Suicide Squad (2016)

Movie was definitely not 27% worthy or whatever. First half was great, the latter half once the team is assembled and on its mission gets meh. Viola Davis as Amanda Waller fucking nailed it. Best character by far and she seemed to enjoy playing someone so ruthless. Joker didn't bother me as much as I expected, but he is very much a periphery character so he doesn't get a whole lot of focus.

Movie suffers from the same problem as Avengers with Hawkeye on a team with Hulk and Thor. What the fuck are Deadshot and Harley supposed to do versus someone like Enchantress and have it be believeable? El Diablo was pretty cool, Slipknot was so bad he should have been wearing a red shirt. Captain Boomerang is a retarded character to begin with and there is no way to make him not useless.

Movie probably would have been better going for the hard Deadpool R. It wouldn't have fixed the editing, but for a movie devoted to villains, everyone was awfully tame.

Zaide said:

If you like superhero movies you'll like this. It's not TDK or anything, but it's no worse than any of the recent Iron Man or Captain America films.

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65.1M opening day estimate. Heading towards 130-150M opening.

Just finished watching this...kinda. Get about an hour and a half into the movie, and suddenly the lights come on, the movie stops, and the theater manager is saying that their projector is fucking up and they need to stop the movie. So, yeah. Shit.

Up until that point, I had mostly been enjoying the movie, with two major issues:

First, they really needed a better rationale for creating the team. "What if the next Superman is a terrorist?" Yeah, and what are Crazy Clown Chick and Ausie-Man going to do about it? If they're going to include the weird-but-mundane members, the purpose of the team needs to be something they could conceivably contribute to.

Second, the pacing for the movie up to that point was just really weird. There wasn't even the smallest pause between introducing the members of the squad, and the antagonist's plot being simultaneously introduced and brought to full fruition. No real "bring the team together" scene, no establishing them as a group before having them tackle the principle threat, no build up to the sudden-yet-inevitable betrayal of the antagonist, no nothing. Just going straight from introducing the characters (well, 60% of them) right into the climatic final battle.

But yeah, don't know if I'm going to try going back and watching it again. I'd like to see how it ends, but I got far enough into it that starting over from the beginning would feel like a slog. Might just need to wait until it shows up on TV.

Well the reason for including "mundanes" was alluded to in the movie: that they could stand up to metas like the Flash and hold their own. It could have been telegraphed more, but given that the cinematic DCU doesnt really exist yet it is hard to convey that sort of legacy.

Edit: Nice twitter linking here.

I enjoyed the hell out of it, maybe 1 or two slow moments like the "I need you part" ...other then that film did what it was suppose to do keep me entertained.
the back stories at the start well done.
Let me say this Viola Davis played Amanda Waller to the fucking T. She did a fantastic job.
And as everyone pointed out slipknot made for good humor.

End Credits were also pretty good set-up for JL setup might the wrong term but just to get the pre story out of the way so to speak.

I hope to see more Amanda Waller I just love her Character.

Caught it today.
the full 25minutes of previews were the worst part.

But yeah, it has plenty of flaws. but its not nearly as bad as rotten tomatoes score or anything suggests. Reminds me of Dredd.
And yes, they nailed Waller, and Viola Davis played her perfectly.
In general, going back and checking what was said by those that seen it. everyone seems spot on.


I am now really curious about those other edits. as, the cuts and editing was one of the movies biggest issues.

This movie was a mess.

It played out like a bunch of scenes were filmed completely independent of eachother and then given to an eight year old with ADD to edit together in a day.

So many lines that were meant to elicit either a comedic or emotional response just fell flat. Nearly all of the character interactions outside of Harley and Deadshot were awkward as all fuck. Everything the Boomerang guy said was either a joke without a punchline or a punchline without a joke, which eventually became actively irritating rather than simply bad. The sword fight near the end with Enchantress may have been one of the most pointless sequences in a film ever.

It wasn't a complete garbage heap, but the interesting tidbits that managed to occassionaly take center-stage were not nearly enough to save this bizarre jumble of a movie.

Void said:

Skipping the obvious troll part...of course Lyrical likes superhero movies.

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Did Lyrical make the migration?

Royal said:

Did Lyrical make the migration?

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He's here. I sent him a PM on the old site.