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Suicide Squad Review Thread: As Fresh As Green Lantern!
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PhoncipleBone
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That is how I am. Talked my wife into seeing it Friday night, but once the flood of negative reviews began, we both agreed we didn't need to willingly punish ourselves like we did with BvS. The wound still hasn't healed from that, and I don't need it reopened.
Maybe I will just watch some of the CWverse DC shoes this weekend to get my fix.
Nothing touches CW except the Avengers.
nah, avengers and CW relies on every movie before them. GotG shines on its own, thats why is so great
Nothing touches CW except the Avengers.
TWS and GotG are better than CW.
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It's me. BobbyRoberts. It was me all along.
It's me. BobbyRoberts. It was me all along.
I liked Civil War. It made me laugh. It's not perfect at all but it's pretty engaging.
Guardians was okay. Pretty mediocre. I didn't like any of the characters and none of it was funny. Way too long. The movie has a lot of plot and character motivation issues.
TWS benefits from a much smaller cast and a tighter narrative, definitely. GotG... I guess I don't get the appeal. Everything about it seems so contrived to be "cool" and "whacky." It all fell really flat for me.
This movie was definitely a mess. I actually think the editing in this is worse than in BvS. Felt like WB got positive feedback from the first trailer and was like "yeah make the whole movie like that". I rolled my eyes after the 10th time some random song started playing in the background.
It's too bad because I liked some of the performances and characters in the movie.
It's too bad because I liked some of the performances and characters in the movie.
Freeza Under The Shower
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Nothing touches CW except the Avengers.
I imagine Starlord flying past this comment and going "aw, that's adorable", before blasting the shit out of it. CW is kind of just.. there, though it's a nice Iron Man 4, I suppose. GotG is on a whole different level compared to CW. A much, much more advanced level if we're brutally honest.
You're basically comparing Star Trek 2009 with Star trek Beyond, where the question of 'which is better' isn't a question at all. It's Beyond, of course. The writing quality is leagues apart.
it was a movie. it happened. it was okay.
see it as cheaply as possible, like on tuesday.
it's not the worst, but certainly far from great.
reliance on pop music was too much imo, great choice of songs, but repetitive and old hat by the time the movie got going.
see it as cheaply as possible, like on tuesday.
it's not the worst, but certainly far from great.
reliance on pop music was too much imo, great choice of songs, but repetitive and old hat by the time the movie got going.
illmatic22
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Nothing touches CW except the Avengers.
Discotheque
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Nothing touches CW except the Avengers.
Iron Man 1 still reigns supreme by far.
No, no way. This is just nonsense.
bananafactory
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It's skwad now
Primethius
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Really? I love GotG as well, and it's definitely up there as one of my favorite Marvel movies. But writing is not something I was impressed by. In fact, on rewatches, it's the thing that consistently stands out as being one of the weakest aspects of the movie.
Nope. He basically was an extra. I forgot that was him.
I think it was Captain
Cannon J. Fodder
I was someone that actually liked BvS a good deal and I didn't enjoy this much overall. While Harley and Deadshot were well acted and the action sequences pretty cool, the poor script and bizarre pacing early on really hurts the film. There's some good ideas, just really sloppy execution.
I also did not like Leto as Joker and think it's a real bummer that the DC CU is stuck with him since Afflec is awesome as Batman.
I also did not like Leto as Joker and think it's a real bummer that the DC CU is stuck with him since Afflec is awesome as Batman.
DOWN
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I hate comic books and yet D.C. always seems like it has the most potential to be truly great, mature, imaginative films for me and it just keeps falling short for most people. I liked Watchmen, Nolan Batman, and thought Man of Steel was better than most comic book movies due to its style and mood.
I hope they hit their stride next time.
I hope they hit their stride next time.
Shang
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It's a messy script, but it's not as bloated and nonsensical as BvS, which is funny, considering there are way more new elements to introduce. Plus it's pretty good fun to boot.
EDIT: If anyone knows-- were these movies expedited to compete with Marvel? I mean, I would assume, especially since both BvS and this have a lack of polish.
Doomshroom
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(spoilers)vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
bananafactory
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I know that guy is crazy but who are all those people commenting on his videos supporting him
PhoncipleBone
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Are you saying Vinny is cheap?
illmatic22
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Dammit Slayven
So is this an elaborate troll or
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Freeza Under The Shower
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watch for characterization into structure, not just the plot. The potato plot is weak, yes, but the characters are not. The fact that the music in the movie itself is characterization is superb writing, even if some of that might be changed in post. But as far as we know watching it, those steps are written, and they manage to make a theme work out of characters, one of them being a CGI raccoon of all things, that we can actually care about.
CW or any other Avengers is by comparison not that well-structured. It does have a wackier, more complex action moment with the airport fight though.
Ultimate Cut, maybe.
ElBoxyBrown
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Ant-Man and Incredible Hulk are the only Marvel movies that had the final battle at night.
Edit: Forgot about the Iron Man movies.
Iron Man 1/2/3 final fights were all at night.
Ant-Man sorta, but that was a bit different.
bananafactory
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Iron Man 1, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3
Saw it.
Seems like a decent movie that got butchered. Someone at WB must have told the editors to make it more like Guardians. They even use some of the same music at points. Was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting though.
Worst part is Leto. He seems to be playing Johnny Depp playing Drexl Spivey from True Romance in Joker cosplay. Just awful.
Seems like a decent movie that got butchered. Someone at WB must have told the editors to make it more like Guardians. They even use some of the same music at points. Was nowhere near as bad as I was expecting though.
Worst part is Leto. He seems to be playing Johnny Depp playing Drexl Spivey from True Romance in Joker cosplay. Just awful.
Iron Man 3 has it climax at night
andythinkpad
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Nothing touches CW except the Avengers.
GotG is hands down the best MCU movie.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Ah, so this is the type of person that gives these movies 9/10 scores.
I think Marvel or DC could cobble together an incoherent mess of a movie and as long as it had familiar characters and some modicum of fan service, there would be people who would love it.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57a345d8e4b04414d1f3a908
This is a good read if you didn't like Joker.
It perfectly summarizes why that performance was a disaster, though I think it's a little hard on Leto (implying his ego was too big in trying to "one-up" other versions, which I don't necessarily think is true).
This is a good read if you didn't like Joker.
It perfectly summarizes why that performance was a disaster, though I think it's a little hard on Leto (implying his ego was too big in trying to "one-up" other versions, which I don't necessarily think is true).
GravityInsanity
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andythinkpad
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^^^ Glad to hear you agree with me
Is Green Lantern part of the DC high-20s Cinematic Universe. It's amazing how consistent they are.
Is Green Lantern part of the DC high-20s Cinematic Universe. It's amazing how consistent they are.
It was supposed to launch their universe, with a sprawling Green Lantern Corps trilogy.
Then they scrapped the idea after it was critically thrashed and tepidly recieved and rebooted the concept with Man of Steel to launch a new and critically approved DCCU. Oops.
EatinOlives
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So it's 4 movies now that have tried to have a do-over and REALLY launch the coveted DC cinematic universe only to get trashed by critics (Green Lantern, Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman, and now Suicide Squad).
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