Someone is threatening to take legal action against Warner Bros. over ‘Suicide Squad’

As told by Redditor, BlackPanther2016:

“Movie trailers are like food menus, they give you a preview of what you’re gonna get. You look at a McDonald's menu and you choose to get your favourite burger, presented in a nice picture with pickles, chicken, mild cheese (your favourite, in fact that's the only reason you're getting this burger, because you love mild cheese). You use your hard-worked money to pay for this burger, you get the burger, only to find out that this isn't the burger you ordered. Yes it has pickles and chicken but it doesn't have mild cheese, it has regular cheese.

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 Warner Bros/DC Comics 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 punches the roof of his car, when Joker drops a bomb with his face all messed up and says, ‘Bye bye!’ None 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.

Adding to this, they were also two specific Katana scenes they advertised that were also the reason I wanted to go watch the movie. These scenes were: Katana’s eyes going black, and a slow motion shot of her and her sword taking souls in a smoky kind of style. These scenes were advertised several times in the first trailer and many TV ads but they didn’t show it to me in the movie. I wasted a lot of money paying and travelling to go watch this movie because of these specific scenes they had advertised to me and all of us saying, ‘Hey, check out our preview! This will all be in our movie, come watch it on the 5th!’ All lies.

I told the theatre about this unjust act and said ‘I didn’t get what I came here to see, can I have my money back?’ They laughed at me and kicked me out. So I’m now taking this to court. I want my refund, the trauma of being embarrassed as I was being kicked out and people laughing at me for wanting my refund, and also the £160 of fuel money I used to drive to London from Scotland.

If you advertise something, give me what you have advertised. Period. This is becoming a habit with movie studios, showing epic scenes in trailers that are never shown in the movies. It’s unjust.

I just want to say, join me if you feel the same way. Let’s stop this nonsense of false bulls***ery and don’t let them bribe you with their ‘deluxe premium special directors gold extended edition supreme cut’ nonsense. You should get what they advertised as their first theatre showing and what you have paid for based on what they have showed you in their advertisements.”

The lack of Joker scenes in 'Suicide Squad' has infuriated one Redditor to the point of taking legal action against Warner Bros.

The recent release of the DC Extended Universe ensemble film, 'Suicide Squad', left moviegoers scratching their collective heads as to where the final product went wrong. The pre-release hype for this movie was palpable but, while there were those that somehow managed to enjoy the movie, it mostly fell on the cringing faces of fans the world over. One Redditor, however, thought the movie fell so below his expectations, he's actually ready to take legal action against Warner Bros. as a result.

BlackPanther2016 has taken it upon himself to file a lawsuit against the studio based on their advertisement of the film. He argues that they promised the Joker (Jared Leto) would have much more screentime than he actually had, and he feels the movie suffered that much more because of it. As of August 11th, he plans to file his lawsuit claiming the final movie misled him and the studio is guilty of "false advertising". He says he went very far out of his way (about 300 miles to London) in order to watch this specific incarnation of the Clown Prince of Crime and the movie did not deliver what they promised.

While its already been made clear before the release that The Joker would not actually be in as much of the movie as previously thought, he is still demanding a refund for the gas money to drive from Scotland to London, as well as the price of his admission after the theater refused to relinquish it when lodging a formal complaint.

The "logic" behind his decision can be read in the entire fanboy-fueled rant on the next page.

[Independent]