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Suicide Squad Review Thread: As Fresh As Green Lantern!
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Officerrob
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Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
I'm curious how you got to the racist part. I mean, he has a couple of good lines but that was about it.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
That footage really looked good. Poor Leto.
outunderthestars
Banned
He comes across as a bad stereotype to me, from using "axesk" instead of "ask" to his vocal performance and the
wanting BET thing
him, diablo, and katana seemed like hardcore racial stereotypes at times.
Sibersk Esto
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outunderthestars
Banned
Yea. I still don't know why Katana was even in the movie.
They really wanted the audience to know that Croc is black.
Completely unsurprising.
Completely unsurprising.
A common theme I'm seeing on my Twitter (which is somewhere between "hardcore social justice" and "liberal") is a number of people upset about various minority portrayals in the film (and in Katana's case, largely being cut out).
Katana is an awesome character in comics and it made sense to give Flag a wingman who's a legit threat in case they tried to turn on him.
She was barely utilitized though so it was a bit hollow
Croc being black isn't anything new, but the way it was handled was pretty lazy and stereotypical. They should've had him watching Judge Judy or something for a humorous contrast to his gruff demeanor.
I've been hearing that, was gonna skip this anyway but this would have pissed me right the fuck off.
BLOODED_hands
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Just got done from watching it. It's nowhere near as bad as the reviews are saying it is. The third act is..... Yeah, just yeah.
Overall I enjoyed it. It is a regular ass summer movie imo.
Overall I enjoyed it. It is a regular ass summer movie imo.
Only time I've been in a theater when something like this happened where the audience actually yelled in disgust. It was so bad.
Anton Sugar
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The use of pussy/pussies as some kind of punchline was just cringe-bad.
Katana doing this stereotype hard-ass samurai who only speaks Japanese (except she can speak English, too--sooooo) was pretty bad. I generally like that character but she served zero purpose in this movie.
And yeah, Croc was just...I don't know ANYTHING about his character other than he likes BET.
Katana doing this stereotype hard-ass samurai who only speaks Japanese (except she can speak English, too--sooooo) was pretty bad. I generally like that character but she served zero purpose in this movie.
And yeah, Croc was just...I don't know ANYTHING about his character other than he likes BET.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
oh wow I didn't even pick up on that.
Everything I've read about Harley Quinn so far screams that we're going to be getting thinkpieces about her right up until Wonder Woman releases.
outunderthestars
Banned
It just seemed really jarring and made both my wife and I comment on it afterwards.
He also likes Waller, water, and eating.
I actually thought he was interesting
at the end when he seemed to have bonded with the team and fought well side by side with them, even willing to potentially die planting the bomb- but none of that development was shown explicitly
Basically any character not named Deadshot, Diablo or Harley had little development shown, despite some interesting hints, like Boomerang
showing admiration for Deadshot missing, and coming back at the end
She is not supposed to be a role model because of the implications behind her whole character from her origins in TAS, but she's big in the marketing. Probably why they cut the more troubling abusive aspects of her relationship out which wouldn't have fit anyways but at least make sense
What did they do exactly?
-Plasma Reus-
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Uhm...this was about the same quality as any Marvel movie, aside from the Captain America movies. Heck, it even has the same third act style of CGI-fest big baddy with no real motive aside from revenge (although, I don't really know why that is considered a good thing sometimes, but other times considered a bad thing). This is a by-the-formula current era comic-book movie (with great art design) when it comes to it's final act.
This thing is cut, and you can see where things were cut, but it still holds up as a fun comicbook movie, that also does some things differently. Visually, it's very well put together. Undeniably. If you want a good looking film that is funny, you're going to have what you want.
I was very worried they had cut all the joker scenes out, so imagine my surprise when only one shot shown in one of the trailers wasn't in the movie
Although, I can tell you exactly where that would have taken place in the movie
The joker was never supposed to be a big part of the movie, I think he was in it for as long as I would have expected him to be. He is supposed to be a peripheral character to the story, to fill Harely Quinn's part of the story. Leto's joker is a truly crazy one. He's like 10 different characters, and he switches between them constantly. You don't know what kind of person he is. Whereas Heath Ledger's joker gives you 10 different stories about who he is, whilst still acting the same, Leto's character appears to genuinely not know what he is, switching between personalities mid-sentence.
This movie has some great fan service. Did you ever expect you'd see this: http://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2015/07/4d55a579071020b93ef6a09f94f87a39-142283.jpg in a modern hollywood movie? Because that's exactly what you get, in live action, that very same shot.
Harely Quinn is probably the best part of the movie along with Deadshot and Waller. Margot Robbie is a 10/10 here in this movie. She's HQ as much as Lucy Lawless is Xena, or Christopher Reeve is Superman.
What I didn't like, is that it felt as though more time could have been spent with Harley Quinn and the joker to give us more of what we all came for.
. They could have used his screentime to give us more HQ and Joker. I don't want to get more in to it, but all I'll say is that you're going to be happy with HQ, a lot.
Will Smith is great in this movie. I thought he'd be forced, but he was great. He brought much of the comedy to life and has a few moments more heroic than Batman has had since these new DC universe movies have come a long. Because if you think about it, how many heroic moments did Batman have in BvS? lol
Viola Davis' Waller is too good, at moments, I felt she was too good for this movie.
This was a fun movie. I thought I'd get a disaster, I got a fun movie.
I'd rate this a 7.5 out of 10. If they release a cut with more HQ scenes and more Joker scenes, it would probably go up to 8.5.
This thing is cut, and you can see where things were cut, but it still holds up as a fun comicbook movie, that also does some things differently. Visually, it's very well put together. Undeniably. If you want a good looking film that is funny, you're going to have what you want.
I was very worried they had cut all the joker scenes out, so imagine my surprise when only one shot shown in one of the trailers wasn't in the movie
the grenade one.
after Joker crashes, they probably had a scene of him escaping the wreckage and midway city, using the grenade to destroy enchantress' henchmen.
This movie has some great fan service. Did you ever expect you'd see this: http://media.comicbook.com/uploads1/2015/07/4d55a579071020b93ef6a09f94f87a39-142283.jpg in a modern hollywood movie? Because that's exactly what you get, in live action, that very same shot.
Harely Quinn is probably the best part of the movie along with Deadshot and Waller. Margot Robbie is a 10/10 here in this movie. She's HQ as much as Lucy Lawless is Xena, or Christopher Reeve is Superman.
What I didn't like, is that it felt as though more time could have been spent with Harley Quinn and the joker to give us more of what we all came for.
Fucking Rick Flagg has too much screen time
Will Smith is great in this movie. I thought he'd be forced, but he was great. He brought much of the comedy to life and has a few moments more heroic than Batman has had since these new DC universe movies have come a long. Because if you think about it, how many heroic moments did Batman have in BvS? lol
Viola Davis' Waller is too good, at moments, I felt she was too good for this movie.
This was a fun movie. I thought I'd get a disaster, I got a fun movie.
I'd rate this a 7.5 out of 10. If they release a cut with more HQ scenes and more Joker scenes, it would probably go up to 8.5.
hell, enchantress is mostly naked for her entire time in the movie and for the last half of it she's doing some weird gyrating dance shit. it's ridiculous.
BronsonLee
Member
His dress and the BET line mainly. There may be more I'm forgetting but there wasn't much on display character wise so those things stand out more
Ridiculously good?
Brian_FETO
Banned
The biggest thing is
when making demands for their prison conditions, he says "I want BET" and is shown watching a rap video at the end
I think the Jar Jar comparison is a bit much as he's not a borderline minstrel act but yea
Honestly it probably could've been improved by him just saying "I want cable" or something like that, instead of explicitly being like "out of anything else, I want black people television". I dig the idea of "crazy crocodile man" also being a chill dude who watches rap videos but yea. It was odd
broncobuster
Banned
In truth I have no clue where this racist thing is coming from.
The BET line and other aspect felt closer to Croc wanting to be treated as a person and not a monster. You get signs of it elsewhere in his interactions with Flag.
-Plasma Reus-
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She's an ancient witch doing some voodoo shit, just like those old B movies from the 80's where the demons are some fucking weirdos.
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
Maybe if you're the kind of comic fan who buys Zenescope books unironically.
Back from the movie.
As I expected, it was good, a really fun movie, I do agree that the Introduction sequence is badly composed, felt a bit weird, and IMO
being in the movie or not wouldn't make a difference.
There were some really cool shots in the movie and Harley Quinn really is I think one of the best parts of the movie, even though Killer Croc didn't get much I still liked his scenes.
The theater laughed at what was supposed to be funny (and so did I) and on the break people were commenting good things about the movie (like Harley) so I guess the general audience also liked this.
Hoping SS2 is a thing in the future, they can still mess around with this property and hopefully get something critics also like.
As I expected, it was good, a really fun movie, I do agree that the Introduction sequence is badly composed, felt a bit weird, and IMO
Katana
There were some really cool shots in the movie and Harley Quinn really is I think one of the best parts of the movie, even though Killer Croc didn't get much I still liked his scenes.
The theater laughed at what was supposed to be funny (and so did I) and on the break people were commenting good things about the movie (like Harley) so I guess the general audience also liked this.
Hoping SS2 is a thing in the future, they can still mess around with this property and hopefully get something critics also like.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Did anyone else catch the bit where the Enchantress awkwardly rhymed
Gordon Shumway
Banned
But whitey owns BET. It's practically the country music channel..
Violence Jack
Member
One of my best friends who has roughly the same tastes in movies that I do just came back from this, and loved it. Had a few friends go see it last night and say that it was more like a 7/10 instead of a 3 or 4/10 movie. I'm starting to think that I might give this a chance after all. But I gotta see BvS first.
That's funny because in the subtitles in my country, it was actually "I want cable", weird.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
I thought that was supposedly to be intentional but then it never happened again lol
I'm not sure what that has to do with her twitching around.
What was the line?
Anton Sugar
Member
Hahaha, yesss! I thought "Oh great, now the thousands-of-years-old witch not only talks in
a regal English accent
Kenzodielocke
Banned
There is a spoiler thread guys.
Brian_FETO
Banned
It's pretty funny to see like 5 posters answer a question, only one uses spoiler tags
I stayed complete blackout on the movie this week, figured the overwhelmingly negative reviews would have people caring less
BronsonLee
Member
Pop-O-Matic
Banned
In a bit of good news, at least Skwad isn't the worst movie releasing this weekend
In a bit of good news, at least Skwad isn't the worst movie releasing this weekend
Who was the fresh review
WHO WAS THE FRESH REVIEW
George Oscar Bluth II
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BronsonLee
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I would never stoop so low as to write for MTV
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