Someone just told me suicide squad is a bigger hit than guardians of the galaxy with fans? That it earned about as much and wasn't even shown in China. Obviously fans didn't agree with the critics for the most part.
It's likely made more money at this point, but there's no way Suicide Squad compares favorably with fans. "Guardians of the Galaxy" is widely considered one of the most beloved films of this decade. "Suicide Squad" is widely seen as a dumpster fire. They changed a lot of "Suicide Squad" so that it would be more like "Guardians", but it was done pretty poorly. It speaks to the draw of Harley Quinn and the Joker that it's made that much money. Not to mention, they showed Batman in their trailer. With Joker/Batman we're talking about arguably the two most popular fictional characters in the world.
I will say, I went to Rose City Comiccon a couple weekends ago and it was like every other girl there dressed in the Harley Quinn rollerderby skank outfit. I wondered how many of them actually enjoyed the movie or if they were just dressing in the rollerderby skank outfit, because it's a cool trendy costume. Side note: A handful of them were barefoot. Apparently the boots that come with the Harley Quinn costume are pretty painful to walk around a comiccon with all day.
If you're into Sci Fi action flicks, definitely watch "Guardians of the Galaxy". They used to make more movies like that... fun sci fi movies with a sense of humor. MOvies like "Fifth Element" come to mind. It's one of my favorite movies of the past 10 years and in my opinion the best of all the Marvel movies. I had kept saying, "If the new Star Wars movie is 80% as good as Guardians, we'll be fine."