People saying that The Joker should have been in the film less are absolutely crazy.
Joker should have been the main fucking villain!
Instead we got a disastrous main villain and a final battle that was way over the top and didn't really suit the tone of the film.
Joker as the main villain would have been way better. How would HQ react? Would her inclusion in the squad simply have been as bait to lure Mr J out? Would she betray her team to run off with him? Would she overcome the abusive relationship that she had endured up to this point and find redemption at the end?
They should have focused the film around HQ and Joker and maybe given Deadshot a separate villain that he can shoot at (maybe deranged zombies infected by some kind of Joker serum instead of those strange rock people).
Only issue I can see with having Joker as main villain is why Batman wasnt involved in taking him down. Which they could maybe explain by Batman being obsessed with taking down Superman at the time that all this was happening?
The film they made doesn't allow for much Joker presence: hence why I and others are pointing out this film would be better with less of him.
They could make a film with more of him but it would need to be fairly different structure and plot and it would no longer focus on the squad: because it would be nigh impossible to have a decent plot that had a lot of joker and still focus on the squad as the leads.
People like yourself wanting more of the Joker want a different film, which is fine, but his presence hurts more than helps this one, and unbalances focus on squad and in particular HQ.
The simplest and easiest way to make a good SS film would be to have a narrative that keeps Batman and Joker well away and an antagonist who makes sense for them to combat (which I don't think SS managed as an aside).
The medium of film makes large ensemble a challenge, and it takes very good script, narrative and scene construction to make it work. SS struggled just handling the squad as an ensemble hence why adding more Joker (and then having to explain where Batman is) would only make it worse: the films already muddled and messy in its editing with less Joker. Adding more scenes into the film is more likely to simply make it worse than better.
