The Suicide Squad (2021)

Warrik said:

Personally, I'd like to see a darker Harley. Margot is way too over the top, and she's just not interesting.

One gripe about this film for me: These are supposed to be Super Villians, but they were waaaayyyy too Good Natured and likeable.

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There are no rules anymore. Fuck canon, I guess. These are barely anti-heroes, most of them. James Gunn makes good/interesting movies. This was way better than most DC films. Or at least more interesting. I get that its cool to hate America but that is so played out; America is just straight up the bad guy? And the only really villain on the team is the sociopath who is supposed to be the Cap-ish analogue? I get that's the "joke" but it feels kind of on the nose in this movie. Anyway.

I for one was shocked by the opener. I mean, why bother? At least they made the most of the cameos which were obviously cameos. Some day, Nathan Fillion, some day. As far as Grrl Pwr! goes, I don 't care what they do with Harley. It's so far beyond what it's supposed to be it doesn't matter that from her perspective that she's sees flowers and birds (see the "Fuck canon" comment, at least from the DC movie makers perspective. I was hoping for a "Song of the South" parody but one can dream). At least it was interesting visually. Margo Robbie is still stunningly beautiful; at least DC hasn't gone body positive in their Grrl Pwr. Yet. I hate the some of the characters' fates being so non-canon, too. It seems basically like they are race-swapping leads I like both actors very much I guess this is another outcome of Fuck Canon.

Polka Dot man was interesting, the attack on the camp was interesting if not expected (counting the women I knew something was up), The shotgun physics in the truck escape: Interesting Troma effect, I guess.

Starro was OK, why would a starfish looking alien care about a city?

I thought there was too much back and forth once they got to the location of the final act. So much of that could have been trimmed. Overall, I think I agree with the earlier comments about DC letting James Gunn's Troma instincts run wild, and that indulgence cost the movie at least a point. I rate it a 7/10. I mean, I didn't mind watching it , I liked it but all of the falling floors business, and so much gratuitous gore, I mean just for gore's sake, and I am glad to I got to see it for double free (HBO Max for free too). Marvel process control would have made this an 8.5 but would have balked at the whole subject. There is a lot of good but it adds up to less overall than the sum of its individual parts. Meh+, which is a 7. And now we get a Peacekeeper series, so one of the least interesting characters from a movie about expendables lives. /sigh. One beach full of dicks jokes I saw in a preview and a chuckle about killing a woman in an office and then we get more of Xinhua Cena? /sigh a deux.

Fake Edit: Daniela Melchior (ratcatcher 2) makes me wish I had dated more Portuguese women. My goodness.
Real Edit: King Shark is such an obvious effort to have comedy Hulk that eats people ala James Gunn's and this movie's sensibilities.

DickTrickle said:

It's canon. A fuck cannon sounds like something Ossoi would be into.

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Well, that may be true but after watching You-know-who's face get blown off I guess my mind was in another place. Thanks for the correction.