Top 20 reasons why Suicide Squad made so much money.
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 is box office gold
http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Marvel-Cinematic-Universe#tab=summary
The more people say SS is a failed movie the more I think they are just trolling. The facts don't lie people. And remember SS wasn't released in China which makes the irony even more ironic.