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John Campea Show

Why Suicide Squad Flopped At The Box Office

John Campea Show

Big IP

Tv & Film

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Watch John's Documentary "Movie Trailers: A Love Story" now worldwide at http://www.vimeo.com/ondemand/movietrailers or in the US and UK on Amazon Video.Support or submit your question for the current or next show 24/7 here:https://streamelements.com/movieblogtv/tipOn today's episode:- Dwyane Johnson's Next Jumanji Movie Still In Development- More Godzilla/Kong Monsterverse Movies Coming Says Writer- The Suicide Squad Was Originally Going To Fight Superman Says Gunn- How Did The Suicide Squad So Underperform At The Box OfficeAnd Much More Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, Rob, it's, it's about four years ago.

0:03.5

We're getting up to getting close to the four year anniversary, I think, of when that

0:07.5

first Dwayne DeRocke Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gilliam had their Jumanji movie

0:13.4

come out.

0:15.0

And it was one of those movies that just was a absolute pleasant surprise.

0:22.7

Like just, I mean, honestly, I thought it was just a play on a known IP and let's do

0:28.4

another Jumanji and blah, blah, blah.

0:30.4

But you know, you go in and you watched it and I've smiled and laughed and was just charmed

0:36.3

the whole way through, you know, Dwayne DeRocke Johnson, Kevin Smith, they just all did such

0:43.4

a great job in the movie like playing the younger versions of themselves and everything.

0:47.8

It was just a lot of fun and it was great.

0:50.5

And it was a massive box office hit.

0:53.1

If I remember correctly, it didn't quite join the billion dollar club, but I think it went

0:57.4

north and 900 million if I'm not mistaken.

1:01.2

So I'm sure you guys in the live chat can correct me if I'm wrong about that.

1:04.4

So then I came out the second one.

1:06.4

Now the second one wasn't quite as good in my opinion, but it was still very entertaining.

1:13.2

The addition of Aquafina to it was really good and now you had Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart

1:19.5

imitating Danny DeVito and Danny Glover, which I thought was incredibly funny.

1:25.3

I thought that worked extremely well and again, not as good as the first one, but still

1:32.1

a very, very worthy, entertaining, enjoyable film that I really did like going to see.

1:38.0

And by the way, our friends John Sylvie and Jamie cool send in super chat badges in the

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