-book movie mega boom

17. Cool colorful posters, cool cast interviews, etc

18. The Joker. Everybody was interested in seeing the new take on the character

19. All were A list DC characters

20. Margot Robbie is box office gold

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I felt like going to the movies and there didn't look to be anything else I wanted to see in theaters at the time.

So I went, even though I wasn't very confident it'd be any good.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 5 years ago

Trailers were top notch. One of the best trailers of any comicbook movie ever.